Star.
London, England, 1829-04-28 00:00:00

YURTURR PARTICULARS.

Snot writing the above we have madefirther inqui-
ries respecting the fire, and discovered that it bloke out
in the upper part of that portion of the building we have
above described, and in a spot seldom or ever visited by
the public. The last persons who were known to visit it
were somervot kmen about a twelvemonth ago. When
the firemen entered the place last night, they discovered
a quantity of shavings, apparently fresh ; and which,
it would appear, had been placed there by some in-
cendiary. A large canvass screen, which had been
erected some time ago to prevent the workmen going
into other parts of the building, was burnt. and falling
down, set fire to the floor, which it burnt through, and
if immediate assistance had not been obtained, would
have speedily extended in all directions, and destroyed
the whole elifice. The cause of the fire has not been
discovered ; and although the strictest search has been
made throughout the building, we do not hear that the
' incenJiary has been discovered. The firemen state-that
it was impossible for the fire to have occurred by acci•
dent ; and they feel convinced, that the individual who
endeavoured to cause this national calamity must be
concealed somewhere in the building.
THE LATE MELANCHOLY AFFAIR. AT BAL.

LINA (NEAR KILLALOE).

PROW THIS LIIISRICIL STENS° POST OP FRIDAY.

On Tuesday, the fair day at Killaloe, an occurence,
attended with the loss of lives, took place between the
people and police in Balling, at the county Tipperary
side of the Bridge. As the affair has been represented
to the public in a manner bearing the stamp of czar
gerat,on, evidently for the purpose of involving the
character of the country, and of relieving the police
from whatever share of ctineinal.ty may be attached to
their conduct, we have taken considerable trouble to'
ascertain the particulars, for the correctness of which
we pledge urselv es. as we have heard them from several
men .w. rn as to the truth of what they were detailing.
At the fair some fighting was apprehended between two,
factions, one from the county of Tipperary, and tbn
other of Clare; but owing to the arrangements of Capt.;
Maim and the Reverend Mr. Vaughan, P.P. the day
passed off peaceably.
About five o'clock in the evening, some of the pea-
sants y returning home into Tippers'''. commenced
" wheeling" their sticks, and giving ample deuson•tri-
tion that they were at the fair. The police, four is
number, under Sergeant Browne, came out of their bar.
racks, and proceeded to deprive the people of their
sticks; in doing so, they prodded the people with
Altair bayonets, and struck them. The Sergeant
knocked one man down by a blow with the butt-
end of his carbine, on being refused a stick. In this
way the police were proceeding, when a respectable
shopkeeper of the village (who it may still be necessary
to say is a Protestant,) remonstrated with them, and en.
treated them to go to their barracks, if the) did not
wish to irritate and provoke the people. To this re-
IIiODSIMICO they attended; and as they were entering
the barrack, is the front of which is a small area to
yard, enclosed by a parapet, a man entered with them,
who was evidently running from some country people
who had commenced a running fight. At the moment
the man entered, one or two stones, supposed to have
been flung after Lim, were thrown into the yard. The
Sergeant, woo was at the dour of the barracks, the other
police having preceded him in. turned round, fired, and
killed one lean, named Minogue, who was standing at
the end of the barrack. and who. it turns out, was not
at all implicated in the fight. When the Sergeant had
rai ed she gun to his shoulder, an old man. standing
near the parapet wall, cried out. " Oh, Mr. Browne, do
not fire; )ou will kill some one; they de not intend
Rains to you or your police;' which entreaty. it
peus, was unfortunately unheeded.
The shot and its effect drew the attention of the
lighters to the barrack, at which they commenced fling-
rag ,str.nes. The number of-assailants might have been
about forty. None at them came neater than a stnne's
throw of the barrack. Nut one of them entered the
area for the purpose of forcing an entrance. The police
were in a spoof dwelling, and yet, melancholy to say,
they thought ht to pour a well kept up fire into the
centre of a thickly crowded and inhabited village. The
consequence was, as is generally the case, the innocent.
and none but the innocent, suffered ; for the assailants
concealed themselves at the end of the barrack from the
".hi c= of the fire. A young man named Molony, Who
bad come out of a house and stood on a garden wall to
we On fighting, received a ball in the abdomen, from
which be died immediately after.. Another young man,
mimed Menai; received a wound which proved fatal.
A boy sitting in a car bad his arm broken by a ball. A
ball vastest through the hat of a person standing at a
window in a house in the street, and wounded a man
standing behind him in the neck. The assailants, who
had demolished every winch), in the barrack, persevered
in flinging stones, until obliged to fly by the approach
of Captain Goldfrap with a company of the 60th Rifles.
Several country people, charged with being of the rioters,
were taken into custody.
The melancholy affair bas created, as may be sop-
posed, a great sensation in the country. The village of
Balboa has been crowded ever since. The bodies of the
three solortunate men who suffered fatally were waked
in the chapel, which was thronged with people. Tester.
the Coroner. arrived from .NeeaShe
day Mr. Carroll..
And proceeded to hold an Inquest. After the manna-
tion of several witnesses the Inquest adjourned. •

ELECTION OF A DUBLIN ALDERMAN.
A post assembly tai held yesterday at the Corpora-
tion-house in William-street. to elect a; Alderman in
the room of the late Alderman Trevor: the Sheriffs is
the chair.

• A letter was handed in to the Sheriffs, from Mr.
Abercrombie Willock, and a motion was made that it
'should be read. It was stated that the letter was a
recital of the causes of the absence of that gentles's%)
who is now in prison. After some discussion, dm
motion was negatived.
A message came down from the Board of Aldermen,
with the names of the four following Sheriffs' Peers,
from which the Commons were to select an Alderman
—Richard Menders, Arthur Morrisson, John Lloyd,
and Samuel Lamprey. Only two of them, Messrs.
Morrisson and Lloyd, appeared as candidates.
A Member moved that " their H.:nours" should ad-
journ for half an hour.
Mr. ',UMW BUTLIM, on seconding the motion, Vick
occasion to lament over the ruins of the British Consti.
tution. The Board haJ treated them very badly, in not
sending down the name of Mr. Warren; but bad as
matters stood, the least that could be allowed for coati-
deration on the vital qeestinn before them was half as
hour. The Board appeared by their conduct to have,
obeyed the mandate of the Castle, and to be influenced
by the Popish L,rds who had destro)ed the brightest
gems in the Constitution. 66 Whether (said Mr. Butler)
I shall remain short or long in this House (and indeed
I don't care how short now), I shall struggle to pie
vent any i. road on the only thing we have left—the
Protestant Established Church—no matter what may be
the conduct of the supporters of the Duke of Welling.
ton and the base apostate Peel."—(Cht.ers).
Mr. Joule WlC's.—What in the world does the
kgentleman mean? Sure we have na choice now, as
we can't bring in Mr. Warren after the Board rejected
him ; and the half hour would be lost like many another
half hour here. A:e all the gentlen.en sent down loyal
like Mr. Warren, or disloyal like your humble servant?
The motion was negatived.

Mr. Scriaurr7,(represesitative of the Nailors' Guild)
now rose, and addressed the Sheriffs, keeping time by
hammering his hat against the table. " Oh, my
friends," said Mr. Scarlett, " this beautiful Catholic
Bill has passed, after all our endayvours; but the gatne
is not teetotally up yet, and 111 now move, that each of
the candidates tells us a bit of his mind."
This motion was carried, and

Mr. MORRISION said that he had been for a long
period known to those who heard him ; and his prin-
ciples that day 'tyre the same as they bad been thirty
years ago. His political opinions had undergone no
change, for those which he had itubibcd in youth were
sanctioned by experience.
Mr. LLOYD stated. that the principles so often avowed
by him in the Corporation he now entertained, and
►hould continue to advocate them.

When these Gentlemen concluded, there were loud
cries of " ballot. ballot,* amidst which Mr. ScAILiTT,
the loyal 'sailor, rubbed to the table. crying 0ut..." Oh,
murdher 1 what's become of the p6or ould 'Glorious
Memory?' If I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe my
eyes. For five.and-thirty years I'm now in the corpo.
ration, and during that time, and I suppose five-sod-I
thirty years afore, nobody ever heard pit a man setting
up for an Alderman, without telling whether he'd drink
the Gl-rinus'—the poor mild Glut ions. Arrah, Mr.
Morrison," said the garrulous nailor, turning to that
Gentleman, "sill you tell us whether you'll give the
'Glorious when you come to be Lord M4yot r
MOnaissos—That is not a proper question—
(Hear, and cries of " ballot?)
Mr. Scasturrr—Well, I didn't think 'twould ever
come to this. Mr. Lloyd, may be you'd tell us what.
you think of the "Glorious r
A. silence of neatly a minute ensued. the nailor
ing stedlast at Mr. Lloyd, who made no reply.
Mt. SCAN [ACTT—Silence gives consent, they say, and
,bell dunk the choler toast.

The cry of "ballot" hem became very loud and ga
neral. Telle.s were appointed, and a ballot having
been t oken, the numbers appeared—
For Mr. Moralism, 84 I For Air. Lloyd. 59 I Majority, 55.
Mr. Monosson was declined duly elected; and atter
repressing his thanks in the warmest manner for the
honour conferred on him, he invited " their honours "
to meet him in the evening at dinner, when, perhaps, he
should propose a toast that would meet the approval
his worthy friend cf the ancient and loyal Guild of
l'§lallors.—An adjournment shortly atter took place.

It is not generally known that wood tar burns as well
AS oil. At the Cwn Avon Works, in the neighbourhood
of Neath, in Wales. it has entirely super-eded.the use of
both candles and oil, for night work. In buruing it is
less offensive than the coarser oils, and only about one-
eighth *of the expense.
A circular has been received in D:ogheda from Dub-
lin Castle, by the Town Clerk, requiring an immediate
return for Parliament of the number of Freemen in
Corporate town, distinguishing the residents from the
non-residents. We understand that the freemen at pre-
sent residing within the county of the town of Drog-
heda do not exceed 160.—Drogheda Jarred.
On the morning I f the 29th of March last Mr. John
English, of Letra, in the parish of Clonmacnoice, in the
King's county, left his house for the purpose of attend.
ing divine service, and in his absence five meu, with
blackened faces.entered his house,.beat and battered his
wile and family severely, broke his furniture, and took
from his house a gun, the lock and stock of another,
and a bayonet. Mr. John Holmes. who is a war
neighbour of Mr. English. having heard of what
occurred, instantly pursued the robbers, and sent across
the bog for aid to the police party stationed at Con-
fanla, in the said pariib, when police-constable Canninj
brought out his patty to afford all the assistance in his
power to come up with the robbers. Police-constable
John Bohm), in the most spirited manner threw off
his coat, vest, and shoes, which enabled him to gain
so much upon one of the party that he would have either
taken or shot him were it not for a number of the
country people who collected, and threw stones at him,
And threatened to drown him in the Shannon, should he
attempt to fire another shot at the man he was in pursuit
of. The robber got into a boat and crossed the Shannon
from the Seven Churches to the Roscommon side et the
river. A few nights before Mr. English was robbed, the
house of Mr. John Bradshaw, of Bloom-hill, in the
same parish and neighbourhood. was entered and
robbed of a gun, and his family very ill-treated; and
in consequence of his brother-in-law, Mr. William Lusk,
going to his assistance, Mr. Lusk's house was broken
open. several balls fired through his windows, his furni-
ture broken, and himself severely beaten. Mr. Lusk
lives in Bloom-hill. Some time prior to either of the
above-mentioned attacks, a pasty of the same descrip-
tion went to the house of Mr. Bailey, in the next parish
(Wheseyb and demanded arms; bat Mr. Bailey made
such resistance that he saved his gen, and he was able
to identify two of the persons concerned. who ate at
Osesent in Philipstown goal.--Newry Tekgraph.