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armed party

They immediately proceeded to the cOom .1

where the gentleman and his wife were sitting, and enter.
ing they presented two:blundeibusses at his head, and

They then took his doublejbarrelled gun, two his
servant's carabine, some powder and shot, and what mo-
ney he had in the house, amounting, we understand, to •

about two pounds. This daring attack and robbery was
perpetrated in the noon day, and but a short distance

iron). the Military Barracks; .of Caller, where the head
quarters of the Sth Hussars are quartered.—Tipperary
Constitution.

[or, the Chie

tary, t

the Rolls, and many other persons of the highest distinc-
tion were present at the inauguration dinner of the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Staunton, last week, for the

land what was quite as unusual a circumstance, there was

ions avoidance of every topic of a sectarian or po]
nature calenlnted to local to stnv diversity of miinini

no offensive toasts were
properly shelved, even after the departure of tl
functionaries who honoured the banquet with their
sence, O'Connell not

proposed

Repeal" being very.

leading toast

laring to open his

GREAT FIRE /N DILIBLIN.—A little after two o'clock on
Tuesday morning, the sentry on guard at the gate of the
Lower Castle-yard, perceiving smoke issuing from the
shop of Mr. Mears, the bootmaker, in Dame-street,
promptly gave the alarm ; but, before the family were
well aroused to a sense of their danger, the whole premises

Mears and his

wife escaped by leaping into the arms of the soldier who
discovered the flames. Their three children, who were
left, were burned to death. The whole concern was, in
spite of every exertion, completely gutted. The premises
of Mr. Clifford, druggist, of Castle-street, were also burned
down. At nine o'clock two men were ascending a fire-
ladder for the purpose of gaining the roof of an adjoining
house, and had nearly reached the top story, when the
ladder snapped across, and precipitated the two men into
Shperfrard• hatom • /NMI OVIV,IA -'-

post, but the other, falling on the pavement underneaili
was so severely mutilated that he died shortly after th(

accident

YREVENTION OF NTARVATION.—We give to our rea-
ders to-day two very important resolutions, adopted una-
nimously at a •special meeting of the Guardians of the
Balrothery Union, held on Wednesday last, presided over
by George A. Hamilton, Esq., M.P.. the Chairman of

was signec

act of doing so, when the former, suddenly seizing
intended victim by the head, applied a razor to his throat

le to re

.most -severed t

the body, nothing holding it but the muscle of the neck.
Of course he died instantly. Tie wife of deceased, on
hearing the noise, went out, lain'iinz he was (man-pith-10-

with the supposed party of marauders

On the murder;

seeing her, he- threw the corpse of the deceased on the
manure heap, opposite to where he had done the bloody

unate woman

icting a

same weapon (a razor), and on her falling he gave her a
few kicks, and left her for dead. He then entered the
house, and after looking whether the children were asleep,
he commenced plundering the premises. In the mean-
time the woman gained so much strength as to crawl to
the house next to where the tragedy took place. and
raising the neighbours, they found the wretched, murderer
eating bread and butter in the house. He.took refuge in
a loft above the kitchen, threatening any person who

would dare come up, and although the-re were upwards of
forty men, armed with guns, none dared attempt to arrest
him. When the poliae in Moneymore heard of the cir-
cumstance, they immediately started off. to the scene of
the outrage, and at once rushed upon and seized the

criminal, who was brought to town. He presented a
frightful picture, 'being actually covered with blood from
the shoulders down.--Newry Telegraph.

IEATENED DESOLATION

of Skibbereen

lenoe are

to coun

to go near, much less to get into, a crowd, for fear of in.
fection. My two servants are in fever, from serving the
Tinny pr,,,fitnrpa who come to my house clan

taking off as many as either ; they swell and

the Union. It will be seen from the first that the Guar-
dians have taken upon themselves to order that any per-
son, or any number of persons, who may be found, after
inquiry, in danger of starvation, shall receive a ,meal at
the workhouse, upon an order for their provisional ad-
mission for this purpose. This will rescue all those who

and this in their unknown cabins. I rescued a family the
other day in this state, by the direct interference of Pro-
vidence, after one member had died. They were dying in
the condition- of misery described in your report of our
last Presentment Sessions—unknown by any one ! The
poor creatures have pawned everything they hadcover-
inif and all ! Food at famine price without

[mouse, an,

_
there, from the horrors we have witnessed of Skibbereen any kind ! . For as to the puouc works, theyare -a mockery
and elsewhere. And the Guardians, in their second of our woe I ' Eight... Pence a day for labourers with fami-
resolution, have called upon the Commissioners to sane- lies from four- to fourteen ! This latter is extreme, no
tion the opening of the rooms, in the different districts doitht, but I have come across such extreme cases. And
where distress prevails, in which similar relief may be one such case, at :preSent you will allow in such circum-
administered. In fact, the effect of these resolutions will stances to be bad enough. I put the extreme I have ,net
be to create mendicity establishments throughout the with, as, in times like these, the worst that is fact may
to Andbe employedll%o men,
Union, where every person ascertained to be in a desti- be known. Fourteen funerals in this Churchard in one
tute condition may receive one meal per day.—Dublin another
Committee, Mail.resolution ,
the'Reliefdayl—nineiin)yda.gvnggravesof
HORRIBLE EXPEDIENT.—At an extraordinary sessions —and without coffins, too, from their numbers ! Few can
held last week in the Court-house of Skibbercen, Cork, understand the humanity of that disposition that can
a " presentmentfor the purchase of coffins" was put in, leave a people, without any fault of their own, but-under
•in advocating which one of the gentlemen present thus the awful visitation of Heaven, to perish as they are, by
I addressed the meeting :—" Gentlemen, can any of you hundreds and thousands on the public works—working,
refuse this application ?—you who have beheld-the appal- as I have men theili, in wer-trencbes with naked feet-
ling spectacles of famine and destitution which our town having no shoes—of a cold east wind, shaping the fences
abounds in—you who have seen mothers walking the and sides of the useless roads, until my own. blood was
streets with their deceased children in their arms, begging chilled at the sight l—to perish on them without adequate
for the trifle required to purchase them a coffin ? M'hen remuneration !—to perish on them by a forced necessity
a rap comes to our hall door, and a person •attends to to work in cold and hunger and nakedness !—to perish by
open it, a dead child-is immediately thrust in by a starving inability to get even this work !—to perish unable to work
mother, who makes a sorrowful appeal for the price of a at all. They are perishing of fever, six in a bed, in their
coffin." And another gentleman (Mr. Becher, a magic- own filth, without attendant or any thing—but I must
trate,) detailed the following horrifying expedient resorted hold—Oh ! my dear sir, get us means a
or we perish:
to where coffins could not be procured :-- In the extreme One hundred and forty death in the i'orkhouSe from
west of this county, in the parish of Kilmoe, the Roman Ist of December to Ist of January .
'! I The Lord God
Catholic clergyman of that place told me, within the last look upon us•with pity and mercy, or we are all gone to-
week, that the condition of his people is such that a single gether."
coffin, with a false bottom, is taken from house to house, The Cork Constitution of Saturday says:—" We were
in which the bodies are carried to the grave, and there going to invite attention to the evidence on the inquests
rags that covered them, whilst the coffin reported in our second page; but,
deposited in the after all, what is there
in it more than we read
is taken to the -next house, and made answer a similar and hear of every day ; There
are tendeaths, or rather inquiries on ten b • purpose." The deaths are more numerous—and bodies, for the
DISTRESS IN THE SOUTH WEST OF IItELA
ND.—
from starvation would time was when ten deaths
following shocking details of distress in parts of Clare and
d ed us. Starvation have startled us ; but use has liar-
following
are given by the Limerick Chronicle :—" The mat
01
They is the rule with our unhappy po
workhouse of Scariff, county Clare, (within 16 miles of Pul i
build . drop in the field or in the, road, or they
this city, is so overcrowded with paupers that a disease themselves. up in their hovels, and the rats devour
its them as they die. We would make some extracts, but
almost amounting to a plague has broken out amongst 1
I inrnatpa—flic. 41...,.+1,a ...,,........4.-..... f...,,,,, form to twelve daily. 1 that we wish the evidence to be pondered as it stands.

dog of Mars

Ind Timothy M`Carthy,
' The cries of the child, Timothy, were terrible, but at
ast he died on Sunday week. He died lying on his
nother'S bosom, and had cut the nipple across endeavour..
ng to draw milk from her; on the day, following the
nnthe/' died."

It is horrifying to hehold a donkey cart, laden with fivt
or six bodies, piled over each other, going to be interred,
and not a person attending the wretched cortege, except
the driver. The graves are so dug that the coffins are
barely covered with earth, rendering the air infected. No
coroner's inquests have been held ! The most munificent
act we have yet to record is, the donation of £2OO on
Christmas eve, by Mr. Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, of
Britton-hall, Yorkshire, to Mr. Philip Refute, of Wood-
parks, in aid of a private fund established by this gentle-
man for the relief of the very distressed neighbourhood
in which he resides ; and it is gratifying to record that not saYs—
a single case of outrage or robbery has occurred within his " Her husband died of starvation, and nothing else
parish of Inniscathra, though many are suffering extreme he was buried without a coffin, and. hey were all so weak
privation. Not a shilling has, as yet, been subscribed by that they were not able to carry home the door on
any of the proprietors.to assist in relieving the misery- on which they conveyed him to the graze She and her
their own estates in this district of Galway. t children have no food now,,nor the mean of -proeurin

tnam and M'Cormick state. that " the wo-
part of her breast and nose bad been
re also the limbs of the child I"
to the death of her husband,

and

man's e

eaten away by r
Mary Brian,

in the school-room with the children, (about two hundred)
and took tea, which was provided by the Rev. John Dal-
ton, the worthy and beloved curate of the church. After

handsome pocket communion service, the presentation of
which was,made with so much simplicity and frank ho-
.

nesty by

Ar. Robert

we, the schoolmaster, that the
rev. gentleman was quite overpowered, and unable for
some time to give utterance to his feelings. He had not

be given him, which enhanced the value of it, and parti-
cularly as the gift came from the individuals solely con-
nected with the Sunday-school.

The site of the first of the new churches for Toxteth Park
having been fixed on, the Church Building Committee have,
within the last few days, selected for its design one fur-
nished by Mr. John Hay, of St. George's Crescent. The
Building Committee deserve thanks for the good taste
and judgment they have shown in awarding to Mr. Hay
that encouragement which his efforts on behalf of a
strictly Church architecture so richly deserve. Over-
coming all the difficulties of the shape of the site, Mr
Hay, with the assistance, we believe, of his brother, Mr
James Hay, f

s succeeded in offering a most beautiful
design, which, when realised, will afford, as it were, a
living proof that ecclesiology is beginning to find a home
in the good old town. The style .of architecture is purely
ecclesiastical—the middle-pointed ; the building will con-

sist of a nave, with spacious aisles and cloiSlory ; the
roofs, high-pitched and showing all the interior timbers,
are to be constructed on a new principle introduced by
Mr. Hay, and which combines two qualities not often
united—elegance and economy. There will be open
benches for 1100 people.
Miss BURDETT COUTTS' NEW CHURCH AND SCHOOLS.
—lt has already been stated that Miss Burdett Coutts had
determined to build and endow a new church and schools
for the education of the poor in the city of Westminster,
which her late father represented for so many years in
Parliament. The sum of £30,000 was named as the cost