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were lodged against several of the parties, who are known.
We have no doubt that Wall would have been murdered
it he had made his appearance on the quay, as their whole
vengeance would be wreaked on him. They had hatchets
cutting the side of the boat while others set her on fire.—
Tipperary Constitution.
AWFUL SCENE.—The new Roman Catholic chapel of
Ki kee was, as customary, on last Sabbath filled with a
dense congregation. Rev. Mr. O'Brien, the officiating
priest, had partaken of the chalice, and was descending
for the purpose of administering communion, when a
confused buz, or murmur of voices was heard in the body
of the chapel—next a sensation of alarm quickly spread
about, and then a sudden movement in the great multi-
tude was apparent, accompanied with faint exclamations
of terror. The commotion now became general, and a
violent rush was made to the chapel doors, all eyes being
raised to the gallery, which the fears of the congregation
had magnified into a mighty avalanche, falling upon their
heads with stone walls and roof, in one overwhelming
ruin. The panic soon became universal ; so that the
women and children started t.i their legs amid half sup-
pressed shrieks of agony and looks of indescribable pain.
Exhortations, brief but energetic, assured the excited
sufferers of safety, if they only kept their places, as there
was no real danger, but several persons hurried down
stairs, especially parents with their tender charge. In
a few minutes, the people's apprehensions were dispelled,
most happily without loss of life, though in the aisles men,
women, and children were thrown down in the heat of
the panic, trampled upon, and severely bruised ; shoes,
stockings, hats, caps, and cloaks were torn off in the first
desperate struggle to get out, and a cloud of dust was
raised, not unlike a smouldering fire, which if possible
added fuel to the flame. A little girl had her shoulder
dislocated, and several persons (not confined to females)
were observed in the chapel-yard from one fainting fit to
another. In the gallery, not one suffered injury, but
prayer-books, handkerchiefs, reticules, and sunshades
were abandoned in the flight of their owners. The priest
who had ineffectually laboured to appease the commotion,
now explained from the altar the cause of this fearful
tumult—the fall of a loose stone from one of the towers
which some timid persons construed into the falling of
the chapel.—Limerick Chronicle.

FOREIGN 4 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

UNITED STATES, &c.

The packet-ships Europe and Independence, from-New
York, have brought dates to the Ist and 7th instant re-
spectively,—the first arriving on Wednesday, the latter on
Thursday. The Independence performed the voyage in
sixteen days.
The crops throughout the Union. as also in Canada, are
favourobly spoken of. The case of Mrs. Gilmour, charged
with having murdered her husband in Scotland, had not
been decided. The views of the President and his cibinet
on the subject were daily looked for. The impression was
general that she would not be given up until the Supreme
Court of the United States had pronounced an opinion on
the clauses of the new treaty under which she is claimed.
Several sailors, charged with murder and piracy on board
a schooner called the Sarah Lavinia, were in custody at
New York, and the affair was undergoing investigation.
The cook, captain, and others belonging to the vessel had
been murdered by, it was believed, the parties in custody.
It was stated, in the news which came to hand a few
weeks back, that Mexico and Yucatan, mutually tired of
worrying each other, had agreed to live quietly for the
future. The accounts by these arrivals state that Mexico
was about making another effort to bring back her revolted
province, and the Yucatanese, anticipating another brush
with the discarded parent state, were bribing, by the offer
of high wages, a number of American sailors into their
service.

The cotton market at New York was dull, the price of
stocks rising, money abundant, and the rate of exchange
on England 81 per cent.

The American Methodist Episcopal Church has had
an accession of 145,524 members, and 212 travelling and
586 local preachers, during the last year.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE POSTMASTER-
GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.—OR Tuesday. the
Ist instant, the Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe, Postmaster-
General of the United States, had a most narrow escape
from death by assassination, whilst on board the steamer
Georgia, on his passage from Portsmouth to Washington
via Baltimore. It seems that Mr. Wickliffe and a young
man named J. M`Lean Gardner went on board at Balti-
more. Mr. Wickliffe and Gardner were seen in a casual
conversation, which soon terminated. When dinner was
announced, Mr. Wickliffe, on passing Gardner, who was
asleep, touched him for the purpose of waking him, when
that person sprang to his feet, drew a large dirk knife,
and pierced it into the right breast of Mr. W., the blade
striking against the bone, and turning downward about
an inch, but most fortunately not striking deep enough to
prove dangerous. Immediately on the wound being in-
flicted Gardner was seized, and, on examination before
the court, it appeared that he was subject to fits of insa-
nity; and he is, therefore, to be confined until his reason
is restored.—American paper.

SPAIN.

The news from Madrid comes down to the 15th instant,
but are of no moment. The overthrow of the regency of
Espartero was celebrated on that day by a high mass and
a Te Deum Laudarnus, at which the Queen and her sis-
ter were present. _ _

On the evening of the 13th there was a disturbance at
Barcelona, when the revolutionary mob of that city ma-
nifested their discontent with the new government.
Another riot occurred in the same place on the night of
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the government at Madrid, insisting on the convocation
of a central junta. to be composed of delegates from all
the provincial juntas, and have vested in it the supreme
power of government. These disturbances are in them-
selves, perhaps, not as yet of a very serious nature ; but
the friends of the late revolution view them with alarm,
symptoms of the speedy breaking up of the coalition of
discordant parties by which the regent was dispossessed of
power.

In another year the whole of the detached forts round
Paris will be in a condition to command and bombard the
city. Barricades will then be of no use, and the capital
of France will be at the mercy of the powers that be.
It is stated from Rome, that the Pope is determined to
put an end to the nefarious transactions of his Jewish sub-
jects, and that the Ancona ordinance is only a precursor
of more severe measures.

The Paris Globe says it is informed that Nina Lassave,
whose name was so much mixed up with Fieschi's trial,
is now acting as messenger at a dressuaaker's in the Palais
Royal.
There are now in France, says one of the journals,
6679 advocates, or barristers; 3569 avoues, or attorneys ;
10.300 notaries; 8206 huissiers, or summoning officers;
and about 20,000 agents ;—making a total of 48,754 per-
sons, all living upon law and justice.
A novel and gigantic scheme is talked of among our
French neighbours, which is, to establish a covered-in
garden at Paris, to be heated by a new and ingenious
method. Cafes, shops, libraries, ball rooms, restaurants,
baths, and a theatre are to surround it. 25 millions of
francs, to be raised by a company, is the sum to be called
for.