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and put some of the inhabitants to the torture

On the

Nth ultimo a band of twenty robbers, under the orders
of.Contzomili, attacked the Turkish village Zantani, and
had a skirmish with an Ottoman detachment, which lost

two men

AN ASSASSIN IN A CHUILCIT.—TI: has often been stated
that-tranquillity has been restored in Hungary, but it is
evident from isolated facts -which reach us that scenes
every now and then take place which would do credit to
the far west of America. Last month, while Divine scr-

vice was going on in the church at Tapsony, in the
Sumegh Comitat, a man called out to the organist to
cease playing, as he was about to kill the parish priest
and the schoolmaster. This was no empty threat, for,
taking a gun from under his cloak, he fired at the school-
master, but, fortunately hissing him, the bullet took
away the top of his chair. The priest, hurrying from the
altar, called on his congregation to arrest the miscreant,
but they declining to do so, because " he had not offend-
ed them," left the church. As the assassin, who had

schoolmaster, iiticing heart, made a rush at him, and at
last, with the assistance of a gentleman's servant, suc-
ceeded in disarming him. He is now in the county
prison Vienna Correspondent of the Times. _ _

A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM.—The artists and artisans
of Munich have made a present to King Louis of Bavaria,
as a lasting sign of their gratitude and acknowledgement
of his merits in the cultivation of the fine and industrial
arts. The present of the artists is an album, 26 inches
wide, 20 inches high, and 74- inches thick ; it is bound in
dark red velvet and decorated with clasps, ornaments, and
basso-relievos, in gilded bronze, in the Gothic style of the
15th century. In the middle of the cover is a large me-
dallion encircled with brilliants, and filed with a basso-re-
lievo representing the King surrounded by his artists, and
speaking to them—" I live in your works"—(the answer

of the King to the deputation of artists after abdication).
In the corners are four medallions, the basso.relievos of
of which represent the architects with their models. the

historical painters executed in enamel, and surrounded by
rich leaves. The interior contains a collection of 177
drawings. water colours, and oil paintings, executed by

h, Dresden, Berlin
&c., so that the album indeed, appears as a present of
all the German artists.—Art Journal.

artistsin

)usseldorf, E

IRELAND

A dreadful gale of wind occurred in the Cove of Cork
on Wednesday. Several vessels were more or less da-
maged. The rain fell in torrents, and the rivers and
streams were swollen to a dangerous extent.
On Wednesday night, owing to the heavy rain, a large
quantity o f earth and embankment wall fell down at Cork,
carrying in the roof and side wall of a small house, and

her, son, and servant

Mr. John O'Connell delivered his weekly oration at
Conciliation-hall, last week, when he announced the rent
to be £25 65., of which the free and independent men of
America have contributed the sum of £9
ELOPEMENT

—Some few days ago a young lady, who
was a governess in a gentleman's family near Shinrone,

house the young lady was living. It is said that
she is a relative of the family, possessed of a fortune of
some hundreds in her own right. It is conjectured that
the happy pair have ascended the altar of hymen, and are
now on their way to Americs.—Dublin paper.
A correspondence has taken place between the Rev.
A. S. Brooke, Incumbent of Monkston, Ireland, in whose
parish Kingston Harbour is included, and Mr. Chief-
Secretary Redington, relative to a convict ship, in which
two Popish priests are sent out, one with government pay,
the other an unpaid assistant, while no provision what-
ever is made for the religious wants of between eighty and
ninety Protestants, convicts, and others ; the Protestant
ing handed over to the spiritual care of the

convicts be

surgeon superintendent,

Another death from starvation has taken place in the
Ennistymon Union, and the verdict of the coroner's jury
in the case attributes it to the neglect of the vice.guar-
dians. It would appear, however, that these officials are
not in any way to blame, having expressly directed the re-

lieving officer to afford any relief that might be necessary
to such of the cases as they were unable to dispose of on
the board day ; but that the deceased was sent away,
nevertheless, with many others, and was found dead in a
field next morning.

THE MAYORALTY OF DUBLIN.—In the Court of
Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the long-pending case to try
the legality of Mr. John Reynold's election as Lord
Mayor was at length decided, the judgment of the court
being against his election. It will be recollected that the
corporation made a return to the writ of mandamus for

office was already filled. To this return a demurrer was
made by the opponents of Mr. Reynolds. The demurrer
has been before the court for the last three terms, and the
judgment delivered on Tuesday was in favour of it, and
against the return. Judge Perrin did not agree in the

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.-011 Sunday the body of a re-
spectable female was found suspended by the head from
the area railings in frOnt of the Railway Hotel, Westland.
row, Dublin, from one of the windows of which it appears
that she had fallen by accident or design. About six

o'clock on Saturday afternoon the deceased, accompanied
by an elderly gentleman and a young woman aged about
nineteen, with a fine boy of seven years of age, had come
to the hotel, where a double-bedded apartment was
ordered, and into the occupation of which they at once
entered. The room was on the topmost story of the
house, forty feet in height from the street. The people of
the hotel had no knowledge of them. The two first men-

. .
no refreshments from the hotel during the evening or
night, and the first notice which the people bad of the
terrible catastrophe was from the discovery of the body by

the boot-boy. The deceased appeared to be in the prim(
of life, somewhere about twenty-eight. The deceased':
name was Anne Minniss, the name of her male companior

W. Fivey, of Union Lodge, Down. Tl:e boy was the son of
the deceased and of the male prisoner, who had been living
together some years in an unmarried state, and had had
several children, but one of whom (the above-mentioned)
only survived. It is stated that the parties were to have
been married next day.

THE FALL OF A MILL AT BELFAST.—An inquest was
commenced at Belfast on Monday, relative to the shock.
ing catastrophe upon thirteen bodies of the unfortunate
victims. The first witness examined being asked whether

the accident might not have been caused through the
undermining of the pillars in the interior by a drain which
was being cut along their base, replied that he could not
say ; but the foundation of the pillars was laid in the
firmest manner. The next witness. a carpenter, stated
that when he and another of the workmen were plumbing
the pillars, they observed a shaking in the walls, but they
had not mentioned this hitherto the contractors or the
owners. A bricklayer, employed about the works, gave
it as his opinion that the workmanship of the building
was of the best description ; but tha materials were such
as should not have been used, there being too many
" bats" among the bricks. Mr. Boyd, one of the owners
of the mill, deposed that so far from the whole of the
bats in the old mill having been used (as was alleged) in
the one which had fallen, there were as many perfect
bricks left as would build from eighteen to twenty
workmen's houses. The inquiry was adjourned until
Thursday. Shortly after the close of the proceedings a
warrant was made out by the coroner for the apprehension
of Mr. John Magee, the contractor for the brickwork of
the building ; and in a few moments Mr. Magee was
brought in custody into the room where the inquest had
been held, and where the magistrates were still sitting.
Mr. Tracey then drew out Mr. Magee's committal to the
county goal. Messrs. Boyd and Steen offered any amount
of bail which might be required, but the coroner refused
to take it.

AN APOLOGY WITH A VENGEANCE.—The following is
Father M'Mahon's apology for the excruciatingly biting
letter which he addressed to Mr. John O'Connell. This
epistle is another proof of the kind of liberty enjoyed by
the subjects of the Pope in this country :—"ITo the
editor of the Limerick and Clare Examiner.—Thomas-
street, Jan. 15, 1851. Dear Sir,—From the fact of you
having inserted my letter of last 'Wednesday, I feel con-
fident that this letter also will meet at your hands a
similar reception. I would not again require such a
favour from you, nor would I a second time bring my
humble name before the public, but that I am impera-
tively commanded to do so. I received a letter yesterday
fiom the most reverend Father Provincial of our Order,
directing me to make at once a sufficient apology' to Mr.
John O'Connell, for, as he says, the unprovoked manner
in which I abused him and his excellent family, and the
Catholic public at large.' fhis unwelcome task be im-
poses on me under the severest penalties that his authority
can inflict. To that authority I at once bow with the
greatest possible respect, and do hereby make the apology
required to ' Mr. John O'Connell and his excellent
family.' If I have offended ' the Catholic public at
large , including, of course, the most prominent members
of our reformed corporation. then, of that notable par-
tion of society I also most humbly ask pardon. He
commanded me, in addition, by virtue of holy obedience,

never more 4ciinterfere in the political affairs of ' my poor
old country.' As this, then, will be my last letter, 'my
dying speeehgtnd declaration,' I may as well remark that
it would be,!L am sure, a consummation devoutly to be
wished' by the hon. member fogLirnerick—the leader of
Catholic Ireland—that all his political opponents, past,
present, and to come, had religions superiors, and that a
certain member for Mayo had the good luck to be a friar !
Thus making my ' debar and exit as a politician, I now
retire for the remainder of my life within the sanctuary,
where I will always most fervently pray, morning and
evening, for the coming of happier days for this beautiful
old land."