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was even more abundant than ever. Foreign
ges were firm for the packet, and a fair amount
1, at the following rates .—London, 108 to

have beeen received from Dr. Wolff, dated
of October, on which day he sailed for Con-
The doctor writes in great spirits, and ex-
',ude for the kind reception he has met

ld and ❑ew friends in that island

!he sovereign of Gabon, in Africa, has
his son and heir to France to be educated. The
man is about nineteen sears of age, and tall; in
rection and features he bears all the characteristics

A7INDIGO SEASON, 1813.-.

According to the
Feu trout the various factories, the forthcoming
crop of Indigo is likely to exceed all precedent. The
Friend of India states that it will probably exceed rather
than fall short of 150,000 maunds
NEW BANK IN AFRICA.—The

establishment of a joint
►raced. Its d

Ascounts are
to be regulated by the rate allowed in that country, which
;‘,

commerce of tl

e place; which is suffering from

want of capital

Mexrco.—The accounts from Mexico confirm the
statements recently put forth in this country, to the effect
that the Mexican Government has issued a decree pro-
hibiting foreigners from engaging in trade in that repub-
lic. Naturalized foreigners, foreigners married to Mexi-
can women, and those who reside in the republic with
their families, are made exceptions to the prohibition.

BELGIUM.—The king of the Belgians opened the Cham-
with a speech, in which the following
The Queen of Great Britain has re-
. to Belgium a proof of lively sympathy in vi-
.,e of our provinces. Happy in the opportunity
cising their ancient hospitality, our population have
_I an earnestness full of cordiality, by which my
august niece has_ been able to appreciate the good spirit

bers on Tuesday

S OCCU

of exer
display

which animates them

A. PLEASANT COMPANlON.—According to a Berlin
letter, a merchant highly esteemed in that city, found
himself a few days ago in one of the chariots of the An-
halt Railroad train, with only one other passenger, who
was a young man. When they had passed Ludwigsfield,
the merchant suddenly seized his fellow-traveller by the
throat, and endeavoured to strangle him. He, fortunately
being strong and courageous, defended himself in a strug-
gle which lasted till they arrived at Trebbin and stopped,
when his cries brought him assistance. The merchant
was taken out and found to be in a violent paroxysm of
madness.

COLONEL Si ODDART AND CAPTAIN COOLLY.—The
last Overland Mail has brought a letter from Lieut. Vin-
cent, Bengal Artillery, whose narrative of the imprison-
ment of the Cabul captives excited so much interest in
this country; this letter is addressed to the Rev. Dr.
Wolff, and dated Meerut, Sept. 18, 1843. Mr. Eyre be-
lieves that Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly are
still alive, and is anxious to join Dr. Wolff in his expedi-
tion to Bokhara. "You have of course heard the story
derived through Colonel Sheil from a Persian, who pro-
fessed actually to have seen the graves in which Stoddart
and Conolly had been buried. This story has, however,
been contradicted by two highly respectable Jews, both
of whom I know intimately, and whom I believe to be
honest and upright men. They have both received letters
from Bokhara, mentioning both officers as still alive, and
information has been received from other quarters that
the two graves were those of two servants who had of-
fended the King."

SIR C. NAPIER AND HIS ARMY.—The followinc, ,
ex-
tract from Sir Charles's speech at the dinner given to him
by the officers of the force at Hyderabad on the 28th ult.,
is highly characteristic of the gallant General, and will,
we are sure, be read with deep interest. In rising to
return thanks on his health being drunk, Sir Charles
said,—" I have heard, gentlemen, of a General spoiling
an army, but it appears to me that the force I command
wishes to spoil its General, and I will now explain in what
manner I mean it. First, you win two battles for me;
secondly, you made me Governor of Scinde ; thirdly, you
give me a regiment; and lastly, you made me a Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath. I feel and appreciate voar
kindness, favour, and friendship. Gentlemen, the good
order and understanding that exists in a British army is
mainly attributable to the messes of the service. When
officers meet at a mess, the General and the junior ensign
are on a level ; every one is at full liberty to express his
thoughts and feelings as they emanate. On parade the
laws of reason and discipline combine to make him obey
his commander. We are all gentlemen by birth and edu-
cation, and consequently on a par. This is also a reason,
gentlemen, that I feel your testimonials of friendship so
keenly. It is not with any idea of favours or honour
that you thus befriend me. You are all far too superior
to such base ideas. Thus, gentlemen, the best feelings of
my heart, be where I may, will be linked to you with the
march in the desert, the battles in Scinde, and the dinner
in the plains of Hyderabad."—Rombay Times, Sept. 16.
PARISIAN TRICK.—A short time ago, a French lady of
fashion, young, gay, and lovely, decided upon the purchase
fa shawl. The " Rue Richelieu" is celebrated for shops
abounding with that sine qua non of a Paris belle, and
thither the lady went. After, of course, a long perplexity
of choice, the one which was charmant, delicienx, and aft
that sort of thing, was chosen. Little, poor lady ! did
she dream how one from without was watching all her
proceedings within ! But to proceed. The choice being
happily effected, the purchaser turned to the " comptoir,"
where, as usual, a well-dressed woman sat as book-keeper
and receiver-general. Scarcely had a billet de barque for
five hundred francs been laid upon the desk, when a dash-
ing bearded and moustached man entered, made direct to
the lady, gave her a tremendous box of the ear, with the
words, "Very well, madam ; I'll teach you to buy shawls
without the permission of your husband"' fhe lady
fainted—the man took up the billet de Longue, put it into
his pocket, and, looking unutterable things, departed.
The men and shop girls of the establishment hurried to
the aid of the unfortunate wife—salts and smelling bottles
at length restored her to her senses—with one accord a
shower of pity fell upon the martyr, and of abuse upon
the man. " Oh, Madam ! how i pity you ! He is a
brute, a monster ! Flow sorry I ant for you that you have
such a' husband." "My husband ! He is no husband of
mine ; be is a thief !" The reaction was instant : all
within the shop ran into the street and shouted stop thief !
stop thief ! much to the astonishment of many innocent
pedestrians, and countless sylphides, " eitadines," and
other conveyances which chanced to be passing. The
clever rogue had long since effected his escape, with the
calmness and dignity of an nfrpnit.,l

al proverb runs thu3
[berry leaf becomes satin."

yWith time

IRELAND.

Their Lordships sat at eleven o'clock on Tuesday.
A little before one o'clock, the motions of course hav-
ing been heard, the case of " The Queen v. Samuel Gray,"
was called on.

Mr. Whiteside (Queen's counsel) proceeded to move an
arrest of judgment on his client, who had been found
guilty at the last Monaghan assizes for firing with intent
to kill. [The circumstances of the case are, as Judge
Crampton said, rather curious, and involving some very
novel points. The prisoner. who was a very prominent
member of the Orange Society, had made himself ob-
noxious to the Roman Catholics of his neighbourhood,
and much ill-will was excited between them. Gray was a
man of violent disposition, and always went about well
armed. In an affray some years ago, he was accused of
shooting at a Roman Catholic, and has since stood no less
than six trials, in the first five of which he was acquitted,
but, as his opponents contended, merely through the par-
tiality of a jury of his co-religionists. At his sixth and last
trial he was found guilty, but havinc, challenged a juror,
and having had his challenge overruled by the Crown, he
has been kept in custody till the question of right could
be decided before the Queen's Bench.] His learned
counsel proceeded to state the above facts, and to argue
against the legality of the course taken by the Crown in
disallowing the prisoner's challenge, which, if proved,
would consequently lead to a new trial.

In a few minutes after, whilst the Judges were consult-

ing on Gray's case,

Sir C. O'Loghlin rose and said, my lords, in the case
of the " Queen against O'Connell and others," the
parties are in attendance, this being the last day of plead-
ing.

The Court, in answer to Mr. Whiteside, stated that
Gray's case would stand over.

Mr. Bourne, Clerk of the Crown, returned in a few
moments, having received the oaths of the traversers to
their pleas in chamber, and immediately after the traver-
sers entered the Court, attended by their attorneys, who
proceeded to hand in the pleas to the clerk of the Crown.
All the nine pleas having been handed in, and some of
the parties having been sworn who had not previously
taken the necessary oath, the plea of Mr. O'Con.►ell was
read by the clerk, in•compliance with the request of the
Attorney-General. It is very brief, and in technical terms'
is a plea of abatement, on the ground that by the statute
of the 56th of George 111. the witnesses examined before
the grand jury who found the bill ought to have been sworn
in open court, and were not.

A similar

a was entered on behalf of the other tray

The Attorney-General immediately rose, and called
upon the Court to allow him until the next morning to
look into this plea more fully. He certainly did hope that
the Court would not receive it until he had an opportunity
of doing so, and of addressing the Court on the subject.
The Lord Chief Justice.—l do not anticipate any ob-
jection on either side ; but as a member of this Court, I
do say that four o'clock is not a proper time to enter into
tk,;- -
'hips then rose, and the Court adjourned.

matter

The course taken by the Counsel for the defence ap-
peared to take the law officers of the Crown by surprise,
as it seemed to be generally understood that there would
be an application for an extension of time to plead.

The Attorney-General, and others of the counsel for
the crown, argued at great length on Wednesday that the
bound, if they intended to put in pleas of

ictmen

laving done so,

hey were taerefore

--.-.-
too late now with such a plea.
After the reply of the counsel for the traversers.
The court decided that the plea of abatement was
pleaded in sufficient time.

- The council for the crown then demurred to the plea,
and contended for their right to proceed forthwith with

the argument

The council for the traversers, however, refused to argue
the question without due notice being

The court agreed with the latter, and a four-day rule
Tas granted, so that the case would come on on Monday
yesterday.)

DREADFUL OUTRAGE IN TIPPERARY

From the Nenagh Guardian.)

" On Sunday evening last the family circle, at dinner,
of Mr. Thomas Waller, of Finnoe, within a mile-and-a-
half of Borisokane, consisted of that gentleman and Mrs.
Waller, a young boy, their grandson, son to Mr. John
Francis Waller, Miss Vereker, sister to Mrs. Waller, and
Mr. John A. Braddel, brother-in-law of Mr. Waller.
The dining parlour had two entrance doors, one from the
hall, and the other leading to the stairs in connexion with
the kitchen. Mr. Braddell sat the head, and Mr. Waller
at the foot of the table ; and just as the last dish of the
first course was being removed Mr. Braddell perceived a
man, armed with a pistol,-in the doorway, which was near
to Mr. Waller, and who presented it at his head. Mr.
Braddell cried out Waller, you are murdered ! and,
immediately starting to his feet, was about to rush against
the fellow with the chair he set upon, when he perceived
himself covered by a blunderbuss in the arms of another
villian, who was in the doorway which entered from the
hall. Mr. Braddell then rushed upon this fellow, and
with the chair forced him into the hail, when the shock
struck the flint out of his deadly weapon. The old but-
ler, a venerable and worthy servant, pushed the young
boy under a sideboard, and with a garden tool used for
plucking up weeds, he inflicted many severe blows on the
ruffian who levelled the weapon at his master. There
were in this murderous attack seven persons, and as des-
perate and sanguinary a battle then ensued as eves, we
heard of in a private dwelling. The villians succeeded in
wresting the garden tool from the butler, and with it, the
butt of their fire-arms, a bar of iron, they found in the
hall, and the coulter of a plough, they beat to an unmer-
ciful extent the two gentlemen, the two ladies, and the
aged butler, who was only able to crawl to the alarm-bell,
which he rang violently, on which the party made off,
leaving, as they supposed, their victims butchered. The
alarm-bell brought some of the neighbouring gentry, who
found the dining-room and hall more like a slaughter-
house than those belonging to the mansion of a gentle-
man. The entire family were in a complete state of in-
sensibility. Dr. Stoney, of Borrisokane, was instantly
sent for, when it was found that Mr. Waller and Mr.
Braddell were dreadfully injured; Mrs. Waller lying un-
der the table in her gore, being struck down by the blow
of a bar of iron on the back of the head, and Miss Vere-
ker in a similar or possibly a worse state. Next morning
Dr. Dempster, of Nenagh, was early in attendance, and
the sufferers were examined and their wounds dressed.
Mr. Waller's left arm has both bones broken, there are
eleven cuts on his head, and one of his eyes is dangerously
injured. Mr. Braddell was brought into Nenagh on
Monday. His head is awfully bruised, so much so, that
it cannot yet be ascertained if there he a fracture ; his
eyes are frightfully injured, and his body severely beaten
and
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at.p ohne faecxtteintt woifllthbee iimn-- juries or if there be any hope of their surviving
this murderous, brutal, and unmanly attack. We have
learned that some of the murderers have been seriously
wounded, and that there are strong grounds for suspicion
against some parties, and great hopes entertained of
bringing the delinquents to justice. They must have en-
tered the house by a back door, which is usually securely
fastened at an early hour in the evening, and they must
have taken their shoes off before they ascended the back
stairs which led to the hall. A number of magistrates
and other gentlemen visited the scene of this atrocious
outrage on Monday, viz., Major Priestly, Messrs. P.
Carroll, T. G. Stoney, T. B. Dancer, T. Sadleir, T.
Brereton, resident magistrate, J. Fitzgerald, &c. Tues-
day morning at eight o'clock there was a consultation of
the medical gentlemen. Mr. Waller, we are happy to
say, passed a tolerable night. Mrs. Waller is going on
favourably. Miss Vereker is in a most dangerous and
pr.ecarious state. Mr. Braddell is in that state that it
wll be impossible to say for a few days what the result of
his injuries may be. We have heard some persons are
already taken up for this deed of barbarity."

the fires, the men immediately made off, leaving the place
in possession of children. From Mallow along to the
The following, from our own correspondent, appeared i county of Limerick every elevated spot had its fire, and
great alarm prevailed among the unprotected Protestants.
in our Second Edition on Tuesday last :
Something must be done to put a stop to this. It will never
Dolma's, Nov. 13TH, Four o' Clock, p.m. answer to have an orange riband proscribed toe man who
The Court of Queen's Bench has just refused the tra- would shed his life's blood -for our laws and liberties,
vergers' motion for a copy of the captiori. The members while the traitor who longs to crimson his pike in the veins
of the court were not unanimous, Judge Perrin differing of loyalty and of Protestantism is allowed to leave the
from the majority, being of opinion that the motion country in anxiety and affright.
ought to be granted. " BALL'INCOLLIG, Nov. 12.—1 beg leave to inform you
Judge Burton stated that at first he was inclined to agree that last night, about 7 o'clock, this village was in a state
with Judge Perrin, but after mature consideration he had of great alarm in consequence of fires being lit on all the
altered his mind. surrounding hills, accompanied by terrific yells, which
All the members of the court delivered their opinions were plainly heard here.; three of them were within a
at great length. quarter of a mile of the barracks. The constabulary were
Mr. Whiteside again to-day, on a new ground, at. promptly in attendance, under the command of constables
tempted to move for a list of the witnesses, but the court Ware and Wilson, and took down the names of some of
would not hear him, as he had not given notice to the the persons who appeared to be concerned, and who were
Crown. very insolent to the police. I need scarcely tell you that
Mr. Richard Moore then withdrew his notice to move the Protestants here (few in number,) though not afraid,
to set aside the rules to plead, as he said the Court by re- were somewhat uneasy. There was one shot tired to the
fnsing the previous motions, had taken from under his south-east of the village. The above you may rely on as
feet the only ground on which he could support them. being perfectly true. One of the police said he counted
Mr. Macdonough then withdrew a similar notice of mo- 30 fires.
tion, for the same reason. The traversers are to plead " NOVEMBER 13.—1 dare say you have had several com-
to-morrow, on which day notice has been given to the munications respecting the fires of Saturday evening, and
Crown that the traversers will move for a bill of the par I trust you will permit me to state briefly what I wit-
ticulars of the charges intended to be made, although, nessed on that evening. About eight o'clock, my atten-
one would think, the indictment was specific enough. tion having been called to the fact that a fire was on the
A large quantity of barricading materials has been opposite hill, I went outside my house, and saw several
brought to the Castle, by a party of sappers, for the pur- beacons blazing on the heights near Ballincollig ; inime-
pose of fortifying it, but they have not yet been set up. diately the signal was seen, fires were lighted almost
Half-past Four o' Clock. simultaneously on all the hills between that place and
A Proclamation leas just been issued by Mr. O'Connell Wilton, and crowds of persons flocked to them, who
most earnestly entreating the people to remain quiet ; shrieked in the most dreadful manner; at the same time,
from which it would seem he has great doubts of his blowing horns most vociferously. At the north side of
power to restrain them at the present crisis from break- that district also many fires blazed forth ; and at one of
ing out into open violence. them at Blarney Cross, within two miles of the city, be-
side the yelling and horn-blowing, the accompaniments
were agreeably diversified by a band of music. I will not
add a word of comment."
Mecßoom, November 13.—Allow me through your
very constitutional paper to arouse the loyal inhabitants
of this town and its vicinity to the alarming state of the
country, and not to leave the very few Protestants here
in the excited state of alarm they must naturally be, while
unprovided with that protection which government has
now afforded to almost all other towns in Ireland, and
surely if proper application were made, we could not be
denied. Doubtless, the state of this country in the years
1821 and 1822 still continues fresh in the recollection not
only of your readers, but of government itself, when,
were it not for the efficient and timely aid of a party of the
11th Foot, some of the Rifle Brigade, and the 6th Carbi-
'leers, the consequences would positively have been
awful. These (in my opinion) necessary observations
have now been particularly called forth by the numerous
lights or bonfires which almost simultaneously appeared
in this town and neighbourhood on last Saturday night,
between the hours of seven and eight o'clock ; the huz-
zaing and shouting were tremendous, notwithstanding we
do not hear even a pretext given by an individual for
such alarming proceedings. Surely the jury having
agreed in finding the bills against their champion could
not have given rise to those fetes de joie."
" INNISHANNON, Saturday Evening, 8 o'clock.—
whole of the hills surrounding the village are at this mo-
ment in a blaze with ' signal fires,' accompanied by loud
shouting and horn-blowing, which has caused considerable
alarm in the minds of the peaceable and loyal inhabitants.
Each asks the other what the intention of these fires is?
but no satisfactory reply can be given. The assurance of
the Attorney-General that a deep-laid conspiracy'
exists is the only solution to the question."
" BANDON, November 12.—0 n Saturday evenine, about
nine o'clock, fires were simultaneously lighted on all the
hills in this quarter; and from reports that have reached
town yesterday they extended from Cork to Bantry. How
much more general they were a few days will determine.
Just as-the fires were lighted the temperance band played
through the town, and never having played out before on
Saturday but on one occasion proves that temperance and
the Repeal treason are identical. I have learned that the
police from the different cut stations yesterday reported
to the inspector here the extent to which this systematic
organisation was carried on in their respective localities,
and that it was beyond comparison with all former periods.
That communications were made there can be no doubt,
as policemen were in from the different stations. A per-
son who travelled from Cork reports having seen seventy
fires, and a gentleman who had the courage and curiosity
to ride out at the time to see them from several elevated
places confirms the statement. The Bandonians have not
waited for this hint to prepare for an emergency, as the
musket, the blunderbuss, the pistol, and the ball-cartridge
are as regularly the furniture of the bed room as the bed
itself. If the government but does its duty, in organizing
the loyalists into volunteer corps, a rebellious rising of the
repealers will end in the total ruin of popery in Ireland.
Their reverences would do well to count the cost."
" BANDON, November 13.—0 n Saturday night the
country as far as the eye could reach was brilliantly illu-
minated with signal fires, and the stillness was broken by
loud huzzas as each fire was got up; several shots were
also heard. The country Protestants were very much
frightened, thinking the period of the massacre bad ar-
rived. A great quantity of furze and straw must have
been consumed, as the rejoicings lasted for four hours.
If the value of the fuel consumed was to be paid for for
government purposes, what complaints would be made, as
each fire cost at least 6d. ! The persons employed could
easily be detected, as the approach would be made in the
dark. The report is current here that O'Connell has got
free."

" SKIBBEREEN, Nov. 11.—Perhaps you would be so
good to inform me what has been the cause of all the bon-
fires throughout this country up to a late hour, with
sounding of horns, yellings, and every other demonstra-
tion of a rebellious tendeney ? I should say, if necessary
this evening, I should now hope those popularity-seeking
justices and gentry will shortly he induced to open their
eyes and see the great want of military in this large and
populous town and neighbourhood. While I write this,
the bonfires are blazing about us, and the yelling from hill
to hill you can have no idea of."
SKIBBEREEN, Nov, 11.—I hasten to inform you of the
state the hills and the surrounding neighbourhood present
at this moment. As far as the eye can reach, hill and
dale, the country is literally in one blaze ; signal fires
lighted up instantaneously, as if by some magic power,
accompanied by the blowing of horns, and the demoniac
yells of some thousands who surround these too evident
symptoms of something portentous. I have just now been
on a hill adjacent to the town, viewing the alarm of these
infatuated dupes, and have asked several of them what
the fires were meant for, and only received in answer to
my inquiries the emphatic reply, •The Protestants are
beat.' Here we are, unoffending Protestants, left to
have our lives and our properties subject to terror and in-
timidation, without one company of military to insure us
even a hope of safety if anything unpleasant should occur.
It is now 11 o'clock; the fires are still up, though in a
great measure abated; the police are actively engaged in
taking notes of the appearance of the country, and will,
no doubt, report to government.
" BALLYDEHOB, Nov. 11, Saturday Night, 11 o'clock.
—As 1 write the country is in a blaze, as far as the eye
can reach, for miles, and was lighted up in about fiverni-
nutes. The village is in the greatest alarm, some families
running as if for their lives to the houses of their neigh-
bours, and I hear of one widow lady who has run into the
fields just now, expecting that the long-threatened re-
venge on the
Saxons' may be put into execution. Is it
not too bad that the entire district, from Bandon and
Kinsale to the west, a district of over 80 miles in length,
and several miles wide, is left without any military pro-
tection ? Cannot the government allow the yeomanry
corps to be called into active service ?"

A man of the name of John Gill has been committed to
Tullamore Gaol for trial, on a charge of being implicated
in the murder of Lord Norbury,

MURDER OF *DR. QUARRY.—Mr. Wilson was com-
mitted to jail on Monday, bail having been refused.--
Cork Constitution.

SPRING IN THE LAP OF WINTER.—An apple blossom,
with the fruit just forming, has been left at our office.—
Cork paper.

Prayers, says a Cork paper, are now being offered in
various parts of Ireland, for the preservation of peace
under the present existing circumstances.

One haadred orphan children, of Roman Catholic pa-
rents, are maintained and educated at the cost of the
Protestant mission in Achill, Mayo.

A very amusing and very characteristic display of pa-
triotism has just been made by the " Liberal " Lord
Cloncurry. His lordship has published a letter complain-
ing loudly of Irish absenteeism, and his lordship's letter
bears the date of Versailles'

THE JURY COURT.—The wealthy and respectable Pro-
testants of Dublin have done nobly : upwards of sixty
merchants and gentlemen, each possessing property ex-
ceeding £5,000, and who never were before on the jury
lists, are now eligible to be placed on the panel.
On Thursday night, the " Historical Society," conspi-
cuous in the annals of Irish eloquence, was revived in
Trinity College, Dublin. It was dissolved in 1815, after
an existence of half a century, and is said to have been the
cradle of Burke, Grattan, Croker, and many others.

The late Andrew Finucane, of Ennistimon House, co.
Clare, bequeathed £3OO to the Mendicity of Dublin, £2OO
to the Indigent Roomkeepers of Dublin, £3OO to the poor
of Cork, £3OO to the poor of Limerick, £3OO to the poor
of Ennis, £3OO to the poor of Ennistimon, and £3OO to
the poor tenants on his estates.
OFFICIAL RETURN OF THE MILITARY FORCE IN
IRELAND UP TO NOVEMBER.—From the official return
of the military force at present in Ireland, it appears
there are—Cavalry, 3,200 •, Infantry, 13,600 ; Depots,
3,400 ; Royal Sappers and Miners, 300 ; Royal Marines,
800 men ; total, 23,300 effective troop.
At the period of high water on Monday evening week,
the tide in Blennerville bay, Tralee, ebbed and flowed a
few feet five times within an hour. Such a phenomenon
is supposed to indicate an earthquake, and probably on
the opposite extreme of the globe. During the night
succeeding it blew very hard.

THE REREALERS V. THE HANOVERIANS.--A priest
in this county, in haranguing his flock on Sunday last,
thus alluded to the Hanoverians, in order to inspire his
hearers with proper pluck, in case of emergency :—" The
Hanoverians are fierce-looking fellows : they have great
whiskers, and look vary brave; but when they come to
close quarters, they are rank cowards!"—Tipperary Con-
stitution.
Sir Harcourt Lees has addressed a short letter to a
Dublin paper, in which he strongly recommends an order
to be issued to the Duke of Bordeaux to depart from the
United Kingdom immediately. He also advises a procla-
mation to be issued commanding " the diabolical society
of Jesuits to vacate all parts of the British dominions
within two months, and the instant suppression of the
repeal confederation and the Roman Catholic Institute."

IRISH LANDLORD COMMISSION.—At length the num-
ber of members constituting the intended commission is
completed, Sir Robert Ferguson, the whig member for
Derry, having accepted the vacancy. The commission,
therefore, will stand as follows :—Earl of Devon. chair-
man; Mr. George A. Hamilton, M.P., and Mr. Wynne,
of Hazelwood—conservatives. Sir Robert Ferguson,
M.P., and Mr. Redington, M.P.—whigs.
Colonel Verner, M.P. having taken into consideration
the present depression of agricultural produce, has in the
most kind and considerate manner directed a reduction—
amounting, in some instances, to 30 per cent., and ave-
raging about 25 per cent.—to be made in the rents of his
property in the county Monaghan, commencing at No-
vember, 1842. But this excellent landlord's liberality
has not stopped here, for he has also directed a donation
of 15 per cent. to be paid the tenantry on the year's rent,
commencing May, 1842, thus making a total reduction of
nearly 45 per cent.—Newry Telegraph.
AMERICA AND REPEAL.—The New York Herald, of
the Ist instant, concludes a brief argument ou the sub-
ject of repeal of the Irish union, in which the waning
interest in that subject is accounted for by reference to
the alleged injustice of O'Connell towards the States,
with the following strange statement :—`• We have every
reason to believe that some general organization or asso-
ciation will soon be produced in this metropolis, having
for its object the legal and constitutional reform of all the
governments of Western Europe. Here will probably be
the grand centre of a great revolutionary movement,
equally embracing England, France, Italy, and Spain.
Such, at least, is our recent information."
THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.—The folowing let-
ter from the Marquis of Waterford, addressed to the
members of the Tipperary hunt, explains his resignation
of the county hounds. "In December, 1841," he says,
" my hounds were poisoned ; I treated the matter with
contempt. In January, 1843, they were again poisoned;
I discovered the offender, and forgave him ; but I stated
publicly, that if a similar outrage were again committed,
I should give up hunting the county. In 1813 my stables
were burned, and, but for the prompt conduct of my ser-
vants, the whole establishment would have been consum-
ed. From the threatening notices I had received, and
from the sworn evidence of persons on the spot when the
fire commenced, the magistrates came to the conclusion
that the burning was malicious. I immediately deter-
mined to leave Tipperary, feeling that such a system of
annoyance more than counter-balanced the pleasures of
fox-hunting."

MATRIMONIAL AGENT.—We have read lately of specu-
tions on agencies in the above line, but had no idea the
practice was even among ourselves in Fermanagh. At
our quarterly sessions last week, a decent farmer, named
Lunny, of rather venerable appearance, residing ❑ear
Arney, four miles from this town, was an evidence for his
brother in a case of land. This Lunny, under the cross-
examination of Mr. W. A. Dane, which afforded a crowded
court no small amusement, acknowledged he was not
always on such good terms with his brother as to become
an evidence for him. That he had a falling out with him.
and processed him " for work done" was the expression.
To further questions, this " work done" was none other
than having undertaken to procure a wife for the brother,
with the agreement of receiving per tentage from the lady's
fortune whatever it might be, viz., £6 for £5O, £7 for
£6O, and £2 for every £lO higher. As far as we under-
stand, he did procure the wife, and a difference about the
per tentage was the cause of the process mentioned,
which, however, did not reach the distance of a trial, as
they managed to settle the dispute.—Erne Packet.

ILL+'S

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

(From the Times.)

CARMARTHEN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, Nov. 15

I am sorry to state that last night' another incendiary
fire took place at a farm-house, three or four miles from
this town, and within two miles of a station of the metro-
politan police and a party of dragoons. As it in some
degree exemplifies the present state of the country, I
will give you the facts relating to it. It appears that a
farm called Llanffynone, in the parish of Llanegwad,
about four miles from Carmarthen, was occupied by a
tenant called Rachel Jones, who, finding the rent of it
more than she could pay and live, gave notice, last Lady
Day, to quit it, at that rent, at Michaelmas. About last
August it was announced that a farmer, named Thomas
Thomas, was ready to take it at the old rent as soon as it
was vacant; and on the sth of August, dated Carmarthen,
Thomas received through the post-office a threatening
letter, in consequence of which he was afraid to enter
upon the farm, which remained vacant until last week,
when he sent four loads of corn there, which were housed
in the outbuildings. Last night the outbuildings were
set fire to; the corn, however, was saved by the exertions
of some of the neighbours.

1 sent you an account, on Monday, of the apprehension
of twenty-five persons, near Fishguard, for destroying a
gate there, on the information of one of the parties, who
had turned Queen's evidence. The informer, who was
actuated by a desire of the reward offered in the Queen's
proclamation, appears, however, to be wholly uncorro-
borated in his evidence, and to be also a man of such in-
different character that his testimony cannot be relied on.
The whole of these cases, it is therefore thought, will be
abandoned.

Meetings of the various parishes around Narberth, in
Pernbrokshire, are being held for the purpose of appoint-
ing deputies to act as delegates to state their grievances
before the commissioners. To the list of grievances have
lately been added objections against the corn laws.
The state of things in that district is very unsatis-
factory. I was informed by a magistrate and landowner
from there to-day, that it is impossible to get rents paid ;
and, if a distress is put in, the bailiffs are ill-used, and
the cattle and stock removed in the night. He informed
me that he had been obliged to levy a distress for rent on
one of his farms, and in the night, the whole of the cattle
and stock were driven away. He had caused a search to
be made for them in every direction without effect, and
had at length discovered some of the pigs of the farm at
the bottom of a coal• pit, where they had been let down
by ropes, and were feeding. He also informed me that
every landlord who attempts to obtain his rent in this way
receives threatening notices from " Becea ; " and that
nothing but the presence of a large force of military and
police keeps the people quiet. This gentleman also in-
formed me that he had been threatened, that if he inter-
fered as a magistrate, " Becca" would set fire to his house
and burn his property.

WELmi TOLLS.—A surgeon who resides at Crickhowell,
Breconshire, had,to visit a patient at Nre-tower, a dis-
tance of three miles. It cost him ls. Gd. tolls for his
horse and gig, his fee for attendance being only 3s. 6d.—
Globe.

REBECCNISM.—We regret :to state that the outrages
against toll gates in the Principality are still reported.
Twenty-five persons were apprehended near Fishguard,
for destroying a gate there, on the information of one of
the parties who had turned Queen's evidence. Incen-
diarism continues to prevail. It is reported that directly
after the sittings in the present term, a Special Commis-
sion will be held again at Cardiff for the trial of the Re-
becca prisoners at present confined in Carmarthen gaol.
THE" REBECCA." RIOTERS.—The Carmarthen Journal
of Saturday last, says :—The Special Commission is be-
ginning to bear peaceable fruits, by the salutary feeling of
insecurity and apprehension which it has diffused gene-
rally among the rioters, by the penitence which the unhappy
convicts Hughes, Jones, and Hugh exhibit, and the con-
trition they express for the illegal and violent course of
conduct which has brought them to their present melan-
choly plight. They now begin to feel the evil and wicked=
ness of their flagitious and criminal courses; and, under
the influence of this feeling, they have put forth a confes-
sion, coupled with an exhortation to their deluded fellow-
countrymen to abstain from those deeds of darkness and
depredation which have brought them within the reach of
the law, and doomed them to drag on a miserable exist-
ence as exiles in a foreign country, in the society of felons,
murderers, and those other great offenders against the
laws of the land, whose crimes have driven them from
their homes, and torn them from the comforts of social
and civilized life. With the unhappy convicts we de-
voutly hope that the wretched prospect which opens be-
fore them, and which has inspired them with so much
dread and dismay, will deter young men from frequenting
" night meetings," and induce them to " fear to do
wrong, and to dread the terrors of the judge." This is
salutary advice, addressed to the youth of the Principality,
not by any public functionary, whose motives may be mis-
construed, but by the wretched men, whose infraction of
the law and nocturnal outrages have called down upon
them its vengeance. We expect much good from this
appeal; for it is not the voice of authority, which has
been too much disregarded, but the imploring appeal of
men who know what the terrors of the law are, and who,
in undissembled anguish of heart, entreat their fellow-
offenders to abstain from the iniquitous courses which
have involved them in so much woe and misery.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF PRESENCE OF MIND.
—An extraordinary instance of presence of mind lately
occurred at the quarries in the Ross of Mull, Argyllshire,
now wrought for the pier in connexion with the Skerry-
vore Lighthouse by the Commissioners of Northern
Lighthouses. On the 17th ult., as Mr. Charles Barclay,
the foreman of the quarries, was engaged in removing a
splinter of stone from the face of a block of ten tons
weight, which lay on an inclined ledge above him, the
block slid forward and enclosed his left hand, which was
bruised in such a manner that two of his middle fingers
were destroyed, and the sharp points of the rock came in
contact at the palm of the hand, so that it was held com-
pletely fast, as in a vice. In this dreadful situation Mr.
Barclay's presence of mind and strength of nerves proved
the means of saving Lis life and those of the men who
were along with him. The first impulse of the men was
to fetch a lever to raise the stone and liberate the pri-
soner; and had Mr. Barclay's presence of mind deserted
him, or had he fainted under the excruciating torture he
endured, this rash purpose would have been executed, and
the stone would have launched forward and crushed him
and his comrades beneath its mass. He, however, was
enabled to direct their proceedings with a wonderful de-
gree of composure, and after some fruitless attempts to
raise the block, Mr. Barclay resolved to cut out the stone
round his hand as the only means of escape. This pain-
ful operation occupied about twenty minutes, during
which time the torture he endured did not prevent his
working with the remaining hand in effecting his libera-
tion from his extraordinary captivity. Mr. Barclay af-
terwards walked without astistance to the neighbouring
village of Bunessan, two miles off, where Dr. M`Diarmid,
a gentlemon who had lately returned from the Arctic ex-
pedition under Ross, removed the shattered bones. Next
day Dr. Campbell, who acts as surgeon to the Skerryvore
Works, arrived from Tyree, and conveyed his patient to
the barracks at Hynish Nt'orkyard, where we are happy to
say that he is fast recovering,.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS

OXFORD, Nov. 16.
In a congregation held this day, the following degrees
were conferred :

Doctors in Civil Law.—Charles William Borrett,
Fellow of Magdalene; Rev. W. D. J. Bridgman, Wadham.
Bachelor in Divinity.--Rey. Thomas Henry Whor-
wood, Fellow of Magdalene.
Masters of Arts.—Robert Cholmeley, Fellow of Mag-
dalene; Rev. George John Davie, Exeter; Rev. Richard
Underwood, St. John's ; John Walter de Longueville
Gifford, Merton ; Rev. Henry Boys, Worcester ; Rev.
William Whateley, Student of Christ Church ; Rev.
Frederick S. Colville, Trinity; George Lidwell Shannon,
Pembroke, (incorporated from Trinity College, Dublin).
Bachelors of Arts.—Robert George Linzee, Christ
Church (Grand Compounder) ; J. Bleamire Steel, Exeter
(Grand Compounder); Henry Frazer Walter, Exeter;
John Joseph Jackson, Exeter ; Frederick Pitman, Exeter;
Alfred Jekin Dayman, Ezeter ; James Charles Blomfield,
Exeter; Henry Willoughby Adams, Exeter; Forster
George Simpson, Edmund Hall; Thomas Griffith Pey-
ton, St. Mary Hall; Henry Addington, Lincoln; Joseph
William Atkinson, Lincoln; Edward Kilvert, St. Alban
Hall; Charles Henry Angell, Queen's; Henry Stretton,
Magdalen Hall ; Rev. George Woodberry Spooner,
Magdalen Hall; James Chalmers, All Souls; John
James Holford, Brasenose ; George Taswell, Bresenose ;
John Cepner Wynne Edwards, Brasenose ; Henry Ed-
ward Francis Lambert, Balliol; John Giles, Balliol;
George Henry Turner, Balliol ; Cadwallader Coker
Adams, Merton; William Holt, Merton; Sanford George
Scobell, Oriel ; Nicholas James Moody, Oriel ; Francis
Corbet Pigott, Christ Church ; Samuel Price Davies,
Christ Church ; William E. C. Austen, Fellow of New
College ; Henry Wilkins Norman, Fellow of New College ;
Alfred Cooper, St. John's ; John Williams Roberts,
Scholar of Jesus; James Hughes, Jesus ; Evan Lewis
Davies, Jesus ; Edward William Thelwall, Jesus ; Wil-
liam John Dry, W adham ; William 'Wilson, Wadham ;
Charles Bennet Calley, Worcester; Edmund Thomas
Waters, Worcester ; George Chinnery Tooth, Worcester ;
William Scarlett Vale, Worcester; Samuel R. Lockey,
Pembroke; William Charles Newcome, Trinity; Owen
Blathwayte Tyler, Trinity.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 16.
At a congregation just held, the following degrees were
conferred :

Doctor in Divinity.—John Lonsdale, King's College,
by Royal mandate.
Masters of Arts.—H. G. Vigne, St. Peter's College ;
S. Backler, St. John's College.
Bachelors of Arts.—F. B. Danby, Catherine Hall ;W.
B. Flower, Magdalen College; P. P. Neale, Queen's
College ; J. H. Pollixfen, Queen's College ; E. Sayres,
Trinity.

Bachelor of Law.—D. C. Baynes, Sidney College

PROMOTIONS.
Barton, Rev. Mr., to the curacies of Berse and Minera,
Derbyshire.

Crawford, Rey. Prince, to the chaplaincy of St James'
Cemetery.

Dene,'Rev. Arthur, M.A., Vicar of Rattery, Devon, to
the Rectory of St. Athan, Llandaff, vacant by the death
of the Rev. J. R. Ca6berd.

Eager, Rev. Thomas Thomson, late assistant minister
of St. Margaret's Hollingwood, Oldham, Lancashire, to
the incumbency of Portwood, Stockport Cheshire.
Elwin, Rev. Whitwell, to the curacy of Hemington-
-Hardington, Somerset.

Evans, Rev. E. T., 8.A., scholar of Jesus College,
Cambridge, to the perpetual curacy of the English Church
Llanrwst.

Evans, Bev. Evan T., 8.A., to the curacy of Holywell,
Flints.

Gifford, Edwin Hamilton, Esq., 8.A., Fellow of St.
John's College, Cambridge, to be second master of the
Free Grammar School, Shrewsbury.
Grey, Rev. Henry, M.A., late curate of Wooler, to the
curacy of Jarrow, Durham.

Ho'lway, Rev. Thomas, M.A., perpetual curate of Spils-
hy, and rector of Partney, to the prebend of Stow Longa
(Hunts,) in Lincoln cathedral.
Jones, Rev. E. L. C., M.A., to the Rectory of Llan-
gerniew, Denbighshire.

Jones', Rev. ft. P., 8.A., to the curacy of Degofylehan,
Carnarvonshire.

Lowe, Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., dean of Exeter, and
vicar of Littleham, Devon, to the Rectory of Cellaton,
Rawleigh.

Steele, Rev. F. C., curate of Matherne, to the Vicarage
of Caervvent, Nlonmouthshire, vacant by the death of the
Rev. John Probyn. Patrons the Dean and Chapter of
Llaadaff.