The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-27 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

(From the Dublin Evening Post, of Saturday.)
KERRI.—A Special Sessions under the Insurrection
Act was held at Tralee on the 30th instant, by Mr.
Macar;hey. K. C. There were eleven men for trial, ten
of whom postponed the inquiry ; and a boy, of
years ojagc, whose character was described as bad, has
been sentenced to seven years' transportation, and was
sent from the duck to Cork immediately.
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Tierra..ay.—Tipperary, which hitherto was tolerably
free, is likely to be again disturbed. A cottage at New-
abbey was liurnt to the ground last Sunday. A riot,
of a serious nature, indeed—a sort of battle—took
place at Newcastle, in this County, between the Country
People and a party of the Police. It was occasioned
by an attempt to distrain the lands of Itathagally
for an arrear of rent, when a rescue was effected of all
the rattle, by a mob of from two to three hundred per-
sons. armed with pitchforks, bludgeons, and stones. Mr.
Ryan had a party of the new Police -ready to proceed to
the place, as he intended antecedent to the seizure, for the
purpose of executing a Bench Warrant, and which accord.
ingly they did execute, by apprehending thiee of the persons
who stood charged with a previous rescue of the cattle,
seized for the same rent. An attempt was also made to
rescue these prisoners, but the Police resolutely maintained
their caption, though outrageously beaten, and, we have
reason to believe, wounded several of the Insurgents. The
moment the alcack was made to rescue the prisoners, a large
party of the ■ob actually seized Mr. W. Rysn as a hostage,
ijor
and swore that Is: be released until the prisoners
were; but hew c to get off with one blow of
a stone on the hold. s tch was sent off to Caltir. A
party of the Military an Police came forthwith to the spot,
but the rescue had been completed.
On the night of Friday, the 18111 instant, the dwelling-
house of James Ryan, H.q. of Newhall in this County,
and Barony of Slievearlitgh, was attacked by an armed
party of ruffians, who kept up a continual firing of shots
for upwards of tea minutes ; by which they broke seve-
ral windows and a door.—Tbe attack was evidently made
with the intent of murdering his son, Thomas Ryan, h:sq.
who was grazed by a musket ball on the left side, and had
Lis shirt set on fire by the shot ; he, on the same instant,
received a blow of the piece on the left eve, which knock-
ed iii n down, when the ruffian who struck him eNpress-
ed a malicious triumph at seeing him fall, saying. " take
that in the Devil's name." instantly on recovery, Mr.
Ryan, assisted by his aged father, returned so brisk a
fire, that the villains were compelled to retire without ef-
fecting their purpose.
CORK.—la Cork the outrages continue unabated. On
Sunday night last between nine and ten o'clock, a number
of armed Insurgents attacked the house of Mr." eistelit, of
Oldtown. They first demanded money, whit tfgras refused,
and then fired, which was immediately returned; and the ruf-
fians, from the reception they had met, were obliged to re-
treat, after breaking a number of the windows.
Several other outrages of a less flagitious cheractet• are
enumerated in the Cork Papers, such as burning cottages,
houghing cattle, and breaking pound.. A few persons
have been seized, who were concerned in these outrages.
The followiag is a paragraph from a Cork Clue Jour-
nal :
" On Monday, a letter was sent to Mr. Welstead, or-
dering Viol to send sic pounds to the honse of a limn
named Darby Brian, of Skeoahella, otherwise they
would pursue him with fire and sword night and day,
until he should comply—and in the event of his not
doing so, they would destroy him ; and if he agreed, they
would be his protector and friend until the day of Users-
RAL MAIIIACKX '." __ - ..

At a Special Sessions, held at Fertnoy, In this County,
under the Insurrection Act, three men were tried and ac-
quitteci. A fourth, an old man, was convicted of having
arms concealed, and sentenced to seven years' transpor-
tation. The concluding part of Serjeant Torrens's speech
is worthy of particular notice :
" The Learned Serjcant said, he feared that be de-
!alned the Court too long, but the could not conclude
without again calling upon the farmers from a sense both
of duty and of interest, to free themselves from the
thraldrom which enslaves them. Many of the assem-
bled he addressed must be resident in districts subj et to
the almost nightly visitations of these marauders ;
and which of them can call the produce of his in-
dustry his own, or calculate on retaining from
their grasp a provision for his family ? He ea-
reatad of them, for their own salves, to maintain
the law, and put dcwu this system of plunder and spolia-
tion. He told them to be cautious bow they submitted
without a struggle the shade was bat slight between
the guilt of those who did so, and that of actual sub
satoers fur illegal purposes."