The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

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Stitt OP TIC Cot NTRT.--FrOM a letter received in town
from 'highly tespectable gentleman in the county Clare, we
ettraet•the following description of the present state of the
poor la that country, and alarming anticipation of further and
"granted distress
You'll find the distress of last year nothing to what will
von be experienced by all ranks of people. There was
'Army of provisions, mad there is plenty; but what avails it
Shen there is On employment ter the working people, and
without money there are incapable of purchasing at the
;west rates. The public works have been all stopped—in-
.teed, itis Impossible to go on with them in such weather.—
The poor are almost naked ; their houses stripped and open ;
'turf scarce and dear, and, I think, every thine going to ruin
uith ea—even the constitution :.but still I hope to see better
is."—(lleffitst News Letter.)
TIPPER %EY TITHE MEETING.—We were in error.
then we said in our int, that the Sheriff had de-
t!ined convening the county of Tipperary. That
(Ow has not yet given his answer to the Requi•
sitioniste. We know not how he may act ; but, certainly,
when the Reader peruses the list of names subjoined to
the lteenkition, lie pill feel. to say no more, considera-
ble snrprise, if the Sheriff decline convening the
county.—(Peblia Even. Post, Pee. 5.)
SLIOO ELECTION.—On Toestlay,the contest for the re.
presentation of this county, between the lion. Colonel
King sad Colonel Ferceeal, terminated by the resign'.
ton of the latter. Colonel King will this day bedeclared
elected. On Monday night the majority for Colonel
was 112 ; and on Teesday, at the close of the
FBI, there woe an accession to that number, but to what
extent we have not yet ascertained. During the contest
(and it was a severe and stormy one) the respectable
eindidates never for a moment lost sight of that urba-
nity of monster, and that politeness of deportment to-
ward' each other, which become them as gentlemen and
rivals in pursuit of a prund and• honourable distinction
,monist their fellow conntrymen. Notwithstanding
the example exhibited to the great body of the people,
Ire are sorry to say that oar town has been disgraced by
several riots, one of which became so formidable on
:%lomhay last, in front of the hustings, that the military
were compelled, in their own defence, to fire upon the
rabble; happily, however, without producing any in.
pm—(Sligo Joirrhal of Wednesday.)
the above contest was a trial of strength bettrems the
friends and opponents of Catholic Emancipation, and the
farmer have prevailed.
Cote, Dec. 3.—On Sunday night, Lieut. Swayne,
of the half-pay establishment, being at supper, at the
Bush •Ine, at Middleton, had some altercation wit In
2l'Car:by, the owner of the house, who in a fit of ungo•
sernable passion, went from the apartment in which
Mee bath were, prosared a gun or pistol, with which
be fired at Mr. Swayne, and wounded him, it is feared,
mortally, io the groin. Lieut. Swarm was alive at nine
o'clock this morning, though in extreme danger.—
M'Carthy has, we understand, absconded.
A hotelier named John Manning, has been tried and
found vase for en assault on and biting the ear off a
man owned Taylor.
The gatekeeper of John Hyde, Esq. M. P. was at-
tacked by an armed gang, consisting of eight or ten
persons, whom he beat off.
We are suns, to state, that on Friday night, the 22'l
alt., a party of armed men attacked the houses of two
farmers, named Fitzgerald and Connell, at Knockananig,
where a number of spades had been deposited for that.
right by some persoas employed to dig tithe potatoes in
the day. These people, with dreadful imprecations,
ordered the spades to be headed out, which they broke
se pieces, stating that they would not allow any canters
entungst them. On the following week, a large party
dog unt a quantity of potatoes, epos the same town
lind ;—and on tne following night a quantity of tithe
potatoes were dug out of the lamb of Ballynastocke, s
'Ow IMMO Parish, and scattered them about.—(Cooti-
Naos.)
TIFPERART.—On Wedoesday evening, about five
Welth.k, as Mary Ryan, wife of a man in the employ-
ment 0( 31 . Birch, of Rooms, was on her waT home
shout ewe miles beyond Thurlss on the road to 1 maple-
'Mere, she was most horribly abused and beaten by some
redact., insomuch, that, notwithstanding the greatest
bentanite and attention on the part of Surgeon Brad-
shaw, alludes, she expired the following evening,
first, however. having communicated the names of two or
three of her ma rderers. some of whom are in custody.
On Saturday night the house of Lord Lismore's Wood-
ranger was attacked in search of areas by some mis-
guided beings ; the Woodranger and his brother beat
them off, and nearly succeeded in making a prisoner of
one of them.
• CLONM EL, Dec. 4.—On Wednesdayse'nnight, a young
women, named Eliza Kileay, being on her way from
Kilkenny to this town, whither she was coming for em-
ployment, as a confectioner, was met on the road, Oclr
Ktleash,, by a single man, who, after violently assault-
Mcleod beating her, forced her off the road, and corn-
slatted the grossest outrage to which a woman could be
sto.jecte I; adding the petty enormity of robbery by
glaudering her of her pocket book, containing fifteen-
perce, twO discharges from the last two services io
which she bad lived. Ile fled; and she having strug-
gled hack to the road, met two of Captain Wilson's Po-
lice, stationed at Kilcash, to whom site related her inju-
Tire, on oltich they instantly commenced a pursuit after
whom they chased fur near six miles, when
/hey lost all trace of him. On lost Sunday night, John
leoglilan, one of Captain Wilson's police, now stationed
tinder Chief Constable Singleton, having received infor-
;nation that a person answering the young Woman's des-
cription was concealed in a buute near Kileasu. proceed.
ed there ; when, after various et-arches, he found the fel-
low concealed sin:er a heap of potatoes : being brought
into Jail here, Mr. Singleton had him produced, amongst
several others, to the inspection of the woman, who in-
stantly and unhesitatingly identified him as the aggres-
sor, and gave her informations accordingly, before
William Chaytor, Esq.—(llerald.)