The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-23 00:00:00

OUTRAGE AT ILACKWATER, CO. WEXFORD.

In the discharge of a painful duty we have this day to
announce the particulars of an outrage similar to those
'which, thank Heaven we are still taunt accustomed to
hear of than witness in this part of our unhappy country.
lletaeen ten and eleven o'clock, on Sunday night, the
Police stationed at filackaater wits set on lire, but dia.
covery was made in sufficient time to save it
ftom destruction. The • house Was surrounded in
the carnal absence of the Police by about two
hundred persons, who placed suds of 'waning turf in
the thatch. The party opportunely returned, and, having
fired a Wank ca tai ige and advanced with fixed bayonets,
the ruffians were immediately disper..ed. Information of
the circurus•aspe wits, forthwith communicated to Captain
Burke,. conimaeding • tlie Police of that Barony. The
Officer lost Ito lime in immediately proceeding there with
the party Iron 0.11.ar, where be is stationed. From the
intelligence be received he apprehended five men, and
brought them Info e dadwalladerWaddy,K4q. of Kiln' moi,
who, after a very floss examination, could not find sof&
dent ground: to commit them. As, however, every
possible exertion continuis to -be made to obtain a clue to
the discovery of the offender', there is reason to hope that
the result will prove successful, particularly as so many
individuals were concerned in the outrage. The present
station of the Police thus attempted to be destroye.l, was
merely intended for tempor try use, wily the slated house at
Blackwater having been taken from the 25th of March
next. The party on that station has since been reinforced,'
and the place is now restored to its (comer tranquillity.--1
(Wexford Herald.)
MELAXCHOLY ACCIPENT.-Oir readers have in their,
rewwllection the recent melancholy loss of the ship Aloe:
riston, which perished on Lundy Island, while making a
pow from this port to Bristol ; from the rffec:s of the
wreck, there were only three survivors—the master, the
mate, and a boy. We bare now to no-ice the circumstance
of that boy, who escaped the horrors of that dismal night,
hen death motel almost inevitable, -being drowned last
week in Kinsale harbour. He was in a boat near the
quay, when it swamped and went down with him, and at
the time there was scarcely a breath of wind to ruffle the
calmness of the water:—(Cork Constitution.)

Though the weather has, with us, been mild, this month,
there are appearances of sinter in the country. On Friday
morning, in the Fairtern part of Sossex, the snow was two
or three inches deep; and on Saturday morning. there
was, nearer the metropolis, on the other side of Highgate,
over Finchley Cowman, a smart fall of snow ; but lower
down the roads. northward, there was no snow till some
miles below Manche: t •r, Liverpool, &c. Beyond those
places, the arrivals at the post office represent that there
were considerable falls of snow, scromwied with very
sharp winds. By the Waterford Claroatele of Saturday,
we learn that the frost of Thursday night was so severe its
beinster, that the C. rk mail coach from Dublin had lost,
two hours and twenty five minutes upon reaching
and that one of the horses died on the road.
On Friday last. a lsbooring man called Cobbledirk, sad
a son of a respectable farmer, called Hawken, both of St.
Tenth, went on the noigh hoofing cliffs to look ou• for woof'
deal boards, which, it had been reported, were floating
ationt'ther.in They were accompanied by two dogs, both
of nide,' returned bow in the evening. but neither of
the men litre since been heard of; there is too much cause
to fear that both have been drowned. It frequently happens
that p -.norm living near the coot. endanger their lives in
what is called '• wreeking,"—attempting to secure ar•
ticks of the most trifling value, belonging to wrecked
vessels.—Within a few years, several have been drowned
whilst engaged in this hazardous employment, by being
carried into the sea by the eaves, whilst attempting to lay
bold on the floating wreek.—Cebblediek has left a widow
and four children ; Hawken was a young man about 1$
years of age.—(frest Briton.)
By a letter from a Correspoodent at Archie, we are in
corned that a number of .Maltsters in the above diatrict
have ceased to work from the sth inst. in coniequence of a
clause in the Malt Act. which prohibits Aloft being sprinkled
upon their floors before • certain period, under severe
penalties, being threatened to he inforced by the Excise.
see not in possession of the merits of the case; but as
it appears to be one involving' not only the trade of the
Mai stars, but the agricultural interests of the country. we
shall endeavour to collect some informotion upon the
subject, and is it before our readers in a subsequent
isublication.—(grolhedo Journal.)

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