The Express. — 1847-07-02 (London, England)

WOUNDED.—On Saturday night, being Barrhead fair, a party of labourers, employed on the railway, amount. ing to about 200, paraded the streets of the village between 11 and 12 o'clock. The mob was headed by an Irishman, named M'Leay, or M'Lean, who was tipsy at the time, and rather noisy and insulting in hie demeanour towards the inhabitants ; when within a few yards of two policemen, and without any previous quarrel or challenge, a man rushed into the crowd and stabbed M'Leay to the heart, who in!dandy fell dead. In the commotion that ensued, James 111 `Nally, a labourer, and another man named Flannigan, were also seriously stabbed. The person who committed these acts of violence was so sudden in his movements, and made such a hasty retreat, that he was not secured. An old man, named M'Kechnie, before whose door the disturbance took place, came out of his own house, and meeting a person in the entry, he asked him what was the matter? A dangerous wound was the reply. The ruffian forced his way into M'lLcchnie's house. Mliechnie's wife, on hearing the people outside crying out to secure the murderer, became alarmed, and, not knowing that her husband was injured, refused to open the door. The person made his escape by a back window. Another labourer, named Connally, who was I passing through the crowd at the time, on his way home from his work, was also stabbed, but apparently by another hand than that which inflicted the wounds on the other persons, as his wound does not appear to have been given by the same instrument as thereat. The whole affair occupied no more time than five minutes, and the parties effected their escape without detection. Flannigan and M'Kechnie are both seriously injured. Connally, we understand, is able to walk about. On Monday an examination was made into the case at Barrhead. Suspicion rests on two parties as being guilty of perpetrating the horrid deed.—North British Mail. THE MOOllB.—A correspondent; of the Elgin Courier, who dates from Rothes, writes an follows :—" I am sorry to see, by the statements in the newspapers, that disease is again prevailing among grouse. It is said they arc dying in thousands on the southern moon. We had plenty of this dying the last two years, which has reduced them very much in numbers; I may say that there is not above half the number of breeding birds that I have seen on the Rothe.. Birne, and Ilallas moors, but I have not seen a dead er diseased bird this season. They are somewhat unequal, owing, I believe, to the cold in the beginning of the season. We have I some strong young birds getting on wing, others very small, while others are only beginning to hatch ' • but if the season continues favourable, al will be ready in good time, and the sportsman will have a fair show of birds in August. Par, tridgeo are doing well—plenty of breeding birds, but I have I seen no young as yet. Hares are also doing well, although not quite so plentiful as last year —some leverets nearly, in appearance, as large as the old ones. A gamekeeper near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, writes me that the hares were diseased there last autumn, and are very scarce. I have seen nothing of that here." New Iletniova AT