The Statesman. — 1823-10-14 (London, England)

THS PRANKS' FAMILY.  Without asserting it positively, we think we may state, with some confidence, that a clue has been at length obtained by• which the perpetrators of this barbarous murder are likely to be discovered, and brou;h: to punish• went. •  It will be recollected that we stated, that the servant girl who was living. at air. Franks's when the murder was cons mined, and Who was examined on the Inquest, and also another female who resided near the house, had been sent forward on the preceding Tuesday from Fermoy to Dublin, in order to be examined before the higher Officers of the Crown. Since then an order has, been received to transmit a man named John Sheehan, who had been sentenced to transportation for seven years, at the late Special Session, at Mallow, for having ammunition on hie person, and who, it will be recollected, had :fresh maths of blood upon his coat when taken up to Mallow, (or certain purposes in the warrant stated, and he was this day forwarded accordingly, In the care of an Officer, by the Diligence which left' this City at two o'clock, to be given into the custody of Major Carter. We are not at liberty to make any comment, or disclose any further information on this subject ; but again we repeat, there is a reasonable grimed for believing that the ends of justice are in a train of being arrived at.—(Southern Reporter.) Coats, Ocr. 7.—About nine o'clock oo Sunday night last, a party of incendiaries set fire to the produce of an acre of wheat, the property of a man named James Regan. near Castlecourt ; the wheat had been in stooks, but ape peered to have been collected into heaps before it was consumed. The motive assigned for this outrage is, &hat the last tenant had been ejected, and the present possessor, by taking the grounds, had offended against the arrange. meets of those nocturnal legislators. Mr. Crossley, jun., Chief Constable, and a party of mounted Police, arrived at the spot about en hour after the corn was set fire to, but too late to discover the perpetrators of this flagitious outrage.—(Advertiser.) On the same night a party of Whitebovs, one of whom appeared to act as a leader, having a white scarf round his bat, visited the house of Mr. Foot, near Two Pot House, between Mallow and Buttevant. They threatened to bars his property and murder him and his family, if he did not discharge two persons who were in his employment, and if he did not settle his tithe in a particular way which they pointed out.—(lbid.) . On Sunday night fourteen men, who were assemhling to rescue and carry off a quantity of corn, which had been distrained for rent, on the lands of Ballyuiow, in the south liberties of Cork, ou the old Bandon road, were arrested by Mr. Sheriff Beenard and a military party, and committed for trial under the Insurrection Act.  Worms!, Ocr. B.—On Monday morning, three armed men attacked three bailiffs, named Win. Smyth, Michael Harding, and Pat. Harding., who were in charge of property distrained for rent, on the lands of Giant's-grave, within two miles of this town, and beat them most severely, particularly one of the Hardings. Gerald Fitzgerald, Esq. and a party of mounted police, immediately proceeded to the spot, if possible to apprehend the offenders, but to so effect. Mr. Fitzgerald had Harding brought to town fie the purpose pf gettieg medical assistance, where the poor man still lies- dangerou 111.—(Heratd.)