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1 ! HOLLOWAT'S 01 HTMENT . wonderful Care tf Ireadfal Ulnrtus S » _res in the Face and Leg , iu _Frinct Edwai d Island . Tike Truth qf & is Statement was duly mttcsttd before a MngUbrate . I , HoeH Maodomald , nf Lot 5 S , ia King ' s _Ceanty _, do hereby declare , _tnat a _aast won- _^ _-nful _preservation _« f my ife has beem effected by tbe use _« f Holloway ' s Pills and _fintraent ; and I farthermori * declare , that 1 was very mneh afflicted with _Dscerous Sores in ' my _Pase aud L > g " _* ¦ O severe was my _complaint , that tbe greater part of my _UBSe and the ro <* f of my mouth was _eatc-n away , and my S ; Bad thres _1-srge ulcers on % , and -hat I applied to veral Medical _geitirraen who _*» rescribed forme bit I
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OX THE _CONCEALED CAUSE OF _COXSTITUTIOXAI OB ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM . Just Published , A new audi mportant Edition of the _SUer-i _y-riend on _tJumar , FraiU . v . Price 2 « . 6 rL , aad sent free to any part ot the United Kingdom oa the receipt of a Post _Offee Order for 3 b . Sd . A MEDICAL _TVOItK on the INFIRMITIES ofthe _GENERATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an enquiry into tbe concealed cause that destroys physical energy , asd the ability of munhood , ere vigour has established her empire : _—wifii Observations aa the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ; local and -constitutionai WEAKNESS . NEltVOUS IRRI-
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_•« e » _« f _matranray , and who , _avar , n * d ; UivS _'^ _iatirt _^ _^ < _* ur _theirM _» _re jouKaful days ~ _'Jb be affeet _^ _^^ ewj ' _Jorm af these disease- ' , apyious course _"« f this me ~ dic " nc is highly _esfiaatud , aad ot ihe _greatest iH _^ rtance a _« - -ire ser _ieus _afievtioas are visited up _»» a » _faiao *"'* y ' xfe sad _HspriBg , _freni a want _tasse simple _remoaaasi _taa * perhaps half the world i *¦ aware ot ; far , it must b remembered , where the _fotwtaia is _pelluted _. the stream tkat Haw _Sram it cannot be pure . PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , Price 28 . 9 d ., 4 b . 6 d ., aad lis . per box , Witk oxplidt directions , rendered perfectly intelligible t » every capacity , are well known _throughout Europe te be the most certain and effectual remedy ever discovered for _goHorrhosa , both ia its mild and aggravated forns , by immediately allaying _inflasastaiion and arresting further _progress . -
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COUGHS , HOARSENESS , AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . _SrrSCTCALLT CUBED Bt KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of thirty years experience bas proved th * infallibility of these Lozenges in the cure of "Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness of Breath , and other Pulmonary Maladies , The patronage of his Majesty , the King of Prussia , ai . d his _Jlajt-Bty the King of Hanover , has been bestowed on tb ..-m ; as also that of the Nobility and Clergy of the United Xingdon and , above all the Faculty bava ospvcially recommended them as a remedy of unfailing .. fficacy . Testimonials are continually receivid confirmatory of the value ot these _Loaenges , and proving the perfect - safety of their use , ( for they contain tip _Cyf-on ; ior _onuprgjoration o / tfiatdniji ,- ) so that _thrymay be given to females ofthe most delicate constitution , and children ofthe most _tenderest years without hesitation .
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BLAIR'S GOUT AMD RHEUMATIC PILLS . A severe case of Rheumatism , communicated by Mr . Allen , Proprietor ofthe JVo ' _tinp _/ _iani _JTerctn *" . Jftrcury Office , Nottingham , March 17 , 1845 . Sib , —I have the pleasure of forwarding you the particulars of a case in which BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS have proved eminently successful . A young woman , named Mary Wain , accompanied by her parents , who reside at Wataall , near this town , called upon me on " -Saturday last , being desirous of making her case known for the benent of the public .
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perfect heulihin an inconceivably short space ot tim * ! They are equally _speedyjand certain in lumbago , _sclatlcfti pains in the head orf ace , and indeed of any rhsumatic or gouty affection ; in fact , ' such has been the rapidity , perfect sase , aud complete safety of this medicine , that it has astonished all who have taken it , and there Is scarcely a city , town , or village in the kingdom , but contains many grateful evidences of its' benign influence . Sciii by Thomas Prout , , 329 , Strand , Londom ; and by his appbiaiment by . _BTeetoa , Hay , Allen , Land , Haigh , Smith , Bell , _Townsend , Baines' and Newsome , Smeeton , Reinhardt , Tarbottom , and Horner , Leeds ; Brooke , Dewsbury ; Dennis and Son , Burdekia , Moxon , Little , Hardman , Linney , and _Hargrove ,
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AGENTS WANTED . . TO DRUGGISTS , die—WANTED _b- ' Dr . Powell , 16 , _Blessirigton Street , Dublin , _AGENfS in the princU pal Towns throughout the Kingdom , f _» r the Sale of , his Specific , for Scald Head , Ringworm , and all Cutaneous Diseases . A Liberal Commission alkuvld .
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IMPORTANT TO THE _PUI'LIC . SCALD HEAD , RINGWORM , AND ALI CUTANEOUS DISEASES . D _« . William Powell , 16 , BlesslngtonStreet , Dublin , begs to inform the Public , that his _SPECIFIC for the above Diseases may now be bad in Packages , price 2 s . 6 d ., 6 s ., and 10 s . 6 ( 1 each , with full directions for their use . The half-guinea package contains eight times tbe quantity of the half-crown . On receipt ofa post-office order er pottage stamp ' s , directed as above '; the medicine will be forwarded by return of post , until agents aro appointed iu ihe diffennt counties .
Desperate Highway Robhery And At Tempted Murder.
DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBHERY AND AT TEMPTED MURDER .
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On Saturrtay _mernlnv , one of the most atrocious an . _l desperate cases of highway robbery and attempted murder , was heard at the Shiro Hall , Hereford , before a full bench of county magistrates . The prisoners were CharlM Pearse and Benjamin Smith , two ferocious-look _, ing young men , who bave been in the habit of travelling about the country under the pretence of selling brushes , but whose chief occupation bas , it is believed , been robbery . The prosecutor is a dealer in earthenware , and who has been for some years past well known in Hertford as an honest and industrious man . The _occurre-ice took place about a fortnight since , but the prosecutor hud not previously sufficiently recovered from the effects Of the wounds he receired on the occasion , to appear before
the bench . He appeared very weak , and was obliged to be accommodated with a chair during the inquiry . His head and face presented a most frightful iippeuriince , be . ing cut in all directions , and in some places large pieces of flesh bad been entirely beaten away , leaving his skull quite exposed to view . He said , —My name is James Jarvis . I am a hawker , amd in the habit of travelling to the different towns in thc county with earthenware , On Saturday , the 21 st ult ., I was at Welling ; I was in the Horse Shoes public house , I there saw the prisoners . After staying at the Horse Shoes about leu minutes , I left for Ware . I went into the Chequers at Ware ; I had not been there long before tbe prisonurs came in . I was iu the Chequers about half an hour . I then left for Datchworth , 1 told the prisoners where I wa * . going .
By the Bench—What induced you to tell tbe prisoners where you were going i Prosecutor—Some person in the Chequers said , " It is a fine night ; where are you off to , Jarvis ! " I replied , " I hare gold all my guodB , and am now going 10 Datchworth . " It was between four and five o ' clock , i then left tbe house . When I arrived at Fish wood , I felt what I consider two stones thrown at me . One struck ray hat . It was dark , * and I could nor See any person . I cried out , " Hollo ! what are you at V I dM not hear auy person gp ° ak , and almost immediately after I received a dreadful blow on the left side of my head , and before I had time to speak , I received another ou the top of my head , which caused the blood to run out of my caw , eyes , nose , and mouth , to such an cxt-nt tbat I was nearly choked , I then felt that two persons had by some means got * nto my curt from behind . As tin y still continued beating me , I said , "For God ' s sake don ' t mur .
der me ; what do you want J" One of the prisoners said , " Damn you , jour money or your life . " 1 replied I hud not got any money . They then threw me in the bottom of my cart , and one still continued striking- we ' about the head , whilst the other was searching my pockets ; but , not succeeding in finding my money , one said , " Lrt ' s murder tli" , and then we can Sfarcfi him better ;" an J the other replied , " So we will , he ' s got nion-y , because he said be had sold all his goods ; " aad they immediately commenced beating me about the head in a most unmerciful mauner . By this time I was nearly choked , aB I felt my throat was filling with blood , and feeling assured that I should be murdered , if assistance did not arrive , I therefore by some means , managed to jerk mjself out of my cart . The persons followed me , and redoubled their efforts to murder me , and finding _mys-.-lf quite overpowered , and completely saturated with blood , I gaye myself up for lost , when the _persona who were assaulting me , hearing some persons coming , ran off .
By the Bench—Did you know the voice of the person who said , *• ' Your money or your lifeV Prosecutor—Yes ; I immediately recognised tbe _voicd to be Smith ' s ; and the party who said , " let us murder him lirst , " was the prisoner Peir . se . By the Bench—What did they rob you of ? Prosecutor—Twopence , a comb , and a knife . Bench—Was that all the money you had ? _Prosecutor—No ; I had between four and fire pounds in one of my pockets , but the prisoners did not _senieii that pocket . William Hyde said , on Sunday , the 22 » d , he found the Btick which he now produced , laying near the spot where the robbery took place .
The stick ( which bore evident proof of having been used on tbe occasion , it being covered with blood , _iinii in some places where the bark had been knocked off was literally dyed through ) was a piece of nut hazel , about four feet long and eight inches in circumference . It had evidently been recently cut from the tree . Both prisoners were committed for trial .
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A Burglar ' s Account of 17 isi-klf . —At the Belfast Quarter Sessions last week , John Sloan . Peter Trainer , Frederick M'Cann , and Patrick Magee were indicted for having , on the 30 th of August last , broken into the house of Catherine M'Oulloch , at Belfast , and stolen therefrom and carried away a large amount of property , consisting of silver spoons , gold rings , brooches , silver pickle forks , a pistol , dagger , and other articles . Thc case having been satisfactorily proved , the prisoners were found guilty , and the court sentenced Sloan to twelve months' imprisonment in ths Ilouse ol Correction , and each ot the * ' others to bej transported for a term of fifteen years—the heaviest punishment the court had in its power to award . The prisoner Mas ; ee then asked permission to address the court . This man ( Sloan ) .
he said , had been with him four times in gaol for rob * beries . Sloan was not his proper name—his right name was Hugh Boyle , iiis brother had been at the bar before , and had been in the borough jail in Liverpool . lie ( Magee ) had come from America , and bad taken up with another pickpocket . Sloan had taken him away with him when he was in America , where he had been trying to earn an honest _living , and wanted to give up his old associates , and had induced him to begin to thieve again . Sloan said to him , what is the use of labouring as you do when you can make more by robbing . At the . Maze Course Sloan said to him , about another pal , " that man is a good thief . " Sban and he ( Magee ) had robbed fifty or sixty houses this year or two , and that man was the captain of the _gaiig . lie had
now reigned fifteen years—he had been that long in the same school , lie was a Liverpool man , and served his time with Charles Lawrence , the mayor , irom whom he could get a recommendation . His name was not Magee , but was known . " lam Nottingham Charlie ; that is my name . " " I know , " he continued , " that ; . l am a thief and a robber—I acknowledge ' all my robberies—but Sloan was with me forty or fifty times in offices in Liverpool , and carried a double-barrelled pistol in LivcrpooJ to shoot any one who weuld binder him . Ay , and Sloan is wanted now for a robbery in North John Street . There was another robbery in Bclfinst _, but itis not worth talking about . It was Sloan did that : and
there is another too that has not come to light . I am transported now at last , and I have a poor old mother who has been broken-hearted by my infamous life ; but it was that man Sloan who took mo from my honest employment , and made me stand here . I escaped the police in England for many years , and I am caught at last and sent away , and nil by that Sloan , lie continued for some time to talk in this coherent strain , admitting a course o' crime almost having scarcely a parallel . The prisoners were then removed . Sloan , by order of the Court , remaining in the dock , as it was pretty evident , from Meagee _' _g _feel' _-ncB , that violence would have been used had an opportunity offered .
The _Floweus of the _EAnrii . —Doctor P , who is attached to a Parisian theatre in quality of a physician , expressed his astonishment tho other day that man and woman were not created afc the same time , instead oftlie latter springing from a rib of our lirst parent . A young actress standing by , remarkable for the graceful turn which sheerer gives to tlie expression of her ideas , immediately said , " Was ifc not natural , sir , thai the fluwor should ' come after _thostera ? " * _ 4 . ,.. _„_; _g _&& _£ -
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§ . •'• _¦ ' ' _&' ,,,. . , IRELAND _/® . _' _% : ¦/¦>•'' _^ Matters go on from "bad to worse , The _^ ocounts from the provinces grow more and more gloomy , and the prospects most disheartening . The _followinjextracts will give an idea of
the _statr or _Tna country . Another Murder . i . v _Tippbrary . —The Tipperary Vindicator contains a long list of outrages in that county , at ihe head of which is an account ofa most inhuman and unprovoked murder on Wednesday night , on the person of a poor man of . ho name of _Ilnnly , who , itappoared , sold a p ii » that day in Borris , forthe price of which , it would appear , his diabolical assailants attacked him . IIin houso was en tered soon after nightfall . He had lodged the price of his pig in _Borris . and thn monsters being defeated in their object , fell upon the defenceless victim o ! their hellish malice , and literally beat his head to a jelly ! We have not , words to express our horror and indignation at such atrocious offences as these ,
which ak not perpetrated by the starving poor , but by villains , who libel tbe form of man , and Who possess the reckless spirit ; of demons . Hungry men would not prey upon a poor creature barely removed from the pressure of want by the price of a pig , with which , perhaps , he was anxious to purchase a few weeks' provisions or food . Whilst offences of this nature cry aloud for vengeance on their perpetrator * , it is the duty and the interest of all men interested in the welfare of the country to endeavour to cheek their tatal progress . This poor man resisted the _robbi-rs with all his might . He broke a Bpade handle on the head of one of the villains , who was carried off , it is supposed dead , in the arms of his comrades . An inquest was on _Mnnday heldand a verdict of wilful murder was returned .
, Two men of the name of Gaynor and lleffernan , have been arrested and lodged in the country jail on the charge . The house of ft man of the name of Brien was attacked at Barbaha , on Thursday night . One of the assailants was entering through a window , when Brien , who was waiting inside , took up a scythe , and making a detperate _utroke with it , across the head of the person entering , almost severed , it is thought , his head from his body . Biood was traced on Monday near the river .
On _Wednesday night , the house of John _Ilogan . near Annagbbeg , was _attacked by some armed men , who fired two shots into the house , and served IIogan with a threatening notice if a line of road in that district were not changed he would suffer ! The steward of the line resides in his house . Notwithstanding the immense amount of employment on the public works , combined with the benevolent exertions of the relief _cooimittees , there is a formidable extent of destitution in various districts . Of its intensity in'tbe county of Cork you may form some idea from the following statements , abridged
from tbe Cork Reporter : — Skibbkrk _**** . ' — No description of recital can convey any idea of the extreme misery which exists here _, riungar , nakedness , sickness , and mortality almost equal to the ravager of epidemic disea _* e , are the prevailing features » _i the dwellings ofthe poor here . Fever , ofa type classed by the physician as faminefever _, afflicts hundreds of the poor , and dysentery , produced by cold and want of nutricious food , is equally if not more general . The workhouse at present contains 900 paupers—considerably more than it was originally built for—the stables are used as dormitories , The Fever Hospital was built to accomodate forty patients— it contains to-day 161 ; ami there are twenty more fever cases in the infirmary .
The two nurses attached to the hospital are in fever , so is the schoolmaster , whose death was hourly expected . The number of deaths which took place in the house from the 1 st to the 30 th of November , was 87 . I copied tbem from the books—and there were five more reported this morning ( 1 st December ) . Tn fact tiiere are scarcely aa many able-bodied paupers ia the house as ean bury the dead , and they are taken out for interment three at a time . One of the most remarkable illustrations of the nature of distress here , is a desire on the part of the poor to escape , if I may so call it ; to anywhere , from thu privations they endure at home . A small fund had been created , through the benevolence of the doctors and the apothecary of the workhouse giving up the
proceeds of their vaccination contract , to enable some poor creatures to go out of the o-untry . Last week 101 of them were _shi-iped from the town , at Baltimore , on board acollierto Newport—the owner . Mr . Swanton , having given them a free passages while Dr . Donovan provided thera "fit out , " by _releasing some few of their-m _' _-st indispensable articlcs of clothing out of pawn , and giving them a small bag of biscuit for " sea store . " I had an opportunity oi seeing another batch preparing to start on the cars for Cork , to proceed by the screw steamer for London , on Wednesday Some of them were tradesmen , who expected work there , and whose miserable . appearances showed how reduced was their condition when they had recourse to this alternative . There were also some half clad labourers , and * omo worn-. */* and e . hildvftt \ who expected to lind their husbands , lathers , or other relatives , to
aid thera in the great metropolis . I proceeded in company with Dr . Donovan , to a suburb callo Bridgetown , whore he hid a large number of sick calls ' to answer . We entered at least thirty . of thc huts , and such an aggregation of disease , hunger _, nakedness , and col *' , it is oiit of the question to describe . In ncii'lv every house we entered , men lay sick and moaning in the wretched beds they had , or more generally on a small bundle of dirty straw on the earthen floor , far worse than swine are usually supplied with in ordinary _farm-yards . The only covering they had was the clothes worn y them at work ; and the same total absence of food , tiring , and _clothing , prevailed in each of the wretched cabins . We left , the locality after a visit of about three hours , during which wc witnessed the most _, distressing and painful illustrations of individual and general _sutferins : that probably have existed anywhere within the knowledge of the present
generation . In the north of Ireland , outrage is on the increase . Donegal , _Londi-ndcrry , Tyron . and Cayan , are all more or less disturbed . On Sunday night u larse quantity of meal was stolen off carts belonging to poor men who had halted forthe nit-he at a house a short distance from this town , w _|*} ch had been _purchased _at-unr ? market the _preceedins * day . Lust week , some persons entered a farmer ' s cowhouse , near , Boyney , where a cow was fastened by the head with an iron chain to the _iiiaiifier . They severed the body from the head , leaving the head as it was fastened , and carried off the remainder . Another cow was killed in the same locality , and the hide only lefi . Several sheep were killed throughout this barony , and farmers robbed ol meal , & c .
_DISTtiESS IN DONEGAL . The Ballyshannon Herald stales •—That there is a great deal of destitution in Donegal , not a parish is exempt from it , and were it not for tli * - charitable disposition of the more wealthy classes dentin would bo more numerous . In this barm / th * poor are in an awful _stattf ; wretched creatures daily infest our town in . _searih of food or employment , who have more the appearance of corpses than _living beings . Lsrge sums arti contribntid towards their relief in _giving meal nt a reduced price . That is quite _rigot , bit what
succour is that to thousand * of starving creatures who are unable to pay anything for food , be it ever so clmap ? Something more must be done to prevent famine , which Undoubtedly will be followed by _outrage , _plajiue _, and pestilence . The promise of public work is now considered as mockery , for the Bo . ird does not stem disposed to grant any . Tlie landed proprietors are ready with their money , yet no work is given , and these poor ar .: famishing . Our peasantry have hitherto _conducted themselves in the most praiseworthy manner , but really _Wtf OMiinot expect them to continue pence ib ' c much Ion ger , unless they get employment
The Anglo Get , published in the nortliern county of Caviui , contains the following : — This very day we heard that a tradesman wns abont to open a shop in the town of Cavan for the purpose of _selling Birmingham muskets , with the hope of _realising fortune by the trade , although he expects to Hud his chief customers amongst the applicants lor relief tickets —mun , be it remembered , who , having nothing to defend , can only purchase these instruments of death , for aggressive purposes . MOUiY _MAOUIHEHM IN CAVAN . The Warder contains the following : —
A . Caviui correspondent writes that on the 23 rd ult ., being the fair day of Biillymagauran , Thomas Br . iwn , o : iu of tlie constabulary , seeing a , man Hauled _M'AvurilJ , and other suspicious characters hovering about during th . * day , deemed it prudent to take them into custody , and with the assistance of constable Thomas Clark brought them to the barrack . On smirching them , they found on the person of _M'Averny the following threatening notices : — Take notice—Any person _dealing with Franeis Henderson for anything that Peter _il'Cu-ker hag , that ha will get the same death of Booth Bell , who is in the depth of hell—Death—and if tnis does not make he yeald , powder and ball will . Take notice—Any forestaller that distresses any man for money will get the same death of _MClouS _, who is surely in hell for partiality . Death , death , death hero follows Molly M'Guiro who never feared a ball .
_M'Aveniey it now in B . illycoiiiiell , bri en-ell , waning the decision of the law officers ofthe crown . Mr . Henderson is a respectable trader , residing at Rosehill , and much esteemed by tlie well-disposed . A ClnnniL'l _jjuipenthus refers to thc state of the gun trade iu Tipperary ;;; --No less than seventy-one gunB were sold in our town the last fair day . This is bad Work . TllU Government should look to it in timo . Tbey have had warning enough . A . labourer entered our town a few days ago seeking for hire . He presented rather a fo ' .-. midablo appearance _; for , in addition to a spade aud a ili-. il , ha bad a handy gun strapped across hia back . Every man has his gun . Where this will end God only knows . Subjoined is an extract of a letter fron- thc county of Tyrone : — Anything like the sale of _flre-wms by the hardware
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merchants in _Aughnacloj , and the different country towns about . Jftvre , never was heard y ' of in any country , and , almost '** without ' . exception , the ; purchasers are of one _persunsion . I saw one of the cases ; : which Would contain about 100 * stand , and examined some , of its contents . They are Birmingham and London moke —( I suppose only-tamped 'London . ' ) They aro of _quite-jood _enough manufacture to do mischief , and range in price from £ 1 for single to £ 4 for double barr-Is . Pistols from 7 s . fid . a . piece upwards . A Ronvtn Catholic ironmonger , fi ' _i'tn a neighbouring- town , is gone from homo to brin » £ 50 worth of arms , and a quantity of gunpowder . How will this end . A reported outbreak in Kilkenny is thus noticed in thc Freeman of Monday : —
Yfc have heiird that private letters reached town yes . terday . _stntine that an outbreak of rather a serious nature took place in Kilkenny city on Saturday . The accounts which reached us are rather vague , but , from what we could lenrn of the rumour , it appears that a very large number of people collected in the town , and attacked some flour-mills and bakers' shops . The military were called out , and after charging the people with fixed bayonets , order was In some measure restored , The accounts state that tbe people were fired on from mills nnd bakers' houses , but it is not reported that any _pirson was killed . The military did not fire , but dispersed the people with the bayonet , without doing any injury , Mr . Carter , a gentleman connected with the Board of Works , escap . _dfby the _fleetness of his horse ) from an attack made on him by tbe people . The state of feeling in the town and districts about it i » said to be _mry excited , in consequence of the occurrence alluded to .
Roscrba . —A . sale of articles seised for rent due to Mr . _O'Gradv . of Dublin , was advertised for Friday , the 27 th of November last , at Graf-fin , between Roscrea and Templemore , where a very large mob assembled . Several of them were armed and fired shots _: the sale was subsequently relinquished , as tho country people are determined to resist the payment of rent in any shape , and thme small farmers who are well able le pay are the principals in those proceedings . Arms and ammunition are now so easily procured , that all the lawless ruffians in this part of the country arc we'l supplied . ;—Leinster Express .
Purchask of Fl _jk-Arsis .- —The Tipperary Free Press of this dai says : — " The purchase of fire-arms in this town by the country people , who manifest tbe greatest avidity to possess themselves of these weapons , continues unabated . The mania , it appears , _hasexrended to ths north , and in Cavan and Fermanagh the sale of guns and pistol * WilS _MTUf SO great as at _pres' _-nt . " Cohntt Clark —Robbery of Firb Arms . —The glebe house of tbe Rev . Francis Studdert , at Clare , was , while he was _officiatinu at Kilmaly , entered by five men out ofa party of six , in search of arms , They were seen tn approach the house from different directions , one man on the _ro--id leading from thc village of Clare , having fired a shot for the purpose of
intimating to the others that they might enter with safety . They did so . and twice did they return up stairs to search more minutely , by order of thc man who remained outeide . They broke in one bed room door , and after they got into Mr . Studdcrt ' s room , took up his keys that he had left in a drawer , where there were hank notes and silver , but- which they never _touched . They then opened his bookcase , and threw out all his papers and books , and took away a small case of pistols that he had carefully concealed there an hour or two before he left home . In the kitchen they broke open an oat bin , looking for a double-barrelled gun , which however Mr . Studdoi't had some time before sent away to a place of safety . — Clare Journal .
_cosMTior * of inn _coustut . The Times _Correspondent says ' _- — Without wishing to raise any unnecessary alarm , itis _becoming every day more evident that the relief afforded by Government towards meelins * a great national calamity will fall far short of the anticipated result . Making due . ¦ illowance for exaggeration , the accounts of destitution in its last stage are just as rife now as they were in the month Of September , and before 273 , 000 people w » re employed at an average expense to the country <> f £ 2 , 652 , 900 per annum . This is the most moderate calculation , and is estimated from the returns furnished by the Board of Works of the expenditure for the months of October and November , when out of a population of 4 . 000 000 , heretofore wholly or in a great measure _depending upon the potato as their staple article of food , out little more than MGth have b"en provided with a temporary m _? ans of subsistence , That this enormous
outlay will go on _stsadily increasing as the winter advances there can be no doubt , and , perhaps , by this time twelvemonths landed property—already sumciently encumbered—« ill be further saddled with a debt of £ 6 000 . 000 , with the gloomy prospect of the succeeding year _hanuing over iiead , when all the consequence ! of _neglected _tillage , misapplication of ( he public money , and the fatal reliance upon Government support _through the Imperial Treasury , shall have been fully _dereloped . The lan . llords are , tobe sure , fully aware of their dangerous position ; but there is no concert among them— -there is no _dsfinit : * plan put forward upon which there would be a chnnee of mutual agreement . _An-i , unless this is speedily done , it is easy to foresee that the " _beginninc of tho end" cannot be long deferred . An illustration of the working of fhepresent system , and ofits effects at no v _.-ry distant day , is t ! ius funiishvd by thc Westnuath Guardian of Saturday .
In the adjoining county ( Roscommon ) the daily expenses of Ubour alone amount ' to £ 2 . 500 , and in Mayo the amount is nearly the same , and amidst all this extravagant outlay we again ask the oft-repeated question , what benefit is contemplated to accrue from the unproductive works which are _prosesuted with such rage 1 It is not employment alone tliat the people require , but they want food . If we extend our thoughts beyond the limits oftlie present crisis , and take a prospective glance into tlie pages which six months hence will unfold to our view , we are filled with just awl gloomy apprehensions that the work of famine and destitution will then present even mora . _ippalling terrors than at the present time .
What will avail then the levelled hills and new made roads . What advantage then the thousands of tons of broken 3 ton _!> s , _helped up in store-houses , or spread upon the highways ? Will these satisfy the cravings of hunger , or fill tlie famished mouths of au overflowing and _starving population ? No . The soil of this given isle , from which all , from peer to peasant , derive support and raiment , is left to wither and " choke with weeds , " while the hands that _should be engaged in cultivating and ( under the blessing of Providence ) improving < he soil , are diverted from their wonted occupation , and turned to an employment fraught with ruin to the country and des tructire to the interests of the nation .
DROOnEDA— -STATE 0 " P THK PEOPLB . _ffront OW Correspondent . ) Famine is every __ day making frightful strides on the ;> eople . Fever is alarmingly on the increase . _11 is not an unusual sight to witness fifteen or twenty corpses _bsinff interred in one day out of a population of 17 , 000 . We had a baronial sessions on Friday thc 4 th inst ., nnd thanks to the exposure ofthe apathetic ( rich ) in the Star ef the 7 th ult ., a meeting was held on Tuesday ihe 8 th instant , when subscriptions were commenced for the relief of the destitute . A liberal sum has bfien subcibed .
Our mark-it on Saturday the oth instant was thinly attended , with sellers' prices advanced on wheat , from 2 s . to 2 s . C I . per barrel of 20 stones . Potatoes arc 25 s . per barrel of 20 stones . These are exorbitant prices , wben we take into consideration the wages _ofithe people . Weavers are not earning on an average m ' _ir-0 than 4 ' . G i . par week each , bavins , at least , himself and another to support . The consequences of this state of things are , our inhabitants have completely lo 3 t the appearance of beings who have anything like a sufficiency of food to eat . This does
not arise from a scat-city of _provi-ions , for on Jookinir ov <; r the exports of the week we find the following : —810 qr * . of wheat ; oats , 100-qrs . ; flour , 1700 ewt . ; meat , V _210 : pins , 4120 ; cows , 1522 ; sheep , 1931 ; eggs , G 30 _. O 001 ! Is not this a sad picture to see ail this food leaving our quays , whilst the people pine in hunger ? This state of things cannot last , the people are beginning to call the right of the rich oppressors in question , and once on that track they will not easily leave it until they make the vampires who fatten on their misery disgorge their unjust monopol y of the land .
Our municipal elections have terminated , tho town is divided into three wards , for two of which honest radicals , " whole hog" men , have been returned _. This is more awful than the famine—to think that the Liberator ' s influence could not keep the corporation free from any but slaves of his own . His day is over in Drogheda ; he is despised by all parties ; he has little chance of catching the Drogheda corporation hy his humbugging resolutions of last week in th « Dublin corporation . Peter Hoey , of Burnsley , may now rejoice that his visit to Drogheda , in 1841 , was not without beneficial results to Chartism .
OLD IRELAND V . tOUHG IRELAND . The Dublin corespondent of the Morning Post had the following statement in bis dispatch of the 6 th . The demons-trati n of the Young Irelanders at tlie Rotunda , has caused much uHeusincss in the camp of the ancient party . The whole matter was solemnly and earnestly canvassed in the committee of the old association yesterday . The Liberator had a special convocation of all his counsellors , and asked their opinions . The majority , I understand , advised that no notice whatever should be taken of the seceders , that they were not yet of sufficient importance , and that it would be making too much of them to advert to their _prnceediags at all atthe meeting in Conciliation Hall to-morrow .
* The more experienced and further seeing old gentleman , however , took a different view of the mattoc , anil _aeemeil to consider tlie mowraent and _progress of the speeders as so very important , that it was his opinion and decree that a flag of truce should be sent to thera . The excuse for this great condo . _scension is to be , that he , the Liberator , has observed that the Young Irelanders now all repi _' _. diate physical force , and have therefore so purgPM themselves of heresy in his eyes , that he is _> Y ' . ' jing again to receive them into his corps . This svmptr . ni , it fullydeyolopud , will _unquestionably prove extreme debility in the patient : but what i <» , even more , I am informed that the Young _Ivelwuders will reject th
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overture , and send back the flag of truce even _* _* .. contumely . So the Whigs nobmeer possesa _jn 3 O'Connell that potent ally on whom theyTn ? e _caS later ! so very much . l - _* * - On Monday ( the day after the above was writtoni the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal _Associa fon took Dlace , and the result proved the correctness nf the Post ' s information . or The att « _nd-ince was greater than it had been far some time past . It was fully _expected thatthe "Li berator , " writhing under the casfci gation _inflated " upon him by the several speakers at the Young lie . land demonstration , would return the compliment with interest from his own forum . Jud _^ e , therefore the surprise ofthe uninitiated , when , instead of hurling thunderbolts at his youthful antaconists hp
actually struck his colours , and laid the basis o { a reconciliation , by proposing a conference between the heads of the two parties , with a view of _an-arT" " _i th « P ; . ehmin f _« , _«>•; *¦ treaty for the suspension ot hostilities . Mr . O'Connell ' s supremacy as the leader of the _aaitntion , is , therefore , virtually at a iete na ' g lre - ' 8 victory has been com-Here is tho _nortion of Mr 0 'fin ...,. » ii » . v . which he confesses himself beater >¦ - 3 pCBCh '" "Dissension had broken out anions them . It was of old a sad characteristic of the Irish He did not wish to embitter the quarrel hi ? . iw _.. Jfi
heal the breach . He had looked over a report of the debate at the Rotunda ; be found himself tolerably well abused ; but he felt no resentment . Hi now saw that tbey m a _greafc measure disclaimed the physical force principle . If thej went a little furthir , they would be as welcome back to tbe association as the flowers of May . He proposed then a _jmvate conference . ( Vehement _cheerins ) He named Sir Colman 0 Louehlm and Mr . O ' _lLu-an as two referees , along with himself , Mr . "W S 6 ' Bripn Mr Dillon , and Mr . _O'llea . ' lie wild be ebar _' ed mth oorapromwiiyf j but he would make nnynoru tice for the good of the country . ( Cheers ) Mr . J . O'Connkia said he wished to sav that he was the cause of the division amongst the _Reoeal party , and to express his satisfaction that there was a prospect of a reconciliation . ( JJear , hear . ) The rent was announced to be £ 116 3 s . 5 d .
Countt ABMAon . —The Newry Tehgraph gives the following particulars of a shocking murder in this county : — . J' _^ ? pa ! ned tr ) find that once again human life has been wantonly sacrificed -in th <* - county of Armagh The . following particular , of thin 01136 we have collected from the communications of several correspondents . - —Friday last was the fairday of _Crossmnglen . About six o ' clock in the evenin _g a person named George M'Clean was _returning home from the fair , and , when about 100 perches from the town , he was beset and murdered bv some persons who have not as yet been fully identified , _althonnh three individuals have been arrested , with blood on several parts of their clothes and hands , two of whom are at present lodged in tho bridewell of Ballybot An inquest was held on tbe remains of the murl dered man on Saturday , by Mr . _Gearec Henry
coroner , which was adjourned until _Wednesday , for the purpose , if possible , of _eliciting evidence that may enable n jury to arrive at a decision as to the actual perpetrators of the crime . The deceased waa a man of excellent character and a Protestant . It is believed he had some money in his _pns-e'sinn , the abstraction of which is supposed to have been the object of the murderers , as be was much respected hy all classes , both Protestant nnd Roman Catholic . It is stated that a great many people were passing along the road at the time , but not one of them returned to nfarm the police of the town . Snb-inspeotor Holmes was on the gronnd . however , about an hour after the murder was completed , and np to a late period of the night the police were employed in searching the several loddng-houses of the ' town , where they found and apprehended several suspected characters . "
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Glasgow . —Like most , men when defeated , it seerr . _a our friendssenerally in this now " second city in tbe empire , " felt dispo ed to silence as regards the result of our late municipal election . This , I consider , has been an error In aa much as the result , though not go favourable as we shall wish , is anything but disheartening . Mr . Moir , in concert with Gilmour and Shaw , polled 103 . One of Iiis oppo . nents votes Ross—single-handed and alone-polled 106 . and had thc Irish repealers supported Mr . _R-ws as was exnected , Ross would have been successful . John O'Keal , repealer , was only six below , and this will explain why the repealers , a considerable number of whom are in that ward , did not vote for Mr . Ross . In the second wars ! , a complete wreck wag made of the old dominant clique , and I have no hesitation in saying that had Moir been put forward in that ward , he would have been successful . In proof
of tbis . I may state that our costive list of friends wore this day returned to the Parochial board , oraa they are known in England , appointed Poor-law guardians , Messrs . Moir , Gilmour , and Henderson in the first ward , and Messrs . Ross and Cochran in the third . Henderson and Cochran , though not connected with the movement , I believe , are more Chartist than Whig , and will always be found on the side ofthe people . A few days after the election , a numbor of our democratic friends who supported Messrs . Shaw , Moir , and Gilmour , entertained those _aentlemen to a splendid supper in the Routine Hotel , Seventy-one , including the guests , sat down to supper _, anil spent one of the happiest evenings ever thej had the pleasure of enjoying . _Amonest those present were our old friends Mr . _Pirkethly _* _. and Mr . Parker , late of London , now of Manches . er . Mr . Moir proposed the healths of the _^ two strnnacrs to whom he paid well-merited compliments ; the toast was drank with the greatest enthusiasm , and Mr .
Gilmour in his usual happy style , gave them the ' Baker ' s fire . " Messrs . Pitlietlily and Parker acknowledged the toast amidst the repeated plaudits of the assembly . Funerai . of _Oamon Miouel dkl Rieoo —On Sunday the remains of the late Canon Miguel did Riego ( brother of the illustrious General . ) were deposited in the vaults of the Catholic Chapel , Morn-fields , The corpse was accompanied to its resting place by many friends of tlie deceased , among whom were Lord Nugent , Dr . Bowrimr , M . P ., the _Ministers of Buenos Avres and Peru ( Messrs . Moreno nnd
Iturregui . ) Sir Charles Malcolm , Sir F . B , Meyer .- , Mr . Eneas M'icdoniiell , & c . The Canon was known to a large circle , and highly esteemed , and honoured by all bis acquaintances , lie was a man of studious habits , and particularly well _acquauited with tho ancient literature of Spain . He was a sincere , without being an ostentatious patriot , but his love of his country , and his zeal for his country's liberty and happiness were displayed on all occasions . His attachments were warm and strong , his manners simple and attractive , and his name will be preserved in the list of unconupted and incorruptible patriots .
Extraordinary Robber v . —Lately a lime-burnet received , as is customary at the end of the liming season , the value of the article supplied in this instance to Mr . Thomas , of _Derllys , a very respectable farmer . The _nioni-y _altogetlnr _amonnt-ed to £ Ii , - being in two £ 5 Bank of England notes and four sovereigns . The money—precious treasurewas safely deposited in a drawer , well , secured in brown paper , and all was placed under lock and key . Some few days after he again went t .-. the dnuvei' for the purpose of withdrawing the cash to apply it to the payment of an account , when lo ! the bank notes had disappeared , but the sovereigns remained undisturbed . Search was instantly made throughout the dwellimr , the neighbours were ealled in to assist , and
after some hours ot weary an ! thankless labour , the search , which at one time appeared never ending , was given up . Then came the question , what had become ofthe money ? and the conclusion was immediately and simultaneously formed , that tho _** c frightful creatures , " robbers , " had been at work ; but this was a very debateablc point , as how had they gained an entrance ? the drawer continued locked , and what was still more inexplicable , the sovereigns remained , the easiest part ofthe property that could be disposed of . So the whole affair was unanimously * voted a mystery . Some few days after , the good wife had occasion to no to market , and , wishing to be dressed in her best attire , went to her drawer , and took out her extra super gown , of the most approved materials and fashion , and , when putting her arm
into the sleeve , felt some resistance , her fingers touching some substance not generally found in gowns . The sleeve wns turned inside out ( or outside in ) , and there , to the astonishment of all , was found a nest , formed by those industrious little creatures yclept mice . An examination was made , and oh ! joytul _discovery ! there were the long lost bank notes cut up iuto innumerable pieces by those unwitting offenders . The pieces were carefully collected , and joy reigned supreme . The neighbours were called in to participate in the rejoicings , and happiness was the order of the day . it ooly remains to bo said , that the pieces were pasted together , sent up to th _« Batik of England , with a narrative of the circumstance ; and in due time ten sovereigns arrived , winch were hand-. il over io the fortunate limeburuiT .
Cambrian . Gaol _Breakinc-. _*—A prisoner , named _Mackenzie , made his escape from Elgin gaol in a very bold manner . The door of his cell was left open by the doctor ' s orders , the prisoner having been ill and vomitting blood , Taking advantage the prisoner forced _tfie lock o _* ' the _passage door with one of the _iron-l _. iooksof his hammock , " and having taken some lire , from the stove , broke open a small door leading to the garret . There the prisoner aefc fire t 0 th £ ) roof , and burned a hole through which he clambered —and fixing another hook of the hammock to the water pipe , swung himself on to the inclosing wallthus escaping unobserved . lie has not yet been retaken .
_llurKKSENT . _vriON of Wkstminstkk . —Mv . Charles Cochrane , chairman of the Poor Mai * . '* _Guardta ? Society , and ** open the ports' _^ agitator , is a c ... ub ; date for the representation ot _ttisiminster at m next election .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 12, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12121846/page/2/
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