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    JIRKS . -. , GaEAT DeSTEncnos op Phoe-ertt —On -Monday Eight last , a fire bwk « « at upati ths extensive pre . raises belonging to Messrs Beech and Berrel , JaeeKen and haberdashers , carrying on business at JNo . t > 4 , Edgware-road . It was caused from some light articles hanging in the front window blowing gainst the gas , which set the whole io flames . Owing to the tJraelv aid afforded the fl «» e > werfl fipGedl !? « ttlBgutshed , bnt not before the stock of laces and fancy sibbens in the shop windowa was severely damaged and the s plendid plate class windowR demolished . The loss it is believed will exceed £ 200 —Another fire happened in Grove-mewa . Great James street , lis * on-erore , tn the tenure of Mr Oliver , a writer sad grainer . It began in the buildings immediately over the stables , and ess occasioned from the heat at a stave . The premises were severely damaged by

    Sri , and & valnabie horse in the stable below nearly bnmt ts death . —A third fire , on the same night , broke out on the premises belonging to Mr T . Mann , eating-house keeper , No . 7 , Buuklersbury , Clieapside . It was e * used by the over heatinc of the Bteamboi'er , which set the floorings anrl joistiDgs in the kifchen in a body of flame —A fourth fire , aad which was nearly accompanied with a lamentable lo » s of life , broke out on the premises belonging to Mr T . Simp-Ban , china and glass merchant , carrying on businpss at Urn . 2 and 3 . Queen '* Head-row . Newington . The discovery was made by Mr Simpson , about two hourB after he and his family had retired to rest . He immediately aroused the inmates , and , upon his goinz below and opening the drawing-room door , he was cesrlv knocked doirn by a volume of smoke issuing forthi The inmatea were saved , but not until they vere ne irlv suffocated . The outbreak aroie from a

    defect is the drawing-room stove . Fire is the Buklisgion Arcade . —An alarming fire broke out on Saturday morning last , at a few minutes before five o ' clock , in this arcade , and in a very brief spgce of time , 1-iid in ruins four orfivo heuse « , and severely damaged others- Whilst the night beadlo wag going his roundB in tha arcade , he perceived smoke issuing from the basement of the premises belonjrin * to Mr Rnssell , whipmaker , No . \ L He forthwith rang the fire-bell , aad after considerable trouble he succeeded in making Mr Rnssell and his family sensible of the danger to which they were exposed . The fire having extended to the ship , the inma ' es were compelled to escape orer the rosf of the arcade , to an adjoining house Within a few minutes the flames burst throng !* the front of

    the shop , and set fire to the house opposite , kaown M the Civet Cat toy warehouse , and nearly at the same time the roof of the arcade was wrapt in Hames . Shortly afterwardi the engines arrived in ¦ apid 8 ucce 3 sion , and baring an abundant fiuoply of rater , thev , after the lapse of two hours , succeeded ; n preventing tho farther progress of the flames , but iot until four or five honses w . > re destroyed , an ^ sevealothprji much damaged . Abonfc fifteen minutes tfter the Sret discovery was made , the roof of Mr iassell ' s premise * fell in , and thea the flames shot ip higher thaa they had previously done . The firerteo , nothing daunted , continued at their posts , and aouHtins the roof of the arcade , they were enabled

    o prevent the flvnes from extending farther from the utside . Whilst that was eoine en outside , the firenen kept pouring torrents of water into the lower arte of the burning property . This had the desired sSect , - for although the flames were not extinguished , t became manifes-t that no further destruction of buH / oss would ensue . Theencines having been rokedwit ^ full vigour until eight o'clock , the fire rasst length : wholly extinguished . It isasingular act , that on Saturday , the 26 th of March , 1835 . ? hen the Westera Exchange and the arcade »? ere > artiaH _ v destroyed by fire , the first house that beams ignited in the arcade was the same in which he fire broke out on this occasion , and neariy hs same premises vrere then burned as at present .

    INQUESTS . Aiasoed MiTRiCDB . —Before Mr W . Biker , at fte ; Cooner ' 8 Arm ? , Golden-lane , respecting the feath of Mary Leary , aged fifty-nine years , who 3 e feath was alleged to have been caused by injuries she had received from her daughter , Julifi Lear ? , t 2 td thirty years . The deceased was principally supported by her daughter , ard lived in a miserable ipartment in Little Cheapsin > , St Luke's . They fere both very dissipated character ? , were frequently intoxicated , and repeatedly quarrelled . On Friday norning Jalia went home very drank , and struek jer mother with a poker . About two o ' clock the Wowing moraine she was found in bed quite lead . —Inspector Grarestoek said the daughter was imast desperate woman , and had frequently been

    n enstndy for disorderly conduct . Some weeks since he waschargrd with throwing a female down stairs , rha received a fractnre nf botfe less . She was renandei several time ? , and after the female had left &e hospital Bhe refused to press the charge , and Leary was liberated . Since the death of her mother she had disappeared . Tke police had charge of the worn , and had locked the door Mr Wrisiht , a surgeon , said lie hart made s pott mortem examination , Kid attribu ' ed death t" a deceased brain , resulting from natural causes . —The coroner said if that was the case there was no necessity to make any further Enquiry , and if the woman had received twenty btatnit . wonid not affect the daughter . —The jury E&en returned an open verdict of ' Found dead , apcarentfy from natural causes . '

    Culpable Neglect op Wardens . —Before Mr Bedford , in the Tothill-fields prison , oh the body of Sirs Ila-inah Thomas , aged forty-five , a lady respec tahly connected , who was committed from Bow-Etreet , nn F iday last , for givins a servant a fa ' se character . Ann Stone , a sub-warden , said , in answer to questions by the jury , that the cells were not treated with pipes , but prisoner had tvro blankets snd a ru ? . On Sunday she made no complaint . At bslf p ?? t seven the n ° xt ( Monday ) morning , witness Ebrcnd her ijiHg on the floor with her bed and bedtlathes . She spske to her . bat sbecould not or would Bnt get up . She called Mm Anderson , another arardf-n , aud she w « raised np , but was apparently usable to stand ; they , however , put ber Jay clothes "n . The coroner : What was that for

    ?—Witness said she did not knw , but they did it . — Xlie coroner : Was no medical as « istar . cp called for ! —Witness replied in the negative , and that she went to breakfast , and on her retarn at a quarter-past ciiht ths deceased was sitting in the cirner where they h = vi left her , talkine to her ? elf . —The coroner : D < 1 ii noi occsr to yoa to send for ths surgeon ?—Witness replied that she did not , for she thought the was ' shamming . ' At twenty minutes pa 3 t eight , on goine to deceased , she appeared dead , but by srderof the matron she was put in a waraa bath ; and the doctor , having baen apprised of her illness , almost immediately attended , bat when taken out of ths bath , she was quite dead . Mr John Lavies , the Burgeon of the prison , stated that he saw the

    deceased on Saturday , not on account of any illness sha c > iiiDlained of sufferine , b'it that she wished him tn intercede with the magigtrateto revoke her sentence . " She spoke of the dissrace of being there , and cri ? d very much . Ha saw her the next day , bat she made no complaint . Mr Lavie 3 stated that he bad opeued tfee body , and found about a pint of Tenon 3 blood In the cavity of the chest , vrhieh had come from the langp , aad fully accounted for the death . After a lenathened investigation , in which the propriety of visiting the ^ ceHs in the niijht was suggested by the coroner and , th « governor of the prison having stated that the wardens had no right to gin an opinion as !•» whether the prisomrs shammed ill er not , the jnry returned a verdict , That the deceased died from natural cause ? . '

    The Recekt Fatal Accident at tiie EcsrossqtFAHE Tekmxcs . —A Tbikd Sitfereb . —Before Mr G . J . Mills , at tfae University College Hospital , on the body of James Hickie , labourer , being the third party who died in consequence of injuries received on the Cth insfc ., by the falling of a wall , &c , in Drogres 3 of erection near the above terminus . It will be recollected that Mr Mills held an inquest on fee first snSerer , John Shea , on the 10 th inst ., when the jury declining , though the deputy confer consulted them on the point , to examine professional persons unconnected with the building , returned a verdict to the effect . ' That Shea had died from

    infarie 3 caused by the fall of a certain wall , bnt how that fall was produced there was no evidence to Ehow . " The verdict did not give satisfaetion , and a gesonil sufferer dyiag , an inquest was commenced on the body on Thursday , the 20 tb , which MrWakley &ni the jury ordered to be adjourned to Monday next , that they micht hare the evidence ef an architect , appointed by gsvernmenf , to examine the locality of the accident . Mr Mills adjourned the inquiry of yesterday to the same day , after the proximate cause of the death , bat not ths remote caus ? , which is now the great object of inquiry , had be : n proved .

    hieceiiI . aneocs . Bihtus akd Deaths Dubikg the Week . —Deaths , 1 . 401 ; birth ? , 1 , 303 . The average number of deaths daring the corresponding week of five previous ¦ cicte-3 was 1 , 107 . or nearly three hundred lesa than last week . Ths excessive mortality in the present rase is still found to arise from those diseases which , by i heir extreme prevalence , have rendered the present winter remarkable . . Influenza , bronohiti 3 , and pneninon a still maintain their fatal pre-eminence . Typhus , measles , and scarlatina have likewise des tr ' ojel during the past week many more than the ay .-rrme number of lires . Two womea are registered araanirsfc those dving of old age , one of whom

    attained 100 yeirs , aud the other 102 . The former Jived in South Chelsea , and the latter in Peckham . A-tu ; ms for the HocaELESi ! . —la consequence of the sevirity of tbe weather , and the appearance of a wrtrin-iatlen of it , the committee of the ' Asylums for the Houseless had an especial meeting on Satur-* wy , when it was resolved to open the asylums in 3 ' - ' - *> lrm 5 s-yard , SS Luke ' s , fand Glasshouse-yard . E *< i SmithSeld , in which establishments about 400 2 nplicants'were received on Sunday night . The Western Asylum in Ogle-street , Marylebone , i 3 also t « . b 3 oaenei . We regret that the funds ef this most &ced Ve ^ ootrmsive charity are seriously re-

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    iisingiano-DERBYSHIRE . Natiovii . D 2 Pf . kcbs . —On Monday last a pablic meeting was held in the Guildhall , Derby , ' for the purpose of petitioning parliament against any addition to tbe existing naval and military foroeB , tbe enrolment of tbe militia , or thei eatablisbraeat » f additional fortresses . '—The Rev . Noah Jones , at the conclusion of a speech deprecatory ot war and the war cry just raised , moved the following resolution — ' That this meeting , believing the . ' erstem and practice of war to be at variance with Christianity , and with the bert interests of mankind , deeply regrets the attempt novr being made to escite in the publie mind an opinion that war is imminent , as _ it would increase the taxation by increasing the military and naval establishments of this country . '—The Rev . L . Gawthorne seconded the resolution . He

    did not go the length of the' peace party , that war was not justifiable under any circumstances : at the ferae time he ridiculed the absurd cry that war was inevitable . The resolution was cwtied without oppo .-ition . —The Rer . W . Poile spoke strongly agsin t the government , lie concluded by moving the fo ! - liwing;— ' That it is the deliberate conviction ef-thia meeting that the apprehension of war is unfounded ; that an increase of expenditure in strengthening the naval and military forces in any form is uncalled for ; that itwonld tend to excite a spirit of war rather than a love of peace ; that it would obstruct the tone of morality and increase the taxation of the people . '—The resolution was seconded by Mr Stokes , and carried unanimously—Other resolutions were agreed , to , and a petition adopted .

    T 1 BK 6 HIRB . Huddkbsfikld — AiiAHMiKG Firb . —Last week , a fire was discovered in the mill belonging to Benjamin Robinson , at Lane , ( the Leeds end of Hnddersfield , ) immediately adjoining the Lane dyehouae . The mill was occupied by several parties , buthfor raanufactur ing and dressing purposes . The mill itself was totally destroyed , the loss of property amounting to many thousand pounds .

    BERKSHIRE . Melakchowt Suicide at Wisdsor— On Monday morning , Mr Thomas Hyde , a highly respectable inhabitant , about sixty years of age , who carried on ah extensive business for several years past , as a baconfactor , in Thames-street , Windsor , committed suicide , by Erst cutting bis throat , on the banks of the Thames , aud afterwards throwing himself into the river . An inquest was held on Tuesday , at the Town Hall . Charles Hicks , a waterman , who was standing on Windsor Bridge , shortly alter seven o ' clock on Tuesday morning , saw the body floating down , with the- stream , and he , with another man , got inte a punt and brought it ashore . On taking it to the King ' s Arms public-house close by , and unbuttoning the shirt collar , he found the throat cut , and the wound still bleeding . There were not the least signs of life . lie went to the house of deceased to acquaint the shopman , when be was told his master had only left the house at eeren o ' clock that

    morning . The deceased had no shoes nor hat oa . Edwin S . Collins , assistant to Mr Alderman Soley , surgeon , deposed that he saw deceased shortly after he was taken out of the water , and after some tine animation was restored by the usual means . Beceased w-ssthen csnveyed ta his house in Thames-street . Mr Edward Andrews , stirgeon , who had attended Mr Hyde'a family for the pant seven years , stated that for the last three weeks the deceased had been suffering under a general de . raEgeraent ef health , occasioned by lowness of spirits . From his knowledge of the deceased he had no doubt he had been liable to attacks of insanity during the preceding fortnight . His death was the consequence of ths effects of immersion in the water . Verdict— 'Temporary insanity . ' It was stated that the deceased made his will only the night before he committed the act which led to his death . Dece ascd bas left a widow and five children .

    KERT . Thb Death b ? Pibk at- Gravisenb . —Tfae adjourned inquiry into this lamentable accident has been concluded . Sergeant Deny er , of theGravesend police , proved that be was on duty at the Borough stationhouse , between twelve and one o ' clock on Sunday morning , when the deceased was brought ia by two c-. nstablee , Daniel Lewi 9 and John White , and charged with being drunk and disorderly in the streets . Witness desired the officers to take deceased to the' Refuge' in the market place , after having entered the charge . There were cells in the Btation faoase Tioant at the time , but as the deceased was very noisy as well as dirty in his habits , when in custody on former occasions , witness undertook to brder him to be placed ia the' Refuge , ' that place having beea devoted to

    the reception of persons of tae deceased's character for the last five or six years . The witness here described the ' Refuge . ' The building , he said , was about sixteen feet square , and consisted of the ground floor and one above it . The lower portion was occupied as a receptacle for trussels and other things let out by the market collector , under whose control it was . being entered from a narrow court outside the market . The upper floor was used as a lock up , or refege for destitute persons , by the police , who kept the key and entered by a distinct doorway leading out of the market . There was no fire-place , and light was admitted into the upper portion by two gratings . There . were four wooden steps within the door leading from the market to the upper floor , and

    the floor itself was generally well littered with straw ; about four trusses had been placed in it about ten days since . At a quarter past five he heard deceased calling , as he had through the night , of which , of course , he took bo notice ; but absut six o ' clock , a man named Walker , who was employed in the market , came to the station hou 3 e and told him that the * Refuge' was on fire . On looking out , witness saw flames issuing from under the roof . .. lie immediately turned round , and , taking the key off the wall , ran and unlocked the door . The place was then in one body of flame , the steps leading to the floor on which Budge was confined had fallen in , and witness could see nothing ot the deceased . Witness subsequently asgisted in getting out the fire-engine and quenching

    the fire , which was not accomplished until the building was entirely destroyed . Joseph Singleton , barge master at the Town Pier , said deceased wa 3 his ceuBin . He was aware of his dissipated habit ? , and had requested the superintendent of police when he was tuund drunk about the streets to place him in the 1 Refuge' for the night , and discharge him in tbe morning , without troubling the magistrates . Witness had nothing to complain of in reference to the deceased , and believed tbe occurrence to have been pure ly accidental . The coroner summed up , remarking that it appeared to him the question for the consideration of the jury lay in a very small compass . Of the cau . ee of death there could be no doubt , after the sad and distressing spectacle they had witnessed ;

    and the only questions for the jury were , had the deeeased been properly charged in the first iantaBce , acd subsequently legally detained in a proper place of confinement . Of the first question he thought there could be bo doubt , and , as to the second , it appeared that for some years past persons similarly charged had been confined in the same building . He confessed it did Keem to him advisable that persons similarly charged with deceased should , when placed in confinement , be occasionally visited , not enly as a preventative to any similar accident , but also in case a prisoner should be attacked with sudden apoplexy or sudden illness of any kind . In was a coarse invariably followed in the metropolitan districts , and he hoped for the future the authorities would take care to adopt it . With these observations he left . the case in the hands of the jury . The jury retired for about a

    quarter of an hour , and on their return , the coroner announced that they had agreed to a verdict of' accidental death . ' - Mr Carttar added , that he had been requested to state that the jury fully concurred in the observations he had made with reference to prisoners in charge being occasionally visited , and they had also desired him to express their decided opuiioa that no portion of any building used by the police as a . place of confinement Bhould be under the control of other parties thaa themselves . He hoped the suggestion would be received by the corporation in the spirit in which it was tendered , and not be understood _ aa an act of dictation to the authorities . The Mayor immediately rose , and said he fully concurred in the suggestions which had Iieon made , and would take care they were fully carried out . Mr Oakes having expressed himself in similar terms , the proceedings ter > minated , having extended over nearly four hours ,

    SOMERSETSHIRE . Mcrdbr , near Bristol . —LaBt week an inquest was held at Dundry , about four miles from Bristol , touching the murder of are ? peetab ' e yeoman , named WalsiDgham Hall . —The deceased . an old man , sixtyfour years of age , was a large farmer living near Dundry . A maiden sister lived with him , as did aho two nephews , youn ? men , named James aud Benjamin Hazell On Monday afternc « n last , between three and four o ' clock , he was ' seen by several of his labourers , who were aWork in a barn , talking with bis nephews . After that hour nothing was seen of him , and as he did not reach home in the evening , the greatest alarm was occasioKed by bis sister , as he was a man of remarkably steady habits . A search was instituted , but without effect ; and amonq other places searched was a stable , the key of

    which Jameg Hazall at fir ^ t refused tagive up , sayingthat he . could not be there ; and intlua he wa 3 joined by his brother Benjamin , who alto said the stable should not be opened . A short time afterwards , however , the stable was opened , bat the search there proved of no avail . Things remained in this state until Thursday , when Thon ; a < s Capell and another man , at work , thrashing in a barn , were informed by one Joseph Stokes that two men , named Henry Grover and Benjamin Payfcon , had told him that they had dreamt that the body of Mr Hazell was in a certain old well . The men sneered at the information , but were induced at length to go to the well , which was dry , and had not been used for Eome time , and was then to all appearance in its usnal state , a large stone being on the lid . which was iastened on ono Bide by a hinge . The

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    cover was lifted up and the mea looked in , but could not see anything . They then got a candle , and were startled to perceive marks of blood upon tho aides of the well . A rope and a hook were procured , and at length they brought np tbe dead body of a soon , which proved to be that of their missing master . There were marks over the eye of a tremendous blow , and also upon the back of the head were several marks of henvy blows . In the pockets of the deceased were 10 * . in silver and a few articles of trifling value . The body was then removed to the house . The well , we may state here , was near the stable . A man named John Uall assisted to remove the body into the house , and he then went to a dung heap near the stable , turned it over with a forkand

    , found an ssb stick two and a half inches thick , and about two feet long ; on this stick were marks cf blood , and there were also some gray hairs attached to it . Hall also found an umbrella , which the deceased bad with him at the tims he was missed , on a wall adjoining the stable . The two nephews were in custody upon suspicion of committinjr the murder , and were attended by Mr Harmar , solicitor , Bristol . Hall was severe ' y cross-examined by Mr Barmar , and he gave mo 3 t evasive answers . At first he said he was at a public-house from twelve to eight o ' clock on Monday , and afterwards admitted that he was absent fronUho house for some time . He was , after the inquiry , taken into custcdy upon a charge of being an accessory . The inquest was adjourned .

    DEVONSHIRE . Exeter . — Mysterious Case op Drowning —• A case of drowning has occupied the attention of a coroner and jury during throe days . A Mra Martin left her house between half-pastsix and seven o'clock on Monday evening , and said she called at Mr Lake ' s , in South-street . All the witnesses speak of her being in excellent spirits and temper except & Mr Mallett , who eajs he met her near the Lower Market , and that she was then very excited and incoherent , not directly answering to the points ef a short conversation . If he ia correct as to time , she afterwards cMled on Mrs Davidge , in Milk street , and remained with her until 8 o ' clock . The Mxt morning she w « s seen floating upright at the mouth of the canal , with

    her gown over her head , which was only about a foot and a half under the surface . When taken out she had not the appearance of being long dead , the limbs were by no means stiff , and the flannel next hei Bkin not wet . At the first adjourned inquiry it came out that a man named J . Perry had , since the death of her husband , lived with the deceased , con-: ducting the business of a cheese and bacon faoto . r . It was endeavoured to be elicited , if possible , how Perry was occupied during the night of Mrs Martin ' s disappearance ; and it appeared that at nine o'clock , when John Partridge , the errand-boy , retired to rest , he left hire in the house ; at half-past nine he was at the Black Horse public-house , Mr Peter Band ' s in South-street , just opposite his own residence , where he remained until half past twelve . He then went with Mr Bond to Mr WooBley ' s iu George ' s-

    square , Stepcofe-hill , where Mrs Bond was at a Cnristmi 8 party , and ^ here it was thoueW probable the deceased might also be . But she was not there . Here Perry remaiaed until one o ' clock , when they left with Mr John Davis , a pork butcher , residing near the Black florae , and his wife , and at whoae house Perry remained until nearly four o ' clock , when he went to his ovin on tbe opposite side of the street . His stay there , however , could have been butBhort , as ' at four a ' clock he kaocked up Mr Gay , Glover , in the High-street , to inquire if Mm Martin were there , or if he had seen the deceased . He ap . peared also to have expressed surprise that che had net returned home . —The coroner recommended the jury , after the investigation they had made , and the great p aucity of the evidence , to record the simple fact— ' Found dead in the river , but by what means , there ia no evidence before the jury . '

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    IrelauB . MR O ' CONNOR AND niS COUKIRYMKK—INTELMtCTUAL C 8 N ' DIIIQN AND POLITICAL VIEWS OF THB PBA 9 ANTRT—8 TATB OF IRISH PARTIES-MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHIKC —FATHER KENTOn ' b WALL—THE SPECIAL COMMISSION—THB FAMIHK—BULLETS , NOT BBEAD , FOR THE BTARVIHG !

    ( From # ur « wn Correspondent , ) Dublin , Jan . 24 th , 1848 . Mr O'Connor's address * te the Irish people , ' published in the Northern Star of the 15 th instant , has elicited unbounded applause in all quarters where it has found iU way ; and it is much to ba deplored that those excellent letters cannot reach the fire-side of every peasant who has still a fire-side toeitby . I stated ib my communication of the 10 th instant , that the greatest impediment in our march to freedom , was the ignorance under which our population laboured—perhaps I would be nearer to the mark if I was to say- ^ the political delusions into which they have been led during the last quarter of a century . The Irish peasantry are not ignorant in the literal

    sense of the word . On the contrary , they are shrewd , intelligent , and tolerably ' well up' to everything passing in the changing world of politics . Every Iri « h peasant can tell you of such and such statutes , theirobjects , and tendencies—by whom introduced , and by whom resisted . H « can inform you of every ' speech' made in the'House . ' for and against his country . He knows who ' stood fast , ' and who ' sould poor Ireland ; ' and he can ' insense ' ybu—as himself would gay—into the causes why such and such persons became favourites with the Sassanagh government ; and why others , with equal or superior abilities , bat possessing more integrity and fidelity , were spurned , repudiated , and driven , in so row and disgust , from the conflict . All thene things are quite

    familiar to the poorest peasant ; Yet , I must say , on most points of useful , practical , benefioial knowledge , he is wofully in the dark . I need not now delay jny readers with any inquiries into the designs of those parties who have so long practised on the credulity and simplicity nf my countrymen ; but I state the fact once more , that with all his shrewdness and acumen , 'the Irish peasant doe 3 not possess that sound political knowledge essential to any combined or effective struggle for the ' rights of man . ' He believes that Irishmen , of themselves , are invincible ; that they have only to make the effort , ' when the time comes , ' and success will follow ! He confides too much in empty vapour and braggadocio , and becomes too easily the dupe , and the tool , and the slave

    of every impostor , and quack , and political mountebank , who scrambles up the stage of miBchief-njnkiHg asitation in this unfortunate land . If you ask him what good did such aad such proceeding , undertaken by such and such persons , do for Ireland ? he will answer you with a shake of the head , or a twitoh of his fingers , and say , 'The time bas not eome yet . Wait a little longer , and if such and such prophecies be not fulfilled , thsre is not a cottoner in Cork . ' Paddy ' s belief is—and I blush to confess it—that until a certain period will arrive , and until certain prognostics and tokens will make their appearance , no good can be effected for Ireland , even had she all Europe enlisted in her cause . But if those particular events had transpired , and if once those

    symptoms and ' tokens' were to manifest themselves' Och , by the powers , ' shouts the Irish peasant , ' we would bate those blood-sucking Sassanaghs with cabbage-stalks . ' Columbkille and Pastorini are , unfortunately , too often poor Paddy ' s political preceptorB ; and if he looks to the newspaper press of hia country , or goes to listen to the spoutings of those cheats and swindlers , v ? ho fatten and riot on his ca ? h and his credulity , he will find himself very little better enlightened than when he flings aside his well-thumbed copy of Columbkille or ' Vision of Tarah . ' This is truly lamentable . Such brave , chivalrous , manly fellows as the peasantry of Ireland , to be so deluded , so cheated , and so imposed on—to bo left in the hands of base , grovelling creatures , who , so long as they find the present ' system' conducive to their

    own selfish interests , care little for the results or for the miseries thereby perpetuated on Iheir betrayed country—it is . indeed , deplorable . And yet it is mure deplorable , when we find amongst nil those who set themselves up oh the rostrum of national instruction , of public teaching—amongst all those who cry out , ' Lo , here Christ , and lo , there Christ , ' ' Come this road , and come that road '—when we find amongst all those quacks and pretender . " , not one competent—or , if competent—not ono willing to undertake the proper training of the people , or tell them plainly that they are deceived and bamboozled , and that neither ' Old Ireland ' or 'Young Ireland ' are worthy of their confidence , or competent to guide them on the pathway to liberty and prosperity . v

    And surely unttV the Irish people are instructed , it is folly to hope for any solid or permanent amelioration of their condition . Mr O'Connor ' s excellent letters make a good beginning so far as they go , but under present circumstances they can never reach the overwhelming majority of tho lower olaseea in Ireland Those classes certainly are fond of reading newspapers whenever chance sends one in their way , but unfortunately they never can afford to expend sixpence on the purchase of a public journal ; and even if they did , or if they coHld , they are so Busoieioua of

    everything' English , thatthay would never dream of seeking instruction in an ' English' newspaper . Mr O'Connor's labours are , therefore , unfortunately in danger of being lost on the great bulk of those for whO 3 e welfare he works so strenuously ; and unless he —aided by tho generous people of England—tries some expedient by which such instruction can reach the proper quarter , he nor we can never hope for the advantages which , under favourable auspices , would most assuredly arise from his exertions , and his gigantic labours .

    I will make no further suggestions—I will not presume to point out the way in which this ereat , this glorious object might be effeeted , but I would fain appeal to the brave people of England to consider what could be done for the instruction of their Irish brethren ; I would implore of them to co-operaf <> with our illustrious countryman , and their chivalrous . ¦ ii io . ftiin—O'Connor—in devising Borne plan by which sound political knowledge might be brought within tbe reach of every Irish peasant , and by the agency of which our present mistrust of Englishmen will bo > removed , our jealousies allayed , and the mists and

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    prejudices into which * false prophets' have led ntf will ba forever eradicated from our naturally generous and honestly disposed mindto m It is an unfortunate fact that the labouring classes id Ireland , regard the people of Kngland in a vesy ahtnwtful , if not hostile igat . Tho moendiary haa oiied his trade successfully , and haa raised up sn anti-Saxon feeling in the minds of the uninformed peasantry , which muat be removed before any permanent good osn be effected for the country ^ When describing tbe misdeeds of EDeland towards Ireland , he has made it appear that all classes of Englishmen are capable , and that tbe Irish , hwe no mercy—uo sympatby-to hope for from anybody having a drop of Saxon blood in their veins . Hence , Paddy looks

    on every Englishman as an implacable Joe—and jooks dled ainfully and disapprovingly oa every overture towards mutual co-operation , er a friendly anderdentuding , with his British fellow Hubjeots . Hence too , itwa « , that he was so easily prejudiced atainst Chartism—and was made to believe that no man could or would be a Chartist , but a rebel , or a robber er a villain . Faddy , with all his vaunted cunninf ? was not properly instructed , and thus , became a ready dupe to every artful , self-interested' dodger , ' never suspeetinp—poor feNow—that those on whom ho ao long and eofond ly confided , had anything in view bat the welfare of Old Ireland , and the release of her children from poverty and bondage . But , now , even at the' eleventh hour , ' it is not too late . It h worth the while of Englishmen to make the experiment , and see how far they can come to a friendly and mutual co-oDeration with their Celtic neighbours . Whilst ire in

    one portfonof the emp retnauiBenguiphed misery , and burning with discontent , the other portions must more or less participate in the evilo which ever arise from euch an unnatural state of society ; and the English labourer oif artisan may be assured that he and his family will , and must ever , share in a greater or leaser degree in the embarrassments and poverty of the Irish peasantry . Then , in the name of Heaven , let the trial be made , and let these who have the greater Btrength , and power , i » nd appliances , sot about the work . Let those men who so bravely and successfully struggle for the good of the labouring claSBea ofEnglishmenJooksympathisinglyontheproa . trato condition of their Irinh brethren , and see what can be done towards dispelling their prejudice ? , and enlightening their ignorance ; and finally , leading them from crime , and folly , and misery , into the pathway which condueta to peace , and plenty , and

    coatentment . There is no ohance of a cessation of hostilities between the rival sections of' Young Ireland , ' in this country . The Naiioh Bohism grows stronger every day . snd it is difficult to say whioh section ia tha more ridiculous . It is quite plain , however , that the days of 'Young Irelaudism' are numbered . Even when a united and compact body they had enough to do to preserve themselvea from being ruined by their own waywardness , and arrogance , and'conceit ; butnow that they have divided and split into contending factions , the 'Irisn Confederation' will quickly be numbered with 'the things that were . ' Mr Mitchel , no doubt , appears to be actin ? a consistent and manly part , that is , if he be in

    earnest , or conscientiously believes himself doing the best for bis country ; If he be bo in earnest , and determined to sink or swim' by the assertion of his peculiar views , all that can be said ic , that he is a ' HBKo ' and a ' Foot . ' -But as I Baidinmy last letter , he has now no chance of creating a party" in Ireland . The spirit of' 98 and' 48 is subdued at present , and though a starving peasantry may Bhoot a landlord , or fire the house of a 'land-jobber , ' they can hardly be persuaded to embark in a protracted warfare with a numerous and well-disciplined army . Besides , the spirit of the age is against war . There are other means of accomplishing the rights of a people besides massacre and bloodshed , and though lam not one who denies the justice of physical resistance

    to tyranny , still I am glad to say , that unless ' tbe worst robs to the worst' the Catholic clergy of Ireland will never sanction an appeal to arms . Mr Mitchel , then , should bo advised in time , and reflect ob the madness of making any attempt at fanning the fire of rebellion in this conntry , lie la about to establish a newspaper in Dublin , to be called by tbe very ominous name of' Thb Ukitbd Irishman ; ' but lam certain thatthis paper will have hat a very brief existence . It is whispered that Mr Mitchel had resolved on this course long before his secession from the Nation , and that it was the knowledge of this fact which induced Mr Duffy to bring the affair so prematurely to a crisis . Mr Duffy ' s credit as a patriot and a politician is indeed ruined by the transaction . Personally he never was very popular , nor was he ever regarded aa a man to be relied on .

    The late Mr O'Connell always had his doubts of Mr Duffy's consistency , and' time and the hour' now prove that his suspicions were not groundless . Mr O'Connor haa given a fleeoing . in his letter in last Saturday ' s Star , to Mr Duffy , whioh must bring many ' bitter remembrances' to that gentleman , and which cannot but upset him for ever with the people of England . In Ireland , whatever may be the fate of Mr Mitchel , it is quite certain that the Nation division' of' Young Ireland' will go down in a few months . Indeed , neither sections will live very long ; and it is also equally certain that tho' Moral Force ' party will never again possess the confidence of Irishmen . A new organisation , —an agitation in another direction , —must succeed the ' humbug' of the present day , and a more meet opportunity for the creation of a new ' soul in Ireland' will sever present itaelf than that opportunity open at the present

    moment . I mentioned in my last communication the extraordinary omission of 'The memory ^ of O'Connell , in the list of toasts prepared by our new Lord Mayor for the occasion of his grand civic feast . This omission , from whatever cause it arose , has given much annoyaneo to his lordship , and it will certainly embitter , not onl ) his year of offic ? , but prabably all the days of his future existence . Eves the most bitter opponents of O'Connell have been bowling at the unfortunate Mr Dunne ; whilst the newspaper press of every party has rung the changes . over his ingratitude , and sycophancy , and perfidy , until 'the very dogs ( as we eay ) would not lap his blood . ' At the meeting , at Conciliation Hall , on Monday last , the subject was discussed very freely , and hia lordship ' s eonduct denounced by different members , of that body in terms of unmitigated reproach . At the meeting

    of tho Corporation in the assembly-house , Williamstreet , on Tuesday , his lordship introduced the Bubject , and said that ' so act of his private or public life ever gave him so much pain as that fatal blunder . ' But he assured the public that it was altogether an unintentional omission , and that he was willing to make the most abject apology to that house , and to the public at large , for his unfortunate conduct on that occasion . At the same time , he would take the entire blame on himself , as no other member of the Corporation had any thing to do with the preparation of the list of toasts or other arrangements for the banquet . ' This explanation , of course , mu 9 t disarm hostility , but nevertheless , Mr Dunne ' s 1 unintentional omission , ' will not be forgotten by Irishmen . It were oetter for his honour and his peace of mind that ho never sat in the civic chair of this metropolis .

    The celebrated Father Kenyon , of Templederry , is again befera the public ' . His famous wall ia likely to beeo « ae mora an object of interest and celebrity than the walls of Troy , or the walls ot Darry , or even the walls of ' the house that Jack built ! ' My readers will bear in mind the history of Mr Kenyon ' s ' wall ' affair , which I gave them in a former letter . They will recollect that I left it demolished as effectually as crow-bars and sledgoa could perform the job ; but the reverend gentleman , it seems , was not so well disposed to leave his favourite wall in ruins as I was . lie accordingly rebuilt it shortly after its first

    demolition , and fancied that the authorities would take no further notice of the matter . In this , however , he was disappointed . Proceedings against the luckless wall and its reverend proprietor were again instituted , and accordingly , on Wednesday last , a strong force of horae , foot , and constabulary , under the command of the resident magistrate , marched against the wall , and once more ' laid it in tho dust . ' But the indefatigable Mr Kenyon , nothing daunted , is again rebuilding it , and before this letter reaches the readers of the Stab , the ' third [ edition * of Father Kenyon ' s wall , will bo out before the public ! This is no joko—the wall is already re-erected .

    The . Commission still goes 'bravely on in the south , and additional victims have received the fatal fiat of the law . In the mean time , crime and outrage stalk unchecked over tho land , and the peasantry seem as heedless of consequences as if they never heard of law , or coercion , or special commissions . Blood still flows , and blood will flow , and must continue to flow , until a better security for life and property is provided , than starvation , martial laws , and ' hempen cravats , ' for the maddened refractory peasantry . ......

    . Iii the meantime , famine ia doing its own work of destruction . The southern papers record several inquests held during the past week , on persons who died of' actual starvation ' . ' These cases are becoming of every day occurrence ; pestilence , fever , and dysentery are Btrikingldewn thousands , nnd . the scenes of 1817 are setting in with renewed horrors—1848 will , indeed , be a terrific year in unfortunate Ireland , Alas ! alas ! is there no hope—no salvation for * fcTetched Ireland ? A most lamentable and determined suicide has been perpetrated in the gaol of Enniskillen on last Saturday , the 22 nd in&t . The unhappy victim was a Protestant clergyman named Moore , who was confined for debt in that prison . On the day named he out his throat from ear to ear with a razor .

    During the past week large parties of soldiers and police have been drafted inte the proclaimed districts of Munater , where they are engaged from morning till night scouring the country for fire-arms . However , up to this they have been signally unsuccessful , as they have captured only a few worthless thiags , which are of no value for any purpose . I said on more than one occasion , that the Tipperary Rockites were not such fools as to leave their fire-arms within reach of the ' informer , ' or peeler , ' I was right . They will Keep their arras and use them too , and laugh to derision the law and the gallows .

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    THE SPECIAL COMMISSION . The trial with which the court was occupied at Ecnison the 17 th was regarded as enaofthe most important of those that have been tried under the Commission . It was that of a man named Crowe , belonging to the better class of farmers , for procuring the murder of Mr Watson by hired assassins . The boy James Crowe , a nephew of the prisoner , detailed the particulars ef the horrible deed , and further stated , that Mr Watson bad distrained tbe cows of his uncle , and that he afterwards saw Ryan ( Puck ) and his uncle together , and on the latter saying it should be a dear job to Mr Watson , Puck looked at him and laughed . The witness Again underwent a very severe cross-examination by Mr O'Heabutalthough his admissions proved the

    pro-, , fligacy of this precocious youth , his testimoBy was not shaken . He stated he had a pistol in bis hand on the morning of the murder . He admitted that be had stolen it the night before , and that having procured some powder and shot from another boy , irho works in an adjacent quarry , he loaded it on the morning of the murder . For what purpose he was so prepared did not appear , but it may be surmised that the intended assassination was not unknown to liim , and that he actually went to the spot to witness , if not to aid it . He also admitted that for the last two years he had been addicted to card playing , a ' deck' ( pack ) of cards being held by

    himself and three other boys m coram&n , aud carried by each in turn ; and that to carry on his profligate practices he had frequently robbed hiB grandfather of money . Ilia brother , a little boy about twelve years of age , who , if possible , surpassed him in the sagacity which hia evidence indicated , stated that he lived at his uncle ' s , and tha night before the murder Ryan ( Puck ) and Ryan ( Small ) came there with & strange man , and the two former slept there that night . On the following morning he saw Ryan ( Puck ) take some bullets that were lying on a dresser in the kitchen and go to a cow-houao . and on his return , in tke prisoner ' s presence , he said , ' Oh , we have pat in good charges . '

    A man named Quinhnan stated that a short time before the murder he had lent Ryan ( Small ) Is . 6 d ., and thatsoen after it occurred he saw him with five £ 1 . notes in his possession . In answer to a question from the coord , however , he admitted that he was unable to read , and only believed them to be £ 1 . notes . But the most powerful evidence against the prisoner , so far as any reliance could be placed upon it , was his own admissions to a man named ShaughneBsy , who had been confined in ths same gaol . Shaughneiisy , who was in prison for petty larceny , stated that he was in gaol when the prisoner was taken there , and that a few days subsequently < o

    his arrival ; the prisoner entered into conversation with him , and after saying that he was taken on suspicion of having had something to do with Mr Watson ' s murder , told him some of the faots connected with the transaction . He told ShaughneBsy that Mr Watson had ' canted' hia cattle for rent , and that be ( the prisoner ) had ^ one to him and offered him a note for the money , but that Mr Wataon refused to take it or back it with his name , aad , continued he , ' 1 thought that neither God or mas could blame me far killing such a ruffian . ' The prisoner also told him that Hayes had desired him to be out of tae way at the time , and to go to some place where he might have witnesses to speak to his

    presence . Mr O'Hea made a vwy powerful address to the jury , grounding the prisoner ' s defence on the suspicious character of the evidence , and its indirect , ness against him , even if it could be relied upon . A boy named Kruso , a servant of the prisoner , swere that no one but the family slept at the house the nizht before tbe murder , and that he had never eeen there Ryan ( Pack ) or Ryan ( Small ) . He waa cross examined by the Attorney-General , and

    hesitated much ib some of his answers . The little boy Crewe was called up and confronted with him . The boy was again asked if any one slept at his uncle ' s the night before the murder , and again swore that Ryan ( Puck ) and Ryan ( Small ) were there . 'It ' a faiao , ' exclaimed Kruse . * It ' s true , ' immediately rejoined the boy . The Lord Chief Justice asked the bay where Ryan ( Puck ) slept , and how he knew it . His answer was , he was sleeping with Wilkinson and Kruse , and that he felt Ryan ( Puck ) coming into ^ bed in the night .

    Mary KeUy . aservaauftUe prisoner , and sister to James Kelly , who is charged as an accessory to the murder , also awore that no strangers slept at Crowe ' s house the night before the murder . On her cross-examination by the Solicitor-General , she persisted in saying that ahe never aaw Ryan ( Puck ) in her life until he was taken prisoner , and that she had never seen either him or Ryan ( Small ) at her master ' s . The younger Crowe was confronted with her , and he still adhered to his former statement . He added chat the girl had made breakfast for the men on the morning the murder was committed . What did the breakfast consist of , asked Mr O'Hba ?—Of bread and butter and tea , was the boy's answer .

    • Oh , ' Baid the girl , ' on my oath I never made a cup of tea in the house in my life . His statement ' s false , my Lord . ' ' It is not , ' said he . Mr O'Hba asked him how the tea was made , and whether there was even a kettle in the house , but the boy could not tell . Several questions were put to him bv » tbe jury . There was an evident doubt on their part of the truth ef his evidence . Mr O'Hba made some observation as the boy left the table , and he , turniug sharply round , looked at him with a most significaut expression , and said ; « Oh , you'll catch no cranny in me , ' meaning that he would not be found tripping in his evidence .

    Mary Crowe , the daughter of the unhappy man , a very neatly dressed and good-looking girl , gave similar testimony to the witnesses Kruso and Mary Kelly . She had never Been either of the Ryans at her father ' s . The broken stock of the gun with whieh the unfortunate victim was struck was produced in court > and upon it there appeared to be still remaining sonis traces of hiB blood . The Btock was identified by the elder boy Crowe , as part of a gun belonging to Kelly , the prisoner ' s servant . Crowe said , he found it on

    the ground where Mr Wataon was lying , and that he immediately picked it up and hid it . lie told Kelly he had got it , and it was jthen concealed in some other place . He believed that Kelly did not know that he ( Crowe ) was aware of its being hia gun , for Kelly said when he told him he had hid the stock that he must take care of it , for an owner would most likely be found for it . It afterwards was delivered to the police by the priest of the parish , but it did not appear from whom he had received it . After a brief but very able reply from the Solicitok-Gbnerai ,,

    The Lord Caipp Babon most elaborately and carefully summed up the evidence , and explained the law relating to the charge against the prisoner . The jury then retired , and after a few minutes ' absence returned with a verdict of Guilty . The prisoner , who throughout the trial had shown the ^ moat nervous anxiety , wa « overcome by the fatal announcement . The first case tried under tho adjourned comtnis aiqnat Limerick , on Thursday , was that of James Skehan . a very young man , for the murder of Mr Ralph Hill , at Ratherd , near Limerick , on the ISth of November last ,

    The prisoner was a farm servant , in the employ of a farmer named Quan , who was tenant to Mr David Fitzgerald . Quan became in arrear of rent , and a distress was made by the landlord upon his lands . Mr Hill went out with bailiffs to secure and carry away-the- goads , and upon this occasion was fired at together with tbe bailiffs . He was himself shot dead , and two of the bailiffs were seriously wounded . Evidence was produced whioh established most clearly that the prisoner was a principal in this transaction , if not the individual who fired the fatal shot . The ; jury , after a few moments' consideration , found the prisoner guilty of ' aiding and assisting ' in- 'the murder . On Saturday , James Qiiaine waa placed in tho dock charged with having been accessory to the perpetrationof . tho murder .

    The enly additional particle of evidence to that given on the trial of Skehan , was the fact that the prisoner had borrowed on the night before the murder a single-barrelled gun from a person named M'Namara , and that on the day after the murder was committed , he told him that unfortunately Mr Hill wasshot—that what was done could not be undone , and that he had concealed the gun in a pigstye neat tho haggard , whence tho shots were fired . It was also proved thai the gun was found by the police in the very spot where the prisoner said he had concealed it .

    Tho jury , without retiring , found the prisoner guilty . The wretched man , who had betrayed throughout his trial symptoms of the greatest fear , and hadbeen

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    moat restlessly attentive to the whole of the proceedingB , was theu remanded to tho gaol for the purpose of being broaght up again after a short interval to have sentence pasted upon him . The two men , John and Thomas FrewiUj Wll 9 pleaded ' guilty' to . tfre charge of harbouring , with , their brother , William Frewin , the notorious Ryaa ( Puck ) , were then placed in the dock . The Attorvet General said , he had read the affidavits made by the prisoners in extenuation of their euilti in which they ata > d they rrers ignorant of the law relating to the crime of which they had been convicted . The Lord-Lieutenant had done all in his power to make known the law upon the subject , but under the circumstances to which he had referred on the preceding evening , he would , ask their lord * ships to inflict such a measure of punishment ; , short of tranrportation , as their lordships should think fit

    The Lord Cihrf Justice then sentenced Thomas Frewin to imprisonment for six months from the date of hia oommittal ; John to imprisonment for twelve months ; the former being a shorter period from the circumstance of his returning home only a few hours before Ryan waa captured in tbe house . James Skeehan , James Quaine , and Michael Howard , were then placed in the dock , and the learned judges having put on their black caps , The Lord Chibp Baron proceeded to pass upoa them the sentence of the law . v ^

    The two former affirmed , their innocoTica in so many words . Howard on being asked whether ho had anything to say , Baid , I am innocent of this charge , and many in my country know that I am ; I am as innocent as the chiid unborn , many of my clergy know it , However , I have nothing to gain or loose by what I say . I forgive those wha perse cuted me . I did not kqow them , I could net identify any ef them on Friday : and if I eot ray liberation at this moment , I could not identify Honrigan ' s house , unless it was pointed out to me . The boy that stood there ( painting to tho table ) on Friday swore against me : he had my description learnt before I was arrosted . I have reason to believe it waa combined aeains t me . He knew there was a reward .

    He learnt I had moles on my face . That was the reason he waa able fo identify me . It was so plain to the world the minuta fee turned ronnd and said , 'he hadmolas on his cheek . ' Lafc anyeae give me a description of a man that he had moles or his cheek , and I would identify him . I hope , my lords , by your mercy , and tbe mercy of Almighty God , you will take my case into your serious consideration ^—for it deserves it . I am innocent , but I am satisfied to die . I am not afraid to appear before my God , for I never killed any man . I Jivfd ten miles from IIourigan ' 9 . I am as well pleased to die as anything else if it Ia the will of Almighty God to inspire your hearts with it . I shall have a better master thaa any master in this world , and I am not afraid to appear he ore Him , '

    Ob Fnday , the first case tried wan that of Michael Howard , a yount ; man , about thirty years of age , and rather welMookiiig , charged with the wilful murder of Johanna Honriean , at Ballycullun , on tbe 6 th of April , 1847 , by it flicting a can-shot wonnd on the side ; it was also charged that the fatal shot waa fired by some person unknown , the prisoner and others having been present , aiding and assisting in ; he murder ; anether count averred that Michael Howard , of Honeypark , bad shot at and mortally wounded Cornelius Houtigan . and that the prisoner and others were rresenr , aiding and assisting . The second Michaal Howard mentioned in th © indictment waa tried at the last summer assizes , convicted , and executed for the murder . A third man , said to have been ene of the party at the murder , has escaped to America .

    The AtwrnNBT-OBtfuKAi . detailed the facts of the case , He eaid it had been his duty , during the progress of the special commission , to detail the oircumstances of several barbarous murders ; but they were all exceeded in barbarity by the murder for which the prisoner waa arraigned . A mother and her gon were barbarously assassinated in their house , in the open day , and evidence would be produced to show that the prisoner at the bar was one of the three persons who committed that horrible outrage . Hourigan , the husband of the murdered weman , and the father ' ef the boy put to daath , had prose ^ - cnted some persons whe had attacked him , and beat lira so severely as to put hia life in danger ; and that circumstance was the only motive that could be attributed for the commfrsioH of the murder . After

    the presecntion , police were placed in Hourigan's honse for protection , but , unfortunately , they only remained there at night , leaving the house in the morning , and returning again in the evening . This faot being known to the perpetrators of the murder , they watched lha house until they Baw the police leave it on the morning of the Cth ef April last , when they entered , and shot the mother and son . For this offence , one man , another Michael Howard , had been convicted at the last assizes and executed ; the prisoner was now arraigned for it , and the jury would have to say whether he was not one of those guilty of this dreadful crime . The third of the party , a man named Roarke , and who was one of the persons prosecuted by Hourigan , had not yet been made amenable to the law .

    Heurigan , who had been thus deprived at one fell > Iow of his wife and son , proved that part of the horrible transaction of which he was a witness . The married daughter , a neatly dressed woman , said , that she was in the kitchen when the prisoner and three men entered . They asked for her father , and when they found he was not there one of them resented a gnn at my mother and fired . The poor woman fell across the fonder , and the men then struck her a blow on the head . They then found their way into the bedroom . She heard her posr brother call out , and then a shot was fired . She ran out of the house , but , the men leaving directly afterwards , she returned , and found her mother lying aotually on the fire with her clothes burning . She immediately dragged her off the fire , and at that time she waa alive , but she died within a few minutea . The daughter identified the Howards as two of the men who entered the house .

    A little girl , about 13 . another daughter of Hourignn , said she was in the cowhouse when the men came up . She saw them enter the house and immediately heard a shot . She ran thither , and the firsfc thiDg 9 he saw was her mother lying apparently dead . She described the dress of the party , bat was unable to identify them . Her description , however , corresponded with that which was given bv the ether witness . The poor girl cried bitterly as she gave her evidence . A boy , about 15 years of age , named Daniel Kellehan , s tated , that on the morning of tho murder he saw three men comin ? from the direction of his

    master ' s house which was near Hourigan ' s . They had crossed over into the road from a field ; and as they were going in the same direction as himself , when they came up to him they asked whether he knew them ? Fortunately , no doubt , for himself , he did not , and ho told them so . and they then passed on . The men had their faces blackened , but as they sweated a good deal they had wiped some of the blacking off . He was able to identify the prisoner by two mole 3 or warts on his face . The trousers of the men were wet at the time ; and it was proved by other witnesses that in making a short cut from Iloungan ' s they would have to pass through a little stream .

    Hourigan's brother said he was on the spot roon after the murder , and tho daughter then pointed onfc three men who were goiDg in the direction of the stream , as the men who had committed it . There was a difficulty in the evidence in this respeot . Kellehan stated , that he heard of the murder before the three men came up to him ; and he was told of it by a boy at the forge whioh he passed on his road ; and , that still further on , another boy had told him more of the particulars , but the forge wag ao located that to reach it from Uourigan ' a a perBon travelling by the usual road must describe too sides ot a triangle , whilst the three men were stated to hive mada a short cut over the stream and across the fields to the same point . The only way in which the difhoulty could be explained was bv refprrinu if

    to the rapidity with which rumours are conveyed . _ But there was another remarkable circumstance in the evidence . The murder was committed at 8 0 clock in the morning , and yet tho boy Kellehan swore that it must have been 10 when ' he saw the men , although the cut they took from Houriean ' s was not more than from three-quarters to a mile . These circuraatancea wore forcibly dwelt upon by Mr O'Hea in his defence of the prisoner . The Solicitor-General replied in a very a ble speech , directing the attention of the jury to the fact

    that Heungan himself had spoken positively as to the prisoner ' s being one of the three men by whom the murder was committed , and that he had ElVCU the same testimony on the trial of the other Howard Ihe Lord Chibp Baron , in summing up , said the only question which the jury had to determine wa « whether the prisoner was sufficiently identified a 4 one or the murderous assailants , for o ' f the circumstances connected with the murder itself there oould not be a moment ' s doubt . His Lordship then went through the evidence , commenting upon it at great

    The jury retired for a short time , and returned a verdict of Gmity , , The prisonaris the fifth who , under the commission for this county , has been found guilty 0 ? murder . Result of the Special Commission in Clare . — besides the capital convictions at Ennis , amounting to tour , the following convicts , sentenced to transportation for various periods , arrived in Limerick in the course ot the month from Clare , and on Fridav were safely loctefd in the convict derOt here- —Robbery of arms : Pat . Kenny , Michael Ilickey , Michael S kenhan John Leddy , John Slattery , U veawjaS Michael Murphy , 7 jears . Uiahwuy robbery : Dar , Callahan . J years : Owen Liddy , Timothy O'Brien 10 years Sheep stealing : Thomas Neville , 10 voara Patrick Gco ^ hosan James King , Matthew Hour * Ran , John Butler , William Dynan , Thomas Bourke llf ? rV ^ Re <* . 10 years . Cow-stealing ; Denil Boland , 10 years , Heifer-stealine : Michael Mul ' oueen . 10 years ; Michael Quillinaio 7 years Malicious assaalt : Thomas M'Enirnv , 7 yeare ,

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    Outrage is on the increase in the Queen ' s County . On this week a gentleman named Cansan of this city , who has some property in that county , received through the post a Rickite notice , stating that' Captain Starlight' and his men ape on the 'look out' for a shot at him , and that they will seek their victim even in the crowded oity ! It is dated from ' Fireiall lodge . ' The only eharge' against Mr Cassan is , his having threatened to dispossess some of his tenantry who owe him three years rent . The Korean Gatholie archbishops and bishops are to assemble again in this cityprevious to the meeting ef pariiameat oa \ h . i 3 rd 0 ? February . The Ram an Catholic Clergy of Ireland are dreadfully alarmed at the melancholy situation of the country , and the object of their again meeting , is to press upon government the absolute necessity of adopting gome effective plan , for the preservation of human life and the tranquilisation of society .

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    THE NORTHERN S . TAJ * . _ January 29 , 18 4 ^

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  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1455/page/6/