The Castlewellan Bench of Magistrates have refused, by 6 votes
to 5, to take informations offered by the Crown lawyer against several of the Orangemen con- cerned in the Dolly's Brae affair of the 12th of July. The ship Minerva, Captain Hovenden master, has been blown up, on her voyage from Sydney to Portland Bay, with 200 barrels of gunpowder on board: she took fire on the 26th March, and was immediately deserted by her crew and about fifteen minutes later the explosion took place, and the decks were blown aloft in , triseisworgartili of Ofe€thigh. The bre* hall sciiitete any'firod, and some of it was found to be poisonous: they reached Port Phillip after a week's sailing
on a rough sea, which constantly threatened to- swamp their boat. The-fire is Supposed to have been spontaneous. We go to press without any news of the Hibernia, the mail-steamer which was to have left Boston on the 29th of August, and was nominally due at Liverpool on Wednesday the 12th instant, but according to the usual rate of sailing was virtually due on Monday. Fears are now entertained for her safety ; but some accident to the machinery may have hindered her.
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