IRELAND.
O'Connell's plans are said to be thus arranged. He will have a dozen Repealers, according to his opponents' accounts ; from twenty to thirty, according to his own. Each of these gentlemen will be taken bound to obey the wag of the Liberator's finger. They will attend every night, and all night long. They will every one of them have as many petitions as they please, and they will contrive in presenting them to take up the entire time devoted to petitioning. Every one of them will have, fifty motions, on which all the band will speak, and an equal number of amendments, to be as pertinaciously supported, to every motion of everybody else. They thus calculate upon being able without difficulty so to petition and amend, that neither Whig nor Tory, Conservative nor Radical, shall be able to speak one speech, or to do one act of real business, from the beginning of the session to the end. The Ministry will thus be worried, the Opposition wearied to death ; the people will become impatient ; and all parties will at lebgth conjoin in dissolving a Union which is productive of equal an- noyance to all. We see little to hinder them from carrying this scheme into effect, except their expulsion en masse. Perhaps it will end in that.
Mr.. Moore declines the honour proffered him by the electors of . Limerick; Wyse will, it is said, be driven from Waterford ; Lord Brabazon from Dublin ; Lord Duncannun from Kilkenny; and Mr. Jephson from Mallow, for refusing to take the Repeal. test. Captain Burke has been admitted to bail, himself in 1,0001. and two securities in 5001. each. This is in the face of a committal for wilful
murder, ppt Captain Berke is a gentleman . . • • . •.
Mr. Layette, of the Freeman's Journal, has been held to buil by the Crown for copying O'Connell's first letter to the English Reformers from the Trite Sun.
Baron Smith's house, at Newtown, King's County, was attacked on the 19th ult. by a number of armed persons. Every pane in the front of the house was broken. One stone, of immense size, which entered ft bed-room window, struck the bed, and was near killing a female ser- vant sleeping there. Several shots were fired. Some of the pieces were charged with large shot only, which lodged in and about the hall- door. One bullet (supposed from a rifle) penetrated a very strong hall- door, leaving a hole in it, and lodged in folding doors which separated the outer from the inner hall. A second bullet passed through the window-shutters of the dining parlour, struck the opposite wall, and was found on the floor. Those within were repeatedly summoned by loed knocks to open the door; but the summons was not obeyed, and the door was too strong to be forced.—Evening Packet.
On Thursday night, a large armed party surrounded and set fire to the house of a man named Maddoeks, within eight miles of the town of Wex- ford. There were in the house Maddocks, his wife, a son and daughter grown up, and two children, together with two policemen, who had been placed there for protection, it ha ving been burned before in August last. The alleged cause was Maddoeks's having taken tonic ground over a former occupant. Of the two policemen, who first rushed out, one named Wright was shot dead ; the other escaped. The mother and daughter were shot through the heart. The son, who still lives, but almost hopeless, was shot through the breast and shoulder-joint, and left for dead; and the father was likewise left senseless and for dead, most barbarously mangled in the head ; his case is hopeless. The children escaped, whether by accident or not is not known.—Dublin Evening Mail of Saturday. Accounts have reached town this day of a very serious affray having taken place last evening in the neighbourhood of Dunmanway, between the police and the people. It is stated that an attempt had been made to raise the tithe off one of the adjoining parishes, which was resisted by the parishioners ; that the police fired upon and killed two, wounding five or six ; and that the people, in return, shot two of the police and wounded several.—Cork Southern Reporter.
A pedlar named Thomas Wade was murdered on the evening of the • 22d, on the public road near Ballincolla. The pedlar's throat was cut, and .50/. in notes, all bearing the indorsement " Thomas Wade," were .„ taken from his person. The parties that committed the murder are said to be a man and a woman, whose persons are known.
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