29 DECEMBER 1838, Page 6

The Newry populace made- an attempt last Thursday to stop

the pur- chase of potatoes for exportation. One latex was arrested as ring- leader, and committed to Downpatrich to Mite his trial at the Assizes. The Magistrates have wisely and humanely warned the inhabitants to avoid such illegal courses.—Ifister A Special Commission is to he sent into Tipperary, to try the persons charged with the recent murders in that county. Two of Lord Charleville's servants fought a duel on the 4th instant. The pistols were loaded with blank cartridges by the seconds. The parties having fired, left the ground without being reconciled. The quarrel originated about a young female in the neighbourhood.—Trish Paper.

The gunmakers of Belfast have presented Mr. Emerson Tennent, one of the Members for that town, with an elegant fowling-piece of their own manufacture, in testimony of their sense of the services he ren- dered to their trade by the amendments he introduced in the Arms Bill for Ireland, last session of Parliament.—Globe.