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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The most interesting news of the day is still from Ireland ; but it is of rather a novel kind. The Times has a letter, written from Dublin at a late hour on Thursday evening, which announces a seizure of arms by the Police. Inspector Connor received information that induced him to watch the arrival of one of the regular steamers from Liverpool on that day. He boarded the vessel, and found on deck a puncheon marked "empty," directed to the care of a paper-stainer in Dublin. A man who seemed to mistake him for a person belonging to the steamer, asked how the puncheon could best be landed ? Mr. Connor seized both the man and the suspicious goods. The "empty" cask proved to contain 12 muskets, 6 pistols, 12 swords, several handcuffs and kneebolts, and 12 formidable pikes. The man said that his name was David Wilson ; that he was the owner of a vessel ; and that he had only taken charge of the puncheon for another person. The affair was to be investigated by the Magistrates on the following day.
Mr. Waller, whose house at Finnoe was so ferociously attacked, is dead. He seemed to be recovering ; but the bad symptoms suddenly recurred, and he expired on Wednesday morning. The shock to Mrs. Waller was so severe that her life also is said to be in danger. Mr. Waller leaves a daughter and two sons. Both the sons are barristers ; and one of them acted as Assessor in Dublin at the memorable election of 1841.
The country shoat Nenagh and Shinrone is said to be in a state of social anarchy. One of four men who were beaten on a property of Lord Bloomfield's, at Moneygall, was dying ; incendiarism was of nightly occurrence ; the house of a Protestant in poor circumstances had been razed ; the peaceable inhabitants were in a state of constant alarm, and those who could afford it were leaving the place ; adding to the long list of " absentees."
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