A singular statement appears in the Drogheda Journal of Saturday,
expressing the surprise of the inhabitants of Colton and its vicinity
during the last week, at a proclamation which was posted through the
county of Louth, and issued by the Irish Government, offering a re- ward of 50/. for information as to a " large party of men who attacked
several houses near Collon, in the county of Louth, and beat and threatened their inhabitants." The editor declares that all was :24e usual perfectly tranquil in Collon and its vicinity; no such outrage had taken place near that village ; and that ac occurrence of the kind bad come before the Magistrates who meet in Petty Session' at Collon, to whom of course the Police would have reported it had any outrage suds as that stated in the proclamation taken place. " The proclamation (continues the editor, with a laudable attention to number one, which often leads to very useful exposés,) thought liberally advertised in the
Government newspapers which are published in Dublin, was not sent
to our paper, published within six miles of the site of the supposed occurrence." * " One thing at least is clear from the offen- sive blunder—that M hattever may be the back-door source from which the Governineut derives its information, it does not proceed flow tizt: resident magistrates of the courity."— Times Correspondent.
In the county of Cork, outrages are assuming u party character, esaaa more to be regretted than the spirit of combination in which they coin. menced sonielew weeks since, when the tradesmen of the city took up the cudgels against their fellow-citizens who refused to join in their il. legal proceedings.
The Londonderry Sentinel has a frightful list of party outrages. It says—" Last week we had to state that several Protestants were way- laid and inhumanly beaten. It is now evident that this practice has become a regular system. No person is safe who ventures even jute the suburbs of this city after dark. It would appear that ruffians are hired for the purpose, provided with huge leaded bludgeons ; and that they are stationed in various parts of the city in wait for their victims,. whom they follow to convenient places, and then fall on with savage barbarity."
The Irish papers of the 19th instant contain no fewer than nine Go- vernment proclamations, offering rewards from M. to 1110/., for the detection of the perpetrators of assaults, murders, and robberies, in tha counties of Illayo, Louth, Armagh, Down, Kildare, and Tipperary.
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