In the King's Bench Chamber, Dublin, on Saturday, Mr. O'Con-
' nell moved that the five prisoners confined in the gaol of Tullarnore, accused of the homicide of Hogan, (the assistant of the notorious Phill. Ryan, at Dunkerrim) be admitted to bail, and discharged from custody. He moved on the ground that the parties had been committed on informations of the Police, sworn before the Magistrates, which went no further than stating that they were amongst a very consider- able crowd of persons assembled on the occasion when the homicide occurred. The Corm ordered the prisoners to be admitted to bail, themselves in securities of 201. each, and two sureties of 101. respec- tively, to be forthcoming to abide their trials.
On Saturday last, Commissioners, appointed by the Court of Ex- chequer, proceeded to take the answers of three-and-thirty defendants
in a tithe suit, instituted by the Reverend Josiah Crampton against the occupier of land in the parish of Killinagariff, in the liberties of Limerick, in the presence of the plaintiff's and defendant's attornies. Each answer appears to contain about twenty skins of parchment ; and, in due form of law, were delivered by the Commissioners to a special messenger, who proceeded by the mail to Dublin, to hand them over to the proper officer of the Court. Now commences the reverend par- son's second step in this Exchequer suit ; and, as he may have a wish to get a peep at those answers, we understand be will have to transmit just 150/. to Dublin to take out the copies.—Limerick Star.
Patrick Dwyer, a fine young man, with a wife and family, imprisoned in Dublin for tithes due to the Reverend Mr. Coote, u clergyman of Kildare, died a few days ago, partly from the effects of the gaol at- mosphere, but principally from heart-sickness. The poor fellow pined away in grief at his separation front his wife and family. A funeral procession accompanied his corpse from Dublin to Kildare. The Dub- lin Weekly Register says- " At every quarter of a mile's distance new accessions poured in. Within about two miles of Naas, cars, gigs, and horsemen in va mothers were in waiting; the Reverend Mr. Tierney, parish-priest of Caraigh, and the Reverend Mr. Ilasket, curate of Naas, heading the patty. The crowd; of men' women, and children assembled, was so great as to oblige the horses to walk at the slowest pace. The rain was pouring in torrents, but the sympathy felt on the occasion was too great to allow any occurrence to interfere with it. Stopping one hour in Naas the melancholy party started for Kildare : on reachicg the turnpike, the lie profundis was solemnly repeated, and the procession was left to the care of the men of Kildare. At half-past six the town was reached. It was perfectly dark, but every house and cabin on the road bad candles in the windows to light the party on their way. here the Reverend Mr. Breunan, sot rounded by his anxious flock, u ai in waiting • and the body was taken out of the hearse and brought into the chapel ; and ;he congregation of the chutch whose services are not polluted by the exaction of tithes, was at the moment at which our information was penned praying for the soul of the departed victim. The sacrifice of the mass was to have been offered up at half-past seven this morning; after which the deceased is to be conveyed to Maryborough."
The Dublin Mail of Friday gives a long account of an attempt to set fire to the glebe-house of Cloone, in the county of Leitrim, and to as- sassinate the Reverend A. Hogg. It is stated that it broke out on Sunday night, and that whilst Mr. Hogg was endeavouring to release his horses and cows he was fired at by some assassins who were con- cealed by the smoke. He then ventured to cross a deep river which flows near the glebe, to obtain the assistance of his nearest neighbour; when he was again fired at, and two balls struck the water near him. Mr. Hogg has been for several years curate of Cloone. One man, it is stated, is in custody.
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