In consequence of the to the public peace, the the
Lord-Lieutenant, and at the suggestion of our local authorities, sent down Mr. Seed, belonging to the Crown Solicitor's office, for gm purpose of bringing forward for trial such cases of riot and as.sault as, on investigation, appeared proper for public prosecution, at be expense of the county. Complete success has attended such pro- ceedings. Upwards qf two hundred cases, connected with riot andjas-
sault, appeared upon the Crown books at the Quarter-sessions, Jost
concluded at Barns-in-Ossory and Maryborough. The mostse- rious were prosecuted by the Crown ; and sixty-seven have been fond
guilty, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, &c.—Leiana- Express. [We thought that the Coercion Bill had restored tranquillity to Ireland. Vide the Ministerial Book of Wonders, and Whig Din- ner Speeches, passim.]
A most extraordinary scene has just taken place in the Corporation of Dublin. The Common Council of that body held a meeting'. on
Mondaylast, for the purpose of voting an address to Colonel Blacker, expressive of their approbation of his conduct, and pronouncing their censure upon the Government for removing him from the Magis- tracy. The party upon whom the duty devolved of proposing, so
marked a resolution, was the same individual who opposed the ,ad- dress to the Marquis of Wellesley on his reappointment to the
Viceroyalty. Meanwhile, the Court of Aldermen dissenting alto- gether from the proceedings of the Lower House, the Lord Mayor endeavoured to act as a mediator between them, with the view of bringing about an amicable arrangement. His interposition, how-
ever, proved quite useless ; for the Commons were stubbornly ob- stinate, and the Aldermen determinately intractable. While a violent " collision " thus took place between the two branches of the Civic Legislature, and, neither being disposed to give way to the other, the Chief Magistrate proceeded to the Commons for the purpose of dissolving the meeting ; but three or four of them put their backs to the door and sturdily kept him out. In this state of things, both he and the Court of Aldermen remained up all night ; and the Sheriffs, espousing the cause of the Commons, declared they would bold watch and ward with them to the last. The vigils of both parties continued down to about two o'clock yesterday; when the Lord Mayor, contriving to get access within the door of the Lower House, declared the Assembly dissolved, and then retired to the Mansionbouse. The Commons, however, at once pronounced this declaration to be contrary to law, and refusing to submit to it, have, up io the present moment, treated it with con- tumacious defiance, still keeping their ground under the official sanction of one of the Sheriffs. . . . . . The fact is, they wish to continue sitting from time to time, so long as the investigation into their affairs is going on by the Government Commissioners ; but the Lord Mayor, and a majority of the Aldermen, are apprehensive that their deliberations may prove embarrassing and inconvenient, and are therefore anxious to put tin end to them.—Dublin Correspondent of the Herald, November 13.
A General Court-martial was opened last Monday in Dublin, to try Ensign Stirling, of the 64th Regiinent, for wilful and corrupt peijury committed by him on the trial of Lieutenant Ewing, of the same regi- ment, in the month of August last. At the trial in question Ensign Stirling swore that he had never etated to any person that he had given Lieutenant F.,.ving ten pounds in an exchange of horses ; but three gentlemen swore that he had given that account of the transaction to them. The affitir was highly discreditable to both the officers. The Judge-Advocate said, that Ensign Stirling was highly connected ; and up to the period of this transaction, had borne a good character ; but still that the Court must discharireits duty. The sentence will not•be known until it has been sanctioned by the king. Lieutenant Ewing had been previously tried and acquitted, on the charge of having stated what was firlse in connexion with this transaction. [Military horse-jobbers seem to be on a par with their eivilivn brethren of the same trade.] A:mischievous outrage was committed hi Dromonaire, in the county of Leitriin, on Thursday, the 31st ult. It appears that a meeting was convened there on that day, by Mr. Daniel Stewart, a gentleman sent from England by Mr. George Lane Fox, for the purpose of improving the condition of his tenantry. After a number of the most respectable tenantry had met at the Lodge of Dromonaire, a body of persons, three hundred and upwards, armed with guns, pistols, pitchfoiks, and other weapons, headed by influential persons totally unconnected with the estate, and almost a11 from this county, went for the pur- pose of i»timidating and preventing the meeting. They took pos- session of all the gates and avenues leading to the house ; knocked at the door; wanted, and repeatedly, with the utmost violence, attempted, to force it ; and demanded that Mr. Stewart should be given up`to them. Had their demands been complied with, we are assured there can be no doubt his life would have been endangered. This lawless mob remained in possession of the premises for nearly three hours; but, owing to the fear that some force might arrive, after firing severa shots, they dispersed.—Sligo Journal.
Last week, two private soldiers were punished by flagellation at the Castle Barracks, Galway, under sentence of court-martial. One re- ceived two hundred lashes, and the other two hundred and fifty. One of the drummers fainted during the process.
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