20 NOVEMBER 1847, Page 9

Thursday's accounts from Dublin report no fresh murder; but there

is an im- mense list of outrages, including an attempt to shoot a gentleman who was mis- taken for another—such are the accidents of rural life in Ireland. Dublin was uncommonly full; families of gentry flocking in from the provinces, to be out of gunshot.

A correspondent tells us, that for several successive nights after the murder at Strokestown, the hills around blazed with bonfires, within sight of the house where the widow and daughters of Major Mahon were watching his remains. And we are informed that the unfortunate ladies are deterred by threats of violence from venturing to cross the threshold of their door I