S.MUGGLING. — On Tuesday evening last week, Lieutenant Shaw and Mr. Smithers,
accompanied by the officers of the coast guard, proceeded on board a brig, from New Brunswick, which was lying at the Coal Company's Quay, Limerick, and commenced an active search. In the Captain's cabin, there were found concealed under the lazarett„56Ibs. of manufactured tobacco, called Negro Head ; they also found in the steward's birth, 581bs. ; at the back of the companion ladder, 235lbs. ; under the forecastle, 2561bs.; in the forecastle and among the cargo, 1341bs.—all of the same manufacture as that found in the Captain's cabin. There were also two boxes of Havannah cigars discovered con- cealed under part of the timber with which the brig was laden. BATTLE WITH POACHERS.—The Durham Advertiser mentions a fatal affray with poachers as having occurred in that neighbourhood. !' On Friday sennight, a number of poachers having shown themselves in the vicinity of the moor called Stanhope-hope, in Weardale, they were cautioned against shooting there by Fenwick, principal gamekeeper to the Bishop of Durham [Dr. Van Alildert of course has more than one], and they agreed to withdraw. No sooner, however, had Fenwick entered upon the moor, than the poachers made their appearance, and the consequence was a quarrel, and subsequently a fight. Fenwick de- fended himself gallantly against a superior force, until overpowered by numbers ; when he was knocked down and held upon the ground by his assailants. Some of the watchers and other assistants soon came to his relief; and while one of the latter, named William Holmes, who had mastered one of the poachers, was kneeling over him, another poacher, named John Price, came behind, and with a dreadful blow with the but-end of his gun, literally smashed in the back part of Holmes's skull. Price, in his turn, was severely wounded by a watcher, and taken into custody. The unfortunate man Holmes died while undergoing the operation of trepanning." [ St. Peter had, we believe, a net; we are not sure that he had not a boat,—at any rate he had part of one ; and it is probable that he kept a lad or two to help him in drawing his net : but we do not read of any of his assistants being I killed in attempting to exclude his neighbours from the fishing-grow:C(1 where he was in the habit of casting it.]
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