IRELAND.
The trees in the Parks were almost denuded, and their foliage marched to Inniskeen, on the borders of the county of Monaghan,
the purpose of gratunouely reaping the crops of their landlord, a popu- lar gentleman, whose estate lies in the vicinity of that town. They as- sembled on the public road opposite the house of the steward of the Reverend Mr. Gavan, Vicar of Wallstown (the valuation of whose tithes whilst standing led to such scenes of blood last spring); from whence they marched insa close body to the residence of the reverend gentleman, at the old castle of %Vallstown, with fifes playing, and the whole party shouting in chorus, " Down with the tithes ! down with the Ministera! down with the murderers !" A person, passing on the road, remonstrated with the party on their uproarious conduct ; and their reply was, " We are afraid the old fellow ( Mr. Gavan) is asleep, and we want to awaken him." They then marched on to Wall-town, still shouting as they passed, and heaping execrations on tithes, till they arrived at the corn-fields, where they set to work without further noise.
The tenants of Ballynagreena, who have been keeping the county Sheriff and Limerick Police in activity since June last, and who were on Tuesday week forcibly dispossessed, still declare that they will not submit to be ousted. iii favour of Kennedy, the tenant put in possession by the Sheriff. So serious is their opposition deemed, that Air. Thomas P. Yokes, Chief Magistrate, has ordered a division of Police from Bruff to assist in retaining possession of the premises and crops. The result of this contest is looked to with much interest by the Limerick landholders, as the determination to resist the payment of rent is pre- valent and gaining ground in that county.
On Friday last, after the rain, three hundred people in the interest of the Hallinagreena tenantry expelled by the Police, assembled on the
disputed lands, and commenced cutting down and carrying off the crop of a fine field of oats. Lieutenant Brady, Chief ( r)ristable, as soon as he was informed of this movement, marched his men in three divisions on the insurgent reapers, who, perceiving only one party of Police approach- ing, detached thirty of the workmen armed, to keep them in cheek. These advanced on the Police with loud shouts, calling on their friends who appeared on the surrounding hills to come down and assist in cut- ting off the little party, but these charged the reapers with unexpected spirit, fired on them, and dispersed them in all directions. Soon after the whole Police force joined, and scoured the country in all directions till six o'clock in the evening, when they took five men into custody, suspected of being active partisans of the expelled tenantry. They had cut and bound an acre and a half of oats, and run off with about half an acre of it, before the Police could come to the rescue. The Police, fearing an ambuscade if they returned to their quarters at Nicker, have been quartered by the chief constables Brady and Fitzpatrick in the four public-houses of the adjoining village of Kilteely, keeping patrols all night round the crops.— Times Correspondence.
A correspondent of the Times who writes from Limerick, gives the following account of what he terms " a bloud-money plot," which has just been discovered in diet city.
" A great sensation has been created in this city by fir, discoverydiscovery of an at- tempt to involve several of our respectable citizens in a charge of conspiracy to obtain the repeal of the Union by insurrectionary means. It appears that on Saturday last a member of our Political Union, Mr. James Clanchy, publican of John's Street, received a letter dated ' Hathkeale, August '28, ;1:141 signed ' P. Timmens' (an unknown correspondent), which contained several allusions that struck him as intended to imply that he was engaged in political affairs to a dangerous extent, and led him to consult with his friends, and with David Roche, Esq., M.P., by whose advice lie communicated the fact to Mr. Yokes, our Chief Magistrate of Police. The following arc extracts from the letter:—' However, I consider it nothing but the duty of every true-hearted Irishman to join heart and hand in pu_ting down such a damnable corrupted Government, that is trampling and tyrannizing on the rights of Catholics. I hope the rest of our friends will not neglect their duty in holding themselves in readiness at a moment's warning: let them be steady as well as determined." . . . ' What caused the Government to give up the tithes ? Nothing but real fear. You may rest assured the Union we will have on the same principles. Dare they refuse it? If they do, they may begin when they please: we are ready to meet them.' . Would the English Government be such fools as to oppose, with their trifling share of soldiers and few Police (scattered as they arc), such hosts as are ready to start at this moment, if called on ? Surely not. I am informed there is once and a half the number of arms in the country now there was eight or ten months back, and they are daily increasing. I hope it will be the same ease with you and your friends; for it is the duty ofevery man that can affind it:to procure as much as will protect him. Notwithstanding the treachery of the Government, their eye is shut on that plan. While they are asleep is the time for-you to work. Twelve or four teen months back we had double the number of arms that they had troops to encounter, which I will make you and .your friends sensible of at our next meeting in Limerick. 3Iy dear James, I hope you and the rest of your friends who have received my letters will meet and send me (as near as you can judge) a correct return of the number of men and arms in Limerick and its suburbs.'
" With this letter in his hand Mr. Clanchy waited on Mr. Vokes, and re- quested he would take prompt measures to discover the quarter from whence it came. Mr. Yokes promised his cooperation, and next nay (Sunday) informed Mr. Clanchy that he suspected a person named Daniel spiels, who had for some time past been endeavouring to get into the Police establishment. This person was arrested at eleven o'clock that night at his lodgings, and Matthew Barring- ton, Esq., Crown Solicitor, who was on his way to Dublin from the Cork assizes, promptly lent his assistance to sift the truth out of this singular affiLits Shiels on his examination admitted that the letter was in his handwriting, that it was dictated to him by a person named John M'Carthy, who had formerly been a achoolmast r, and that he had put it into the Limerick post-eflice on Saturday, together with similar letters for Mr. Walsh, of Sir Harry's Mall ; Mr. Daly, of the Black Boy Turnpike; and Mr. Halloran, of the North Strand ; that sub- sequently he bad, by M'Carthy's directions, called on Mr. Vokes, to say that agents were in town who were working up the insurrection in the country, and that if the houses of the parties named were searched, documents would be found which would substantiate all the information M'Carthy had been hitherto giving respecting a general conspiracy; that APCarthy had also told him, if the plot succeeded, u reward of 4001. would be divided between them. During the examination of Shiels, M'Carthy, who was loitering opposite the Police-office, was arrested. He denied, on examination, knowing any thing of the letter ; but would not say f& be knew any person of the name of limmeus, whose signature was attached to it.
"Mr. Yokes stated, that M'Carthy had frequently mentioned to him the names of the persons to whom the letters were directed, with several others of respectability, as individuals engaged in an armed and rebellious conspiracy.
In conclusion, Shiels and ATCarthy were committed for further examina- tion; and the depositions of Mr. Yokes, as well as of all the individuals to whom the letters were addressed, are being made out, to be forwarded to Government for advice respecting after-proceedings." .
A mendicant, charged with a robbery at Duncannon Fort, is described in the Waterford Chronicle, "a low-sized fellow, about thirty-five years of age, with large whiskers, a Cromwellian nose, and a saint-like cast of countenance."
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