minate and ascertain his object, discharged a pistol at Mr. H. Suspecting as it is conjectured, that their sanguinary purpose was unaccomplished, Mr. H. not having fallen, another immediatedly advanced, levelled closer, and fired a second shot, which passing through his body, he fell upon his face, exclaiming he was killed! and almost instantly expired. The Magistrates and inhabitants of Ballyshannon and that neighbourhood have taken up the business with the spirit and promptitude dre to public tran quillity, to the character of the deceased, and to themselves. A subscription reward for the discovery of the villains was at once set on foot, and was met with a liberal and zealous co-operation on the part of the gentlemen of the county Fermanagh, of which Mr. Hurst was a native. The following articles are taken from the Dublin Journal of Dec, 29th, where they appear under the head of provincial intelligence.

Cashel, Dec. 23.-This day, at noon, a most atrocious murder was committed on the body of Mr. Hardy, tithe proctor to the Rev. Mr. Pennefather, rector of Newport, in this county, by two men, at the gate of Monagee, in the BARONY OF MIDDLETHIRD, about one mile from this city, on the Camas road.

The particulars, as far as they could be collected, are as follows:-Mr. Hardy, on his return from Cashel to Newport, whither he had been on business, accompanied by two other proctors, was met by two men, supposed to be from Newport, who produced blunderbusses, ordered the two other proctors to return to Cashel, and detained Hardy. They then fired. three shots at Hardy and left him for dead. The surgeon and other persons came out directly from Cashel, and afforded every aid; but Mr. Hardy died in three hours. These murderers, it is supposed, must have been for some days past in Cashel, or its immediate vicinity, watching their victim, and waiting their opportunity.

Committed to Kilkenny county gaol, by Jos. Greene, Esq. Thomas Aylward, an old and frequent inhabitant of that prison, charged with having repeatedly threatened the lives of his parents.-By Earl Desart, Roger Ryan, charged with having committed various robberies.-By Michael Delany, Esq. Thomas Battersby, accused of pig-stealing.-By Hans Caulfield, clerk, and Robert Barron, Esq. Thomas Martin, Mat. Delany, Edmond Walsh, William Lannon, John Proctor, John Carrol, and John Dunn, charged with appearing in arms at night, and administering unlawful oaths. And, by William Kingsmill, Esq. John Hartery and Wm. Thornton, accused of stealing,the former money, and the latter geese. On the evening of Sunday se'nnight, a very violent and wanton attack was made on a carrier of the name of Hugh Bell, between Hilltown and Andrew Flinn's, on the Castlewellan road. Bell is a resident of Down

patrick, and is a well known and constant carrier between that town and Belfast; and from his punctuality and integrity, has been very frequently entrusted to carry money to a considerable amount, between the two places. He was sent to Dublin for three carts load of goods, and was so far on his road home, when he was waylaid by three ruffians, who being armed with bludgeons, battered him in a most shocking manner, and after tumbling him into a gripe, left him for dead. Bell is a remarkably little man, not being more than four feet eight inches high. He is very industrious, and has a wife and small family. What the ruffians' object could be, in mangling so helpless a little being, is matter of great surprise, as he never was known to be a party-man in his life, and not being in the habit of travelling often on that road, he was scarcely known.(Belfast Chronicle.)

On Friday, the 23d inst. between the hours of two and three o'clock in the morning, the dwelling-house of Henry Monnagh, of Drumgora, parish of Lurgan, county of Cavan, farmer, was broken open by four men-three entered, with their faces and hands blackened; one of them cut Monnagh's head with a small sword, and gave him a severe stab in the thigh. They robbed him of his pocket-book, in which were sixteen or seventeen pounds in bank notes, and a tin cannister in which were twentyfive guineas in gold. The fourth man remained as a watch at the door. They then got a prayer-book and swore the man, his wife and daughter, not to make any alarm, nor stir from the house, until after sun-rise,

Farther particulars concerning the murder of Hardy the tithe-proctor: The murder of Mr. Hardy is announced in the Clonmel paper as follows:-"We regret to state another of those diabolical out ages that have so long stigmatized us. The murder, on Thursday, about noon, of a Mr. Hardy, a tithe proctor of the Rev. John Pennefather of Newport, who appears to have been dogged from the neighbourhood of his residence, near the Silvermines, by two villains who, delayed the perpetration of their purpose until the unfortunate man, with his companion, arrived very near the spot at which Meany (the Archbishop of Cashel's man) was murdered. This was about noon, when one of the villains, immediately after coming up with (or meeting with) Hardy and his fellow-travellers, shot the former through the body with a pistol. Hardy lived long enough to state that the murderer was his neighbour, living in a remote end of the county, and, as it should seem, laying the scene of the tragedy purposely IN MIDDLETHIRD-for he had passed through two baronies, if not three, before he put his horrible purpose in execution." From the Clonmel Herald. We have just now received a letter, of which the following is an extract, from a gentleman whose situation in the

country, and whose regard to its interest, entitle any statement of his to consideration : —

"I beg leave to mention to you, that this part of THE BARONY OF Middlethird, (east of Fethard, and about twelve miles from Cashel) in which I live, is very far, indeed, from that state of tranquillity, to which it is generally supposed to have arrived. The following facts, which I think it my duty to communicate to you, leaving you, however, entirely at liberty to make what use you please of the communication, cannot be contradicted.

"On the night of Thursday the 15th inst. some ruffians armed and mounted, came to the village of Drangan, and left orders that the inhabitants of two houses should quit them before that day week, or prepare their coffins.

"On Sunday night, a party of six men, each well armed, came to the house of John Gleeson, a farmer, living on the lands of Moyne, and demanded arms, on the refusal of which, the poor man not having any, they burst into the house, and on finding, after close search, that Gleeson had not arms, they very barbarously beat him, his wife, and another woman; and, on the same night they attacked the house of a farmer, named Bagnall, on the lands of Kilkennybeg, from whow they took a gun."

Mullingar, Dec. 29.-We have received the subjoined documents from a most respectable and active magistrate of this county, to whom a number of the misguided peasantry alluded to, have surrendered their arms. They must afford pleasure to every well disposed member of the community-and we sincerely hope to see the laudable example they exhibit followed by others, until that infernal scheme so generally and systematically disseminated throughout this county, be completely eradicated:

"To Charles Kelly, Esq.

"Sir, The following is to inform you, that the persons, who, in the neighbourhood wherein the bearer hereof lives, had the misfortune to be pumbered among those denominated CARDERS, being now brought to a better sense of what they own both their God and their neighbour, and consequently being sorry for their past DEEDS, in token whereof, they have unanimously resolved to surrender the fire-arms that fell to their lot, as also their lives into your hands, hereby preferring you to other magistrates of the county, as a person whom they consider worthy of the coofidence they are about to repose in you.-They have heretofore, when I may say in a similar predicament, after their repentance, experienced you their protector, and hence they are now encouraged to have recourse

to you again, praying that you will grant them protections, seeing that they now too are sorry, and thereby earn for yourself the merited appellation of, father of your country.

"On conditions that you satisfy them in the manner herein specified, I mean by pledging your honour that they will be protected, appoint a place where the arms shall be dropt, and your orders shall be carefully obeyed.

"I have the honour to be your obedient servant, &c."

"Michael Murry,-You are required to go forthwith with the letter to which this is pinned to Mr. Kelly of Charleville, you'll know from him whether will he concede to the request begged of him; at all events you are commanded to leave an answer, to the letter addressed to this gentleman in Clonteen this night, the purport of it is almost as follows, the Carders in your neighbourhood being now sorry, are determined to surrender their arms to him, provided he promise them protections-go quickly."

We here, for want of room, close this catalogue of outrages for the present. We have reason to believe that we shall be able to continue it with increased regularity from the commencement of the present year. -The letter to Mr. Kelly is very curious. We derive some consolation for the deep-felt uneasiness which we have encountered in compiling this list of horrors, from the hope that the misguided multitude may see their errors, and leave off such practices as give to men the character of fiends. We could have enlarged the statement of outrages to a very considerable bulk, had we given an account of all the robberies, murders, and crimes of every description which disgraced Ireland, during the period to which our attention has been directed to them; but we have selected only those atrocities which exemplify the existence, or acknowledge the prevalence of what in Ireland is called a party-spirit, or what may be styled syste matic outrage. The wretched perpetrators of these crimes afford sufficient proof of the disturbed state of THE BARONY OF MIDDLETHIRD. Whilst they exhibit a frightful picture of the state of manners almost peculiar to the lower order of Irish Papists, and demonstrate the necessity for the peace-bill lately enacted, they shew that the blood-stained BARONY OF MIDDLETHIRD demanded the immediate exertion of those powers entrusted to the magistracy. That district has not been placed under the provisions of the act, by the caprice of the government, a wanton "dash of the minister's pen," to use Mr. Curran's strange expres

This order was attached to the letter, in the manner described, and given to Michael Murray, for the purposes therein mentioned,

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sion; -we venture to assert, that if the bill had not passed into a law, the government of Ireland had been guilty of most reprehensible inactivity, if they had not had recourse to extraordinary (yet legal) means of affording protection to his Majesty's liege subjects, living in or passing through the barony.

Whence arises all this barbarity? What is it that de-humanizes the Irish multitude? Is it the genius of Popery? Is it that "the spirit of superstition operates as a spirit of party?" However this may be, it is a fact that the states of the church, the territories of the Pope, at the present point of time, furnish many instances of murder and robbery. The following article appeared in the Courier, from which paper we copy it.

Naples, Nov. 21.-From Florence, as I wrote you word, we came to Rome; and surely nothing ever equalled the wretchedness and misery which prevailed throughout the Pope's dominions. You can have no idea of the difference between Tuscany and the Roman states: but the difference is still more marked between the latter and the kingdom of Na ples. In the Papal territories half the houses are deserted, the people in tags, and the roads so infested with robbers that there is no travelling without a strong escort. The first thing we saw upon entering them was a man hanging by the road side. He had robbed and murdered a man about ten days before. The day before we passed, fifteen men were apprehended; and one of the sbirrî very calmly told me, that as they had how forty-five robbers in prison, they should begin executing them every Friday and Saturday. The day on which we arrived at Rome, five men, who had got drunk the night before, underwent the punishment of dislocation of their shoulders. In the Corso there is an enormous gibbet, with a rope run through a pulley at the top of it: this is for the purpose of inflicting the punishment of dislocation. Those who undergo it never have afterwards the perfect use of their arms.

"If any man be caught in the act of working on a Sunday or holiday, he is shut up in the castle of St. Angelo for a week. All the women of the town have been confined there for the last three weeks, to the number of three thousand.

It is generally supposed that some disturbances will break out ere long at Rome. Great emigrations have taken place from thence, and still greater from Naples upon the mere idea of Ferdinand's return. King Joachim, on the contrary, has given permission to all those to return who choose to come over from Sicily, and accordingly a great many have availed themselves of his permission.

"The roads through the Pope's dominions as far as the Neapolitan ter