1827.] 



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at the entrance, and in a short time the 

 fcgcame a total wreck, and all on board 

 shed. 5 widows and 18 children are left to 

 the disastrous event that has deprived 

 of their natural protectors, who were all 

 n of excellent character. 



A public meeting, in aid of the Sunday School 

 Society for Ireland, was recently held at Falmonth, 

 when the secretary for England attended, and gave 

 information respecting the operations of the So- 

 ciety, by which it appears that 1,900 schools, con- 

 taining 157,000 children and adults, are receiving 

 education, assisted by 14,000 gratuitous teachers, 



Died.] At Flushing, 71, Mrs. Kcmpthorne. - 

 At Penzance, 68, H. Bouse, esq. At Truro, 80, 

 Mrs. Snowden. At Constantine, 86, Mrs. Harris. 



WALES. 



The Literary Society at Buthin have presented 

 Mr. Parry a silver medal, for an original air, com- 

 posed agreeably to the modulations of the ancient 

 British music ; and the Carmarthen Cymrcigyd- 

 dion Society have advertised premiums for the best 

 Welsh poems, on the " Winter Season," and on 

 " Thunder;" to be sent to the society before the 1st 

 of December next. 



At a meeting of the inhabitants of Milford and 

 Hakin, it was unanimously resolved to petition 

 Parliament against the contemplated removal of 

 the post-office steam-packets from their present 

 station off Milford to Hobbs' Point, situated five 

 miles higher up the haven, whereby the country 

 would be put to an enormous expense in making 

 roads over the mountainous, swampy, and almost 

 uninhabited parts of Carmarthen and Pembroke, 

 for an experiment which must eventually fail. 



A large Devon bull, fed and bred by W. R. H. 

 Powell, esq,, of Maesgwynne, Carmarthenshire, 

 was lately slaughtered, and sold in the neighbour- 

 hood of Llanboidy. It weighed 72 score 121b.; 

 tallow 161b., hide 13lb., fat on the ribs three 

 inches, and was fed with nothing but hay and 

 Swedish turnips during the last winter. 



At the Radnor assizes, Mr. Justice Nolan con- 

 gratulated the grand jury on the progress in build- 

 ing a new court of justice. Seven prisoners only 

 were for trial; one was recorded for death, one 

 imprisoned, two acquitted, and against the three 

 others no bills were found. At Denbigh assizes^ 

 one prisoner was recorded for death, two were 

 transported, and ten imprisoned ; four of whom 

 were poachers. 



Died.] At Swansea, 79, Captain J. Dalton. 

 At Cwrneynn (Carmarthen) 98. J. Thomas, one of 

 the Society of Friends. At Cardiff, 78, Alderman 

 Morgan. At Tenby, Henrietta, wife of Sir Wil- 

 liam Strickland, bavt. At Aberystvvith, 98, Mr. 

 J. Evans. At Llanbadurn-i'awr, Rev. B. Mor- 

 gan, perpetual curate of St. Michael's, Aberyst- 

 with; he was 75, and had performed the duties of 

 minister at that place upwards of 40 years ; he had 

 likewise been a vicar of Llanychairon, Cardigan, 

 for many years. 



SCOTLAND. 



Business of every description still continues in a 

 state of extraordinary depression. Several of the 

 cotton works, it is feared, will be reduced to half 

 time, unless the wages paid for spinning are ma- 

 terially lowered. Stocks are rapidly accumulating, 

 and there is no prospect of an early market or 

 better prices. The weavers are in a state of 

 dreadful destitution. They are eking out a most 

 wretched existence by incessant toil, and have not 

 now a single ray of hope that their condition will 



soon be bettered. The state of the industrious 

 classes is well calculated to excite alarm. The 

 distress, if possible, is increased. Men, who were 

 long out of work, and expected to be employed in 

 spring, cannot get a situation of any kind. The 

 distribution of provisions, by the Relief Commit- 

 tee, having almost ceased, has thrown the depen- 

 dants en that fund into the general mass of misery. 

 It is allowed on all hands that retail business has 

 been gradually worse since the beginning of the 

 year, and may be said to have reached its lowest 

 ebb. The shop-keepers and spirit-dealers, parti- 

 cularly in the suburbs, never felt such times 

 many of them are ruined by the poverty of their 

 customers, and consequent bad debts. 300 indi- 

 viduals are now on board two vessels in the Clyde, 

 waiting for a fair wind to sail for America. 



Married.] At Edinburgh, Sir Thomas Wol- 

 laston White, bart., to Miss M. Ramsay. 



Died.] At Edinburgh, whither he had gone from 

 Durham to consult physicians, 65, the Rev. Dr. C. 

 H. Hall, Dean of Durham. 



IRELAND. 



The Catholics in Ireland are signing petitions to 

 convene a general meeting for again bringing their 

 claims before Parliament during the present ses- 

 sion, soon after the recess. 



The calendar of .prisoners for trial at the assizes 

 for the county of Tipperary, enumerates not less 

 than 365 prisoners, 85 of whom are for murder ; 

 and the state of the county is dreadful. During the 

 assizes, an armed party of ruffians set tire to the 

 house of a man named Tierney, near Cashel, and ( 

 on his attempting to escape, the assassins shot 

 him dead. Another party set fire to the house of 

 John Mannin, near Ballybough (apparently from 

 motives of revenge), when his wife perished in the 

 flames. At the above assizes the principal in the 

 horrible murder of the Sheas was found guilty, and 

 ordered for execution ; and five of the murderers 

 of Mr. J. Barry were sentenced to be hanged at 

 the place where they committed the murder. 



Our readers will recollect that the burning of the 

 Sheas was committed on the 19th of November 

 1821, at Tubber ; and that for a length of time, 

 such was the enormity of the crime, such the se- 

 crecy that attended and followed its commission, 

 that a general belief prevailed that the deaths 

 were the result of accident. However, all doubt 

 soon ceased, and a full and particular account was 

 soon made public. When the house was attacked 

 by an armed banditti, there were 27 inmates ; it 

 was set fire to, and every human being in it perish- 

 ed ! Escape was prevented, and, for fear the fire 

 should not do its duty, a constant firing of shot 

 was kept up, and several bodies appeared to have 

 been pierced by the shots. 



The Emigration Committee, in their recent re- 

 port, observe that no advantage can be expected 

 "from any system of emigration which does not 

 primarily apply to Ireland, whose population, un- 

 less some outlet be opened to them, must shortly 

 fill up every vacuum created in England or in 

 Scotland, and reduce the labouring classes to a 

 uniform state of degradation and misery! !" 



Married] At Dublin. Sir Robert Gore Booth, 

 bart., to the Hon. Caroline King, second daugh- 

 ter to Viscount Lorton. At Darralick, near 

 Enniskillen. Mr. J. Campbell, 80, to Miss M. 

 Magnire, 18. 



Died] At Beechmount, Tipperary, S3, John 

 Godfrey, deputy-lieutenant, and the oldest magis- 

 trate in the county. 



