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nerally dined in company with a 

 countryman, with whom he iiad 

 contracted an intimacy of friend- 

 ship. On the 2 1st of July, Mr. 

 Lyell failed to return to dinner at 

 the usual hour, and his friend 

 waited in vain his coming honie 

 during the whole of that night. 

 Next morning he communicated 

 the absence of Mr. L. to Mr. 

 Vaughan, who caused diligent in- 

 quiry to be made for him. In 

 the course of the inquiry it trans- 

 spired that an Englishman found 

 murdered in the Retiro had been 

 taken to the hospital to be owned : 

 at this place he was recognized 

 by his friend, who, on examining 

 the body, found on it seven dis- 

 tinct stabs, given by some trian- 

 gular instrument such a,s a bayo- 

 net or a tuck which is generally 

 carried in a cane or stick. On 

 application of Mr. Vaughan, the 

 Spanish government made every 

 endeavour through the means of 

 the police to trace the assassins, 

 and the cause of the murder, but as 

 far as is yet known without effect, 

 Mr. Lyell, when found, had on 

 liim Spanish money to the amount 

 of about 301., which he had re- 

 ceived from Mr. Vaughan on the 

 day previous. One account says, 

 that he is supposed to have igno- 

 rantly entered a walk frequented 

 by bad characters, and was, per- 

 haps, suspected to have been a 

 spy among them. He is said to 

 have been a man of singularly 

 mild and quiet manners, the last 

 man to plunge into a riot or dis- 

 turbance. He was formerly in 

 the family of Lord Cathcart. 



12. Naples.— On the 7th inst. 

 at four o'clock in the afternoon, 

 a violent shock, which made all 



the environs of Vesuvius tremble, 

 announced a new eruption of that 

 terrible volcano. Some moments 

 after, torrents of flames began to 

 descend from the summit of the 

 mountain, one of which flowed 

 towards le Mauro, and the other 

 toAvards les Camaldules, following 

 the traces of former currents of 

 lava. Happily the eruption ceased 

 on the approach of night, without 

 having done any damfige. 



13. KiLkeniiij. — After having 

 had so frequently to express our 

 satisfaction on account of the 

 tranquil state of this county, it 

 is with great concern we have to 

 state, that a band or bands of 

 ruflfians disturbed its peace on 

 different sides of the city, while 

 Baron M'Clelland, one of the 

 judges of assize, was yet within 

 its walls. On Friday night last, 

 at eleven o'clock, a number of 

 fellows broke into the houses of 

 John Doran and James Murphy, 

 of Bonnetarath, in the south li- 

 berties of the city of Kilkenny, 

 tenants to Mr. William Jacob, 

 and having violently assaulted 

 them, swore them to give up the 

 farms they occupied, which they 

 lately took from that gentleman, 

 immediately. Unless there were 

 different gangs, and we are un- 

 willing to suppose it, this party 

 must have crossed the river at 

 one of the city bridges, as about 

 12 o'clock, a party of armed men 

 demanded arms at the house of 

 the late Mr. FenneUy, at Hig- 

 ginstown, about two miles to the 

 northward of this city. The Rev. 

 Mr. Forrestal, P. P. of Callan, 

 who happened to be in the house, 

 got out of bed, and remonstrated 

 with them from a window. Some 



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