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family located on the lands of Ballinacarriga, and Conway, 
a stout able man, their farm-servant. The indictment was 
prepared, and the line of prosecution arranged by Mr. 
Barrington, Crown solicitor, and Mr. Bennett, Q.C., 
conducted the trial. The clothes of Mr. Dawson were 
produced by a policeman, and the marks of blood were 
yet visible, the perforation of a bullet, and parts of the 
dress evidently burnt from powder. When the case for 
the Crown had nearly closed, one of the jurors became 
sick on the second day, and a medical gentleman deposed 
that to remain in court would endanger his life. At this 
advanced stage of the proceedings, the judge and lawyers 
agreed there was no alternative but to discharge the jury 
altogether and recommence the whole trial. The court 
‘sat again on the third day; the long panel was again called 
‘Over, and a new jury sworn to try the two prisoners, who 
Were again arraigned for the same murder, and pleaded 
not guilty. The prosecution for the Crown only concluded 
on Friday evening at six o’clock, when Mr. Coppinger 
opened the case for the defence, and at nine o’clock the 
court adjourned. On Saturday the case concluded, and 
the jury were locked up, but they could not agree. Ata 
late hour of the night, the judge, finding it impossible to 
expect a verdict from them, and also that they were suffer- 
ing from their confinement without his having the power 
to order them refreshments, consented at their urgent 
Tequest, to discharge them. The prisoners, however, will 
e kept in custody and be tried before a third jury. 
Mallow.—A meeting was held in this town on the 15th 
‘to consider the announcement of Mr. O’Connell’s arrest, 
the Rev. Mr. Collins in the chair. About ten thousand 
persons are said to have been present. The following 
uti were i ly agree :— That the 
right to petition is the common birth-right of every 
British subject—a right co-existent with the security of 
the throne and the integrity of the British constitution g 
and that we are firmly determined to exercise this right in 
Petitioning for the Repeal of the Act ofthe Union.” “That 
inthe present crisis, we will cheerfully submit to the counsels 
of our beloved Liberator, Daniel O’Connell, in whose 
integrity and wisdom we place the most unbounded confi- 
dence.” Counsellor O’Hea being then called for, spoke 
ay their enemies in the wrong by keeping the law; 
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moral, peaceable, religious, temperate 
would soon be legislating for themselves. 
broke up, giving three cheers for the 
amekn for Mr. O’Connell, three for Repeal, 
ree for the Protestant Counsellor O’ Hea. 
SCOTLAND, 
i —The musical. festival in this city, for 
- ich great preparations had been made, began on Tuesday 
but it went off well, although there was app: 
deficiency of strength in the department of solo-singers 
The principal singers were Miss Birch, Mrs, Stag sad 
Mr. Phillips, who were very favourably received. ’ The 
Programme of the performances was arranged by Sir 
le novelty, it 
arently a 
Given to Sir H. Bishop, and was numerousl attende 
At the performance in the evening the Duke de bites 
honoured the company with his presence, and was received 
with every mark of respect. His Royal Highness ye. 
mained until the conclusion of the programme, and was 
almost the first to rise when our national anthem is heard 
a paves “ Jubilee” overture. 
+ rth—The local papers state that the Jan. 
Trinity College to be Bete on the estate of Cte 
*out eight miles north-west of Perth, have been finally 
’pProved of, and that the buildings will be commenced in 
fens The plan is in the English collegiate style of 
b x itecture, and is designed by Mr. Henderson, The 
Ui. dings when completed will form a spacious quad- 
» with a bell-tower and chapel separate, The west 
aaa 8 to contain the entrance gate and residences for the 
the re S8ub-wardens, and tutors; the north is to contain 
libr Class-rooms and dormitory ; and the east the hall and 
Bice: the south front is to be an ‘Open cloister, Tt is 
meee to execute only the portion of the building 
theoloa” for opening the school department, and the 
fo pebice Dart of the institution will not be in operation 
ihe Ome time, ‘The college will contain about 250 bo 
he aa to reside within the building, as at Eton, and to 
tS Ie ewise educated as in that college. The building is 
Brent aqnsttucted of a fine durable stone which is found in 
Ch abundance on the property. 
thine foe e lately noticed the departure of several 
eee ities this port and Greenock on a. secret expedition 
cei and in the African seas, where by an accidental 
‘i anumense beds of superior Guano have been 
who fe ich are supposed likely to confer fortunes on all 
the Ga, be successful in discovering them. We learn by 
eipercs enock Advertiser that the discovery is due to the 
in) an American ship which had been trading 
7) On the coast of Africa, in the autumn of 
* On his return to Boston he happened: to. see in 
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one of the papers an account of the character and pro- 
perties of Guano as a manure, and the high price it was 
bringing at every market where its uses were known. Th 
description of the article reminded him of immense masses 
of a particular looking matter he had seen while ashore 
on that island, and accordingly he published a short ac- 
count of his observations on the subject in an American 
Journal, About eighteen months ago a copy of that 
Journal fell into the hands of the master of a Liverpool 
vessel, then about to sail from that port for St. Helena 
for a cargo of captured negroes for the West Indies. The 
captain resolved on his way to pay a visit to the said 
island, which he accordingly accomplished, and procured 
Samples of the Guano, which were forwarded forthwith 
from St. Helena to his father, a merchant in Liverpool. 
No time was lost in fitting out two ships for the island, 
under secret instructions. One of them succeeded in dis- 
covering the island, and got a full cargo of excellent 
Guano, which was lately discharged at Liverpool ; but the 
other ship could not find it, and returned empty. The 
Services of the captain of the successful ship have been 
Secured by a Glasgow house, and four vessels have already 
sailed from the Clyde, with sealed instructions for the 
island. The captain states that he personally travelled 
over great beds of Guano, in some places fifteen feet deep, 
and that there is apparently as much as will serve the 
present generation for all agricultural purposes. 
Cromarty.—On Saturday additional constables were 
Sworn in, anda second meeting of the county gentlemen 
was held, attended by the Lord-Lieutenant, the Convener, 
Sheriffs, &c. Immediately after the meeting broke up, 
the authorities proceeded to Resolis with a body of 
troops, for the purpose of introducing the minister of that 
parish to his pastoral charge and manse. The soldiers 
remained behind at the ferry-house, about two miles from 
the church, and the Sheriff accompanied the minister. 
About sixty persons were present, and no opposition was 
offered. In the afternoon three more rioters were appre- 
hended at Jemimaville, and lodged in Dingwald gaol. 
The principal ringleaders are, it is said, still at large, 
Some of them having left the district. 
Greenock.—A firm at Greenock have recently erected 
large and commodious premises close to their mills, in 
which the whole manual labour of wetting the flour, 
brakeing and chaffing the dough, and forming the biscuits, 
is superseded by machinery, driven by a shaft from the 
mills. The machines in operation are, a large revolving 
pan, wherein the flour is mixed with water into dough, 
which is carried to a table where there are two rollers, 
between which it is drawn backward and forward till it 
comes to the proper consistency. These rollers, which 
are raised and lowered by a screw, bring the dough to 
the requisite thickness prior to its removal to a patent 
machine for cutting it into the biscuit form. After going 
through this process, the biscuits are put into the ovens, 
and are finally removed to the oven heads, which are 
covered with iron kiln plates, for the purpose of being 
thoroughly dried. The quantity of biscuits manufactured 
daily is about three tons ; the number of workmen is 10.— 
On Wednesday evening, during the height of the storm, as 
the British Queen steamer was at the tail of the bank, on 
her passage across from Greenock to Helensburgh, it was 
found that she was making so much water as to render a 
continuance of the voyage dangerous, and she was imme- 
diately put about for Greenock harbour. All the passen- 
gers and crew were landed in safety, and in a moment or 
two the vessel sunk. The cause of the accident is sup- 
posed to have been her striking against a small rock, 
THEATRICALS. 
Drury-Lane.—On Wednesday night, an English 
version of Donizetti’s opera of “La Favorite’? was pro- 
duced at this theatre with complete success, to which the 
admirable manner in which it was placed upon the stage 
in no small degree contributed. The subject of this Opera 
is taken from Spanish history. Leonora de Gusman was 
the ‘‘favourite’’ mistress of Alfonso the Eleventh, King 
of Castile and Arragon, who, to 
on the feelings and sympathies of the audience. The 
music indicates, in many places, a change for the better 
in Donizetti’s style. It was very efficiently sung, and the 
opera was better acted than is usually thé case with mu- 
sical dramas on an English stage. The principal charac- 
ters were sustained by Mr. Templeton, Miss Romer, and 
Mr, Leftler, who were called before the curtain at the close 
and very warmly received. An incidental ballet was intro- 
duced in the second act, which was worthy of the Italian 
Opera-house. It included a pas de trois by Malle. Galby, 
Miss C. Webster, and Madame Giubilei ; a Spanish casta- 
net dance by Madame Petit Stephan and M. Coralli; and 
a pas de deux by Carlotta Grisi and Petipa-—all of which 
were both applauded and encored, so that the ballet was 
actually danced twice over. 
Grieve) was extremely interestii 
the monastery and cloisters by moonlight, was of sur= 
passing beauty. ‘A new farce, in one act, by Mr. Morton, 
called “ My Wife’s Come,” afterwards kept the house in 
SMiscellaneous. 
Rebecca in 1727.—It appears from Seyer’s “ Memoirs 
of Bristol’’ that, about the latter end of February, 1726-7, 
a petition was sent to Parliament complaining of the bad- 
ness of the roads about that city, and praying relief, 
and provision for keeping them in good repair. In conse- 
quence of this an Act of Parliament, 13th Geo. I., 1727, 
was obtained, and turnpikes ,were first erected there about 
Midsummer, and tolls collected for many days. But the 
country people showed a violent hostility to the measure, 
and great disturbances ensued, and the gates were soon 
cut down and demolished, chiefly by the colliers, who 
would not suffer coal to be brought there ; whereupon the 
Mayor had the city supplied from Swansea, which, when 
the colliers perceived; they brought their coals as usual. 
Soldiers assisted at the gates to take the toll, but the next 
night, after the soldiers were withdrawn, the gates were all 
cut down a second time, by persons disguised in women's 
apparel and high-crowned hats. i 
Antiquities of Ceylon.—A discovery of great historical 
importance was lately made by a gentleman at Manaar. 
In digging under the foundation of a very old house, some 
Roman bricks of a flat form were found, and, in sifting 
the rubbish, a gold ring, marked ANN. PLOC. (our types 
cannot imitate the exact characters), turned up, of ancient 
manufacture, quite plain, and of a shape similar to those 
in the British Museum, which are said to have been worn 
by Roman knights. Now, we know from Pliny that the 
farmer of the duties in the Red Sea, Annius Plocanius, 
was carried by a storm to the coast of Ceylon in the year 
50 B.c.; he was of the equestrian order, and there seems 
little reason to doubt of the ring having belonged to him. 
It is much time-worn, or rather injured by the effects of 
damp and corrosion.—Ceylon Herald, July 4. 
Indian Mission.—When the last packet left New 
York for Liverpool, a deputation of chiefs and warriors 
from one of the tribes of Indians located on the lands at 
the head of Lake Superior was in that city on their way 
to the Court of Queen Victoria, to lay before their Royal 
mistress certain grievances under which their people are 
labouring. The following account of them is from the 
New York Inquirer :—'‘ These veritable and rugged sons 
of the forest, with the wives of their two principal chiefs, 
come fully equipped and appointed with all the parapher- 
nalia of war, hunting, travelling wigwam, &c. The 
venerable patriarch at the head of the deputation is nearly 
seventy years of age, being the oldest warrior of his 
tribe, and having fought upon the frontiers during the 
war between Great Britain and the United States, both 
his warriors and himself have enjoyed the highest favour 
and confidence of the British Government. A difference 
having existed for some time between the Chippewas and 
the Upper Canadians, those warriors have been delegated 
to lay their grievances before the Queen in person. Their 
locality is at the head of Lake Superior, the most remote 
and isolated of any of the tribes of American Indians. It 
was a party of this tribe that accompanied Captain Back 
in part of his celebrated expedition to the North Pole in 
search of his friend Captain Ross. Having never lived 
near the shore of the lake, every object connected with 
civilization is a matter of great curiosity to them. Their 
interpreter says that their astonishment upon beholding a 
steam-boat for the first time was unbounded; and that in 
descending the locks of the Erie canal they went through 
a variety of heathen ceremonials to propitiate the Evil 
Spirit, who they firmly believed had an agency in causing 
the waters to sink or rise over hills and valleys. What 
their wonder will be in witnessing the scenes of a play, or 
the wonderful exploits of the circus-riders, remaing to be 
