More than 1,200 attachments were this clay r onday] issued
from the Court of Chancery against persons in arrears for tithes which are now the property of the Crown ; and it is said to be the fixed determi- nation of the Government to enforce their payment at all events.— .Dublin Evening Mail. The Dublin Evening Mail says that the chief property of Mrs. Mau- rice O'Connell consists of—tithes. This is a curious coincidence, "any way."
In consequence of private information, Joseph Greene, Esq., Magis- trate, proceeded at a late hour on Wednesday night to Bagenalstown, a distance of eleven miles from Kilkenny ; where, with the assistance of a party of police, he succeeded in arresting two persons, one of whom has been fully identified as one of the murderers of the late Mr. Richard Marum.—Kilhenny Moderator.
A quarrel took place on Monday sennight, near Kilconnell, between some of the country-people and the police, on the return of the former from Ballinasloe Fair. One of the countrymen having seized a police- man's gun, and severely wounded him in the arm, the policeman's companion run the countryman through the body. He died instantly.
A conflict took place on Monday last in the county Tyrone, between a police party under the command of a man named Duff and some of the country-people; in which two of the latter were shot dead.—Nezory Examiner.
Martin Commons, Esq., of Oran, and a boatman, were drowned on Saturday sennight, while on a party of pleasure, in consequence of a squall upsetting the boat. The sheet—or, as the Galway Free Press calls it, the " mainsail-rope"—was entangled. It is difficult to pity people who so ignorantly rush on their fate as the greater part of those drowned by boat accidents do.
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