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     then the work began in earnest. The stew- 
     
     ards counted 1,700 reapers and 800 binders en- 
     
     gaged in the frolic; amongst the latter were 
     
     farmers and their wives and daughters who 
     
     had never worked a day for themselves. One 
     
     of the greatest and busiest personages in the 
     
     field was Cummins, the Ballyhale bag-piper, a 
     
     band in himself. Under his inspiring influence 
     
     (and some barrels of Smithwick’s anti-tithe beer, 
     
     the forty acres of wheat were neatly cut, bound, 
     
     and stacked in 80 minutes! after which he 
     
     was borne round the field in triumph, kissed 
     
     Mrs. Hunt, and finally played “ Patrick's Day,’ 
     
     crowned “in honour and glory" on the top of 
     
     the last stack. While Mr. Hunt invited about 
     
     sixty of his friends, who acted as stewards, to 
     
     dine with him at Jerpoint, the Carrickshaugh 
     
     boys invited the rest to cut down the wheat of 
     
     Mr. Conway. of Ballyhale, now ripe also. About 
     
     700 reapers volunteered, and by the time Mr. 
     
     Conwa returned home from Mr. Hunt’s dinner 
     
     part , e found all his wheat cut, bound, and 
     
     stac ed! 
     
    

    
     “ The boys” were further anxious to know 
     
     if their friend Mr. Smithwick of Kilkenny, had 
     
     an wheat ripe, declaring they would go forty 
     
     miles to cut it for nothing, and that they would 
     
     drink no beer but his during the harvest. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Yesterday there was a numerous meeting‘ of 
     
     the friends ofthe liberty of the press, at the 
     
     Corn Exchange. “ to arrange measures to de- 
     
     feat the attempt of the Attorney General to set 
     
     aside trial by jury in cases of alleged libel, 
     
     under the new term of contempt of court.” 
     
     The chair was taken by Stephen Egan, Esq. of 
     
     Roscrea, and animated appeals were made to 
     
     the public in favour of Messrs. Brown and Shee. 
     
     han, proprietors of the Comet, who had been 
     
     selected by the Attorney General as the first 
     
     victims of the law according to his etposition, 
     
     and had consequently been lined 501. each last 
     
     Tuesday, by Judges Burton and Vanllelenr. in 
     
     their Court of Commission. Messrs. Lafl'an, 
     
     Walsh, Redmond, Marcus and Patrick Costello, 
     
     and William O’Reilly, Spoke strongly in sup- 
     
     port of the good policy of establishing a fund 
     
     todefeat this arbitrary attempt to place the 
     
     freedom of the press at the merCy of the Attor- 
     
     ney General, and to employ it in procuring 
     
     thebest assistance to appeal to the Court of 
     
     King’s Bench and the Exchequer against the 
     
     fine. A subscription was instantly entered in- 
     
     to, which amounted to about 2001. The Na- 
     
     tional Trades' Union is to meet on Tuesday, 
     
     for the same purpose; it is calculated that 
     
     amongst its 5,000 members another 1001. will 
     
     be raised. The musical and theatrical ama- 
     
     teurs of the city have also announced their in- 
     
     tention of getting up a concert carnival in the 
     
     course of the week, for the purpose of augment- 
     
     ing the fund for the defence of the press. 
     
    

    
     In fact. agreat feeling in favor of the Comet 
     
     has been created by its appeal to the citizens 
     
     in yesterday’s publication, in which it declares 
     
     its motive for the very strong and apparently 
     
     uncalled-for address to the jurymen who might 
     
     have to act on the tithe-trials (and in which it 
     
     reminded them of the omnipotence of public 
     
     opinion) to be the necessity of Counteracting 
     
     the exertions of the Attorney-General to pro- 
     
     cure “ packed” juries; for the Right Hon. 
     
     Gentleman had, for some days previous to the 
     
     trials about to take place at the late commission, 
     
     been seen walking arm and arm with Mr. Ni. 
     
     cholas Murray Mansfield, the former notorious 
     
     Under Sheritfof the city of Dublin, who had 
     
     been convicted (under a Parliamentary inquiry 
     
     in Lord Wellesley’s time) of the most corrupt 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     practices. in packingjuries for the Orange and 
     
     corporate interests. 
     
    

    
     This hint turned the tide of public opinion at 
     
     once against M r. Blackburne, and subscrip- 
     
     tions poured in rapidly. Last night, Mr. N. M. 
     
     Mansfield published a disclaimer in the Evening 
     
     Packet of the fact asserted in the Comet, that 
     
     he was seen walking with the Attorney-Gene- 
     
     ral. This. however is not believed-especially 
     
     as the Attorney General himself has not con- 
     
     trad icted the statement. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The following- method for extracting a blue 
     
     colour for dying from buck-wheat straw, is from 
     
     a late London periodical: 
     
    

    
     ‘The straw should be gathered before the 
     
     grain is quite dry, and placed on the ground 
     
     to the sun, until it becomes sufficiently dry to 
     
     be taken from the husks with facility. The 
     
     wheat having been removed, the straw is to be 
     
     piled up, moistened and left to ferment till it 
     
     is in a state of decomposition, when it will be- 
     
     come of a blue colour, this indicates the pe - 
     
     riod when it should be gathered, and formed 
     
     into cakes, which are to be dried in the sun, 
     
     or in a stove. On these cakes being boiled in 
     
     water, the water assumes a strong blue colour, 
     
     which will not change either in vinegar or in sul- 
     
     phuric acid. it may however be turned into red 
     
     with alkali, into a light black with bruised gall 
     
     nuts, and into a beautiful green by evaporation. 
     
     Stuffs died blue with the solution. which is to 
     
     be used in the same way as the vegetable mat- 
     
     ters of a similar species employed in dying, be- 
     
     come ofabeautiful and durable color. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jllode of securing timber/ram decay —Timber 
     
     for buildings, especially for ships, bridges, ca- 
     
     nals, granaries, and stables, may be effectually 
     
     preserved from decay and particularly from the 
     
     rat, by repeatedly impregnating the wood with 
     
     a solution of common salt and green copperas. 
     
     This simple process is attended with such de- 
     
     cided advantage, that wood thus prepared will 
     
     remain for ages, perfectly sound. 
     
    

    
     An instance of this fact occarred in the thea- 
     
     tre at Copenhagen, where the lower part of 
     
     the planks andjoists formerly required to be 
     
     replaced in a few years, til Mr. Volmeister, 
     
     an architect of that city, discovered and em- 
     
     ployed the process above stated. Twelve 
     
     years after, the wood,on removing one of the 
     
     boards, was found in such a state of preserva- 
     
     tion that he could not observe the least appear- 
     
     ance of decay—English Publication. 
     
    

    
     Wood impregnated with alum, salt or cop- 
     
    

    
     eras is also rendered in a great degree 
     
     mcombustible as wellas incorru table. When 
     
     thus prepared it may be charre or consumed 
     
     b intense heat, but can scacely he made to 
     
     b aze, and ofcourse would not readily commu- 
     
     nicate fire to other objects in its vicinity. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gallant Daughter—Sir John Cochrane, who 
     
     was engaged in Argyle’s rebellion against 
     
     James the Second, was taken prisoner, after a 
     
     desperate resistance, and condemned to be 
     
     hanged. His daughter, having notice that the 
     
     death-warrant was expected from London, 
     
     attired herself in men’s clothes, and twice 
     
     attacked and robbed the mails between Bel- 
     
     for and Berwick. The execution was b this 
     
     means dela ed, till Sir John Cochrane’s ather, 
     
     the Bar] 0 Dundonald, succeeded in making 
     
     interest with father Peter, a Jesuit, King 
     
     Jame’s Confessor, who, for the sum of five thou- 
     
     sand pounds interceded with his royal master, 
     
     in favor of Sir John Cochrane, and procured 
     
     his pardon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When Lord Erskine made his debut at the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     bar, his agitation almost overcame him“? 
     
     wasjust gomg to sit down. ‘At that m ’ 
     
     said he, ‘ I thought I felt my little c. 0 
     
     tugging at my gown, and the idea V." 
     
     me to an exertion of which I did not " 
     
     myselfcapable. “' 
     
     Legal Pam—As several gentleman of 
     
     bar were a few days since in conversst 
     
     one ofthem, under favor of the wind, recei 
     
     a portion of his neighbour’s saliva upon, 
     
     summer coat. ‘ Mr R—‘, said the sulfur. 
     
     ‘if this is the way you treat other erso 
     
     habits you cannot expect to rate as a gent eman 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Truth—If a man be sincere] wedde ‘ 
     
     truth, he must make u his min to find he 
     
     a portionless virgin; an he must take her for 
     
     herselfalone. The contract, too, must be to 
     
     love, cherish, and obey her, not only mite - 
     
     death, but beyond it; for this is a union that 3 v 
     
     must survive not only death, but time, the cop- ' 
     
     queror of death. The adorer oftruth, therefore i ‘j' 
     
     is above all present things—firm in the midst of " 
     
     temptation, and frank in the midst of treaohe- 
     
     ry, he will he attacked by those who have, 
     
     preiudices simply because he is without them f?" 
     
     descried as a bad bargain by all who want i 
     
     purchase. because he alone is notto be be" 
     
     and abused by all parties, because he is; 
     
     advocate of none, like the dolphin wbkll is 
     
     ways painted more crooked than a ram’s ho ‘~ 
     
     although every naturalist knows that it is tilt 
     
     straightest fish that swims.—Lacon. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     What is Law Like .?—-Law is like a countr 
     
     dance, people are led up and down in it ,1 
     
     they are fairly tired out. Law is like a bt i, 
     
     of surgery—there are a great many teri ‘ 
     
     cases in it. It is like physio too, the  
     
     take the least of it are best off. it is ik "' 
     
     homely entleman, very well to follow '1. 
     
     Law is like a new fashion, people are bewitcb- 
     
     ed to get into it; ‘ and like bad weather,’ most 
     
     people are glad to get out ofit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Honeya Cure for the Gravet.—A number  
     
     years ago, says a correspondent, I was It .1 
     
     afflicted with the gravel, and twice in se”  
     
     danger, from small stones lodged in the pas-.1 
     
     sage. I met with agentleman who had been i, 
     
     in my situation, and got rid of this disorder by , 
     
     sweetening his tea with half honey and half ‘ 
     
     sugar. I adopted this remedy and found it 
     
     efi'ectual. After being fully clear of my dis. . 
     
     ease about ten years, I declined taking hone i 
     
     and in about three months lhad aviolent t i 
     
     of my old complaint. I then renewed my l 
     
     practice of taking honey in m tea, and 
     
     now more than three score, an have not r 
     
     the last twenty-seven years, had the smallest 
     
     symptoms of the gravel. I have recommended 1‘ 
     
     my prescription to many of my acquaintance, 3 
     
     and ave never known it to fail.-—Politieal E2- 3 
     
     aminer. 1'- ~'r ~' 
     
    
   
   
    
     (From the Dublm Comet. August ‘26.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     u THE LAW/1ND THE PROFITS”.  
     
     Blackbourne is still Attorney-General. Upwardspf . . ii} 
     
     70,0001. have been voted for Government prosecutions  
     
    
   
   
    
     Ireland this year. being l5,0001. more than has been rec ' ; 
     
     quired since the days of his great pretotype. Saurin, and ' '1 
     
     10,0001. more than Saul-in ever required. The Attorney- .. ’ 
     
     General is paid his enormous fees whether he succeeds 
     
     or fail in a prosecution. But it is not consideied credits- 
     
     table to be defeated, ergo the painstaking to select a . 
     
     “ proper" jury and train evidence. For instance, he,_ 
     
     will get share of this 70,0001. for prosecuting us next I 
     
     November, although we ought to defeat him. But we 
     
     believe the men to he “ right honourable" and ill-“Ir