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     Flinn, who swore he’d “cleara car road 
     
     before him.” They were found about five 
     
     hours afterwards drinking in a second pub- 
     
     lican’s, at Fir-house, about a mile from the 
     
     field ofwheat, by two of the Templeogue 
     
     Police, who turned them out and sent 
     
     them about their business. The bailiffs 
     
     were then " somewhat the worse for 
     
     d ink,” and excessively abusive, 
     
     treatening to “ shoot the first man who’d 
     
     come before them.” They all appeared 
     
     armed, and so dangerously inclined, that 
     
     the two policemen did not think it safe to 
     
     attempt to arrest them, and went their own 
     
     way. While yet the bailiffs were loud in 
     
     their expressions against the police, they 
     
     passed a house where some people were 
     
     collected at the wake of a woman, named 
     
     Lvons, and from which the son of the dc- 
     
     ceased,and a young man named Patrick 
     
     Reilly, were attracted by the noise.—The 
     
     latter, on hearing the threats of the Bailiffs 
     
     endeavoured to get out of their way by 
     
     jumping over a wall into a field ; but Nix- 
     
     on repeating his threat, levelled, tircd, and 
     
     wounded him severely in the right side, 
     
     arm, and head, calling to his cpmrades the 
     
     instant after, “ By I’ve one of them 
     
     down ! where’s your pistols P—fire ! fire !” 
     
     They did not fire, however, but proceeded 
     
     to the field from whence they came. Lyons 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     afterwards took some of the slugs out of 
     
    
   
   
    
     'Reilly’s side, but was unable to extract 
     
     those lodged in the arm, which was ex- 
     
     amined by Dr. Birkett, ofTallaght, in the 
     
     morning. He also forbore to attempt to ex- 
     
     tract them till the inflamation should subside. 
     
     This wound is_more serious than that in th 
     
     head, for the slugs, after entering through 
     
     F the side of Reilly,s hat, only glanced al0ng 
     
     the skull, and escaped through the crown 
     
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     The three bailiffs were brought prisoners 
     
     to the Head Police-office. Nixon has been 
     
     fully committed to take his trial at the 
     
     next Commission for the County of Dublin, 
     
     [97th Oct.] and the injured party bound 
     
     over to prosecute, but the Magistrates did 
     
     not think it necessary to detain Flinn and 
     
     Bryan, who have returned to their duty. 
     
    

    
     The bailifl‘s stated that they had been 
     
     first assaulted, and severely hurt by stones 
     
     thrown at them. The magistrates 
     
     having the fact of Reilly’s being wounded, 
     
     would not go into any defence. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Shaw attended the investigation, 
     
     and stated that his object in doing so Was 
     
     to learn the true state af the case, which 
     
     had been variously reported to him. He 
     
     had not the most remote idea ofprotecting 
     
     any persons he was forced to the employ- 
     
     :‘nent of, in any illegal or outrageous con- 
     
    

    
     act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Journal of Commerce of this morning 
     
     publishes several letters from Buenos Ayrcs, 
     
     the last of which is dated August 4th, written 
     
     by the Rev. William Torre , an American, 
     
     who u "go pastor of a litt echurch and the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN. 
     
    
   
   
    
     teacher ofa school at Buenos Ayres. It seems 
     
     this gentleman had married a Protestant to a 
     
     Catholic, for which both he and the husband, 
     
     together with the witnesses to the ceremony, 
     
     were seized and imprisoned, and the bride, 
     
     With her mother put under arrest in the house 
     
     ofa relative. When Mr. Torrey went to Buc- 
     
     nos Ayres,in 1827, there were three Protes- 
     
     tant ministers in the country, by all of whom 
     
     the existing toleration was understood to in- 
     
     clude the right to marry protestant foreigners 
     
     to native females with the consent of the pa- 
     
     rents. That consent was given in the present 
     
     case. Mr. Torrey and the other apprehended 
     
     were taken before the Ecclesiastical Court 
     
     where they were examined on oath and pri- 
     
     vately, without any information being given 
     
     of the nature of the charge against them. Af- 
     
     terwards the Notary of the Ecclesiastical 
     
     (.‘ourt brought Mr Torrey a copy of the sen- 
     
     tence, which was a fine of $1000 each for him- 
     
     selfand Lafone the husband, $500 for each of 
     
     the witnesses, and a month’s imprisonment in 
     
     the House of Correction for the mother and 
     
     daughter. to be employed in devotional exer- 
     
     cises. Mr. Torrey was about to claim the 
     
     protection of our minister, Mr. Bavlies, who 
     
     had expressed himself ready to interfere when- 
     
     ever the case shall admit of interposition.-— 
     
     .N. Y. Ere, Post. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To the Editor of the British flmcrican 
     
     MR. EDITOR 
     
    
   
   
    
     It gives me great pleasure to observe 
     
     that the subject of Roads and Bridges finds 
     
     a place in your useful columns, particular- 
     
     ly so, when I notice among your corres- 
     
     pondents, the name of my kinsman (Rub), 
     
     from whose reiterated remarks on the, road 
     
     leading from Charlotte-Town toward Try- 
     
     on, a person would suppose that he must 
     
     be peculiarly interested therein ; however, 
     
     be that as it will, it cannot be denied but 
     
     that the road is in a very bad state, par- 
     
     ticularly the bridges, there being scarcely 
     
     one (with the exception ofthat superb one 
     
     at Poplar Island) that a traveller can pass 
     
     over with confidence of safety, and strange 
     
     to say there are three of those within the 
     
     Royalty which was built not long since, 
     
     under the superintendence ofa person who 
     
     was termed (and I believe properly so) a 
     
     none-such Commissioner, but I am sorry 
     
     to say that the construction of the work 
     
     does not Speak much in favour of his judg- 
     
     ment as an architect. Here, Mr. Editor, 
     
     an idea strikes me, suggested some time 
     
     ago by a worthy sage of the West District, 
     
     that those three bridges could be dispensed 
     
     with, by substituting one over the Hermi- 
     
     tage Creek, from the point on the south 
     
     side of the first creek on the Royalty 
     
     Road, and thus shorten the distancP to 
     
     Poplar Island about half-a—mile, avoid a 
     
     bad hill, and in my opinion be accomplished 
     
     at as little expence as the rebuilding of 
     
     those in question ; and I have heard that 
     
     liberal gentleman through whose lands the 
     
     road would run on the west side of the 
     
     creek, say that he would not only give the 
     
     ground, but also open and form the road 
     
     at his own expence, this I have no doubt 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     would be termed “jabbing” by my friend 
     
     Mr. Rub, but I do assure you that there is 
     
     nothing I dislike more than improper job- 
     
     hing, in fact I detest it as much as a tenant 
     
     would the clandestine jobbing of a lawyer, 
     
     under cloak ofa Chancery proceeding. I 
     
     shall now pass over Poplar Island Bridge 
     
     without any other remark but, that the 
     
     construction and execution of the work, 
     
     will, to an unprejudiced mind, suffice toex- 
     
     emplify its pith. My kinsman in his letter to 
     
     you of the 6th Instant, enquires how and 
     
     by what means, the road leading from the 
     
     bridge to 'Fryon was made P in answer to 
     
     which,l can aver, that for the making of 
     
     that part of the road between the bridge 
     
     and Pye’s, the sum of Sixty Pounds was 
     
    
   
   
    
     appropriated by the Legislature, and placed “ 
     
    
   
   
    
     at the disposal of a Commissioner, who let 
     
     the making thereof, by public auction to 
     
     the lowest bidder ; the specification was 
     
     good, but the road is bad, scarcely passable 
     
     for an Irish car, although part of the money 
     
     remained unexpended and was afterwards 
     
     laid out in the temporary repair of a 
     
     bridge, (that on the ferry road over Hyde’s 
     
     mill-dam) which is now impassable, the 
     
     want of which, will be severely felt when 
     
     the ice sets in, it being on the winter route. 
     
     Fearing, Mr. Editor, that I have already 
     
     tresspassed too much on your time, I shall 
     
     now conclude, hoping that the House of 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Assembly, will persevere in doing all the \ 
     
     good they can, and at the same time be ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     cautious of rendering eligible to office any 
     
     person undeserving thereof. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Your’s &c. 
     
     FARMER Scam:i 
     
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     TITHES' IN ENGLAND —On Saturday' 
     
     last an extraordinary scene was exhibited in 
     
     Wisbeach Market place.——Notice had been gi— 
     
     ven by hand-bill, of the intended sale of four 
     
     sheep, which had been seized for tithes from 
     
     M r. Bland, whose offer of4s. per acre, instead 
     
     osz. 64, for grassland, had been rejected by 
     
     the Vicar, the Rev. John Fardell, aon-in-law 
     
     ofthe BishOp of Ely. The novelty of the oc- 
     
     currence. on this side of St. George’s Channel, 
     
     drew a great number of persons to the spot, 
     
     and no sooner were the sheep put up by the 
     
     auctioneer, than a general bellowing or bloat- 
     
     ing was set up by most of the spectators. The 
     
     auctioneer persevered for a long time in offer- 
     
     ing the sheep, but to no purpose—no one would 
     
     bid a single farthing, and he was at length 
     
     obliged to retire, lcavtng the sheep in charge 
     
     of a constable until the collectors could deter- 
     
     mine what was to be done with them.—In the 
     
    
   
   
    
     October, 19,1832. 
     
    
   
   
    
     evening they were returned to Mr. Bland’o ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     field, upon what conditions our informant has 
     
     not been able to learn.—-Bury Port. - 
     
    
   
   
    
     By a late Freemans Journal we are informed 
     
     that, additional arrests have been made for 
     
     attending tithe meetings : this vigour excite; 
     
     little but disgust and strong re-actlon. Tb .- 
     
     gentlemen arrested find their influence a 
     
     popularity increased ten fold. . g 
     
    

    
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