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Charity Sermon. We request the attention of our Readers to an Advertisement in our paper of this day, respecting a Charity Sermon which is to be preached in the Presbyterian Meeting-House, on Sunday next, in aid of a Fund for erecting in this town a House of Recovery. We have had occasion lately to mention this subject, in consequence of a Sermon which was preached in the Church for the same purpose. When the usefulness of this Institution is considered, and the only claim on the public the erection of the building, we have little doubt that a considerable sum will be collected.

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Londonderry, April 18.
On Wednesday last, Owen Kelly, pursuant to his sentence for being concerned in a riot, was publickly whipped from the Jail to the Market-house and back again. He is to be whipped a second time in the last week of his imprisonment; and we understand that bills of indictment will be preferred against him for the murder of M’Nickle.

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Dublin, April 22.
Accident.--This morning, a vast multitude having assembled upon the steps of the Royal Exchange, to witness the execution of the sentence passed upon the sweep for cruelty to his apprentice, the battlement gave way under the pressure of the crowd, and the whole living mass was precipitated into the street below.--It is impossible to describe the scene of confusion, dismay, horror and consternation that took place, and equally so to calculate, at present, the quantity of mischief that has been the result of this unfortunate incident. Several have perished, still more have been maimed; but as yet the place is inaccessible to inspection. We trust in God that the calamity may be neither so great, or so extensive, as it is apprehended to be by many.

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On Monday last, a numerous concourse of people assembled at Bandon, and proceeded to break open the corn stores of a Mr. Hamilton, which they effected; but before the property could be removed or injured, a party of dragoons arrived and dispersed the rioters. The cause assigned for the lawless act was, that potatoes had risen to 6d. a weight, in consequence of the scarcity created by sending the corn away for exportation.

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Shocking Event.--On Saturday night, Henry Mitchell, of Mountrath street, Dublin, a barber, having a quarrel with Anne Mitchell, his wife, gave her a blow, and pushing her outside the door, she fell on her back, her head coming against the edge of the curb stone; he let her lie there until two gentlemen passing carried her into the shop; the brutal husband then dragged her into the inside room, and threw her on the ground, and left her there. She was found dead in the morning, her skull being fractured; and shocking to relate, her eyes were completely beaten out, and the flesh of her arms nearly eaten away by rats. He is committed to Newgate by the Magistrates of Ormond-quay Office.

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Limerick, April 15. ... On Friday night, before dark, a great number of armed ruffians collected near Tuogh, in the parish of Adare, in this county, and after taking horses and bridles from their peaceable neighbours, paraded the country, broke into the house of Quinlivan, a school master, and swore him to return the money he had received for the instruction of his scholars. On Tuesday night, several ruffians threw down an out-houe at Kilfenny Common, near Adare, mortally wounded a cow belonging to the proprietor, after which they dashed in the man’s house, brought him out, placed him on a dung hill, and on the naked back, flogged him most unmercifully! Surely such acts require the interposition of the Magistrates and other Gentlemen in the vicinity of Adare.

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We have been favoured by a correspondent, with the circumstances of the following villainous action:--On the night of the 20th instant, Miss M’Cormick, of Dartins, near Derg-bridge, was forcibly carried off, by a number of persons, for the purpose of compelling her to marry a man, for whom she had utter dislike. They were pursued by her relations, accompanied by a party of the Derry Militia, who succeeded in recovering the young woman, who was shortly after married to the man of her own fancy.--How short-sighted and foolish are people, who engage in such actions! they appear completely indifferent to after-consequences, nor imagine that they are, in all probability, laying the foundation of future wretchedness and misery, should their diabolical intentions succeed.
Our correspondent adds, that much praise is due to Captain Skipton, and Lieutenant Lowden, for their very proper conduct on the above occasion.

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Londonderry, April 18.

... On the night between Friday and Saturday last, Rich. Carten, convicted at the last Assizes of lifting arms, and sentenced to be executed on the 3d May, hung himself in his cell in the most extraordinary manner--He had fastened a stripe [sic] of coarse linen to a small table which he placed on it’s [sic] end, and from thence suspended himself by the neck, or rather pressed the weight of his body against the floor, for when found he was nearly in a sitting posture, the height of the table not admitting him to swing at length.

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Cork, April 15.--An embarkation of the 79th and 28th regiments--now in Belfast--the 32d and 92d at present in this garrison, and the 42d, in quarters in Kilkenny, is directed to take place at this port, not, however, before the arrival, as we understand, of the 4th, 21st, 27th, 40th, 44th, and 93d battalions of infantry, now on their passage from North America. Belgium, we have heard it stated, is the ultimate destination of the force under orders to assemble here for service.

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Ennis, April 15.--On Monday last, an act of outrage as unjustifiable as it was unprovoked, took place in the suburbs of this town. About twelve o’clock a poor traveller was assailed by some unthinking wretches, who making use of the epithet, “Hangman,” soon collected a vast crowd, among whom we are concerned to observe, that not a single feature of humanity was discernable--all seemed alike determined on murder, and it was next to a miracle that the miserable stranger, covered with wounds and contusions, made his way into the house of Newpark, where he was protected by Mr. Mahon, until a military guard arrived to disperse the savages, who seemed to thirst for the blood of their fellow creature.

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Limerick, April 12.--Sunday night, at ten o’clock, a party of six armed ruffians broke into the dwelling-house of Thomas Sheean, farmer, of Cloughakeating, in the liberties of this city, to seek for fire-arms, which not finding, they beat him most unmercifully, and robbed him of £10 10s. in bank notes, and almost every article in the house not excepting the sheets and quilt which were on his bed.

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On Monday, a conditional order was granted for setting aside the Verdict obtained at the last Assizes of Galway, by the Rev. Mr. O’Mullan, against the Proprietor of The Derry Journal.

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Eloped, on Monday night, from the neighbourhood of Cavendish-row, Dublin, Miss B., aged about twenty years, (possessing a considerable fortune) with a gallant son of Mars. The happy fugitivies have, it is thought, shaped their rapid course towards the North.

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