at a ploughing match; but the event did not answer the priviledged heroes; they were very handsomely resistedreceived a good drubbing, and their commanding officer was carried off the field, with his arm and jaw broken. In the north of England, the Orange men are rapidly embodying. In North : Shields, Sunderland, New Castle, and Gateshead, they have, in a newspaper, "The Courant" published a Syllabus of their principles, to which they invite their loyal brethren, the modern Britons, to take a share. It is expected their organization and numbers will be so completed, by the first day of, the next shooting term, July the 1st, that they will be ready to serve the official notices on their Catholic neighbours, - to go to "Hell or Connaught."

ENGLISH ARMY.

The Army of England, we do not mean the Army of that name in France,

has been infected with the notion of being independent of Irish assistance, as the officers of two regiments of cavalry have issued an interdiction against admitting Irishmen. We know a Colonel Palmer said something tantamount to it, in the parliament of Westminster, and denied it again on a subsequent debate; but as there appeared an irregularity in one line of the gallant gentleman's statement, or w retraction, we are inclined to believe his first unguarded and unvarnished account, was correct. In the explanation, or denial, he said, no Londoners were received as recruits; though it is notorious, many recruiting parties were at the moment in London.

we say

The exclusion of the Irish from the army, may be an act of policy, as it goes to prove the empire can do with out our services; and it proves that the emancipation we demanded as a reward for those services, is to be refuced, because it is too much to be exchanged for duties that can be dispensed with. The rejection tends to how, that our offers to encrease the physical force of the army is an im

pudent intrusion, an act of forwardness, to interfere in other men's business. If auch an interpretation is put on this business, it will go to the world that our interests and the British interests are dissimilar, and respectively hostile to each other; and were it to be allowed to poison the Irish mind, they might be seduced into a notion very foreign to the common security, that we should follow our own business, for there is no state of human condition so low, can place an individual or a nation out of sore business; and, surely, if it is the insuperable fate of man to be interested in business of some description, six millions of Irishmen thrown with contempt, out of the business of the em pire, would be obliged to mind their own business. These reflections and comparisons may be construed into hostile insinuations, by those who are paid to suppress public animadversion; but, no candid man will dare to say, we have no cause to be alarmed, when it appears to the world, that our Orange murderers are increasing in numbers, and in insolence, and that we are insulted for offering our services for the common defence.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

On Friday, the 21st of February a cause came on to be tried before Lord Norbury, in which a person who had borrowed money on certain goods' was Plaintiff; and a certain Pawnbroker, was Defendant. It appeared by the evidence produced by the Plaintiff, that he had borrowed, at several times, money on various articles of new Iron Mongery and Hardware. Plaintiff, in some time, having an opportu. nity to dispose of part of the articles, applied to the Defendant for the purpose of redeeming, produced the du plicates in which the description of them, the amount of the sum borrowed, and the time, were mentioned, and made a tender of the principal and interest. The Defendant refused to deliver any part of the goods,

without

without the entire were released. As the Plaintiff's circumstances would not allow him to do so only by instal ments, and as he had a prospect of selling particular parts, and could not redeem the entire at one time, by the refusal of the Defendant he was prevented disposing of any part. He brought his action for the amount of the injury sustained. The obvious cruelty of the money-lender, made a very evident impression on the Jury; but a luminious charge by Lord Norbury put the affair in a very interesting point of view.

Lord Norbury." I will, to elucidate this question, suppose a case of horses, by way of comparisons. Gentlemen, you and I know the use and benefit of horses; a horse is a noble animal; its services to the gentleman, the farmer, and mechanit, in rural sports and rural economy, have ennobled the horse gentleman above any other animal of the brute creation. A horse is the fleetest of animals; he is the handsomest of animals. I have seen a horse that sold for 600 guineas. I believe it was Eclipse; he would run a mile in a minute. Eclipse was one of the swiftest horses on the English turf. The worthy foreman has had as good horses as any gentleman in Leinster. I know no gen. tleman who has better horses. Suppose, gentlemen, that one of you had six or eight horses sick, and that you placed these horses in the hands of a farrier for the purpose of cure, as this poor Tinman did his wares with the Defendant; suppose one or two of these horses had recovered, and that you wished either to ride or sell them, or any of them, as they were cured; and for such purpose or purposes you applied to this farrier for such sound horses, and tendered five guineas each, which, suppose, was the price agreed on. Gentlemen, could you think it any thing else but

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most egregious fraud, that this fellow farrier should detain the entire

stud, until you paid for the whole. If such a case were to be tried before another Jury, and were I one of the Jury, I should think myself justified in finding for the owner of the horses, such damages as he must have sustained by the want of any part of them, withheld by the perverse temper of the farrier. The case before you is exactly similar, and therefore I think you should give the Plaintiff a verdict."

The Jury, after consulting a few minutes, gave a verdict accordingly.

SALE OF THE MAJOR'S LIBRARY.

The prosecution of the Catholic Delegates, the appointment of Larry Tighe to Bridewell, and the tedious instructions delivered Mr. Manning on his new appointment of Jugsmelling, had so occupied his honor, that he was obliged to suspend the sale of his books, to the great disappointment of his literary friends; however, on Tuesday, the 14th of April, he resumed the sale, at his rooms in Exchangecourt, which was unusually attended; every person, a loyal amateur, in town, was present at the auction, even Claudius, notwithstanding his recent misfortunes, and to the prejudice uf his improvements of Mount Horish, did not neglect giving dignity to the assembly.

The first volume offered to sale was the military memoirs of Benedict Arnold, by the pen of Jeremiah Fitzhenry, of Ballymacus, County of Wexford, and late a Colonel of the Irish Guides, in the French service; it was knocked down to Doctor Brenan, who bought it for the Library of Tom Reynolds, post Master of Lisbon.

Legal advices to gentlemen, how to apply to Grand Juries for redress, against vulgar prosecutions by Counsellor Guinness, and Mark Magrath, two volumes quarto, printed by Geo. Grierson, Poet Laureat to the Farming Society, and printer to his Majesty, purchased by Mr. Whip-Flog,

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for the Society for discountenancing Vice.

Mr. Mac Nally, the Box-keeper's history of the Irish Stage, with an appendix on Peter Kearney's gridiron; one volume octavo, was bought by Surgeon Redmond, for the Dublin Society.

A book of pamphlets, containing a private account of the arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, by the pen of Larry. The investment and plunder of Miles Duigenan's house, by Alderman A cata logue of paintings and guineas, taken from the house of Tom Braughall, and a list of persons tortured in 1798, by loyal Attornies; knocked down to Sir Reubens Legboard.

Doctor Brennan and Major Sirr's united work, the Milesian Magazine, to the amount of 400 copies, was bought by Lundy Foot, for the use of his numerous customers.

The Duke of Brittle Ware, President of Murphy's. Smoaking Club, his celebrated work on pumping silver from the beach of Clontarf, and blow. ing bottles, without " raising the wind," sold for two pounds to Mr. Crucible, the ten-penny maker of Beresford's Bloodhounds.

Luke White's (the flying stationer) address to the Catholic freeholders of the county of Dublin, on the approaching election, was bought of Spence, the Soldier, who was sentenced to 1000 lashes, in the county Militia, for saying his prayers in the manner he knew bast, and with leave of the law.

Turner, and Secretary Murphy; was bought by Giffard, for his son's library, in Ceylon.

Historical and genealogical memoirs of the house of Giffard, formerly Foy, with an exact account of the blood they lost, in defence of the constitution, from actual measurement, bought by Mr. Legboard, for the use of the Blue Coat Hospital.

Sermons preached by Kent, the Huxterman, against rebellion and idolatry, before assembled saints, at the Child Trap, in Delgany.

Essays on the cultivation and profits of invisible trees, by the Right Hon. Lord Louth, late of Newgate, purchased by Mr. Mathews, of Julian's Town.

Treatise on Barrack Building, and Pharmacy, by Father Larkin, and Barney Byrne, Apothecary, both of Ballinasloe, bought by Doctor Trevor, for the Barrack Board.

Jugsmeller Manning's advice to youug Police-men, showing the road to fortune, with memoirs of Colonel Alexander, Captains Wilson and Carleton. The author has proved that a man who understands trap, may one day be a Banker, a Colonel, a Knight, or a Magistrate-bought by Larry Tighe, for Major Row-di-dow.

History of Mark Magrath's Windmill, on the North-wall, with a parti cular detail of the melancholy catas trophe which befel it, when it became useless; two volumes duodecimo, by the pen of Alderman

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was bought for the Globe Insurance Company, as a valuable direction to their Irish affairs.

Essays on Bird Catching, by Noah Wynne, Collector of Dead Goldfinches, to the Dublin Society, and Proprietor of the Hungry Countryman Phelim, and the big Ox Robin, exhibited at the Farming Society's last show.

Plans for propagating the English Gospels in foreign parts, and reducing the Superabundant Population of

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Ireland," humbly dedicated to Earl Grenville, by a member of the Man chester Bible Society, Serjeant in the Manchester Local Militia, and one of the armed 39 Civilizers, stationed near Finglas, for the preservation of the peace, and for distributing useful know. ledge among the mere Irish.

Hints for disposing of the Canal Breakers, with plates annexed, explanatory of the work, showing various plans of travelling gibbets, by William Dickinson, Gallows Engineer to the Corporation of Dublin.

Anecdotes of the Brenan's, Princes of Idoagh, found in the linings of Mrs. Brenan's petticoats, by the officer who removed her body to the dead room, the morning after her death in Channel row. The Wrestling Docter presented this valuable book of his family history to the Major, on the evening he negociated with his honor, for blowing up Cox's Magazine.

Doctor Brenan's schedule of his domestics, his two children, and oneeyed woman servant, which he exhibit ed to his friends, as an apology for not fighting Doctor Drumgoole. The Wrestling M. D. has such an objection to gun-powder, he made up this argument to avoid it, that a man who has a family ought not to fight.

A list of cures performed by Doc tor Brenan-this little volume is written by the Prince of Idoagh, in his best stile of Broadstone language, and was presented to the Major, as proofs of the author's skill in the art of heal ing, when he aspired to be Health Officer to the Battalion of Testimony, as part of the honours promised him for assisting Huddlestone to convict Doctor Sheridan, Thomas Kirwan, and Lord Fingall. The Doctor in the dedication to his Honor, assures him that he has discovered a plaister so powerful in its operation, as to be sufficient to cure a broken leg in twenty minutes; in a manuscript appendix, he recites a wonderful case, a Cure performed in the Sheriff's Prison,

on Mrs. Huddlestone, who was in imminent danger an attack on her constitution, by three pints of burnt brandy. The Doctor happening to dine the same day with the Tastamentary Captain, succeeded by an ingenious vomit, excited by a new invented medicine to draw off the brandy, leaving the sugar and water in the gentle tenement, which restored the lady in a few minutes to her reason, and family. The agitation of her jaws threatened the loss of the teeth, but this misfortune was prevented by thrusting a pocket edition of the gos pels bound and gilt, into her mouth, to oppose the dental convulsion; this book was bought by Corporal Bulbrooks.

A new system of political Arithmic. tie, by Doctor Brennan; the author's principal object in this work, goes to prove, that, the Patriot of Mount Jerome owes nothing of his immense fortune to state affairs; that the Catholic orator done nothing to encrease his fortune, that is not within the power of any honest man. He retired twenty-four years ago, with twenty thousand pounds, and by spending it to maintain a large family, support an expensive table, and elegant equipages, has bought eight thousand pounds a year, payable out of estates, purchased in Connaught and Fingal. The Doctor is very severe, in the third chapter, page 210, on the foolish fellows who were hanged or expatriated, instead of making fortunes; this is the prize piece, for which the good old orator settled on the Doctor one blue surtout, payable every Christmas. This treatise was bought by a young Brewer in the Liberty.

Elegant Extracts, collected by Doctor Brenan, to assist Captain Huddlestone to stand a cross-examiation on the trials of the Catholics they are principally abridged from simi lar state trials in the reign of Charles the IId. Titus Oates best manner is correctly given, and Bedloes all

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