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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 916, 4 July 1871, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

' A small insurgent bugler did a plucky j thing the other day. His company was ■ ordered to feel a barricade which it was t supposed the enemy had deserted, and j the little trumpeter strutted on twenty 5 paces in advance of the column. He j jumped upon the barricade, but was im- . mediately seized by some soldiers who j were concealed behind it. They clutched j hold of his bugle to prevent him giving 1 the alarm, but in the struggle the gallant T little fellow got free enough to get to the 3 top of the barricade, and call out that he r was a prisoner. The National Guards, . however, were not permitted to escape without a severe handling. The parly in 1 ambush fired into the column, and a cap- . tain and several men fell mortally wounded. In the confusion which ensued, j smoke, noise, &c, &c, the bugler managed to get into a neighboring house, r and made his escape by the roof with the agility of a cat. ■ Speaking of the expected vacancy in the ■ - roprcaeutation of Westmeath, the Westmeathlndependent says: — "Several can- \ didates have been already mentioned, ','_ amongst others Sir John Ennis, Bart., a firm supporter of the present Government. y 0 It is also rumored that the National and Home Rule party intend to put forward a Q candidate in the person of Mr O'Neill 9 Daunt. It is not unlikely that Mrßrins- \ ley H. Marley will contest the county in £ the Conservative interest, and between him and the worthy baronet, who for some !j years represented this borough (Athlone), j it is most probable the contest will lie." Sir George Colthurst has granted te the s Rev. David Parker, P.P., five acres of land at Blarney, at a nominal rent, as a site for a parochial house. The Rev. Mr Parker, on succeeding to the parish, found ' [ that the house occupied by his predecessor had passed into other hands, and that 3 no other suitable residence was to be had. 1 He consequently determined to build a parochial residence, and applied to Sir " George Coldthurst for a site which, was [ immediately granted. ~ On the 6th April, Messrs Marsh and Son sold by auction a farm of 7l£ acres of excellent land, situate at Monard, near [ Cork, held under lease dated October, 1851, for a term of 63 years, subject to an annual rent of L 79. The farm was de- ; scribed as thoroughly drained and well j. fenced, and it was stated that L6OO had recently been expended in the erection of J suitable buildings on the farm, The land ( is held on short terms by three tenants, who pay collectively L222 !lQs a year, from , which the head?rent being deducted, a ; profit rent of L 143 10s remains, f Bernard Hughes, Esq., formerly mem. ; ber of Assembly for King's County, died at his residence, Brooklyn, New York, on [ April 13. ' The Buenos Ayres Standard announces | the demise of the Rev. Canon Fahy, who j died on the 27th February, in Buenos Ayres. This simple announcement will carry grief to thousands of hearts, and the loss of this venerable priest will be regarded by all as a public calamity. For more than a quarter of a century his name has been identified with the welfare of tKe large Irish community in South America whose interests, spiritual and temporal, may be said to have been exclusively in his care. The Rev. Anthony D. Fahy was born at Loughres, county Galw&y, in 1804. and made his ecclesiastical studies St.^ Clement's Irish Convent of Dominican Friars at Rome, where he was ordained; He was sent on the mission to the United States, and passsd ten years in Ohio and, Kentucky ,; after which, at the invitation of the Irish community of Buenos Ayres and by permission of the superiors of his order, he came to the River Plate in 1843 at a time when the prospects of the country and of the Irish residents were far from promising. The history of the Irish * community since that time is in some measure a recital of the -labors of Father Fahy. In February, 1866, he founded the Irish Convent, bringing out some Sisters of Mercy, under Mother Mary % Evangelist Fitzpatrick, near Dublin j and in 1861 the present spacious edifice in Calle Rio Bamba was completed, chiefly by subscriptions from the Irish sheep farmers. The proceedings at the March assizes m. m Ireland were of a character which shonld fill the heart of every honest Irishman, whatever his opinions, with happiness and pride. In almost every county the charges of the learned judge* who presided were concieved in the key of congratulations at the. singular, immunity enjoyed by the country generally from crime and disturbance of any kind North and South, East and West, save in one little spot-^rhere, owing to a remark,

able* conjunction of circumstances, the spirit of agrarian disturbances still lingers — crime is almost unknown. In the great county of Limerick, for instance, after the nine months which elapsed since last assizes, the criminal business was disposed of in two hours, and in most of the other counties the calendars were almost as ligh*. Such criminals as were for trial were principally poor rogues who had stolen a loaf or a coat, and whose delinquencies were amply expatiated by a few inonthß* imprisonment. Exceedingly few persons were charged with crimes of importance, and thanks to the wise discretion of the Executive, the assizes have passed without giving any work to that dread official the executioner. And while in Ireland we see again something like that golden age of innocence and security of which our • poets sung, what is the state of the sister country ? Mr Justice Mellor opened the assizes for the rich and flourishing county palatine of Chester, one of the fairest and most affluent districts of England, flowing with milk and honey, studded with prosperous towns, and great mansions, and pleasant villas. A terrible story my lord had for the grand jurors of Chester. Fifty cases stood for trial at the assizes, many of them of the darkest hue of guilt. Two men were charred with murder, six with disgraceful outrages, many with brutal acts of violence. And of the fifty wretches awaiting their doom, only one could read! There is a Special Committee to enquire into the state of Westmeath ; why is there not one to ascertain why this great English county blossoms every assizes into such a goodly crop of criminality ? And yet English senators and English publicists talk of Irish crime, and clamor for coercion. Thank God for it, we have no Chester among our Irish counties. The every-day English occurrences of murder for greed and robbery with violence find no place in the high and virtuous hearts of tiie Irish people. Physician cure thyself ! Let the English people not trouble themselves with Westmeath till they have probed their own social gangrenes, till they have exterminated or civilised that vast mass of ignorance, poverty, and ruffianism, daily increasing in number and savagery, which form the dregs of English society. — Dublin Freeman.