Marriages
On the 24th ult., by the Rev. J. P. Dickey, of Carnone, Mr. WILLIAM HENDERSON, of Greenlees to MARY, only daughter of Mr. Richard Russell of Cloughgore.
On the 3d inst., at the residence of Malcolm M'Neill, Esq., Corran-house, Larne, by the Rev. Classon Porter, Unitarian Minister, R. MONTGOMERY, Esq., Mexican merchant, to Miss JANE M'NEILL.
Deaths
On Saturday the 1st inst., of fever, Mr. JOHN HUGHES, Talbot Street, merchant, aged sixty-six years.
On Wednesday the 29th ult., at the house of his father, in Earl Street, Mr. EDWARD RING, aged twenty, sincerely and most deservedly regretted.
At Ballybrake, on Friday the 24th ult., Mr. JOHN BOYD, in the forty-first year of his age.
On Monday the 21st ult., at the Corran, near Larne, Mrs. MAGEE, aged sixty-eight.
On the 26th. ult. in Kilmorey Street, Newry, in the seventieth year of his age, Mr. OWEN TEGART.
On the 23d ult., in North Street, Newry, after a lingering illness, SARAH, wife of Mr. Edward Reilly, in her thirty-third year.
Clippings
Domestic Intelligence
Ireland.
IRISH ESTIMATES. -- The following is a list of the Irish estimates, which have, for the first time this session, been made up indiscriminately among the general miscellaneous estimates for the United Kingdom :-- Public Works, £25,376; Kingstown Harbour, £10,000; Salaries for the Officers and Attendants of the Household of the Lord Lieutenant, £6,464; Salaries and expenses of the Chief Secretary's Office in Dublin and London, and the Privy Council Office in Ireland, £21,376; Civil Services in Ireland, £4,937; Salaries Commissioners Public Works, £2,400; Printing and Binding for Public Departments, £11,195; Criminal Prosecutions, Ireland, £61,449; Police of Dublin, £31,400; Cost of converting Smithfield Penitentiary into a Convict Depot, and for repairs in Constabulary Barrack in Dublin, £5,596; Grant for Education, £50,000; Maynooth, £8,928; Royal Irish Academy, £300; Royal Hibernian Academy, £300; Royal Dublin Society, £5,600; Belfast Institution, £1,950; Foundling Hospital, Dublin, £7,597; House of Industry, Four Hospitals, and the Dispensary attached, £13,973; Female Orphan House, Dublin, £1,000; Lock Hospital, £2,500; Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, £1,000; Stevens's Hospital, £1,500; Fever Hospital, Cork Street, £3,000; Hospital for Incurables, £500; Commissioners Charitable Donations, £700; Non-conforming, Seceding, and Protestant Dissenting Ministers in Ireland, £35,630; Concordatum Fund in Ireland, £7,475; Townland Survey in Ireland, £5,000; Shannon Navigation, £3,421; Proclamations in Ireland, and Printing executed by Queen's Printer, £4,950.
Lord Doneraile has made an abatement of twenty per cent. in the rental of his tenantry.
THE MAGISTRACY. -- His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to appoint John Boyle Kernan, Esq., a Stipendiary Magistrate for the county of Sligo, in the room of Nicholas Kelly, Esq., removed to Waterford. Thomas Brereton, Esq., has taken charge of the Borrisokane district as Stipendiary Magistrate, and R. C. Bayly, Esq., has been appointed High Constable of that barony, in the room of Mr. Brereton. Mr. Shaw, S.M., has arrived at Fethard, county Tipperary, to take charge of that district, in the room of Mr. Croker, who retires.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. -- On the 27th inst., at the Catholic Church of New Ross, by the Rev. Wm. Brenan, and afterwards at the Protestant Church, by the Rev. J. Corbett, the Hon. John Charles Dundas, M.P., only brother to the Earl of Zetland, to Margaret Matilda, eldest daughter of James Talbot, of Maryville, County Wexford, Esq.
At the annual meeting of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company, on Saturday week, the number of passenger's booked at all the stations during the past year was stated to be 1,368,633. Gross income, £42,401. Profits of working the Railway for the year, £21,801. A dividend of five per cent. was agreed to.
Since the dismissal of the late billet-master of Cork, by the new corporation, Government have ordered that the constabulary of the city shall in future provide for her Majesty's troops on billet.
IRISH MANUFACTURE -- TOTAL WITHDRAWAL OF THE MANUFACTURE OF MAIL COACHES IN IRELAND. -- For the last two or three days a rumour has been prevalent through the city which has created considerable sensation. It was generally stated that Mr. Purcell had lost the contract, which he held for years, for building and supplying the mail coaches in Ireland, and that a Scotch firm had been enabled to purchase up, for most insignificant sums, large numbers of stage and mail coaches, in consequence of the spread of railways in England and Scotland, which had thrown them idle on the hands of their owners; and, being thus provided with some hundreds of ready-made coaches, obtained at a most trifling cost, they had underbid Mr. Purcell and the Messrs. Bourne. We have since caused inquiries to be made, and have of reluctantly to state that this painful report is founded in truth. We have ascertained that Mr. Purcell has as positively lost the contract, and that Mr. Croal, a Scotch gentleman, is the successful competitor. We are enabled also to state that the contract takes effect from May, and has been made for five years. Mr. Croal has no factory in this country, and will, of course, import his coaches from Edinburgh and London. -- Dublin Mercantile Advertiser.
A WINDFALL FOR THE PRIESTS. -- It appears from a notice in the Gazette that their reverences have recently netted a pretty considerable sum by the death of one of the faithful. The late Richard Ennis of Christ Church Place has bequeathed no less a sum than one thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds, to twelve priests and two nuns, for the furtherance of Popery. There is no mention made of the amount left for masses to ensure repose to his soul; but, judging from the haul noticed above, it must have been in "pretty considerably" heavy. -- Dublin Statesman.
IRISH BANKRUPT. -- George Maquay of Enniscorthy, in the county of Wexford, shopkeeper, and dealer in cotton goods; to surrender on the 7th of April and on the 9th of May.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION. -- On Friday the 23d ultimo Lieutenant Hill and a party under his command proceeded to the parish of Errigle Trough, county of Monaghan, near Aughnacloy, and seized two stills at full work, 420 gallons of potale, and arrested nine persons in the still-house. About a quarter of a mile farther, in the direction of Emyvale, they found another still-house (the still on the hearth), and twenty vessels of potale, containing 600 gallons, and about forty gallons of singlings, all of which they destroyed. About six o'clock on Thursday morning, Mr. Hill and his men brought the prisoners into Aughnacloy, when he proceeded to search the house of Owen M'Kenna, a publican, where he found thirty gallons of illicit spirits, and M'Kenna, being found conveying a quantity of same, was arrested, who, being convicted before Mr. Moore, J.P., in the mitigated penalty of £6, paid the fine. Mr. Hill seized thirty-two gallons of overstock there also. The men arrested being all of the far-famed M'Kennas of Trough, there was a great gathering of the clan in the town, who manifested an inclanation to attack the police. About 800 men followed them out of the town; but, by the judicious management of Mr. Hill, there was not the slightest breach of the peace. On the 24th ultimo, there were seventeen revenue prisoners in Monaghan jail. -- Fermanagh Reporter.
A V£TERAN. -- John Cannon, pensioner of the 35th Regiment, now residing in the townland of Caddy, parish of Magheracoolmony, barony of Lurg, county Fermanagh, was born in the year 1739, and is now aged 104 years! He enlisted in the year 1758, served in the American war in the 17th Foot, under Sir Ralph Abercromby. He volunteered into the 35th, was pensioned in the year 1802. Notwithstanding his service in foreign countries, his constitution never suffered a shock, for, at the present time, he has the blessing of all natural faculties, and hears. and sees as well as when he entered the army. -- Fermanagh Reporter.
COAST GUARD. -- APPOINTMENTS. -- Lieutenant Chas. Seaver to command the Wells station, Norfolk. Lieutenant George Thomas Smith is appointed, but his station is not named. REMOVALS. -- Lieutenant J. H. Bellairs, from Ballymoney, Dublin, to Blackhead, Belfast; Mr. William Curteis from Kilmichael, Dublin, to Kilkearm, Galway; Mr. James Stirling from Ballygrass, Westport, to Achilbeg, Westport; Mr. James D'Alton from Lachen, Sligo, to Ballycastle, Sligo; Lieutenant A. M. Shairp from Sheephaven, Derry, to Portrush, Coleraine; Mr. Turner, Mate, R.N., from Port Ballintrae to Coleraine.
It is rumoured that Lord Stuart de Decies has resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of this county, in consequence of his not being consulted in the appointment of the new borough magistrates. -- Waterford Chronicle.
HIBERNIAN SCHOOL. -- At a meeting of the committee of Governors of the Royal Hibernian School, for the education of soldiers' children, on Tuesday, Lieutenant-Colonel Colomb, of the half-pay, unattached, was elected Commandant of the school, in the room of Colonel Mansel, retired.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS. -- The following movements will immediately take place:-- 6th Dragoon Guards from Glasgow to Edinburgh; 6th Dragoons from Edinburgh to Leeds; 12th Lancers from Ireland to Glasgow; 24th Foot from Devonport to Glasgow; 53d Foot from Edinburgh to Dublin; 66th Foot from Glasgow to Edinburgh; 61st Foot from Bowness to Belfast.
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Casualties, Offences, &c.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF JOSEPH NAGLE, ESQ. -- On Tuesday last the above gentleman was on the race-course, in all the health and vigour of meridian life, and left it in the evening in perfect health; but, ere reaching his residence at Rosemount, he breathed his last beside his servant in the gig. We have heard that his death resulted from the rupture of a blood vessel in coughing; another report states that apoplexy was the cause. -- Westmeath Guardian.
A frightful explosion took place on Wednesday at Digbeth, near Birmingham, in the house of a percussion powder maker, named Capella. One boy was blown to pieces, and another much injured.
On Wednesday last, fire men employed in a colliery near to Bilson were accidentally thrown down a pit, and killed.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF MISS ISABELLA GRANVILLE. -- This young lady, whose parents have been residing for the last nine months at 35, Bedford Square, Brighton, met her death on Monday afternoon under the following painful circumstances:-- She was taking an airing on horseback with the daughter's of Lady Poore, on the Dyke Road, when her horse took fright and galloped away at the top of his speed. Miss Granville, in her fright, extricated herself from the saddle and threw herself off; she came with fearful violence to the ground, pitching upon her head. She was taken home in a state of insensibility, from which she never recovered, and died the same evening about ten o'clock. She was a fine handsome young lady, only nineteen years of age, and her parents are inconsolable at her premature death. -- London paper.
An Irish labourer, on Saturday morning, in London, committed a violent assault on his wife, with intent to murder her, or to do her some grievous bodily harm.
MARYLEBONE POLICE OFFICE. -- A JUVENILE ASSASSIN. -- On Tuesday, a boy named William Miller, only ten years of age, whose father is a shoemaker, residing in Mansfield Street, Kentish Town, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar, before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having caused the death of Samuel Hunt Baker, aged fifteen, by stabbing him with a knife. William Maynard, examined -- I live at No. 5, Crown Place, Kentish Town. On Friday last, between twelve and one o'clock, I and some more boys, including the deceased, were sitting under a walnut tree opposite Mansfield Place, when the prisoner came over the fence, and, addressing himself to deceased, said, "Did, I sell a hap'orth of milk on the bridge?" The reply made was, "Yes, you did." The prisoner then called him (deceased) a liar, at the same time saying, "Because you are a thief yourself, you think everybody else is one." Deceased then jumped up and struck the prisoner upon the head. The blow was returned, and deceased again hit the prisoner, who then grated his teeth, and said, "I don't care a ----- if I stick you." He held in his hand a knife, which he raised and aimed at the deceased, who turned round at the moment, in order to escape injury, if possible, but he received a stab in the neck. I and others who were with him then helped him along, and he received assistance at the hands of a surgeon. Thomas Baker, father of the deceased, was called, and he deposed to his son having died on the same morning from the wound he had received. The prisoner was remanded till Monday for further examination.
MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. -- An inquest was recently held at the White Horse Inn, East Bridge, Colchester, to inquire into the circumstances of the death of Charlotte Gibbons, the victim of the most brutal treatment on the part of her husband. Deceased was twenty-seven year's of age, and had for some time been separated from her husband, who is a hairdresser, residing on North Hill. Mary Scott, the sister of the deceased, deposed -- Deceased had been married six years, but never lived comfortably with her husband; they had been twice separated; had not lived together since last July; since that time deceased resided with me. On the 28th of February, about six in the evening, her husband came to my house; his wife had gone out. He took his child upon his knee, and told it he had seen its mother; he was drunk at the time, and said he had been to Tollesbury; he shortly after left, saying he was going to the Goat and Boot to a party. About seven, deceased came in without her bonnet and shawl, greatly exhausted; she was very ill, and begged for some vinegar; she said she had met her husband on East Hill; that he had pulled her out of the house, and then knocked her about the head with his fists, kicking her in the most brutal manner, and that when she begged for her life on East Bridge, he threatened to throw her into the river. On Thursday, she made a great effort, and went to the Mayor's to complain of her husband's ill-treatment; on her return, she went to bed, and never left the house afterwards. The Jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against the husband, George Gibbons, who was accordingly committed to take his trial on the capital charge.
On Thursday a man employed in the Town of Wexford steamer, named Thomas Pendar, was committed to prison on a charge of manslaughter alleged to have taken place five years back. It appears that, after a pugilistic recontre at the period mentioned, his antagonist came by his death by the punishment he received from the "foresaid individual.
APPREHENSION OF CHARLES HERRICKS. -- On Tuesday, Charles Herricks, charged with having absconded, taking with him £325 7s. 2d., from Abbey Street, Dublin, was brought before the magistrates of Birmingham, by police-sergeant Ryder, at whose request he was remanded till further information is received from Dublin. The prisoner was accompanied by his wife and four children. On searching the prisoner, there was found, tied up in a handkerchief and girt round his loins, 274 sovereigns and 25 half-sovereigns and other moneys, in all £307 17s. 2d. He has, since been committed in Dublin.
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CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. -- A melancholy case of death, from the lamentably frequent accident of clothing taking fire, occurred in the Falls on Friday last. On the previous Wednesday, a woman named M'Aleer, with that want of caution in mothers which is, in almost every instance, the sole cause of such frightful occurrences, went out for the purpose of attending to her cow, leaving a fine infant, sixteen months old, in charge of another child, five years of age. Not many minutes elapsed before the screams of the latter caused her to return with all haste; and, on crossing the threshold, the horrid spectacle of her infant's clothing in a blaze met her eyes! It is almost unnecessary to add the usual termination of such accidents -- that the poor little creature was so dreadfully burned as to preclude all hope of recovery. Death put a period to its agonies on Friday.
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BELFAST UNION. -- List of Guardians for the ensuing year:-- Ex-officio Guardians -- John Rowan, Esq., Merville, Wm. Cairns, Esq., Cultra, John M'Neile, Esq., Parkmount, Richard B. Blakiston, Esq., Orangefield, Vice-Chairman; Robert J. Tennent, Esq., Belfast, Robert Thompson, Esq., Jennymount, and Robert F. Gordon, Esq., Belfast. Dock Ward -- Valentine Whitla, Esq., William Stevenson, Esq. St. Anne's Ward -- John Lindsay, Esq., Patrick M'Auley, Esq. Smithfield Ward -- James M'Conkey, Esq., William M'Gee, Esq. St. George's and Cromac Ward West -- H. Murney, Esq., John Clarke, Esq., Deputy Vice-Chairman. Country Ward -- Robert Lepper, Esq., John Knox, Esq. Greencastle -- John F. Ferguson, Esq., Belfast. Ballygomartin -- Samuel Nelson, Esq., Belfast. Ballymurphy -- J. S. M'Cance, Esq. Whitehouse -- John Cunningham, junior, Esq., Belfast. Carnmoney -- Alexander H. Haliday, Esq., Chairman, Clifden. Ballysillan -- Joseph Bigger, Esq., Belfast. Ballymacarrett -- E. H. Clarke, Esq., John Wightman, Esq. Castlereagh -- Robert M'Connell, Esq., Castlereagh, Dundonald -- None. Holywood -- H. Stewart, Esq., Holywood. Ballyhackamore -- James Davison, Esq. The elected Guardians take office on Tuesday next.
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FRAUD ON TOE ULSTER RAILWAY COMPANY. -- On Saturday last, while one of the trains was about to start from the Lurgan station, some of the Company's officers there detected a fellow named Henry Kilkenny in the act of offering for sale, at a reduced rate, a passenger ticket for a seat in a second class carriage to Belfast. Suspicion being thus excited, he was immediately arrested by Mr. Leonard, the conductor; but, on being searched, no second ticket could be discovered upon him. It was deemed prudent, however, to bring him on to town, in order that the fraud might be further sifted, as it was presumed, from the prisoner's having very frequently been observed loitering about the stations, and travelling by the trains, without any apparent object, that he had been practising the trick for some time past, and with considerable profit to himself. On being given into the custody of the police here, Mr. Lindsay, chief constable of the local force, directed two officers immediately to search Kilkenny's house, in Round Entry. His wife no sooner saw the constables enter, than she went into a yard in the rear, and was observed to fling a bundle, tied up in a handkerchief, over a wall, into an adjoining yard, where one of the officers picked it up, and found it to consist of a large number of sheets of railway tickets, and among them the sheet from which the identical ticket found on the prisoner had been cut. The woman was consequently also removed in custody. The case was fully investigated at the Police Office yesterday; and the male prisoner was committed for trial at the next Sessions. It appears that the tickets had been pilfered from a printing-office, by a son of the prisoner, who was employed there in some capacity.
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IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. -- APPROVED MANURES. -- At this season, it is of the utmost importance that the farmer should turn his attention to the selection of the most approved fertilizers; to secure which, he should not for a moment hesitate about expense, where he can rely upon the higher priced manure yielding a greater return than the cheaper. The improving agriculturists in this district have facilities presented to them, this Spring, for supplying themselves with the most advantageous fertilizers, which they never before enjoyed. Instead of being under the necessity of importing guano, they can now buy that richest of manures at a low price in Belfast -- where also bone manure and nitrate of soda (each so efficient when applied to turnip cultivation and grass lands respectively) are procurable upon moderate terms. We may also state another fact -- at once interesting to our farmers and creditable to the enterprise of the manufacturers of the article -- that two gentlemen of Belfast, Mr. J. Cuddy of Church Lane and Mr. J. M'Adam of Donegall Street, have commenced the preparation of gypsum manure, now so highly prized in England as a top-dressing for clover and other green crops -- for fixing the ammonia of liquid manure in tanks, &c. It will be seen from an advertisement elsewhere, that Mr. Edward Walkington of Rosemary Street offers guano, nitrate of soda, &c., at reasonable prices.
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Local Intelligence
BALLYMENA.
POOR-LAW UNION. -- At a meeting of the Board of guardians of the abore Union, held last week in the Court-house, Ballymena, George Joy, Esq., Galgorm Castle, was re-eleeted chairman, Thomas Casement, Ballee-house, vice-chairman, and John Raphnel of Galgorm, Esq., deputy vice-chairman, for the ensuing year.
DROMORE.
ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. -- On Saturday se'ennight, the body of a man named Ezekiel Kennedy, a workman in the employment of Messrs. M'Murray, bleachers, and a relative of their foreman, was found in the "race" at their bleach-works. An inquest was held, on Sunday, before George Tyrrell, Esq., M.D., Coroner for Down, and, after the examination of several witnesses, a verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was returned.
GARVAGH.
On the evening of the 18th ultimo, it being the birthday of the Right Hon. Lord Garvagh, nearly thirty of the most respectable inhabitants of Garvagh and its vicinity sat down to a substantial dinner in the Garvagh Arms Hotel, in order to commemorate the near approach of his Lordship's majority. The chair was ably filled by Dr. Dougherty, who was unanimously chosen to preside upon the occasion; James Wilson, Esq., Whitefalls, acted as croupier.
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Shipping Intelligence
PORT OF BELFAST.
ARRIVED, March 29. -- Pelican, Saunders, Liverpool, salt. -- 30. Tartar (st.), Stewart, Glasgow, goods and passengers; Prince of Wales (st.), M'Neilage, Fleetwood, goods and passengers; Athlone (st.), Davies, Liverpool, goods and passengers; Newcastle (st), Burton, Carlisle, goods and passengers.
SAILED, March 29. -- Catherine and Mary, Owens, Dunkirk, yarn; Lark, Robinson, Glasgow, oats; St. Lawrence, Carson, Malahide, timber; John and Samuel, Lawson, Donaghadee, brick; Birmingham (st.), Church, Dublin, goods and passengers; Aurora (st.), Anderson, Glasgow, goods and passengers. -- 30. Auchintorlie, M'Alpine, Glasgow, bones; Royal Victoria, M'Ferran, Honfleur, yarn; Newcastle (st.), Burton, Carlisle, goods and passengers; Reindeer (st.), Hesd, Liverpool, goods and passengers.
DEPARTURES OF STEAMERS.
For Liverpool, the Athlone, Davies, on Saturday, at two o'clock afternoon.
A steamer sails for Dublin, to-morrow, at twelve o'clock noon.
For Greenock and Glasgow, the Tartar, Stewart, tomorrow, at ten o'clock evening.
A steam-ship sails for London, calling at Dublin, Falmouth, Plymouth, and Southampton, on Monday, at five o'clock evening.
For Whitehaven, the Countess of Lonsdale or the Earl of Lonsdale, tomorrow, at eleven o'clock morning.
For Stranraer, the Maid of Galloway, Haswell, on Tuesday, April 11, at seven o'clock, morning.
For Fleetwood, the Prince of Wales, M'Neilage, on Friday, at five o'clock evening.
For Liverpool, from Derry, the Maiden City, Crompton, to-day, at nine o'clock morning; and from Liverpool for Derry, on Tuesday, at one o'clock afternoon.
For Liverpool from Portrush, the Coleraine, Johnstone, on Thursday.
For Halifax and Boston, from Liverpool, the Britannia, Hewitt, this day.
ARRIVALS INWARDS.
At this port from Liverpool, on Thursday, the Independence, of Belfast, M'Cappin, with a cargo of salt. This fine vessel will embark emigrants for Quebec.
At Waterford, 26th ultimo, the Enterprise, of Belfast, Robb, from Gibraltar to Whitehaven.
At Kingstown, 27th ultimo, the Larne, of Belfast, Davies, from Monte Video to Liverpool.
Put into Holyhead, 26th ultimo, the Æolus, of Belfast, Henry, from Charlestown to Liverpool.
At the Pentland Frith, 16th ultimo, the Aurora, Matheson, from Arendahl (Norway) to this port.
Put into the Cove of Cork, 25th ultimo, the Freedom, Brough, from Palermo to this port.
SAILINGS OUTWARDS.
From Falmouth for the West Indies, 3d instant calling at Corunna and Madeira, the Solway, Royal West India mail steamer.
From Deal, 27th ultimo, the Cumberland Lass, of Belfast, from London to the Dardanelles.
SAILINGS INWARDS.
Put into Tobermory, 22d ultimo, the Harmony, Finlayson, from Wick for this port.
SPOKEN.
The New Zealand, of Newry, Bannerman, from Liverpool to Savannah, 28th ultimo, in lat. 37., long 41.
The G. Samres, Schwer, from Alicante for Belfast, by the Nodstar, which passed Deal on the 27th ultimo.
LOADING.
At Liverpool for Cronstadt, the John Cunningham, of Belfast, Bailie.
CLEARED.
At London for Marseilles, 28th ultimo, the Chamcook, of Belfast, Poag.
At Liverpool for Mobile, 28th ultimo the Margaret Johnson, of Belfast, Groom.
CASUALTIES.
VESSEL BURNED AT SEA. -- The schooner Jemima, of Glasgow, Captain Thompson, bound from Liverpool to Tampico, took fire on the 22d ultimo, in a gale, about 60 leagues from Madeira. The crew had barely time to shove off the boat, and clear the burning wreck, when an explosion blew away the after part of the deck. The crew -- who saved nothing except the clothes on their backs -- were picked up, after twenty-four hours exposure without food or water, and landed at Madeira. The Jemima was the vessel which, it will be in the recollection of our readers, was unaccountably abandoned in Belfast Lough, on the 4th Feb., while, riding at anchor, and afterwards towed up to the quays by a steam-tug -- an occurrence which was the subject of considerable "chaff" among our "nauticals" at the time.
Captain M'Dougall, of the sloop George, arrived in the Clyde, reports having, on the 15th ultimo, about nine o'clock A.M., seen a smack, of about forty to sixty tons burthen, going down, with all hands, near the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse -- blowing hard at the time, could render no assistance. She had a barked squaresail set, and all the rest of the sails white.
BOWMORE, ISLAY, March 23. -- The Toward Castle (st.), in entering Port-Ellen, yesterday, struck on a sunken rock, and has discharged her cargo; she is expected off without much damage.
FALMOUTH, March 27. -- The Helena (450 tons), Koster, from Memel to Bristol, was totally wrecked, last night, on the Manacles; crew drowned.
PARIS, March 25. -- Two British vessels, and one American, were seen to sink, January 12, off Grand Magne, and reported to have been in that state two months by the Adelina, arrived at Quiberon.
MARSEILLES, March 22. -- The Eliza, Blois, from Rochelle for this port, was wrecked on the coast of Perpignan in a gale, 5th instant; seven of the crew drowned; two were saved in the boat, and picked up two days after near Majorca, by the English brig Arabella.
A French ship was wrecked off Exmouth on Tuesday, and all hands perished.
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NOTICE TO MARINERS. -- The Seven Stones Light Vessel has parted her moorings, and is now riding four miles N. by three W. from Round Island.
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The Army.
The first division of the 54th Regiment marched yesterday morning en route to Dublin, and will, on their arrival, occupy Richmond Barracks. The second division; leaves to-morrow, and the head-quarters probably on Friday. The 53d Regiment, which was originally intended to replace the 54th in this garrison, is now ordered to Dublin, and in their stead the 61st, from Bowness, Cumberland, will come to Belfast. The first division will arrive here from Dublin in the latter part of the week, most likely on Friday. The first division of the 12th Lancers arrived here yesterday from Dundalk, for embarkation for Glasgow.
Navy.
PLYMOUTH, March 27. -- The Rhadamanthus (st.) arrived here this morning from Portsmouth, to take the master attendant and a party of riggers from this dockyard to Pembroke, whence they will navigate the new steam-yacht, the Victoria and Albert, to London, to have her engines, &c., fitted. The Hecla (st.) also arrived this morning from Portsmouth, on her way to Malta, with Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., on board, who is appointed Superintendent of Malta dock-yard.
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THE BANNER OF ULSTER.
Printed and Published every TUESDAY and FRIDAY Morning, by GEORGE TROUP, at the Office, 3, Donegall Street Place.
Belfast, Tuesday, April 4, 1843.