Nangle, Esq. and Major O'Farrel, late of the murderers not being satisfied that he was dispatched, and having heard him atter some sentences, they immediately approached him (the son having departed for assistance), and with savage brutality, before they retired, nearly severed the head from the body. On the 18th ult. a party of the Wexford Militia, consisting of a corporal and four men, on their return after escorting a deserter from Clonmel to Fermoy, were attacked in their way to Clogheen by a multitude of country people, some of whom were provided with fire-arms, and the remainder furnished with cudgels, stones, &c. They instantly demanded the arms from the military, and proceeded to enforce their order with all their force, when the soldiery were at length obliged, in self-defence, to five on their assailants, of whom three were mortally wounded. SINGULAR PHENOMENA.-Ou the nights of Monday and Tuesday, 7th and 8th of last month, the city of Armagh appeared to the beholders, about six miles in a southerly direction, to be most brilliantly illuminated. From the neigh bourhood of Armagh, it appeared as if a number of bonfires were lighted in a N. E. direction. From the hills around, it appeared as if the Gentlemen's seats were illuminated; and so impressive was the appearance in the town of Charlemont, that a number of persons applied for the fire-engine in order to extinguish a fire, supposed to be in a neighbouring house, but upon approaching the same, they were agreeably surprized to find the house perfectly safe. From the hills on the borders of Lough Neagh, in the county Armagh, it appeared as if the county An-country people at Clonderalaw-bay, to take postrim, on the opposite side, was entirely illuminated; and on Thursday night there appeared several lights in the same direction, but on approaching where the supposed fire was, it would seem as if it had fled further off. On Tuesday morning, the 15th ult. when the men employed at the lime-kiln near St. Catherine's, Waterford, went to their work, they found a man and a woman lying dead on the edge of its eye. The parties were soon recognized; the young man having lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the kiln, and the unhappy woman, who, we understand, was the widow of an industrious carpenter, at no great distance from it. The wretched youth was known to have been drinking at a late hour in the neighbourhood the preceding evening, and it is thought the parties must have found their way into the yard, at low water, through the sluice at John's Hill. Incapable of reflection, they had suffered themselves to be so much attracted by the heat of the kiln, as to seek repose on its very crown, where, rendered senseless by the mephitic vapour, they were retained till death closed their mortal career. When found, one side of the man was literally roasted. A horrid murder was committed, on the night of Tuesday the 15th ult. near Cansheen, county of Clare, on James O'Brien; the deceased, in company with his son, returning towards home, was fired at by some unknown assassin, who lay in concealment for him, near his own dwelling, when the unfortunate man received the contents of a loaded musket, and instantly fell; but the || A most daring attempt was made by a party of session of the American ship Romulus on the night of the 8th ult. They assembled at about ten in the evening, to the amount of between two and three hundred, and commenced a firing of musquetry, which they kept up at intervals for three hours, when finding a steady resistance from the crew and guard of yeomanry, which had been put on the vessel on her first going ashore, they retired. The shot they fired appeared to be cut from square bars of lead about half an inch in diameter. One of these miscreants dropped, and was carried away by his companions A very extraordinary and shocking circumstance occurred lately, in the county of Wicklow, between Newtown-Mount Kennedy and Kilcool: -A young woman had travelled in company with a carman from Dublin, and stopped to pass the night at a village on the road. The carman proceeded to take up his lodging at no great distance from the house she stopped at, and dreamt that she was murdered; be awoke, and a second time the same dream disturbed him. At break of day he returned to the house, and found only a child of eight years old within; he inquired anxiously for his companion, and was informed by the child, that his father and mother killed her, and were burying her in the garden. He hastened to the place pointed out to him, beheld the bloody corpse, and those wretches employed in digging a grave for their unhappy victim. 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