has been postponed until the next assizes, it is said for want of sufficient evidence.  Be this as it may, it seems that M’Loughlin’s beautiful daughter was soon to have been married to her father’s young partner, now in prison.  The unfortunate girl, however, manifested the frailty of her sex:  for while her former lover was led to suppose that he possessed all the fulness of her affection, she was literally carrying on a private and guilty intrigue with one of the worst looking scoundrels that ever disgraced humanity—­I mean Phil, as he is called, only son to Valentine M’Clutchy—­who, by the way, goes among the people under the sobriquet of Val the Vulture.  I need not say what the effects of this young woman’s dishonor have produced upon her family.  Young M’Clutchy was seen by several to go into her own apartment, and was actually found striving to conceal himself there by his father’s blood-hounds who had received information that M’Loughlin had fire-arms in his house.  The consequence is, that the girl’s reputation is gone for ever.  ’Tis true the verdict against her is not unanimous.  There is a woman, named Poll Doolin, mentioned, who bears a most unrelenting enmity against M’Loughlin and his family, for having transported one of her sons.  She is said to have been the go-between on this occasion, and that the whole thing is a cowardly and diabolical plot between this Phil—­whom the girl, it seems, refused to marry before—­and herself.  I don’t know how this may be; but the damning fact of this ugly scoundrel having been seen to go into her room, with her own consent, and being found there, attempting to conceal himself, by his father’s cavalry, overweighs, in my opinion, anything that can be said in her favor.  As it is, the family are to be pitied, and she herself, it seems, is confined to her bed with either nervous or brain fever, I don’t know which—­but the disclosure of the intrigue has had such an effect upon her mind, that it is scarcely thought she will recover it.  Every one who knew her is astonished at it; and what adds to the distress of her and her family is, that Harman, whose cousin was an eye-witness to the fact of her receiving Phil into her chamber, has written both to her and them, and that henceforth he renounces her for ever.

“There have also been strong rumors touching the insolvency of the firm of M’Loughlin and Harman, and, it is to be feared, that this untoward exposure will injure them even in a worldly point of view.  In the True Blue there are two paragraphs of the following stamp—­paragraphs that certainly deserve to get the ears of those who either wrote or published them cropped off their heads.

“Unprecedented Feat of Gallantry and Courage!