Gazette Of The United States

From a London paper.

Most of the London papers have related a "curious and striking circumstance," that a coach, called the Telegraph, going from Kildorrery to Limerick, took fire, in consequence of the great friction of the wheels; which fire communicated to a barrel of gun powder in the boot, blew to pieces the Rev. Mr. Kelly, Mr. O'Bulkeley, and his father in law, or his intended father in law. which, in relating a circumstance respecting Ireland, is supposed to be the same: who was going with him to get his marriage licence. What a terrible extinguisher to the flame of love! But to proceed: the broken fragments were borne like the wind, by the affrighted horses, which, unfortunately for Limerick, were not blown up: they set fire to their stable, and but for the exertions of the militia, all the Irish cows would have been consumed. A most fortunate circumstance, however, attended this unfortunate affair. A drunken outside passenger saved himself from the terrifying effect of this terrific explosion, by falling from the top, and fracturing his arm.

We are gratified in being able to relieve the gentlemen concerned in the several publications, from the distress they doubtless experience at such a calamitous event. There is not, nor was there ever such a coach from or to Limerick as the Telegraph. Kildorrery is the name of a hill; in the county of Cork, without even a hut on it, or a house within some distance: and from the badness of its approaches, almost inaccessible, except to horses, for which there are two good fairs in the year. So much for the coach, with its contents, including Mr. Flynn's barrel of gunpowder, and the flourishing town of--Kildorrery.