The New Hampshire Gazette

From London papers.

Ireland.—We extract the following from the Dublin Freeman's Journal of May 26 "We trust that there is exaggeration in the afflicting details communicated by the correspondents of our contemporary and of an evening paper :—

The Police.—Nine persons killed and seven mortally wounded.—In what country do we live? Is there to be any mercy for the lives of the people of Ireland? Or for the slightest causes, which in England are severely punished by the constable's staff, are they to be slaughtered like wild beasts?

The city was indignant at the outrage on one woman, but wanton and sanguinary as that might be deemed, what is it to this massacre by the paid guardians of life and property? Lord Anglesey surely will bring the murderers to instant trial. All the outrages in Clare put together, do not equal the enormity of this, if the following statement be true, of which we have not the slightest doubt. It is the letter of a young gentleman to his uncle, and bears the plain marks of truth and simplicity :—

"CASTLEPOLLARD, Tuesday May 23d, 1831.—It is well you were not here on yesterday to witness the slaughter of the poor innocent men, women, and children, who fell victims to the blood thirsty Peelers, I will not call them police! About six o'clock, some of the people were rioting among themselves, and I can assure you I saw the riot at an end when the Peelers, without any more provocation than a few stones having been thrown from one or two deluded persons, commenced firing balls at every person who came in their way. Even the inhabitants were not secure, as several balls went through the windows. Jenkle Edward's family had a fortunate escape; one ball entered the parlor window, and lodged in the wall inside. There were nine persons killed on the spot, three of whom were old women. As to wounded, I cannot yet calculate on the number. There are seven in the hospitals not likely to survive long; even the poor cripples did not escape. I will not finish this until the inquests are held.—As some of the bodies were removed to the country, the Coroner was obliged to go there, and will not examine the witnesses till to-morrow. There can be a great number got to prove that it was premeditated."

The next is from the correspondent of a Dublin evening paper :—

CASTLEPOLLARD, May 24.—The melancholy event which took place in this town yesterday, at the fair, exhibits another instance of the character and conduct of the constabulary force, who are paid by the country for protecting the lives and properties of the people, as well as the peace of society. During the fair, which was in general orderly and quiet, some trifling disputes took place. One of those occurred in the afternoon about six o'clock; the police, some of whom were in a public house, suddenly entered their barracks, and having taken their arms and ammunition, advanced from thence into the fair, which is held in the square of the town. They had just appeared there when the quarrel had ceased; seeing no occasion for their presence longer, they were returning, when some women and children, collected about a show in the centre of the fair, began to shout and hiss. The police suddenly wheeled round, and without giving any caution, opened a destructive and murderous fire of ball cartridges in all directions, the effects of which on many poor defenceless victims, whom business or curiosity detained there to that hour, and now welter in their blood are before my eyes. Seven of those, five men and two women, are dead—they were killed on the spot Another is in the agonies of death, and seven more, as far as I have yet heard, are wounded. Some I fear mortally, as an amputation of their shattered limbs is absolutely requisite. The bullets entered the shops and windows of the inhabitants, and it is almost miraculous that in those houses no blood had been spilled. While I write, the coroner, Mr. Dixon, and a Jury, are viewing the bodies. I understand that the magistrates of this session, have forwarded a report to the castle, requesting an investigation of the affair, which, it is hoped will satisfy the ends of justice. The police were not satisfied with the first fire, but primed and loaded several times, and took deliberate aim at some hiding and others running away.