A DESPERATE CHARACTER.-On...
A DrSPERATE CHARACTER.-n Monday iiighlt last, (12th inst.) Mlr. Ponsonby, chiefconstable, with a party of his po. lice, succeeded in apprehending that notorious ruffian Lynch, Rick. named Cahy, who xome time since despetately weunded oue of the police with a large knife, upon his apprehending him at Carrigbeg. When taken, he had in his possession the carbine of which he then robbed the policeman, which was primed andiloaded, and it bit pcket a quantity of cartridges made up ready for use. Behind vhere he was sitting was also a case of pistols, pritned and loaded. In the house, a fellow named Paddy Lynch, of whomn the police had got a description, as being a companion of Cahv, was also appre- bended; in hni pocket was a quantity of gunpowder and sonic very good flints. Upon serchingtlesnmore closely, the police discover. ed two handkerchiets and some monoy, which led to a suspicion that a robbery had been recently committed by thiemi. Upon inquiry on Tuesday morning, it was ascertained that a young woman m theser_ vice of the iMarquis of Iaterford had been robbed on iMonday af- ternoon, on her wayto Curraghmore. Upon being sent for, she imn- mediately identified both the prisones, ftom among several people, as the tw;o wbo robbed her, Cahy holding the carbine, and the other, Paddy Lynch, the two pistols over her. They were yesterday con. veyed to our county gaol, under a strong escort of Mr. Pensonby's po1ice. The apprehension of these two desperate characters is most fortunate for the country, and reflects great credit on MIr. Pontonby, whose activity and decision upon the occasion were highly praise- worthy._ Waterfard Ckronikke. A German, of the name of Klotch, a very worthy man, was cook and mairc.d'hotel to the Empress Catherine; thongh old, he was a court beau, and very spruce about the head ; and being a favourite with ber imperial Alijesty used to hand sonic particular dishes to her on great occasions. One of the tormenits in bigh northern latitudes, where the summer is so short and hot, is the in. numeiable host of flies that tease you. Some wags, aware of this, got the old gentleman's bestbag-wig, and powdered it with the finest pulverized ouble-refined white sugar, so that when he walted at ta. ble, he was beset, like Pharaoh, with the worst of his plagues. He beat with' his hands, blew, pured reddened iu the face, and at lost, no longer able to bear siently the torment he endured, burst out suddenly with the ezc1amatjon of " Donder ana blitz, vas is dasi for a llpllumaner l" lier Majesty, aware of the trick, soothed him; w to tonder the flis should exclusively level xll their ' wig, which he reluctanly wvas obliged to do; and a*x?^finis~hia lus attendance in a full dret, suit of embwt 4 clothles, with his i skbd thave4 hUa