Carlow, on Tuesday week, by a crowd that collected to prevent his men serving latitats, and he had a very narrow escape. The Hartingans, father and son, were on the same day almost beaten to death at Kilsheelan; but, with characteristic national vitality, have sufficiently recovered to swear informations against three of them, who were in consequence arrested by the police as partisans in the riot. In the county of Kilkenny, a savage attack was made last Thursday, by Whitefeet, on the house of George Dormer, a co ble farmer, within ant of Lord Carrick.

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Being refused admittance, they forced open the door and two or three fellows entered, one of whom shot Dormer in the thigh. His son then seized the gun; and the party retired, leaving it with him, as if overawed by his resolute resistance.-Times Correspondent.

Awful Catastrophe. As Captain Keats, R. N., nephew of Sir Richard Keats, Governor of Green wich Hospital, was sailing in an open boat in Batticombe Bay, Devonshire, on the 8th of last month, a squall off the land took her so suddenly, that before the sheet could be cast off she capsized, and sunk. There were Mrs. Keats and two of her sisters, Miss Diana and Miss Louisa Pitman, and a boatman, also in the boat. Captain Keats instantly laid hold of Miss Louisa, and swam with her a considerable distance towards the shore, till a Preventive Service boat put off and rescued them both; when he learned the melancholy fact that his wife and her sister Diana were both lost, together with the boatman. The body of Mrs. Keats and that of her sister were found entangled in the gear of the boat.

THE concerts have been, and continue to be, so numerous this season, that we cannot stay to notice half that are entitled to commendation. We shall therefore only say, that the general excellence of these entertainments speaks volumes in favour of the improvement of the national taste in music. There are, however, two or three of which we cannot refrain from saying a word: those of Messrs. Saloman, Giubilei and Sagrini, Chelard and Eliason, and Bochsa. Mr. Saloman's was an excellent concert; and the performance alone of this young gentleman on the piano-forte was quite sufficient to render it attractive. Mr. Saloman has taste feeling, warmth, and execution, combined with great judgment; and, though very young, his powers in the higher branches of composition will soon raise him to great eminence in our national school. The concert of Signor Giubilei and L. Sagrini was crowded even to suffocation. Signor Guibilei is well known to the public as a basso cantante of considerable power and an excellent actor; but he deserves the greatest encouragement for the persevering industry with which he has applied himself and very successfully too-to master the difficulties of our language, and sing the words of " Britain's Muse," in its own native idiom. M. Sagrini is a guitarist of considerable talent, and a composer of great elegance for his instrument. Of this concert we need only say that it was graced by the united talents of Pasta, De Meric, Cinti-Damoreau, Miss Saunders Osborne, Miss Atkinson, Rubini, Donzelli, Tamburini, Hartzinger and Zuchelli, all of whom sang in their very best style; and we may add that we were delighted at the warmth, and taste, and execution with which Miss Saunders Osborne, with her fresh and youthful voice, sang the "Tirano Amore."

Messrs. Chelard and Eliason gave us also a rich treat; unfortunately, however, the inefficiency of the orchestra-many of the performers, we understand, having failed to attend-prevented justice from being done to Chelard's overture to Mitternacht. Eliason's concerto on the violin was beautifully executed; indeed we never heard this young violinist display greater power and taste. He was rapturously ap plauded. Madame Malibran was, as usual, exquisite; she is certainly the most accomplished performer of this or any other age. In the second part, she sang the "Sul Aria" of Mozart, with Miss Saunders Osborne, and the latter young lady performed her part in such excellent taste as to call forth a most flattering compliment from Paganini, who happened to be present. Rubini and Giubilei, and Hartzinger, and H. Phillips, and Dobler, and Madame Devrient, each contributed to the entertainment, and Henri Herz wound up the performance by executing one of his extraordinary and beautiful compositions upon the piano-forte. Bochsa's concert was really one of the best of the season, and the inimitable performance of this gentleman upon the harp was of itself sufficient to insure his success, even had he played alone, instead of being assisted, as he was, by many of the great stars of the musical firmament.

Want of space forces us to defer, till our next number, notices of Paganini's concerts, and De Beriot's dramatic concert, and the concert of Pixis. We understand that the accomplished and elegant pianist and composer George Osborne is to give a concert, in a day or two, at Willis's Rooms; and that he will be assisted by the very first talent in the country, both native and foreign.