On friday last a sergeant and two sub-constables were ordered to convey a prisoner, charged with murder, from Ballyporeen to Cahir, in the County of Tipperary. Whilst about two miles from their destination, between 4 and 5 O'Clock in the evening, a countryman overtook them and accosted them, offering the sergeant his pipe to smoke. The sergeant told him that they were not allowed to smoke while on duty, upon which the fellow rejoined, "Better men than any of your sort would not refuse it.". He then continued to walk after the police until, arriving at a turn of the road, he struck the sergeant unawares with a stone on the back part of his head and knocked him down. On the instant, and before his companions could stand on their defence, 14 or 15 fellows jumped out from the ditch, and assailed them with sticks, stones, and other weapons, nor did they desist until they were left in such a condition that their recovery is hopeless. The whitefeet after glutting their vengeance, carried off the rescued prisoner amidst savage yells of exultation, and ascended a neighbouring mountain, where they remained till the descending darkness enabled them to proceed to their respective homes. The danger of sending such small parties of police through disturbed districts has long been a subject of reproach to the authorities, but will now doubtless command attention. Mary