EXCISE SEIZURE the night of the 11th inst., Oliver Landreth, Esq., supervisor of excise, accompanied by the Messrs. Larkin, Braithwaite, and Smith, Officers, proceeded to the townland of Gortavale, near the village of Rock, county of Tyrone, and succeeded in seizing a large size still at work. The officers apprehended two men who were in the act of running from the still-house, and also destroyed a large quantity of wash. The officers in pro- ceeding to Dungannon with the still-head and worm and the two prisoners, were met in a field which adjoins the land leading to Rock, by a formidable party of men, who collected from the neighbourhood, and were well supplied with deadly weapons, such as pitchforks, large sticks, &c., and they demanded the prisoners, and would not allow the officers to proceed further. The officers remonstrated with the mob on the impropriety of their conduct, at the same time refusing to comply with the request of giving up the prisoners ; but the populace made a rush, and dragged the prisoners from the officers. They afterwards succeeded in taking the worm from the revenue gentlemen, who, however, were enabled to destroy the still.

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