IRELAND.

Evening Post, Issue 209, 9 October 1865, Page 2

IRELAND.

The unwonted spectacle of an 'execution in the county of Dublin took place the other morning, in front Of KilmairthdMgaol.' ' Tlie • culprit, Pattick Kilkenny, murdered his - sweetheart, Margaret Farqu'har, at a place cal ed Palmers ton, in the northern- 'division of the county. He voluntarily eonfessed^is % guilt to the police, and was at once taken ,. into custody. The remains p£ th« murdered woman were found in the' place indicated by the murderer,a ditch not far distant from her family's residence. At the trial he pleaded" ? not guilty, but mainly on the evidence of a confession and a ' police- constable named Maguire he was convicted. He died very penitent. . 4UOO or 5000 people witnessed the . . execution, and conducted .themselves with edifying propriety, the ; immense Srowidf' '" kneeling in prayer ' 'when! the con vict wag ,'Z dying. Kilkenny, who htid be^ri, receiving.' the spiritual instructions . of One or two Roman Catholic priests and the Ststers of " Cliarity, left a confessidn behind him ; he ; , states that the girl angered him by some jeering remark, and that he impulsively struck her with his hand, knocking her info ' the ditch head-foremost. She Iny still, and he at first thought she was feigning to be dead ; but, after a little, when he tried, to " ; raise her, he found that he had killed her. The name of the victim^.. was Margarets Farquhar, and she was a , peasant , girl of remurkftble beauty. After iv severe, on teat the cltvtff Dublin'/ has returned Mr. Guinness and, Mr,. ,Pini; The two late members Mr. GrogaVahd Mr. '" Vance, have both now disappeared from' the.. , scene. Mr. Grogan retired before the election, but MrV Vance hns been beaten by Mr. Jonathan Pirn, who had a majority of about 500. This election has been distinguished by more riots, and disturbances than any general > election within our memory. ' In many plnces severe contests took place, attended with (>eriouß consequences, and in a multi- , tude of instances property has been destroyed to a considerable extent. * A serious encounter has taken place be?, , tween Catholics and Protestants, at Aurragh- • more, in the county of Armagh, by which seven men of the Protestant party received gunshot wounds, and many .othurs of both . Bides were more or less bruised by blows from stones. One man, named Dunlop,. is so severely iujured that he is not expected to , recover. The conflict arose out of the custom of lighting bonfires on the eve of St, John's-dny by the Catholics of the district, ! which custom is said to have been intenered with in previous years by the Orangemen, a fact which led to the Catholics providing themselves this year with fire-arras, which they used on a body of Orangemen marching . past them in procession.