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New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 198, 22 April 1848, Page 4

Dublin, November 20. I am deeply giioved to state that the symptoms of tianquility fora few da)S past have, asl feaied, jxoveii totally deceptive. '1 he accounts fiom lloscommou, and other distuibed distucts, received this morning, die veiy alarming. A most ationous murder -n as commit ted jesteiday (Jsun<la\,) on the public road near Elphin, Count) of Koscommon—J he victim being the Heul. John Lloyd, Vicar of Anghum, w ho Mas shot dead on his leturn fiom the parish Chinch, half an hotn altei he had officiated in the peifounance of Di vine service. A letter now bcfoie me, dated Klpliui, Novombei 2S, contains the following partioulais of tins honible tiagedy :— "Tne Kev.J. Lloyd, Vicar of Angbiim, aflPi preaching his i>cimon tins day, in the paiibh-chur.-li, ictiiinod to his i cadence in Smith's town, ne^i- Elphin, accompanied by his seivant on liorse-baek. When about lull" a-mile from his house, a man aimed with a gun, came up, and add less In;,' the llev. gentleman, said— 'Soy your piajeis, foi }ou ate going: to be shot.' Mr. Llo\d exclaimed —'What have 1 done, that I sliould be murdered V The miscreant replied—' You put out a tenant two years ago, on youi estate in Leitnm, and I tell you say jour pi avers, for jour tune is come. The lullian then levelled his gun, deliberately took aim and died. Two b;i!ls entered the chpst of the unfortunate gentleman, •who fell a hleless corpse upon the road. The seivant »ode on to give the alaim. The murdeier escaped." The following appears in the Dublin Evening Mail: — "Just as we were pieparing for press, the following leached our office : — " lilphin, half past six o'clock, a. in., 2Slh November, 1847.— P00r Mr. Lloyd was shot this da), on his return home from Aughrim Church. He was accosted on his way by a man, who walked up to the llev. gentleman and coolh infoimed him that he had not long to live. _ Mr. Llo>d said lv» was notawaie of ever having injured any one. • Oh, yes,* responded the assassin, ' You have disj)Obsessed a tenant on the Leitrim estates ;' and ihen pulling a short gun from under his coat, lodged the contents in the victim's bod), who e\p"ned shortly afterwards," 1 have seen a gentleman who retui ned this day fiom the vicinity of Sliokcstow n, (lie scene of the late Major Mahon's murder, wheie he had been endeavoring to collect rents on a pioperl) of u liich he is the agent. He states thai he saw a "list posted on the road, containing the names of seveial persons whoaie to be muideied. The iiibt name was, that of a Roman Catholic gentleman, who holds a considerable pi operty in the County of Roscotninon.'

Dublin, December 13. LAW APPOINTMENTS. The Judgeship vacant by the demise of MiJustice Burton, has been offered to the AttorneyGeneral, and, contrary to general speculation, lias, it is said, been accepted by the light honorable gentleman. With reference to Mi. Moore's successor in the high office of Attorne)-Geneial, the Evening Mad states that it is confidently reported that Lord Clarendon Ims thestiongest indisposition to permit the ordinaiy conise of succession to take place on the present occasion— and that Mr.Henn, the eminent Queen's Counsel, is spoken of as the sueees&or of Mr. Moore. The Mad adds, that Mr. Heiin will not accept the appointment.

INDISPOSITION OF THE CHANCELLOR. The accounts this morning in rel.'lion to the health of the Chancellor, aie not moie favorable than they have been for some dajs past. This, of oonise, lends to inciease lather than to allay the anxiety which his numerous friends enteitain. This evening the repot t was, that some amendment had taken place, and that the i ight uonoi able gentleman was better.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY. A letter from Roscommon, dated yesterday, ami published in the Evening Mad, supplies the following important information with respect to the obtaimnent of a cine to the conspiiacy of which the Rev. Mr Lloyd was the latest victim : "The Magistrates have been busily engaged eveij day during tlie las>t fortnight in the investigation of the murder of the Rev. J. Lloyd. It was the effect of a deep-laid conspiiacy, and was buried in the deepest m\stery. i h rough private information which the Magistrates obtained, they •were yesterday able to get at not only the actual murderers, but ten ot the conspitators like« lse. Theie was a regular bat gain and sale for his murder by his own tenants. '1 he Magistrates had one of the perpetrators, and five of the confederates in custody on suspicion, and despatched three separate parties of police last night to apprehend the others, who aie, I trust, all in custody to-day." It also appears ftom the Mail, that to the list of proscribed victims to the system of Thuggee, is to be added the name of the young Marquis of Drogheda, for divers offences, as heiewitli set forth, against the code of the couspmitoib: — "This estimable young nobleman, who has lately manied the daughter of Lord and Lady Wharnclille, had taken up bis lesidenoe at the family seat at Moore Abbey, Monastereven, where he is expending large sums in imptovements, where his establishment of horses and hounds, &c, is princely, has had a threatening notice served upon him in the following manner: —the villain killed one of his sheep and left the skin at his door with the notice stuck in it, denouncing him and abusing him for mairying an Englishwoman. It appears that bet Ladyship found fault with the lazy manner in which the work-people in the house weie carrying on their trades, which obliged them to procuie other hands. Since the offence, wo understand the family intend leaving the country." A threatening notice served upon Loid Clonbrock, appears to have been the peremptory symptom of the advance of the Thug system into the County of Galway. The local journals from thatijnattcr, which reached this morning, abound

with details of agraiianouti age, and leave but hue doubt that this hillieito peaceful district has caught the infection which is now laying in the adjacent county of Robcommoii. With reference to the case of Lord Clonbrouk, the Western Star obsei yes— " One of the best landlords in Ireland, Loid Clonbrock, has, this last w eek, been served with two threatening notices, calling upon him to discharge from his employment both his stew - aid and his agiieultuiist. The letteis were for- \\ arded thiongh the Ahasciagh post-office. This excellent nobleman, excellent in all the relations of life— is resident on his property, giving extensive employment to the people, alibi ding to his tenantiy all the facilities for self-impiovement, assisting the neighborhood by the introduction of every useful means which can belter the condition of the country, and showing an example of what a kind libeial landlord should be— and \et thi6 truly good man has not escaped the ruffian denunciations of those lawless \vi etches pi ow ling tin ough the country, who are employed to evecule the bloody legislation of the disaffected. In (his instance the people have not the slightest excuse to oiler, the persons denounced being bi ought by his Lordship for the sole purpose of instructing his tenantry m the impioved sjsteinsof agriculture, the cultivation oi flax, and the manufacture of drainage-tiles. In the same paper there is the followingsigni-fit-ant paragraph.—- "Several stiange men have been lately obseived in the neighborhood of Ahasciagh and Castlegar, prowling about the countiv. T«o of them have been specially noticed, soliciting money and food atseveial houses. These fellous were leheved at Castlegar House some evening this week, and while one of them was in the act of stooping down for something that fell, a pistol diopped from beneath Ins coat." The Gilway Mercury gives the subjoined account, all but fully accomplished, to murder a tespectable fanner:- "As Mr. Michael M'Donogh, a farmer residing at Shrew, in this county, was leturniiighome fiomOuteraid, on the evening of Wednesday last, at about five o'clock, he was fired at by some ruilian, and severely wounded, one of the balls having enteied his. shoulder, and taking a diiecticn towaid* his heart ; another ball passed through his hat. Immediately on being Cued at, he rode as fast as possible towards his home, and immediately pioceeded to Outeraid, where he was attended by Dr. Davis. Mr. Martin Cloon, S.I , proceeded to wheie the outrage was committed) and made every possible inquiry respecting it. He alteruaidsai rested seveial peisons of that neighborhood on suspicion, and lodged them in Outeiaid LJiidewell, where they lemain until the matter be investigated. Some of the parties in custodyhave been, for years back, engaged in law w ith Mr. M'Donougb The causes of dispute amse fiom some land transaction, as Mr. M'Donough held a large farm, which he sub-let, to several small tenants. Several other samples of the progress of the Itoscommon conspiracy towards Galway, are furnished by the local papers. Accoidingto the Tipperary Constitution, Mr. Kemmis, the Crown Solicitor, was expected to arrive in Clonmel on Satui day evening, for the puipose of enteiing into an investigation into the seveial cases for trial, and the natuie of the evidence in each, in order, it is presumed, to make preparations for the holding of a bpecial commission. In the North, too, the warfare against life and propeity is slon ly but surely gaining ground. A Cavan paper, the Anylo Celt, says — " We legiet to state that Mr. Scott, of Foil Fiederick, one of the most indulgent landlotds of this or any other country, has leceived a threatening notice. Last year Mr. Scott supplied some of his small tenant-., at their own icquest, with funds lo einigiate to Ameiica. The farms thus vacated he divided amongst his remaining tenantry. This however did not suit Molly Maguire's economical code, who wrote to this excellent landlord to say that he was not on any occonnt to attempt to lessen the population on his estates, and that if he did not put in a new man for every one that had emigrated, he would hear from Molly again." The annexed statements are furnished by a Tyrone correspondent of the Evening Mail: — "On Wednesday last, the Sth instant, a letter, bearing the Deny post mark, was received by Mr. A.W. Cole Hamilton, Beltrim, threatening "to shoot him like a dog," and telling him that the writer would do 60 even though he waited six months for an opportunity. Ou the same night, between nine and ten o'clock, as three young men, named Leech, Davis, and Mossey, ueie returning from Gortin market, a shot was fired at them fiom behind a ditch in Beltrim demesne. Both circumstances weie investigated on Thutsday, by Mr. Francis Ellis, Mr. 11. DJ Conlson, R.M., Mr. J.M. Reed, and Mr. A. W, Cole Hamilton, but nothing was elicited, beyond the circumstances being sworn to as above. Mr. Cole Hamilton has for twenty years been almost constantly resident — lias spent a large sum already in giving employment and improving his estate, and has within these few da>s got a loan from the Board of Woiks, under the Land Improvement Act, which will give employment to the able-bodied on the estate for the next three yeais." REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The Repeal Rent for the week was announced to-day to be £22 ss. l£d. The proceedings were enlivened by a letter from the " leader," from which it is quite evident that this young gentleman has not yet retiieved his promise — "to die on the floor of the House."