STATE OF IRELAND (From the Times, December 31 )

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 203, 10 May 1848, Page 2

STATE OF IRELAND (From the Times, December 31 )

Tun following accounts of two murders appear in tlic Mm/0 Constitution . — '' On Wednesday la*t, Mr. John F. Bourke, coronci , I held anincjueston the body of Robert llcnuelly, who was barbarously murdered by four ruffians paily in the evening, in this town, on Monday week. Several witnesses were examined, and amon» the lest, Mr. Neul Gallagher, thiough whose exertions and conrngeous conduct, two cf the p«riy were arrested in the fart. Much c e'lil" is due to the townspeople, who, in ihr .ibsuiceof thi! police, hunted three of the murderers down, and succieJed in li Hiding them over to the authorities, 'I he following verdict was returned by the jury :—": — " Wilful murder against Martin Mulroony, Anthony Dt-mpu'y, and Thomas Muldoon, aided ami abetted by O'hers onUnonn ; and we beg to express our high approval of tin* praiseworthy conduct of the inhabitants of the town for their exertions in arresting und handing over those pai tics to justice." We regret that the coroner did not pci nut evidence to be adduced against Rouike, one of the accused, who was evidently a priucpal, inasmuch as he it was who hired the as-as-sins to commit the deed, and we learn that since 1113 enlargcmenf lit fled thecountry. We are unable, from pi ess of matter, to give the inquest, which we have of considei able length. On the 19 h December, Thomas Gannon and Patrick Gannon, both of Cregganbawn, about five miles from Louisburgh, were disputing about land ; Patrick Gannon, who is nephew to Thomas Gannon, was turned out of the home; he then secreted mmsslfin the neighborhood until he saw the uncle pass ; he then flew at the ill-fated man, gave him a blow of a ' loy ' which broke his skull ; he died in a few hour* after. A vei diet of wilful murder lias been letuined. Ti c police wei eon the spot shortly after, but up to this time there is no trace of the oftende-." The efiecls of the new pacification bill on the Tipperary sharpshooters are thus described by the JNenagh Guaxlian:— a" Last Sunday will be a memorable day amongst the ' real Tipperary boys ' Vast numbers were to °bo seen in evciy direction armed with guvs— taking, as they said themsehes, their ' farewell shot.' Some of the peasantry are already beginning to offer their fireaims at first cost price, others at half price, to the vendors they purchased from ; but there has .been no transfer of stock of this description, their respective armouries being already overstocked." The same paper announces the arrest of one of the murderers of Mr. Roe, of Rockwell :~- 11 We have just learned that SubJnspector Cox, on Monday morning last, at thrpe o'clock, had succeeded in captui ing one of the assassins of the late Mr, W, Roe, named Lanergan (or Loughnane), at his residence •it Boytonratb, fiom which he had been absent ever since the tragic deed was perpetrated until Christmasday. This fellow is brother to the person who figured in piint so olten, by writing letters from Boytonrath, justifying the murter of Mr. Roe." The Cork Constitution also announces the arrest of a muuleier, one of the paity charged with killing the ganger on the Cashel railway :— " On Chvistmasday Sub constable White, of the Capwel! station,, arrested a man named John Darcy, a labouier, charged with the wilful murder of a man named Michael Smith. Smith was a ganger on the Great Southern and Western Railway at Baltybropby, in the Queen's County, and having declined to comply with some orders issued by the agiaiian legislators, he was murdered on ihe 13th of November. The murder appeared to have been perpetrated with hammers, his skull being shattered to pieces, and his blood and brains scattered around where the body lay. After the murder Darcy fled, and having come into Cork, enlibted in the 67th regiment, which is about to sail loi Gibraltar. He was aircsted by Sub-constable AVhite., when on parade in the bail ack yard. TJiib aucst has led to the discovery of iurlher information inspecting the nnudei, which, it is expected, will result in the capture of two others who weie engaged in the crime."

(From the Dublin Evening Post ) Commenting upon the threatening notices served on Sir Charles Coote and his agent, mentioned in Morn, ing Herald, of Tluusday, the Duhlm Evcniwj Post says .— <% Often have we had occasion to speak of Su Charles Coote as an excellent resident proprietor, expending his large income upon his estates* and making laudable exertion to advance the welfare of his tenantry and, the geneial improvement of the country What a shocking state of socieiy it must be when such a man is exposed to the indiseiimindte vengeance of the villains who are extending their system of terror far and wide. The testimony bore to the conduct of Sir Chailcs Coote, as a landlord, by the Rev. Mr. O'Connor, exactly accords with our own opinion on the subject, lepeatedly expressed in this journal. Surely measuies calculated to put a stop to this abominable system will operate as a relief and a protection to the well disposed population, by banishing 1 the wi etches who intrude themselves in peaceable districts to carry out their own dbolical objects "

{Erom the Deny Sentinel.) It has been suggested by the London Standard and other Protestant journals, that the liish landlords should, for their piotection, be escorted when they go abroad by servants, selected from the Protestant yeo.. manry of Ulster. This would, indeed, be a useful piecaution ; but if the gentiy of lieland had uniformly given their countenance and support to persons of their

[From the Belfast WhUj.) In this countiy the Loul Lieutenant will receive the cordial encouragement of eveiy good and sensible individual, iv his efforts to put an end to assassination. But, unhappily, theie is a class of poisons, lepiescnted by the Freeman's Journal, and Dr. M'Hale, fiom whom not only no such encomagement, but, on the contiary, discomagement and obloquy, may be expected They will, of course, declare their abhoirence of minder ; but then they will do their best to inflame the passions of the ignorant, and cover with vituperation those who labour to vindicate the law, and provide for the secuiity of life and pioperty.

(From the Fj eeman's Journal. ) THE HUB AND CKY ACT.— THE PROCLAMATIONS. " The first sfcp has been taken — the proclamations under the newact have been issued — andtrom the 21) \\ of this month, ten oat ot the thirly-two counties into winch lielanJ lus been divided will be in the linudc of the police agenU, at who a c discretion have been ponced tlie property and the liberty of tic people of this cjuntry " The Freeman goes on at considerable length to criticise the act, and proceeds : — " Vast powers, how. cv. r, will be oonfened ot the executive by the (Baines cljuse. Every person suspected of harbouring a felon may be committed to prison, and remain there till discharged at assizes or special commission. The whole population of a proclaimed district is thus placed at tiie mercy of Ihe police and the Delahunts of the Castle. The gaols may be, and no doubt will be ciammed with innocent and unoffending men ; but we repeat that, while justice and reverence for the ancient law have an abiding place on the Irish bench, and while there exists at the Irish bar a fearlesi advocate to elicit them there can be no conviction under the Btiiaes clause."

own creed, by locating them as tenants on their own estates, anil engaging thorn in their households, thcie would now be no necessity lor talking about " body guaids." An offer of a few shilling an acic moie of lent by a Roman Catholic seemed for him a piefeicncc on the land, while the hardy and industrious Piotcstant tanner was driven from the country to cultivate the wilds of America.