Government are acting by IrelancFon the good old rule of
shutting the door when the steed is stolen. A great many individuals have been arrested in Dublin, for aiding and assisting at Anti-Tithe meetings. As a curious specimen of the spirit that rules these meetings, it is men- tioned, that a dealer, having ventured lately, contrary to the regulation, to bring a keg of whisky to one of them, held at Sugar-loaf Hill, county Wicklow, it was instantly seized and staved. Lord Cloncurry's cotters have refused to cut down his Lordship's hay, because he continues to pay tithe ; and all attempts to conciliate them have hitherto failed. The servants of Mr. Bourne, the mail-coach contractor, are in a similar state of insurrection, though they have consented to return to take care of the cattle. The Protestants are mad north-north-west, as well as their Catholic brethren ; and their organs strenuously preach up a sys- tem of exclusive dealing, by way of retaliation. The Horning .Register says, O'Connell is to preside at a national Anti-Tithe meeting, to be held on the hill of Tara, on the 15th August. We shall see. A brutal murder was perpetrated lately at Aileen, near Tipperary. The following is the account given by time Cloninel Advertiser. " As Mr. Nicholas Scholtield, a respectable farmer, and tenant of B. B. Bmdshaw, Esq., a Magistrate of this county, was at supper on Sunday evening (June 1st), surrounded by his family, consisting of three sons, two daughters, wife, and servant boy, four armed men entered the house,. add cautioned the family not to leave their seats on pain of instant death. They thought it prudent to obey the mandate. Addressing Mr. Scholfield, one of the party then said—' Your landlord, Mr. Brad- shaw, gave you fire-arms at first cost ; we want them—wee do not in- tend to injure you or your family.' Scholfield explained, that he had given them up to his landlord about six months.back, and offered to make oath to that effect. Just at that moment, and after the fellows- had refused to believe Scholfield's oath, John Connors and Edmond Clifford, together with two other neighbours, hearing that armed men
had been in Scholfield's house, proceeded to his assistance. Connors, a powerful athletic man, just entered, and, laying his hand on the shoulder of one of the villains, asked, What brought you here?' What was the reply? The discharge of a blunderbuss at him ! The ball passed quite through his body, from left to right : poor Connors was dead in an instant ! Another shot was quickly fired at Scholfield's grandson ; which fortunately did not deprive him of life, but he was severely injured. Edmond Clifford then came forward to assist ; upon which he was fired at, and shot through the heart ! Then the murderers, after having plundered the house of a shot-pouch and some powder, decamped ; and on their way found a friend of Scholfield's in the yard, whom they placed on his knees and threatened to shoot him. They did not, however, fire at him, but broke agun on his head, and wounded him severely ; after which, they continued their way through Mr. Bradshaw's plantations, shouting and yelling, and glorying in the mur- derous deed which they had perpetrated. They appeared to be stran- gers, and were not in the least disguised. Scholfield is a very respect- able man, and has for many years enjoyed the entire confidence of his landlord, Mr. Bradshaw, and has superintended his property in the neighbourhood of Aileen. He had regularlyqualified for keeping fire- arms ; and the circumstance of Mr. Samuel Bradshaw having been -obliged, for personal security, to leave the country, rendered it neces- sary that Scholfield should be more active in the promotion of his master's interest. Clifford was a man of most excellent character, and wasin the prime of manhood. The fate of Connors was mournfully .distressing. He had been married about a week or ten days previously, and had been conveying his wife home at the time. He alighted from his horse, leaving his wife on her pillion, and proceeded to Scholfield's succour."
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