IRELAND.
An injunction has been issued from the Court of Chancery, restrain- ing all stock brokers from negotiating the new debentures issued by the :Dublin Pipe Water Committee, under a penalty of 5001. each 'debenture.
The Reverend Mr. Whitty,. Rector of Golden, near Tipperary, was murdered, in daylight, and in the immediate neighbourhood of his own house, on Wednesday last week. It appears that the deceased had 'been accompanied across the fields by a guide, a farmer of the name of Daniel, who parted with him on showing the direct path towards the ;glebe-house. Within five minutes after, and before Mr. Whitty had iroceeded more than one hundred yards on his way, the dreadful tragedy
was contifibmated,'Ind the Rector Wa§ ieft . for dead. One molts! wound Was inflicted.bY a heavy stone, Which had fractured a great. por- tion of his skull • and from the large orifice a vast quantity of blood, with part of the brain, hitt exuded. When discovered, the large stone was -still in the Virolind," and Mr: Whitty was breathing heavily, 'but totally senseless. • He was removed home in this state ;• and, what is surprising, lived until seven o'clock next Morning, but never for a 'moment evinced any syniptom of recovery from the stupor in which he lay. Several persons were ploughing in the field where lie was mur- dered ; and from the position of the ground, it is next to impossible that they should not hate been 'witnesses of the inhuman butchery. Mr. Whitty has left a large family. He had, it seems, received an offer from his parishioners of 1,0001. a year of composition for his tithes, and most -ample security for its payment; but he stood out for 1,4001., and had applied for and obtained eighty-six decrees, in consequence of the, refusal of the tithe-payers to comply with the conditions he offered. To this obstinacy on his part, • the Irish newspapers attribute the murder. That it was a murder of revenge, is obvious, as the money in Mr..Whitty's pockets and his watch were untouched.
On Monday afternoon, about three o'clock,. Lord Norwood, second son Of the late Lord Norbury, expired suddenly at his lodgings, in Far- rell's Hotel, Dominick Street. —Dublin Morning Register.
As the royal mail was on its way from Castlebar to Ballinasloe, on Saturday sennight, the two leaders took a start for the space of two miles : comingto abridge, the two restive horses bolted over, and were suspended by the traces, and could not be extricated until the traces were cut; when both horses Were precipitated into the river and their necks broken. The off-wheeler was killed against the battlements of the bridge. Fortunately the passengers escaped unburt.—Castlebar Telegraph. • A pensioner named Shannon, residing in Carlow, murdered his wife • on the 30th January, by severing her head -from her body With a butcher's knife, with which he had also stabbed her in several parts of the body. It •appeared on the inquest that he had been insane since Christmas.
On Saturday, a fellow named Annesley, a shopkeeper in Maghera-, near Downpatrick, shot a man named Gribben, a Catholic, through the shoulder, and another man, also a Catholic 'through the breast, with a double-barrelled pistol, because they retorted on Imim while damning the Pope and the Papists. Annesley was taken into custody next day, and lodged in the county gaol.
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