Many outrages are reported this week in Ireland, including four
murders and one attempted assassination. A man has killed his brother, at O'Dorney in Kerry, during a drunken quarreL Patrick Shiel has been murdered near Strokestown in Roscommon; it is suppm.ed in consequence of raising the price of his corn twopence a barreL The body of an old man has been found barbarously mutilated in a plantation near Rathdodney in Queen's County: he had had some disputes with two nephews respecting land. One Sullivan has been killed in a faction-fight at Sneen fair. Tipperary closes the hideous list with an attempted murder of a farmer near Bornsokane: he was shot at and wounded in the evening near his own house: he had taken possession of some land from which another had been ejected. Two more murders have been since reported. Raleigh, an under-agent and care-taker on the estate of Lord Massey, in the Eastern part of the county of Limerick, has been butchered by a pitchfork thrust through his head. Some of his own relatives are suspected of the crime; and a dispute about land is assigned as the motive. William Stapleton, of Lorha in Tipperary, has been shot through the body by his brother-in-law, one Phelan. Land was the cause of this atrocity also.
Tipperary, which possesses such a bad eminence in the annals of crime, has not been remiss during the past year in paying the Repeal rent, thor.O.eolne _ its readiness in paying any other kmd of rent. Emeisjeem-i, to December 23, the Repeal subscriptions of tile-e6Cti:lajanted. to 3,0341. 98. 3d.
Lord MmItearsireaki published in the Limerick Chronicle a statement respecting the rictes.hhe Earl of Limerick's funeral; the reports of which were somewhat in respect to Lord Monteagle. He was represented as being hustled, as escaping into a public-house and concealing himself under a bed, and as res cued from his hiding-place by dragoons with drawn swords; all of which assertions are untrue. He was taken into a house by some "humble but resolute citizens"; and the excitement having subsided, he crossed over to the cathedral, without let or hinderance, before any soldiers arrived.
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