The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

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THE NEw COMMERCIAL TREATT.—The Belfast Neu,-
letter states that the Chamber of Commerce there have
already deputed two influential members of the coon-
ell—Mr. J. Hind and Mr. J. Preston—to proceed to
London to meet deputations from heeds. Dundee, and
other districts, and to wait upon the Government for
the purpose of representing the importance of extending
the advantages of the new commercial system in France
to the linen trade of the United Kingdom.
THK Pope. AND 1118 IRISH FRIENDA.—A banquet
was given on Tuesday evening at Karnsla to Colonel
Vandeleur. one of the members for the couuty of Clare.
In times not very remote the gallant colonel was re-
garded as the leader of the Conservative party in that
quarter ; but a great change has since taken place, and,
in his speech to his constituents on the night inenti 111 l ed,
lie made • clear and candid confession of past errors,
and declared himself in every scum • Liberal of the
first class. He was • Protectionist; he now see* the
benefits conferred on agriculture in Ireland by a repeal
of the Corn Laws. Religious equality should be further
carried out by throwing open the Irish Chancellorship
to Roman Catholics; while, as to the great question of
the temporal power of the Pope, he was at one with the
Irish Bishops and 1./r.
ATTKMPT To MCRDER.—The state of two Irish coun-
ties (King's and Westmeath) has lately become • source
of anxiety from the frequent cominission of outrages of
the very worst kind in the districts indicated. Scarcely
a week passes of late without an account of some of
those sanguinary atten.pta upon life which it was hoped
we had heard the last of when Tipperary could be com-
pared to Down in social tranquility, and when the
absence of crime formed an agreeable feature in judi-
Mal charges. The following particulars of • murderous
assault upon an under agent of Sir C. H. C(iote, which
it is feared will have • fatal result, are given in the
Erenieg Mail:—On Monday night, about 10 o'clock,
Mr. George Dunne, an extensive landholder, and under-
agent on the King's County estates of Sir C. H. Coote,
left the house of s friend in Tullainore with whom he
had been spending the evening, and walked towards
his own residence, situated in another part of the
town, accouipanied by • 1111111 named Ryan. When
they arrived near Mr. Dunne's house Ryan separated
from his companion, and proceeded on his way to his
residence in the country. He had previously—as has
been since ascertained—observed a man following him
and Mr. Dunne, but not apprehending any danger lie
took no notice of hint. Ryan had not proceeded farther
I than the length of one street when he heard a shot.
This did not Alarm him, as lie ' imagined that somebody
was firing at rats.' It tuned out, however, that the shot
had been fired at Mr. Dunne just as he had reached his
own door, wounding him dreadfully in the head, face,
and chest. One eye was completely torn from itssocket,
and the adjoining cheek riddled with slugs. Another
slug is lodged in one of the collar bones, and several have
penetrated the side of the unfortunate victim of Riband
vengeance. It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. Duune
, lies without hope of recovery. But we have now to
record a damning fact, which would be incredible in any
' country in the world save our own. The murder —for
tio, we fear, we may call it—took place at ten o'clock On
Monday night, in a county town containing 6,(0) inha-
bitants, defended (11 by a stipendiary magistrate, two
other magistrates, a county inspector, a sub-inspec-
tor, a head constable, with • full complement of consta-
bles and sub-constables; and yet not a whisper f the out-
rage reached the authorities until nine o'clock the fol-
lowing morning ! The offence for which Mr. Dunne has
been executed, was of course, agrarian."