The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

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LANDED NNTATIIII 00(7111%-.PPOpEr4yto the amount
of between 00.000 and g 40,000 was disposed of on
Wednesday before Judp Londeld, Among the estates
sold were thou of SD. Clement dedielr, in Tipperary,
and of Vidount Nosthwell, In Klidere. Kr, John
Carden wee a purcheur of a lot In the ftrelmained sound,
for the sum of 111,500. The adds was sold for the
benefit of the creditors of the Tipp:dory Ilanh.
()AROMA!, CUILes. The 'WM*/ Post high
Roman authority--sonfirms a statement Is the *Pool
dee His Mohnen: the Pope insane to cooed the purple
no Arehbishop Cullen, who la at prewnt a visitor In the
Sternal City, As London, with Ds two millions and
I odder of Protedantn has a eardlnal of it. own,
why sherd ikot Dublin, the head-quarters of Romanian'
in !Mud, be enabled to sport a outlet hat spot
spesial oftenlotuil The enthusiastic rueptiori given
to Dr. Wiseman &howl that the people can fully
appniside the conte:npleted honour in store for the
Papal delegate in Ireland.
Stoner Borten/ie.—A requitable northern journal
dales that on Thersday w.sh,a body of about /00 P.lband-
men were seen marching four abroad, at midnight,
the mountain diddela between Drapentown and Feeney,
in the county of Derry, with what objut in to, does
not appear. The same paper (the Derry Guardian),
alluding to the Nixon °Ong*, mentions thia drown-
Amu in aonnection with it :—"What graven,. the
atrocity of this outrage la the fact that IL,. Ifison had
just united with the other magletrates of the district In
impportmg the prayer of • memorial to the Governmeol,
drewu up and signed by the tenantry themselves, in

which they expreamed their regret and entire disapproval
of the barbarous offences that had been previously emn•
untied, and their determination to suppress (to the ut-
most of their
_power) such disgraceful proceedings for
the future, and -entreated The Executive to relieve them
from the police and sheep tax. It wee while the Rev.
/dr. Nixon and his brother magistrate.' were actually
Interceding on behalf of the tenantry that the pistol of
the thiamin was raised against his life ; and though
there are 20 or 30 houses around the spot and the in-
habitants must either have bean within their dwellings
or In the immediate vicinity about two o'olook on tile
Sabbath, not the slighthst movement well made to arrest
the miscreant., who were permitted to walk leisurely
away I This to our mind, is one of the moat awful
features of the tragedy. They acknowledged that the
statements regarding the distress which their pried.
had alleged to exist in the locality were untrue ; and
they prayed to be relieved from a tax which must prove
ruinous to the population if continued much longer, yet
they took the asicidel coarse of again plunging into
crime, and thereby prevented the proprietor, of the soil
from mediating with the Government on their behalf.
The landowners were lulled into the belief that an
altered state of feeling had supervened; and the magi.-
trasy of the county were on the point of soliciting the
Emulative to remit the burdensome taxation and to re-
move the extra police, when one of their number was
shot at under oircumetances compared with which 'Red
Indianism' is humanity itself; and there ii reason to
fear that this is only the first of • series of contemplated
massacres."

MURDIIR IN TOO QUINN'S COUNTY.—The Freemen's
Junta! 'tetei that a rumour reached town on Friday
evening that a gentleman named Richard Ely had been
shot at a plus sailed Kyle, in the Queen's County, and
dangerouly wounded. On Saturday night • further
account reached announcing that the unfortunate gen-
tlemen had died from the injuries be had received, and
that upiito the present the murderers had not been de-
tected. Further partioulare.—The editor of the Lainster
irpresshee furniehed Ela with the following letter, re.
oeived from his oorrespondent :—" Rosaree, Nov. 6.
You will be shocked and grieved to learn the death of
your old friend and relative, Mr. Richard Ely, of Hal-
leglimore Cutle, who has fallen by the hand of the
amain. Richard, who reeided in his own house, •
short dist...nos from the castle, usually dined with his
brother Robert and his aster at the wage and on Fri.
day evening, about bilf.past 7 o'clock, he left for hie
own residence. On pealing through a narrow stile lie
was fired at, the oontente of the gun taking offset in hie
left arm near the shoulder, the assauin's aim having
been evidently for his heart. Mr. Ely ran back to Ids
brullier'a hones, where ha fell front loss of blood. I)re.
Kingsley and Powell, from Roursa, were in eitWadance
aa soon as possible, and did what they amid to slop the
issemorrhego, Next morning Dr. Jaeah, of Maryhorough,
and We. 'Woods, of Romeo, and white ofHurril.ln•
°wary, were Men present, when it wu thudded that
amputation of the limb afforded the only °hence of
saving life, from the extenelvs injuries caused by the
pellets. The operation woe performed, but the lamented
gentleman each and expired in about three home after.
wards, The missile' with which the gun we. charged
are 'unposed to have been bullets eat in four, slit of
these pious having been found in the limb or *lathes of
the vleUnt, Meanwhile the tanotabulsry were on the
alert, and mend" of suspicion ealla against a young
person of bad °bander who hen abetiondad, but it may
not be judielous to give publieltr to the particulars at
this jenatarec enough to say, that a more trival cense
souk, nut well be imagined than that to whieh le attri•
holed this atrocious hietanee of the 'wild aplrit of re.
range' whieh degrade" the oharoater of our penantry,
A more kindhearted man, or one niore universally he.
loved than Richard Ely never existed. The Misers,
lily were of the old Uonservalive "ohm)l of polities, but
were eseudingly popular in the Queen's °aunty and in
the adjoining parts of the King's County and Tipperary.
They were, perhaps, the oldert and lappet ampler"
upon the estate of ilir Charles' Coate, M.P. They gave
considerable etaeleyelellt, el their improvements were
tstensive, The &noosed, who Mad a Ins powerful.
ouking man, about yews of age, was uninorried,
Plow fearful must be the slate of society when such a
life u that of Rishard Ely unlit be so wantonly
deetroyed. An inquest wee held on Monday (yeller.
day).— rioter —nonndrre News Loiter of Friday gives
the following In reference to the erassination of Mr,
Ely i--" Mourea, Welineadrty,—The murder of this
Isind•heorted and respected gentleman he. spread
amongst all Intik" a 011.014 feeling of horror. The pea.
sentry In hie own Immediate neighbourhood, to whom he
we. a kind friend and a good employer, mourn hie loam,
and mime In strong terms their deep feelings of path
tads for his many benevolent eels. They know the
liend whieh slew their beneketor and friend, They
talk openly and boldly of the brutal atrocity—they don't
oTempt to aosioeid their knowledge of the name
the somata—still they have no dread or horror
the fearful mime i they are eorrupted by the faint.
Eerily of melt strooltles, and they content themselves
with something of lamentation and regret at the be.
which they hare ousteined by the death 41 Mr, My.
The auassikalthough well known, le permitted to roam
allarge—no hand Is oltetrelehed to mum him, and in
every collage be Is certain of shelter and protection i and
the peasantry do not seines notwilhetending Mr.
Flnpolarity, the slighWet willingness to aid the °glues of
etios to apprehend the amain, The mithorillee eon.
as to pursue their inouiriee privately, and are taking
every prialible measure for the oapturs of the murderer,
but up to the primal their best efforts have been fruit.
leas.