The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

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DREADPUL MCRIWK ix WESTMEATH.—The morning
papers contain accounts of • dreadful minter oil Sun-
day week in the county of iVestmeath. The version of
the Express is as follows :—" A thione, Monday evening.
" Another of those !Mocking murders, now unhappily, nut
of unfrequent occurrence in this county, was perpetrated
on Smoky week, in the broad daylight, at a !dive
called Newtown, near the village of bruturany, seven
miles from this town. The unhappy vietini on this
mea•ion was • man named Laurence Kelly, a comfort-
able farmer, holding about :NV acres of land, and who
was shot dead while eating his dinner in his own house,
*tine Mini cant having fired in through the window.
Nu person was at the time in the house with the deceased
except his housekeeper, who, on returning to the kitchen
after serving luau with dinner, beard thc report of a shot,
and called out 4iking the deceased if he heard it.
Receiving no reply, she entered the room and found her
master quite dead—several slugs having passed through
his bead and on to the wall of the apartment, which
was stainei with portions of his brain. The deceased
attended mass yesterday at the chaple of Rallymore,
and it was immediately after his retuni that he was KO
brutally murdered. It is to be hoped the police will
succeed in discovering the assassin."

HKEArn rtissit.int or MAKRIAGE.—The CAW of
" Trowsdale r. Stewart," fir • breach of promise of
marriage, commenced on Friday week before the Lord
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench and a special jury,
and was continued by adjournment till Tuesday,
la-nen it wait brought to a conclusion. The affair seems
to have excited unusual interest in the north 44 Ireland,
and for several days the Belfast papers have devoted
nearly the wlofle of their available space to the elaborate
speeches of Messrs. trilagan and Whiteside, and to the
great 111&1111 of evidence elicited during the trial. The
plaintiff is a young lady living at 212, York road, Bel-
fast, and is the daughter of a gentleman who holds a
situation in the Belfast Custom Ifouiwi. The defendant
is • gentleman of property, • native of Holywood. The
811111111.41:1 Rini plaint contains three counts. The first
count alleges a promise to marry generally, and alleges
as a breach the marrying Lizzie Hope. The second
count alleges • proinise to marry on request. The
third count alleges a promise to marry within • reason-
able time after the death of Hugh Stewart, sen., the
defendant's grandfather. The breach in the last two
counts is the same as in the first. The defendant, by
his defence, denies the promise in the several counts at
forth, and thom these defences the issue have been
framed. Damages were laid at L 5,000. The question
therefore resolved itself into a question of damages.
His Lordship charged the jury at some length. His
Lordship's remarks were in favour of the plaintiff.
The jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a
verdict fur the plaintiff, with 1:500 damages and Gd.
Costs,
Auolttrg Itrßtirß. Accounts have reached the
authorities of a dreadful affair which occurred on Sun-
day in the town of Dungannon. A constable, a III• 11
wits had for 15 years maintained an exemplary
character in the police, had, contrary to the rules of
the service, privately married. He was on the point,
however, of obtaining the permission when inquiries
were set on foot, and the fact transpired that he hail
been already married. For this offence Holden was re-
duce.' to the rank and pay of a sub-constable for six
ttttt ithc. This information was conveyed to him by a
brother constable named Matthews, who was suspects-4
by floblen of being instrumental in discovering the
secret marriage. Acting upon this suspicion Ilukten fell
upon Nlattliews an-I shot hint dead. The assassin then
started oil, and in his flight encounter.l his sub-in-
spector cooling Ina of a house where lie had been paying
a visit, and was about to mount his horse, when Hidden
rushed ul•on him and inflicted upon his head several
fearful wounds with some ilagger-like instrument with
which he was armed. The inspector, 31r. W. If.
Matthews, is reported to be in an extremely precarious
state. The murderer thsn mounted hie victims' horse
and rode off at • furious npeed, and was not heard of till
Tuesday, when lie was arrested in the town of
Dundalk, where it was supposed lie was about to
embark on board one of the steamers bound for Liver-
pool.
BALLADs.—The Wexford ronser nil ire
states:—'' Two lads, giving the names of Michael and
Patrick Power, have been arrested by sub-constable
Dinn for singing seditious ballads. The young scape-
graces hail been singing a silty in honour of the hoped-
for adveht of the Emperor Napoleon, to welcome whom
all 'true sons of Erin' were called upon to aria, and
follow 'tile brave Dr. Cahill Several equally inflam•
niatory and solitious productions were found in the
isissessions of the hoye, who were taken before the
Mayor for examinatii n. They were allowed to depart
on promising to leave the town, and giving up their
stock if ballads."

SYNIPATHY ii lilt THe Port—At Waterfonl there has
been a great Sunday demonstration on the part of those
who syllll,llthift with the Pope, held in the Cathedral.
SN,Ches were delivered fMI exciting character, which
quite as much turned upon the derenee of the faith as
upon the question of upholding Pope Pius in his tem.
pond authority. Eight thousitnil persons Sr' reported
to have been present, who mut 111111 l insly adopted the
resolutions submitted to tl eon There was also held at
the same time, at the C ninelite Church, Dublin, a
crowded meeting of il iflv rent religious fraternities in
aupport ,df the 'tame object. 'Ellis agitation ix likely to
be extended to every part of Ireland in the course of the
winter. It is to be obaerve.l, however, that many
Roman Catholic noblemen Anil gentlemen have declined
to take any part in the 1111 l vement, not f any wish
to see the temporal separated from the apiritual power,
but simply because they du not think their religion will
be served by such denionatrations.