The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

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Tin IRINH ATTDRNEY-GINERAL CHARGED WITH
LIBEL. —ln the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday, a
!notion wax made in the case of " SPCaldin against
Whiteside," for an order to exhibit interrogatories to the
right hon. defendant. The court granted the amilication.
The cause of action arose in the House of Commons,
where the Attorney-General had occasion to defend the
courxe taken by the Crown at lielfast, when Mr. M'Cal-
din and other junirs were ordered to " stand by."

THE LIMERICK ELEVTION RIOTS.—The riota in Lime-
rick, which have ended in the death of two persons and
the injury of iwveral others, occupy the attention of
the local papers. There is so touch virulence of feeling
inanifested in regard to the matter, that to adopt the re-
port of the occurrences as published would tend to Dow
vey to the unprejudiced reader very false impressions of
the facts. There was a great uproar and the police fired.
killing two and wounding several others. An inquest
has been opened in the Court House, Limerick, upon
the bodies of the deceased persons. We may perhaps
learn (ruin the resulta snore substantial facts that can be
gathered from newspaper reports of the not.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A PIOKST.—Am Irish paper
states that • man called late at night on the Rev. Mr.
Haeratty, a priest at llmghtsla, and told him he was
wawa,' immediately by • dying person. They set out,
and the guide said they would take a short cut across
some fields. Nothing suspecting, the priest accom-
panied, and was led to tho brink of a precipice, over
which he stepped, the night being pitch dark, anti, in
deference, the man giving the way to his reverence.
The place into which Mr. Hauratty fell wes an old
lilnedone quarry, aumLjt it said he would have been
killed (the distant* being about 40 feet) but for a sot of
stage that broke the violence of the fall. In about three
hours the unfortunate gentleman wit able to crawl
home.

MCROICH WILL OUT.—The Freeman's Journal eon•
tains the following :—" On the morning of the rith of
February the body of an unfortunate WOIIICII. 1111111 ell
Mary Madden, WA, discovered brutally murdered at a
place known as Argarvan, near the Curragh Camp.
Several wounds were on the body of the deceased, her
clothes were all torn, and a large stone warn forced a I
considerable way into her mouth. At the inquest a
witness deposed that he had heard on the night of the
minter a young woman screaming and calling out,
• Don't murder me.' The voice of the penion in distress
came from the direction in which the body was found.
On Wednesday, Inspector Ryan. of the G division, and
Sergeant Hopkins, of the Newbridge constabulary, pro- !
ceedeil to the Richmond Barracks and arrested Sergeant
Jones and Privates Patrick Daly and William Manly, of
the 14th Regiment, on suspicion of being concerned in
this murder. These suspicions are founded on the fact
of Daly and Manly being seen walking in company with
the deceased, and going in the direction of the place in
which she was found niurdered on the night of the 4th
of February, and that they were Loth abeient from their
quarters at the camp on the night in question. The
. evidence against Sergeant Jones is, that he was seen in
, company with Daly and Manly the night th murder
! was committed, and that he was also absent from the
camp on that night without leave, or being able satisfac-
torily to account for himself. The three prisimeni were
! transmitted to Naas, where an inquiry will be held into
the charge brought against them."