The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

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DEATH OF MIL RENZI' GIATIAN.—The papers an-
MOM* the death of Mr. Henry Grattan, late M.P. for
the county of Meath, and only surviving son of the great
Henry Grattan. The event took place rather suddenly
on Saturday week at his residence in the county of Wick-
low. Mr. Grattan, Uwu but natural, was • devoted
friend of Liberalism in the widest acceptation of the
term, and wan among the faithful few who adhered to
Mr. O'Connell throughout his stormy career of Irish
agitation. Mr. Grattan leaves no male issue, his child-
ren consisting of two daughters, both recently married,
and who, it is to be presumed, will inherit his large
estates Disease of the heart is aid to have been the
came of death.

AGRARIAN ONTRAGE.—The King's County corres-
pondent of Saunders's Newsletter writes as follows :
" The agrarian legislators continue to perpetrate enme
and outrage with impunity. Scarcely a week is suffered
to pass without some serious attack being made, and
those, whether of high or low degree, who may have in
any way tranagreessit the code, are subjected to gross
violence. About 2 o'clock on the morning of Monday.
the 18th inst., a band of men, consisting of at least
four persons, one of whom was armed with a short gun
or long pistol, and the remainder with bludgeons,
awated the dwelling-house of • man named Owen
Duffy, who resides at Derry-lam in the parish of
Italian, on the estate of Mr. John O'Brien,
Bahan-lodp and Mountjoy-square, Dublin. The
ruffians effected an entrance by breaking open the door,
and having thus gained admittance, one of them fired
the pin or pistol at Duffy, and wounded him in the knee.
The piece was loaded with ship. They then attacked
him with their bludgeons, and pre him a most
unmerciful beating. His little daughter appealed to
them for mercy, but bee cries and entreaties were in
vain. She they, like • true heroine, threw herself over
her parent, thinking her youth and sex would save her,
but the unmanly and cowardly ruffians also beat her
severely with their murderous weapons, with which
they indicted on Duffy and his child several severe
wounds. The only motive assigned for this savage
attack is that Duffy is a caretaker on • farm from which
two brothers named Mullin were sometime ago evicted
by Yr. O'Brien. These tenants opposed Mr. O'Brien
IneveryProceeding • and after • decree had been
pronounced at quart;ar sessions they appealed to the
sisiam, where they were also defeated; but notwith-
standing all the expense and trouble which they gave
Mr. O'Brien, who is a very indulgent landlord he would
not have had the decree put into execution, but that,
pending the final proceedings and subsequently, several
letters were sent to Mr. O'Brien, in order
todete7"gm from enforcing_ his just and Watkins rights.
Mr. Wilcock's, R. with Kith-Inspector matkins and
the police, visited Duffy immediately after the outrage,
but the result of inquiries and exertions have not
transpired. It is • angalar fact, but nevertheless true,
that while in point of numbers and magnitude more
mime has been perpetrated in this county than in many
others, there Dave been fewer eases of successful
detection than in any others."