The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Drszas, Dsc. 14.

A somewhat curious case was brought to a conclu-
sion yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas, being
an action for assault and battery, brought by a
Roman catholic curate, named Foy, of Shercoek, in
the county of Cavan, against the Rev. Randal,
M'Cullum, a Presbyterian minister, residing in tbel
same neighbourhood. It appeared from the evi-
dence, which was very voluminous and contradictory,
that the Rev. Mr. Foy, having purchased a ran, was
in the habit of taking it out to shoot at birds for his
amusement, but by an unlucky coincidence he dia•
charged it at a small bird close to the defendant's
house, on the 12th of July last; and the Rev. Mr.
M'Cullum believing, it is to be presumed, that this
was dome, on that particular day, by way of bravado,
came out of a field in which he was, struck the plain-
tiff, and attempted to wrest the gun from him. A
gentleman who accompanied Mr. Foy managed to
get possession of the gun from both ; and the chief
contradictions in the evidence were with reference
to an expression then used by the plaintiff, namely,
whether he said to his friend, " Don't shoot him," as
himself alleged, or the contrary, as was alleged es
the other side. The case, which excited considerable
interest, and occupied the court during the
part of two days, resulted in a verdict oritthear
plaintiff, giving him 501. damages and 6d. oasts.
The estate of Sir John Craven Carden, in the
county of Tipperary. was put up for sale yesterday
in the Incumbered Estates Court; but only three of
the nine lots into which it was subdivided found pur-
chasers, and the price realised by these was 12,9681.,
being 19f years' purchase on a net rental of 6621. The
estate of Mr. Daniel Mc Nevin, in the county of
Galway, was next submitted for competition. The
net rent was 9331., and the sum produced 16,1731.,
or about 17 years' purchase.
Mr. Christopher Hamilton has withdrawn his pre-
tensions to the representation of Clonmel, perceiving,
as he himself expresses it, that there was no likeli-
hood of any adequate support.
The Irish Tenant-league had a meeting last even-
ing, at which there was as usual a great deal of
tall; the principal speakers were Mr. J. Mc Namara
Cantwell, Mr. Wilson Grey, Mr. Daffy, M.P., the
Very Rev. Mr. Kearney, and Mr. M. A. O'Brennan,
of hand-bill notoriety.
It is stated that Ur. Dorgan and Sir M. Barring-
ton are making arrangements for the purification of
the Dublin we're" Bardwell's patent, which
consists substantially of a filtering ram, by which
the water is made to pass through iron, scoria, char-
coal, and sand, which not only impounds the undis-
solved matter, but is said to deprive the water itself
of much, if not all, of its offensiveness. The chief
value of the process is said to consist in its producing
a good marketable manure from the matter retained
by the filter.
A =respondent of Saunders gives some particulars
eta murder committed near Loughrea ; he writss :
Os the night of the 3th mast,. as a man named John
Kilkenrey, about 33 years of age: of Ballyfa, within
six miles of Loughs's, was returning from the fair of
that town, and quietly driving home a cow which he
had there for sale, he was waylaid and assaulted on
the road, and from the effects of the injuries he re- '
°eyed expired about six o'clock on Monday evening,
the 12th inst. A man named Michael Coloban has
been arrested on the charge of committing the
murder.