The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-16 00:00:00

VACANT.

Racrouv.—Sidbury•, Salop, diocese of Hereford, value
2271. and residence ; putzon, liarl of Shrewsbury : Key. IL
Muddocks deceased... . .

VlVAltAGE.—Leighton, Salop, diocese of Lichfield, value
2181., and residence; patrons, representatives a 'Ate 'vicar-:
the Rev. IL. Idaddocks, deeea.sed....

ERPETUAL .CltAelF-4.-111ackford, Wedmore, Somer-
setahire, diocou: of Bath and Weill patron, the Vicar of
Wedmore: Ikv. T. F. Salmon, promoted,
Northampton, St. Katharine, diocom of Peterborough ;
patrons, Ityndman'to trustee.: Ike. B. Guest, pl.ollloted.
i'IIINCI PA Ln II IP of the Money Schools, Bombay: Ike. T.
Jerrom, deccaatd.

Mututac. A correapondcnt of the Clonmel
Chronicle says:—" I send you a statement of one of the
most brutal murders that ever disgraced Tipperary. The
victim, Richard Kennedy, a quiet inoffensive man, was
employed as cure-taker on the land,, of Upper and
Lower Crohane, the property of Lord Clonrnel and Guy
Luther, Lsq., from which tenants had been lately
evicted. On Thursday, the 31st of July, lie went
to Modeshill, to Lord Clonmel's bailiff, fur his wages,
and on his return he was murdered, just outside
Mr. Lane's gate, but on the lands on which he was
caretaker, and his body thrown into a large pond of water;
his corpse wan not found until Saturday best. In the ab-
sence of the coroner, an inquest was held on Sunday and
Monday, before the following magistrates :—John Millet,
Ambrose Going, John Going, Purefoy Poe, John Langley,
William Going, and William Despard, Esqrs., and a ver-
dict returned that Richard Kennedy came by his death from
wounds inflicted on his head by sonic person or persons un-
known. The body when bound presented un awful appearance,
no part of the head remaining but the lower jaw and back
part of the skull. Two men, named Dwyer and Maher,
workmen of Mr. Lane's, and the persons who were evicted
from the lands over which Kennedy was caretaker, arc in
custody. The murder was perpetrated ut about 10 o'clock
in the morning, within about 200 yards of Mr. James
Burne's where there were a number of men playing ball.
So much fur the murder, but 1 am sorry to say I must now
give you an account of almost as diabolical an act, Provi-
dence alone saving the live. of the murdered man's widow
and children from an awful death ; the act will speak for
itself. On the night of Thursday last, two day, before
Kennedy's body was found, his house on Upper Croliane
was set tire to; a man was up minding corn most providen-
tially saw it, and gave the alarm just in time to rescue the
widow and four children, idso a poor woman with two
children, who was lodging in the house, from so fearful a
death. Tw u pigs and two goats, which were in the house,
were burned to ashes.

A PROPOSAL is Made by Mr. E. Newman, in the
last number of the PAilotogist, a monthly botanical journal,
that the space occupied by Smithfield market should be
selected as the site upon which to construct " a great City
conservatory and geographical perennial glazed garden."
Mr. Newman urges that this site would not be obnoxious to
the objections made by sonic of the inhabitants of the
neighbourhood of Hyde.park to the permanency of the
Crystal Palace in its present situation, unit that in some
[other respects it would be preferable thereto. The general
advantage.; which would accrue from his plan he enumerates
under the following sic heads .-1. Health ; 2. Comfort; 3.
Safety; 4. Instruction; S. Amusement; and G. Accessibility.
This last is the main point upon which Mr. Newmon rests
the claim of the superiority of Smithfield, as a site, to Hyde-
park. He states that his proposal was put into writing
before the appearance of Mr. l'axton's petition for retaining
the Exhibition Building in its present situation.
ARCILEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AT GREAT YAR-
morru.—lhere is a tradition that soon after the erection of
the fortifications at the south end of the town, near where
then stood the Blackfriars Priory, and adjoining one of tho
towers, was the garden of a consent of nuns ; that the Lady
Abbcs; while walking in this garden, overheard tour of the
souks talking, and one of them boasting of the familiarity
he had had with her; fearing that her reputation would be
destroyed, she determined to get rid of such dangerous wit-
nesses ; she therefore poisoned the wine they were drinking.
They were seated at a table in the room of the tower,
which is still standing ; they all perished ; and the tradition
proceeds to state they fell from their seats in the formof a MAN
thus t, and as they fell so they were buried. The tower
belongs to Mr. George Danby Palmer, who has hitherto been
decidedly opposed to any search being made. But a few
weeks since, when in company with some gentlemen, the
conversation turning on the subject of antiguitlee, Mr. Jay,
of the Market-row, mentioned the above tradition, and Mr.
Palmer gave Mr. J. H. Harrison, who rents part !tithe Pee-
-1 Mine, and a Mr. Blyth, a conditional leave to examine the
tower. Mr. Ilarriton proceeded to remove the soil from the
lower chamber or cell of the tower, and very shortly came
to the top of a stone coffin lying in the direction north and
south ; the foot of another was soon uncovered lying in the
direction from south to north ; while the foot of a third was
discovered at right angles ,• evidently proving that there are
four Mein lying foot to foot in the form of a cross. The
ops or lids are of Purbeck, with a double foliated crow, and
pediment of three step.