The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

EXECUTION IN IRELAND.

The unwonted spectacle of an execution in the
Misty of Dublin took place yesterday morning in hoot of
Kilmeisham gaol. The culprit, Patrick Kilkenny, murder&
his sweetheart, Margaret Forquhsr, at • place called
Palmerstown, in the northern diggers of the county. He
voluntarily roefeesed hie guilt to the polies, and was at
once taken into custody. The realties of the murdered
woman were found in the place indicated by the mur-
derer—a ditch not far distant from her family's reel-
daces. At the trial he pleaded " Not Grainy,' but, mainly
on the evidence of • confession made to • poliocconstable
eared Maguire, be was convicted. A recommends-
ties to mercy by the Joey, os the ground of absence
of premeditation, was forwarded by Mr. Jostles Fitz-
gerald and Baron Dean, who tried the case, to the Lord
Lieutectat, and a number of citizens resented a memorial
prere. His excellency, however.
_after
a carevinfgulfcc review reof the chemist-same of the murder. directed
lair Thomas Laroom to announce that it was his palatal deca-
gon that the law moat take its scum. Accordingly, at holi-
ness 7 o'clock yesterday morning the wretched man expiated
his dreadful offence upon the scaffold. He appeared per-
fectly contrite and rosigued to his fate. He bad bees siege
hie conviction moat attentive to the ministrations of the
Rev. Mr. Kennedy, the Roman catholic clergyman of Eh.
James's parish, in which the gaol is situate, sad two Caters of
mercy, who have been in constant Magallanes upon
him. Kilkenny admitted the justice of his sentence, and
mode a most eirounctangal statement of everything
connected with the perpetration of the crime:—" On
the night of the murder I trod somehow os the tail of
beer coat by accident, and she got shocking vexed, mad
, called me an unlucky devil. and said she was sot food of
me before that night, bat would never look at me say more.
I then hit her with my shut hand on the neck err breast,
and she tumbled into the ditch near which she was stand.
jag partly sideways. There were two or three feet of mud
and water in the ditch, and the fell halo it on her bead.
Atter she fell in I beard a noise coming up the Toed,
and went out on the road to look, and saw her sister
Kitty snd Biddy Meagher coming up the read, with
about six people. I then ran over and caught her and
gave her a lift up, when she gave • screech. The moment
I beard her screech I was afraid her sister sad Biddy
Meagher would bear her, sod I lifted her up and let
her drop again on her had into the ditch. After that
I mesa a wall and came through the ditch to the off
aide, and at down and smoked, to wait to see If thyme
would 00420 mad take her up or assist her, as I did not tarok
she was seriously injured, but lay there for spite, to make
me believe she was deed. They primed en without minding
her. For shout 20 perches I could see them, and after
they west out of my eight I sat for half-an-hour smoking,
sad then came back sad found her rises out of the place she
fell into, and in another part of the ditch about a yard
from the place, bat gill in the water half way up against
the ditch, her face undermost. 1 stirred her well, and
she did not speak, but moved her hands. I then lifted bee
up as high as my bead, end thought to lift her out of the
ditch, but got weak, and was not able. I then rose up
her heed sad let her fall again, and she fell into the water.
I then west off, as I knew she was dead."
After en affeetionate admonition from the eleirgymaa, the
door leading to the gallows was opened, sad Kilkenny
stood before the assemblage se if he were utterly usoonacious
of their preemie& He was evidently engaged is Invest
prayer daring the time the executioner was securing the
strap round his legs. The cap having been drawn over Us
hos, the criminal was left alone. Nearly two minutes of
suspense ensued. The wretched man died without •
struggle. As the body hung saspioded, the Rev. Mr.
Kennedy remained at the door lebio the drop and
conducted prayers. is which the crowd up the ex-
piration rot she half hour. when the cdpited y to
was lowered sad
conveyed into the prison by the principal estrus% to be
buried within the precinct' of the gaol.

ACCIDINT ON TIM MNIDOTOLITAN RAILWAY.—
(TEM Arrimaome.)—At 2 o'clock this athernoos an secident
ensured to the nikrata (narrow-guage) from Peddiegtoa
sad due at Fartiogdoeorood at the time mentiothd. It
appears that the train wee approsehisg the terminus at
a slow pace, sal by come naseeountable eaves the
wheels got off the points, throwing several of the
amis.ea over on to the up-lice of the rails. Some of
the pamengers were moth sliskenj
A FANNON AOOOIUNT OT THZ LONDON SHAWN.—
le the course of an article ape, the Loudon semen, which
appears in the Paris &Me of yesterday, the writer, M.
bail* de Is Bedeililm, meatices smog other Wags that ft
is impeoithis to quit the main tboroughtuee of the metro-
polis without getting involved in a labyrinth of narrow
streeta and alleys of the mast asisemble aspect ; that the
Olympia and Marylthoth Theatres are the refuge of the
classic drama ; that the boxes of Her Majesty's sad Clevoth
garden are like memo in se inn ; and that the *tuns ex-
hibiting which mpreesste the Quiet holding a &maims.
room is by Merry Barreta. Is othelosith. M. ffs la bdoi-
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stye be prefers Paris to Leasles.lossase is Ike firmer:
; aity the deem of the Imams are not always shut. Awful
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