The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

THE MURDER OP A FRENCH GENTLEMAN IN

TIPPERARY.

A correspondent of the Pression's Jottreal, witting from
Clonmel, on Wednesday, stye:—" To-day I have learned
that the unfortunate gentleman was walnag, not on the
high road, as has been stated, but in a field, in close
proximity to his own house, and that when be was last seen
alive he carried under his arm a gun—a painful en-
demics, I apprehend, that he deemed it necessary not to
appear abroad unarmed. If this should be correct, it
is not straining to assume that, whoever the in-
human ruffian was, he absolutely shot Mr. This.
bault with his own gun. This fact, it is alleged, in-
dicates the absenoeof premeditation or of an
conspiracy, and in surtaminent of this we are %bre
believe in an encounter, a struggle, resulting in de-
priving him of his gun, and then followed the shot,
which passed through his heart, and =flat have caumd
Mamie/thous death. But, if the shot were the off-
spriag of • struggle, what can be said to account for
the body exhibiting, it is reported, unmistakeable evidence
of having been perforated with a sharp instrument in three
different bat approximate places? Was this pitchfork-like
wound inflicted before or after the *Detente of the gun were
lodged in the heart ? If it can be ascertained this wound
was inflicted first, it seems to favour the mere hypothesis
that • struggle took place. If this lunge were administered
after the gun shot, and consequently after death, it indi-
cates an amount of barberous vindictiveness and insatiable
bloodthirstiness almost without parallel in the records
of inhuman seta. It does not seem probable:that the
fork wounds Gould have been inflicted while the de.
ceased was still armed with hie gun, which I believe was •
double barrel one. In that aims it is reasonable to surmise
that Mr. Thiebault would have fired to dieable his assailant,
and that the report of the gm would have attracted atten-
tion ; but it is asserted that but one discharge was heard,
and that one unquestionably was the fatal shot that deprived
Mr. Thiebault of his life and crimsoned the green award of
Tipperary with the blood of an inoffensive fellow-man.
It is not yet perfectly clear why the police should have
arrived at the conclusion that more than one was
seemed in this noonday assassination. Three wee
have been arrested on suspicion, but it has not
transpired what constitutes the ground of the suspicion
whether their previous character, or being included in
the number of persons about to be evicted. The body
when found presented a fearful eight. The head was
dreadfully beaten—completely disfigured. It lay on its side
in a perfect pool of blood, sod class by lay the gun and a
three-pronged pitchfork—the double instruments of death.
The latter has been recognised by • smith who lives in the
locality, but he alleges it was stolen from his forge, by whom
he cannot say. The inquest will commence to-marrow,
when, after viewing the mangled remain sod taking some
formal evidence, it is likely to be adjourned, to give the
police time to connect the links, which at present seem
rather indistinct."
The Freeman states that a report which obtained some
currency in town on the previous day, to the effect thst tbe
wife of the victim of this diabolical murrlpr had succumbed
to the desperate severity of the shock she experienced when
the fate of her husband was communicated to her, remained
without confirmation.

FREeDOM OF FINISKIIB.—M. Coate has recently
sent in a communication to the French Academy of Sciences
on the freedom of the sea in connexion with the fishing
trade. The law interdicts fishing all along the carte of
France at certain times end in certain seasons, instead of
only limiting the prohibition to those districts where the new
generations require to be protected. M. Oahe shows that the
seacoasts may be so cultivated se to render such injurious
precautions unneomeary.. Fish may either be reared
in the epee see or in large Lake and these two
methods are productive of digest effects. The Uzbek
for instance, will increase in length when loft In
' • state of liberty ; it will, on the contrary,
thicker if confined within a tank, just as oxen and =
grow fatter in stables than in the open air. Now, if the
various species of fish, generally preferred for food, really
approach the coast, and remain near it daring their earliest
age, there will be no need of such costly precautions for
watching the coast as are now employed by the State. And
this, M. Coate tells us, is exactly the case. About the
month of April certain parts of the coast, and always the
same, are visited by the small fry in enormous shoals, con-
taining every variety, except the ray, which only lays one
egg at a time, like the hen, and at different places.
To give an ides of the richness of these eirerra, M.
Corte describes what be has seen at St. Vilest, where, along
an extent of coast of at least 25 miles, the small fry con-
gregates during the summer season in such profusion that
in fishing for prawn, upwards of 200 millions of small tur-
bots, soles, he., are destroyed ia the course of a sown
enough to stoc the whole British Channel with the choicest
fish. At the approach of the cold season these agglomera-
tions are dispersed, and the young fish seek the depths,
where the temperature is milder. Hence it appears that
the centres where the new generations assemble are near
the coast, and that to protect them them is no need of pre-
venting fishermen from:following their calling in the open
sea, it being only necessary to protect the tout.
A ROBIN'S Num.—A robin ban built a nest and
is sitting upon two eggs, at Mr. Stowses, of Tillie/ham.
The bird has built the nest upon • clock, and among other
things which she has used for this pose are some ladies'
curl papers and hair. Neither the striking nor ticking of
the clock has any effect upou the robin, who is eery atten-
tive to her charge. It may be added that Mr. Slower
humanely and regularly gives the bird food as well as
ingress and stem through one of the windows of his house.
—Chelmsford atronick.
Travellers in Spain still have a chance of meeting
with adventures. The diligence from Malaga to Granada
was stopped by • party of tire robbers on the night of the
15th April at Comte de los Molina (Windmill-hill).
..ad received intimation that a box of specie was in theT2
gene.. The information, however, was not correcand
after a rigorous search which lasted more than an thou,
during which the unfortunate passengers were kept bons
ahajo, extended on the ground, the robbers decamped with
the loose cash of which they bad relieved the travellers,
amounting in all to 250 dollars. It is not said that any one
was ill.treated.