The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-18 00:00:00

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the:baremy wearable and his assistants cP_aw, to an
lands et Mallykeefe on which the murder was
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crt:,:r.l,:hoolevacyt theo last "murdery. The
demanded was 48L, being the expenses of the police
party sent there under the act for three months. The
townland of Ballykeefe contains about 300 acres.
The occupiers hold farms of twenty torts
to 100 acres, and they are said not to
be in sneer. The pub;ic road bounds the
townland on two are the east and south.
The man who was m'adered was in charge of pro-
perty under seizure for rent, many occupiers on the
other side the public road being in that predicament.
The Ballykeefe tesantry 'gad, therefore, no motive to
cause a murder to be peewetrated, or to engage in any
deed of that nature. their next neighbours had.
Yet, from the fact l'Amt the house in which the bailiff
rested at the time of the murder, was on the townlaad
of the former, ':hey pay the penalty and the others
escape- Three facts they have placed before the ex-
ecutirs, praying consideration for their cue, but the
answer •.vo, their prayer " could not be attended to."
The 'Jeowasity of such an example appears from the
oircurostances of a murder just effected in another
poeteon of the same county, at Kilmallock, and on the
lire of the Great Southern and Western Railway. I
rook of the death of Mr. M'Cann, from the wounds
,:sceived in the late attack on him. The circum-
stenos of this case are very singular. The police had
notice that when pay-day came round Mr. M'Cann
would be attacked. For two nights, therefore, a
constable and five police were Wetted in the house
where M'Cann lodged—that of a large farmer, named
Casey. On the night of the murder, the police had
just arrived, and were taking some refreshment, when
Casey's maid-servant entered, and stated that she had
just seen two men at the corner of Casey's hose.
Casey went out, followed by deceased. One of the
men fired, end abet M'Cann in the bead and seek.
He lived for some days after. Now for the police.
Their conduct seems most strange. The shot which
struck M'Cann pawed by the window where they sat,
and yet they did not arrest either of the murderers,
and it is said that they did not even stir from
ithe house for some time after the occurrence, and
moreover that they refused to post three or four of
their party outside the house, though asked to do so.
The evictions and house-levelling do not cease
in activity. At Ardnacrasha, a tittle ham-
let.about two miles from Limerick, twenty houses
were levelled yesterday. Thousands of the fertile
acres of Tipperary are waste, and these are in-
creased each day by further evictions. The
case is the mine in Limerick and in Clare. We
find daily announcements of large farmers run-
ning away, and sweeping all with them. They
grow alarmed lest their turn may soon come, and
they evade the fate of others by dishonestly leaving
the land naked on the landlords' hands. A few days
since, in a district of Clare, while the farmers were
at market with their produce, the landlord's agents
descended on the farmers, with a large body of armed
followers, and without legal process or authority of
any kind, it is said, swept away all the stock on the
land to satisfy the landlords' claims. On the other aide
of the picture we find that a tenant, holding 97 acres
of land, had sold off everything, and, with the whole
of the produce in his pocket, had reached Limerick, to
emigrate, when he was erreeted at the suit of his
landlord and other creditors. A female, a tenant of
Mr. M. Dawson, Tipperary, started a few days
since with all her property, for America, owing 2001.
At the last meeting o? the Kilrosh guardians, a
family of six children sought admittance to the work-
house, whose parents had deserted them, flying to
America.