The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL MURDER

11-I_F?,

ARREST AND COMMITTAL OF THE MURDERERS.

DISGRACEFUL SCENE AT THE FUNERAL

On the night of Sunday, the 26th Oe'ober last, a
respectable farmer named Driscoll, living then in the
parish of Kilfanghnaheg at Glandore, county of Cork, and
near the residence of the rector, was on his way home
from Rosscarberry, when he was overtaken by two neigh-
bours, one named Daniel Mabony. the other Owen Hart,
and both well known to him. They got into conversa-
tion with him, and, after a brief interval, fiercely
assaulted him, and, knocking him down, inflicted ten
severe wounds upon his head, also cutting and bruising
his hands, which he raised to save his head and face,
crying out they " did not care for the blackguard Pro
testant." The unhappy victim became powerless, and
they left him senseless, and as they supposed dead, bnt
he so far recovered as to reach his house, then about a
mile and a half off, and getting into bed, there lingered
until the following Friday, when he expired from the
effects of this sanguinary and brutal attack. But
having retained his senses and recollection until
Tuesday, Captain Barry took his informations, and the
two offenders having been promptly arrested, were
brought to Driscol's bedside, when he said, "them are
the men that beat me. Take the murde-ers from my
sight." The inquest, took place on Saturday, th Ist
instant, the jury finding that the deceased came by his
death in consequence of wounds in his bead inflicted by
Daniel Mahony and Owen Han, and they were sent
forward to gaol next morning under a strong escort of
police. But this lamentable outrage did not end there,
for the Rev. Mr. Baldwin informed three of the local
magistrates that he had good reason to fear he would be
violently obstructed in performing the funeral service
over his late parishioner, and it seems that they consi-
dered the case one that required prompt attention, but
as nearly all the police from the nearest stations bad
gone that morning with the prisoners, the authorities
were powerless, except what personal influence, added
to prompt and firm action, could effect, and in
this emergency the three magistrates called on Capt.
Barry, and when the funeral was expected, the four
magistrates, namely, Captain Barry, and Messrs. De
Burgh, Limrick, and Henry Hungerford, -proceeded
together to the burying ground, which is in an out-of-
the-way valley, a few hundred 'yards behind Glandore
Castle, several respectable people also following ; the
funeral was largely augmented by people from the
adjoining parishes, and thus soon became truly formid-
able, and congregated in the ancient burying ground in
a dense mass, and when the Rev. Mr. Baldwin com-

menced reading the funeral service, a wild yell, mingled
with violent gestures and wicked threats, was raised,
and the dense mass was pressed forward from behind
with a force and aspect that left no one in doubt of what
was intended, nor was there any time for deliberation,
when Capt. Barry, seeing too plainly that was impend-
ing, placed the rector's arm under his own, and will' a
stick forced aside and kept back the assailants, using
every term and threat best calculated to make his
influence over this human storm effectual ; and it was
well for that reverend gentleman, as well as for others
present, that such influence was possessed by a man of
coolness and courage, for had it been otherwise, the
rector would have been torn to atoms on tke sod of his
own Glebe, and many believe that the malev ilent
impulses which prompted the outbreak would have
registered that day with the blood of many an innocent
fellow countryman and Christian.

The time draws nigh when the Glasgow University will
require to elect a lord elector in room of the Duke of
Argyll, who has held the office for two years. The names
of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Sir John Herschel!, and Mr.
Lavard, have been mentioned as likely candidates.
We read in the Paris correspondence of Le Nord :—"• For
several da} s past, certain foreign j )urnals, and even some
French ones, have borne a little black mark in the corner,
denoting that the service of surveillance and control,
having examined them, have decided that they may be dis-
tributed and read without inconvenience."

The celebration of gunpowder plot in Brighton led to a
serious affray with the police. Men with bludgeons gathered
in the streets in the evening, and the mob determined to
enter the town with a tar barrel, to set fire to it in the
streets. This the police opposed ; and, in doing so, they
were roughly treated with stones, bricks, and bludgeons.
Three of them are so seriously indisposed that they have
been laid aside from duty. Seventeen of the rioters were
apprehended, and fined the next morning by the magistrates.

PRINCE ALFRED IN BELGIUM.—A letter from Ostend of
the 4th says :—" Prince Alfred, second son of the Queen of
England, arrived here this morning by the English steamer
\lv Tne vessel could not enter the port on account of
the I,)w state of the water, and the prince landed in a b-a'.
s Royal Highness was accompanied by his tutor. Cul.
de Moerkerke arrived here in the morning to receive him.
After having breakfasted the party walked through the
town, and then left for Brussels by a special train. Prince
Alfred is on hie way to Cobourg, and.will afterwards pro-
ceed to Perlin."

DECLINE OF TRlgn PAUPERISM —lt is remarked that
pauperism is decreasing to sach an extent in the provinces
that some of ,he workhouses are all but tenantles,, and, as
this happy change is likely to continue, it has been proposed
to amalgamate sonic of the unions, in order to get rid of a
;iais whose duties may be said to be no more than
In Dublin there are no such pleasing tidings
here, are, it appears, 1,100 provincial paupers in
thiblin Union workhouse, and the consequence

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is ,h it for the support of these visitor; the citiz3ns are pay-
ing a rate of 2,2. 114. in the pound. In the South Dublin
Union matters ere not much bitter.
MR JAMES AND THE ELECTOPS OF HULL.-Mr. E.
James, Q C., has i,sued an addr,ss to the electors of Hull,
announcing himself as a candidate for the honour of sac-
cPeJing Mr. Watson' Q.C., as their representative in the
House of Commons. Mr. James daclares that his opinions
are essentially libet al. He has always entertained and ad-
vocated those principles by which the civil and religious
liberties of the people have been established, their happiness
insured, and their social and intellectual conditi al improved.
He desires to see the principles of free trade carried out to
its fullest extent. He would advocate a considerable exten-
sion of the parliamentary franchise, and considers that it is
essential to give the voter the protection and security of the
ballot. Had he been in parliament he would have voted
for the bill introduced by Sir William Clay for the aholiti n
of church-rates. Finally, he says, ‘, I should support the
government of which Lord Palmerston is the head."
GERMAN GAMBLING —We rev-11in the Journal de Frank
fort :—" The gaming tables of Wiesbaden and Ems, which
were closed on the 27th ult., have passed from the hands of
MM. Tumons and Chabert into those of a company, con-
ducted by MM. de Haber, who reside at Berlin and
Carlshrue. The consideration for the transfer is 1,200,000
forms, while the State will receive from the company
250,000 florins in addition to the price of the annual lease,
which is 105,000 florins. The society will, moreover,
give annually to the theatre at Wiesbaden the sum of
10.000 florins, and will pay abut 50,000 florins to the
support of the chapel. Although these expenses are
enormous, MM. de Haber have not been able to obtain
from the Nassau government permission to continue play
during the winter ; the only advantage which has been
granted them is permission to open the bank of
Wiesbaden on the Ist of April instead of the first of May.
The contrast entered into with the company will expire
in 1872."

STEAM CULTURE iN CORA —One of the largest landed
proprietors of Cuba is now introducing steam culture upon
his estates. for the purpose of superseding horse and slave
labour. Experience having taught him that slave labour
was not only more expensive than free, but that it also in-
creased the expense of horse labour—" a lazy horseman always
makes a lazy horse"—he, along with his engineer, lately
visited this country, in the hopes of being able to abridge
labour by steam machinery, and they were not disappointed,
for on seeing experiments made before the select committee of
the Board of Ordnance, in hauling heavy siege guns with one
of the traction engines now in that department of the public
service, they saw what steam could effect in the field,
and accordingly gave orders to one of our large agricul-
tural implement firms for a traction engine and other
machinery. The trials at Woolwich satisfied them that
the principal amount of cartage c mid be performed by
traction engines more economically than by slave•driven
teams of horses ; while more recent experiments in steam
cultivation have further proved that, as land in this country
can be trenched and ploughed by steam at about one•fourth
of the expense it now costs by horses, a much greater
saving can be effected in Cuba, because horse labour is much
dearer there than here. We shall wait with much anxiety
the result of the experiments about to be made at Havana.
—Engineer.

TEIE EARL OF ITAERINGTON ON THE MAINE LIQUOR
LAW.—The Earl of Harrington made a speech at Derby, on
the sth inst., advocating the Maine Law. He said, twelve
of the United States are under the Maine Law, comprising
a population of 11,000,000. Scotland, too, is partially
under a prohibitory law. In all these countries the prohibi-
tory 12.??' Works favourably. The following extract will il-
lustrate the manner and matter of Lord Harrington's
speech :—" The gin faction, bless the innocents, profess to
be ail in favour of education and moral suasion. Their op-
ponents are of the same opinion ; are we not assembled here
for that purpose i' when the schoolmaster has been
abroad for nearly half a century under Lord Brougham's
lacerating rod, and the priests have done their utmost by
their fervent preachings, and Mr. Buxton has beer! pointing
out the road to righteousness by withstanding temptation,
the first of virtues ; and Lord Shaftesbury has enlisted
Young England in his ragged schools i and Lord Stanley
is teaching the young ideas how to shoot in the reformato-
ries; and Lord Brougham has created 42,000 beershops, I
presume, on Bentham's greatest happiness principle ; and
Mr.Oliveira proposes to inundate the country with cheap
wines, vulgarly called sot-gut, to make men sober and gen-
teel and, to crown all, the Ohaneellor of the Exchequer
has been raising the wind to check drunkenneep by taxation,
and vice nevertheless prevails to a hideous extent,—the
Maine Law, which goes to the root of all evil, becomes
Absolutely necessary.'