Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

IHE LATE MURDER IN 'I IPPERARY.

According to the testimony of private letters, the state
of Tipperary—at least, the North Riding—is not satisfac-
tory. There is no positive clue yet to the assassins asC
Mr. John Ellis, and it is to be feared, from the ilt
concealed sympathy of the people with the authors of the
crime, that the murder, like too many others originating
in the same fruitful source—the possession of land—wall
remain a mystery, so far as the ends of justice are
concerned. The local agitators—lay and clerical—art
endeavouring to make it appear that the untimely death
of Mr. El:is should no be classed under the old head at
agrarian outrage, awl hints are freely thrown cut that to
other influences, quite foreign to the one generally
supposed, must be ascribed the motive• which hurried the
(alleged) victim of dom^s'ie revenge to a bloody grave..
It is hardly worth mentioning that there mi;erahlt tat e*
do net obtain any crcdcre ; the object in circulating
them is too tt ansparent to deceive any 0n,.. Their tratta
or falsehood will probably be brought to a test at the
for, heoming meeting of the magistrates convened by
Lard Lismo-e, as Lieutenant of the coun:y of Tip-
perary. Although described as " steward" to Mr_
Trant, of Dovea, the deceased was in reality the
holder of extensive farms, ant was in fair cirenna-
stances ; but having been originally in the employ.
ncent of M.. Trant, he continued after he left his
service to exercise a general supervision over the pro-
perty of Isis former employer. Since the murder of
Mr Ellis there have been several minor outrages of the
old character committed in the North Riding, hut matters
have not gone so tar but that the incipient revival of
agrarianism can he readily crushed out by a prompt
d splay of executive vigour. The time chosen for a general
reduction of the Irish constabu'ary—now that whole
towns and vidaees are denuded of military—Ras not
happy. A little more attention to the ciriumstances oI
particu'ar localities would not have belp misplaced.
M ,an while the Northern Whig, although published atthe
opposite end of the kingdom, seems to b familiar with
the story which attributes the death of N r. Ellis to other
causes than those of disputes couneat,d with the
possession of land :
.‘ We have reasons for supposing (says the WV')
regard to the case of the unfortunate Mr. Eli!, that land,
and in its traditional disputes, may have had nothing te
do with she horrible murder. It mly be as reasonahy
referred to for other c loses. Why is it sapposed in this
country, when a murder takes phce, and the unfor'unals
victim is a landed proprietor, that reveitg for harsh acts
as a landlord has been the indict men ? We have heard,
of landlords shot by outraged husbands; and there
certainly are immoral men who are not bad landlords. It
the neighbourhood where this last atrocity wts
committed. public opinion doss not altogether prononnes
in favour of the then-y of agrarian outrage."
The Lords Justices have offered a re vard:of £lllO for
the discovery of the murderer or murderers.

DEATH of COUNT SICA ;DI —TURIN, OCT. 3). —C ,art
formerly Minister of J died yes erday e'en—
H I was the o ig nator of several mean es of Ism
reform now in operatio 1.

REPORTED (doNFE slot.; C 1! A MIIRDZILER.-Daring the
month of Jute, 1856, Mrs M'Knight, of Barblochan:S3o6-
land, was found lying dead in a lonely part of the rikler
cow pastnre!, under ci cums'ances which at first led to
the impressi in that she had come to h-r den bby foodplay,
piAy, but which were subsequently exp'ained to the satis-
faction
.of a great po,ti n of the scieut 63 men, &".,Tbe
were camel up in the case The jury which sat upon
_the
body were so pe hotly convinc d that death had armee
from congestion of the train, that they unhesit totted
a verd.ct to that eff.ct. But v r'ous rumours have reserved
us to th‘l effect that Mrs. M'K light had not only been.
murdered, bit that the murderer bad just confes.ed Lit
guilt on his death-bed, and is at last lain! to be the in&
vidnal who was then s:spected. and who was SiDeady
allied to the d,ceaSed. This irifortnet?n—s artling at at
is—is said to to be founded upon a c rtais letter which Las
h-en received at Otley, fr,:m the far
.north a few days ago.
Blt neither the letter n r any affid oat worthy of credit it
forthcoming, so we must b• pardoned for !apressitt 341.
entire diA:klief in the whole story.—. Leeds Times.