The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER IN THE NORTH.—It
appears, by an account published in the Mail of this
evening, that Mr. Chambre was fired at by one of a
party of five men, and five slugs lodged in his person,
of which four have been extracted; the remaining
slug is lodged in the upper part of his head, and it is
expected will be extracted also. Although Mr.
Chambre has been dreadfully wounded, his life is not
considered in danger. Four persons, supposed to be
implicated, are arrested; and the fifth, who is sup-
pose dto have fired the shot, will, it is expected, be
speedily apprehended.
Another account states that some days since Mr.
Chambre received information of three men being
named to shoot him. The police were at once sent
to, and repaired to the houses of those persons, and
found one in bed with his trousers on, and a Riband
ticket in his pocket with his own name on it and Mr.
Chambre's under it, and also found several Riband
papers in his house. The police likewise arrested a
second of the persons in his own house, likewise with
Riband papers, but the third has for the present
escaped.

THURSDAY MORNING.—The Belfast Newsletter,
which arrived last night, states that—
" Mr. Chambre was well aware for some time past
that he was what is called a marked man,' and always,
when travelling carried arms. He was one of the two
magistrates who committed a schoolmaster last week to
take his trial for writing threatening letters."
The Nezer g Telegraph of _this
__morning—contains
the annexed succinct narrative of this shocking
transaction. It will be seen by the latest report that
Mr. Chambre's position is very precarious, and that,
contrary to what was anticipated yesterday, his life
is considered to be in imminent peril:—
" On last Tuesday Mr. Chambre attended the Fork-
bill petty sessions. Returning about dusk to his resi-
dence at Hawthorn-hill, between Forkhill and Newry,
on his car, and accompanied by his brother, Mr. Hunt
Chambre, and his butler, David Cole, two shots were
fired at him. This diabolical attempt at assassination
took place in the townland of Drimatee, in the Meigh
district of Killeavy parish, in the middle, longitudinally,
of the road, in which is a sharp ascent leading north of
Drimatee Roman Catholic Chapel, after quitting the
Drimatee bog and approaching the higher ground,
whence is a descent towards Meigh Church and Haw-
thorn-hill. Mr. Chambre received eight small bullets,
chiefly in the head, neck, and face. Ho had been
sitting on the side of the car looking westward, and
Cole, the butler, on the other side of the car, upon the
right hand side of the road leading to Hawthorn-bill
and Meigh village. Cole and Mr. Hunt Chambre jumped
instantly off the car, with the intention of facing or cap-
turing the assassins, supposed to be five in number, who
were partially concealed under a slight shelter on the
west side of the road; but their attempt failed owing to
the flight of the assassins, the partial darkness, and their
anxiety on account of Mr. Meredith Chambre, who
springing off the car, with a loaded pistol presented in
his hand, had instantly sunk on the road from exhaus-
tion end loss of blood. Meantime, the horse drawing the
car, a splendid animal, being wounded in the neck by a
bullet, ran off furiously along the road to Hawthorn-hill,
and, strange, to say, passed the hall-door of the mansion-
house, and regularly turned and drew up at the stables.
Apprehension was at once excited, from the absence of
Messrs. Chambre and the servant, and by the animal
b lig found bleeding. Mrs. Chambre, a healthy, but rot
a robust lady, being dressed for dinner, rushed out, with
nerves strung by excitement, accompanied by a maid-
servant, both on foot, and promptly followed by the
men-servants, all of whom thus proceeded for two miles,
until the wayside house was reached into which Mr.
Chambre had been carried. The people, we
ared-
gret to say were ominously incommunicative
sulky. Not only when the hapless sufferer in the and
ire
his
tragedy was being borne homeward on a door
eby
servants, bat also while the parties who conveyed d
were thus proceeding and returning, a disteaand,
although
Iwo miles, the doors of the houses on the road, ofy about
it was only getting duskish. were geneerenl,
in the instances whore the doors were open,
notelo seevde;n, aonnde
of the inmates emerged to observe what passing al-
beit they had previously
afterw h et,
Shotsturu
seerst oeesniniajd,etdh
he
olirvseergya, laotpi
he
ing furiously pest ;Ind knew h
vehicle! Meanwhile a mountedoptoslihcoertlayu,
lug to Newry, arrived at the .pot
fl galloped
offfor
were fired and the assassin had tied,
the civil auth •
orates
me kcal assistance, and to apprise
sneedily brought to
resident
didethnet
baPuueructttoinnrg: cars, to
at Newry. The information S
sub-ine . Haw-
thorn-bill Mr. P. S. Crawl'''. b
local constabulary force folloxiw.,..mr.r.s_ij_al:i
expedite their move_ments:
magistrate as Forkiti,e and
N wtonharnilton V
who hol4e,
the same office in also imme-
diatelyc, and took the depositionsone
witness, upon whichthey at once proceeded to act,
pursuit
Hawthorn-hill in
leaving ed by the constabular
of the assis
sins, accompanied
y, under the
command of
.M • Crawford, than whom the force
contain a more fearless or energetic officer,
does not
and whose ardour was stimulated, on this occasion, by
his personal affection for the relative whose murder bad
been attempted, The quest resulted in the arrest of
several persons, two of whom, we have the gratification
of knowing, are likely to have'
the crime brought home
to them. Medical aid was promptly afforded to the hap-
less victim. Ihs. Brown and Brunker, of Dundalk; Dr.
s tronge, of Ravensdale; and Dr. Huston, of Ballymas-
canlon, successively arrived at Hawthorn-hill. Two of
the eight pellets were extracted in the course of the
night. All the wounds are in front. The shifting of
the car made the balls strike somewhat obliquely.
From the injury of the head great danger is apprehended,
as, also, from a wound in the neck, in the vicinity of tte
large blood vessels. In the forenoon of yesterday, a
special messenger from Hawthorn-hill brought us the
following bulletin; and we hope to have later tidings
before putting to press:—

" ' Hawthorn-hill, Jan. 21.

`" Mr. Chambre has passed rather a tranquil Light,
a i
send s this morning more conscious, but continues in a
most precarious state.

JAMES STRONG; M.D.
"'E. G. BnuNKER, M.D..
JOHN BROWNE, M.D."
According to the Telegraph, a complete mystery
hangs over the causes which led to this diabolical
outrage. Mr. Chambre had not violated the rihand
code. Nay, more—
" By far the greatar number of Mr. Chambre's tenantry
ore Roman Catholics, whom be is universally admitted
to have treated with equal kindness as those of other
denominations. Many
.of hi, household at this very
time are Roman Catholics. As regards his tenantry,
neither he,. nor his father before him, had ejected a
tenant. His word has been held as sacred—the phrase
being, in common parlance, as we have been assured,
on the authority of a person perfectly independent of
him—' Mr. Chambre's word is as good as his bond.' He
employed a large number of his tenantry habitually,
and particularly at this very time had an extraorchra-y
number of men workina., at remunerative and regularly
paid wages, in inaking6 an extensive sheep-walk, talc( n
in off the mountains of Slievegullion. . He built and en-
dolled a school, where the tenants' children aro educated