The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, TIIURSDAY.
ntocatEss OF BIBBOStISM.
The murderous Ribbon conspiracy thrives apace—
even in the presence of an increased constabulary
force, backed as it is by a strong party of soldiery.
Dundalk has been the theatre of another bloody tra-
gedy. On Monday evening a bailiff was shot, and, it
is apprehended, mortally wounded. Dr. Brunker, the
medical gentleman who has charge of the wounded
Mr. Eastwood, was called to the aid of the unfortu-
nate bailiff. This last atrocity was perpetrated in one
of the proclaimed districts of the county Louth, in
the immediate locality in which the attempt to murder
Mr. Eastwood was committed, and but four days after
that atrocious deed. The tenant-right paper of the
district gives the following details :
On Monday evening, as a respectable man named
John Overend, was returning home to the village of
Louth, from the market of Dundalk, he was met by two
men at a place called lincckbridgc. Having passed by
him, they suddenly turned round, when one of them
discharged a pistol at him, lodging the contents (slug,)
in the 5111411 of his back. Overend fell to the ground
immediately, and the miscreants, believing they had
taken his life, decamped. We understand that ho had
a pistol in his pocket at the timo; bat from the
suddenness of the attack he was unable to use it. The
slags have since been extracted by Dr. Brunker, and we
are happy to state that Overend is not very dangerously
wounded. He was employed as a bailiff on the estate
of the Rev. Arthur Clive, in this county, of which Gra-
ham Johnston, Esq , of Dundalk, is agent. Two persons
have been arrested on suspicion by the Louth police, and
lodged in Dundalk gaol."
Three persons have been arrested on suspicion of
being concerned in the attempt to murder Mr. East-
wood.
The Newry Telegraph calls upon the Lord Lieu-
tenant to issue a special commission for the counties
of Louth and Armagh, to try the prisoners already in
custody charged with Ribbon offences.
HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1852.
The following complete list of the High Sheriffs
for Ireland for the present year, is from Thom's Al-
mama, just published :
ANTRIM.—Robert Smyth, Lg., of Gaybrook, Mul-
lingar.
ABSIAGIL—Marcus Sinnott, jun., Esq., of Ballymoyer
House, Newtownhamilton.
ClLRLOW.—Clement Wolsley, Esq., of Sandbrook,
Tallow.

CARRICKFERGUS K. Martin, Eeq.,
Carrickfergus.
CAVAN.—Samuel Winter, Esq., of Agher, Summer
Hill.
CLARE.—Edmund John Armstrong, Esq., of Willow
Bank, Ennis.
CORK.—John Courtney, Esq., of Ballyedmond,
Middleton.
CORK ClTY.—Franois Bernard Beamish, Esq., Cork.
DONEGAL.—Thomas Alexander, Esq., of Ahilly,
Bunerana,
Down—Samuel Delaoherois Crommelin, Esq., of
Carradore Castle, Donaghadee.
DROGHEDA Town—George Harper, Eeq., of Killi-
neer, Drogheda. •
DUBLIN.—John Edward Venables Vernon, Esq , of
Clontarf Castle, Clontarf.
DUBLIN ClTY.—Thomas Wilson, Esq , of Temple-
street.
FERMANAGIL—John Gerard Irvine, Esq., cf Rock-
field, Ennitkillen.
GALWAY.—Thomas A, Joyce, Esq , of Rahasan Park,
Craugkwell.
GALWAY Town—John Ireland, Eeq., of Eyre-square,
Galway.
KERRY.—The Hon. Deyrollcs B. De Moleyns, of
Burnham House, Dingle.
KILDARE.—Robert Borrowcs, Esq., of Gilltown,
Kilcullen.
KILKENNY.—George Bryan, Esq., of Jenkistown,
Kilkenny.
KILKENNY ClTY.—Edmund Smithwick, Esq., of Kil-
creene, Kilkenny.
KING'S COUNTY.—John Gilbert King, Esq., of Bally-
lin, Ferbane.
LElTRlM.—Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wm. Story, of
Riversdale, Ballinamore.
LIMERICK.—John Low, Esq., of Rockbarton, Bruff.
LIMERICK ClTY.—William Gabbett, Esq., of Strand
House, Limerick.
LONDONDERRY CITY AND COUNTY.—Leslie Alexan-
der, jun., Esq., of Foyle Park, Derry.
LONGFORD.—Henry B. W. Slator, Esq., of Whitehill,
Edgeworthstown.
LOUTH —J. Murphy, Esq., of Castletown, Dundalk.
MAYO.—J. Knox, Esq., of Greenwood Park, Ballina.
MEATH.—Edward Rotherham, Esq., of Crossdrum,
Oldcastle.
MONAGHAN.—CapeI St George, Esq., of Dromore,
Omagh.
QUEEN'S Courur.—William Kemmis, jun., Esq., of
Kildare-street, Dublin.
Roscommon—Christopher IFrencb, Esq.,'' of Clene-
quin, Tulsk.
SLIGO.—John Irwin, Esq., of Raheen, Elphin.
TIPPERARY.—Sir Thomas B. Dancer, Bart, Modreeny,
Clougbj ardan.
TYRON.—William L. Ogilby, Esq:, of Tirkeenaghan,
Donemana.
WATERFORD.—Thomas St. John Grant, Esq., of Kil-
linurry, Fermoy.
WATERFORD ClTY.—Charles Newport, Esq., of
Wil-
liam-street, Waterford.
WESTMEATH. -- John Malone, Esq., of Darlington
Lodge, Ballymore.
WEXFORD. —Wm. Jacob Blacher, Esq., of Wood-
brook, Enniscorthy.
WICKLOW.—The Right Hon. James Grattan, of
Tinnehinch, Bray.
THE UNIVERSITY.—The Rev. W. Digby Sadleir,
D.D., son of the late Provost, succeeds to the Senior
Fellowship of Trinity College, vacant by the promo-
tion of Dr. M'Donnell.
THE LISBURN ELECTION.—The election for the
borough of Lisburn will take place on Saturday ;
Sir E. Tennent is pursuing his canvass. Although
opposition is threatened, there very little doubt of
the success of Sir Emerson.
Emporium IN KING'S COUNTY.--A party of five
armed men attacked the dwelling-kouse of Thomas
Hoolahan, a farmer residing at Ballywilliain, in
the parish of Eglish, near Parsonstown, on Friday
night last. All the family had retired to bed
except Hoolahan ; the loud barking of his dogs caused
him to go to his kitchen window, from whence
he observed five men approaching his house,
A shot was immediately fired through the window,
and be heard a voice say, " Have nothing to do with
William's land." A second shot was then fired into
a bed-room window, the ball perforated a tray which
was placed against the window, and lodged quite
close to the bed where Hoolahan's wife had been sleep-
ing. Hoolahan, and his wife and sister saw the five
men going across the yard into the fields, and heard
the leader of the gang, who was armed with a long
gun, " order numbers 1,2, 3, and 4 to march on.
On the following morning a notice was found in one
of the windows, ordering Hoolahan to have nothing to
do with either the widow Carry's or John William's
land ; a coffin was at the bottom of the notice, and it
was signed " Captain Fireball." The persons whose
lands were referred to in the notice have been evicted,
and their former holdings adjoin Hoolaban's farm. Sa-
turday night constable White and a party captured five
persons, who were brought before Captain Pollock,
R.M., on Sunday, and remanded for examination until
Monday, on which day an inquiry was held at the court
house, by Captain Pollock, assisted by John Warbur-
ton, Esq., J.P., and John Julian, Esq., Crown solici-
tor. Several witnesses were examined; Hoolahan,
his wife, and sister, identified three of those arrested
by constable White—namely, James Duffy, Andrew
Carry, and John Carry, and they have been fully
committed to abide their trial at the ensuing assizes.
Duffy formerly lived as servant with Hoolahan, but
latterly he has stopped with a farmer on an adjoining
townland, in whose house two guns were found, a
long gun and a double-barrelled gun, the former ap-
peared to have been recently discharged, and one bar-
rel of the other was loaded, and there was an exploded
cap on the nipple. This (says the King's County
Chronicle) is the third time of Hoolahan being attacked
within the last few years. Sometime ago every per-
son in his neighbourhood refused to labour for him,
and the local magistrates sent their ploughs, horses,
and servants to till his farm under police protection.
The cause assigned for the last attack is, that it was
supposed in the country he would take the evicted
land.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Mr. Jacob Brett, whose
name is so creditably identified with the Dover and
Calais submarine telegraph, is making arrangements
for introducing to the Irish public a plan for carrying
out a similar mode of communication between Kings-
town and Holyhead. Mr. Brett had an interview
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with the Lord-Lieutenant on the subject on Monday
at the Viceregal Lodge. of Messrs.
FIRE AT LIZIERICK.—The corn stores
Myles, at Limerick, were accidentally burned on
Tuesday evening. The store, which was filled with
ed. The
grain to the value of 1,0001., was
1 Company,
destroy
were also
property was insured in the The
aabbett,premises, which belong to Mr.Pe (32
insured in the West of England
Office for 500/.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—.An inquest was held at
Caher yesterday on the body
of a young man, about
killed
18 years of age, who was on the previous day
by a lorry belonging
to the Waterford and Limerick
Railway, passing over him- The verdict was aCCI •
•
dental death, but the jury added that there was not
proper care taken by the company to preserve the
lublio from injury.

OOLOGIC AL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the
monthly general meeting, held yesterday, at the society's
house, in Hanover-square, Mr. Broderip, vice-president, in
the chair, Messrs. A. B. llope, M.P., J. D. Gordon, and G.
E. Gray were elected fellows, and Messrs. J. H. Gurney, T.
Lacy, G. Gillett, R. O'Brien Jameson, and Miss Burdett
Coats proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The report
of the Council stated that the total number of visitors to
the gardens during the year 1851 had been 667,243, and ex-
hibited an increase over 1850 of 306,841. The most impor-
tant additions to the menagerie during the last month con-
sisted of an apteryx, presented by Lieutenant-Governor
Eyre, which had been brought from New Zealand by Cap-
tain Erskine, R.N.; a weka (ocydromus Australis), also
from New Zealand, which had been presented by Captain
Stokes, 11. N., late of her Majesty's ship Acheron; and two
Ispecimens of boa diviniloqua, presented by Lieutenant For-
PIAPI Of hetUajefity'4 t3tstiA Aegiuteut,