The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, June 8.
It is only this morning that we have received here
the account of the close of the poll at Kinsale. The
numbers were :

For Sir George Colthurst
For Mr. Fitzgibbon
Majority for Colthurst . —l2
The new member has promised to give a general
support to the present Government, and the mem-
ber for New Ross will be likely to do the same.
These two elections, therefore, make no change in
the relative forces of the respective parties; but
had the two ultramontane candidates succeeded, it
would have been so much strength added to the
Opposition. The elections are, besides, important
as indicating the decline of the rabid sectarian feel-
ing which carried the Longford election.
I sent you on Saturday a brief account of the
murder of a landlord and a magistrate, near Ne-
nagh, in the county of Tipperary. It was one of
the most frightful tragedies that ever stained the
annals of that county, so notorious for the mur
derous propensities of its peasantry. According to
the Nenagh, Guardian, Mr. Jackson was " gene.
rally esteemed and beloved by men of all classes
and creeds." It is stated that he had four tenants
who had paid him no rent for several years, and
that he had served them with ejectment processes.
Two of them were brothers named Peters ; the
names of the others were Cummins and Kennedy.
On Thursday morning Mr. Jackson rose from his
breakfast table about ten o'clock, and, having
ordered his car to be ready immediately to
proceed to Nenagh, he lit his pipe, and went out
in his slippers, as he was accustomed, to take a
walk in the shrubbery, which is close to tt e house.
He also gave directions that his little son, four years
old, should be got ready to accompany him on the
car. Hours passed, and he did not make his ap-
pearance; yet Mrs. Jackson was not alarmed, sup-
posing that he had walked across the fields to his
brother's, or that he had gone into town with some
friend who was passing. She sent to his brother's,
and to her father's residence, but nothing was
heard of her husband in either place. The idea of
murder did not occur to her mind during the day,
but daring the night she sent the coachman,
steward, and herd to search about the grounds, and
about daybreak on Friday morning they found the
body under a cluster of laurels in the shrubbery
within a few yards of his house. The slippers were
first discovered a few paces from the body, which
was lying with the face downwards. The head was
covered with blood, but as there were no marks of
violence on the rest of the body, they feared he had
burst a blood-vessel. Dr. Calahan was sent for, and
speedily arrived. He found the skull broken in two
places by a blunt instrument. The blow must have
been struck with a bludgeon behind, and the effect
was instant death. The assassin seems to have been
lurking behind a tree, and to have come stealthily
behind him as he sauntered quietly along the
gravelled walk smoking his pipe without a thought
of danger. At the coroner's inquest, which was
held on Saturday, John Smith, the coachman, de-
posed that, his master not having appeared, he re-
mained with the horse harnessed in the stable till 6
o'clock in the evening—an extraordinary circum-
stance, which struck his mistress, who ordered him
to unharness the horse, as his master would not go
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to Nenagh at that hour. There were two dogs in
the place, but they were tied up during the day.
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efore. The pockets of the deceased out i t
be were searched
by the steward, but the coachman was so shocked
with the sight of the
blood that he could not see
what was taken out of them. He had been robbed,
but it was Supposed this was done to divert atten-
tion from the real motive of the murderer which was
not robbery but agrarian vengeance. The jury re-