The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

Mr. MAGUIRE did not see why in their anxiety to re-
move what had so long been the reproach of Ireland they
should adopt the very worst plan that human ingenuity
could devise. He wondered how the right hor; gentleman
could tolerate the odious machinery now prop'•sed, for it
would vitiate the whole bill, and raise up every man of the
humbler classes in Ireland against it. He wtrtied the hotre
against adopting a scheme which could only become a source
of suspicion and annoyance to the peopla of Ireland.
Col. DUNNE did not think the police the most competent
parties to make these returns. Why not adopt the systcru
prevailing in this country, and • aproint persons specially
for the purpose.

Lord PALMERSTON said that the course adopted by
those who moved the present resolution was not very con-
sistent with the opinions they had exercised with regard to
the bill. They were exceedingly anxious to have a system
of registration, and the house was now called upen to affirm
that principle, but instead of agreeing to the second reading,
they interposed a motion which did not belong to the pre-
sent stage of the discussion, and which was perfectly fit to
be proposed in committee.
Mr. MONSELL thought the proper mode of proceeding
I would be to adopt the plan already existing in England.
Mr. HENNESSY consented to withdraw his amendment.
The bill was then read a second time.

SUMMARY JURISDICTION (IRELAND) BILL.
The clauses in this bill were agreed to. _ _ .

Capt STACPOOLE,moved the addition of the following
clause :—" Any person who shall keep or suffer to be at
large, within 50 yards of any public road, any {log, without
having the said dog properly muzzled, shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding 108. ; and it shall also be lawful fbr a
justice or justices of the petty sessions district, upon infor-
mation that any =muzzled dog is kept or sutThred to be at
large within such distance as aforesaid, and that the owner
thereof connot he discovered, to issue his or their warrant
to any sub-inspector, head or other constable, to seize and
destroy any such dog, or to dispose of said dog in such man-
ner as to said justice or justices may seem fit; and further,
it shall be lawful for said justice or justices, upon informa-
tion, to issue his or their warrant to any head or other con-
stable to seize and destroy any dangerous dog so kept or suf-
fered to be at large within said before-mentioned distance."
Sir R. PEEL opposed the clause, which he said was in-
consistent with the provisions of the measure, and said
that if the hon. and gatlant member attached any import-
ance to the subject the better way would be for him to bring
in a dog bill. (Laughter.)
Sir E. GROGAN supported the clause.
After some discussion the committee divided—
For the clause
Against it
The clause was therefore thrown out.
Lord E. HILL moved the following clause :—" And
whereas, by the act of the 24th and 25th of Victoria, chap.
100, sec. 38, certain assaults on peace officers and others are
made misdemeanours, and punishable with imprisonment
for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard
labour; be it enacted, that two justices of the peace shall
have a concurrent jurisdiction to punish such assaults un-
der the 42d section of the said act, if they shall consider
the offence so trivial as not:to require.being dealt with by a
superior tribunal."—Agreed to.
The bill was then reported.
The house then adjourned.

MURDER OF A FRENCH GENTLE.
1N TIPPERARY.

The following account of the murder near Cashel,
which we briefly announced yesterday, appears in
the Dublin ~Evening Post of Tuesday :
"We have to announce, with deep regret and mortifica-
tion, that a French gentleman. M, Gustave Thiebault, who
recently settled in Tipperary, where he purchased an estate,
was shot dead upon the high road at five o'clock yester-
day afternoon, near his residence, Rockwell, about four
miles from Cashel. This day Mr. J. B. Kennedy, of
Mountjoy-square, agent of the deceased gentleman, received
a telegram requesting his attendance at Blackwell, where
Madame Thiebault and her orphan children now remain,
awaiting the inquest. The Rockwell estate had been pur-
chased by M. Charles Thiebault, now an extensive mer-
chant settled in Dundee. After that purchase had been
effected, M. Gustave Thiebault came over to reside in his
brother's mansion at Rockwell, and in order to settle per-
manently in this country, he purchased for himself the
adjoining property of Boytonrath, in the Landed Estates
Court. Subsequently, in consequence of large arrears which
had been due, legal proceedings were taken and an eviction
took place at Boytonrath. It la state& that about two
mouths since, a threatening letter had been sent to Madame ...
Thiebault, threatening her husband with ' the death of Iteeee-----eels, .se
a former possessor of the estate of Rockwell, who had been
murdered on the high-road near his house about 15 years
ago. For that murder a man named John Lonergan was te .
tried and found guilty. He was executed in front of Clon-
mel gaol, with two brothers, Henry and Philip Cody, who
had been condemned at the same assizes for the murder of
a relative of his own, a person named Madden. At the
execution a frightful scene took place. The elder Cody, a
very powerful young man, having unsuccessfully attempted
to throw the executioner off the scaffold, a struggle ensued
between them. The gaol officials interposed, and with dif-
ficulty saved the life of the executioner. Cody was then
taken into gaol—his hands and feet chained—and in that
condition he was led out and executed with the other two
prisoners. The younger Cody had also resisted the execu-
tioner, but not with so much violence as his brother. Lon-
ergan had taken no part whatever in the frightful scene en
the scaffold, but died with great penitence. We have learned
that three men were arrested last night on suspicion of
being connected with the murder of M. Thiebault. Accord-
ing to information that has reached us, the unfortunate
French gentleman, M. Gustave Thiebault, whcse life
was sacrificed on this occasion, had manifested the sin-
cerest desire to befriend industrious tenants, and his con-
duct was uniformly kind and humane. He had intended
to come to Dublin to-day, on his way to France."
A telegram from Cahir states that three brothers named
Halloran have been arrested on suspicion.
The Tipperary Flee Press says :—..ci Mr. Thiebalt was
walking along the road from Cashel, carrying a double-
barrelled gun, when he was joined by a man who had a
three-pronged pitchfork. After some conversation the man
stabbed him with the pitchfork. Having fallen from the
effects of the blow, he then shot the unfortunate gentleman
dead with his own gun. The fork has been identified by
a smith in the locality as having been taken out of his
forge, but by whom he cannot tell.
A correspondent of the Freeman's .Tournal, writing from
Clonmel, on Wednesday , says :—" To-day I have learned
that the unfortunate gentleman was walking, not on the
high road, as has been stated, but in a field, in close
proximity to his own house, and that when ho was last seen
alive ho carried under his arm a gun—a painful evidence, I
apprehend, that he deemed it necessary not to appear abroad
unarmed. If this should be correct, it is not straining to
assume that, whoever the inhuman ruffian was, he abso-
lutely shot Mr. Thiebault with his own gun. This fact, it
is alleged, indicates the absence of premeditation or of an
organised conspiracy, and in sustainment of this we aro
asked to believe in an encounter, a struggle, resulting in
depriving him of his gun, and then followed the shot
which passed through his heart and must have caused ina
stantaneous death. But, if the shot were the offspring
of a struggle, what can be said to account for the body
exhibiting, It is reported, unmistakeable evidence of hav-
ing been perforated with a sharp instrument in three dif-
ferent but approximate places ? Was this pitchfork-like
wound inflicted before or after the contents of the gun were
lodged in the heart ? If it can be ascertained this wound
was inflicted first, it seems to favour the mere hypothesis
that a struggle took place. If this lunge were administered
after the gunshot, and consequently after death, it indicates
an amount of barbarous vindictiveness and insatiable
bloodthirstiness almost without parallel in the records of
inhuman acts. It does not seem probable that the fork
wounds could have been inflicted while tho deceased was
still armed with his gun, which I believe was a double
barrel one. In that case it is reasonable to surmise that
Mr. Thiebault would have fired to disable his assailant, and
that the report of the
gun would have attracted atten-
tion ; but it is asserted that but one discharge was heard,
and that unquestionably was the fatal shot that deprived
M. Thiebault of his life and crimsoned the green swx d of
Tipperary with the blood of an inoffensive. fellow-man. It
is not yet perfectly clear why the police should have arrived ,
at the conclusion that more than one was engaged in this
noonday assassination. Three men have been arrested on
suspicion, but it has not transpired what constitutes the
ground of the constitution—whether their pre rims
character, or. being included in the number et rir
sons about to be evicted. The body when found pr,:-
sented a fearful sight. The head was Urea,' tul I y
bcaten—cAupietely di ;figured. It lay on its side 'in a
perfect pool of blood,' and close by ay the gun and a
three-pronged pitchfork—the double instruments of death.
The latter has been recognised by a smith who lives in the
locality, but he alleges it was stolen from his forge, by whom
he cannot say. The inquest will commence to-morrow,
when, after viewing the mangled remains and taking some
formal evidence, it is likely to be adjourned, to give the
police time to connect the links, which at present seem
rather indistinct."
The Freeman states that a report which obtained soma
currency in town on the previous day, to the effect that the
wife of the victim of this diabolical murder had succumbed
to the desperate severity of the shook she experienced when
the fate of her husband was communicated to her, remained
1 without confirmation.