The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Subjoined are soma extracts from the Dublin Evening
Post received to-day :

ATROCIOUS MURDER IN ARMAGH.

The following appears in the Newry Telegraph, an
Orange paper. We must wait for further accounts before
pronouncing decidedly upon the motives of the villains en-
gaged in this shocking and cold-blooded murder. The
paper from which we quote seems to be more than usually
guarded upon this point :
Wc have this day the painful duty of recording a mur-
der which has occurred within a few miles of this town—
and which, in point of daring and savage atrocity, is per-
haps unparalleled in the North of Ireland. The facts, as
communicated to us, are as follow :
Oa Saturday evening last, between five and six o'clock,
six men, armed, approached the house occupied by a
Mr. Powell (land surveyor to Mr. Quinn), situated
convenient to the Roman Catholic Chapel of Newtown_
hamilton, in the county of Armagh, and about a quar-
ter of a mile distant from the latter village. On
rapping at the door, it was opened by the servant-
maid, who, in answer to their inquiries, said her mas-
ter was at home, but that he was engaged. Four
of the party then rushed forward, and, entering the
parlour where Mr. Powell was at the time sitting with his
two daughters, peremptorily demanded what he was doing
" about the school-house in the planting ?" [We under-
stand that a school-house—tor some reason or other, unex-
plained to us, obnoxious to certain parties, had been in
progress of erection on Mr. Quin's estate, under the su-
perintendence of Mr. Powell.] To this interrogatory Mr.
P. replied, by asking the fellows how they dared to enter
his house in the manner and at the hour they did ? Upon
which three of the ruffians, the fourth having been courage-
ously held back by one of the young ladies, seized hold of
Mr. P., and notwithstanding that he, being a powerful man,
struggled desperately, they at length succeeded in dragging
him outside ot his hall door, where, deaf to every appeal for
mercy, they inhumanly shot him through the heart l Tnc
ruffian who remained inside struggling with the daughter,
at length freed himself from her desperate gripe by bru-
tally striking her on the forehead with the butt-end of his
pistol, fracturing her skull, and prnstrating her senseless
at his feet 1 This horrible tragedy occupied but a few
moments ; in the interim, however, the second daughter,
having escaped by a back door, ran to the adjoining vil-
lage and alarmed the inhabitants. But alas 1 assistance
carnet oo late. The assassins had decamped. The body
of the unfortunate father was found, where it had fallen, at
the door; his death, from the nature of the wound, must
have beca instantaneous. The heroic daughter, though
still in a state of insensibility, was, by surgical aid, re-
stored to consciousness—her life is not considered in
danger.
These are the only particulars that have as yet reached
us. We understand, however, that four fellows are now
in custody, charged with having been concerned in this
foul and cold-blooded murder.
HOARD OF EDUCATION.

His Grace the Duke of Leinster has been succeeded as
Commissioner of the Board of Education by the Marquis
of Kildare, his son. We regret, in common with the
public, his Grace's retirement—but we should remember
'.hat he stood manfully and perseveringly by the Board
when it became the object of such shameless vituperation
from the utter extremes of the parties into which the
country is civided. The trust he held as Commissioner of
Education has devolved upon his Gracie's heir—Lord K.l-
dare—the son of as honest and as true an Irishman as ever
lived. The Fitzg,eralds were always Whigs, and the Mar-
quis of Kildare, we may be sworn, will not belie the high
principles and the political creed of his lineage.

THE REGISTRIES.-FICTITIOUS VOTERS-LORD FERRARD

We obsvrre the name of Lord Ferrard amongst the

Peers who have convened the meeting in Belfast, to sup-
port the Bill of Lord Stanley, one of the pretexts for
which is, to prevent the registry of fictitious claimants in
Ireland. Let the reader turn to the report of a case at
the Louth Quarter Sessions, inserted in another column,
and say to which party should the odium of manufacturing
fictitious voters attach ?
Lord Ferrard should not have thrust himself forward as
the enemy of fictitious claimants, when he cut such a figure
in the Louth Registry Court.
We refer to the registry reports from other places, par-
ticularly Carlow, where, we are happy to find, the Re-
formers are, after all, making head against the combina-
tion of exterminators.
AGGREGATE MEETING OF 'RIM REFORMERS.

Never, during any period of the protracted struggle
against the combined Tories and Orangemen, were the
friends of Reform and good Government more cordially
united, and more determined upon obtaining the full rights
of British citizenship for Irishmen, than at the present
moment. The requisition lists for the meeting on the
lath are rapidly fill►ng up, and now present a splendid
array of the distinguished friends of the good cause. The
following are the terms of the requisition
We the undersigned friends of Reform, request a meet-
ing on the 15th of January, 1841, in Dublin, of all per-
sons who are desirous of establishing, by legal and con-
stitutional means, the rights of Irishmen to perfect equa-
lity of institutions and franchises with their fellow.subjects
of England and Scotland, and we pledge ourselves to our
countrymen generally to continue our united exertions for
the attainment of those great and essential objects.—F.
PONSONBY, Chairman of the Meeting."
Since Saturday hundreds of names have been received,
amongst which are the following :
The Earls of Howth and Huntingdon ; Lords Gor-
manstown, Guillamore, Stuart de Decies, Louth, Netter-
Riversdale, Oranmore, Stuart (son of the Earl of
Castlestewart), and Wallscourt: Sir Arthurt Blenner-
hassett, Bart., Sir Richard Keane, Bart., Sir P. Bel-
lew, Bart., Sir William Chatterton, Bart. ; Mr. Villiers
Stuart, M. P. ; Mr. Arthur Henry, of Straffan, &c.
ORANGE MEETING IN ULSTER.

The Ulster Times announces that the Tories and
Orangemen of the Northern Provinces arc to meet on the
21st, to make a demonstration in, support of Lord Stan-
ley's Disfranchisement Bill. Lords Londonderry, Hert-
ford, Ely, O'Neill, Enniskillen, Ferrard, the Loftuses,
and the Beresfords, join in this movement. We rejoice et
it. This, then, is the time for the true friends of peace
and honest government to rally, and the meeting of the
13th affords the opportunity.