The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-03 00:00:00

ANOTHER IRISH MURDER.

A Dublin correspondent telegraphs that Patrick
Murphy, land bailiff to Captain Lidwell, was murdered
near Templemore yesterday morning. He was found
lying on the road insensible, and soon died. He had been
beaten to death with stones.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

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The cadet training screw-ship Trafalgar, Captain T. S.
Lethbridge, has left Spithead for her cruise with naval
cadets.
The screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. E. Madden left
Portsmouth on Tiiesday, with troops for Jamaica, 'Bar-
bardoes, and Bermuda.
The War Department steam transport Lord Panmure,
has arrived at Devonport from Woolwich with 550 tons of
Ordnance stores for the magazines at Bull Point and the
Gun Wharf, Plymouth.
The armour-plated screw turret-ship Monarch, Captain
Aneysley, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour on Tues-
day morning, and anchored at Spithead, to receive her
ammunition. She will at once join the Channel Squadron
at Portland.
The City of Brussels, chartered by Government to
convey troops to India, was to have arrived at Woolwich
on Tuesday, but intimation has been received that the
inspector of troopships has condemned part of the
machinery, and that she will not be ready for three weeks.
Rear-Admiral J. A. Paynter, in a letter addressed to
the Secretary of State for War, sketches a plan for raising
and drilling a national force of Volunteer Artillery,
exercised upon the system adopted in her Majesty's
navy for marine field guns. These guns, which are
Armstrong 6 or 9-pounders, weighing from 3 to
6 cwt., are worked on a light field carriage
on
limber, carrying about 20 rounds of ammunition,
are drawn and worked with great facility by the inen
themselves, no horses being ever used ; can be carried, if
necessary, across hedges and ditches ; and thus be placed
in position's which it would be impossible, from the natu-
ral obstacles of the ground, for artillery moved by horses
to approach. Admiral Paynter's object is to arm
the kingdom with artillery of this description, every town
having its battery, every village its gun, manned by
thoroughly trained volunteer artillerymen.
The Abyssinia, breastwork monitor, 1,849 tons, 200-
horse power of engines carrying two double-gun turrets,
and driven by twin screws, built for the defence of Bom-
bay, was put through her' final trial of machinery and
speed on Friday over the measured mile off the Maplin
Sands, previous to her sailing for Bombay. The ship's
draught of water was 13ft. 7m. forward, and 14ft. Bin.
aft, giving a mean draught of 14ft. 112 in. At
her load line the ship will float at 15ft. forward and aft,
with the main deck having a freeboard of 3ft. A strong
wind prevailed off the sands during the time the ship
was being tried, and a lumpy sea was running, but
the results were considered very satisfactory, the
ship under full boiler power, without being pressed
in any way or the power of her engines brought
out to their full extent, averaging as a mean of six runs
made over the measured mile 9'600 knots per hour.
Under half boiler-power she realised a mean speed of
7.827 knots. The Abyssinia is one of three vessels of the
low freeboard Monitor type that have been built for the
defence of our colonial harbours, the Magdala being the
second vessel, also for the defence of Bombay, and the
Cerberus, which has at last sailed from Plymouth for
Melbourne, being the third.

CRYSTAL PAL kCE.—OneShilling Day; Wednesday
Nov. 2, 1870. Number of visitors by season tickets, 1,502 ;
ditto on payment, 691; total visitors, 2,193.
CRYSTAL PALACE. Auber's charming opera,
"Fra Diavolo," will be played under the direction of Mr.
Perren, this afternoon, for the first time. Miss Blanche
Cole and Mr. Parkinson take the principal parts.
'Martha" will be played next week, and "Der Freis-
chutz" in the following week.
MURDER OF A SISTER OF CHARITY.—A. very sad
affair has ocourred—perhaps the only serious offence that
has disgraced the much-tried Paris since its investment.
From the opening of the siege, the Sisters of Charity
of the Hospital Cochin have distributed every
day, to all poor persons who called on them, milk
for infants and the sick. A woman who lives
in the neighbourhood did not come for her
usual supply the other day until a very late hour. She
was informed by the Sisters that by this time very little
milk was left, but that they would give her all they
could spare. Her vessel was taken from her, and
afterwards returned three-quarters full. The woman be-
came angry and insolent, and upbraided the nuns for
not keeping for her a proper allowance, as she came
regularly every day. She went off, threatening with
lively menaces the sister whose duty it was to distribute
the milk among the poor. Next day she came back at
the ordinary time, and seemed angrier even than before,
shouting, "I must pay off that nun !" On the third day
sEe contrived to insinuate herself—perhaps not too gently
—iuto 'the passage that leads into the kitchen of
the Sisters; and then, snatching a flesh-knife from a table,
she waylaid her charitable foe. When the Sister had
' finished the distribution of food and returned to the
kitchen, the woman plunged the knife into her breast, the
effect being to injure fatally one of her lungs. For three
or four days the poor nun lingered; on the fifth she died.
—Paris CorresponacnO of 6144 Telegraph.