The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-11 00:00:00

S N 9 OCTOBER 11, 1848.

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acts in order to protect Mr. :O'Brien from arrest, but
I however cogent such an argument might be in Mr.
O'Brien's case, it could scarcely be supposed that
M'Manus cams over from Liverpool and appeared in
arms for that sole object, and that he did not wish to
protect Mr. O'Brien from arrest in order that he might
become the leader of a revolutionary party. No one was
a closer attendant on Mr. O'Brien than the prisoner.
He pressed a horse into his service in order to recon-
noitre the military, and had been active in erecting bar-
ricades and in the attack on the police. M'Manus was
the man who arrested Carroll, the policeman, at a time
when some idea was entertained of renewing the attack
on the Widow Cormack's. In giving a statement of
these transactions, the Learned Attorney-General took
occasion to praise the determined character and cou-
rageous conduct of Mr. Cox, who with 22 men moved
on through a large number of people to the rescue of
Mr. Trent with a party of 47 men under him. To his
judgment, and to the extreme bravery of the police,
from Constable Williams upwards, may be imputed the
defeat of the insane attempt of these madmen to deluge
their country in blood.
Mr. M. Willock examined—Was in the police-force
at Liverpool. First noticed the prisoner on the 6th of
June, at a repeal meeting in Circus street School-rooms,
about seven o'clock, r.sr. About 300 were present. lie
made a speech for about twenty minutes, in which he
said, " Every man who fought with us should have a
piece of land allotted to him in Ireland that he could call
his own," and," that :unless Repeal were granted there
would be :bloody slaughter." Only noticed what was
illegal in the speeches ; was in private clothes. Another
policeman, named Jebbitt, was with him in a separate
part of the room. Remained from the commencement
to the end of the meeting.
Cross-examined by Mr. BUTT—The meeting was
open, and was called by placard. Had taken no notes
at the time. Saw no reporters there. Had never seen
M'Manus since till he saw him in the dock. Went on
the look-out for illegal expressions. In twenty minutes
there was nothing illegal in his judgment but what he had
quotid. Had beard of tenant-right—supposed it was a
lease.—(A laugh.) Would swear he was not speaking of
tenant-right. lie did not say he was going to Ireland
to fight. Did not speak of a fight in Ireland at all. Had
never taken notes of a speech before. Had taken notes
of sermons when he came home from church. Would
swear he used every word to convey the meaning in the
words he had quoted. Would not swear to every word,
but thinks they were the same, to the best of his recol-
lection. A person named O'Donnell said, " I will either
have Ireland free, or bloody hands (holding them out)
bemfore I eat my Christmas dinner." M'Manus was a
forwarding agent in Liverpool, in good business. Ile
was very much respected there, and was making money.
It was not a Chartist meeting, but believed there were
Chartists present. They did not belong to those at the
meeting.

Richard Jebbitt examined—Was employed in Liver-
pool police last summer. Know Mr. M'Manus—saw him
at two Chartist meetings, one on the 6th of June, the
other on tho 13th of June, in Circus-street. Was present
at the meeting of the 6th of June. M'Manus was there,
and spoke. He said he would have repeal in three
months or would have a bloody slaughter. He also said
there ought to be an organization of clubs in Liverpool.
On the 13th of June there was another meeting of the
same kind, but not so numerous. Did not recollect
hearing M'Manus say anything that evening. Remem-
bered crossing from Liverpool to Dublin by the Iron
Duke steamer on the evening of the 24th of July.
M'Manus was on board. He did not know
witness. They arrived at Kingstown at seven
o'clock in the morning of the 25th of July, and
on leaving, M'Manus told the steward, there iwas
a tin box in the cabin, which ho would leave, and
that he would either be going back to England, or would
send a boy for it. Witness followed M'Manus when ho
left the vessel, and went from Kingstown to Dublin in
the same train with him. On getting into Dublin he
saw Mr. M'Manus go to the Irish Felon office—ho drove
there on a car, and witness followed him on another car.
He had no luggage with him then. He knocked at the
office, but it was locked, and he then went to a coffee-
house close by, and there witness lost him.
Sergeant Garrigan, of the Dublin police, remembered
seeing Jebbitt on the morning of the 25th of July, and
going with him to the Iron Duke steamer. Jebbitt gave
him a tin case. (The tin case was opened, and the wit-
ness identified its contents). They were a suit of green
uniform—like that of the 'B2 club—a cap, a brace of
pistols, a liquor flask, two purses—ono of them having
a sf. piece in it—and a pair of socks. M'Manus smiled
as he recognised his property on its being exposed on
the table.

Cross-examined by Mr. BUTT—Never had seen an 'B2
uniform. The name on the box, as the maker's name,
was Lambert, Brown, and Co., Dame-street, Dublin ;
1782 was on the buttons of the coat.

To the LORD CIIIEI JUSTICE—There was a padlock
on the box, but, on trying to open it, the lock yielded
without the application of a key.
Edward Lyons, the steward of the Iron Duke steamer,
deposed to the leaving of the box.
Cross-examined—Know the prisoner as a frequent
hasienger in the Iron Duke. Could not remember ever
aving seen that box before. Had similar boxes with
military officers.
Tho Court adjourned till Tuesday.

STATE OF TIPPERARY.—TLMEE MURDERS.
CLONMEL, 00T. 9.—lntelligence was received in town
this morning that three murders were committed yester•
day in the neighbourhood of Bansha, about 16 miles
distant. It appears that Redmond Brien holds the lands
of Rosadrihid, about a mile from Bansha, from the Rev.
Mr. Ash, a Roman Catholic clergyman. There is a
small arrear of poor-rate due by the tenant, and in con-
sequence of its non-payment three keepers were placed
by the collector of the Tipperary union (Mr. John
Dalton) over the stock on the lands, with the object
eventually of disposing of it for payment of the :rate.
On Sunday morning at daybreak six or seven armed
men, with blackened faces, made their appearance on the
land. On their arrival they seised upon one of the
keepers named Regan, and brought him to a distance
from the house; they then entered and killed one of the
other mon with the butt ends of their guns; the third
man having retreated up the chimney they fired at him
and shot him. The bullet passed through the lower jaw
and out at the top of the head. The assassins next re-
turned to the place to which they had conveyed Regan,
and shot him through the heart, thus consummating
their bloody work. Brien and his wife were present,
but did not interfere. They are in custody, but decline
to answer any questions.
ATTACK ON A MEMBER OF THE JURY PANEL.
Mr. George Bradshaw, a juror of the county, was at-
tacked this morning, within a mile of this town. lie and
his brother were travelling in a gig, and two men rushed
on them and seized the horse, which they pulled down on
his haunches. The Messrs. Bradshaw resisted, and
their assailants fled; they took one of the fellows pri-
soner, and the police have captured the other. They are
in Clonmel gaol.

INQUEST ON THE MURDERED KEEPERS.
Yesterday an inquest was held on the bodies of the
three murdered men, before Captain Bradshaw, coroner.
Tho following are the particulars:.—
Mr. John Dalton, of Tipperary, having been sworn,
stated that he had been a poor-rate collector for the
Tipperary Union since the 3d of October, 1846, and had
occasion to go frequently to Redmond Brien's, of Rosad-
rihid, for the rates and arrears due by him; that
about a month ago he summoned the said Brien to
the Court-house of Bansha in consequence of his
having removed his stock off the land, and a bench
warrant was granted against him for the amount
due, viz., 41. 4s. .10.; that ho received an inti-
mation on Wednesday or Thursday lust that Brien
had removed his corn to another man's land, whose
name ho believed also to be Brien ; that on Friday
morning last, the eth October, he gave the Bench war-
rant to Denis Ryan, his confidential clerk or assistant,
and desired him to place keepers on the corn of said
Redmond Brion, which had been so removed ; Denis
Ryan placed the three deceased men, named Edmund
Regan, John Walsh, and Timothy Dwyer, as keepers of
the corn. Further states, that on Sunday morning the
Bth of October, about the hour of ten o'clock, was ire
formed that these three men had been severely beaten.
In about an hour after left Tipperary and proceeded to
Bansha, and was informed there by the police that the
three men were brutally murdered. Went to the place
and saw the bodies lying on two cars in the yard of
Patrick Cushin, of Corroghbrook, in the pariah of
Bansha. Further states that said Redmond Brien often
fastened his door, and frequently drove off his stock
to another farm in order to avoid paying the poor-rates,
and that he (deponent) has gone to these lands at
least eight or ten times for the poor-rates, and ;never
got paid.
Patrick Cushin, of Corroghbrook, sworn—Stated that
he resides within about half a mile of where the deceased
men were placed as keepers. Slept at home on Saturday
night, and yesterday morning, about the hour of seven
o'clock, deponent's wife was up and he in bed. Doceased,
Edmund Regan, entered the house and called him up.
lie said that there men coming after him, and in about
a minute or two the other deceased men, J. Walsh and
T. Dwyer, came in. Regan desired the other two men,
Walsh and Dwyer, to hurry in, and lock the d .or. In
about ten minutes after the door being locked, several
men came to the door and asked to bo admitted. They
were refused, and one of them raised the latch of the
door and asked for a spark of fire to light his pipe. lie
was refused. Then one of the party broke the kitchen
window, and another man asked to have the door
opened, otherwise they would break it open. -Deponent
replied that he would not open the door. One O'Fflte men
outside said, " If you don't we will burn the hotne.!'One
of the bailiffs inside shouted out," If you will spare us onr
lives we will take our oaths never to come again." The pea.
ple asked if they had pistols inside, and were told 'hey had
not, upon which a large stone was thrown against the
door, another was thrown, the lock was broken, the
door opened, and three men entered, ono of whom had a
gun. Walsh and Dwyer were begging for their lives,
and said they would never come again. Regan was now
pulled out by the party, and the three men again entered
the house. Dwyer and Walsh fell on their knees and
implored for mercy, but they were both murdered in the
kitchen. One was shot, and the other was beat with a
gun, and when the stock of it broke he was beat and
killed from blows with the barrel. Deponent states that
after Dwyer and Walsh were killed, the three men who

killed them left the house. Went with them, and saw
Regan surrounded by six or seven persons, at a bur-
heen, or passage leading into his yard. One of the
party desired Regan to go on his knees. He did s..eard
was immediately attacked. Heard repeated blows given
to him, and saw a gun presented at him, upon which he
(deponent) retired, fearing that he might be hurt, as the
gun was pointed towards where he was standin;r. After
the murder of the three, the six or seven men went
away at a slow pace, and faced toward; the mountains.
Does not know any of the party who entered his house,
and those who did had their faces blackened, and were
disguised.
Benjamin W. Bradshaw, Esq., M.D., having been
sworn, states that he has examined the bodies of Ed-
mund Regan, John Walsh, and Timothy Dwyer; and
on making a post mortem examination of the body of
' John Walsh, finds two very extensive fractures on the
crown and the back of the head, a gun-shot wound on
the left side of the neck, which fractured the vertebrae,
and went down between the vessels and towards the
right side, fracturing the right collar bone, and found a
charge of mixed shot lying under the pectoral muscle,
which must have caused instant death. The shot must
have been fired from above, that is, when the man was
on his knees. Deponent finds that Timothy Dwyer re-
ceived an extensive fracture on the left side of the head,
from which the brain
,was protruding, and several scalp
wounds, and a very large ono under the left ear, also a
rupture of the left eye. Those injuries caused his death.
Deponent finds that Edmund Regan received a fracture
of the entire left side of the head, and right upper and
lower jaw-bones broken, the right orbit ruptured, and
the whole teeth of the right side knocked out. Those
injuries caused his death.
THE VERDICT.—That the deceased, Edmund Regan,
John Walsh, and Titnothy Dwyer, were barbarously
and brutally murdered, on the lands of Corroghbroo)e,
in the parish of Bansha, about the hour of seven o'clock
on Sunday morning, the Bth of October instant, by some
person or persons yet unknown, and that the said Ed-
mund Regan, John Walsh, and Timothy Dwyer, did
then and there receive such injuries as are fully de-
scribed by Dr. Bradshaw, and which caused their death.
THE STATE PRISONERS.
The Clonmel correspondent of the Cork Examiner
writes as follows, under date of Sunday:—
" HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCR.--.1 have this moment
returned from a brief visit to Thomas Francis Meagher
in his prison, and I have just time to add a line to my
former communication as to his health. lie looks, and
indeed is, as well as ever I remember to have seen him;
and his courage is as high as it was in the most glorious
days of his short but brilliant career. What( ver may be
his sacrifice—and heaven: grant he may not be called
on to seal his devotion to liberty by martyrdom—he has
the fondest hopes of his country's ultimate freedom.
There is not about him the slightest appearance of a man
lying in prison under a heavy charge, and soon to be
summoned to the tribunal which has alv tidy decided the
fate of his dear friend. He is just the same as ever—
gallant and generous, kindly and unselfish, honest and
truthful. Ile speaks of Smith O'Brien as being sustained
by the same cold, calm self-possession, the same quiet
heroism that ever animated him, and especially during
the trial, Ho is abs9lu:ely stoical in his heroism, while
the hearts of his friends are wrung with grief.
" There was no truth in the alleged confinement of
Mrs. O'Brien. However, it was generally rumoured on
Thursday, and many believed it."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MALTA, OCT. 2.—Tho answer given by four medical
men, tul surgeons, to queries of his Excellency the Go-
vernor, whether there was cholera (Asiatic) in the
island, or any reason to suspect that there was, the reply
was in the negative.
Her Majesty's sloop Frolic, intended to relieve the
Harlequin, arrived on Saturday last. She saluted the
Rear. Admiral's flag on coming to her moorings.
The French steamer Louqsor, over due since the 24th,
arrived on Saturday, and proceeded on the same day to
the Levant.

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS OF WAR, &C.
Sept. 23, her Majesty's steam-frigate, Terrible, Cap-
tain W. Ramsey, from Trieste and Corftr; Sept. 24,
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan,
Commander G. Brooks, from the Levant; Sept. 25, her
Majesty's steamer Antelope, Lieutenant I'. Smyth, from
the lonian Islands; French mail-steamer Scamendre,
Lieutenant Blancq, from Marseilles and Italy; Sept, 26,
Rost, steamer Bosphore, Captain J. B. Arnaud, from the
Levant ; French mail steamer Alexandre, Lieutenant
Dangeville, from Alexandria; her Majesty's steamer
Ardent, Lieutenant W. C. Nowel, from Alexandria;
Sept. 28, English screw-steamer Dumbarton Youth, Cap-
tain P. Rodge, from Constantinople.
VESSELS EXPECTED.

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Sept. 28, French mail-steamer Louqsor, Lieutenant
De Maisonseul, from Marseilles; her Majesty's steamer
Triton, Lieutenant C. J. P. Glinn, from Marseilles ;
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, Cap-
tain J. Soy, from Southampton and Gibraltar.
DEPARTURES OF SHIPS OF WAR, &C.
Sept. 22, French mail-steamer Osiris. Lieutenant C.
de Preford, for Marseilles. Sept. 23, English steamer
Dabrotzia, Captain D. Sampson, for Galatz. Sept. 26,
Rost steamer Bosphore, Captain I. B. Arnaud, for Mar-
seilles ; French mail•steamer Alexandre, Lieutenant
Dangoville, for Marseilles. Sept. 27, Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain G. Brooks,
for Southampton and Gibraltar; her Majesty's steamer'
Merlin, Lieutenant J. 11. Turner, for Marseilles. Sept.
28, her Majesty's steam-frig,ato Terrible, Captain W.
Ramsey, for Naples.