The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY-SHOCKING
MURDER.

The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following ap-
palling narrative:—
" NENAGII, DEC. s.—We are deeply grieved to say
that an unprovoked and most inhuman murder was per-
petrated on Wednesday night, at Loughorna, between
Nenagh and Borrisokane, on the person of a poor man
of the name of Hanley, who sold a pig that day in
Borris, for the price of which his diabolical assailants
attacked him. His house was entered soon after night-
fall. He had lodged the price of his rig in Borris, and
the monsters being defeated in their object, fell upon
the defenceless victim of their hellish malice, and lite-
rally beat his head to a jelly. The poor man resisted
the robbers with all his might ; he broke a spade handle
on the head of one of the villains, who
,was carried off,
it is supposed, dead, in the arms of his comrades. An
inquest was yesterday held, and a verdict of wilful
murder returned.

" Since the above was put in type we have been in-
formed that two men, of the names of Gaynor and
Heffernan, have been arrested and lodged in the county
gaol on the above charge.
" The house of a man of the name of Brien was at-
tacked at BArbaha on Thursday night. One of the
assailants was entering through a window, when Brien,
who was waiting inside, took up a scythe, and making a
,desperate stroke with it across the head of the person
.entering, almost severed, it is thought, his head from his
body. Blood was traced yesterday near the river.
•• Wednesday night' the house of John Hogan, near
Annaghbeg, was attacked by some armed men, who
,fired two shots into the house, and4scrved Hogan with a
threatening notice, that if a line of road in that district
was not changed, he would suffer! The steward of the

line resides in --
the house. ;
" On the same evening as John Grace, of the same
parish, Monsea, was proceeding near the cross of Rich-
mond, three fellows jumped from behind a ditch, seized
;him, and desired him to deliver his arms. Having
searched Hogan, they found no arms, but robbed him of
what money he had, his temperance medal, &c.
" James Grace's haggard, near Annaghbeg, wail en-
itered on Tuesday night, an 1 seventy stone of wheat was
Ithreshed out deliberately, and taken away."
ROSCREA.—A sale of articles seized for rent due to
Mr. O'Grady, of Dublin, was advertised for Friday, the
;27th of November last, at Graffiti, between Roscrea and
!Templemore, where a very large mob assembled.
Several of them were armed and fired shots; the sale
,was subsequently relinquished, as the country people are
'determined to resist the payment of rent in any shape,
land these small farmers, who are well able to pay, are
!the principals in those proceedings. Arms and ammuni-
tion are now so easily procured, that all the lawless
'ruffians in this'part of the country are well supplied.—
Leinster Express.

PURCHASE OF FIRE- ARms.—The Tipperary Free
:Press of this day says:—" The purchase of fire-arms in
'this town by the country people, who manifest the
greatest avidity to possess themselves of these weapons,
continues unabated. The mania, it appears, has extended
to the north, and in Cavan and Fermanagh the sale of
guns and pistols was never so great as at the present
time."

The Anglo Celt, published in the northern county of
Cavan, contains the following:—" This very day we
heard that a tradesman was about to open a shop in the
town of Cavan for the purpose of selling Birmingham
muskets, with the hope of realising a fortune by the trade,
although he expects to find his chief customers amongst
the applicants for relief tickets—men, be it remembered,
who, having nothing to defend, can only purchase
these instruments of death for aggressive purposes."
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE KING'S COUNTY.
The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser of yesterday says:—
Accounts reached town this morning of the total de-
struction by fire of Clonearl, the splendid residence of
William Henry Magan, Esq., in the King's County. It
is stated that the fire was accidental. Mr. Megan, on
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that gentleman, at a cost of 80,000/. It was insured at
the Royal Exchange, but we have not heard for what
amount."
A second edition of the Warder of this day contains

the following!—
" A very destructive fire has taken place at my neigh-
bour's, Mr. Mangan, of Clonearl; all his beautiful and
magnificent buildings, together with a vast deal of costly
furniture, are now in ashes. The fire broke out in one
of the sleeping-rooms, and it is not as yet known from
what cause. Some attribute the disaster to the burst-
ing of a chimney, and others to the negligence of a
servant. It is thought that 40,0001. would not repair
the damage."
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Dublin,Dec.EßAL RDE RIS, 184 6 .
No. 1. Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of
Major-General Philip Bainbrigge, C. 8., and Major-
General I homas Erskine Napier, C. 8., being placed on
the staff of the army serving in Ireland, vice Lieutenant-
General Sir George 11. F. Berkeley, K.C.8., and Lieut.-
Generalv
H. F Wyndham.
the George
above
date the Ist January, 1847.
vof
district, Cambridge,
No. 2. Major-General his Royal Highness Prince
The appointments to bear
mentioned date, assume the command of the
Dublin°LeuKte.Gna.nat-nGdeGneCra.lMW.Gy.n,dwhiallm,
.from
No. 3. Major Generalß '
' Cr General Sireorge H.
Bainbrigge will succeed Lieut.-
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Belfast district. Berkeley in command of the

No. 4. Major-General Napier will succeed Major-
General his Royal Highness Prince George of Cam-
bridge in command of the Limerick district.
N. 5. Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of
Colonel George Turner, C. 8., being placed upon the staff
of the army serving in Ireland from the 9th ultimo, with
a view of commanding the Royal Artillery in this coun-
try, vice Major-General Alexander Munro, I.H.
By command of the Lieutenant-General commanding.
(Signed) THOS. E. NAPIER,
Deputy- Adjutant-General.

On Saturday night, a thief went into the shop of a
watchmaker, in Mark-lane, just as the proprietor, who
has been in the habit of packing up his goods in a bag
and taking them home every evening, was preparing to
depart. The bag lay upon the counter—the thief seized
it—threw a handful of pepper into the face of the shop-
keeper, and ran down Mark lane. The plundered man
roared out lustily, and, notwithstanding the blinding
effect of the pepper, ran out after the thief, who threw
down the bag and vanished. None of the property was
lost. The thief escaped.