The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-12 00:00:00

BANQUET TO MR. BRIGHT, C.E.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has announced his intention
of entertaining Mr. Bright and the principal officials con-
nected with the Atlantic Telegraph Company at a banquet
in the Mansion-house. His Excellency the Lord-Lieu-
tenant has graciously accepted an invitation to be present
on the cecasion, and the Ist of September has been fixed for
the purpose. This is a demonstration which will meet with
the cordial approval of all clams in the city. Such public
recognitions of the services of mep of Mr. Bright's stamp
are praiseworththy. . They are stimulants to, greater
exertions in the cause of science, and in the ptesent instance
the honour could not be more worthily bestowed. This
briquet will also be a graceful feature in the Lord Mayor's
official career, which Is now nearly closed, and from his an-
tecedents there is every reason to expect that it will not
starne the great event it is to commemorate.

MURDER NEAR LISBURN.
On Monday night a very melancholy occurrence took
plrce at Ililden, near Lisburn, County Antritn, which in
a few minutes after resul ed in the death of one man named
Owen Hughes ; and axother, named Kelly, is not expected
to live an hour. Two men, named John Martin and
Alexander Martin were immediately after arrested for the
murder.

The particulars of the sad affair are as follow :—Hilden
is the place at which the Messrs. Balfour's spinning mill is
situated, and in the neighbourhood there are several rows of
neat brick houses, occupied by the mill workers. Monday
night astrolling fiddler happened to pass along the roads play-
ing some tunes, and a number of the young men, employed in
the mill asked a Mrs. Burns to allow them to bring the fiddler
into her house and have a dance there. She consented, and
a dance was accordingly held. Next door to the house in
question the prisoners and accused—the two Martins—
resided,' and it seems that when the hour became late,
about eleven o'clock, the elder of the Martins objected
to the dance being continued any later as he had to be
up. early next (Tuesday) morning to go to his work, and
wanted to sleep. It appears Martin proceeded to the
watchman at the mill to get him to clear the house of the
dancers, and when the latter heard of this they left the
Louse and gave up the dancing, lest Mr. Barton night
hear of it and be displeased. As they were leaving the
dance-house they met the elder Martin coming up he row in
his shirt sleeves. The first man that he met with was James
Kelly, and Martin, with an oath, said that he would put an
end to the dancing. Kelly and Martin then struck at each
other, and the younger Martin came up, ran at Kelly, end
stuck him. Kelly shouted out that he was stuck, and lay
over against the wall. He walked in for a little time into
one of the houses in the row, and was subsequently re-
moved to his own residence in the County Down on the
other side of the Lagan, about a quarter of a mile from the
mills. At about the same time one of the Martins got into
hold with Owen Hughes, and in a moment he also shouted
he was stabbed, and was taken into his own house in the
row, where he died in less than an hour.

An inquest was held on the body sf Owen Hughes on
Tuesday, before Mr. J. K. Jackson, coroner, and a respect-
able
.jury, in the office of Messrs. Barbour, at Kilden, when
the facts above stated were given in evidence.
The depositions of Kelly had been taken by Mr. Gregg,
J.P., as it is feared the man will live but only a short time,
and in these depositions the dying man states that be struck
John Martin, and he believes it was the younger Martin
who stabbed

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all the witnesses for the Crown deposed that there was no
party feeling in the matter.
Dr. J. Campbell, of Lisburn, deposed that he was called
tea n were
ts; but
on to visit Hughes and Kelly. Arrived at about 12 o'clock
on Monday night. Pound Hughes dead and cold. He had
received a stab which passed into the chest. It was a tri-
angular wound, more like a bayonet wound than that of a
knife. The man could not have lived after it. The wound
Kelly received was a stab in the navel. He had hopes
that Kelly would live.
Head-constable Stafford said be got one of the Martins in
bed and the other up in the hou.se. Searched the house,
but found no weapon in it.
The result of the inquest has not yet been published.
At the last assizes several of the judges found it necessary
in their charges to deplore the fact that stabbing was now a
prevalent crime in Ireland. Their strictures on the coward-
liness of using the knife wire very pointed; but they have
not had the effect, it seems, of diminishing this continental
vice.
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