The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY.
GALWAY AND AMERICA.
Captain Kerr, the Government agent, arrived in
Galway yesterday, from Queenstown, to inspect the
Prinee Albert steamer, previous to her sailing for
New York. This was the first inspection of a vessel
of the Lever line by the Government emigration
agent. With respect to the Prince Albert's passen-
gers and freight, the Vindicator gives the following
information :
" There were 208 first, second, and third-class booked at
two o'clock p.m. this day, and there are four trains yet to
arrive before the sailing of the ship-4 p.m., 10 p.m,, 12
night, and 12.20 a.m. to-morrow—so that we may very safely
estimate the number she will carry at at least 200. With re-
spect to the cargo, there was put on board of her yesterday
and to-day 348 cases and hogsheads of manufactured goods
of a valuable description, the larger portion being Irish
linens and other productions of native manufacture from
the north of Ireland, besides very large quantities of hard-
ware from Scotland, in hogsheads weighing 16 to 18 cwt.
each. The passengers are from every part of thn kingdom,
bnt the great proportion of the Irish are from the province
of Ulster, next to that from Leinster and Connaught, and
comparatively few from Munster, whose population of an
emigrating tendency seems to have been completely drained
out by the exodus of the famine years, and which now, for
the consolation of our Limerick grumblers and growlers,
present no resources whatever either in passengers or goods
traffic to warrant any sort of direct steam communication
between that portion of Ireland and America."
THE MURDER OF MR. R. ELY.
There is yet no direct clue to the assassin, but
the authorities are said to be using every exertion
to gain such information as may lead to detection.
The correspondent of Saunders 's Newsletter writes
as follows :
" RoscnEA, Wednesday.—The murder ofad among all
this kind-
heartedll
ranks a strong feeling of h and respected gentleman
ot rrewr has spre,ianiThe peasantry in his own
immediate neighbourhood, I
and a good employer, mournohis
titude loss, an
ford expman ress, inbenev stron
o- his g
terms their deep feelings of gra
y
lent acts. They know the hand which slew their benefactor
and friend. They talk openly and broadly of the
brutal atrocity ; they do not attempt to conceal
their knowledge of the name of, the cowardly
assassin ; still they have no dread or horror of the fearful
crime ; they are corrupted by the familiarity of such atro-
cities, and they content themselves with expressions of
lamentation and regret at the loss which they have sus-
tained by the death of Mr. Ely. The assassin, although
well known, is permitted to roam at large; no hand is out-
stretched to secure him, and in every cottage he is certain
of protection and shelter ; and the peasantry do not evince,
notwithstanding Mr. Ely's popularity, the slightest wil-
lingness to aid the officers of justice to apprehend the
assassin. The authorities continue to pursue their inqui-
ries privately, and are taking every possible measure for the
capture of the murderer, but up to the present their best
efforts have been fruitless. No further facts of impoitanc
in addition to those already published have since transpired,
but the following description of the suspected assassin and
other particulars concerning him is taken from last night's
Police Gazette, or Hue-and-Cry :
" a Queen's County.—Description of James Delany, na-
tive of ltossbauu, who stands charged with having, on the
night of the sth 'November, 1858, in the barony of Clon-
donagh, parish of Kyle, fired at and dangerously wounded
Richard Ely, Esq., in the left arm, from the effects of which
he died on the 6th :—Thirty years of age, five feet seven
inches high, slight make, sallow complexion, thin face,
regular nose, dark brown hair ; wore a gray tweed frock
coat, gray tweed trousers, gray tweed vest. He had a
piece of cord sewed on the right leg of trousers over theknee ; is slightly pockpitted. Is unable to state what kind
of hat or cap. he is likely to wear, as the one he had .on
fell off after discharging the shot. This man is _likely to
emigrate from either Cork,
Galway, Waterford, or
Dublin.' "