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

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
LORD PALMERSTON'S -VISIT TO IRELAND.
During the noble viscount's stay in Dublin' he made a
vapid inspection of his improving estates in end around the
city. Accompanied by his agent he proceeded along Cabra
and the North Circular-road, and viewed with much appa-
rent satisfaction the number of elegant buildings that have
lately been erected on this part of his property. His lord-
ship was then introduced to Dr. Boake, cne of the most
thriving tenants in the neiglibeurhood, after which he in-
spected attentively the new terrace in course of erection at
Manor-street, called Temple-terrace. Having expressed
himself gratified at the manner in which the building bad
been executed, and very graciously taken his leave of Dr.
Boake, his lordship drove on to Chapelizod, and visited the
mills of Mr. Dargan, the scene of the recent fire. After
spending some time in traversing the principal part of his
extensive estate in that direction, the noble lord continued
his course round through Ratinnines and Donnybrook,
and returned to town highly pleased at the many evidencess
of an improving spirit which everywhere met his view.

RUMOURED VISIT OF THE HON. S. 11. WALPOLE TO

IRELAND.

The Secretary of the Home Department, it is said, pur-
poses paying Ireland a visit in the first week in October.
In the latter end of September he will be in official attend-
ance at Balmoral, but immediately afterwards he has notified
his resolve to cross from Scotland direct to Belfast, where he
will be the guest of Mr. R. Davidson, M.P., at the Abbey.

BANQUET TO MR. BRIMIT, 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 occasion, and. the Ist of September has been fixed for
the purpose. This is a demonstration which will meet with
the cordial approval of ail classes in the city. Such public
recognitions of the services of men of Mr. Bright's stamp
are praiseworthtliy. They are stimulants to greater
exertions in the cause of science, and in the present instance
the honour could not be more worthily bestowed. This
banquet will also be a graceful feature in the Lord Mayor's
official career, which is now nearly aloed, and from his an-
tecedeuts there is every reason to expect that it will not
shame the great event it is to commemorate.

MURDER NEAR LISBURN.

On Monday night a very melancholy occurrence took
plrce at Ililden, near Lisburn, County Antrim, which in
a few minutes after resulted in ;lie death of one man named
Owen Hughes ; and another, named Kelly, is not expected
so live an hour. Two men, named John Martin and
Alexander Martin were immediately after arrested for the
murder.
The pa-ticulars 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 arc 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
house and gave up the dancing, lest Mr. Barton might
hear of it and be displeased. As they were leaving the
dance-house they met the elder Martin coming up the row in
his shirt sleeves. The first man that he met with was James
Kelly, and Martin, with an oath, said that he wound put an
end to the dancing. Kelly and Martin then struck at each
other, and the younger Martin came up, ran at Kelly, and
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 Logan, 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 et* Owen Hughes on
Tuesday, before Mr. J. K. Jackson, coroner, and a respect-
able jury, in the office of Messrs. arbour, at Kilden, when
the facts above stated were given in evidence.
The depositions of Kelly bad 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 he struck
John Martin, and he believes it was the younger Martin
who stabbed him.
It may be mentioned that those at the dance were all
Roman Catholics, while the prisoners are Protestants; but
all the witnesses for the Crown deposed that there was no
party feeling in the matter.
on to visit Hughes and Kelly. Arrived at about 12 o'clock
onHe had
on Monday night. Found Hughes dead and cold.
tri-
Dr. J. Campbell, of Lisburn, deposed that he was calledlock
received a stab which passed into the chest. It vqi
knife. The man could not have lived after it.
had ho es
Kelly received was a stab in the navel. lie p
angular wound, more like a bayonet wound than
that Kelly would live.
Stafford said he got one of the Martins in
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Head-constable
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
butbed faunududthueu otherwe weapon up
in in
it. the house. Searched the house,
prevalent crime in Ireland. Their strictures on the coward-
liness of using the knife were very pointed; but they have
it seems, of diminishing this continental
notvic had the effect,
vice.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
Sir John Acton, Bart., it is said, has purchased the
Dublin _Review, as proprietor and editor. It has hitherto
been conducted by Mr. Bagshaw, Q.C., and Cardinal
Wiseman.