The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.
TIIE MURDERS AT BALLYMOTE.

A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal writes
as follows in reference to this dreadful affair :
" Longford, Thursday Night.

" This fearful murder has occasioned the most intense
sensation throughout the entire of the country wherever
the dreadful tidings reached. It had been ascertained.this
morning that old Mr. O'Callaghan was found dead in his
bed with his throat cut. His old wife was found under
the shop counter with her throat cut from ear to ear, and
the body of the servant girl was discovered outside the
stable door with her head almost severed from her body.
The following facts have just reached me, which I hasten
to forward to you :—Some time since a man named Matthew
Phipps occupied a house and shop adjoining the house of
Mr. O'Callaghan, in which the fearful tragedy occurred.
This Phipps failed in business, became a bankrupt, and
subsequently left the town. On Monday evening Phipps
was seen going into Mr. O'Callaghan's shop, and when the
murder was discovered two tumblers were on a table near
Mr. O'Callaghan's bed, who was lying ill at the time, and
it was supposed that Phipps had been asked by the old man
to drink something with him. In the town of Sligo, on
Tuesday, Matthew Phipps went to a butcher named Con-
lish and ordered a neck of mutton, which he directed to be
sent to the Imperial Hotel, and paid 3s. 6d. for the meat.
He threw the silver on the scales, and as he di.i so Coolish
observed that the coin was bloody, but, thinking that it
might have come in contact with the bloody part of the
mutton, made no further observation, but sent a boy to
accompany Phipps with the mutton to the hotel. On the
journey from the butcher's stall towards the hotel Phipps
fell three times, as he was very tipsy. The boy called on
one of the constabulary, and said it would be well to take
the drunken man to the barrack, as he had a great deal of
money about him, A constable took him into custody, and
when he was searched with other money was found £37 in
notes, which were saturated with blood. He was detained
a prisoner until next morning (Wednesday), when ha was
set at liberty, and the money returned to him. Some time
tfter he was let go the constabulary heard of the murder,
aformation was sent in every direction, and a mounted
orseman traced the supposed murderer to a small place
ea ,lied Riverstown, where he came up with him. He was
sti ipidly drunk at the time. He was taken into custody,
was conveyed to Sligo Gaol, where he is lodged for
the present."

DEATH OF COLONEL SENIOR.

T, he _Evening Post of last night says

ec 1 Are have received with regret intelligence of the very
sudde n death, on Saturday morning last, of Colonel Senior,
broths r of Mr. Commissioner Senior, of the Irish Poor Law
Board:, and of Mr. Nassau Senior, one of the English Mas-
ters in Chancery. The deceased gentleman had been on 11
visit to his brother at Ashdown-house, county of Down."

IRISH RAILWAYS.
At a x a ieeting of the directors of the Limerick and
Ennis Ectilway, on Saturday, a resolution was
passed to lease the line for 21 years to the Water-
ford and A, imerick Company, one of the directors of
the former,. however, protesting against the arrange.
ment. En laiskillen and Bundoran Railway.—The
Parliament a ry deposit of £16,000 on the estimated
apittil of th line—viz., £2oo,ooo—was yesterday
lodged in the. Court of Chancery here, pursuant to
standing ordtirs.