The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY.

THE LATE MURDER IN. TIPPERARY. ,
The Nenagh. Guardian supplies the followinh
particulars of the shocking murder of Mr. J. Ellis,
a brief account of which appeared in The Sun of
Monday :

"Tem- plemore, Oct. 23.--I have just time to
state that Mr. J. Ellis, steward to Mr. J. Trant,
Doves, was brutally murdered last night on his
way home from this town. He arrived here by the
4 o'clock train from Dublin and left shortly on his
own car, which had been in waiting at the station
for his residence. When he arrived at Kilrush

-- -- they found some bushes placed across the road,
which the servant got.clown to take out of the way.
He had scarcely stooped to remove the obstruction
when his master was fired at from behind the ditch,
and he received the contents of the piece, which
was heavily loaded with slugs, through the body.
He lived only an hour after. • I have not heard if
any person is yet arrested for the offence, but the
police are on the alert, and I hope their efforts to
secure the assassin will prove effectual. Mr. Ellis
was a respectable and unoffending man. He was
a native of Scotland, but had been for a number of
years iu the employment of Mr. Trant„ by whom
he was respected for his integrity arid upright dis-
charge of his duties, and he is said to have been
well liked by those who had immediate dealing with
him ; but what mattered that in the estimation of
Tipperary murderers ? Mr. Ellis purchased lately
property in the Encumbered Estates Court, and on
the place coming into his hands he was compelled
to evict some tenants. This is the only cause that
can be assigned for the bloody and foul deed which
has left a widow and, as I understand, nine help-
less orphans to lament the untimely end, and
mourn the irreparable loss of a loving husband and
a good father."

Another account says :—" As Mr. Ellis, steward
to Mr. John Trant, Dovea, was proceeding to his
residence at Killahara, from this town on Thurs-
day night, after returning from Dublin by the 11
p.m. train, and while he was proceeding down a
narrow road leading to his dwelling, ho was fired
at from behind a hedge on the right hand side of
the road, and killed on the spot,several slugs having
entered the unfortunate man's body, causing in-
stantaneous death. The midnight assassins laid
their hellish plan well. Bushes were previously
laid across the road so as to intercept Mr. Ellis's pas-
sage, and it was while his servant had alighted to
remove the obstruction the bloody deed was com-
mitted. Nothing has been seen or heard of the
perpetrators since. The only motive that can be
assigned for this heinous crime is that deceased had
served an ejectment process against a tenant of his.
Mr. Ellis had a sum of 901. in his pocket, but re-
venge not plunder seems to have been the object,
for the money was not touched."
MR LATE GTII ROYAL IRISH DRAGOONS..

It is stated that Col. Dunne, the late member
for Portarlington, has positively made an offer to
the Horse Guards to raise in a short time, so as to
be available for immediate active service, a regi•
went of Irish dragoons to fill the vacuum in the
army list between the 4th Light Dragoons and the
6th Enniskillens. The reduction of the Irish con-
stabulary now being effected would probably be
the means of furnishing a considerable number of
recruits of the very best class for such a regiment
—fall, well-formed fellows, requiring comparatively
but little drilling to render them efficient cavalry
soldiers. Many of these men are already making
preparations to depart for the United States, arid
the question is whether it might not be well to afford
them a fair opportunity to serve their country by
joining the ranks of a corps to be c.)mposed, if such
be the national desire, exclusively of Irishmen Y The
Leinster Express, which has initiatd.l the move-
ment, gives the following sketch of the late sth
Dragoons, and the causes which led to its disband-
ment :

" The sth Royal Irish Dragoons were raised. in
1688, and served with distinction under Marl-
borough ; and no regiment in her Majesty's service
pursued a more glorious career up to the period of
.its precipitate disembodiment. We have documen-
tary evidence before us to prove that the charge of
disloyalty, upon which the regiment was disbanded,
was at best very partial. The regiment haviugbeen
very much reduced in numbers at the close of the
Irish rebellion, in which they fought with bravery
at Ross, Larkin-hill, Vinegar-hill, and Ballym"re
Eustace ; but being obliged, from the losses they
sustained, to recruit their numbers, several persons
who had been involved in that insurrection, bein,f
desirous to escape detection, on its suppression
enlisted in the sth. Two deserters named Feeny,
having been taken prisoners for a robbery, were
admitted as evidence that a conspiracy existed in,
tnnee to
the regiment, and, although
amongi s reasonable
the now
w
suppose that disloyalty prevailed
accessions, it does certainly appear rather harsh that
a regiment, which bad for over a century proved
itself equal in all the proud and honourable distice-
tions of brave soldiers, should be for ever con-
demned.. They were disbanded for disloyalty, and
their place in the Army List remains a blank, an
insult to the Irish nation, which will scarcely be
deemed just by those who will look at the colours
of the 18th, 87th, 88th, or the standard of the Bth
Hussars, or 4th Dragoon Guards, not to calculate
the victories which decorate
the b
designatedwineernetswoilbythe
English and
aid of Irish ioldiers,
of
many of those corps are chiefly composed.''
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the sub-sheriff's office, in pursuance of a writ of
extent which had been issued by the Court of Ex-
chequer at the instance of the Crown, to discover
what iambi and tenements and what goods and