The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

BR U 1 AL MURDER NEAR AL7RINCHAM:

Early yesterday morning a murder was com-
mitted near Altrincham, under the most atrocious
circumstances. The unfortunate victim is a young
man named Thomas Jenkinson, aged thirty-four,
forrnan at a brickwork, and very much respected in
the neighbourhood. It appears that a gang of
Irish farm labourers had been drinking in Altrin-
cham on Saturday evening. About midnight they
proceeded up Long-lane on their way to Ringway,
evidently intent upon mischief. They armed them-
selves with brickbats and tore down pailings as they
went along, attacking several persons whom they
met. A farmer named John Holford, and another
man, John Yesford, were both wounded, but
escaped without very serious injury. Having pro-
ceeded up the road about three-quarters of a mile,
near Claremont House, they encountered Thomas
Jenkinson and two youths named John
Falkner and Ward, who were on their
way to co:let-nonce mushroom-gathecing at day-
break. Without any provocation the gang of ruf-
fi ►ns, consisting of ten or twelve, set upon. Jenkin-
s na, and battered in his head with bricks and pi-
lings. Death must have ensued almost instantane-
onsly. The two youths fl x 1 and gave the alarm to
the police in Altrincharn. Superintendent An Trews
and Sergeant Dalton, with assistants, were soon on
the track of the murderers. Seine of them were
apprehended, concealed in the outbuildings of the
neighbouring farms, and 531113 were taken in Al-
trinchana. Three were apprehended near Lymm,
through the timely information of a cabman, who
happened to have heard of the murder, and was on
the alert. One of the ruffians was secured by Su-
perintendent Andrews, after a desperate resistance.
Sergeant Dalton was also the means of capturing
another under similar circumstances. The eight
prisoners who have been so rapidly an I energeti-
cally captured will, we understand, be brought up
this (Tuesday) morning for examination at Altrin-
chain. It appears that the two youths referred to
will be able to identify at least seven of the pri-
soners. The police were all day scouring the coun-
try in search of the remainder of the gang. The
murder is one of unprecedented atrocity, there
having been no provocation, and it has produced a
feeling of intense horror in the district.—Munchester
Examiner.

PROTRACTED DISCUSSION ON THE IRISH CHURCH.
—An instance of the interest taken in the pro -
vinces in the Irish Church question is afforded by
a meeting which has just taken place at Torquay,
and which lasted from seven o'clock in the evening
until two next morning. The Revs. Joseph
Bardsley and C. Williams were announced to
meet for discussion on the subject, and the crowd
assembled to hear them was immense. Holders of
tickets and non-holders pressed forward in a heavy
column, and the ticket-collectors and policemen
Assembly-room was soon densely thronged. Mr.
were carried bodily away. Every part of the
Bardsley having given a lecture, there was a
spirited discussion on the right of the Irish
Church to national property. During the dis-
cussion Mr. Williams quoted " Selden on the
Origin of Tithes," and produced the passage writ-
ten on a piece of paper. Mr. Bardsley refused to
accept it, demanding the book itself. At this the
audienca rose en masse, and with yelling and
shouting quite drowned all the speakers could say.
The gas was lowered, and a rush made to the
doors. The meeting
arated at two o'clock in
the morning in the most disorderly manner.

THE RELATIONS OF LANDLORDS AND TENANTS
IN IRELAND.—The Liverpool Albion publishes a
correspondence between the Duke of Manchester
and a gentleman who wrote to his grace on the
subject of the relations of landlords and tenants in
Ireland. The correspondence appears to have had
special reference to the question of leases, and the
recent quarrel between Mr. W. Scully and his
tenants. In one letter the duke says all good
landlords universally condemn the conduct of Mr.
W. Scully. In another his grace remarks :--^-‘4 I
do not advocate the extension of the Ulster tenant
right, for it is very disadvantageous to the tenant.
It necessitates his sinking a large portion of his
capital (never less than £5 per acre, and generally
more) in the farm, in a way that can never bring
any profit. The only person it can benefit is the
landlord, for it secures him from auy danger of
loss in arrears of rent. It often prevents a tenant
from increasing the extent of his holding, which a
landlord is always anxious to enable a good tenant
to do, and makes it impossible in most cases for
farmers to stock their farms sufficiently with
cattle and horses, in consequence of which the
land is likely not to be sufficiently manured, and
the crops cannot be carried at the most favourable
opportunity."

A Florence letter in the Presse gives an explana-
tion of Garibaldi's motives for sending in his re-
signation as Deputy :—" The hero of Mentana,"
it says, "only turned his back on his friends of the
Left anti gave up his seat in order to abstain from
being present at the sittings of the little Parlia-
ment which is shortly to assemble at Naples. The
friends of the General had reckoned much on the
prestige of his name, and still more on his presence,
to arouse the apathy of the populations in the
south. But Garibaldi, who has a horror of all
discussions, who is as discontented with the
Ministers as with his pretended friends, and can-
not find epithets severe enough to qualify the
cowardice of the revolutionists, suddenly withdrew.
During the last few months those who have made
pilgrimages to Caprera have had to return without
being able to see their idol, who closes his door
against every one. his melancholy and bitterness
besides proves that the man feels deeply the state
of prostration in which Custozza, Lissa, and Men-
tana have cast his country. Watched and
guarded iu his island by a police, the more odious
from the airs of courtesy which they affect, Gari-
baldi, it is now said, has really the intention of
proceeding to America."
The Lyons journals state that Mdlle. Dejazet,
who made her debut on the stage sixty-two years
ago, has just male her first communion in that
city.
A decree of the Sacred Congregation of the In-
dex condemns the work Essai sea• les (Euvres et les
Doctrines de Mackiavel, by Delfus, and the Mexi-
can publication, Politico-Constitutionnal catechism,
by Pigazzo.