The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

AN IRISH TRAGEDY.

The Dublin correspondent of the Pose, writing on Thurs-
day, tells the following story :—" A frightful domestic
tragedy—happily a rare occurrence here ce:2arred in this
city yesterday mording. At about two o'clock a.m. a ter
rifled boy rushed breathlcsq into the Summerhill Police-
station, and announced to the officers that his mother had
just been murdered by his father. Inspector Freny and
Acting-Sergeant Keegan went iinniediately to the house
No.lo, Guildford-place, on the bank of the Royal Canal.'
On entering the back parlour a horrid scene Presented
itself to their view. T 1,43 floor was covered with patches
of blood. The furniture was thrown about, and on
the bed a woman lay speechless, her face and head
shewing marks of great violence, and her body,
which was entirely naked; a mass of blackened
bruises. Her husband, Peter Reilly, was in the
room, and they proceeded to arrest him. He offered some
resistance, but was secured. Inspector Freny then had
the woman wrapped in a blanket, and carried in a cab to
Jervis-street Hospital, where she received every attention
that surgical skill could suggest, but she died about an
hour after her admission. The cage is a terrible example
of the evil results of intemperance. It appears that the
unhappy pair Lad been married for about sixteen years,
but as M irs. Reilly was a slave to ndulgence in drink,
their life was an almost unbroken series of quarrels, sepa-
rations, and litigation. On three or four
occasions Reilly
—who is said to be a hard-working and industrious man,
a cooper by trade, and earning a decent income—had been
obliged to separate from his erring wife, allowing
her a separate maintenance. She had several times
been arrested for being drunk in the streets,
and he had been obliged to bring her before the
magistrates for making away with his property to pro-
cure the means of indulging in her debasing vice. Each
separation was followed by a reconciliation, brought about
by the intervention of friends, and attended by promises
of reformationon her part, made only to be broken. The
last reconciliation was effected only a short time ago, but
she had no somer returned to her husband's roof than she
resumed her former habits. Reilly himself, distracted by
domestic misery, had latterly become addicted to drink.
On Tuesday night Reilly went to the theatre, from which
h e returned late at night, to find his wife in a state of
intoxication. A quarrel arose, which lasted until one
o'clock, when he turned upon her, knocked her down by a
blow of his fist on the head,
in thepresence of his son,
Philip Reilly, a boy 13 years ~f a
age,and kicked her about
the head and body in a fearful manner. The unhappy
couple have another child, a daughter, 15 years of age, who
is being educated in a convent in the West of Ireland, and
was thus spared the anguish of witnessing her moLer's
degradation and miserable end.

Ite secretary of the English Church 'Union re-
quests us to announce that the statement regarding the
resignation of the presidency of that society by the Hon.
Colin Lindsay, and the election to the office of the Hon•
C. L. Wood, is widly ii oo rect.—PG.4i