Glasgow Courier. — 1848-04-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HORRID AND SAVAGE MURDERS. The following extract of a letter, dated Tuesday, from Tenahely, county of Wicklow, reveals a state of society which speaks little for the progress of civilisation on the very borders, it may be said, of the Irish metropolis. It Is doubtful whether greater atrocities were ever perpetrated by the Bushmen of South Africa or New. Zealand:— seven  "We are in a great way endeavouring to concerned in a most atrocious murder near _ _ last week, and succeeded last evening In taking two of near Blessingtou. A quarrel arose between two fnefarm-yards.were only separated by a  , near  each  obey his orders by coming from their own house. At length his sons broke out one by one and as they made their appearance were cut down with facks, ;hovels, Sze. Having in a few minutes left them all lying prostrate in their own blood, they attacked the poor unoffending old man, without even a hat to cover his glossy head, stripped twenty years ago of its natural covering from old age. His skull they broke in a hundred pieces at once, and left him stretched beside a wall weltering in his blood. A sister of the victorious party, wishing to become notorious in the affray, got on the wall, raised an immense stone therefrom, and with all her might sank it down into the old man's chest and heart. His old wife, long after, hobbled out to see what was done; they saw her, and came at her with a spade. She raised up OTIO arm, which they slit from the wrist to the elbow. She then raised the other to defend her head. This they broke in pieces, and then gave her two dangerous cats in the head. The old man, I need not say, is dead; one son's skull broken; little or no hopes of his recovery, being quite delirious; the others all mangled, such as broken arms, lips cut off, and teeth knocked out with flicks. Such an , affair never occurred in this county. Two of the murderers were arrested last evening, and will be brought to this petty sessions to-morrow." The Mayo Constitution says:—" Mr. It. O'Grady, coroner, held an inquest at Caronedin, on the body of Martin M‘Nulty, who was brutally murdered on the day previous, returning from the market of Swinford, by a tailor named Pat Henry. It appeared by the evidence before the coroner, that Henry, who was brother-inlaw to the deceased, lay in wait for the unfortunate man, and on his approach attacked him with a stick, alleging, as a cause of quarrel, that M`Nulty had obtained a warrant against him for some alleged petty theft. The deceased expired a few hours after the beating, from fracture of the head, inflicted with a stick. A verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned, and the murderer was transmitted to Mayo prison. The recurrence of the frightful crime of murder is becoming rather prevalent in. this county of late, and the late trials at our MMUS, when four fellows were sentenced to transportation for life and one to the extreme penalty of death, seem to have been altogether thrown away on our peasantry, who, we regret to say, in some recent eases, have shown a barbarous indifference to human life."  hunt up —.inn persons Aughrim, Rathdrom, g two of the party two families whose , a wall, family respectable and perfectly independent, having asplendid stook ofevery sort, and hundreds of pounds each in bank. A slight skirmish took place in the morning between one son of each party, respecting the poundage of sheep. One party sent, in the course of the day, and collected some relatives, and whilst the others were at dinner came to the ' door demanding satisfaction, and using such language as was best calculated to rouse the Irish blood of their hitherto happy and peaceable neighbours. The old mau got up froin his dinner, and shut the door after him, ke, yjng in Ins three or four eons, fine, athletic young men, and remained at the door crying shame to hQII entaidep and threatening his own party if they dared to (14.