The Sun. — 1863-06-09 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, June 8. It is only this morning that we have received here the account of the close of the poll at Kinsale. The numbers were :  For Sir George Colthurst For Mr. Fitzgibbon Majority for Colthurst . —l2 The new member has promised to give a general support to the present Government, and the member for New Ross will be likely to do the same. These two elections, therefore, make no change in the relative forces of the respective parties; but had the two ultramontane candidates succeeded, it would have been so much strength added to the Opposition. The elections are, besides, important as indicating the decline of the rabid sectarian feeling which carried the Longford election. I sent you on Saturday a brief account of the murder of a landlord and a magistrate, near Nenagh, in the county of Tipperary. It was one of the most frightful tragedies that ever stained the annals of that county, so notorious for the mur derous propensities of its peasantry. According to the Nenagh, Guardian, Mr. Jackson was " gene. rally esteemed and beloved by men of all classes and creeds." It is stated that he had four tenants who had paid him no rent for several years, and that he had served them with ejectment processes. Two of them were brothers named Peters ; the names of the others were Cummins and Kennedy. On Thursday morning Mr. Jackson rose from his breakfast table about ten o'clock, and, having ordered his car to be ready immediately to proceed to Nenagh, he lit his pipe, and went out in his slippers, as he was accustomed, to take a walk in the shrubbery, which is close to tt e house. He also gave directions that his little son, four years old, should be got ready to accompany him on the car. Hours passed, and he did not make his appearance; yet Mrs. Jackson was not alarmed, supposing that he had walked across the fields to his brother's, or that he had gone into town with some friend who was passing. She sent to his brother's, and to her father's residence, but nothing was heard of her husband in either place. The idea of murder did not occur to her mind during the day, but daring the night she sent the coachman, steward, and herd to search about the grounds, and about daybreak on Friday morning they found the body under a cluster of laurels in the shrubbery within a few yards of his house. The slippers were first discovered a few paces from the body, which was lying with the face downwards. The head was covered with blood, but as there were no marks of violence on the rest of the body, they feared he had burst a blood-vessel. Dr. Calahan was sent for, and speedily arrived. He found the skull broken in two places by a blunt instrument. The blow must have been struck with a bludgeon behind, and the effect was instant death. The assassin seems to have been lurking behind a tree, and to have come stealthily behind him as he sauntered quietly along the gravelled walk smoking his pipe without a thought of danger. At the coroner's inquest, which was held on Saturday, John Smith, the coachman, deposed that, his master not having appeared, he remained with the horse harnessed in the stable till 6 o'clock in the evening—an extraordinary circumstance, which struck his mistress, who ordered him to unharness the horse, as his master would not go ihre.r Jeahokadson also but o bee it n had a smallbeen to Nenagh at that hour. There were two dogs in the place, but they were tied up during the day. T stetorrleienr,aba fuatv oure month o f efore. The pockets of the deceased out i t be were searched by the steward, but the coachman was so shocked with the sight of the blood that he could not see what was taken out of them. He had been robbed, but it was Supposed this was done to divert attention from the real motive of the murderer which was not robbery but agrarian vengeance. The jury re