The Sun. — 1847-12-02 (London, England)

IRELAND. MORE ASSASSINATIONS. DUBLIN, Nov. 30.—Accounts reached town this morning of the assassination yesterday afternoon of the Rev. John Lloyd. The Rev. Gentleman was rector of Aughrim, and read service yesterday as usual in his church. On his return home he was shot not far from the church. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd was a small proprietor, but was understood to have considerable money wealth. He was very unpopular in his district. A correspondent of the Mai/ thus announces this frightful outrage : Mr. Lloyd was accosted on his way by a man, who walked up to the Reverend Gentleman, and coolly informed him that he had not long to live. Mr. Lloyd said he was not aware of ever having injured any one. " Oh, yes, (reponded the assassin), you have dispossessed a tenant on the Leitrim estate ; ' and then pulling a short gun from under his coat, lodged the contents in the victim's body, who expired shortly afterwards. Another murder was committed in the district of Islandeady, Mayo, one of the most afflicted of that county. The account is from a private source, but it may be implicitly relied upon. The victim is a porson named O'Donnell, a bailiff i❑ the service of the Earl of Lucan, on whose business the unhappy man was engaged at the time of his murder. O'Donnell has recently been brought much into collision with Lord Lucan's tenantry. His Lordship's agent, it is understood, has been served with a threatening notice. Referring to the savage murder of the Rev. John Lloyd, near Elphin, Roscommon, the Evening Post says !—" One letter states that there were two persons engaged in the murder, both of them dressed in clothes superior to those generally worn by the peasantry, and that they appeared to be total strangers in that part of the country. All the letters concur in the statement that the deepest alarm prevailed in that part of Roscommon." The same journal contains the following :—" We are happy to learn from the editor of the Tipperary Vindi. color that Mr. R. Uniacke Bayly is getting on:as well as can be expected. He continues to labour under feverish symptoms, nor can it be said that danger has altogether disappeaied ; but his excellent constitution, and the unremitting attention bestowed upon his case, give hope that he may be restored to health, though for a very long period hope was very feeble. A statement in the Evening Mail of Friday, that Mr. Bayly had been shot at in consequence of the poor-laws, Li wholly without foundation. We are informed on the same authority, that the investigation into this atrocious crime was yesterday (Monday) resumed before Major Brownrigg, at Nenagh county goal. Six or seven other persons were arrested on suspicion, but of the result we are not able to speak." The system of agrarian combination is extending i❑ the county of Sligo. A letter from that county states that " threatening notices have been served upon a clergyman of the Established Church, who has all along worked with great zeal and success in promoting measures of relief. The reverend gentleman, it appears, has become obnoxious in consequence of his exertions to have the poor-rate collected in the district. He has found it necessary for his safety to have a policeman constantly in attendance."