The Express. — 1851-03-12 (London, England)

SATURDAY.—About the hour of o'clock on Friday night last, when Timothy (loran, who resides at ltathbeg, within about three miles and a half of Parsonstown, and less than a mite from the police station at Shanvogue, Was returning from hi,. work, when within a few yards of his own house he was fired at by a man named Patrick Morgan, who, with another person unknown, lay in wait tar hint. Fortunately the shut did not take effect. Morgan finding he had not accomplished his deadly object seized a gun front his associate, which he presented at Cloran, but it missed fire. Morgan then struck Cloran with the butt-end of his gun, which cut his head and injured his chest. Cloran then seized the ruffian by the breast, and loudly called out " Murder ! Police !'' which, no doubt, induced the unknown man to make away. Cloran's wife heard his cries, and she ran to his assistance, when a desperate struggle ensued between Morgan. Cloran, and his wife, during which the latter, with a stone, so severely wounded Morgan in the head, that he lay insensible until the arrival of the police from Sharavoguc, who procured a ear, and removed Morgan to their barracks, where he died about a quarter past eleven o'clock same night. In his pockets were found a small bottle of wliskey, souse balls, and a few percussion caps. During the conflict Mrs. Cloran succeeded in capturing the gun, which Morgan had snatched from his comrade, after discharging his own at her husband, and which she handed over to the police on their arrival ; it was capped and heavily loaded. Cloran is bailiff to Captain Richardson, an extensive land agent; ' he has been recently placed in care of a log, from which his predecessor was dismissed. Ile also within the last week purchased and retains in his possession a cow and ass, which were seized and sold for non-payment of rent. These are the causes alleged for the attempt to deprive him of life. Morgan, in the agonies of death, loudly called on some persons to come to his assistance, and those to whom he alluded have been arrested, and are detained in custody. A coroner's inquest was held next day on the body of Morgan, when a verdict of " Justifiable homicide " was returned. The jury also attached a " rider" to their verdict, recommending, in the strongest manner, Cloran and his wife to the consideration of the government for their valorous conduct. It is stated that Morgan was a tailor, and it is generally believed he was hired to shoot Cloran, as neither he nor any of his faintly has had any connexion whatever with the property over which Cloran acts as bailiff. On Sunday evening, the second person engaged in the attack on Cloran was captured. His name is Patrick Mnylan. lie was identified, and at once committed for At the Waterford Assizes last week two men, named Cody, father and son, and l'hos. Carty, were tried for the murder of Thomas Phelan, one of the most remarkable of the agrarian crimes of last year. The trial occupied two days, and the jury, after being locked up from Thursday evening until Saturday morning, were at length discharged without agreeing to a verdict. The learned judge was aroused at two o'clock on Saturday morning with a statement that the lives of two or three of the jurors were in danger if they were detained any longer, and his lordship went at once to court and discharged them. Nine or ten of them are said to have been for a conviction. It is said that government has issued directions for the prosecution of some of the apprentice boys of I )erry, under the Processions Act, for their last riotous party celebration.