The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-10-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STATE OF IRELAND.  As we noticed in our last publication, an aggregatemeeting of the magistrates of the county Tipperaay was held at Cashel, on Thursday, for the purpose of Wing into consideration the present awfully disturbed state cf the country. This meeting cal:e by the High Sheriff of the county, Lord Suirdale, (who presided) in consequence of the recent murder of Mr William Roe, a magistrate of the same county, and amongst those present were Lord Hawarden, Lord Glengall, Vice-Lieutenant of the county, Sir John Fitzgerald, and many other landed proprietors. The noble chairman, in addressing the meeting, descanted at great length on the benevolent disposition of Mr Roe, stating thlt during the late period of searc,ty Mr Roe established a soup kitchen, which was conducted and manago by his own sisters, who caught the fever from the recipients of the bounty, but fortunately they had recovered. The noble chairman then stated that Mr Roe, in endeavouring to make his land productive wished to obtain some from a tenant who did ia,c till it, arid who, besides, owed him two years' rent. This rent Mr 11,4 e promised to forgive and offered him ZIO in addition, and to let him have the crops gni, fl on one acre which he had tilled ii he would leave; i.ut as he refused Mr Roe was then forced to eject him, and this man, the noble chairman said, it was almost certain was the miscreant who committed the foul murder. The noble lord concluded by impressing on be meg,—  trates present to do all in their Power ro perform Dieu duties as landlords. .. . .  The Earl of Glengall, after some preliminsry obse., ations, proceeded to make the following moat alarming tatement as to the origin of the diabolical outrage : .  • He said that it appea-red that a combination had- hero formed by several of his tenante—tbat a determination existed among them not to pay him large arrears of rent which they owed. Some of the parties met consider what steps they should adopt to carry out their infernal schemes. It was understood that it absolutely became the subject of consideration among those persons who met, whether Mr Roe, or the gentleman who officiated as his agent should be shot! They admitted in their hellish committee that Mr Roe was an excellent, extrem ly liberal, and generous gentleman, and that it would be a pity to shoot him, and that it would be better to shoot the agent ! But when, the fellows had fully discussed their machin  tions, they came to the determination to shoot ti.e landlord, whom, alas! they did. The reason why they had selected the landlord was this :—Mr Roc's children were very young; if Mr Roe was dead, be property would be probabl• placed under the Court of Chancery, and the consequence of that would be tha a receiver from the court would be appointed over rir that the receiver, as was the general custonfin those cases, would pay little or no attention to tte interests of the minors; that those scheming tenants would he enabled to get a reduction in the rents, and that, as ,t had often been the case when properties were placed under the courts, the minors and widow would be pl,,lidered of their only existence ! That they (the maulstrates) believed to have been the infernal scheme con. cocted near Boytonrath, which led to the melancholy  event." A memorial to the Lard-Lieutenant, setting forth these facts, and praying his Excellency to make every effort to bring to justice the perpetrators of this foul murder, and thereby to make life and property more secure in the country, having been adopted, a subscription, as a reward for the conviction of the murder..r, was then entered into, and the meeting separated.