The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-01-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CONTINUED.)  COLD-BLOODED MURDER AT NEWTOWNHAMILTON, IN THE COUNTY OF ARMAGH.  We have this day the painful duty of recording a murder which has occurred within a few miles of this town—and which, in point of daring and savage atrocity, is perhaps unparalleled in the north of Ireland. The facts, as communicated to us, are as follows :  " On Saturday evening last, between five and six o'clock, six men, armed, approached the house occupied by a Mr. Powell (land-surveyor to Mr. Quinn), situated convenient to the Roman Catholic chapel of New townhamilton in the county of Armagh, and a quarter of a mile distant from the latter village. On rapping at the door, it was opened by the servant-maid, who, in answer to their inquiries, said her master was at home, but that he was engaged. Four of the party then rushed forward, and, entering the parlour where Mr. Powell was at the time sitting with his two daughters, peremptorily demanded what he was doing about the School-house in the Planting?' [We understand that a School-house—for some reason or other, unexplained to us, obnoxious to certain parties—had been in progress of erection on. Mr. Quinn's estate, under the superintendence of Mr. Powell.] To this interrogatory Mr. P. replied, by asking the fellows how they dared to enter his house in the manner and at the hour they did? Upon which three of the ruffians, the fourth having been courageously held back by one of the young ladies, seized bold of Mr. P., and notwithstanding that he, being a powerful man, struggled desperately, they at length succeeded in dragging him outside of his hall door, where, deaf to every appeal for mercy, they inhumanly shot him through the heart ! The ruffian who remained inside struggling with the daughter, at length freed himself from her desperate gripe by brutally striking her on the forehead with the butt-end of his pistol, fracturing her skull, and prostrating her senseless at his feet ! This horrible tragedy occupied but a few moments ; in the interim, however, the second daughter, having escaped by a back door, ran to the adjoining village and alarmed the inhabitants. But, alas ! assistance came too late. The assassins had decamped. The body of the unfortunate father was found, where it had fallen, at the door; his death, from the nature of the wound, must have been instantaneous. The The heroic daughter, though still in a state of insensibility, was by surgical aid restored to consciousness—her life is not considered in danger.  " These are the- only particulars that have as yet reached us. We understand, however that four fellows are now in custody, charged with having been concerned in this foul and cold-blooded inurder.--Newry TelegraPh•  We understand his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, will, in the course of a few weeks, be promoted in the army.—Morning Herald.  During the year 1840, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington has contributed towards the increase of church accommodation the munificent sum of four thousand two hundred pounds. Were all other churchmen to give in the same proportion to their means, there would soon be no cause of complaint on this subject.--Ten Towns Messenger.