The Express. — 1853-12-15 (London, England)

IRELAND.  Drszas, Dsc. 14.  A somewhat curious case was brought to a conclusion yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas, being an action for assault and battery, brought by a Roman catholic curate, named Foy, of Shercoek, in the county of Cavan, against the Rev. Randal, M'Cullum, a Presbyterian minister, residing in tbel same neighbourhood. It appeared from the evidence, which was very voluminous and contradictory, that the Rev. Mr. Foy, having purchased a ran, was in the habit of taking it out to shoot at birds for his amusement, but by an unlucky coincidence he dia• charged it at a small bird close to the defendant's house, on the 12th of July last; and the Rev. Mr. M'Cullum believing, it is to be presumed, that this was dome, on that particular day, by way of bravado, came out of a field in which he was, struck the plaintiff, and attempted to wrest the gun from him. A gentleman who accompanied Mr. Foy managed to get possession of the gun from both ; and the chief contradictions in the evidence were with reference to an expression then used by the plaintiff, namely, whether he said to his friend, " Don't shoot him," as himself alleged, or the contrary, as was alleged es the other side. The case, which excited considerable interest, and occupied the court during the part of two days, resulted in a verdict oritthear plaintiff, giving him 501. damages and 6d. oasts. The estate of Sir John Craven Carden, in the county of Tipperary. was put up for sale yesterday in the Incumbered Estates Court; but only three of the nine lots into which it was subdivided found purchasers, and the price realised by these was 12,9681., being 19f years' purchase on a net rental of 6621. The estate of Mr. Daniel Mc Nevin, in the county of Galway, was next submitted for competition. The net rent was 9331., and the sum produced 16,1731., or about 17 years' purchase. Mr. Christopher Hamilton has withdrawn his pretensions to the representation of Clonmel, perceiving, as he himself expresses it, that there was no likelihood of any adequate support. The Irish Tenant-league had a meeting last evening, at which there was as usual a great deal of tall; the principal speakers were Mr. J. Mc Namara Cantwell, Mr. Wilson Grey, Mr. Daffy, M.P., the Very Rev. Mr. Kearney, and Mr. M. A. O'Brennan, of hand-bill notoriety. It is stated that Ur. Dorgan and Sir M. Barrington are making arrangements for the purification of the Dublin we're" Bardwell's patent, which consists substantially of a filtering ram, by which the water is made to pass through iron, scoria, charcoal, and sand, which not only impounds the undissolved matter, but is said to deprive the water itself of much, if not all, of its offensiveness. The chief value of the process is said to consist in its producing a good marketable manure from the matter retained by the filter. A =respondent of Saunders gives some particulars eta murder committed near Loughrea ; he writss : Os the night of the 3th mast,. as a man named John Kilkenrey, about 33 years of age: of Ballyfa, within six miles of Loughs's, was returning from the fair of that town, and quietly driving home a cow which he had there for sale, he was waylaid and assaulted on the road, and from the effects of the injuries he re- ' °eyed expired about six o'clock on Monday evening, the 12th inst. A man named Michael Coloban has been arrested on the charge of committing the murder.