The Sun. — 1868-01-24 (London, England)

IRISH TRAGEDY.  The Dublin correspondent of the Pose, writing on Thursday, tells the following story :—" A frightful domestic tragedy—happily a rare occurrence here ce:2arred in this city yesterday mording. At about two o'clock a.m. a ter rifled boy rushed breathlcsq into the Summerhill Policestation, and announced to the officers that his mother had just been murdered by his father. Inspector Freny and Acting-Sergeant Keegan went iinniediately to the house No.lo, Guildford-place, on the bank of the Royal Canal.' On entering the back parlour a horrid scene Presented itself to their view. T 1,43 floor was covered with patches of blood. The furniture was thrown about, and on the bed a woman lay speechless, her face and head shewing marks of great violence, and her body, which was entirely naked; a mass of blackened bruises. Her husband, Peter Reilly, was in the room, and they proceeded to arrest him. He offered some resistance, but was secured. Inspector Freny then had the woman wrapped in a blanket, and carried in a cab to Jervis-street Hospital, where she received every attention that surgical skill could suggest, but she died about an hour after her admission. The cage is a terrible example of the evil results of intemperance. It appears that the unhappy pair Lad been married for about sixteen years, but as M irs. Reilly was a slave to ndulgence in drink, their life was an almost unbroken series of quarrels, separations, and litigation. On three or four occasions Reilly —who is said to be a hard-working and industrious man, a cooper by trade, and earning a decent income—had been obliged to separate from his erring wife, allowing her a separate maintenance. She had several times been arrested for being drunk in the streets, and he had been obliged to bring her before the magistrates for making away with his property to procure the means of indulging in her debasing vice. Each separation was followed by a reconciliation, brought about by the intervention of friends, and attended by promises of reformationon her part, made only to be broken. The last reconciliation was effected only a short time ago, but she had no somer returned to her husband's roof than she resumed her former habits. Reilly himself, distracted by domestic misery, had latterly become addicted to drink. On Tuesday night Reilly went to the theatre, from which h e returned late at night, to find his wife in a state of intoxication. A quarrel arose, which lasted until one o'clock, when he turned upon her, knocked her down by a blow of his fist on the head, in thepresence of his son, Philip Reilly, a boy 13 years ~f a age,and kicked her about the head and body in a fearful manner. The unhappy couple have another child, a daughter, 15 years of age, who is being educated in a convent in the West of Ireland, and was thus spared the anguish of witnessing her moLer's degradation and miserable end.  Ite secretary of the English Church 'Union requests us to announce that the statement regarding the resignation of the presidency of that society by the Hon. Colin Lindsay, and the election to the office of the Hon• C. L. Wood, is widly ii oo rect.—PG.4i