The Sun. — 1866-08-08 (London, England)

IREL AND.  DUBLIN, Aug. 7. The stabbing of John Joseph Gethings, the Kil mainham prison-warder, continues the absorbing topic of conversation in Dublin. So far as regards  the mystery which at first surrounded this determined assassination the affair has been quite cleared  up, and appears distinctly to have arisen out of a half-drunken quarrel, which had arisen between the deceased man and " a friend" named Patrick  Meehan, a beerhouse-keeper of Dublin, on the evening of the murder. From personal inquiry yester day, and from the evidence given on the coroner's ingnest, re-opened in the morning, it would appear  that on Friday afternoon Gethings and another warder named O'Connor, being off duty, went out to walk, and, falling in with Meehan, they all went into the residence of O'Connor, near the gaol. After drinking together at various publichouses till they became tipsy, some angry words arose between the deceased man and Meehan about the latter  wrfptaseorseathotiafs bringing O'Connor's wife home in a cab, as he had done in the early part of the evening. A squabble po ghwashnrof ensued, and Meehan received a severe blow in the hyGeeneastrseh Gethings, sr st,ghwee.hpoAn home ee went outside hot ef_ cab he had retained during the evening, but as he was about toenter it he cried out"I have forgotten eyeas ibdoeu thet from 2 5 to bid O'Connor good night," rushed back into the house, and meeting Gethings he suddenly, taking out a common pocket-knife, plunged it into his heart, which it was afterwards found to have entered to the length of about an inch. Gethings lived but a few minutes, having only time and strength to stagger into the house which he had been just leaving and to say " I am stabbed." Meehan immediately entered the cab and drove away, leaving his victim to this fate. The police having ascertained these facts, an inspector proceeded to Meehan's publichouse, in Brunswick-street, and, finding 1 him concealed there, arrested him. At the inquest held yesterday in Kilmainham Court-house by Mr. Hardy, one of the coroners, the prisoner Meehan appeared in court with his right eye closed up and his head bandaged. He is about sft. 7in. in height and not stoutly built. O'Connor, who all but declared himself to have been so drunk at the time that he knew nothing of the facts of the case, his  wife, Mary O'Connor, and Fitzpatrick, the cabman who drove Meehan away, were the chief witnesses, and all deposed as to the quarrelling and drinking. The Coroner left the case to the jury, merely read ing for them the definitions of murder and manslaughter. After a brief consultation they returned the following verdict :—" That the said John Joseph Gethings, on the 3d inst., died from the effects of a wound in the left breast, which wound was inflicted on him by Patrick Meehan, at New Kilmainham; iti the county of Dublin, on the 3d inst., while said Patrick Meehan was under the excitement of recent blows received from the deceased."  The Coroner then read the finding of the jury for the prisoner, and committed him to take his trial for manslaughter at the next commission. At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation, held yesterday, it was announced that the address of this body to the Earl of Kimberley had been duly prepared, presented, and accepted. A meeting was then called for Monday next for the purpose of presenting an address to the Marquis of Abercorn on his arrival as Viceroy of Ireland. The latest reports received in Dablin relative to Lord Plunket, Bishop of Tuam, speak favourably of his state. A death from cholera took place on Sunday in Dun's Hospital, the case being that of a woman named Myler, the last of a family attacked in an overcrowded house on City-quay. There are cases still under treatment in the Dublin hospitals, but the Asiatic type of the epidemic has not distinctly developed itself in them. A telegram was last night received from London announcing the approach of a gale from the south' ward.  A Dublin bank—that of Messrs. Birch, Kennedy, and Co.—has suspended payment, The liabilities are believed to be small, and one of the partners is said to possess landed property which can be made available in liquidation of a portion of the liabilities. The hired transport Sasser has arrived at Kingstosirn from the Clyde to convey a portion of the sth Fusileers to India. She is a new iron sailing ship only 11 days launched.