Glasgow Courier. — 1846-12-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MCRDER OF JOHN LYNCH, ESQ.—ADDITIONAL PAHTICVLARS.—Mr. Lynch had been, on Monday, at the fair of Ballandine, in the county of Mayo, distant about ten miles from his residence, and was returning home at about seven o'clock P.M., the evening at the time being very dark. After reaching the gatehouse, he Tffit his horse, as was his habit, along the avenue, and when be had gone a little distance, a shot was tired, it is supposed, by a person standing in the plantation, which took edect on some part of the head; but as life - to be evtinct, the monsters in human form ), and, with an instrument like a incisions on his neck, one across Tot eontent with this—for it seems oxiatence—they litera3yst,eahed much so that it would to difficult urea  Appet,r approached '  not  their victim, made two - it. .N(  . of the unfortunate gentleman. The -beige having ran up to the stables the alarm was given that Mr. Lynch had either been attacked or that some accident had befallen him, and a search was at once set on foot, which ended in the fact of his murder being ascertained. The servants, whilst engaged in searching for him, heard the rustling noise of persons running through tho plantation, but did not succeed in capturing any of them. It is supposed that the assassins, finding that they had left after them some matters by which their guilt could be traced, returned to fetch them away, but were deterred frcm again approaching the scene of the bloody tragedy, by obwrving men with lights in their hands looking for the deceased. We understand that the articles in question can be identified as the property of certain individuals upon whom suspicion rests. The Shrieks of his family, and their heart-rending anguish, could not be heard without emotion by the most hardened observer; and we have learned that upon one of his children the effect has been of a most melancholy description. Mr. Lynch, who formerly served in her Majesty's 6th Regiment of Foot, was distinguished for his bravery and his great personal strength and activity, and in many of the battles during the Peninsular war dealt out many severe blows upon the enemies of Britain. An inquest was opened on Tuesday before Paul Mannion and Andrew Hosty, Esqrs., and after viewing the body it was I adjourned until Thursday, upon which day it was resumed before the same gentlemen. We shall not give the details of the evidence, lest doing so might frustrate the ends of justice, and as we have been requested by the authorities to hold over our report. But this much we are at liberty to state, that, much as We deplore this unfortunate and truly awful transaction, there is every reason to believe that it was not the result of any agrarian con, federacy, or of any combination of the people generally against the lives of their fellow-creatures or the peace of society, so that we may still congratulate the inhabitants of tho county of Galway that, with some few exceptions there is a disposition to respect and venerate the laws Mr:Lynch was charitable to the poor, and his loss will be felt by many a hungry wretch in this season of misery and woe. All who knew him respected and esteemed him; and the vast concourse by whom his remains were accompanied to the family bnrial ground, in the ancient abbey of Kilbannon, proves the affection and regard entertained for him by all classes of society.—Golway Mercury.  to reoogni