The Sun. — 1848-01-14 (London, England)

TIGHE-My friends, this is the House of God. Let us have no more of this. Mr. Holmes has charged me with attacks on his brother, which Ideny. If he has anything more to say, let him address you outside the chapel. " Mr. Holmes, having declined any further address to the people, left the chapel surrounded by the mob, who refrained from any act of personal violence, but saluted him with groans and execrations on his driving away.".  Ryan (' Puck'), for a similar crime—is the subject of conversation in Limerick to•day. The particulars are not, as yet, generally known, but tl e rumoured circumstances in connexion with this outrage are these :—That the unfortunate victim, a farmer of the humbler class, named Martin M`Mahon, residing at a place called Cartloe, in the county of Clare, had his habitation broken into on Thursday at midnight, by a party of eight men, armed, and with their faces blackened. On making a search for arms, resistance was offered to them ; and, after a conflict, desperate though unequal, M`Mahon was shot dead, he having previously smashed, with a shovel, a gun of one of the party which had been presented at him. Six o' the party were almost immediately arrested by the police." The columns of the Tipperary papers are beginniug to exhibit symptoms of the renewal of outrage in the North Riding, which, it was hoped, had been reduced to at least partial submission by the terrors of an impending special commission. The hope, however, was delusive. Attacks on dwelling-houses, serving of threatening notices, and incendiarism are as rife as of old. Among a list of non-agrarian crimes, the Nenagh Guardian gives the subjoined account of a husband murdered by his wife, who, it seems, perpetrated the deed while in a state of insanity : " The parish of Killahara, near Borrisoleigh, was thrown into an unusual state of sensation by the awful murder of Cornelius Cleary by his wife. The particulars of this deed of blood are briefly as follows : —On the evening of the sth instant Cleary, who was an industrious farmer and comfortably circumstanced, retired to bed earlier than was customary with him, he having been suffering from slight indisposition. When he had been about two hours in bed he fell asleep, when his wife stealthily and quietly approached his bedside with a hatchet in her hand, with which she struck her ill •fated husband several blows on the head and neck, inflicting with every blow a mortal wound. The unfortunate man, whose head, neck, and body were frightfully mutilated, died on the following day. His wife, when she committed the foul crime, was a maniac, and had for some time previously been insane. She made no effort to escape after committing the murder. On Friday Mr. Thomas O'Meara held an inquest on the body. A jury having been sworn, the above particulars of the murder having been given in evidence, and the state of the murderer's mind having been proved, they returned the following verdict:—" We find that on the sth instant Cornelius Cleary received wounds on the head from a hatchet, of which he lingered, and died on the night of the 6th instant, at Killahara, which were inflicted by his wife, Margaret Cleary, she being at the time of unsound mind, and for some time previously. Mrs. Cleary has been committed to Nenagh gaol to abide her trial at the approaching assizes.