29 JULY 1865, Page 3

Monaghan must be a pleasant county to contest. As the

elec- tion was proceeding at Castle Blayney, a body of Orangemen arrived by train, and marched from the station to the polling- booth, each man with a loaded revolver or pistol in his hand, with which he bade defiance to the unarmed Catholics of the place. There was a troop of Lancers on the ground and a strong body of police, but Monaghan is in Ireland, so nobody interfered, and the armed desperadoes were escorted by the troops back to the station. The Orangemen were not, however, contented with this amount of deference, but fired from the station upon the crowd, killing at least one person. This was not enough, and accord- ingly Mr. Edward Gray a leading Orangeman, looked around for another victim. There was a poor poultry-dealer named • Shevelin in the station, whom a couple of ruffians were beating just to pass away the time, so Mr. Gray, seeing that he was sink- ing under the blows, shot him through the back with a pistol and ran away. He departed comfortably enough, but was seized half- way to his own home, has been committed for wilful murder, and will, one would imagine, be hanged. He may, however, be tried by an Orange jury, in which ease his acquittal as a hero would apparently be certain. He only killed a Catholic, and was not even aware that he was one.