An attempt was made on Tuesday evening, about five o'clock,
to murder the Earl of Norbury. His Lordship was walking with his steward, in the shrubbery near his own house at Kilbegg,an, in the county of Meath ; when he was shot, the ball entering his body a little below his left breast ; and it is feared the wound would prove final. The Surgeon-General left Dublin to attend his Lordship on Wednesday. The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle say's— Various rumours prevail as to the cause of the outrage. Ills Lordship lived upon friendly terms with his Catholic dependents, and especially with the parish-priest ; and from this reason it is supposed that the assas-in is from his Lordship's estates in Tipperary, where a ptrson was recently shot at in mistake for his Lordship's agent. Another story has it, that this is lint a development of part of a secret conspiracy to murder live lauded proprietors, in the direction in which the crime occurred. Other causes have been assigned for the fearful act, but they are of a nature which will not allow us to allude to them for the present."
The Pilot says, that the most trustworthy rumour is to the effect that some steward or foreman is the murderer, and that the crime " had its origin in jealousy."
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