The Dublin correspondent of the Globe writing from that capital
on the 17th, reminds us that the great social disease of Ireland has only been quacked, not cured, by the State physicians.
"The accounts from the country, particularly the South, are unsatisfactory. The system of agrarian outrage is spreading in several districts ; and a murder— one of the most `heartless and blood-thirsty murders on record—has been com- mitted in the county of Tipperary. It was perpetrated on the night of Thurs- day the 10th instant, at Rathilty, near Thurles, on a young and inoffensive man. of the name of Hanley, who was lying in the lowest stage of fever at the time. He had been fifteen days ill of the malady, and was attended by a poor old woman, his family being removed to avoid the contagion. The murderers, six in number, soon deprived their helpless victim of life, and then savagely beat the nurse-tender, whom they threw into the fire ! They then proceeded to an outhouse where the poor family had retired to rest, and attacked the aged father of Hanley ; whom they would also have murdered, had not another son and his daughter thrown themselves over him; but in thisposition protecting their parent, they received some blows, one of which broke the daughter's arm. The mother of the murdered man was also dreadfully beaten. The only cause as- signed for this horrible outrage is the taking of two acres of miserable land hay the family."
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