The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

tiously usinichioroform."—Chester Cow

MEETING AT OXTON.—There was a
bitants of the township of Oxton-hill on
requisition presented to the overseers of
ship, to express their "feelings of alarm
additions which will be made to the local
mation with Liverpool, and to " take the
against the same." The meeting was I
Arms Hotel, and amongst those presen
Edwards, Messrs. Henderson, Rowland,
ThAlel thelleair of
TBae3nloarn,iinNassphr,oaunled,
oCvleorusge
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amalgamation were carried unaniraouslP

IRlsu Cuußcu MISSION —A meeting
the Irish Church Missionary. Society was
last week, in the Argyle-rooms Birkenhc
the Rev. A. Knox. The chairmani &Ores,
some length upon the Scriptural darknl
amongst the Irish, and said he knew, fro?
tion, that no people were more anxious to
was kept from them by the Romish priest
the Irish. And it was his firm belief th
allowed to be freely circulated, in fifty
become a truly Protestant country, and be
Papacy gained a footing in it —" the Ir
Rev. H. Owen next addressed the meeting,
from the Parent Society. He described
labours of this slociety in Ireland, partir
where, although not on so large a scab
the operations of the society were progress
Other gentlemen addressed the meeting;
terminated after a collection in aid of the

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SALE OF PRIME BEEF, Svc.-'Then • f 7
and agricultural produce, the Pro Per
ol
land, near the Sutton station, on the 15.: et
Railway, took place on Tuesday, 31ess`,
acting as auctioneers. There was a larqi,
from Liverpool, Birkenhead, &c•
The
tl
exceedingly choice and more numerous
It embraced between thirty and fortY
prime condition, some of them being
weights, three enormous-sized bulls, abut
heifers, and upwards of two hundred prim
viot breed. Besides the lire stock, two tl
potatoes were offered for competition, and
ceedingly spirited- The different lots wel
extreme present market rates, it being
purchases were chiefly on account of Liverpoa
dealers. The cows and heifers were equally
bulls and a buffalo ox also excited um&
sheep, which were sold in lots of ten each:
per lb. The potatoes fetched extreme pri4
be of excellent quality.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT TR
dent occurred shortly after six o'clock on
at the Tranmere. station of the Birkenh
Cheshire Junction Railway Company,
death of Mr. John Blaylock, aged 70
left his residence in Queen-street, Trannl
a.m., for the purpose of proceeding by
attend the funeral of a friend. Finding'
side of the station open, he got upon
serving the station-master, he was in
the east side, when the quarter-past si:
was going at the rate of 15 miles an ha
left buffer struck him on the head, tin
upon the line. The accident was perceivk
the driver immediately shut off the steam
engine. Mr. Blaylock was found on tl
removed into the station-house, where if
head was much shattered, his left arm

and his hip injured. Mr. Roper, surge(»
attendance, but his exertions were of no
tunate gentleman was dead. An inquel
nesday, at the Railway Inn, St. Pau;
Churton. Mr. Win. Williams, the statiot
he ought to have been at the station a
before the arrival of the train, bat he had
and that he ought to have had a red lig'
the driver that he was to stop the train ;
also were to lock the gates every night,
evening he had left them unlocked for t:
passengers by the mail train who might
Tranmere. The jury found a verdict of m)
Mr. Williams, who was committed for trw

IRELAND

Foes regiments of Irish Militia (thk
common, and another) are under orders to
Ox Thursday, the Bank of Ireland df
41 per cent., free of income tax, for t
being added to the rest.
MEATHELEcTrow.—Tbe following ;vere
the final close of the poll :--M`Evoy,
Majority for M'Evoy, 740.

Wain have been issued for electing a
land, to succeed to the vacancy made by
Viscount De Vesci, bearing teste the Ist

INCENDIARISM and other agrarian s:h
fearfully common in the districts of K
have been disgraced by the assassination
the attempts to murder Messrs. Beecham
The government has caused several seam
made amongst the small farmers and

tnrbed 'baronies.
THE IRISH CHURCIL—The Limerick ,
death of the Ven. Archdeacon Warburtt
Bishop of Cloyne. By his demise the reel
in the diocese of Limerick, the archdeacoi
gift of the bishop of that diocese, and t
town, in the gift of the Bishop of Cork,
deceased dignitary was in his 75th year.
BANE OF IRELAND.—A general court
held on Thursday, when the Governor ant
paying the income-tax on the proprietors'
of the whole establishment, there would I
the rest fund a sum of £15,000. The
adopted, it was further announced that
the rest fund was now £1,144,000. The
for the holders of bank stock was 41 per
MURDER IN MAro.—A shocking m
with robbery, was perpetrated near to 113
miles from Castlebar, on Monday even
farmer in comfortable circumstances,

proceeded to Westport to make sale of s!
turning home, and when within a s,
dwelling, he was waylaid and murdered,
rifled of what money he had about him
belief that plunder was the object that
of the foul deed. The Irish government
of £lOO for the apprehension of the InT
Telegraph.

TUB LABOUR MARKET.—The followi,
a Belfast commercial letter,published in t,
—"The most satisfactory state of affairs
many other parts of Ireland, is the steady
Manufacturing industry gives employmeill
and tens of thousands of hands, and this
wages. In the country districts farm la
work, and, except the present state of I
some degree set aside outdoor labour, there
that during the entire season all men
find a ready market for their labour. Tb,,,
already sown in .the counties of Antrim, 1,.
is in excess of that of any year since 184"
received for wheat by our home farmers,
improvements effected in the cultivatioi
given it a peculiar popularity, and we may
autumn of 1856 the most extensive breadt
seen under wheat in this country."