The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. John Eyre, of Eyrecourt
Castle,
in the county of Galway, a gentleman of large property, while
out hunting on Monday with the Eyrecourt hounds, was
thrown from his horse and killed on the spot. His death has
caused a deep gloom over the neighbourhood in which he
resided.
THE MURDER or Miss HINDS.—The Attorney-General
will attend at the approaching assizes in Cavan to prosecute
the persons now in gaol charged with the murder of the late
Miss Charlotte Hinds. The two circuit judges are Baron
Pennefather and Mr. Justice Torrens. The latter will try
the case.
IRISH PAUPERS.—Mr. Bouverie will shortly introduce into
Parliament a bill to alter the laws of removal of the Irish poor
from England and Scotland ; having for its object the placing
of Ireland on a similar footing, with regard to England and
Scotland, that one union in England, at present, stands in
with regard to any other union.
TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNICATION.—An advertisement in
the Cork papers notifies that the steam-ship Brenda, 300-
horse power, will sail direct from that harbour for New York,
about the 3rd of March next. The Brenda will start from
London, and will call at Cork, on her outward voyage, to ship
first, second, and third-class passengers.
AN IMPORTANT PETITION for sale was filed on Saturday,
in the Irish Encumbered Estates Court, the Duke of Rich-
mond, Viscount Sydney, and Lord Clarence Paget, trustees of
the estates of the late Marquis of Anglesey, being owners and
petitioners. The property is situate in the counties of Louth,
Down; and Galway; the net annual rent is £5,338, and the
incumbrances £43,806.
REPRESENTATION OP SLIGO.—For the vacancy created in
the borough of Sligo, by the suicide of Mr. Sadleir, there are
already five candidates mentioned, viz., Mr. M`Donough, Q.C.,
Mr. Blake, 4.C., and Mr. Treston, members of the Irish bar;
Mr. Robert Knox, of the Morning Herald, who has issued an
address to the electors, in which he announces himself "a
conservative, a devoted advocate of the mainienance of our
time-honoured and valued institutions," and "an Irishman to
the backbone ;" and Mr. P. Somers, formerly M.P. for the
borough.

rEBRUA.RY 26, 1856.1

THE WAR.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

DESTRUCTION OF FORT NICHOLAS.

The London Gazette of Tuesday contains the following :
Wig DEPAUTNENT, Feb. 19.—Lord Panmure has received
a despatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to his
Lordship by General Sir William Coclringttm, K.C.B. :
" Sebastopol, Feb. 4.

" My Lord,—Marshal Pelissier informed me a few days ago
that this day Fort Nicholas would be destroyed; and he sent
again to say that at 1 o'clock, p.m., the mines for this purpose
would be fired.
" The view over the whole harbour is well obtained from
the interior slope of the Redan Hill, and from other points
within the Russian lines.
The day was magnificently clear; every sentry on the op-
posite side could be seen, every working party watched, every
soldier that was lounging in the sun ;'occasionally shot and
shell were sent from the enemy to the Karabelnaia and the
town, but otherwise nothing disturbed the usual appearance
of quiet, almost of desolation.
On our (the south) side, we looked down on the large
ruined barracks in front, on the inner creek of the dockyard,
the quay, and the remains of Fort Paul, the spacious inlet from
the harbour on our left, beyond which stands the roofless
buildings of Sebastopol itself. There, also, is the well-re-
membered long line of pointed arches, the casemates of the
interior of Fort Nicholas, of which the embrasures in double
tier pointed to seaward and away from us.
"It juts out into the harbour, built on an inner tongue of
land ; Fort Constantine forming a similar but more outward
'defence for the sea approach on the north.
" The scene and feeling of expectation were of great interest,
for another tangible proof of power and success was to take
place, and 106,000 lb. of powder were in the several mines.
" At the hour named a burst of smoke, dark and thick,
rolled from our left of the building; it was followed by another ;
the heavy sound arrived,the stones were shot into the air and
to the sea ; the explosions of the extreme right and the centre
mingled at little intervals into one drifting cloud, which veiled
the destruction below.
"The light of the sun played beautifully on the mass of
smoke, of which the lower part lay long and heavily on its
victim. The breeze passing it away over the remains of the
town showed that a low line of ruin was all that remained of
the pride of Fort Nicholas, and one standing menace of the
.harbour lay buried under its waters.
"The state of the docks has been given in detail in my let-
'tem. They are all destroyed, while the earth surrounding
them is shaken into cracks ; basin, docks, masses of broken
granite, capstans, gates, beams of iron, and of timber are
fumbled into one mass of destruction.
" I have, &c.,
" W. J. CODRINGTON, General Commanding.
'" The Lord Panmure, &c."