The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ANOTHER Inisn COMMISSION.—It is said that Lord Monck,
M.P. for Portsmouth, one of the Lords of the Treasury, and
Mr. W. H. Stephenson, also of the Treasury, and formerly
Deputy Paymaster-General, together with Mr. Seaton, as
secretary. have been appointed a commission to inquire into all
matters connected with the state of public education in Ireland.
ANOTHER MURDER.—WhiIst Mr. Ramsbottom and Mr.
Beacham were taking possession of land in the King's County,
three miles from Ballinasloe, Mr. Beacham was shot through
the neck with a bullet, and several slugs lodged in his face
and breast. It was doubtful whether he would live through
Friday night. Mr. Ramsbottom is an agent, and Mr, Beacham
is an assistant. The shot was intended for the former, but the
latter was next to the two men who fired.
A ROCKITE NOTICE was posted last week in Carlow, respect-
ing a highly respectable firm in that town, who had purchased
potatoes on commission for a Liverpool house in the usual way
of mercantile business. The notice commences—" Men of
Carlow, blood must be shed ;" and concludes—" It would be
justice in the sight of God and man to shoot a rascal that
would trade in the blood of the poor."
A COMMISSION OT INQUIRY has been sitting for some
days at Navan to try whether the late John Wilson, of Rusk,
in the county of Meath, has left any legitimate heirs ; the ques-
tion involving the escheating to the Crown in default of heirs,
of a considerable portion of a property amountinr, to £lOO,OOO
in the funds and other securities, and about £6,000 a year in
landed estates. The inquiry has not yet been concluded.
All the leading Irish counsel are engaged in the case.
IN A PROSECUTION for assaulting Mr. Wallace, a Wesleyan
minister, while preaching in the open air at Kingstown, the
following definition of the law was given by both the learned
judges presiding, Chief Justice Monaghan, a Romanist, and
Baron Richards, namely, that a minister of any persuasion had
a clear right to preach in the public street as long as he did
not violate the public peace, just as a person would have a
right to deliver a lecture upon any ordinary subject in a
public place, and no one would be justified in disturbing or
molesting him.
CAPTURE OF A RUSSIAN PRIZE.—The Cork Examiner has
the following statement :—" Considerable interest was excited
in Queenstown on Saturday by the intelligence that a Russian
vessel had been made a prize of by the revenue cutter Eliza,
of Kinsale, Mr. O'Malley commander. The vessel, which bears
the name Maria, of Antwerp, is a schooner of 122 tons register,
and has on board a cargo of hides and horns from Rio Grande.
She arrived off the lighthouse at six o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing, and not being able to get in owing to a strong north-east
wind, she dropped her anchor, when she was boarded by the
captain of the cutter, who required the ship's papers, declared
the vessel a prize, hauled down the Belgian flag which was
flying at the peak, and substituted the English, and placed
four armed men of the revenue service in charge. It appears
that intelligence was received by the Admiralty about a fort-
night since from the British Admiral, Rio Grande, of such a
character as to induce them to give orders for the seizing of
this vessel, and the Eliza had been cruising in search of ner for
six or eight days before the capture was made. Some doubts,
however, appear to be now entertained as to whether the vessel
can be considered a lawful prize. There is, we believe, no
doubt that she is a Russian-built vessel, but it is stated that
eighteen mouths ago she was transferred to a Belgian house,
and since she certainly has been sailing under a Belgian cap-
tain, and manned by a crew the majority of whom are also
from that nation. It was stated, too, that she was seized on a
former occasion in one of the northern ports of England, and left
free again. One fact which seems to have some significance is
that the British flag, which was flying at her peak on Satin.-
' day, was replaced yesterday by the Belgian—that under which
she was captured. On Saturday evening the captain of the
schooner, who had been made a prisoner of war, was to be seen
walking about Queenstown, attended closely by twia. men of
the revenue service."

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

On the 7th July, at Melbourne, the wife- of Mr. Thomas
Middleton, late of this town, of a daughter.
On the 21st ult., at Birkenhead, the wife of Captain Thomas
James Tobin, of the Ocean Chief, of a daughter..
On the 23rd ult., at Carrigmore, county Cork, the Countess
of Norbury, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., at Aigburth, Mrs. Joshua M. Heap, of a
daughter.
On the 27th ult., Mrs. Walter Scott, Clifton-park, Birken-
head, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., in Wavertree-vale, the wife of Mr. Edmund
Pearson, of a daughter.
On the 28th tilt., Mrs. James Wensley, of Gloucester-place,
Low-hill, of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Richmond-terrace, Breck-road, Mrs.
John Leigh Clare, of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Norwood-villa, Clifton-park, Birken-
head, Mrs. William Carr, of a son. •
On the 28th ult., in Chatsworth-street, the wife of Mr.
Henry Hobart, of a daughter, still-born.
On the 31st ult., at Poulton Manor, Mrs. R. Powell, of a am-
On the Ist inst., at Halewood, the wife of Robert Neilson,
Esq., of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Alma-bank, Higher Tranmere, Mrs. H
H. Brittain, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., the wife of Mr. Thomas Rider, of Higher
Bebington, of a daughter.
On the 2nd inst., at Rock Ferry, the wife of Mr. Robert
Paterson, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Bootle-lane, Kirkdale, the wife of Mr.
William Woolliscroft, of a son.