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

IRELAND.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. John Eyre, of Eyrecourt Castler
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 be
theßOßlVawersle of
resided.
THE MURDER OF 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
Miss Charlotte Hinds. The two circuit judges are Baron
Pennefather and Mr. Justice Torrens. The latter will trY
the case.
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shortly
removal e f
from England and Scotland ; having for its object the placil
introducethelrsh
of Ireland on a similar footing, with regard to England an,
Scotland, that one union in England, at present, stands ni
with regard to any other union.
Parliament a übPill iztso.— a?tierr.
TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNICATION.--An advertisement in
the Cork papers notifies that the steam-ship Brenda, Su'?
horse power, will sail direct from that harbour for New yor/6
about the 3rd of March next. The Brenda will start fr°l)l,,
London, and will call at Cork, on her outward voyage, to
first, second, and third-class passengers.
AN IMPORTANT PETITION for sale was filed on Saturcial'
its the Irish Encumbered Estates Court, the Duke of OW(
mond, Viscount Sydney, and Lord Clarence Paget, trustees °,/
the estates of the late Marquis of Anglesey, being owners at
petitioners. The property is situate in the counties of Loutj';'
Down, and Galway; the net annual rent is £5,338, and t
incumbrances £43,806.
REPRESENTATION OF SLIGO.—For the vacancy created e
the borough of Sligo, by the suicide of Mr. Sadleir, there aj
already five candidates mentioned, viz., Mr. M`Donough, Q.
Mr. Blake, Q.C., and Mr. Treston, members of the Irish
Mr. Robert Knox, of the Morning Herald, who has issued,o
address to the electors, in which lie announces himself ,
conservative, a devoted advocate of the maintenance of qgp
time-honoured and valued institutions," and "an Irishniallbe
the backbone ;" and Mr. P. Somers, formerly M.P. for
borough.

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FEBRUARY 26, 1556.]

THE WAR.

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES

DESTRUCTION OF FORT NICHOLAS.
The London Gazette of Tuesday contains the following :
/ItU DEPARTMENT, Feb. 19.—Lord Panmure has received
tit__lespatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to his
''rciship by General Sir William Codrington, K.C.B. :
k Sebastopol, Feb. 4.
Lord,—Marshal Pelissier informed me a few days ago
tut this day Fort Nicholas would be destroyed ; and he sent
tain to say that at 1 o'clock, p.m., the mines for this purpose
Irould be fired.
"The view over the whole harbour is well obtained from
%%interior slope of the Redan Hill, and from other points
tithin the Russian lines.
The day was magnificently clear ; every sentry on the op-
",Tite side could be seen, every working party watched, every
Mier that was lounging in the sun ; occasionally shot and
: ' ell were sent from the enemy to the Karabelnaia and the
t
Itn, but otherwise nothing disturbed the usual appearance
t)fiziet, almost of desolation.
On our (the south) side, we looked down on the large
fined barracks in front, on the inner creek of the dockyard,
te quay, and the remains of Fort Paul, the spacious inlet from
0, harbour on our left, beyond which stands the roofless
'tedin,gs of Sebastopol itself. There, also, is the well-re-
membered long line of pointed arches, the casemates of the
i!lterior of Fort Nicholas, of which the embrasures in double
"4' pointed to seaward and away from us.
It juts out into the harbour, built on an inner tongue of
end ; Fort Constantine forming a similar but more outward
qefence 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
LaSe, and 106,000 lb. of powder were in the several mines.
- At the hour named a burst of smoke, dark and thick,
tolled from our left of the building; it was followed by another ;
'tlole heavy
the explosions of the extreme right and the centre
mingled at little intervals into one drifting cloud, which veiled
lithe destruction below.
"The light of the sun played beautifully on the mass of
4noke, of which the lower part lay long and heavily on its
lictina. The breeze passing it away over the remains of the
t°lvn showed that a low line of ruin was all that remained of
LL'e pride of Fort Nicholas, and one standing menace of the
'arbour lay buried under its waters.
4.," The state of the docks has been given in detail in my let-
g_l's• They are all destroyed, while the earth surrounding
"'emu is shaken into cracks ; basin, docks, masses of broken
finite capstans, gates, beams of iron, and of timber are
ambled into one mass of destruction.

" I have, &c.,
" W. 3. CODRINGTON, General Commanding.
"The Lord Panmure, &c."

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

MARSEILLES, Feb. 16.

The accounts from Constantinople state that the 21 articles
'adopted at the conference lately held at the Porte have been
aent to Paris, to be annexed to the treaty of peace.
The conferences relative to the Danubian Principalities
have, it is said, been countermanded, and the questions con-
nected therewith will be solved in Paris.
Accounts from the Crimea state that the Russians continued
lo fire from the north forts. The health of the allied armies
continued excellent, and the number of sick had diminished
one-half. The Tunisian corps has been so redured that it is
IA contemplation to send the remnant of it back to Tunis.

BERLIN, Feb. 16.
It is positively stated that the Emperor Alexander will
shortly visit Warsaw, and thence come to this city.
General Gortschakoff has arrived at Warsaw, and assumed
'the functions of Lieutenant of the Emperor in Poland.

• MARSEILLES, Feb. 19.
• The Gange has arrived with advices from Constantinople of
.the 11th, and from the Crimea of the 9th inst.
The first conference concerning the Danubian Principalities
Was held at the trench Embassy at half-past 8 o'clock on the
Pth inst.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEAIHS.

BIRTHS.

On the 11th inst., at St. Helens, the wife of Mr. E. Bram-
well, of a son.
On the 13th inst., at Aikenhead-house, Lanarkshire, the
Lady Isabella Gordon, of a sou.
On the 16th inst., at Huyton, Mrs. Ansdell, of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Riseholme, Lincoln, the wife of the
Bishop of Lincoln, of a daughter, still-born.
On the 16th inst., at Peel-terrace, the wife of Mr. R. C.
Currey, of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., in Duke-street, Everton, the wife of Mr.
E. J. Fleming, of a sou.
On the 17th inst., at Bolton-by-Bowland, Yorkshire, the
wife of H. A. Littledale, Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Breckfield-terrace, Barns-street,
Everton, the wife of Mr. John A. Simpson, of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., Mrs. Corr, Upper Parliament-street, of a

son.
On the 19th inst., at Beresford-road, Toxteth-park, the wife
of Mr. Frederick Roberts, of a son.
On the 19th inst., at Spekefield Cottages, Edge-hill, the wife
of Mr. R. M. Eastman, of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Grove-street, Mrs. John Abraham, of a

son.
On the 21st inst., at Southampton-street;-park, the
wife of Mr. Robert Taylor, of a son.
On the 23rd inst., at Grove-park, the wife of William Eaton,
Esq., of a daughter, still-born.