The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

SLIGO ELECTION.—Mr. George Henry Hughes, Q.C., and
am-Solicitor-General, has responded to the call of the Liberal
electors, and arrived in Sligo on Thursday night, with a view
of prosecuting his canvass. With the exception of Mr. John
P. Somers, all the other promissory candidates seem to be
under a cloud. The Right Hon. John Wynne is the favour-
ite of the Conservative party, but up to last night his address
had not been published in the, local papers.
SEtztaitE OP s RAILWAY UNDER EXECUTIO;T.—It appears
from the Cork papers that on Monday a seizure of the plant
of the Cork and Bandon Railway, at both termini of the line,
was made by the city and county high sheriffs, under two
executions for different amounts, one of which amounted to
over £3,000, at the suit of an English firm. The taking pos-
session was merely formal, the sheriffs being satisfied with a
receipt of an inventory of the property. The traffic, therefore,
continues as usual.
TEE TIPPERARY JOINT•STOCS Thorx.:--Every day there
are fresh indications of the ruin impending over the share-
holders of the unfortunate Tipperary Bank. There is a wide-
spread feeling of pity for the position of Mr. James Sadleir,
the chief victim of his brother's frauds, and upon whose
shoulders will fall the full weight of the suicide's transgres-
sions. The member for Tipperary is, in fact, a ruined man,
and it is said that he has already broken up his establishment,
parted with servants, equipage, &c., and is prepared to meet
with becoming fortitude the sad reverse which has cruelly
crushed his worldly prospects.
MORDSR IN IRELAND.—The Belfaet Netvs Letter has the
following account of a murder at Saintfield :—On Saturday
last, a general and most painful sensation was created at
Saintfield by the discovery that a respectable woman, named
Margaret Withers, had been murdered. She was about 50 or
80 years of age, unmarried, and had resided alone. Her body
was found suspended by a small cord round her neck, and at-
tached to a beam of the house. Her arms were placed across
her breast, and she held a candlestick in one of her hands.
She had been heartlessly assaulted in the first instance, as her
skull was greatly injured. About a fortnight ago she was in
Belfast, and sold a quantity of pork, for which she received
some £l2 or £l5. It is conjectured that it was the desire to get
Possession of this which had led to the perpetration of the
murder, in cold blood, of an old unprotected woman. The de-
ceased had possession of a small farm, and was held in much
esteem by all who knew her. As a variety of rumours are
afloat with regard to this horrid affair, it is to be hoped that
the authorities will institute a searching investigation.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused in Dublin and
elsewhere, within the last few weeks, by a revelation made in

the Prerogative Court, in connection with a will case recently
tried. The testator, named Richard Roe, of the county of
Meath, bequeathed his property to his wife, and at her death
to his niece. The will, as appeared in evidence, was drawn
up by the Roman Catholic curate of the parish, and on the
application for probate by the latter, it came to light that,
after the making of the will, and in absence of the testator, he
had inserted words into the body of the will, reserving to the
wife of the deceased the right of disposing of the chattel pro-
perty as sbe might think fit. The clause, it further appeared,
was a virtual annulling of the original document, and being
inserted in the surreptitious manner above-mentioned, was
most properly expunged by Judge Keatinge. In coming to
this decision the learned judge accompanied his act by some
extremely caustic remarks, pronouncing the affair "a scanda-
lous transaction." He added that within a comparatively
recent period three similar cases of alterations in wills had
been made—in one case proved to be after the death of the
party—and "that in every one of these instances the altera-
tion had been made by a Romau Catholic clergyman !" Since
the above was written, two very remarkably similar cases have
come before the Prerogative Court (Dublin), wherein Roman
Catholic clergymen figure as the makers of wills, drawers-up
of codicils, &c.