The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

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Bank of Stockport,

DREADFUL MURDER.—An account has been received
of the murder of a young farmer named Thomas Stack-
poole, which was committed near Miltown.Milbay, in the
county Clare. He took some land a little time ago about
which the former tenant had a dispute with the proprietor,
but with which the murdered man had nothing to do. He
was returning on Saturday night from a neighbour's house,
to which he had been invited, when he was brutally
murdered. Two men are in custody supposed to have
been concerned in this dreadful crime. The following
additional particulars with regard to this horrid murder
have been received :

" MII.TOWN MALDAY, TUESDAY, SEPT. 21.—1 t would
appear that the unfortunate deceased was to have come
into possession of property to the amount of £6O or £7O
per annum on attaining his majority, and that in the
event of any calamity befalling him, this annuity would
revert to the uncle, Thomas Stackpoole, as next of kin.
On the night of Saturday last, the deceased arrived at his
uncle's house at Bleanalega, near this place, having been
previously invited to spend the following Sunday with
him, and shortly after his arrival it would appear that the
diabolical act was committed, which sent the unfortunate
young man to an early grave. His mutilated remains
were found on Sunday afternoon, some distance from the
uncle's house, at a place near the Sandbills, the skull
dreadfully battered, his cap on his head, nearly clean, and
having the appearance of being put on after the murder;
and his boots lying near his head, also clean, and just as
if they had been deliberately placed there. It is said,
that in consequence of the uncle having absented himself
on Sunday, suspicion was aroused, and he and his family
arrested soon after the body was found. A little child of
his becoming alarmed, afterwards began to cry out, and
said it was not she did it, and named some parties whom
she said committed the foul deed in the house on Saturday
night, while deceased was in bed. The inquest was held
on yesterday, and I understand that a man named Richard
Stackpoole, a distant relative of deceased, surrendered
himself to the police shortly before it, and intimated
his readiness to reveal the entire circumstances. His
account is similar to that of the child's, but more detailed,
and implicates the uncle and aunt of the deceased
Richard Stackpoole, the informer, himself and wife, and
the servant boy of Thomas Stackpole (the uncle). It
appears that the deceased made great resistance, and there
is a cut between the forefinger and thumb of one hand, as
if received in warding off the murderous blows of his cruel
assailant, and the same arm is also cut in several places.
After the murder was committed, it is said one of the
women carried him on her back to the spot in which the
body was found. The coroner's jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the circumstances, and the accused par-
ties will be forwarded to Ennis gaol to-day, to stand their
trial at the next spring assizes for this county. The in-
habitants of this district evince the utmost horror at the
perpetration of the foul deed, and no one could be got
yesterday to take charge of the house of the wretched man
Thomas Stackpoole."
RUSSIA.—In Posen, on the lith, there were 24 new
cases of cholera, and 11 deaths. The disease, however,
was so far abated that one cholera hospital is already
closed.

A. GREAT MAN.—Every man is great as a man, for
he who possesses the divine power of a soul is a great
being, be his place in society what it may. He may be
clothed in rags—may be occupied in the lowest business—
may make no show—be scarcely known to exist—but yet
he may be more truly great than those who are commonly
so called ; for greatness consists of force of soul—that is,
in the force of thought, in moral principle and love, and
this may be found in the humblest condition. For the
greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invin-
cible resolution—who resists the sorest temptations from
within and without—who bears the heaviest burdens
cheerfully--who is calmest in storms, and most fearless
under menaces and frowns—whose reliance on truth, or
virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering.
THE FOLLY OF PRIDE.—The Rev. Sidney Smith, for
many years one of the contributors to the great English
Reviews, thus discourseth on the folly of pride in such a
creature as man :—" After all, take some quiet, sober mo-
ment of life, and add together the two ideas of pride and
of man ; behold him, creature of a span high, stalking
through infinite space in all the grandeur of littleness.
Perched on a speck of the universe, every wind of heaven
his blood the coldness of death ; his soul floats
Jody like melody from the string ; day and night,
on the wheel, he is rolled along the heavens,
labyrinth of world;, and all the creations of God
7ll'eneatli. Is this a creature to make
.mself a crown of glory, to deny his own flesh, to mock
. nis fellow sprung frcm that dust to which both will
soon return; Does the proud man not err? Does he not
suffer? Does he not die ? When he reasons, is he never
stopped by difficulties ? When he lives, is he free from
pain? When he dies can he escape the common grave?
Pride is not the heritage of man ; humility should dwell
with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imper-
fection."

laming abo