The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT of Mr. John Robt.
Godley to the important office of Chief Commissioner for
the Collection of the Irish Income-tax is regarded as the
best that could be made.

AT THE MONAGHAN ASSIZES, the jury in the case of the
murder of Mr. Bateson have been discharged, unable to
agree to a verdict, after forty-one hours' confinement,
during which they were allowed nothing but fire, light,
and water.

REPRESENTATION OF CORK (ClTY).—There will pro-
bably be a hot contest for the seat vacated by the ap-
pointment of Mr. Serjeant Murphy to the commissioner-
ship of the London Insolvent Court. Col. Chatterton
will, no doubt, be a candidate.
SERGEANT MURPHY'S LAST.—Procuring himself a
Commissionership of Insolvency. The wags say the
Coalition have thus introduced the " potato disease" into
the Courts of Law. Gilbert a Beckett must now feel that
his own joke is capped, and that his only resource is to
turn beadle or Baptist minister.—The Press.
MODERN PATRIOTISM.—The Marquis of Hertford has
taken a house, now building in the Boules ard des Italiens,
Paris, for a railway club, at the rent of £1,440 per
annum. The Marquis, who draws £SO,OOO per annum
out of Ulster, is said never to have been in Ireland but
once in the course of his life.
HARVEST PROSPERITY.—Our accounts are still more
satisfactory, as regards the crops of all kinds, and we are
passing through the critical time, without any cause for
alarm respecting the potato, which is described in almost
all the reports as sound and vigorous in growth.—Dublin
Evening Post.
SUICIDE OF A CONVICT.—On Thursday, at the Lime-
rick Assizes, on Baron Greene calling on the prisoner
John Mulligan, convicted the day before of the murder
of his illegitimate child, the gaoler stated that the pri-
soner had just committed suicide by hanging himself
with a handkerchief.

SUICIDE OF MRS. BOYER.—An inquest was held on
Friday on the body of a woman who had made a charge of
murdering her husband against the convict Kirwan, now
under the mitigated sentence of transportation for the
murder of his own wife. It appeared that the body of
Mrs Boyer had been found in a quarry hole, but, as no
evidence was adduced to satisfy the jury she committed
suicide, they brought in a verdict that the body was found
in a quarry hole on the 7th inst.
ENCAMPMENT.—Tn consequence of its not being possi-
ble to bring together with convenience a sufficient num-
ber of regiments to form another division to succeed the
one now being encamped at Chobham Common, it is
probable that troops will be concentrated in Ireland, and
the Curragh of Kildare has been mentioned as the place
likely to be selected for the third encampment for this year.
THE DARGAN TESTIMONIAL.—At a meeting of noble-
men and gentlemen held in Dublin, on Thursday, it was
determined to present a testimonial to Mr. Dargan for
the great benefits conferred by him on the industrial
population of Ireland, not only for the vast amount of
employment he has given, but also in the lesson he has
so successfully taught. The first two subscribers are Mr.
Fairbairn, of Manchester, and Dr. Hayden, of Dublin,
each for the respectable sum of £lOO.
SCARCITY OF LABOURERS.-0 wing to the large num-
ber of Irish labourers who have proceeded to England
within the last month, fears are beginning to be expressed
that there will not be a sufficiency of hands to gather in
the harvest in this country. The Roscommon Journal
says :—Not less than £lOO per day is paid at the post-
office in this town, in small sums, seat by our labourers
who went to England, in order to take over their wives
and children. Heretofore, our poor people went for the
harvest time, and returned when the season was over;
but the scarcity of labourers in England, caused by emi-
gration, compels the manufacturers, not only to employ
Irishwomen, but their childret, likewise. These will
never return to Ireland.

THE EXODUS.—The flight from the west shows no sign
of abatement. The Galway Packet says,—" Thinned
and exhausted as the population has been for some months
past, the rush of emigration seems still unabated. The
twelve o'clock train on Monday bore away a crowd of
emigrants. A number of their female friends and relatives
occupied an eminence above the railway, and their plain-
tive cries resounded like the wail of a monster funeral.
Day after day similar scenes are repeated, so that they
now seem to be matters of course." The same authority
further adds, " For some weeks past a large proportion of
our labouring population have been led by the inducement
of higher wages to emigrate to England. They are, of
course, too willing to exchange the shilling or 14d. a-day
which is generally paid here, for the prospect of 4s. or ss.
a-day in England. Their departure is not a temporary
one, like that of labourers in former years, who proceeded
for a few weeks to cut down the harvest and returned
with savings sufficient to pay the rent of the cabin or
conacre ; but they will probably remain as much ex-
patriated from this country as the more opulent of their
class who emigrate to America."
EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION TRIAL.—At the Lime-
rick assizes, Jeremiah Hodges Mulcahy, about 45 years
of age, was indicted for having allured and carried away
Christiana Jackson, a young lady under 17 years of age,
contrary to the wishes of her guardian. It appeared that
the traverser, who is a widower, was drawing-master at a
seminary for young ladies in Limerick, up to March last,
when the mistress gave up business; and it was whilst
attending that establishment that he became acquainted
with Miss Jackson, who was a boarder at the school, and
youngest child of the late Mr. Francis Jackson, who died
in 1847, and under whose will she was entitled to £2,500.
Towards the end of March Miss Jackson went to reside
at Mr. Jones's house, and it was intended that she should
remain there until arrangements were made to send her to
a finishing school in England, where she was to reside for
a couple of years. During this time Miss Jackson was in
the habit of coming into Limerick almost daily with Mr.
Jones in his carriage, for the ostensible purpose of getting
new clothes made to take with her to England, where it
was intended she should go on the 18th of April ; however,
on the 15th, having come into town about three o'clock,
she appointed to meet Mr. Jones at his office at four
o'clock to return home with him, but instead of doing so
she went to the traverser's residence, and left with him
for Dublin by train, and subsequently proceeded via
Glasgow to Gretna Green, where they were married on
the 20th. They arrived in Limerick about the Ist of May,
and, shortly after, the traverser wrote to Mr. G. Jackson,
and told him he was married to his sister, and required
that he should at once pay him £5OO, stating that if he did
so he would consent that the balance of his wife's fortune
(£2,000) should be settled upon her. Mr. Jackson,
however, commenced proceedings against him. Mrs.
Mulcahy, a very pretty young woman, was called as a
witness. She deposed that she was but sixteen years of
age last Christmas-day. She said that she went with the
traverser of her own free will,and so far from his inducing
her to elope with him she was the person who first sug-
gested it, and proposed matrimony, when she found she
was about to be sent ton England for two or three years
against her wish.—The jury were locked up, but being
unable to agree, they were discharged without giving a
verdict.

ALBONI.—It is stated that the Italian Count Pepoli
was married in Paris, a few days since, to Mdlle. Alboni,
the vocalist, who has just returned from the United States.
THE PACIFIC.—Report has added another candidate
for the chief command in the Pacific, about to be re-
linquished by Rear-Admiral Moresby, C.B. It is said
that Rear-Admiral Price is now the favourite.—Morning
Herald.

THE BAKERS.—Though the best wheat in London at
present is three per cent. cheaper than it is in Paris,
and though the first flour is three per cent. cheaper, the
best 41b. loaf in London is 23 per cent. dearer than in Paris.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—A select committee of the
House of Commons has reported on the question whether
Parliamentary papers should be supplied to literary and
mechanics' institutions. They recommend a supply on a
moderate scale at first.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. A
meeting of shareholders was held on Friday, in London,
when a resolution was passed condemning the policy of
the directors, and earnestly recommending the share-
holders to entrust their proxies to the committee ap-
pointed to watch the interests of the railway.
AN AMERICAN HUSBAND.—Mrs. Sophia Dodge, of
Lafayette, Indiana, thus cautions the public against her
faithless spouse :—" He is a villain, having stolen near
two hundred dollars from me when he left. He is a brute,
having been repeatedly proved unfaithful to his wife. He
is too lazy to work, too vulgar to be decent, too much
addicted to stealing to be honest. Said Dr. Loran Dodge
was at last accounts in Indianapolis, and expected soon
to leave for Cincinnatti, where he will attempt to pass off
for a gentleman so long as the money he has stolen from
me lasts."
DRINKING A PINT AND A HALF OF BRANDY.—On
Thursday evening, a man named Luke Lettall got into
the bar of the Horton Arms public-house, Failsworth,
and when discovered was in a state of perfect insensibilty,
but holding in his hand a bottle, out of which he had
drank nearly a pint and a half of brandy. The beast was
not restored to anything like consciousness for several
hours ; it being at first thought that he would lose his
life. He was handed over to the police ; and on Friday
morning, on being brought up at the New Bailey, he
was committed to hard labour for a month. Manchester
Guardian.

SHOCKING MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN IN BIRMING-
HAM, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.
—A murder, under peculiarly shocking circumstances, was
perpetrated in this town on Thursday night, or early on
Friday morning last. About ten weeks ago, a woman
named Ann Brookes, with two children, male twins about
two years old, took lodgings in the house of Thomas Ro-
berts, Eyre-street, near the Reservoir. From her remarks
it was rscertained that she had been cohabiting with a
hawker in Leicestershire, the father of the two children,
but that some time ago he deserted her, and she was re-
duced to beggary. On Thursday evening the children had
some milk given them by the mother, and were put to rest,
she herself retiring at the usual time. During the night
Roberts heard her moving about the room, and about six
o'clock she came down stairs and left the house, proceed-
ing first to a neighbour's house to assist in washing, and
then absenting herself in some place at present unknown.
Ten o'clock having arrived without the mother returning,
Mrs. Roberts went up stairs to look at the children, whom
she found apparently in a deep sleep. She therefore re-
turned, but mentioning to some of the neighbours that
their feet were quite cold, suspicion was excited ; the chil-
dren were again examined, when it was found that they
were dead. In the course of a short time Brookes returned,
intoxicated, and taking no notice of the persons in the
house she sat down, but soon fell from the chair to the
floor. On the death of the children being mentioned, the
unhappy woman started up, and ran in the direction of
the neighbouring canal, but was overtaken, and brought
back. Medical assistance was obtained, and it being evi-
dent that Brookes was labouriug under the influence of
poison, the stomach pump was successfully applied.
She
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coufest:ed that she hid murdered the children, by admin-
istering poison to them, and after a short time she was
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tertained of her wity.—Virrnikgharn Gazette,