The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE " WORLD" NEWSPAPER.—The Dublin Keening
Post says, " We have learned that Mr. James Birch, late
proprietor of the World newspaper, has been arrested on
a bench warrant, at the suit of Mrs. French."
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission
at Monaghan has proved a failure. The second jury, who
tried Francis Kelly for the murder of Mr. Bateson, were
discharged, without being able to agree. Two men, who
had been found in possession of covered fire-arms, were
convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment.

THE ORANGEMEN AND= RIBAND CONSPIRACY.-At
meeting of the Grand Orange Lodge of Down, on the 2nd
inst., it was resolved, among other things, that the Orange-
men of that county will do their utmost to detect and
bring to justice all persons whatsoever, who may be found
in any way connected with the bast Riband conspiracy,
which, while it appears partly aimed against landlords, is
mainly directed awg;nac the.religion and lives of the Pro-
testants of irciand.

IxISII, PROSPERITY
journal published

—The Fermanagh Report, a
, according to general assent, in the
i part of Ireland, gives the following bit of
corroboratory evidence in support of the ministerial alle-
gation that Ireland is prosperous :—" Several families
residing.a short distance from Enniskillen are preparing
to leave for Australia. Every day makes the prospect
more gloomy, and all persons possessed of the means are
desirous to flee from the misery which seems to await
them here." If it be thus in the hitherto happy, county
of Fermanagh, how, we may ask, are the other one-and-
thirty Irish counties situated ?

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PROTECTION.—A declaration in favour of protection to
native capital and industry, showing that the agricultural,
colonial, shipping, and many other important interests of
the country are deeply depressed, under the unjust. miss.
chievous, and cruel policy, miscalled free-trade, which has
exposed British producers. and industry of all classes to
ruinous competition in the home market against the pro-
ducts of foreign labour, has been extensively circulated
and signed in Ireland under the auspices of the Marquis
of Dbwnshire, Lord Glengall, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, and
Mr. T. P. Dunne. Ireland it is alleged has suffered in-
finitely more from free-trade, than either England or
Scotland.

LORD ARUNDEL AND:THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.—The
reason assigned for the rumoured retirement of Lord
Arundel from the representation of Limerick, as stated
by a correspondent of the Dublin Evening Htwald of
yesterday week, is that his lordship has for some time had
spiritual doubts and difficulties, and has lately declined to
accept the courtesies or ministrations of Cardinal Wise-
man, the highest Papal priest in the United Kingdom.
The writer adds—" Ere long we shall have to congratulate
Lord Arundel upon his exalted position as a professor of
pure Catholic Christianity, and an avowed convert to Pro-
testantism. T repeat, sir, that I announce, this from
credible authority,'

MYSTERIOUS 'MURDER.—The Limerick Chronicle of
Wednesday last narrates the singular discovery of a mur-
der at Drombane, near Dromkeen, in that county, where
a countryman named Patrick Blake, after having had his
curiosity excited by seeing that some grass had been re-
moved in a field and relaid in sods, turned up the light
earth, and discovered the dead body of a farmer named
James Quinlan, who had been missing from his home
since Christmas.. The alarm being given, the relatives
and friends of the deceased soon hurried to the spot, with
the police of the station, by whom the body was raised
and stretched upon the field. A gunshot wound was dis-
covered on the right breast, and blood was discernible on
the shirt of the deceased, which was the only article of
dress visible, notwithstanding that on the day he le t home
he wore a new frieze frock coat, vest, and trousers. Au
inquest has been held on the body, but no clue to the
murderer has yet been obtained.
SINGULAR AND TERRIFIC PIIENOMENON.—A cor-
respondent of the Limerick Examiner says—" I have-
just heard of an occurrence that took place several nights•
since, in the parish of Duagh, near Listowel—and,
although it is nearly incredible, still, as I have no reason,
to doubt or question the veracity of my informant,
give the tale as it way Told to tne. In the dead of, night,

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♦uuan.ta ut, ill.o due mmuy ol a man named Cronin, in
whose house the occurrence took place, were sunk in the
deepest repose. Suddenly a clattering noise, such as
might be occasioned by the promiscuous falling of an im-
mense pile of stones, was heard above the din and fury of

the raging storm—and in a moment the roof of "the
kitchen and parlour was cleft asunder at the very top,
where the rafters were joined, and half the roofing and
thatch fell to each side! The lower room, as well as the
sleeping apartments ahove the parlour, escaped all injury,
while the roofing of the parlour and kitchen was riven

asunder with as much accuracy as if the operation had
been performed with an axe. The walls were not in the
slightest degree injured, and no traces whatever could be
discovered that could lead to the inference that this sin-
gular and extraordinary occurrence had been caused by
the electric fluid ! There was a bed in the parlour, the
top of which was shivered into splinters, but the woman
and one or two children who slept there sustained no in-
jury. The following morning three head of cattle were
found dead in one of the out-houses, but the rest of the
cows in the same house escaped; and in another out-house
that sheltered a mare, a foal, and two goats, the mare and
one of the goats were discovered in the morning to be
dead, while the other goat and the foal had suffered no
injury. No single trace that could indicate the presence
or the agency of the electric fluid was discovered, and
altogether it is one of the most curious occurrences that
has been remembered by the sage and hoary chronicler of
local traditions, the oldest inhabitant.' As for the
details, I give them to your readers as I received them
myself, without adding to them either note or comment."

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—At a
meeting of the board of directors of this company, held
on Wednesday, it was decided to recommend to the pro-
prietors, at their ensuing meeting, to declare a dividend
for the past half-year at the rate of three per cent. per
annum, and to carry forward a substantial surplus, after
making the usual reserve for replacement of permanent
way.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We
stated on Saturday that we had heard from good, though
not official authority, that the dividend would be at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and that £50,000 would be
carried to the "rest." We now learn officially that the
sum to be carried to the " rest" is not £50,000, but
£60,000. This will increase the balance to be carried
forward to next half-year's revenue account to £184,000.
The directors have charged the revenue for the past half-
year with £57,000 for new stock &c., the greater portion
of which—say to the extent of £4o,ooo—was for the Exhi-
bition traffic. We speak from personal knowledge when
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