The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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The Limerick Chronicle says that such is the rage
among the peasantry for occupying farms, that in the
barony of Owney and Arra, Tipperary, several hundred
acres have been lately taken at £3 per acre.
THE SIX.MILE BRIDGE VERDICT.—On Thursday, th
Lord Chief Justice pronounced the unanimous judgment
of the Court of Queen's Bench on the application of the
crown to quash the verdict of the coroner's jury. Rule
refused.
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A SMUGGLING LUGGER, armed, it is supposed, with
eight guns, and manned by thirty-six desperate fellows,
has been dropping quantities of tobacco on the Dublin
coast. A large quantity has been discovered by the coast-
guard on Dalkey island.
INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT.—A gentleman from the
north of Ireland has just settled in Galway, where he is
giving employment to a considerable number of poor
weavers in the manufacture of calico—a new branch of
trade in that hitherto neglected district.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—John Macintyre, a boatman at
Kingussie, had been grinding oats at a mill, when a plank
giving way, he was precipitated some eight feet into a pig-
stye, where lie was stunned. He was found shortly after-
wards quite dead, and his body fearfully msngled, having
been eaten away in parts by two pigs.
CARRYING ARMS.—The names of 533 persot...., appear
in last week's Gazelle, from whom the power of carrying
or having arms is revoked by the Lords Justices, under
the Ist Victoria, cap. 2. The proclamation is dated the
the 10th of November, and signed by the Under-Secretary.
RETRIBUTION.—An Irish paper says that a few nights
since a fox, which is supposed to have been prowling about
the henroosts at the Inniskeen station, on the Castleblaney
railway, was cut in two by the night mail train, which
does not stop at the station.
THE WEATHER IN IRELAND.—Where's the use o'
talkie' howsomever—sure not even the weather itself can
be depended upon ! There it is now, thryin' the leaks in
the roof, and dhrivin' the cat, stern-foremost, to the fire,
with a heavy, dull, plasbin' rain ; and two hours ago it
was dhry, with a tindency to frost, and could and bracin'
as a soger's waistbelt, besides bein twice as wholesome.—
Terry Driscoll.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night Mr. James
Montgomery, a respectable farmer, of Ballygarvey, near
Ballymena, having been requested by his brother to shoot
a dog which had hurt one of his children, took down his
gun, and, to try whether it was charged or not, he urged
a man who was beside him to hold a candle to the touch-
hole while he blew into the barrel with his mouth. In
adopting this hazardous test some sparks from the candle
came in contact with the powder, which discharged the
contents of the gun into the head of the incautious vic-
tim, killing him on the spot. Deceased has left a wife
and eight children to mourn his loss.

TENANT LEAGUE MORALITY.—A few nights since a
Presbyterian chapel at Scrigan, near Dungiven, was
broken into, and considerable damage done to the re-
cords, and part of the communion vessels removed. The
minister of the congregation, had, at the late election,
dared to exercise the right of private judgment, and voted
for Mr. Greer, an elder of his own Church, instead of for
the two episcopalian candidates. This, it is supposed, is
the reason why some desperate miscreants wreaked their
vengeance on the church, as the Reverend gentleman is
of a most unobtrusive and inoffensive disposition, and had
never before given the slightest offence to his neighbours
of any faith.

AN IDIOT AND HIS BURIED MOTIIER.—A most affect-
mg incident has recently come under observation. There
resides in Castlewellan, co. Down, a poor idiot, whose
mother died and was buried about five weeks ago in
Bryansford churchyard. The helpless lad was evidently
deeply affected by the loss he had sustained, and last week,
conceiving that his fond parent had not been interred as
she ought to have been, and that her body was floating in
water under the soil, he proceeded with wheelbarrow and
spade to the grave, disinterred the remains, and carried
them away. The operation was witnessed by several
neighbours, who, when they attempted to interfere, were