The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

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The total receipts on the above lines being £2

the decrease is shown to be £1.5,559. The number o
open on the above was, in 1852. 4,936, and in ,
4,7491, showing an increase of 1864 miles. The receipts
per mile per week, for 1852, on the above line is £55. 9s. 4d. ;
in 1851 the receipts were £6O lls. 11d. ; so that the de-
crease of 1852 on 1851 is £5 2s. 7d.

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IRELAND

THE MURDER OF THE SOLDIER AT FERMOY.—Eleven
men have been arrested in the county Cork, charged with
the late brutal murder of private Deegan, of the 31st

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—There is quite a rage
for emigration to Australia amongst the more affluent
classes. Traders of all classes are making preparations
for a voyage to the golden land. The Government is
giving the movement great encouragement. .

COMMISSION ON MARKET LAWS IN IRELAND.—His
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to ap-

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n and John Macbet

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oners to inquire into the state of the laws
regulating markets in Ireland, with a view to legislation
on this important subject.
THE COUNTESS OF EGLINTON IN BELFAST.—The
Countess of Eglinton, accompanied by the Misses Cock-
crell and suite, passed, on Saturday, through this town,
en route for Eglinton Castle, Ardrossan. The object of
her ladyship's yisit to Scotland is said to be purely bene-
volent—namely, by her presence to aid and patronise a
bazaar for charitable purposes, to be held at Kilmarnock.
The Countess is expected to return to Ireland during the
next week, and will likely come by the same route. Her
Excellency will probably land here on Thursday morning.
—Belfast News-Letter.

THE REGISTRIES.—Up to the present the result of the
annual revision of the Parlianientary voters' roll has been
highly favourable to the Conservative interest. Notwith-
standing all the efforts of the Defence Association, aided
and assisted by an extensive staff of bishops and priests,
the revision has served to strengthen the position of the
Ministerialists in Ireland. In Cork, Dublin, Belfast,
Londonderry county, King's county, Limerick, &c., the
Conservatives have been eminently successful, the objec-
tions, served in wholesale by the Romanists, having been
found in 99 cases out of a 100 untenable.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.--A man named Lonnergan,
a farrier in the employment of Mr. James Mahony, has
been for some time past laid up with a sore finger, which
suddenly and without any apparent cause became some
time since affected, and swollen. On Tuesday the swel-
ling broke, when singular to relate, a full-grown leaf of
holly, with seven thorns thereon, was taken from the
finger, which is now considerably better. On two other
occasions, we have been informed by a credible person,
leaves of ivy were, after undergoing a like painful process,
taken from the same finger. This is an extraordinary
circumstance, but its accuracy may be relied on, and
meanwhile it ()Veils a question for our medical friends to
consider how such things can be.—Tipperary Free Press.
A LUCKY ADVENTURER.—About eleven months ago, a
poor sailor, a native of Whitegate in this:harbour, went
out in a vessel to Melbourne in Australia, where he quitted
the ship and at once proceeded to the diggings, where,
after various hardships, he at length amassed a consider-
able sum of money, with which he returned home about a
fortnight ago. On his way home he was in fear lest all
his friends should be dead ; but to his great joy he found
his mother, 74 years of age, still alive. He brought home
a large quantity of gold, which he offered for sale in Cork,
but could not get a price equal to his expectations ; he
accordingly went and sold it in London, he came back to
Cork and lodged £BOO in one of the local banks, directing
the interest of the money to be paid to his mother. He
next day went again to Liverpool, where he took passage
for Australia to renew his mining speculations.—Cork
Constitution.

THE STORM.—Loss OF LIFE AT SEA.—During the
storm on Tuesday night, the brig Smyrna, of Workington,
bound for Dublin, with coal, was wrecked on the break.
water at the Portbeg Lighthouse, at the extremity of the
great South Wall. Not a soul was saved to tell the nar-
rative of the calamity.—Several steamers which left the
Liffey for Liverpool and other ports put back during the
early part of Tuesday night without damage. The Herald,
however, a fine iron steamer, commanded by Captain
Stokes, started from the North for Glasgow. She had a
large number of passengers on board, together with a full
cargo of merchandise and cattle. The wind was blowing
stiffly up the river at the time of her departure, yet, not-
withstanding, the gallant vessel proceeded boldly to sea:
but had soon to take refuge in Kingstown Harbour. Seve-
ral vessels, yachts, light craff,•&c., in the harbour, were
driven from their moorings, and more or less injured. The
collier brig Charles Hamilton, of Troon, was stranded at
Baldoyle during the storm on Tuesday night. The crew,
numbering five men, were saved.
A SHIP AND CREW DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.— On
Monday intelligence was received at Lloyd's of the total
destruction of the ship Maise, of Queenstown, Pearson,
master, by lightning. It appears that on the 3rd of August
last, when off the island of Malta, the ship being on her
passage from Ibraila to Queenstown, she was overtaken
by a violent thunderstorm ; so terrific was its fury that
Captain Pearson remained on deck, and all the crew used
their utmost endeavours to keep the vessel before the wind.

At half-past ten p.m., the vessel was struck by lightning,
vE: ,pd down her mainmast. and. striking the ' ,11

which passe, wn um: 4, x. -, a, 51u5 the hull,
separated it in two pieces, fore and aft. The ship in-
stantly went down, with the crew, fourteen in number,
and two passengers. Captain Pearson, on rising, caught
a floating spar from the wreck, on which he continued to
buoy himself up, and for seventeen hours afterwards he
kept himself above water, when he was happily descried
by a Maltese coasting vessel, and landed at Queenstown,
Ireland ; the whole of the crew and passengers having
perished.

ELOPEMENT.—About three o'clock, a.m., on Monday
morning last, the inhabitants of the little village of
Athenry, county Galway, were disturbed from their
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slumbers by the sound of carriage
over the shingled road, and halt
Presently a loud knockir

'heels driving rapidly
lg at the hotel door.

quired admittan
mons, and the occupants of the carriage were ushered

—the waiter it

nnounced that the parties re-
ntly obeyed the sum-

ri minutes

I scarcely elapsed when a c.a.
't became known that Mr.
Thter of the late Captain
The car contained her

in hot pursuit, and it
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drove up
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with a dai

of the county Mayo
brothers, who immediately demanded their sister, which
3 refused. Pistols were called into requisition, and were
• interference of H. &I'Cormack, Esq.,
police, the consequences might have
The lady, who is only eighteen years of age,
ge fortune in her own right, refused to leave
the partner of her flight. However, she at last consented,
and so the matter rests for. the present. The young ca-
valier having lost his fair one, and being the worse for hay-
to drown his sorrow,
,er, who inflicted on him

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been seric
and has a

ing taken too much of the native

matter will come before tl