The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

rrible outrage.
-Lord Lorton convened a

meeting of the magistrates at Elphin on Tuesday

Thirty-

one attended. LO-rd De Frcne moved the firstresolution.
The whole meeting were unanimous in applying to the
government for stronger measures than they now have, to
enable them to suppress crime and protect the lives and
properties of the well-disposed. The resolutions were
strong, but not more than the country required. Should
a favourable reply not be received, it is intended to con-
vene a county meeting. All the police not on duty con-
stantly patrole the disturbed districts. A troop of horse
is daily expected in Roscommon, and another in Stokes-
town.

THE O'CONNELL MONUMENT.—We dont mean to deny
the propriety of " parties" raising monuments to their
chiefs, nor to insinuate that the 'deceased O'Connell is
one whit less entitled to his testimonial than Cobden is to
his fund. These are matters strictly between the leader
and his party—the exoteric world have no right to inter-
fere. But although the question of merit is not fairly ours
to discuss in such a case, the fitness of the time for making
a public collection, unquestionably is. That some £l5OO
should be levied off Dublin just at this moment, and for
an object that might certainly have been deferred without
injury to anybody, is hardly to be looked upon as a very
satisfactory occurrence; still less that the whole of star-
ving Ireland should contribute £15,000, which is expected
to be the amount raised for the "Liberator's" family.
A FEARFUL PLEDGE.—Mr. John O'Connell has just
made the following solemn declaration :—" If I go to par-

liament, and if Ifind that the government, before they
have tested the already immense powers given them by
the ordinary course of the law, in subduing disturbances
in Ireland, and before they have taken steps to remove the
causes of these disturbances by regulating and amending
the present relations between landlord and tenant : if, 'I
say, before doing this, I find them looking for coercion,
I now solemnly pledge myself that I WILL DIE ON THE
FLOOR OF THAT HOUSE before they shall pass such a mea-
sure. Let the other members now do the same. Al-
though the pledge be conditional, and depends upon a
variety of contingencies, which open several little loopholes
of retreat, beside that of the black door of Pluto, it is a
very awful vow notwithstanding.

SHIPWRECK.—The brig HerO, of London, 145 tons bur-
then, was wrecked in Cloughey Bay, near Portaferry, on
Wednesday morning last. She was under ballast, from
Belfast to Newport, and struck on the Cannon Rock, a
little to the north of the north and south light, and soon
went to pieces. Four men and a boy, who left the vessel
in the long boat, are supposed to have perished. The
captain, Charles Herman, and mate, George Bonis, re-
mained in the rigging. After some time the former could
hold on no longer, and having dropped into the sea, was
drowned. The mate caught him by the breast as he was
falling, but his hold gave way, leaving the captain's watch
and guard chain in his hand. The Cloughey coast guard,
under the command of Chief-boatman M`Bride, after ele-
ven unsuccessful attempts, at the imminent risk of their
lives, the boat being nearly swamped twice, succeeded in
throwing a line to the mate, who made himself fast to it,
and was hauled from the wreck to the boat. _

The list of outrages, culminating in murder, from the
counties of Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary, is most fright-
ful. The Limerick Chronicle, of Saturday weeh, contains
an account of a most revolting murder, the victim being the
wife of a steward of Sir Matthew Barrington, who lost
her own life in endeavouring to save her husband from
the bullet of the assassin. On Saturday week, as Mr.
Bailey, a deputy-lieutenant of the county of Tipperary,
was driving in his gig from Nenagh to his residence at
Ballyclough, a distance of about seven miles, he and his
friend Mr. Edge, by whom he was accompanied, were
fired at from behind a ditch, and both wounded. It is
feared that Mr. Bailey will not recover. On the same
evening, one of the labourers employed on the Great
Southern and Western Railway, at Ballybrophv, was
found murdered on the railway works ; his head having
been pierced through as if with a single blow of a pick-
axe. Cases of arms stealing and incendiarism, too, are
mentioned.

Two DREADFUL MURDERS AT RATHURE.—At eight
o'clock on Thursday morning, two dreadful murders were
committed at Itathure Castle, vvithin two miles of Limerick.
The victims of assassination were Mr. Ralph Hill, sub-
agent to David Fitzgerald, Esq., and a land bailiff named
Madden. It appears that Mr. Hill, in the discharge of his
duty, had made a distress the day before on corn belong-
ing to John Quain, tenant to Benjamin Friend, Esq., who
was indebted to his landlord to a large amount. After the
seizure keepers were placed on the premises, and Mr. Hill
returned to Limerick. On Thursday morning, accompa-
nied k y Thamas Flannery, he again visited Quain's house,
for the purpose of removing the corn from the haggards,
where they were met by Quain's son, with whom Mr. Hill
was talking, when four shots were fired at him and his
bailiffs from behind the haggard, melancholy to relate,
with fatal effect. Mr. Hill was killed on the spot, and the
bailiff (Madden) also fell a victim to assassination. One
of the keepers, James M`Mahon, was wounded on the
head, the skull having been laid bare by slugs, and Flan-
nery received the contents of a gunshot in the back of the
hand.

AN IRISH Row.—A meeting of Young Irelanders was
held inißelfast last week, which was even more uproarious
than such meetings usually are. Several persons were
calling for the military in order that something like order
should be preserved. A stone from the street was thrown
up, which broke one or two panes of glass ; and those near
the window made a rush—some forward, some altogether
out of the house ; whilst about twenty of those in the body
of the hall snatched up sticks, about four inches in diame-
ter, and six or seven feet long, crying out to their friends
to clear the platform, and following up their preaching by
tramping their way over the shoulders of those who stood
just below the platform ; and when they ascended thereto,
nothing could exceed the alarming aspect which was then
presented in the face of the meeting. The sticks went
bang over the heads of several, till they were caught and
broken ; and then many parties got into grips, pulling and
dragging each other about in fearful confusion. The mob
shouted to have the platform and room cleared ; and the
scene that ensued for fully ten minutes was really start-
ling. Many made towards the door ; others ran down the
steps on the left of the platform, leading towards the
floor ; while those who remained on the platform were all
pushing to and fro, in the greatest excitement. Mr.
Meagher, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. O'Brien were surrounded by
the clamourists ; but they refused to move from where
they stood, and Mr. Meagher, at the top of his voice, ex-
claimed that he would not be removed, unless he were
made a corpse. At this stage of the proceedings, some
eight or ten of the police forced their way up the room,
and thence to the platform, where they secured a number
of those who appeared to be the ring-leaders in the scuffle.
In the melee, several were precipitated down the steps ;
and, for fully ten minutes, the greatest disorder prevailed,
nearly every one shouting, at the top of his voice, either
pro or con. The noise had somewhat subsided, when
some ofthose who had been put out of the room flung up
stones from the outside, and again broke some of the
windows.

A ROMAN CATHOLIC DIGNITARY.—It would seem not
to be enough that the Irish people be coerced ;—if there
is to be peace in Ireland the priests must be restrained.
How can we expect that the life of a landlord will be re-
spected while a person who calls himself an Archdeacon
indulges in language like the following :—" The Ven.
Archdeacon Laffan came forward amid loud cheers to
second the resolution. In doing so, he said he rose with
a feeling of deep sensation. He looked around him and
he saw an assemblage of his brother Tipperary men—the
good and the noble-hearted, though perhaps exciteable
Tipperary men,—(cheers)—who were called by the Eng-
lishmen murderers. (Groans.) The Saxon scoundrel,
with his belly full of Irish meat, could very well afford to
call his poor, honest, starvinc, fellow-countrymen savage
'went John
the 'I

Bull suffered one-fifth of the privations to wine.
perary men were subject, if he had courage enough he
would stand upon one side and shoot the first man he
would meet with a decent coat upon his back. (Cheers.)
Hut the Saxon had not ennraee to do anvthinz like a man

—he growls out like a hungry tiger. (Hear, near, anti
loud laughter.) What was it that made Tipperary so
often a scene of blood ? The cause was evident to all
men's eyes—landlordism was the deamon that blasted
what was meant for happiness—that landlordiEw, which,
without mercy, would level the hovels of the poor man—
which had sent the bone and sinew of the land to fertilise
and enrich the forests and prairies of America—which had
sent the poor man to starve in the workhouse, or to die
by the road-side beneath the canopy of heaven, and under
the rain which God had sent to fertiliise the earth." This
language was uttered at a "Tenant Right" meeting at
Cashel on Sunday : on that very evening a gentleman
was shot dead near Roscrea. And can any one wonder ?