The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A meeting has been held at Calcutta to collect subscriV
tions for the relief of the distressed Irish. No less WO
23.357 rupees were at once subscribed.
IRISH IMPROVEMBNTS —On Thursday a meeting was;
held at Cove, to memorialize the Admiralty and Board 01
Works of Ireland to grant a sum of money to improve the'
harbour of Cove. _ .

The usual weekly repeal meeting was held on Monde'',
Luke Joseph O'Shea, Esq , one of the dismissed repeal
magistrates, in the chair. The several speakers who ad-
dressed the meeting levelled their denunciations against
the newly proposed Coercion Bill for Ireland. The repeal
rent for the week exzeeded £2OO.

. .
The Grand Jury of the county of Westmeath, °II
Thursday, came to a unanimous resolution, repudiatingr
in the strongest manner of which language is capable, the'
i..ifamous and atrocious falsehood put forward against tbo
magistracy and gentry—namely, that they had gone on ee
deputation to, or memorialized the Lord Lieutenant, not to'
extend the prerogatife of mercy towards Seery.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—OD Tuesday evening'
week, as a man, named George Kyle, was returning horn!
from Killifaddy, county Armagh, he was fired at, and 15'
slugs were lodged in his body. Slight hopes are enter'
tained of his recovery. The only cause assigned for the
act is, that he walked in the Orange procession in Jell
last.

CONFLICT WITH THE POLICE.—OD Tuesday night, sir
policemen fell in with a gang of Rockites, amounting
fight
fourteen or fifteen, near Kilfinnane, Limerick. A fig°:
immediately ensued, both parties using fire-arms. A`
length the Rockites were overcome, and iied, leaving
three of their number in the hands of the victors. The
three men were dreadfully wounded, and, on reaching
Kilfinnane, were attended by a surgeon. On recovefft
they were removed to the county gaol, to await their trial.
None of the police were hurt.
IRISH CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—An Irish paper, th
Warder, gives a list of 26 Rev. Gentlemen who have reel
nounced Popery in Ireland, and conformed to the Protes.
taut faith, the only ancient faith, of the Irish Church. I:
also gives a list of miscellaneous converts, and says," lt, It
from recollection that we give a list of converted priests.
the catalogue of lay converts might be prolonged ad mil'
niram ; hundreds of these might be added ; we merely give
a few names of the latter to show that both priests and'
people are shaking off the bondage of Rome."
DREADFUL MURDER.—The Derry Sentinel contains'
an account of the murder of an old man by his son 8101
daughter-in-law, in the vicinity of Ardara, county of Da
negal. Having suddenly disappeared, his neighbour.'
asked his son and daughter-in-law where he bad gone,
when they utterly denied all knowledge of him. A search
was made, and suspicion being excited, from some marks
leading to a lake in the neighbourhood, the lake vas"
dragged, and almost immediately they found the body, to
which were attached a chain and a large stone. The corpse
presented a most frightful appearance, being disfigured br
no fewer than thirteen cuts. The arms were broken, Bn.Cl
all the ribs cru.hed. The parties are in custody, and it Is
bttlieved the woman will turn approver. Religious diffe-
rences are said to have originated the murder. The old
man was a Protestant; his son had married a Catholic,
and became with her a Catholic, to the great annoyance
and grief of the father. The female on being arrested Is
reported to have exclaimed, that if she had been at home
nothing of the kind would have occurred.

THE REPEAL RENT.—There is at present a strong
feeling—increasing every day—amongst the subscribers to,
this tremendous tax that some account should be rendered'
of the manner in which the enormous fund is disposed.
The last number of the Dublin Nation, the repeal organ,
contains a very intelligent hint on the subject, and as Mr'
O'Connell, at stated seasons of the year declares that the
whole accounts in their most minute items shall be placed
before the association, many of the more honest repealerS
are asking when this is to take place. One correspondent
of the repeal papers accuses the association of criminal`
extravagance ;—another, after stating that the accounts
though often called for, and even promised, have never
yet been published, acknowledges that he has grown die-
heartened, and has ceased to contribute, and that he
knows thou ands of his countrymen who have done the
name. Since the Ist of January, 1840, to the 23rd of
February, 1846, six years and two months, there has beets,
paid into this exchequer no less a sum than one hundred
twenty-seven thousand eiyht hundred and sixty-nine
pounds, eleven shillings and sevenpence. No marvel that
some account is required of the expenditure of so large
sum.

IRISH COERCION BILL.—The following is a brief sum"
wary of the bill introduced by Lord St. Gernraiins" kir
the better protection of life, and to facilitate the apprebent;
sion and detection of persons guilty of offences in Ireland.
The granting of a power to the Lord-Lieutenant to pro-
claim a district, where murders or attempts to murder have
been committed, and to appoint an additional police force
within such district, to be maintained by a tax upon the
inhabitants—a further power to the Lord-Lieutenant to
warn all persons in proclaimed districts to remain witlne
their houses from sunset to sunrise—a prohibition against
assembling in public-houses in the night time, and against'
the possession of fire-arms without authority—and a n,w'
nisbment for the injury or intimidation of jurors or wit"
nesses, which is contained in the folio wing clause :—" Mir
person who shall, within any district proclaimed under
this act, wilfully or maliciously injure either the person or
properly of any person who has appeared, or shall Wear'
or be bound to appear, as a witness, prosecutor, or jurorr
or who shall by threats or menaces, or otherwise hoWstr
ever, deter or intimidate, or endeavour to deter or intstoP
date, any person from appearing or acting as a witness'.-
prosecutor, or juror, or from discharging his or her do,,
in that behalf, shall be dee:ned guilty of a misdemeanour.._
There is also a provision, enabling the Lord- Lieutenant‘r:
award to a person maimed, or to the representative!' tied„,
Person murdered, a reasonable compensation, to be 111 y,.
by a rate framed upon the poor-law valuation; and 00 ""
dividual, however small his rating, is to be exempted fro?
payment, nor is he entitled to deduct the amount from Ws-
rent. Offences against the act are to be misdernesnoUrS!
to be tried either at quarter ses-ions or at the assiz.s ; 1?°1'
the trial by jury is preserved, and the mode of conducting
the procedure is in no respect altered.

EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND AND THEIR EFFECT.'
The Dublin Mail, after noticing that no deputation waiter
on ate Lord Lieutenant to request the execution of
Seery. but that that subject was merely mentioned Mc!"
dental!), by a party of gentlemen who waited on hie
excellency from another part of the country, and 0
another subject, says, with reference to the usual cleroenci
being extended towards the criminal, and the effect of a°
example being thus lost, " In truth since the year before
the last departure of Lord Anglesey from these shores,
until the present month, there never has been a single
instance in which the Roman Catholic priests got uP.!
cry in favour of a convicted criminal—sustained by theft
press, and backed by their demagogues—in which they
f
have not proved that their power was superior to that 0
the law. The lower orders felt this, and the lawless so
the disaffected acted accordingly—always under the in,
pression that they were acting with impunity. Lorii,
Heytesbu;T, much to his credit, and greatly for the Pea!a
of the country, has dispelled this illusion. And what br,
been the consequence of this display of determination. w'
regards crimina!s, on the one hand, and the administratiol
of the laws, on the other ? Why, that there has 10(
been a single outrage committed in the county °
Westmeath since the day on which Seery was *le;
cuted ; and Egan, on whose case the juries, on tw,t•
former occasions, refused to agree, was yesterday foli,:
guilty of the attack on Mr. Ennis's gamekeeper
jurors composed indiscriminately of Protestants and I%°,
Ran Catholics ; they, like others, feeling that the suPret
macy of the law has been asserted, and that it is pole°,
for protection as well as for punishment. As airthe,
proof of the effect of administering the laws with vigolititi.
we may state that several of the traversers charged RI
the commission of Ribbon offences in the county of :0.
van, have absconded, leaving their bail to desuribe
reasons for their not taking their trials."