The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There has been an increase 'of at lealt £20,000 excise
revenue in Limerick, upon the consumption of spirits
alone in the past year.
The ship Jane, of Limerick, has been lost in the Bay
:of Biscay. Mr. Taylor, a merchant of Kerry, and several
of the crew, were droWned.'
`The King of Hanover has transmitted for the relief of
distress in Ireland, £lOOO, as a contribution of the Duke
of Cumberland and the Chancellor of the University of
Dublin.

A gentleman acting as secretary to a relief committee in
Dublin, committed suicide on Sunday se'nnight. He was
of a very benevolent disposition, and declared he could
not endure the harrowing misery he witnessed.
PURCHASE OF ARMS.—A gentleman (says the Limerick
Chronicle) returning from Tipperary to this city, on
Saturday, counted in the hands of peasants returning
from the market, 146 stand of fire-arms, supposed to be
purchased in this city on that day alone.
STAMVATION.—One of the male paupers admitted into
the Tralee Workhouse on Tuesday, died next day, being
unable to eat from intense exhaustion. On the post mor-
tem examination, not a trace of food could be found in his
stomach.

INDIANMEAL.—An American gentleman named Cherri,
who arrived at Cork on Sunday, offered to supply Indian
meal .to any. amount, required to be delivered within three
months, wind and weather permitting, at £l2 per ton.
He offered the house of Barings, of London, as security
for the fulfilment of his contract.
At an inquest held at Galway, on a person who had died
from want, the jury found a verdict of wilful murder
against Lord John Russell and Sir Randolph Routh !
but the coroner refused to receive so preposterous a find-
ing. They were finally obliged to content themselves
with the verdict that " deceased died from want and the
inclemency of the weather."

HORRIBLE CRIMES.—The Tipperary Constitution states
that, on Sunday night week, four ruffians in disguise, and
armed, entered the house of Michael Mullally, at James-
town, and found in it J. Mußally, aged 80, his nephew
Michael, aged 60, and two women. They lighted candles,
and demanded money. They beat the poor inmates, tor-
tured the women by attempting to hang and burn them
to death, with a view to extort money. All the property
the wretches obtained was but Is. 6d. in money, and some
articles of trifling value. They have not yet been appre-
hended, and will probably, from the difficulty of identifi-
cation, escape punishment.
BARBAROUS MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—On yesterday
morning week, within a short distance of Nenagh, John
Flynn, under steward of Richard W. Gason, Esq., of
Richmond, was barbarously murdered. He was going to
his employment, with an axe in his hand, to cut away
some dumps that remained on the ground of a recent
felling of trees in the fields, when the murderer came up,
saluted him in the usual manner, and then immediately
fired the contents of a pistol into his intestines. Flynn
made a blow at the assassin, which struck and cut the
pistol, and knocked it out of the murderer's hand, who
then ran off. The wounded man was conveyed home,
gave some information, and died soon after; butno trace
of the murderer could be discovered.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—It being the leading actor's
last appearance this season, there was a tolerable muster
at Conciliation-hall on Monday. The proceedings were
distinguished by their ordinary stupidity—not as much as
one novelty to relieve the general dulness, except the mo-
dest announcement made by Mr. O'Connell that instead
of £30,000,000, he means to demand a government grant
of £50,000,000 to meet the Irish distress. Should Lord
John Russell have the temerity to demur to this reasona-
ble proposal, he (Mr. O'Connell) was prepared to assist
in putting him out, and reinstating Sir Robert Peel ; not
that he has lost his preference for the former minister,
but the £50,000,000 must be got at any sacrifice. The
week's rent went up to £127 odd shillings and pence—
famine and pestilence notwithstanding.
IRISH RELIEF JOBBING.—A correspondent of the
Times, who dates from Enniscorthy, county of Wicklow,
discloses a shameful piece of jobbing done in that locality,
in dispensing the money for the Irish Relief Works.
After stating on one road there are 100 people employed.
he adds,—" they commence work at 9 a.m„ give up for
dinner at 12 a.m., resume at 1 p.m., and are dismissed at
half-past 3 p.m., thus working but four hours and a half
in the day. The employment may be called a family af-
fair, as the hundred people do not belong to more than
thirty families, and of these many are of farmers holding
more than twenty acres of land (Irish,) equal to more
than thirty English. There is one instance of a farmer
who holds eighteen acres (Irish) of good land at 10s. an
acre. His horse is employed at 2s. 3d. a day, and led by
his wife : he is employed himself as a workman, and so
are his two sons, each at ls. 2d. a day; making in all,
for one starving family, the pretty sum of ss. 9d. per diem,
or rather more than the pay of an ensign. This is by no
means an exceptional case. Many families of labourers
are receiving 3s, and 4s. daily for four and a half hours'
work or idleness, whichever you choose to call it.' To
this expenditure you have to add the pay of innumerable
overseers, &c., who oversee, or overlook, everything."
A VOICE FROM ST. JARLATRS.—Dr. Mac Hale has
addressed another letter to the Premier, in the course of
which he attempts to show that Ireland would have been
in a much better position had she had an independent
legislature. In answer to this the Dublin Mail says :
." Now not to talk at the unseasonableness of such a pro-
position, what would be our present state had the Union
been dissolved twelve months ago, or were it to be dis-
solved on this day three weeks, under the feelings which
must naturally either lead to, or be endangered by, such
a consummation of national folly ? 'We should have our
own Parliament sitting to legislate for our wants.' But
without food, or without money of our own, how should
we be the better of their empty resolves ? Will speeches
fill the stomachs of the hungry—or votes fill our pockets
with money ? Would England, severed from a discon-
tented sister, advance us her cash or her credit ? Would
she purchase for us in the markets of the world, and pro-
vide us with shipping to convey the supplies to our shores ?
Would the whole credit, and means of the wealthiest and
most powerful nation of the earth be employed to provide
for our present necessities ; and where is the other nation
on the earth either able or willing to lend us enough, and
on such reasonable and indulgent terms ; or to be to us
what Great Britain now is, in our otherwise irremediable
calamity ? The thought is not madness—it is not folly :
it is wickedness—it is mischief; or, if not folly, it is in-
fatuation ;if madness, it wants even method.' Doctor
Mac Hale would do better for himself and his country if
he would study less to show himself off—and more to do
justice to the merits of others."
DREADFUL MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—ROBBERY OF
ARMS.—On Thursday morning last, as Mr. Edmond H.
Wayland, of Ballywalter, pay clerk for the barony of
Kilnemanagh, was proceeding through a monntaiay dis-
trict close to the boundary of Lord Hawarden's and the
late Colonel purefoy's estates, accompanied by two police-
men, for the purpose of paying the men on the public
work§, they were waylied by five or six armed ruffians,
with their faces blackened, who rushed upon them from
behind two piers, and immediately surrounded the car.
Two or three of the fellows came round to the side where
Mr. Wayland and one of the policemen were sitting; one
of them put a gun to the policenian's head, and fired,
killing him on the spot ; another of the gang put a gun
to Mr. Wayland's breast, which he pushed aside—thus
saving his life, as the gun went off without taking effect.
The policeman who was sitting at the other side accounted
for himself by stating that as he was in the act of standing
up and turning round, he was • thrown down by the
motion of the car, when he was seized by two of the
ruffians, who took his gun from him. Mr. Wayland
then, seeing that he had to fight his way alone, endea-
voured to save the money he had with him, amounting to
about £llB. Previously he had fired off his two pistols,
but could not say whether either shot had taken effect.
He then went to the car in hopes of getting the murdered
e
policeman's carabine, but it had been taken His
tchhei e
car, f o jtehcet
hnnor
sw
ewnasf
whichto sec ure
continued
thetin n
emd ot
to
gooney which
n,
on,
the was
driver
having fled. He got on the car and drove off to the next
hill, where the men were at work, and safely deposited
he money in the house of the overseer of the district.
the money in the house of the overseer of the district.
We regret to state that as yet there has been no clue to
discover the assassins.—Tipperary Constitution.