The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

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TAPPING A STATUE.—The statue of George ll.;at
Cork.,`Avas 'tapped last week, the leaden horse having
'become completely full of water, and top-heavy. ..We,
have heard the result of the operation..
el Walsh, steward to-Mr. C. 0 cellagNlV",
of Balls pa nch, county Clare, was shot dead by an assas-
sin from behind a wall, on Saturday week, in broad day-
light, in the high road, leading from Scariff to Tuila.
The library of the Dublin University contains a rare and 11
valuable manuscript, the gospels of St. Patrick, in the old
Irish tongue, which was presented to the university by the
late Professor M'Cullagh, who purchased it for 300 gui-
neas, and thus forestalled the British Museum, for which
it was intended. _

On Tuesday, an alarming assemblage of 2,000 men be-
sieged the workhouse of the Kanturk union, and would
have forced the gates but for the intervention of a
tary force. The Cork Examiner notices a strange fact in
connection with the riot, that " more powder was pur-
chased by those out-door relief folk on that day than was
sold in the previous year in the town of Kanturk.
DISTRESS IN IttELANn.—ln reply to an address of the
Roman Catholic bishops, to Lord Clarendon, his Excel-
lency thus concedes a proposition which has excited a good
deal of argument pro and con :—"I am painfully alive to
the fact, that in many districts there exists dreadful
misery, which no amount of local taxation can relieve;
and there the sacred and paramount duty of government
—the preservation of human life—will be performed."
An Irish jury, in the Queen's County, a few days since,
acquitted a man tried for robbing his employer of, £l2 in
the face of the most conclusive evidence, and notwith-
standing that the prisoner made no defence. It has
transpired that one of the jury considered that as the
prosecutor was reputed to be a wealthy man, he could
well afford to lose a few pounds ! Such is the security of
property in this unhappy country.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday,
Captain Greene, ALP. for Kilkenny, was in the chair.
The principal topic of discussion was the landlord and
tenant law, to which were attributed the outrages and
bloodshed which disgrace and distract the country. A
touching letter was read from a Roman Catholic chaplain
of the g ,o 1 of Tipperary, detailing the statements of an
unhappy convict on this subject. The rent of the week
was £37.

DREADFUL CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.—In the neigh-
bourhood of Omagh, a melancholy ease of hydrophobia
occurred last week. About six weeks ago, a man named
Gormley was bitten by a rabid cat; but he paid no
attention to the matter, and pursued his business as
usual until Tuesday week, when the dreadful malady
appeared, and progressed to Friday, on which day
he died in a raging paroxysm of madness.—Armagh
Guardian.

Faction fighting has set in. There was a furious battle
at Bannagher, in which the opponents were King's County
and Conuaught 'men. They fought with desperation, and
among the wounded was one whose right hand, from the
wrist downwards, was cut off with a sword blow. The
women, as usual on such occasions, appeared in large
numbers, armed with the usual weapon,—a stocking with
a lump of brown stone in the heel. The military appeared,
and dispersed the rioters.
CONVERTS FROM POPERIr.—A very interesting cere-
mony took place on Sunday last in the parish church of
Castlewellan. Two persons made a solemn renunciation
of the errors of Popery before the Rev. Mr. Thomas, and
in the presence of the entire congregation. Their decla-
rations were in the usual form. Our correspondent states
that there are others who will soon take the same way of
declaring the errors of the church in which they have
been educated.—Newry
The nan.e of Major Mahon, who was shot dead last
week, was put at the top of a list of absentees, in the
Dublin Freeman's Journal, as an absentee landlord, four
days before the unfortunate gentleman was shot. The
second day after his murder the following palliation—as
false as it is cruel—of the diabolical deed was offered
by the same paper :—" The people were said to he dis-
pleased with him for two reasons. The first was his re-
fusal to cow inue the conacre system, and the second was
the clearing away what he deemed the surplus population."
ANOTHER MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—The widow Der-
mody has been brutally murdered by some person or per-
sons unknown. She had a small farm of a few acres on
the property of Mr. Fogarty, near Borrisolegh, county of
Tipperary, on the Ballinlouty road, which enabled her to
live comfortably. She had been married twice, and had
emigrated to America with her second husband ; but not
succeeding there, had returned and occupied the farm till
his death. Since then she has lived quietly and respecta-
bly, but she was about getting married a third time : and
it is supposed that she had been murdered in order to pre-
vent the farm, and whatever other property she enjoyed,
going to a stranger.—Dublin paper.
A special meeting of the Repeal Association was held
on Thursday, "to address his Holiness the Pope." The
marrow of the address consists in an appeal to the Pope
in his " capacity as spiritual father of the faithful in every
clime," to interfere in " the temporal and political sub-
ject" (we copy the words of the address) of the repeal of.
the union. Just so; the greater includes the lesser; spi-
ritual supremacy consequently is held by Romanist,: to
include temporal supremacy also, and therefore his holi-
ness's " faithful spiritual subjects of Ireland" implore
him to step in and settle the " temporal and political"
question of the legislative union. Whether his holiness
will exert his authority in this matter remains to be seen.
IRISH STATISTICS.—In the parish of Aughrim, says
Mr:King, a Roman Catholic clergyman, there perished,
from want and disease, 610 persons, and 107 emigrated ;
yet there remains a population of 2,500, out of a sum of
2,127, which the census of 1841 shows to be the gross
total of the inhabitants of that classic locality. In Augh-
rim, famine and pestilence were remarkably reproductive
in their character, under the management of Father King.
In Athleague, however, matters took a different turn; ac-
cording to the report of the Rev. B. Hestor, P.P. There,
out of a population, per census, of 5,017, " there (lied (says
Mr. Hester) about 200, and there remain only 3,000."
Captain Pobadil could not have more effectually "killed.
by computation" than does the parish priest of Ath-
league.—Dublin Mail.
EARL FITZWILLIAM AND THE CONDITION OF IRE-
LAND.—The Noble Lord of Wentworth has made the
occasion of writing to the Rev. John Sargeant; Rector of
Stanwick, the pretext for emitting a long letter to the
public, in justification of his remarks made in Sheffield,
about two months ago. His lordship, it will be recol-
lected, surprised his fellow-guests at the Cutlers'-hall,
not a little, by the broad assertion that after all that had
been done, England was greatly the debtor of Ireland,
and that much more money ought to be spent out of the
Imperial Treasury for the benefit of the Sister Kingdom.
In the letter before us be thus puts the case :—" England
is the landlord of Ireland, the Irish are the tenants.
When Stanwick field was enclosed, who made the outlay ?
The landlords, or the tenants ? The landlords to be sure ;
and if not, Stanwick and Higham would be still open fields.
So it is here, and so it will be with Ireland ; if our states-
men expect that Ireland can be improved by Irish means
alone, they will be grievously disappointed." This is a
most Irish illustration—all on one side. Earl Fitzwilliam
appears to lay all the responsibility upon the landlords.
We wish he had told ns what would have been the condi-
tion of things at Stanwick and Higham, if Irish cupidity
on the one hand, had taken almost every potato for the
rent, and Irish indolence and improvidence on file other,
had never done more than just meet the current demands
of the landlord, the district alluded to might not have
" still been open fields," but it might have been some-
thing worse—the grave of hopeless labour.—Sheffield
Mercury.
IRISH COUNCIL.—The Irish Council met on Thursday.
The members of the National Council were nearly all pre-
sent, and, in addition to them, Lord Cloncurry, Lord
Milton. Sir Lucius O'Brien, and a few others. Sir Col-
man O'Brien read the report of the Irish Council to the
peers, &c. It recommends that, in addition to a poor-
rate, there should be, for the same purpose, an income
and a property-tax. A sub-report was also read relative
to the tenant right. Major Blackhull moved a resolution
to the effect, that they were perfectly justified in calling
on government for further assistance. The Irish mem-
bers had been accused of not acting in concert ; that they
were disunited ; and that, in fact, whatever other parties
might exist, there was no such thing as an Irish party
(cheering.) They would see if the ministry would bring
forward measures for the relief of Ireland ; and if they
(the ministry) would not, the Irish members would take
the business out of their hands, and propose such mea-
sures themselves as might be deemed advisable (cheering).
—Mr. Fagan seconded the motion.—Mr. Smith proposed
the second resolution, and, in doing so, dwelt on the in-
justice of throwing the entire burden of suppotting the
poor on the agricultural interest. It was impossible, he
contended, to carry on the system of out-door relief under
the existing law.—Mr. John O'Connell seconded the reso-
lution.—A animated discussion then took place as to
whether it would be advisable to adopt the latter portion
of the second resolution, wnich recommended the imposi-
tion of an income-tax. Several amendments were pro-
posed, but eventually, on a division, the original motion
was carried.
DREADFUL MURDER.—On Monday, as Major Mahon,
the proprietor of large property in Roscommon was re-
turning home, he was shot dead in his carriage by an
assassin. He had lately ;succeeded to a property so over-
peopled, that, if left unaided, the population must have
starved. He,therefore, laid out £6,000 last year in assisting
a large number to emigrate ; many more inclined to be so
favoured, but in one year nothing more could be done.
On Tuesday, he had driven into Strokestown, and called
at his agent's office, to lay out plans for the employment
of men upon a large scale. He proceeded to Roscommon,
where, for want of funds, the poorhouse was in danger
of being closed, and his wish was to keep open every-
thing that could benefit the poor. Returning from this
charitable duty, he was marked by two assassins, who
fired at him at a little after six o'clock in the evening, at
about four miles from Strokesto wn. One piece missed
, fire, but the other took effect, lodging a heavily loaded
discharge in the breast; the victim exclaimed—' 0 God,'
and spoke no more. The unfortunate gentleman was of
high family, and connected by intermarriages with the
Duke of Wellington ; he succeeded about three years
ago to an estate of £lO,OOO or £12,000 a year, which had
belonged to Lord Hartland, a lunatic. As the property
was under the tender care of the Irish Court of Chancery,
it had been very badly managed, with an immense pauper
population, and it is said £30,000 arrear of rent. The
manager had for some time been threatened. The tenants
refused either to pay the rent, to till the land, or to give
it up. It was the plain duty of a proprietor to check a
state of things fraught with misery and death to the still
increasing, still impoverished mass.
DREADFUL. ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Thursday
Mr. D. Fitzpatrick, tailor, proceeded to the house of Dr.
Baldwin, whose son was indebted to him for clothes.
Repeated application had been made for the amount, and
at length legal proceedings were taken ; and, on the above
day, the writ was attempted to be served. On reaching
the house, Mr. Fitzpatrick was told that the young gen-
tleman could not be seen—he was shooting. The writ,
however, was served on one of the servants, and Mr. F.
left and was returning to Maeroom. In a few minutes
after he had left the residence, a shot was tired from it.