The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

touring fame

comma tea tor trial. some money was taken by tne
murderer from a box in the room in which the unfortu-
nate boy was murdered.—Dublin Freeman.
EMIGRATION.—Upon one estate in the colliery district,

in the county Kilkenny, 400 families are preparing to de-
part in the present month, and purpose forming a colony

the county of Tipperary, we have been informed that one
landlord is purchasing, at £3 to £lO per acre, the hold-
ings of his tenants, who occupy under 20 acres, his object
being to obtain possession of his property, and save it
from being pauperised ; after which he will form hundred
acre farms, to be let to tenants of capital, who will be able

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to cultivate the land properly, and make an independent
livelihood.—Leitister Express.
The news from Dublin brings some harrowing account s
from Sligo, Cork, Kerry, Leitrim, Longford, and other
counties. The deaths from starvation are increasing to a
most frightful extent, and fever and dysentery are spread-
ing in all directions. There are some gratifying evidences
of exertion on the part of landlords to secure the sowing
of the spring crops, and upon estates in Chancery advan-
ces have been ordered by the Master of the Rolls, for
the purchase of seed corn, in some cases, where the par-
ties having the management of the properties made the
necessary applications. Altogether the accounts as re-
gards the preparation for the next harvest are much less
discouraging; but still there are large tracts in almost
every county totally waste and neglected, and apparently
there is no likelihood that they will be cropped.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN CORK.—A man named Do-

ran, leaving a widow and three children. The poor widow
had in a box a small piece of bread, and not more than
half-a-stone of flour for them. On Thursday the mother
and eldest child left the house, and the two other children

in charge of it ; one seven, the other four years, old. She
went to seek a basket of turf, and the child took a vessel
to bring home soup. In their absence some person came

200 men are at work), and not Only took the small piece
of bread and trifle of flour he found there, but, horrid to

relate, (probably being known to the children; and fear-
ing they might, denounce him,) he not only cut their
throats, but nearly severed their heads from their bodies.
RuruAL- Asso A•rtoN .—At the weekly meeting of this
body on Monday, a letter from Mr. J. O'Connell was
read :—lt announced his father's departure for Hastings,
and that his father would address the Association by letter

J. A. O'Neill as the Repeal candidate for Galway at the
next general election. The writer dilated on Lord J.
Russell's proposed amendments in the Irish Poor Law

and on that respecting (he ex officio guardians as " delu-
sive and insulting." Mr. Steele expressed his measure-

less indignation and execration of amendments !as
they are called, of the Poor Law, by Lord J. Russell, as
calculated (independently of their disastrous influence on
the elective franchise) to re-infuse the baleful and ac-
cursed spirit of the penal code into the political system
of Ireland ; as a very appropriate companion to the
famine and slaughter-house mortality of our afflicted peo-
ple. They are mighty fine amendments ! forsooth ; they

remind me of the bill sent into a gentleman by an Irish
farrier, " for curing your honour's horse till he died,
sixteen shillings." (Great laughter and cheering.) The
rent for the week was announced to be £lB lls. sd.
ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY.—In passing through the
country from Cork to Dublin, the prospect is melancholy
and depressing. In the counties of Cork, Tipperary, and,

Kilkenny, the fields are desou,
farming or agriculture. The only appearance of activity
or employment is where the labourers are engaged in
large numbers on the roads, which are in many cases in a
dangerous state. The dead carcases of donkies and horses
met at intervals along the road, and the wan and sickly
appearance of the ill-clad and wretched multitudes who
, throng the towns and villages, and congregate about the
f coach to shriek their miseries into the ears of the passen-

gers, too plainly testify of extreme want and suffering.
There are not wanting, however, evidences of isolated and
energetic attempts on the part of benevolent individuals

Of Desert has

numbers of the farming population employed on his estate,

under the directions of ins stewaru, principally La ...w-
-ing, which his lordship is executing on a large scale. At
Abbeyleix, Queen's county, the residence of lord De
Vesci, not a beggar is to be seen in the streets, and the
people appear comfortable and industrious. Many other
resident landlords are following these examples. In Car-
low, Queen's county, and Kildare, preparations for the
harvest appear to be generally in operation—the plough is
to be seen at work in various directions, and hundreds of
nACI

labourers, who hac
engag
kinds

~.en at wor

Ling operations of varion

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_ Towards the south of Ireland the suffering from
famine and sickness, and the physical and moral prostra-
tion of the people's energies, appear to increase in degree
and intensity.—Cork Constitution.

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.

e commission for these
Lrday, before Mr. Baron

lvertising column

Tlie following is a

summary of the number of prisoners for trial : Rape, 4;
cutting and wounding, 5; mint cases, 7 ; manslaughter,
5 ; felony, 4; assault and robbery, 6 ; forgery, 5; dama-
.4,-,.. nwmr,tv 9 mnkinc, n false declaration. 3; burglary,

quitung a warn, uca..lcuawv.•9 .+,
housebreaking. 2 ; horse stalini....l;

akin into a war

Louse, 3; arson,

a charge against a man for poisoning his Witco z ; tom', io.
LOCAL COUILTS.-The Observer says the following are
the appointments of treasurers of local courts, under the
Small Debts Act, in the northern district :—Anthony
Lambert, Esq., Alnwich, Northumberland ; Robert Ben-
dle, Esq., of Carlisle ; John Atkinson Bushfield, Esq., of
Bradford ; John Peele Clapham, Esq., of Burley, near
Otley; George Croft, Esq., of Richmond ; George Park,
Esq., of Liverpool, John Trcver, Esq., of Chester.
Vicepa risho f
Chancellor's StSepchoeunt:l4,
The dispute between Mr. Alderman Gibbs and the
onW Taltburrosodka,y.was
Hisd Heciodneodr
that the parish was indebted to Mr. Gibbs in tl
of £5OO, instead of Mr. Gibbs owing the pari i
statedthe
sum as claimed. The money, however, has bees

ie amount
h a large

in such a manner that the parish could not be compelled
to pay. The Court also censured Mr. Gibbs for not having
furnished his accounts for 20 years, and mulcted him in
.he costs of suit.
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'EPOSITS IN SAVINGS' BANKS.
going the round of the papers which was copied into tit.
STANDARD lately, to the effect that one of the Barons of
the Exchequer had given it as his opinion that the statute
of limitations would disqualify, depositors from recovering
their money if it were allowed to remain in the bank un-
disturbed for six years ; this statement has, we understand,
created some alarm autongst those who have wisely beer
in the habit of placing. th.ir •

heir spare eanux

e are now enabledentirely to set at
of a letter from the Registrar of
been addressed by Mr. Tidd
' Bank throughout

of the Saving.

rom this document it is plain tb
ly and entirely es

latute of limitations, and that