The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE GBAND JURY of Mayo have found true bills for
manslaughter against the owner, the captain, and the se-
cond mate of the ship California, which foundered off the
coast of Achill, in October last, when seventeen lives were
lost.

LIFE ASSITRANCE.-At the Waterford assizes, an action
brought by Henry Page Barron, son of the late Sir Henry
Winston Barron, against the West of England Insurance
Company, for the sum of £3,500, the amount of a policy
of insurance, effected on the plaintiff's mother, resulted in
a verdict for the defendants, as it appeared that the de-
ceased was affected with a cancer previous to the insurance
being made.

THE BATESON MlTEDE3l.—Justice has at length over-
taken three of the persons implicated in the barbarous
murder of Mr. Thomas Douglas Bateson, which took place
so far back as December, 1851. Three men were put upon
their trial at Monaghan, on Monday, the Attorney-Gene-
ral conducting the prosecution in person ; but it was not
until early on Thursday morning that the case finally
closed.. The jury, who had been locked up from the pre-
vious night, banded doWn a verdict of guilty against Neal
Quin and Bryan Grant for the murder,and against Patrick
Coomey for counselling and inciting them to commit it.
The prisoners were then removed.
TIIN WAR IN TILE EAST.—The Hon. Captain Maxwell,
one of the representatives for Cavan, has issued au address
to his constituents, informing them that he has been
ordered to join his regiment (the 59th), now under orders
for war service in the East. The hon. and gallant mem-
ber trusts that his necessary absence from his parlia-
mentary duties may not be of any lengthened duration,
but in the meantime he has " paired" for the remainder
of the session with an ' officer who is placed in precisely
similar circumstances with himself.
EXTENSIVE PITECIIA.SE OF Coati.—The Cork Exa-
miner contains the following account of an extensive
purchase of corn in that city :—" We understand that on
the receipt of information of a private and exclusive cha-
racter, addressed to the representative of a Greek house
in Cork, the gentleman connected with that firm pur-
chased in this city, on Saturday evening, corn amounting
to the value of £30,000. The purchases made by the
gentleman referred-to included 1,000 tons of Indian corn
at £l2 to £l3 per ton, cash, less one per cent.; and 5,006
barrels of Ghirka and Marianople wheat, at 435. to 465.
per barrel, cash. At an auction of wheat held this day,
1,000 barrels of Taganrog Ghirka were sold at 435. 91 to
445. per barrel."
THE QUEEN'S COLLEGES IN IRELAND.—It is announced
that - through the influence of Lord Clarendon, Her
Majesty's Foreign Secretary, who is also the Chancellor
of the Queen's University, a communication has been
made to the president of the Belfast College, to recom-
mend some young gentlemen, of proved aptitude for the
acquisition of foreign languages, who are or have been
students in the college, for appointments to public offices
under the government at Hongkong. The salary which
will be allotted to those who may be successful is £2OO
a-year, to commence on their arrival in China, their
passage being provided at the public expense. Their
advancement in the public employment in China will
depend entirely on the ability and steadiness which they-
may manifest in conducting the affairs which may be
committed to their charge.
THE INCOME-TAX CO3IMISSIONERS "ON CIRCUIT."—
The Cork Constitution gives the following graphic sketch
of the proceedings of a courtheld to hear appeals of parties
in that city who had been, as they alleged, surcharged for
income-tax :—ln the several cases which came before
them the commissioners proved themselves conversant
with the profits and expenses of the different trades and
occupations, and showed that they were fully instructed
as to the amount and sources of income enjoyed by the
appellants. As each applicant left the room he was met
by his fellow-objector, at the door with inquiries as to how
far he had succeeded, hoping thereby to anticipate the re-
sult in their own cases, but the shrugs and nods given in
reply announced that they might all as well have remained
at home. In the majority of the cases the appellants de-
clared ignorance of their financial affairs, never having
kept account-books, and as they grounded their objections
upon ` guess,' the commissioners took the liberty of 'gues-
sing' also, and referred the parties for relief to an open
court inquiry before the assistant barrister, which they did
not seem disposed to avail themselves of. Some of the
applicants have been surcharged in eight times the amount
they returned; others in six, five, four, and three times.
Many of them persons in considerable trade in this city,
returned their incomes at £lOO, £l5O, and '£2oo a-year,
leaving themselves thereby open to suspicion, which has
in no few cases resulted in their being excessively sur-
charged."