The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., a highly accomplished
youth no doubt, is to be the repeal member for Dundalk.
Mr. Sheridan Knowles, it is stated, will be appointed
to the professorship of elocution in one of the new Irish
colleges, probably Cork, of which city he is a native.
No fewer than 260 outrages, many of an alarming cha-
racter, were committed in the disturbed districts of
Limerick within the last three months.

It is said that government have sent 250,000 quarters of
Indian corn to Cork, to be distributed to the various
ports, as a preparative for the apprehended scarcity, owing
to the partial destruction of the potato crop.
At Gouran, Kilkenny, the other day, a substantial
farmer, named Miller, being jealous of his wife, beat her
with a spade handle until he thought he had killed her,
and then hung himself.
The name of the Right Rev. Dr. Crolly, the Roman
Catholic Primate, and those of all his clergy, are attached
to the requisition for free trade meetings at Belfast and
Drogheda.
Messrs. Warren and Henn, the former a sergeant-at-
law, and the latter a Queen's counsel, have been each
tendered the office of Solicitor-general for Ireland, and
each have refused the distinction.
A melancholy, and to one, fatal accident took place
last week in the neighbourhood of Cattle Blayney.. Some
men were felling trees, which in felling became entangled,
by which two of the men were struck, and one of them
killed.

The jury who tried Bryan Steery, at the -Westmeath
special commission, for shooting at Sir Francis Hopkins.
were unable to give a verdict after being locked up for
thirty-six hours. Two of the jurymen were released at
the request of a medical man, who pronounced their lives
to be in danger.
SHOCKING CASE OF INFANTICIDE.—A. few days ago,
an inquest was held on the body of a male infant, about a
week old. The body was discovered near Clerihan ; the
head was literally battered in, and the doctor deposed that
it must have been struck against some hard substance.—
Limerick Chronicle.

RELIGION D'ARGENT.—A very elaborate description
of the imposing ceremony of the consecration of Dr.
Maginn, as Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, concludes
with the following announcement :—" The proceeds of the
tickets of admission amounted to the magnificent sum of
£l3l and upwards." Money ! Money ! Money ! The-
atrical display, and " tickets of admission."
At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on
Monday, in Conciliation Hall, Mr. D. Callaghan, M.P.,
was in the chair. As the repeal members for Irish-con-
stituencies had been requested to attend, unusual int2r.kst
was excited, but several of them were unavoidably A-sent,
and it was ultimately arranged that they should assemble
at Raby's Hotel, on Friday. The rent for the week was
announced sts £367 3s. 11d.

STATE OF IRELAND.—The Limerick papers again con-
tain a frightful list of " agrarian" outrages, and from the
Clonmel Journal we learn that in the south of Tipperary
two murders have been committed. One of them was
perpetrated on a servant man, named Crotty, who was
shot through the left breast, and when discovered pre-
sented a shocking spectacle.
ABDUCTION.—On Friday night, the daughter of a
farmer residing near " the Devils Bit," was forcibly
taken away by a party of fellows, who broke into her
father's house. Her screams awoke a neighbour, who
ran out to remonstrate with the aggressors ; but they
turned out and beat him severely, and fractured his skull,
and his recovery is not expected. The noise attracted
other neighbours, upon whose appearance the marauders
fled, leaving the "abducted maiden" behind them.—
Tipperary Vindicator.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. —From an
interesting paper lately published by that excellent insti-
stitution, the Sunday School Society for Ireland, it ap-
pears that 566 schools, containing 54,585 scholars, have
received gratuitous assistance in books during the last
six months; and that 27,867 Bibles, Testaments, and
portions of Scriptures, besides 26,692 Scripture reading
hooks and spelling books containing reading lessons se-
lected from the Sacred Scriptures, have been issued
to the scholars during the same period. It is also a
striking fact that the number of Bibles sold during the
last six months exceeds, by 2748, the number dissemi-
nated during the corresponding period of the year 1814.
FIRE-ARMS.--FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday
John Sterling, a watchman, employed at Mr. Orr's bleach-
green, whilst proceeding homewards, at the above period,
overtook a man named Smiley, who was driving a horse
and cart in the same direction. The watchman put his
loaded gun into the cart, and immediately afterwards
Smiley took it up, and asked Sterling if he were going to
get it repaired, placing, at the same time, his finger on
the trigger. As the gun was cocked, it went off, and two
men, who were passing in a milk-cart, fell wounded ; one
of them named Patrick Armour, mortally, as he died
shortly afterwards; the other, John Roberts, was so
much injured, that his life is considered to be endangered.
Smiley and Sterling are in custody.—Belfast Paper.