The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

IRELAND

The Ballinasloe Star contains several instances of the
re-appearance of .the potato blight in the forthcoming
crops.

It is a remarkable fact, from which each will draw his
own inference, that there are not less than fifteen thousand
puncheons of whiskey at present stored in Dublin.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday,
the rent for the week was announced to be £l7 14s. 2d.,
of which £ll was forwarded from Liverpool.

The Queen Dowager has sent £2O to the remote and
retired district of Headford, in the county of Galway,
where there has existed a lace factory for more than two
centuries. The remittance was accompanied with an or-
der for lace to that amount.

THE BANK PARCEL ROBBERY.—The parcel containing
£1,500 sent from the Nenagh branch of the Tipperary
bank to Limerick, was found in a stable of the Limerick
coach-office. The boy who was taken up on suspicion
confessed to the robbery, and pointed out the spot where
the booty was hid.

STOCK OF CORN IN DUBLIN.—So unusually large is the
stock of corn at present in the Custom-house stores in
Dublin that no room exists for a further supply, nor can
there be any more warehoused there until a new loft in
one of the large stores, which is at present being erected,
shall have been completed.
Two cases of blunderbuses arrived in Clonmel from
Bristol on the Bth inst. The proprietor said the price of
the blunderbuses was two shillings and sixpence each,
and guns and pistols cheaper. These arms, he said, were
obtained from the pawnbrokers and Jews' hops in Lon-
don, where they are lying useless, the owners being glad
to get rid of them at any price.
The barque Champlain, so long known as a regular
trader to Cork, was totally wrecked on the night of the
Ist of January last, at the entrance of the harbour of Li-
verpool, Nova Scotia, and has since been condemned, and
the hull materials sold. • She latterly belonged to, Mr.
George Lawrence, of Cork, who, we are glad to learn, was
insured. The master and crew were all saved.

MURDER NEAR CHARLEVILLE.—The house of a man
named Fox, situated in Coolsmuttane, parish of Shan-
drum, within about three miles of Charleville, in Cork,
was attacked and broken into on Saturday night, and the
occupier Fox, who it is supposed resisted the entry of the
miscreants, was shot dead. The motives which could
have influenced them in their fatal attack have not trans-

pired .
Mr. Monahan, the Irish Solicitor-General has been re-
turned for Galway, by a majority of 4 over the repeal can-
didate. The numbers for Mr. Monahan 510 ; and for
Mr. O'Flaherty 506. It is said that much bribery was
resorted to. Some imprudent person caused the Cathe-
dral bell to be rung, and the consequence was a riot. The
mob collected round the Cathedral and demolished all the
windows at the west side, and the houses of several of
Mr. Monahan's supporters were injured.
The Marquis of Waterford has dire!ted the purchase of
Indian corn to the amount of £4,000, to be retailed at
prime cost, and a portion to be distributed gratuitously
where destitution prevails. The Marchioness of Water-
ford, independently of establishing a soup kitchen and a
clothing institution, has subscribed £l6O to the Portkiw
Poor Relief Fund. The Marquis established a soup
kitchen at Curraghmore, which has been open during the
winter, and one at Kilmacthomas.

- OPERATION OF THE PUBLIC WORKS SYSTEM.—The
Meath Herald publishes the subjoined extract of a letter
received by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Kells :
" I think it but right to inform you of two persons who
have been put on the public works in the barony of
Skryne by the relief committee. . One of them is the son
of a widow who died in May last. He sold, since then,
two cows for 24 guineas, three pigs for £l5, two yearlings
£l2, one cow £6, one calf £3, making a sum altogether
amounting to £6O. The other man was in the employ-
ment of a gentleman since May. He left his place about
three weeks since, because he could not get a 13etter din-
ner on a Sunday than a leg of roast pork, or bacon, and
6d. per day." With such practices of daily occurrence,
it can scarcely be wondered that spring work on farms
should be wholly neglected.

LOVE AND CONSPIRACY.—A very curious case of love
and conspiracy came before the Bantry petty sessions on
Thursday week. Mr. Cornelius O'Donovan, a young
gentleman residing at Bantry, received no less than forty
love letters, purporting to be from Miss Catharine O'Sul-
livan • but, when matters had become ripe for marriage,
they 1111 proved to be forgeries, Miss O'Sullivan knowing
nothing of the matter. These letters were brought to him
by a beggar named Connelly, answers being duly returned
by him through the same source. On one occasion he
received a present of a watch, a scarf, and a ring, all of
inferior value. He went twice, by appointment, to Cork,
but the lady of his hopes never came. Connelly, on the
second occasion, was with him, and was well fed by Mr.
O'Donovan, in addition to the receipt of several presents.
Evidence was called to show that the letters had been
written by a Miss Nano O'Sullivan, who, it was consi-
dered, designed to marry Mr. O'Donovan by personating
the former lady. Informations were granted both against

the county assizes.
HORRIBLE MURDERS IN IRELAND.—On the night of
the 11th instant, about four miles west of Louisburg
( Mayo), a wretch, named James Gibbons, after robbing
a house in which lived two sisters, named Mary and
Honor Gibbons, but one of whom (Mary) was absent, set
fire to the premises, and the unfortunate inmate, Honor,
was burnt to death. The murderer was a brother of the
deceased, and some of the property was found hid in his
house ! He was committed for trial for wilful murder.—
On Saturday week, a farmer named Kelly, reported to be
wealthy, and living at Cranah (Carlow), was murdered by
a man named Helehan, who afterwards ransacked the
house for money, and then stripped the dead body. He
made his escape. A verdict of wilful murder was record-
ed against the same county, on Friday se'n-
night, a bailiff, named Hynes, while in the execution of
his duty, by a seizure for rent in the house of a man named
Brennan, was struck by the latter in the eye with a pitch-
fork, which penetrated the brain and produced death.
The murderer absconded, and a verdict of wilful murder

was returned against him.
IRISH OUTRAGES.—Returns of the number and de-
scription of outrages specially reported by the constabu-
lary throughout Ireland; in each of the years 1845 and
1846, have been laid before Parliament. It appears that
the total number (in class 1) of offences against the per-
son amounted in 1846 to 1,923, against 1,639 in 1855, thus
exhibiting a large increase in the number of outrages.
The list of crimes thus committed in Ireland during the
past year contains 176 cases of homicide, 158 cases of fir-
ing at the person, 6 of conspiracy to murder, 1 of poison-

i (drape, 49 of assault with intent, &c., 100 of in-
Le, 18 of abducting, 83 of assaults on the police, 604

assaults endangering life,

28 of assaults with intent to rob,

g and maiming,

of common assau

cealing births of children, and one of unnatural crime.
In 1846 there were 4,766 cases of offences against the
public peace, including 465 incendiary fires, 611 robberies
of arms, 232 administrations of illegal oaths, 1,783
threatening letters, 536 attacks of houses, 449 injuries of
property, and 167 cases of firing into dwelhng-holirs.
.1n
class 3, " Offences against property," the alarming inn
class
stealing, from
73
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afenoopfdulunclntideesriinngwphrioevih provisions.
534 robberies, 287 cases
crease 3
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exhibited,highway
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cases
casesTs 4hes sseo,
TolfBh4ne6ag:eaningieainranglscattoBtt:allelo4, is 12,380 cases of crime and offence in
appears to have been the most rife are those of Tinn^-
Cork, T Clare

_., Roscommon, and Leitrim, whigi
ehose most free from the stigma are Antrim, London-
derry, Louth, Kildare, and Carlow.

in the county of Limerick, got acquainted with a Miss
Honora Macmahon, who is said to have £2OOO fortune,
while she was on a visit with her maternal uncle, Mr.
Larkin, a wealthy shopkeeper in the town in which she
was stationed. 'the attachment having reached the ears
of the family, the father forbid the acquaintance, and " to
hand
de
oafssuiriasnscme daocniubiyonsu, rwea,'s'
,ibalaedtao
marriage
kriatghee
determined upon. The wedding clothes were bought—
ina-trloadduecleig
the marriage settlements completed, and the day named.
But, as the old adage goes, there's many a slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip," so it was with respect to the Mac-
mahon family, for the night before the appointed day, the
sly policeman rescued the bride-elect from the custody of
her watchful uncle, and before the discovery of her elope-
ment, she waa on the road tO her intended, people-in-law
at Rathcormac. , When the morning came, Newcastle
was in a ferment. A warrant having been obtained from
a magistrate for her arrest upon a charge of felony, the
family of the Macmahons was up in arms, and the
Country around was searched'' for the delinquent, and a
reward of £lO was offered through the Limerick Chronicle
for her apprehension. Within two days Webb returned
to his station, to avoid coming under the charge of deser-
tion and resigned his office as policeman ; but so great
was the indignation of the family and the friends of the
Macmahons that he had to be escorted out of the town.
Perceiving he was " set," with the instinct of a policeman,
he made a circuit to arrive at the place of appointment,
and, eluding his pursuers, arrived in Cork on Sunday
night. Here he met his "intended," and on Monday
they went to get married, but were recognised by an old
soldier of the local companies, who gave them into cus-
tody. They were immediately taken before the presiding
magistrate, who discharged Webb, but remanded the '
lady. However, on Tuesday, Webb having engaged the
services of Mr. J. -J. O'Brien, he showed the bench that

she was not criminally chargeable, and she Was•conse-
• fluently discharged. This was a fortunate release, for
that day, being Shrove Tuesday, they were enabled with-
out much delay to be joined in Wedlock by a priest. On
Wednesday, the father and uncle of the young wife
arrived in this city, but they found they were a day' too
late, the happy eonple having started the same morning
to enjoy the scenery of the Lakes of Killarney.—Cork
Constitution.