The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

signea to, the subscribers in proportion to their subscrip-
tions. If a proprietor has not work, he may assign his
right to any person he pleases. There is a re-ballot of
labourers each week.

STATE OF IRELAND.—The following is an extract of a
letter from a clergyman in Tipperary to a friend in Oxford :
" We are retrograding fast here in Ireland ; really, I
heard an official congratulating himself that no murder
was reported for the last two days I A letter lately from
New Zealand, detailing some atrocities there, contained
the writers consolatory reflection, that, bad as things were
they might be worse. He explained, " but New Zealand
is not Ireland !" Think of having that said of us, and
what is worse, deserving it. I see that an orator of Con-
ciliation Hall declares that there is not a more pions,
learned, and amiable priest in Ireland than Archdeacon
Laffan ! This is, indeed, but a sorry character of the
whole, given by one of their own people, who ought to
know."

A SERIOUS CHARGE.—In the House of Lords on Mon-
day, Lord Farnham alluded to a denunciation of Major
Mahon by a Roman Catholic Priest, the Rev. Michael
M‘Dermot. His lordship said that the expressions used
by Priest M`Dermot in denouncing Major Mahon from the
alter, on the 31st of October, were :—" Major Mahon is
worse than Cromwell, and yet he lives." A respectable
person coming out of chapel, remarked, " If the major
lives a month after this, he is immortal." And on the
14th of November ult., the same priest (Rev. Michael
M`Dermot) stated from the alter, " That' there was a Pro-
testant conspiracy against his life, and made palpable
allusions to two persons in the town of Strokestown as
heading the same." The language used by the priest was
of the most violent description ; and he left it to their
lordships to say whether it was not of such a character as
to demand punisi.ment by the law." The rev. gentleman
has published a letter in the Dublin Freeman's Journal,
in which he emphatically denies that he ever denounced
ill-fated major, and it would have been well had he
the
ted here ; but, not satisfied with purging his own
conduct, he goes on to give a highly coloured picture of
the miseries he witnessed, by the cases of ejectment on the
estate of Major Mahon, and expresses his opinion that
his murder was owing there' o.
DEATHS FROM STARVATION.—On Saturday, at Mel-
mount, near Strabane, an inquest was held before Dr.
Hamilton, on the bodies of Thomas Gilroy, sen., and
Thomas Gilroy, jun., his son. The wife of the deceased,
and her family of six children, belonged originally to
Manorhamilton, in Leitrim, and had gone to Scotland in
August last. About November, they were seized with
fever, and were greatly neglected, so that, in a half-dying
state, they were shipped by the steamer for Derry, on the
24th ultimo. During the passage they had only one
roasted potato each amongst them, and on their arrival in
Derry, three persons gave them 10d. with 7d. of which
they paid for a miserable lodging, and with the remaining
3d. they purchased some meal. They next applied for
admission into the Workhouse, but were refused, and, in
a state of utter exhaustion, they crept onwards to Stra-
bane. Here, too, the Workhouse was shut against them,
and with great difficulty they procured admission into a
hovel without fire, and filled with wet and mud. In this
hovel the man died during the night of Thursday week,
and his son expired during Friday. The jury returned a
verdict of " died from starvation," and were about to
append to it a strong expression of censure upon the
Workhouse authorities, but this, at the instance of the
foreman, was withdrawn, as the parties had not been
heard in their own vindication. Another boy, also a son
of Gilroy, died on Saturday, in the Strabane Workhouse.
—Derry paper.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS.—It is a remarkable fact,
that at the very time when, on the score of poverty,
Government endowed Maynooth, Ireland was remitting
about £B,OOO a year to Paris, for "the Propogation of the
Faith, a missionary Institution, which, according to
Roman Catholic profession, is soon to boast of an annual
income of £600,000. Just at that period also the Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin succeeded in opening the
Roman Catholic Missionary College of All Hallows,
Drumconcira, Dublin, " a splendid building, (says the ad-
vertisement,) standing in a demesne of 24 acres in the
immediate vicinity of Dublin, and capable of accommo-
dating 200 students." The Nation, Irish newspaper, for
3rd October last, contains an advertisement of nearly
four columns of subscriptions to this Roman Catholic
Missionary College amounting to £1,126, in which sum
the English and Scotch subscriptions are not included.
The Dean of Ardagh, an ultra whig, and utterly un-
connected with the landlord and tenant question, has
written a letter to the Dublin Mail, in which he says
that he has received a notice threatening him with the
fate of Major Mahon, for selling " turnips at too high a
rate," The dean then goes on to say—" Same day as
the letter reached me by post, a friendly notice was left
in my yard, warning me not to return by the same road
I had gone to Tubbercurry, and not to be on the roads
without a policeman. It may providentially have saved
my life, as I took a different road back from the petty
sessions—my' steward having sent the notice to me while
I was still sitting on the bench—and I took two armed
policemen with me on my car. Since then I have two
policemen in my offices every night; and even going to
and from the church (at foot of the lawn, and within 400
yards) I am obliged to have their protection ; and, when
going lately to Sligo, in my carriage, I was obliged to
take an armed policeman on the box."