The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There have been two more incendiary fires in the coanty
of Down.

John Mitchell has been removed from the Bermudas,
and is on his way to the Cape of Good Hope.
A rector of Cork states that his living which originally
was worth £5OO, now only leaves him, after payment of
rates, £4O a year to support himself and family.
THE RATE IN AlD.—The provincial journals are filled
with speeches and petitions against the proposed rate in
aid.

There are further reports of deaths by starvation from
the south and west. Evictions of tenantry, emigration,
and death, are rapidly thinning the population in many
parts of Connaught and Munster.
MENDICANCY IN DUBLIN.—Two thousand six hundred
and eighty-nine beggars were taken into custody by the
Dublin Metropolitan Police from the Ist of January to the
24th of February, 1849.
Esq., a magistrate of Queen's County. The ball fired at
him passed through the breast of his coat, carrying away
a portion of letters in the pocket, but without wounding
him.

Robberies are vastly on the increase, and it would seem
that the audacity of professed thieves has increased. The
case reported in the Cork Constitution of the two Limerick
robbers established in Cork is not a little remarkable,
from the fact that for a long time they must have played
their part with much impunity.
ABDUCTION AND COWARDICE.—Richard Comerton, a
rejected suitor, headed a band who attacked the house of
the Whelans, of Rathbyle, of Ballygarret, and having
beaten the Whelans, carried off their sister, whom the
police recovered at Castlemere next day. Although there
were five Whelans in the house, and although they were
armed with guns, they not only allowed their sister to be
forcibly dragged from them, but also submitted, without
the least resistance, to a sound thrashing.
A YOUNG HERO.—An investigation has taken place
beforo the magistrates at Carbery, which has brought
into public notice the heroic conduct of a boy eleven
years of age, son to Mr. Walter Bourke, of Johnstown
Bridge. On Sunday, when he alone had been left in care
of the house, three men, two of whom had blackened
faces, attempted to force their way in through a back
window. He threatened to blow their brains out ; but
they paid no heed to his menaces. At last he loaded a'
gun ; but it missed fire three times. One of the men was
partly through the window, when he tried another deto-
nating cap, and succeeded in wounding the ruffian in the
thigh. The robbers then took to flight, carrying with
them their wounded comrade. The. magistrates ha*
recommended the young hero to the notice of the lord-
lieutenant. -

WANTON MURDER.-It is our painful duty to record a
most unprovoked and wanton murder, which occurred last
week at Quigley's Point. The passsenger ship Brutus,
which was forced into Loch Foyle, owing to the existence
of cholera on board, is at present lying off Quigley's
Point, and boatmen occasionally visit the passengers to
attend to their personal wants and accommodation. The
unfortunate deceased, Thomas Gill, was one of this class ;
and; in company with Thomas Falkner, he was employed
on Tuesday evening last in conveying some Passengers to
the vessel, but was prevented from putting them on board