The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. Denis Egan, of Ballydonagh, Tipperary, was shot
dead on Sunday week, on his way to chapel.
The number of Wesleyans in Ireland has decreased
nearly 1,000 during the past year.
An extensive engineering firm in Belfast (Messrs.
M'Adam) are at present executing an order for a number
of large iron houses for California.
Mr. J. Reynolds, M.P., has been elected Lord Mayor
of Dublin for the ensuing year, by a majority of 18 over
Alderman Kinahan, conservative.
The estate of Leslie Anderson, a bankrupt, comprising
thirty-two townlands in Derry, rental £6,000 a-year, is to
be sold for the benefit of the creditors next month.

The members of the Rev. Dr. Cooke's congregation, at
itclic..t, bay° preoentcd4th c, hvi.ac, cur, and -
ness, as a testimonial of their esteem.

Upwards of 1,500 men have just been paced upon the
Shannon improvement works. They are employed in
deepening the bed of the river, and clearing away the
remains of the ancient bridge which formerly connected
the provinces of Leinster and Connaught. The Kilkenny
and Waterford railway works are also about to beresumed.
A BARONET IN A BRIDEWELL GUARD !—A. Cork
journal has the following singular paragraph :—" Sir
Richard Moore, Bart., the eldest son of the late Sir Ema-
nuel Moore, has just been appointed one of our city bride-
well guard, by the high sheriff. What makes it the more
distressing is, that his poverty has not come of his own
folly, but has been entailed on him by the indiscretion of
others."

THE WORKHOUSES.—The numbers in the workhouses
are still very large. The Bandon Union, in Cork, has
3,681 in its poor.houses ; the Fermoy Union, 4,441 ; the
Tralee Union, 3,030. These houses are situate in parts of
the country which have suffered much less than other
districts. In some of these houses industrial employment
in making clothes of various kinds is given. It appears
that an average of fourteen pence and a fraction is the
cost of a pauper in the workwouses. The statistics of the
Clogher Union, in Tipperary, give a very clear view of the
way in which the poor kw works. The union is not a
very populous one. It has upwards of 1,500 in-door
paupers, and there are 9,588 receiving out-door relief.
The cost for provisioning the workhouse for a week is £93,
averaging for each pauper ls. 2d. a week. For the 9,588
out-door paupers the cost is £197 weekly. The uncol-
lected rates in the Union amount to between £6,000 and
£7,000.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—On Sunday morning, about
nine o'clock, as Mr. Daniel Egan, of Ballydonagh, a
respectable farmer, was proceeding to mass along a bye-
road leading from his residence to the chapel of Roscrea,
and within about a quarter of a mile of the latter, he was
fired at from behind a ditch and killed on the spot—his
aged father and mother were about twenty perches in ad-
vance of him at the time—two women and a girl were
within about thirty yards of him when he was fired at ;
they heard the report, saw the smoke, but they deny
having seen the assassins. The unfortunate deceased re-
ceived seven bullet wounds; one of the balls went right
through his body. Numbers of people were convenient
to the bloody scene, but all deny having seen the mur-
derers. The police of the Emmil and Cooraclevin staticns
were in Barna chapel, they heard the shot, and having at
once run to the scene of murder, went in pursuit, but we
regret to add without success. The deceased never
uttered a word after receiving the contents of the shot—
he died in about two minutes ; he was about twenty-five
years of age and greatly respected in his neighbourhood;
his father holds about 300 acres of land, on vikich be has
many tenants, who, being either unwilling !err unable to
pay their rent, he was obliged to pay the head rent, and
brought ejectments at the recent quarter sessions against
the defaulters. The son conducted the business, and was
examined at the sessions, and this is the reason he has
been so brutally murdered. The Rev. Mr. Egan, P.P.,
was about to celebrate mass when the awful deed was per-
petrated, but he declined to do so, and it was stated that
he is determined to keep the chapel closed until the mur-
derers are delivered up to justice. There is not a possi-
bility of doubt, but that many of the congregation when
on their way to chapel saw the assassins, and well knew
them. Three men, named Darby Tierney, Patrick
Morris, and Martin Morris, have been committed for
further examination.—Kiny's County Chronicle.
IRISH PREPARATIONS FOR THE QUEEN'S VISIT.—A.
meeting of the Town Council of Cork was held on Tues-
day, to make preparations for her Majesty's intended
visit. The mayor was frequently interrupted while an-
nouncing the object of the meeting, and on his stating
that he thought they should present her Majesty with an
address, a member called out,—" Yes, at your own ex-
pense." Mr. Dowden said they bad two places suitable
for her Majesty's reception. She should be received with
all the etiquette due to her as the queen of the freest
country in the world—freeer than republican America and
France,—Mr. Brady : Yes, free to starve.—Dr. Dwyer:
Mr. Dowden in enumerating the places to receive her
Majesty, overlooked the dining-hall of the workhouse.
(Cheers and cries of hear, hear.) That, I think, is the
most appropriate place in the city to receive her.—Mr.
Jameson If she goes to the workhouse, lam sure the
guardians will receive her as she deserves. (Hear.)—Mr.
Brady : The " freest country in the world," and the
habeas corpus suspended. Well, now, that appears to me
to be one of the most ridiculous figures of speech I ever
met with. The freest—trash. (Cheers and renewed
confusion.)—Mr. Jameson : I trust gentlemen will not
visit the faults and errors of a Whig ministry on the head
of an innocent and harmless female.—Mr. Dwyer : How
can you separate them ? (Hear.)—A Voice : That's the
cheese—there's a poser. Noise and laughter.)—Mr.
Jameson : The queen can do no wrong—her ministers are
to blame; she is irresponsible—A Voice: Why does she
keep such bad ministers. (Cheers and increased confu-
sion.)—The Mayor : Order, order ; the gentlemen out-
side the railing will please be silent, or we can't proceed
with the business.—A Voice :—'Tis little business ye
ever do. (Laughter.)—The Mayor: I suppose I may as
well acknowledge the receipt of the communication, and
state the high gratification of the citizens at the official
announcement of her Majesty's visit. (No, no, and great
uproar.)—Mr. Dwyer : Say your own gratification, but
certainly you cannot say " the citizens'." (Hear, hear.)
—Mr. Dowden : I move the mayor acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the secretary's communication. (Hear.)—The re-
solution was adopted. and the subject ended. [These
worthy councillors might be much better employed than in
casting such shameful and gratuitous insults on royalty.]