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

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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 directed the purchase of
Indian corn to the amount of V,OOO, 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 Portlaw
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.-Thy
Meath Herald publishes the subjoined extract of a letter
received by, a gentleman in the neighbourhood of

i think if but right to inform you of two persons who
have been put on the public works in the barony of
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of a widow who diedih 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
s three weeks since, because he could not get a better 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; ivhen matters had become ripe for marriage
they all proved to be forgeries, Miss O'Sullivan knowing
nothing of the matter. These letters were brought to hirr

am ed Connell

him through

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
her an Conelly. and the case was returned for trial at
the county assizes. • -
HORRIBLE MURDERS IN IRELAND
the 11th instant, about four m

receive

—On the night of
west of Louisburg

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 llelehan, 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 him.—ln the same county, on Friday se'n-
night. a bailiff, named Hynes, while in the execution of

ins duty-, by a seizure forrentin the house of a man named
Brennan, was:struck by the latter in the eye with a pitch-

fork, which penetrated the Dram anu prvuuuvv.
The murderer absconded, and a verdict of wilful murder

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 Mid
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 persoi76 of conspiracy to murder, 1 of poison:.
ing, 105 of rape, 49 of assault with intent, &c., 100 of in-
fanticide, 18 of aMneting, 83 of assaults on the police, 604
of those aggravated assaults peculiar to the Irish, 290' of
assaults endangering life, 28 of assaults with intent to rob,.
8 of assaults on bailiffs, &c., 49 of cutting

34 of common assault, 1 ie m cno.. .„,
sealing births of children, and one of unnatural crone.
-1n- 1846 there were 4,765 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 dwelling-houses. in
class 3i " Offences against property,":' the alarming in-
crease is exhibited, between 1845 and 1846, from 1,739 to
5,670 cases, including 3,025 cases of cattl_e stealing;.Bl3

287 cases

burglaries, 258 highW4 robberies, 534 robbtries
of maiming cattle, and 416 cases of plundering provisions
The general total is 12,380 cases of crime and offence in
1846, against 8,104 in 1845. The counties in which crime
appears to have been the most rife are those of Tipperary,
Cork, Lhnerick, Clare, Roscommon, and Leitrim, whilst
those most free from the' stigma are Antrim, London-
derry, Louth, Kildare, and Carlow.
ELOPEMENT. A policeman, of the name of Jacob
Webb, a native of itathcormac, stationed in Newcastle,
in the county of Limerick, got acquainted with a Miss

while she was on a visit with her maternal uncle