The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE MARQUIS OP LANSDOWNE has defrayed
+he e?„:
penses of 150 persons emigrating from his KernY v!'
to Canada. „tone
FATAL ACCIDENT.--The Kilkenny papers Or oftb,,e
the death of Mr. George W. Stevenson, a magistr3`e ;sec'
county, who was thrown from his horse and had
dislocated.
A Sun, has been towed into CastletOwnsendr',o,e
county Cork, found deserted, and worth £6,000. Pceliel6l4'
is unknown, and no papers were found on board•
covered with shells and slime. Or'
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EMIGRATION.—Farmers and labourers are ago
Mgr e
ing amcnigst the emigrants. On Friday last 200, ever 5Tc
aPP
left Waterford by one vessel, and they included syanY in
spectable-looking farmers and their families; eresoc
now going to Australia, and there is a decided
deg
the proportion for Canada, especially from the Par;
CONTEMPLATED ABOLITION OP THE INsOLNI' toot
j —The Dublin Mail, in announcing the aPP°:llthe de3tj:
ourt,ab(ilishing
1 Mr. Hatchell to the commissionership vacated Pi," exit, for
of Mr. Henry Baldwin, states that the ge'rer..,liced
that the
the firstl nms
00l
n t towardse
I come to the conclusion that the time has
the
lace °l.j'Ae
may be done away with." All thea bausPineasiioef chief.cletrhie
isdic blip
district, it seems, is to be dischargedbabrrYister, ricd
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makingand
standing in the place of an assistant-
provinces. The changes, however,
_are flat tersh to be EZ
into immediate effect; but, it is added, thatlll—lstalos et
arranged with the present appointee that Ile t
10
office subj 'terneect to retirement at the first connce i 0
on a salary of £l,OOO a-year. Thenceforth the on+
cease. star
BRITISH PURCHASERS OP IRISH EsTATES_,
tistics of sales in the counties of Galway and Ms:: .`,,stateSn
the date of the first sale under the Incumbere ot
Commission, 19th of February, 1850, up to and for.to e
! May, 1854, communicated by Mr. John LocbT,iwat the
Journal of the Statiscal Society of London, signs,.
,t;ies, 6i!
total number of purchasers were 148, and that 9,:',48, pit
were British, whose purchases amounted to /%745.1 of'
of a total purchase money of g 1,022,350 10s. 3a., aqua
s Mr. of
average of 36'3,385a. 3r. 36p. Thus (observe ,r 0
i these two counties, comprising the least known artoo:
in the brief interval of four years, one-sixth of the rot
I neglected districts in Ireland, has passed from ~eoJea,v
incapacitated proprietary into the possession of ni •rcotca,
, capitalists, two-fifths of whom are English ands fullf
j and whose proportion as to money and acreage
; two-thirds
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SCENE TN A JUSTICE Rooar.—The Trie/shmaa Ze'coo,
account of an extraordinary scene at the Shire-hall, "Ise of
a few days since. During the hearing of a tbe
unlawful fishing, the Yen. Archdeacon Davies entereurot
justice-room, and said he intended to apply for a Vri. de
against a party for stealing two of his (legs. kn. the
Winton requested the rev. gentleman to wait no`' ram.
case then proceeding had been disposed of; but tte.l%;,„tou
deacon insisted upon being attended to. Mr. do vol 111
said that, as the dogs were alleged to have been I°.'sdie-
Brecon, the justices of the borough bad special Pr'
tion. High words then ensued, and the epithets hart
and blackguard, were frequently used. . Dlr. de joto
hi d„
ccalled
dyu nbuat ptobliecelatotffiercer
etuotlteamkaeuthbeidarchdm eacon
eh°l` e
asserting that the police officer had connived at thee tcAe
of some parties who had committed a burglary sort
v the
ago at Glasbury. It was with considerable dil:fic""
venerable archdeacon was restrained.