The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.
Mr. John Reynolds, M.P. for Dublin, has obtained for
his son a situation in the Mint of £BOO per annum.
Sir A. Blennerhassett died on Sunday of cholera, at
Churchtown House, Killarney.
THE TRACY PEERAGE.-Mr. Tracy, the claimant for
this peerage, died on Monday, in Dublin. He had only
arrived from England a few days before.
On Tuesday the Countess of Durham sailed from
Waterford with emigrants, who are reported to have car-
ried away upwards of £7OOO. How much of this money
belongs of right to the landlords ?
All the schooners hitherto employed in the trade be-
tween Limerick and London, known as the Limerick
Liners, are now engaged in the emigration trade.
Bishop M`Hale acknowledges to have received the
princely donation of £5OO, from Mr. Errington, of Kings-
town, county of Dublin, towards the relief of the desti-
tute poor of the Roman Catholic diocese of Tuam.
The widow of the celebrated Irishman, Theobald Wolfe
Tone, died on the 18th ult. She breathed her last, in her
81st year, at Georgetown, in the district of Columbia,
where she had her residence during the last years of her
life.

Miss Prendergast, a very aged lady lady, close upon
her eightieth year, was found murdered at Portumna
Castle on Saturday morning. She was a lady of eccen-
tric character and habits, and kept no servant. The de-
ceased was second cousin to the Marquis of Sligo. She
was choked, and had three deeadful wounds in her head.
IRISH CLERGY.—The Bishop of Derry has issued cir-
culars to his clergy, recommending that collections be
made in their churches on some one Sunday in the present
month in aid of their suffering brethren in the south and
west.
Before the depression caused by the potato failure an
offer of £51,000 was made for the estates of the Duke of
Buckingham in the county of Clare. This was refused by
the vendors, who required £52,000. The same property
was sold by auction, about six months ago, for £30,000 to
the same party whose offer of £51,000 had been refused.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—On the night of Thursday
week a party of armed men attempted to break into the
house of Nicholas Dunphy, a farmer, residing at Dree-
lands, Kilkenny. Not succeeding, they fired through the
windows. Three or four slugs entered the breast of Dun-
phy's wife, and her life is despaired of. The cause of the
outrage was a dispute about land.
THE COLLECTION FOR THE POPE.—The sum of £42
was collected at Kilrush Chapel, on Sunday, for the Pope,
and the sum of £l3 in Nenagh.—[Mark—that Kilrush
and Nenagh are now reported to be the scenes of intense
misery. Deaths and destitution have occurred in each to
a fearful extent within a short period, and cholera has been
dispatching multitudes whom famine had alreadystricken.]
MURDER.—On Friday, a cowkeeper, named Jeremiah
Donovan, who was charged on a warrant with the wilful
murder of a man named Crowley, was lodged in the Bed-
minster police station, preparatory to his being conveyed
to Cork, where the murder was committed. Cudmore,
the constable, who executed the warrant, states that the
prisoner having learnt that the deceased had been in the
habit of milking his (the prisoner's) cows, watched for
him, and at length detecting him in the act of doing so,
shot him dead.

GREAT DISTRESS.—In addition to the other calamities
which have fallen upon the western provinces, is to be
added the fearful spread of pestilence. The cholera is ra-
pidly thinning the peasantry in Ballinrobe, in the county
of Mayo, and it has also broken out in great virulence in
the workhouse of Ballinasloe, in the county of Galway.
Extract of a letter dated Ballinasloe, 24th April :—" I re-
gret to have to tell you that the cholera has made its ap-
pearance here, and the town is in a frightful state this
morning. There were upwards of twenty new cases of
cholera this morning. I hear more since; there were
several deaths last night through the town, and in the vi-
cinity persons are lying dead, and no one to bury them."
bum CAPITALISTS, LARGE AND SMALL.—If there
be any such, we beg leave to inform Sir James Graham
that they are not likely to invest their money in land as
he said they would. It appears that in the case of Keogh
v. Keogh, a fee-simple estate in Roscommon has just
been sold by public auction in Master Litton's office, to
an English gentleman, for £1,500. The estate contains
about 500 acres, is set to four tenants at rents amounting
to £162 19s. Ild, a year, subject to a quit rent of .Z 1 12s.
Id., and a chief rent of £l2, leaving a clear profit rent of
£149 7s. 10d. The purchase money is a mere shade over
ten years' purchase of an estate which would doubtless

have freely brought from twenty to twenty-five a few
years since. In Master Litton's office, yesterday, head
rents of an extensive estate in the King's County, be-
longing to Count Magauley, were offered for sale ; of
which, one divisicn of 68 Irish acres, under a lease of
lives renewable for ever, paid a head rent of four pounds
Irish. No person would bid for it. The whole, contain-

ing a vast tract of land, producing at such rents £750 a
year, could not obtain one bidding; £15,500 were offered
for it last November, and it was withdrawn ; as many
shillings would not have been obtained for it yesterday.
In the meantime we could enumerate within our own
knowledge six or seven traders, possessing capitals vary-
ing from five to ten thousand pounds, who have closed
their establishments and sold their stocks, and, ere three
months shall end, will enjoy that security for industry
and property, under the star-spangled banner, which no
longer exists under the union-jack.—Dublin Mail.
ESCAPE FROM A BAILIFF.—A few days ago, a sheriff's
bailiff. in the county of Sligo, arrested a man for debt,
and directed his steps towards the county prison at Sligo-
On the way they shortened the road by conversation, and
occasionally a " blast of the pipe," entering a house now
and then to obtain "a coal." One of the cabins they
visited for the latter purpose happened to be a shebeen
house, and after a glass or two, the prisoner remarked the
poteen was so good, and the road so long, they might as
well have a bottle of the stuff to keep their courage up,
and the landlady securing the cork, the bailiff having a
capacious coat pocket, he deposited it therein. Passing
through the village of Skreen, they entered the revenue
police-barrack to " light the pipe," and while engaged in
this delightful occupation, the attention of one of the
`revenue men" was caught by a very significant wink and
nod from the prisoner which he read to be that contraband
goods were at hand. Directing his attention to the pocket
of the functionary of the law, he perceived an unusual
projection, and, knocking against it accidentally, he de-
manded to see what it was. To this the bailiff demurred,
alleging it was a sample of turf he was taking to Sligo,
but the revenue's sense of smelling was too keen, he
hunted up the game, pulled out the cork, and pronounced
it unchristened poteen. To pass over such a breach of
the law on the part of one of the executive was not to be
thought of; he accordingly requested the bailiff's atten-
dance before a neighbouring magistrate, enforcing the
invitation by the aid of a pair of handcuffs. It was in
vain to say nay, the revenue was inexorable, and the
bailiff was agreeable to go," if the prisoner would ac-
company him. To this, however, the revenue officer ob-
jected, he had no charge against him, and the debtor, with
a peculiar application of his thumb to the tip of his nose,
having wished the bailiff " the top of the morning," pro-
ceeded on his way home rejoicing.—Mayo Paper.