The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

IRELAND,

The Limerick Reporter of Friday brings an account of
the murder of Thomas Murphy, a respectable farmer. He
was shot dead in his own parlour,and then robbed of £3O.

The Poor-law Commissioners of Ireland have about
nine Unions thrown upon their hands, the Guardians de-
clining to act. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The- murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd is stated to have
arisen from a deep-laid conspiracy among his own tenants.
The actual murderers and five of the conspirators are said
to be in custody.

The Dublin- Mail states, that the young Marquis of
Drogheda, who lately married the daughter of Lord
Wharncliffe, is on the list of proscribed victims. Her
ladyship found fault with the lazy manner of the work-
people in the house,—others were procured,—and this
change has given mortal offence. [This has since been
denied.]
At the repeal meeting, on Monday, there was a thin at-
tendance. Mr. Nicholas Maher was in the chair, and de-
clared that the repeal motion could not have been in worse
hands than Feargus O'Connor's. Henry Gratton and
Dillon Browne were abused in good style. Poor Ireland
was declared bankrupt and betrayed. The week's rent
was X 22 ss. _

CLERICAL LIFE NOT INSURABLE.—A very remarkable
petition—a singular and signal proof of the insecurity of
life in Ireland—was presented to the House of Commons
r
on the evening of Monday, by the Hon. Member for
Finsbury. It was a petition from the chairman of an
Englishwhi
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assassinationln s uranc e Company,had
renderedintimating
lfc i Irelandtlie
t degreeooinsteo.
cure to be made the subject of commercial speculation;
and the determination enforced upon the Insurance Com-
panies, by the murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, to exclude
Irish clergymen from this mode of securing a provision
for their families after their death, unless the government
should guarantee against the intolerant malice of a fana-
tical conspiracy, and give the insurers an indemnity from
loss, by subjecting the county in which the murder had
been committed to the full extent of the risk.

DEtsurreuvriorr oir -riTE-ThiiturinarivlAJoß -MAnow.
—Father M`Derrnott, an Irish Catholic priest, in a letter
published in one of the local newspapers, says have
to assure the public, by the most solemn asseverations a
clergyman can utter, that the late Major Mahon was never
denounced, nor even his name mentioned, from any cha-
pel altar in Strokestown, or within 20 miles of Strokes-
town, on any Sunday before his death." In elucidation
of this positive assertion of Father M'Dermott, " an Irish
pee,' in a letter to the London Times says :—" The rev.
priest is quite right as to the word 'Sunday ;'—the late
Major Mahon was denounced from the altar on the 'Mon-
day' previous to his assassination ; that 'Monday' was a
saint's day, on which the Roman Catholic population
attend mass, as regularly, and in as great numbers, as on
the Sabbath. This fact is known in Dublin Castle." As
a specimen of quibbling, the priest's assertion is worthy
of the cause which he has taken up to defend by special
pleading.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,
•

The railway calls for January amount to the enormous
sum of £4,000,000. _ .

The electric telegraph company are making prepara-
tions for having a direct communication between London
and Liverpool. It is confidently expected all the wires
will be laid down against the Ist of January. The new
room will be opened on the Ist of February.
The report and accounts previously presented were
" not approved of" at the Birmingham and Oxford
meeting. In the present state of the law proceedings,
the meeting was again adjourned till the 28th instant.
The Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway have contracted
to supply Manchester with pure water at the rate of 35.
per 1000 gallons, for which the company is to receive
£2500 per annum.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Friday, the temporary
bridge of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
over
the Severn, near Preston Boats, gave way, by which two
unfortunate men were drowned, one named Edward
Thomas, of Meole Brace, the other Wm. O'Neil, a native
of Ireland ; there was also one horse drowned.
COLLISION ON TIIE YORK RAILWAY.—A serious acci-
dent occurred on the York and North Midland Railway,
'day. As the luggage train from Hull to Wake-
was passing at a slow speed, near the Burton Salmon
ation, the mail train from York for London came LIP,
and ran into the luggage train, and destroyed two vans,
hese car ,es three cattle jobbers;
re killed on the pot,
ncl stoker a the e.ngine
and the third is in a

were in one of these carriak

it train cscaped