The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
THE GAZETTE—STATE OF THE COUNTEY.
The Globe of Saturday, in commenting upon the reception
given by the Priests to our Marquizzical brother editor in
his Precursory rambles, thus delivers himself:—
" This is a well-merited compliment; but the part of the
address which will give most satisfaction here is that which
follows, demonstrating as it does the improved condition of
the country. and giving the best proof of the advantaL!es
which have resulted from the administration of the noble
Marquis :
" • Short as has been'the period of your Excellency's ad-
ministration, outrages against person or property have nearly
ceased, and those frightful combinations and societies sub-
versive of social order have totally vanished from amongst
us. The laws are respected and obeyed, and peace has re-
sumed her mild sway over the land. 're your Excellency's
prudent, impartial, and conciliating policy, are those happy
changes with justice to be ascribed.' "
The Ministerial Globe, by its adoption of the foregoing
passage from the address presented to the Lord Lieutenant
on his passage through Mullingar, by-the Titular and Priests
of the diocese, admits its importance, and justifies our design
of prefixing it as a perpetual motto to our articles on the
State of the Country.
In our last we endeavoured to sustain the prelatic and
priestly verity of the Church of Rome, by the adduction,
from a single number of the " Public flue-and-Cry"—
(being its latest publication, and dated but a few days before
the delivery of the address)—of such instances of Irish tran-
quillity as such a document usually affords. The summary
is so complimentary to his Excellency's government, and so
corroborative of their Reverences' truth, that in justice to
both we cannot withhold a repetition of it here :
( From the Public Hue-and-Cry, dated Aug. 11, 1838.)
Cases of crime announced • 97

1. Abduction
2; Attempt to assassivate
3. Assaults on dwelling-house
4. Arson
5. Burglary.
6. Destruction of cattle
7. Murderous assault on the person '24
8. Murder
17
9. Party procession
10. Robbery in dweiling.house
11. Robbery of cattle . .
12. Robbery of fire-arms
13. Rape
14. Threatening notices
We added, on the same occasion, the announcements from
the provincial journals, of attempts to assassinate five gen-
tlemen; and certain other doings of the mobility equally
demonstrative of the "cessation of outrages against tt,a
person or nrcrierty, the uvautsnment of those fright-
ful combinations and societies so subversive of social order,
which have resulted from the prudent, impartial, and conci-
liating policy" of our excellent Chief Governor—lreland's
only Marquiz.
We have to follow up this laudatory course to-day, by
adducing from the last Gazette one case of " barbarous mur-
der," .fully perpetrated; and one of an attempt at ditto—
well intended—but frustrate. From the provincial journals
received this morning, wetlikewise extract the corresponding
evidence of two or three MURDERS, divers outrages on houses
and property by armed parties, sundry desperate assaults
upon the person, and some of the fruits of the ribbon
conspiracy.
Nobody, we presume to say, can read the extracts which
we subjoin without admitting, in the words of the Mullingar
titular and priests so highly appreciated by the Globe—that
"to his Excellency's prudent, impartial, and conciliating
policy this happy state of things is with justice to be as-
cribed :"
(From the Dublin Gazette of Friday.)
" DurniN CASTLE, AUG. 22.—Whereas it has been repre-
sented to the Lord Lieutenant, that on the night of Saturday,
the 18th instant, about the hour of half-past ten o'clock, some
person fired a shot through a window into the dwelling-house
of Robert Uniacke, Esq. J.P., of Woodhouse, parish and
townland of Stradbally, in the county of Waterford.
" His Excellency, for the better apprehending and bring-
ing to justice the perpetrator of this outrage, is pleased
hereby to offer a reward of fifty pounds."
"AUG. 23.—Whereas it has been represented to the Lord
Lieutenant, that about the hour of eleven o'clock on the
night of the 15th instant, a man named Edward Polen, of
Hawkswood, parish of Geashill, in the King's County, was
waylaid and barbourously murdered in a lane branching from
the main road which leads from Tullamore to Killeagh, in
the townland of Derryclute.
" His Excellency, for the better apprehending and bring-
ing to justice the perpetrators of this murder, is pleased
hereby to offer a reward of fifty pounds and a free pardon.
" By his Excellency's command,
"T. DRUMMOND."

QUEEN'S COUNTY.
FRIGHTFUL MURDER IN STRAUBALLY, AND ANOTHER
MAN DESPAIRED OF.—Crime is again appearing, with some
features of malignity, in the Queen's County. One murder
was committed in Stradbally on Thursday last, and there are
strong suspicions of a seconil; a third titan also is in a hope-
less state, from the effects of a beating. The details are as
follow:—A large body of people met in Stradbally on Thurs-
day last for the purpose of cockfighting; but their projected
sport having been prohibited by the authorities, the fellows
retired in the evening to the public-houses in the town, where
several encounters took place, in one of which a man named
Casey, got such a frightful beating, his skull having been
fractured, that his life is despaired of. But the murder was
committed under more cool and deliberate circumstances.
Two ruffians coming out of a public-house, met a man named
Salmon at the door of another, whom, without any provoca-
tion. they instantly attacked. One of the fellows struck him
with his they
and the other, it is thought, with a tongs. When
down the same fellows continued to strike him with the same
weapon. until all signs of life had disappeared. The unfor-
tunate man's jaw bone was broken, and he was otherwise
dreadfully mangled. One of the causes assigned for the mur-
der of Salmon, who was an inoffensive person, is having.
lived with, and been the tenant of Mr. Luttrell, a respecta-
ble Protestant farmer. Strong suspicious of another mur-
der are entertained, as a great quantity of blood has been
traced up a lane leading to the fields; and as no person
could lose so much and proceed so far, it is thought that•the
person, whoever it was, must have been murdered and then
dragged up the lane by his murderers. The police have ar-
rested over twenty persons, several of whom were since libe-
rated,
but summoned to give evidence. It is thought, how-
ever, that the principals are in custody. At about two
o'clock yesterday, a prisoner was brought in from the Heath
charged with Salmon's murder. It is a curious circumstance,
that tour of the persons who are apprehended for the attack
on both men, are in almost every particular dressed alike.
An inquest was to have been held yesterday evening.
OUTRAGEs.—On the fair night of Borris-in-Ossory, a band '
of ruffians broke into the dwelling-house of John Claxton,
situate at the cross roads of Kyle. and into which a poor man
had fled for refuge. The fellows smashed the furniture, and
did other damage to the house, while i❑ search of their vic-
tim, whom they at length discovered under a bed, and, hav-
ing dragged him out, heat in a most brutal manner. Same
evening, Mr. William Leonard, innkeeper in Burris-in-Os-
sory, was standing at his own door, conversing with some of
the constabulary, when a stone was thrown at him by one of
the crowd. Fortunately, however, it did not strike him; but
was thrown with such, violence that it stuck in the panel of
the door behind him. The ruffian, we are sorry to say, es-
caped. On Sunday night last, between the honts of one and
two o'clock, the windows of an inoffensive widow, named
Elizabeth Whitehead, a Protestant, residing in Borris-in-
Ossory, were Maliciously broken, within a few yards of the
police barracks. The poor woman had fourteen panes of
glass and two sashes smashed. Same night, the whitlows of
Thomas Gouger, another Protestant, the widow Kelly, and
a man named John Lundy, were also broken. Indeed the
neighbourhood seems latterly to be growing very disturbed.
Informations were sworn before Thomas Mosse, Esq., at
Rathdowney, on Friday last, against William Dwyer, a no-
torious character in that quarter, when he gave bail to stand
his trial at the next quarter sessions. There are several
others connected, we believe, with the foregoing outrages,
who will be brought before the magistrates at Rathdowney
ou Saturday next.—Leinster Express.
COUNTY TIPPERARY.

THE "EXCELLENT POP-ULATION."—On the night of Sun-
day, the 19th instant, eight or nine men, three of whom were
armed with a gun and two pistols, visited the houses of six
men who were by occupation mowers, three of whom live on
part of the lands of Cloughleighe, within about. two miles of
the village of Golden. They broke open the doors, fired se-
veral shots into the houses, then proceeded to drig out the
owners, placed them on their knees, and swore them sever-
ally not to work for any gentlemen less than three shillings
and their diet. They assaulted one of the men severely, who
had made some resistance. So much for the tranquillity of
the county of Tipperary.—Tipperary Constitution.
MURDER.—An attempt (a successful one we fear) was
made to murder .a bailiff, named John Kenna, of this town,
in the neighbourhood of Moneygall, on that Thursday. It is
probable, and the physician is of our opinion, that the unfor-
tunate man will be no more by the time this paragraph reaches
our readers, for there are three fi actures in his head ; his face
is so disfigured that the features are scarcely discernible, and
his whole body is one mass of mutilated tiesh. This John
Kenna got some lattitats, from a professional gentlemen in
this town, to serve on two men named Egan (father and son)
in the neighbourhood of Moneygall. As he was passing
through Toomavara he called ou another bailiff, a namesake
of his, to accompany him. When they reached the load be-
gond Moneygall, (the Toomavara bailiff) went into a cabin
to light his pipe; and when he came out, after some short de-
lay, he saw at a little distance four' men climbing over the
ditch, and stooping .as if to escape observation, whets he came
up the road he found John Kenna lying in the ditch, welter-
ing in his blood, all mutilated and speechless. The unfortu-
nate victim has a wife and four small children. We question
if the Calihan, of the political Tempest, himself, would es-
cape assassination in this_couuty, as famed as it is for tran-
quillity. Since the above was put in type we have been in-
formed, that Tim Kenna, the Toomavara bailiff, has been
rested on suspicion of being in some manner implicated in
the foregoing melancholy affair.
MALICIOUS LEVELLING.-111 the parish of Templebeg,
about two hundred yards of newly-raised fence, which sur-
rounded that and part of the common of Knockolough.
awarded to John and James Landers, have been maliciously
levelled by some persons unknown. This outrage is sup,
posed to have been perpetrated for the purpose of compelling
the Landers to let out the enclosed land to the neighbouring
cottagers, at their own valuation.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.—MichaeI Ryan, of Knockenva-
voola, had his skull very seriously frictured in the "remark-
ably peaceable" parish of Glankeen. He has three fractures
from one blow, and withal, he denies that he knows who
struck him, for the purpose, of course, of evading prosecution.
It is said that Ryan, after being beaten, accused one Pat
Quigly with having assaulted him with the intent of murder,
as the hired assassin of Pat Ryan, of Communbeg, and of
William Ryan, of Glanbeg, both brothers, and inveterate
and sworn enemies of his. The probability is this, that
Michael Rvan prefers taking a bloody and brutal revenge of
his namesakes., by returning them what in faction parlance
is termed the coor, that is, wild and retributive vengeance.
ASSAULT.—In the neighbourhood of Thurles, a few nights
ago, Thomas Lowry was waylaid, most unmercifully beaten,
and had his skull fractured by a blow of a stone, as he was
on his way home to Clondetty. A miscreant, named Patrick
Bourke, has been arrested, and the dying man has identified
him.—Neliogh Guardian.

COUNTY LOUTH.
RIBBONISM IN DROGHEDA.—On Sunday evening last, as
an inoffensive young man, named Reilly, was returning from
a funeral towards town, about live o'clock in the evening, he
received several severe blows from a ruffian of the name of
M'Veagh, near Laurence's-gate, who, we understand, is
designated " The Captain," because, forsooth, unfortunate
Reilly had not been competent to answer the query on the
sign given. Reilly states that the bludgeon with which he
had been assaulted was a short thick one, with a large knob
on the end of it, and which his assailant bad concealed under
his coat; several persons had been standing a short distance
up in Morgan's-lane, and never gave the least ae
cossismtancng"
e;
hut no sooner had the magic sound of 'the police ari
been cried out by one of the brethren, than the cowardly
rriscreants took to their heels, and we have little doubt in
stating, that had not the constables been descried approach-
ing at the time, in all human probability another victim
would have been offered on the altar of Popery and Eibbon-
ism.—Drogiteda Con.

COUNTY TYRONE.
DARING OUTRAGE.—As a respectable young man, of a
most exemplary character, was passing through the Diamond,
Omagh, a few evenings since, he was maliciously assaulted
by two dastardly ruffians of the holy mother church, who at-
tempted to beat him. When the row was raised, a very
pious and respectable inhabitant came to his assistance, to
whom they gave a violent blow, but we hope it will not be
attended with any serious consequence. One of the ruffians
has since left the neighbourhood. We hope the authorities
will not let such persons escape with impunity.—Derry Sen-
tinel.