The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

IRELAND,

There has been an increase of at least £20,000 excise
revenue in Limerick, upon the consumption of spirits
alone in the past year.
The ship Jane, of Limerick, has -been lost in the Bay
of Biscay. Mr. Taylor, a merchant of 'Kerry, and several
of the crew, were drowned.
The King of Hanover has transmitted for the relief of
distress in Ireland, £lOOO, as a contribution of the Duke
of Cumberland and the Chancellor of, the University of
Dublin.
A gentleman acting as secretary to a relief committee in
Dublin, committed suicide on Sunday se'nnight. He was
of a very benevolent disposition, and declared he could
not endure the harrowing misery he witnessed.
PURCHASE OF ARMS.—A gentleman (says the Limerick
Chronicle) returning from _Tipper* to this city, on
Saturday, counted in the hands of peasants returning
from the market, 146 stand of fire-arms, supposed to be
purchased in this city on that day alone.
STARVATION.—One of the male paupers admitted into
the Tralee Workhouse on Tuesday, died next day, being
unable to eat from intense exhaustion. On the post mor-
tem examination, not a trace of food could be found in his
stomach.

INDIAN ATEA L.—An American gentleman named Cherri,
who arrived at Cork on Sunday, offered to supply Indian
meal to any amount, required to be delivered within three
months, wind and weather permitting, at £l2 per ton.
He offered the house of Barings, of London, as security
for the fulfilment of his contract.
At an inquest held at Galway, on a person who had died
from want, the jury found a verdict of wilful murder
against Lord John Russell. and Sir Randolph Routh !
but the coroner refused to receive so preposterous a find-
ing. - They were finally obliged to content themselves
with the verdict that " deceased died from want and the
inclemency of the weather."

HORRIBLE CRIMES.—The Tipperary Constitution states
that, on Sunday night week, four ruffians in disguise, and
armed, entered the house of Michael Mullally, at James-
town, and found in it J. Mullally, aged 80, his nephew
Michael, aged 60, and two women. They lighted candles,
and demanded money. They beat the poor inmates, tor-
tured the women by attempting to hang and burn them
to death, with a view to extort money. All the property
the wretches obtained was but is. 6d. in money, and some
articles of trifling value. They have not yet been appre-
hended, and will probably, from the difficulty of identifi-
cation, escape punishment.
BARBAROUS MURDER IN TIPPERARY.-011 yesterday
morning week, within a short distance of Nenagh, John
Flynn, under steward of Richard W. Gason, Esq., of
Richmond, was barbarously murdered. He was going to
his employment, with an axe in his hand, to cut awac
some clumps that remained on the ground of
felling of trees in the fields, when th
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mane a blow at the assassin, which struck
and cut the
L I pistol, and knocked it out of the murderer's hand, who
then ran off. The wounded man was conveyed home,
gave some information, and died soon after; butno trace
of the murderer could be discovered.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—It being the leading actor'
last appearance this season, there was a tolerable
at Conciliation-hall on Monday. The proceedings were
distinguished by their ordinary stupidity—not as much as
one novelty to relieve the general dulness, except the mo-
dest announcement made by Mr. O'Connell that instead
of £30,000,000, he mans to demand a government grant
of £50,000,000 to meet the Irish distress. Should Lord
John Russell have the temerity to demur to this reasona-
ble proposal, he (Mr. O'Connell) was prepared to assist
in putting him out, and reinstating Sir Robert Peel ; not
that he has lost his preference for the former minister,
but the £50,000,000 must be got at any sacrifice. The
week's rent went up to £127 odd shillings and pence—
famine and pestilence notwithstanding.
IRISH RELIEF JOBBING.—A correspondent of the
Times, who dates from Enniscorfhy, county of Wicklow,
discloses a shameful piece of jobbing done in that locality,
in dispensing the money for the Irish Relief Works.
After stating on one road there nre 100 people employed.
he adds,—" they commence work at 9 a.m„ give up for
dinner at 12 a.m., resume at 1 p.m., and are dismissed at
half-past 3 p.m., thus working but four hours and a half
in the day. The employment may be called a family af-
fair, as the hundred people do not belong to more than
thirty families, and of these many are of farmers holding
more than twenty acres of land (Irish,) equal to more
than thirty English. There is one instance of a farmer
who holds eighteen acres (Irish) of good land at 10s. an
acre. His horse is employed at 2s. 3d. a day, and led by
his wife: he is employed himself as a workman, and so
are his two sons, each at ls. 2d. a day; making in all,
for one' starving family, the pretty sum of ss. 9d. per diem,
or rather more than the pay of an ensign. This is by no
means an exceptional case. Many families of labourers
are receiving- 3s, and 4s. daily for four and a half hours'
work or idleness, whichever you choose to call it. To
this expenditure you have to add the pay of innumerable
overseers, &c., who oversee, or overlook, everything."
A VOICE FROM ST. JARLATHS.—Dr. Mac Hale has
addressed another letter to the Premier, in the course of
which he attempts to show that Ireland would have been
in a much better position had she had an independent
*legislature. In answer to this the Dublin Mail says :---
. Now not to talk at the unseasonableness of such a pro-
position, what would be our present state had the Union
been dissolved twelve months ago, or were it to be dis-
solved on this day three weeks, under the feelings which
must naturally either lead to, or be endangered by, such
a consummation of national folly ? 'We should have our
own Parliament sitting to legislate for our wants.' But
without food, or without money of our own, how should
we be the better of their empty resolves ? Will speeches ,
fill the stomachs of the hungry—or votes fill our pockets
with money ? Would England, severed from a discon-
tented sister, advance us her cash or her credit ? Would
she purchase for us in the markets of the world, and pro-
vide us with shipping to convey the supplies to our shores ?
Would the whole credit, and means of the wealthiest and
most powerful nation of the earth be employed to provide
for our present necessities ; and where is the other nation
on the earth either able or willing to lend us enough, and
on such reasonable and indulgent terms ; or to be to us
what Great Britain now is, in our otherwise irremediable
calamity ? The thought is not madness—it is not folly :
it is wickedness—it is mischief; or, if not folly, it is in-
fatuation ; if madness, it wants even ' method.' Doctor
Mac Hale would do better for himself and his country if
he would study less to show himself off—and more to do
justice to the merits of others."

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DREADFUL MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—ROBBERY OF
ARMS.—On Thursday morning last, as Mr. Edmond H.
Wayland, of Ballywalter, pay clerk for the barony of
Kilnemanagh, was proceeding through a monntainy dis-
trict close to the boundary of Lord Hawarden's and the
late Colonel Purefoy's estates, accompanied by two police-
men, for the purpose of paying the men on the public
works, they were waylied by five or six armed ruffians,
with their faces blackened, who rushed upon them from
behind two piers, and immediately surrounded the car.
Two or three of the fellows came round to the side where
Mr. Wayland and one of the policemen were sitting; one
of them put a gun to the policeman's head, and fired,
killing him on the spot ; another of the gang put a gun
to Mr. Wayland's breast, which he pushed aside—thus
saving his life, as the gun went off without taking effect.
The poligwan who was sitting at the other side accounted
for himsOrby stating that as he was in the act of standing
up and turning round, he was thrown down by the
motion of the car, when he was seized by two of the
ruffians, who took his gun from him. Mr: Wayland
then, seeing that he had to fight his way alone, endea-
voured to save the money he had with him, amounting to
about £llB. Previously he had fired off his two pistols,
but could not say whether either shot had taken effect.
He then went to the car in hopes of getting the murdered
policeman's carabine, but it had been taken off. His
chief object now was to secure the money, which was in
the car, the horse of which continued to go on, the driver
having fled. He got on the car and drove off to the next
hill, where the men were at work, and safely deposited
the money in the house of the overseer of the district.
We regret to state that as yet there has been no clue to
discover the assassins.—Tipperary Constitution.

FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF IRISH MISERI

The medical officer of the Kanturk (Cork) Union, in his
last report, dated the 15th instant, says " 1790 persons
find refuge in the workhouse built for 850: 502 in hospital

board days, the number of applicants fox admission was
800. In this emergency the guardians, in addition to
having taken a store in .this town, are at this moment
erecting sheds to contain from -100 to 500 persons.

The sanatory condition of the noose as progressing
favourably 'till measles of a malignant character diffused
itself amongst the children ; out of 400 patients, 67 died ;
immediately after convalescence gastric fever attacked the
survivors, which was of a decidedly contagious character.
The mortality was principally confined to the young
children recently admitted, whose _constitutions were do
bilitated by innutritive food and insufficient clothing,
-
filthy rags being their only garments. The adults who
were admitted for the last month, previous to their re-
ception, lived on bran and turnips ; the latter being now
nearly exhausted, the peel formed their chief sustenance ;
that dietary, coupled with extreme cold, induced dysen-
try, which terminated in low fever, and three of the assist-
ant nurses have caught the infection ; the dissolution of
one is fast approaching.
Dr. Sweetnam, the dispensing physician at Skull and
Ballidehob, in a letter, dated 14th January, to. the Cork
Constitution, says, " within the last few days, eight per-
sons here died of actual starvation, and are as follows :
Two children at Denlera, near Skull, three days without
food ; Patrick Linehan, of Rosslum, near Skull, found
dead in a field, two days without food ; John Driscoll, of
Keelbronogue, near Skull, found dead on the road, two
days without food; John Coughlan, found dead on the
road at Knuckroo, -near Ballidehob, two days without
food.- Three persons named Cassidy, at Cove, near Skull,
father, mother, and son, all in fever ; had no drink or
food but salt and water, or any person to administer it.
The old couple three days uninterred, and the son lay on
the bare floor from Tuesday till Sunday, and so decom-
posed, when persons could be got to eater his house, that
he was tarred and rolled up in a rag, and buried in the
next field. In my opinion, if I can judge from the num-
berless persons dead, dying, and staggering, half the
population must di,t before the Ist of May. I verily
believe there is more real destitution in the parish of
Skull than any other in Ireland, and regret to add that
the dispensary patients—now five times their usual num-
ber—are so exhausted from disease and starvation, that
medicine is almost useless.
A gentleman, whose statements are entitled to the
highest respect, gives a most deplorable picture of the
condition of the county of Roscommon—a condition
Which represents it to be infinitely worse than Kibbe-
men, or the most destitute parts of Mayo. He says that
whole villages are depopulated, either by death or by the

Jan. 26, 1847,

flight of such as have the means of transport to England,
Scotland, or America. He counted in one village ten
houses together abandoned by their owners, the doors
torn off their hinges, the window-sills taken out, the
rafters burned for firing, and the very flagstone at the en-
trance taken up and sold for a mouthful of food. An
elderly man was sentenced to seven years' transportation
for sheep stealing at the quarter sessions last week; his
appearance in the dock was that of a man reduced to the
last agonies of hunger. He died in an hour after he re-
ceived his sentence. Numbers of young men, mere boys,
with wan cheeks, relieved by a hectic flush, were indicted
for similar offences, and equally pleaded guilty, in the
hope of transportation or imprisonment, or any punish-
ment rather than the lingering death they were daily un-
dergoing. The fortitude of the people, he says, almost
surpasses belief; they ehdure their sufferings without
murmur or complaint, and it is not until famine well
nigh destroys reason itself, that they are driven to the
commission of that species of crime which is just now so
prevalent all over the country.
The Sligo Champion records fifteen cases of death from
hunger in a week in that small county. •Accounts from
Mayo are to the effect that deaths from starvation are
becoming more numerous. The Castlebar Constitution
enumerates no fewer than thirty cases of poor creatures
thus perishing—including eleven who had died in the
Tyrawly district. The details are too painful for perusal,
and are but scantily given by the reporters. "On Thurs-
day an inquest was held at Ballycastle on the bodies of
John and Thomas Jordan, father and son. In this case
our correspondent says :—' No pen can picture this scene
of wretchedness and misery ; an aged woman gazing at
the emaciated skeletons of her dead husband and son,
and another son who looked as badly as the cold corpses
of his father and brother. The last words the dying boy
said were, ' Mother, wet my lips with warm water—l am
cold with hunger.' Both expired at the same moment.' "-
In another case the deceased and his family had been
living for three weeks on half a meal a day. In another,
a family, ten in number, had been living for three weeks
on boiled water-cresses and salt. Two of the children
died while the inquest was holding. /Inother person was
found dead in a mud cabin, another on the roadside,
and so on.

The Cork Reporter says—" The people are perishing
now, not in twos and threes, but in twenties in each pa-
rish, in hundreds in each barony. The pestilence is mow-
ing down the people faster than grass fell before the once
strong and cheerful labourer."

THE MENDICANT PATRIOT'S SYMPATHY
WITH THE POOR.

At the last meeting of the Repeal Association
:
" The Rev. Mr. O'Carney said he had omitted to give the
true reason why it was that subscriptions were not cowing into
the
were Old Ireland Association.
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would be fact was he, and others he knew, who
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subscriptions.';de
raVoneslonamil•eultieofe,
—(hear and cheers.)
At the preceding meeting of the same body, the Roman
Catholic priest of Achill made a similar revelation.
Is it possible that, in the face of such statements, Mr.
O'Connell can have the effrontery—nbt to talk of the bar-
barous inhumanity—to continue his exactions on the
poorest peasantry on the face of the earth, now suffering
the aggravated miseries of famine and pestilence ?
The only answer we (Dublin Mail) can give, is the dis-
gusting fact, that on that day the sum of £l2B 6s. 7d. was
acknowledged, and lodged in the Tralee Bank, to the cre-
dit of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., sole Treasurer of
the Repeal fund.

"LERICAL INTELL CE

The Rev. Dr. Scoresby ha
bone, Esq.

)een on a visit to W. Rath-

The new church at West Derby—St. James'—of which
the Rev. A. M'Conkey is the incumbent,' was opened for
divine service on Sunday last.
It is hoped that Christ's Church Cathedral, Fredericton,
will be completed in October next.
There are now thirty clergymen of the Church of Eng-
land descendants from the Hebrew race, besides several
hundreds of lay members.
Last week immense meetings of the Evangelical Alliance
were held at Leeds, at which the Rev. W, W. Ewbank,
of this town, delivered a very able address.
On Saturday week the handsome residence of the Rev.
W. Roy, D.D., the rectory, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, was
destroyed 131- fire.

CHESTER CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.—On Sunday
week, the Rev. J. Lomas, curate of the parish church,
Wigan, preached his farewell sermon, on his appointment
to the incumbency of a new church, at Walton-Breck,
on which occasion he pleaded the cause of the above
society, after which the sum of £23 were collected.
Several admirers 'and friends of the rev. gentleman have
presented him with a handsome sum of money during the
past week, as a token of their admiration and respect.
CONDUCT OF THE PERVERTS AT ST. SAVIOUR'S, LEEDS.
—One of the results of the investigation instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Ripon, into the proceedings at St. Sa-
viour's Church, Leeds, has been the ascertaining that, on
the very eve of Mr. Macmullen and his confederates for-
marlly abjuring Protestantism, they obtairtd the keys of
that church and therein celebrated a complete Roman
Catholic service, in anticipation of the period when the
church would be wholly in the hands of that communion !
This outrageous conduct, irrational as it may appear,
nevertheless strikingly illustrates the object of the Oxford
and Cambridge Architectural Societies, and of those of
the clergy who are daily dropping off from our communion,
in expending rc.o of on such decorations and restorations ;
they expect that, ere long, the restorations will subserve
tl -nd. I 1

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Dublinßc .
Mail h e
says
ne purpose of promoting mediaeval forms, and hasten the
day of " union:with Rome ! "—Church and State Gazette.
well-informedthatLord
LoGnronEßeoNrrmeTpTonAdNenD
John Russell has proposed to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury to create Manchester into a bishopric, giving to the
new dignitary the usual seat in' the House of Lords, or,
should the heads of the church prefer it, to create a num-
ber of new sees, those appointed not to have the honour
of peerages. He adds that it is for the purpose of deli-
berating upon these two propositions that a meeting of
the prelates has been summoned by his Grace. What
the object of the latter is, requires little skill to divine. It
would be the first step towards ejecting the bishops alto-
gether from the House of Lords. The London Morning
Herald says,—" A rumour has prevailed, during the last
fortnight, that it is the intention of the government to
propose the immediate establishment of six new bish-
oprics. The dissenters add, that it is also intended to
propose to make these new bishops spiritual peers. Very
naturally they, who were demanding a short time since,
the expulsion of the bishops from the House of Lords,
now declare that their friends the Whigs have " lost their
senses." The substantial part of this rumour we believe
to have some foundation. It has been remarked that the
Primate has lately had several interviews with Lord John
Russell ; and it is not to be supposed that such confer-
ences can have had reference to trifling or immaterial
matters.

BENCH AND THE BAR

SPRING ASSIZES.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron
Rolfe come the northern circuit ; Mr. Justice Coltman
takes North Wales, and Mr. Justice Wightman South
Wales.

The members of the bar, who attend the Kirkdale ses-
sions, have subscribed to present the Rev. Jonathan
Brooks with his portrait, which will be hung up in a pro-
minent position in the court. •

In an action tried in the Court of Exchequer, on Mon-
day, Messrs. Coglan, sharebrOkers, of Liverpool; being
the plaintiffs, and Mr. Bryant, one of their clients, de-
fendant, a 'Verdict was given for the plaintiffs for £378 10s.
LAW REFORMS.-The Lord Chancellor will shortly
introduce two measures into the House of Lords—to
separate4the two systems of bankruptcy and insolver
and to abolish an .
only be allowed in
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or fraud

Chancellor's Court,
on Monday, Mr, Bethell stated to the court that the de-
fendant, being perfectly satisfied that the iron safes which
he had exposed for sale as Messrs. Chubb's were not their
manufacture, had consented -that the injunction obtained
against him should be made abSolute.
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, an action
was tried, which had been brought by Mr.-Lee, the well
known pantomime writer, against Mr. Mercer H. Simpson,
the lessee of the Liverpool Theatre Royal. for niracv. in-

performing at his theatre the celebrated pantomime known
as the Princess Battledore; or the Harlequin Shuttle-
cock. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for
23 nights' penalties--X46.

r uTURE fROPERTY " IN INSOLVENCY.—In the Lon-
don Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Thursday, an applica-
tion was made in the matter of Samuel Davies, who was
discharged fourteen years ago, and was now entitled to
£l5O in right of his wife. The question was, in what
manner the money was to be distributed. His creditors
under his insolvency claimed a part, and he showed that
he was in indigent circumstances, with a large family,
having several under • ten years of age. The court, re-
garding the equity in the case, ordered the creditors un-
der the insolvency of 1832 to be paid £5O out of the £l5O,
and the costs of the present application out of the estate.
It is said that about twenty of the appointments to the
judgeships under the Small Debts Act have been already
definitively made. Of Queen's Counsel, Messrs. Chilton,
Starkie, Koe, and Anderdon (the two latter gentlemen
members of the Chancery bar), are mentioned as having
received appointments. On the Nerthern Circuit, Messrs.
Walker, 'Wharton, and Ingham, and on the Midland,
Messrs. Wildman and Hildyard, will, it is said, fill some
of the judgeships. Mr. Gale, of the Midland Circuit,
goes to Hampshire ; Mr. Espinasse to East Kent ; and
Messrs. Tyrrell, Smith, and Palmer (three, provincial
counsel, and at present filling judicial offices under local
acts), to East Devon, Bath, and Bristol respectively. All
or most of these appointments are of a political character;
although as lawyers many of the gentlemen named sustain
a respectable, and in one or two cases, a high reputation.
NOTICE OF DISHONOUR—TIME OF POSTlNG.—Wood-
cock v. Holdsworth, 8 Law Times 215, is important as
being another decision that the question to be determined
where a notice is transmitted by post, is, whether it was
put into the post within the proper time, and, conse-
quently, if delay occur, that it is not to tend to the injury
of the sender. The point turns upon the question whe-
ther the pest-office is to be treated as the agent of the
sender. Public policy requires that it should not be so
treated. In Stocken v. Collin, 7M. and W. 515, accord-
ingly, the Court of Exchequer held that the jury were not
bound to accredit the post-mark, but might give their
verdict on the evidence of a witness that he posted it on a
particular day, notwithstanding the post-thark. In these
cases Alderson B. observed the question is, has the party
been guilty of lathes ? It has often occurred to us that
the system of using envelopes will materially diminish the
facility of proving letters, and may produce serious incon-
venience.—Law Times,