The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A Cow in the possession of Messrs. of BallY-
macklevenan, near Portrush, has given birth, during tell
years, to fifteen calves ; three weeks ago she calved three
at one birth.

IRISH
CAUTION.—A parish meeting in Kanturk, at the
instigation of the priest, has rejected a motion against the
introduction of the income-tax, by passing an amendmeo
that that impost should be accepted in consideration of
the Consolidated Annuities, but that the driving out 9f
office of the present ministry would be preferred to their
extending their system of taxation, further.
SINGULAR APPREHENSION.—Four brothers were ill'
dicted at the Castlebar March Assizes, 18491 for the
murder of James Garraty, a farmer, at Swimford, Mayor
in November, 18.18; but the whole four absconded, and
were supposed to have fled to America. Two actually
went ; while Thomas Lyons, the one said to have giver'
the fatal blow, fled to Wales, where he has been residing+
in the parish of Gyffylliog, Denbighshire, until apprr
hended. About a fortnight ago, Police Sergeant Ham'
mends, of Ruthin, having received from the authorities et
Swimford a description of the supposed murderer, tool‘
Lyons into custody. The prisoner confessed that he vrag
in the fray, and that he intended to have escaped to
America, but was afraid of the sea. He was conveyed 0
Swimford, and the magistrates there have committed hita
for trial at the next Castlebar assizes.
CITY OF D unLiN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY---it
gratifies us exceedingly to find the vigilance exercised bid
the commanders of the steam-packets. of the City 01
Dublin Company, in the swinging out the lifeboats and
quarterboats, and lowering them into the water. 011
Saturday, Captain Christie, of the Iron Duke, at Kings"
town, ordered his men on deck without a moment's pre'
vious notice, and had the starboard boat in the water is
one minute twenty-three seconds, the portboat in one
minute and three seconds, and the two quarter-boats Ia
twenty-three seconds—a feat hitherto considered
practicable. Thus, the large numbers of visitors to out
Great Industrial Exhibition, as well as those who are la
the habit of frequently crossing the Channel, have a
guarantee for safety and promptitude, which proves the
great desire of the company, that all crossing should
possess a confidence which is so well merited. A further
trial of the Same kind was made by Cspt. Davis, of the
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Royal William, at the North Wall, with similar success
as his boats were lowered thes—the starboard paddle-bog
boat in one minute ten seconds and the two quarter boats
in twenty seconds. We are aware that the same prow.'
titude extends to the other vessels of the company.—
Dublin Evening Post.
THE CORK ELECTION COMMITTEE, now sitting, hag
been productive of some startling Popish incidents. 00
Thursday, Catherine Desmond was examined. Several
witnesses deposed to having seen voters for Chattel-01
murdered by an organised mob in favour of the priests
candidates, Murphy and Fagan. Mrs. Desmond swell
that Father Brown said to her husband that if he voteo.
o'
as he said he would, for Chatterton, " in tw months he
should not have a head to put a hat on !" He did so vote'
and was the same night most barbarously murdered. Mr°,l'.
Desmond further swore that, when the priest quitted 11."
husband, he shook the dust off his feet, "went out staraPi
ing, and made the sign of the cross upon the flags—a
understood sign at Cork." She further added that,
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her husband was dying, he was refused the consolat'ionS Of
his Church; the clergy would have nothing to do with
Father Scannell came after he was dead. He stood over
the corpse, and exclaimed " D—n you ! You were 11:
honest man, too ; but where's your soul now ?" Sesi,s
nell refused to say a mass for the repose of her husband
soul. Several electors swore that they voted for the
priests' candidates solely because they were told that, If
they voted for Chatterton, they would be murdered 0'
same night !

THE SPANISH WINE Cll.Ol?.—A letter from Villantle°2ll
Geltru, in Catalonia, states that all the wines in
neighbourhood have been attacked with the oidiure, a'Ar
that consequently all hope of a crop for the present Y c„/:"
lost. This is the first time the malady has appeared
Catalonia.
CONVICTION OF A FORGER.—On Wednesday, in t„1
London Central Criminal Court, a person of gentletao-,,0
exterior, whose name was unknown, was tried on a char.b
tis'e
of having forged and uttered two bills for the resPecau..
sums of £474 18s. and £3BB 10s. 9d., with intent to a
fraud Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co. It aPPO!;.cs,
that, on the 14th April, a letter was received by Ada
Overend, bill brokers, apparently written by John Adason and Sons, wool merchants, of Bradford,
enclosing the bills in question, and requesting the firrr•liu a
discount them and remit the amount in bank nate3io.ol,
letter, addressed to Mr. Adamson, at the Stork iessrs.
Liverpool ; and the excuse made for applying to -Adisco „t
Overend was the difference in the amount of
charged at Liverpool and London. The gentleman mhoof
received the letter at once suspected the genuinencss
bich re-
the transaction, and inquiries were instituted jury
suited in the apprehension of the prisoner. 'lnvqlcol
found a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to
years' transportatim Yorkshato