The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

BIBLE BURNING.—The Derry Sentinel says:—" An
extraordinary case will come on for trial at the approach-
ing assizes, when a wretch will be put upon trial for
Bible-burning. Bible-burning, it would appear, has now
become a favourite sport with the Papists. "
THE IRISH FISHERIES.—The state of the fisheries is
highly satisfactory. The Limerick Herald states that
hundreds of salmon are caught every night in the Shan-
non, and at the Island point the cotmen net 200 to 300 in
a haul in their nets. Since last Sunday 3,000 splendid
fish were taken, and mostly all sent off by rail to other
markets. The country rivers are literally alive with trout.
In the south of Ireland there was never known such a
fishing season as this.

THE ENCIJNIBEIaD ESTITES COURT.—By a return just
issued from this court, we learn that the gross amount of
money realised by sales from 1850 to June, 1854, was
£12,996,933 13s. sd. Of this large sum, upwards of eight
millions have been distributed, a large amount of purchase-
money was allowed to buyers, who had charges on the
estates sold ; and the balance remains to the credit of trust
funds, &c.

MIiTOWN MALBAY.—One of the most barbarous out-
rages that ever disgraced any civilised country was per-
petrated in this neighbourhood last week. Three asses,
the property of two poor and industrious men, while brows-
ing on the side of a by-road, were cut, hacked, and other-
wis ! mutilated, in such a way that one of them has since
died. Wh it must be the opinion of the monster that
took out bis knife, cut off the ears, tails, and lips, of these
poor dumb inoffensive animals, and actually flayed one of
them ?

EXECUTION 07 A SOLDIER.—On Wednesday last,.
Robert Henry O'Neile, private of the 12th (East Worces-
tershire) regiment of foot, suffered the extreme penalty
of the law at the county Antrim prison, Belfast, for the
murder of Corporal Robert Brown, of the same regiment
whom he deliberately shot in the barrack room. When
the hour of the execution arrived there were about 20,000
persons present. On the whole, the vast multitude pre-
served considerable order, but a continual cheering and
shouting was kept up by the juvenile portion, male and
female, who conducted themselves with most improper levity, clodding one another with sods and other missiles.
hauling each other off the ditches, and evidently unim-
pressed by the awful gravity of the scene they came to
witness. As the hangman appeared on the drop, there
was a sudden thrill in the crowd, as though the multi-
tude had been awed by the scene for the first time.
When the convict appeared on the drop, a deep murmur
was heard from the immense mass. The unfortunate con-
vict was only in his eighteenth year when entered last
August in the books of the prison.
AN InzsumAN's WINDOW.—A clergyman in the neigh-
bourhood of Bristol, who has property in Ireland, was
some time ago written to by his agent there, who stated
that there was an old fellow who had been a very long
time occupying a cottage, or rather a cabin, on the estate,
and whom they thought they ought to try to make more
comfortable by putting a window to the house, as the
tenant was without that luxury—a door to let in the
owner, and a hole in the thatch to let out the smoke, being
the sole openings for air or light to the building. The
landlord wrote to say " by all means ;" and on visiting the
property very recently called to see the old man, in
company with the agent ; but on looking round he could
discover no window, so he asked what had become of it,
and whether it had been put in. " Yes," replied the agent,
" it is all safe enough, I have it put in the loft at home.
I had it put in with the intention of making the old man
happy ; but after it was in awhile he begged to have it out.
as he said he had lived so long without a window he could
not feel comfortable with one : he was not used to it, and"
did not like it, so he hoped I would have it removed and
the place stopped up : so I had it removed.—Bristot
Mirror.

iTint IRISH HARVESTERS AND TSB RA/LWAT.—The-
following notice has arisen, we understand, from an en-
deavour to annoy the City of Dublin Company, with whom
the London and North-Western Company are at war :
LONDON AND NORTH-WNSTNRN RAILWAY.—IRISH LA-
ROVAERS.—We have discontinued the conveyance of THESE
from Liverpool, and have arranged that they shall now ALL
go viii Holyhead. T. ORMANDy.
Edge-hill, Liverpool, June 3rd, 1854.
When it is remembered that a very large portion of our
countrymen find employment in Liverpool and other parts.
of Lancashire, while there is no employment whatever in
Wales, it will readily be seen how great an amount of
suffering will be entailed by the discontinuance of the
transit. We believe the trains referred to only took pas-
sengers (Irish labourers, we mean) in pens in which they
were stowed, standing up like cattle, and that in point of
fact the company have no power of compelling them to
go viii Holyhead, otherwise the board of trade would in-
terfere. It is satisfactory to learn, however, that a com—
peting line to London will shortly be in operation, ank
perhaps " these" will have a little more mercy and kind-
ness extended to them when there is a railway.—Dublita
Freeman's Journal.