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

IRELAND.

A Cow in the possession of Messrs. M`Neill, of Bally-
macklevenan, near Portrush, has given birth, during tan
years, to fifteen•ealves ; three weeks age,ahe 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 amendment
that that impost should be accepted in consideration of
the Consolidated Annuities, but that the driving out of
office of the present ministry would bopreferred to their
extending their system of taxation further.
SINGULAR APPREHENSION.—Four brothers were in-
dicted at the Castlebar March Assizes, 1849, for the
murder of James Garraty, a farmer,_ at
absconded,
in November, 1848 • but the whole four and
were supposed to have fled to America. Two actually
went; while Thomas Lyons, the one said to have given
the fatal blow, fled to Wales, where he has been residing,
in the parish of Gyffylliog, Denbighshire, until appre-
hended. About a fortnight ago, Police Sergeant Ham-
mondsof Ruthin, having received from the authorities of
Swimford a description of the supposed murderer, took
Lyons into custody. The prisoner confessed that he was
in the fray, and that he intended to have escaped to
America, but was afraid of the sea. He was conveyed to
OF DUBLIN
the neat
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—It'
ntehxe tetmcaagsitsiterbaars, reatshsiezes.have committed hims
exceedingly to find the vigilance exercised by
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the commanders of the steam-packets of the City of
Dublin Company, in the swinging out the lifeboats and-
quarterboats, and lowering them into the water. On
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 in
one minute twenty-three seconds, the portboat in one
minute and three seconds, and the two quarter-boats in
twenty-three seconds—a feat hitherto considered iOl-
- Thus, the large numbers of visitors, to our
Great Industrial Exhibition,. as well as those who are in
the habit of frequently crossing the Channels, have a
guarantee for safety and promptitude, w h ich proves the
great desire of the company, that all crossing should
similar success„ confidencekin kind hwiacsil is
trialris possess
ofe3 s the same he
as his boats were lowered thus—the starboard paddle-box
boat in one minute ten seconds and the two quarter boats
madeso well merited. A further
by Cspt. -Davis, of the
Royal William„ at the North Wall, with
in twenty seconds. We are aware that the same promp•
titude extends to the other vessels of the company.--4
Dublin Evening. Poi.
THE CORK ELECTION COMMITTEE, now sitting,, has
been productive of some startling Popish incidents. 00
Thursday, Catherine Desmond was examined., Several
witnesses deposed to having seen voters for Chatterton
murdered by an organised mob in favour of the priests'
candidates, Murphy and Fagan. Mrs. Desmond swore
that Father Brown said to her Lusband that, if he voted
as he said he would, for Chatterton, " in two months he
should not have a head to put a hat on !" lie did so vote.
and was the same night most barbarously murdered. Mrs,
Desmond further swore that, when the priest quitted her
husband, he shook the dust off his feet, "went out stamp-
*, and made the sign of the cross upon the flags—a well
understood sign at Cork." She further added that, when .
her husband was dying, he was refused the consolations of
his Church; the clergy would have nothing to do with him,
Father Scannell came after he was dead. He stood over
the corpse, and exclaimed " you! You were an
honest man, tool but where's your soul now ?" Scan-
nell refused to say a mass for the repose of her husband's
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 the
same night !

THE SPANISH WINE CROP.—A letter from Villanueva
Geltru, in Catalonia, states that all the wines in the
neighbourhood have been attacked with the °idiom, and
consequently all hope of a crop for the present yew'
lost. This is the first time the malady has appeared 111
Catalonia.
CONVICTION OF A FORGER.—On Wednesday, in tho,
London Central Criminal Court, a person of gentlemanly
exterior, whose name was unknown, was tried on a charge
of having forged and uttered two bills for the respective
sums of £474 18s. and £3BB 10s. 9d., with intent to dad-
fraud Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co. It aPPeare
that, on the 14th April, a letter was received by Messrs.
Overend, bill brokers, apparently written by John Adarg"
son and Sons, wool merchants, of Bradford, Yorkshin
enclosing the bills in question, and requesting the armbu
discount them and remit the amount in bank notes, in a
letter, addressed to Air. Adamson, at the Stork Hotel,
Liverpool Liverpool ; and the excuse made for applying to Messurf,.
Overend was the difference in the amount of disco
charged at Liverpool and London. The gentleman who
' of
received the letter at once suspected the genuinenessich
re-
the transaction, and inquiries were instituted w. he
suited in the apprehension of the pxisoner. Th
jury
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found a verdict of guilty, and he ego sentenced to -
years' transportation.

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