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

STATE OF IRELAND

(From the Dublin Evening
THE GAZETTE—STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
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 advanta:les
which have resulted from the administration of the noble
Marquis :
" • Short as has been the period of your Excellency's ad-
ministration, out' ages 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. To 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 Hue-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
1. Abduction
2. Attempt to assassinate
3. Assaults on dwelling-house
4. Arson

5. Burglary
6. Destruction of cattle

7. Murderous assault on the person '24
8. Murder l7

9. Party procession 1
10. Robbery in dweiling.house 6
11. Robbery of cattle
12. Robbery of fire-arms. 1
13. Rape 3
14. Threatening notiees . 2
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 the
person or property, and of the evanishment 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, we likewise extract the corresponding
evidence of two or three MUR DERS, 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 Alullingar
titular and priests so highly appreciated by the Globe—that
"to his Excellency's prudent, impartial, and conciliating
policy this happy gate of things is with justice to be as-
cribed :" _ _ _

(From the Dublin Gazette of Friday.)
"DUBLIN 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. 2.3.—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 wad which leads from Tullamore to Killeagli, 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."