The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANVARD.

IRELAND.

Lord Enniskillen has, within the last month, enabled
700 families on his Irish estate to emigrate.

Potatoes are now selling in the market of Castlebar at
from 4d. to 6d. per stone.
q.'he Galway Vindicator announces that food riots have
already broken out near that town. On Monday two
carts of flour were plundered not far from Renmore, and
all the food carried away.

On Saturday night last, as some men were watching
potatoes belonging to Michael Mulcahy, near Croom, two
or three armed plunderers came to carry them off. On
being resisted they fired at the men, and lodged two bullets
in a tree close to where they were standing.
John Lowe, Esq., of Spring House, county Tipperary,
was shot dead on his own lawn on Monday. The deceased
gentleman had police in his house to serve ejectments,
and while they were at breakfast he walked out on his
lawn and was shot dead. The assassin escaped without
detection.

IRISH IMPROVIDENCE.—A correspondent of the Dublin
Mail writing from Mayo, says that living in the midst
of bogs, and receiving their daily food from the hands of
public officers, the inhabitants of Belmullet have yet neg-
lected, during a summer of such extraordinary dryness as
that which has passed, to provide themselves with a stack
of turf!"

THE TENANT RIGHT MOVEMENT.—The Waterford
Chronicle announces that a monster demonstration in
favour of tenant right is to come off at Kilmathomas on
Sunday, the 24th of October. The meeting is, it seems,
to be attended by the Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese,
under whose auspices the agitation of the question has
been set in motion.

The system of " potato pulling," and "corn pulling,"
or, in plain English, robbing, is much practised in Tippe-
rary. Parties proceed at night to the corn yards and po-
tato fields, and dragging the corn from the ricks, or the
potatoes by the stalks out of the earth, carry them off.
In one case, a party with horses and carts came at night
to Sir Thomas Danar's rick yards, and were with diffi-
culty prevented from carrying off a large quantity.
A dreadful murder was perpetrated at Tynagh, about
nine miles from Ballinailoe, on Sunday week. An armed
party attacked the house of a man named Kelly, a bailiff
to Mr. Bernard O'Flaherty, the receiver ; the property
belongs to Martins, minors - and after entering the house
barbarously beat and mutilated every person in it ; Kelly
was so dreadfully maltreated that his life is despaired of,
and his wife is also very bad ; but the most dreadful
attack was made on a man named Horan, who died on
Tuesday from the effects of the beating.
Intelligence reached Dublin, on Monday morning, of
the assassination, on Saturday, of Mr. William Roe, of
Rockwell, a landed proprietor in the South Riding of
Tipperary. The murder of the ill-fated gentleman is
attributed to the fact of his having served an ejectment
on a tenant named Lonergan, residing at a place called
Boytonrath, adjacent to the scene of the recent " tenant-
right" demonstration at Holy Cross. There is not a
tenant on the estate where the murder occurred that does
not owe two years rent.

THE IRISH CHURCH—We have this day to announce
—we will not say upon authority, but upon information
upon which we have the fullest reason to rely--that a bill
whose outline is to repeal alike the Irish Poor-Law and
the tithe commutation statute, and to transfer from the
land to a fund to be raised by an Irish property or income
tax the entire charge of the church and the pauperism of
Ireland, has been prepared. Upon this measure it is said
the government is resolved, and that it will be one of the
earliest submitted to the consideration of parliament in
the ensuing session. We have not learned whether the
contemplated fund is to be raised by an income or a
property tax ; but it is stated that from £2OO a-year and
upwards all incomes (or property) are to be subject to the
tax, at a rate ranging from one and a half to three and a
half per cent.—Dublin Herald.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday, the chair was
taken by Mr. F. Scully, member for Tipperary. This
gentleman descanted on the state ofthe country, and said
he meant to follow in the footsteps of O'Connell, by acting
on his maxims. He then let loose a variety of political.
propositions ; amongst others was one to make a tax on
absentees, which he said would bring in £6,000,000 per
annum. Mr. J. O'Connell, having read an address from
Nenagh, to him, "as leader," enclosing £l5, and another
from Paramatta, New South Wales, containing £lO, pro-
ceeded to refer to the late election for the county of Clare,
and to attack his own relation, Mr. Charles O'Connell,
for aiding in the return of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., an
anti-Repealer, in opposition to Mr. C. O'Brien, a stanch
Old Irelander. He said that Mr. Charles O'Connell had
got time enough to repent of his conduct, and if he did
not make atonement to the country by the following
Monday, he would move his expulsion from the Associ-
ation. The rent was announced to be £7O.
THE WAY PROTESTANTS ARE TREATED.—The Pro-
testant Association in Dublin have addressed a letter to
Lord John Russell, enclosing a resolution passed by the
society against a mission to Rome, in which they say :
" We consider it a solemn mockery to call him (the Pope)
as he has been sometimes called, ' the great champion in
these days of constitutional liberty ;" and that regarding
him, as we do, as the very Antichrist foretold in Scrip-
ture—however much we would desire that this great em-
pire should assist in maintaining him in the just posses-
sion of any just right, or interfering to prevent the perpe-
tration of injustice towards him—we would sincerely de-
precate any act of our government which would establish
those diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom
and the Pope, which are expressly denounced by the Bill
of Rights." In the letter accompanying the resolution
the following paragraph appears :—" My Lord,—Every
one of our national acts which has made concessions to
Popery, or advances towards it, bas been attended with
calamity ; and as a result of them all we now see Ireland
reduced to a state of deplorable pauperism, after having
been swept by famine and pestilence; yea, rather, the
latter scourge is still laying our country desolate. In
England unparalleeld commercial embarrassment seems to

be tastening on a general bankruptcy, while at the same
time popular discontent in both islands threatens the
overthrow of our institutions and the dissolution of the
empire. But, still worse than all this, may be pronounced
that withdrawal of the grace of God, which is manifested
by the prevalence of such crimes which make the degre-
dation of the present period even more afflicting than its
abounding distress." Lord John Russell deigns merely
to acknowledge the receipt both of epistle and resolution.
THE PREMIER AND A REPEAL M.P.—On the 17th ult.
Mr. Anstey, the member for Youghal, in inclosing to
Lord John Russell " a resolution and address, emanating
from a meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in
East Skull," designated the documents as " simple and
eloquent statements of Irish distress and ministerial cri-
minality ;" proceeded to talk of the mal-administration
of the affairs of Ireland, as the " disgrace and crime of
Downing-street ;" and concluded by expressing his own
conviction, that " far from having a demand to make for
repayment of the sums you have squandered, you owe to
Ireland a heavy debt, in respect of her labour wasted, her
hands thrown out of profitable employment, and her roads
and public works made useless or destroyed." The reply
of Lord John Russell is as follows : I have had the
honour to receive your letter of the 17th. lam deeply
concerned at the prospect of distress in East Skull, in the
county of Cork. It appears to me that the owners of
property in Ireland ought to feel the obligation of sup-
porting the poor who have been born on their own estates,
and have hitherto contributed to their yearly incomes.
It is not just to expect that the working classes of Great
Britain should permanently support the burthen of Irish
pauperism. I shall not take any notice of the numerous
errors of fact and argument into which you have fallen in
your letter accompanying the representation you have
sent me." Mr Anstey, in his rejoinder, says :—"I
immediately on the assembling of parliament, do my part
as one of ' the members of parliament for the boroughs of
Cork' towards giving the required explanation to the le-
gislature of ' the peculiarly grievous pressure of the fa-
mine, the impolicy and injustice' of your lordship's pro-
ceedings with respect to the visitation, and ' the impossi-
bility of effecting, by such means, the relief of the desti-
tute,' or, rather, of such of them as may be then no longer
in the enjoyment of the existence which it now depends
on you to save or extinguish."