The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The ladies of Ulster are about to present the Deaf and
and Dumb Institution there with £l,OOO, as a thank-
offering.
Corporal Bradshaw, of the thirty-eighth regiment, has
been accidentally killed while a party of recruits were
practising with ball at Westmeath. The unintentional
homicide was one of the reeruits, named Lawden.
The Roscommon Journal states, that a naggin of water
cannot be bad within a mile of Roscommon, and that
hundreds of people in fever there are twenty-four hours
without as much water as would wet their lips.
Some members of the Society of Friends are now ne-
i
gociating for the purchase, at a cost of £40,000, of a tract
of waste land on the coast of Donegal, in order to esta-
blish a lobster fishery, which will give a good deal of em-
ployment.
At the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. Scully,
M:P. for Tipperary, spoke in terms of high praise of Mr.
Roe, who was murdered in that county a few days ago,
and feelingly declared that "no man had a less right to be
murdered !"
On Monday evening, as Peter Nash, a bailiff near Li-
merick, was returning home with his two sons, he was
fired at from behind a ditch by some vile miscreant. The
shot was fatal, no less than eleven slugs having entered
the unfortunate man, who immediately fell, to the horror
of his children.
IRISH STATISTICS.—At a meeting of the parishes of
Kilmeena and Kilmaclasser, County Mayo, last week, a
resolution was passed stating that they contained. a popu-
lation of 11,800, notwithstanding the vast numbers car-
ried off by famine. Now it so happens that, according
to the census report of 1841, the population of these pa-
rishes altogether was only 11,444. This is " reproductive
employment" with a vengeance !
FIRE-ARMS AND POWDER.—The Limerick Examiner
says that " a countryman, who did not appear to possess
a shilling, purchased a six barrel pistol, at Mr. M'Auliff's
auction, last week, for £3 10s." Concurrently with this,
we find the following in the Limerick Chronicle:—
"There was imported into Limerick, last week, a whole
magazine of gunpowder for private venders, being not less
than 150 casks. This must be welcome news to the agra-
rian legislators, who will, no doubt, supply themselves
with ammunition for the winter campaign."
FRIGHTFUL ASSASSINATION.-011 Thursday week,
Timothy Hanley, employed by the Hon. Mrs. Otway
Cave, as woodranfer, at Castle Otway, Tipperary, was
shot dead while sitting in a small apartment which he
occupied adjoining the castle. The only motive for the
murder that can be possibly imagined is that the deceased
was a daring strong man, and always carried fire-arms ;
and so resolute did the neighbours think him to be, that
none of them dared touch any of the property over which
he was set. The murder was committed on the very day
that the magistrates were assembled to consider what
steps should be taken in consequence of the midday mur-
der of Mr. Roe.
On Tuesday week Lissamore Castle, near Ballymoney,
was blown up by an explosion of gunpowder. It is sup-
Mrs. Macartney, going
posed to have originated by the lady of the proprietor,
with a lighted candle, into a dark
and narrow
passage, leading from one wing to the other,
which
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quence of having become damp. Whether Mrs. Macart-
tey knew that the destruct
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destructive material was in the
state described, no person can tell ; bnt she had scarcely
been a minute in the place when an explosion took place,
the roar of which was heard like a burst of thunder, and
in an instant, with the exception of the opposite wing
from the spot, the castle was a mass of ruins, the unfor-
Amate lady being blown to atorns!