The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A meeting has been held at Calcutta to collect subscrip-
tionst for the relief of the distressed Irish. No less than
23.357 rupees were at once subscribed.
latsu IMPROVEMENTS —On Thursday a meeting was
held at Cove, to memorialize the Admiralty and Board. ofe
Works of Ireland to grant a sum of money to improve Oa.
harbour of Cove.
The usual weekly repeal meeting was held on Monde!:
Luke Joseph O'Shea, F,sq , one of the dismissed repeal
magistrates, in th' chair. The several speakers who ad-
dressed the meeting levelled their denunciations against
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the newly proposed C, ercion Bill for Ireland. The repeal
rent for the week exzeeded £2OO.
The Grand Jury of the county of Westmeath, On
Thursday, came to a unanimous resolution, reolidiale'
in the strongest manner of which language is c.pablet 'Le
i.sfarnous and atrocious falsehood put forward against the
magistracy and gentry—namely, that they had rile on
deputation to, or memorialized the Lord Lieutenant, not to
extend the prerogative of mercy towards Seerv.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—OD Tuesday evening
week, as a man, named George Kyle, was returning horn!
from Killifaddy, county Armagh, was fired at, and V
slugs were lodged in his body. Siight hopes are enter:
tamed of his recovery. The only cause assigned for the
act is, that he walked in the Orange procession in Jul/
last.
CONFLICT WITH THE POLICE.—OD Tuesday night, =IS
policemen fell in with a gang of Rockites, amounting !o.
fourteen or fifteen, near Kiltinnane, Limerick. A fii4
immediately ensued, both parties using fire-arrns•
length the Rockit, s were overcome, and fled. leaving
three of their number in the hinds of the victors. The
three men were dreadfully wounded, and, on reaching
Kilfinnane, were attended by a surgeon. On recovery'
they were removed to the county gaol, to await their
None of the police were hurt.
IRISH CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—An Irish par--„„r th
Warder, gives a list of 26 Rev. Gentlemen who have re"
flounced Popery in Ireland, and conformed to the Protes-
tant faith, the only ancient faith, of the Irish Church. I.;
also gives a list of miscellaneous converts, and says," lt,l
from recollection that we give a list of converted Pfies`4s'
the catalogue of lay converts might be prolonged ad in,P;
nitum ; hundreds of these might be added ; we merely OA
a few names of the latter to show th,t both priests an
people are shaking off the bondage of Rome."
DREADFUL MURDEIL—The Derry Sentinel contain
an account of the murder of an old man by his son 8°
daughter-in-law, in the vicinity of Ardara, county of D°:
negal. Having suddenly disappeared, his neigi•bour'
asked his son anti daughter-in-law where he had gene
when they utterly denied all knowledge of him. A se'relr
was made, and suspicion being excited, from some marks
leading to a lake in the neighbouthoid, the lake was
dragged, and almost immediately they found the body, to
which were attached a chain and a large stone. The corPsa
presented a most frightful appearance, being disfigured bfa
no fewer than thirteen cuts. The arms were broken, an.
all the ribs crushed. The parties are in custody, and it is
bolieved the woman will turn approver. Religious diffe-
rences are said to have originated the murder. The ,n;1a
man was a Protestant; his son had married a Catho"ct
and became with her a Catholic, to the great annova°
and grief of the father. The female on being arrested Is
reported to have exclaimed, that if she had been at 11003 e
nothing of the kind would have occurred.

THE REPEAL RENT.—There is at present a stroef'
feeling—increasing every day—amongst the subscribers
to
this tremendous tax that some account should be renderer.
of the manner in which the enormous fund is dispos°
The last number of the Dublin Nation, the repeal orgy f'
contains a very intelligent hint on the subject, and as c
O'Connell, at stated seasons of the year declares that tci
whole accounts in their most minute items shall be place
before the association, many of the more honest repealel
are asking when this is to take place. One correspondlf
of the repeal pape7s accuses the association of critnin.
extravagance;—another, after stating that the accour,
p;
though often caller' for, and even promised, have nece,
yet been published, acknowledges that he has grown °la v
heartened, and has ceased to contribute, and that
,he
knows thou-ands of his countrymen who have done f.
same. Since the Ist of January, 1840, to the 2.3111°..
February, 1846, six years and two months, there has bees
paid into this exch«luer no less a sum than one hundrfie
and ton nty—s even thousand eiohl hundred and sixty-nrt
p2rinds, eleven shillings and serinpenee. No marvel t"'
same account is required of the expenditure of so large ,
sum.

IRISH COERCION BILL—The following is a brief semio
mary of the bill introduced by Lord St. Germains"'
the bt tter protection of life, and to facilitate the appreheor,
sion and detection of persons guilty of offences in Ireland.
The granting of a power to the Lord-Lieutenant to Pr°;
claim a district, where murders or attempts to murder ha%
been committed, and to appoint an additional police NIT:
within such district, to be maintained by a tax upon ID.:
inhabitants—a further power to the Lord-Lieutenant
101.ir
warn all persons in proclaimed districts to remain 11,
their houses from sunset to sunrise—a prohibition agart
assembling in public-houses in the night time, and aga",
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the possession of fire-arms without authority—and a P.„
nishment for the injury or intimidation of jurors or
Aptsri
nesses, which is contained in the following clause : er
person who shall, within any district proclaimed n 0
this act, wilfully or maliciously injure either the person 7
property of any person who has appeared, or shall arleaor:
or be bound to appear, as a witness, prosecutor, or juror,
or who shall by threats or menaces, or otherwise h°`l,,„"
eser, deter or intimidate, or endeavour to deter or int 4-0,
date, any person from appearing or acting as a witirti
prosecutor, or juror, or from discharging his or her
1.'3.'0
in that behalf, shall be deemed guilty of a misdenaesn°ut to
There is also a provision, enabling the Lord-Lieutenant
award to a person maimed, or to the representatisesoised-
person murdered, a reasonable compensation, to Inro in-
by a rate framed upon the poor-law valuation; an
froi
dividual, however small his rating, is to be exeroPte" bit
payment, nor is he entitled to deduct the amount frolca
rent. Offences against the act are to be misdemean°llbge
to be tried either at quarter sessions or at the assizes iAo%
the trial by jury is preserved, and the mode of conduct.'
the procedure is in no respect altered.
EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND AND THEIR EFFECIied
The Dublin Mail, after noticing that no deputation ica of
on the Lord Lieutenant to request the execution e,
Seery, but that that subject was merely mentioned l'ho
dentally by a party of gentlemen who waited 05 oa
excellency from another part of the country, p 0 end
another subject, says, with reference to the usual clop/ sa
being extended towards the criminal, and the effeet2 foe
example being 'bus lost, "in truth since the year beer
the last departure of Lord Anglesey from these
glo
until the present month, there never has been a s'o-p.6
instance in which the Roman Catholic priests Otibeir
cry in favour of a convicted criminal—sustained by 'be'
press, and backed by their demagogues--in whichu:t of
have not proved that their power was superior to tP-sol
the law. The lower orders felt this, and the lawless or'
the disaffected acted accordingly—always under the ofd
pression that they were acting with impunity• ;see
Heytesbu-:y, much to his credit, and greatly for the P:hts
of the country, has dispelled this illusion. And wb,B„ 0
been the consequence of this display of determinatt"."ijoa
regards crimin&s, on the one hand, and the administr"oo,
of the laws, on the other ? Why, that there: has
been a single outrage committed in the col2otiese
Westmeath since the day on which Seery was se
cuted ; and Egan, on whose case the juries, 013/000
former occasions, refused to agree, was yesterday '
guilty of the attack on Mr. Ennis's garnekeePel'i/O'
jurors composed indiscriminately of Protestants and re'
Ran Catholics; they, like others, feeling that the o'o'oo
macy of the law has been asserted, and that it is Pother
for protection as well as for punishment. As an. stirf
proof of the effect of administering the laws with lgoltb
we may state that several of the traversers charged et'
the commission of Ribbon offences in the county the
van, have absconded, leaving their bail to destal
be
reasons for their not taking their trials."