The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.
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At Carrick-on-Shannon Assizes the murderers of
Father Tom Maguire's brother have been found guilty,
and sentenced to death by Judge Moore.
Mr. Gavan Duffy has established a novel distinction in
the repeal camp, highly to his own credit. He declares
himself willing to become a public convict, but he declines
the character of a public pauper.
The trial of Mary Reynolds and Hugh Quin, for poi-
soning the celebrated Rev. T. Maguire, took place on
Tuesday last, at the Leitrim Assizes, and ended in the
acquittal of both prisoners.
At Tullaraore, in the King's County, Michael Murphy
was found guilty of the murder of Sergeant Grant. The
details of the case are very disgraceful to the peasantry,
several of whom witnessed the murder with perfect cool.
ness.

A deputation from the Town Council and ratepayers
of Belfast, consisting of Mr. W. G. Johnson, Mayor of
Belfast, Mr. John M`Neile, L.L., and Mr. S. G. Fenton,
J.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Fri-'
day, and presented his lordship with the resolutions agreed
to at a public meeting in opposition to the rate in aid.
At the Longford assizes, in a case tried before Baron
Pennefather, it was proved that a witness had been re-
ceiving out-door relief, though he had £34 in his posses-
sion. When rebuked by the learned judge, the witness
excused himself by saying that he had seen all the farmers
about him receiving relief in the same way,
On Saturday night, 45 sheep, the property of the late
Robert Cooke, Esq., of Kiltynan Castle, county of Tip-
perary, were maliciously stabbed by some villains, who
left the carcases on the fields. They stabbed them nearly
all in the same part, near the head. Twenty-five of them
were killed on the spot, and many more of thorn have
died since.

NINE LIVES Losz.—On the 28th ult. a boat was cross-
ing the river with nine passengers and some sheep and
cows, when the wind rose to a gale, and one of the men
struck a cow, which caused the animal to make a plunge,
and her hoof started one of the boards of the boat, which
instantly fillcd and sank. The boy at the helm saved
himself by clinging to an oar, but the others were all
drowned. The men were jobbers, and had many hundreds
of pounds in their possession.—Nenagh Guardian.
THE IRISH POOR-LAW UNIONS.—There are 131 Poor-
law Unions in Ireland, of which 110 are able to support
their own poor. The average rate of all Ireland in 1848
was 2s. 6d. in the pound • being in Ulster ls. 91d. in the
pound ; in Leinster, Is. ; in Munster, 3s. 71d. ; and

in Connaught, ss. Bd. The rate in aid of 6d. in the
pound, from the whole of Ireland, is asked for about 20
unions in the two last provinces, in which the pressure of

on the rackrent

The Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry,
died at his residence in the Island of Valentia on the 7th
instant, in his 76th year. He is succeeded in the ancient
title of Knight of Kerry by his son, Mr. Peter Fitzgerald,
High Sheriff of Kerry for the present year. The late
knight was a highly accomplished gentleman, one of that
class which was fashioned in the best days of Irish society,
and which shone pre-eminently in almost every court in
Europe.

PASTORAL SKULL-CRACKERS.--The Rev. Mr. O'Neill,
of Sligo, whose fame in the use of the " skull-cracker " has
been rather more notorious than enviable, has been made
to pay the penalty of his indulgence in the pugnacious
pastime. The case was tried at the Sligo Assizes on
Thursday, before Mr. Baron Lefroy, when Mr. Cordukes
and Mr. Delany having fully proved the assault, the jury,
after a few moments' heq,itation, brought in a verdict of
guilty. The defendant was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment, and the judge stated that if the indictment
had been properly framed he would have transported him.
COLLECTION OF PETER'S PENCE.—The last drag at the
pockets of a people steeped to the lips in poverty, namely,
the tribute now in course of collecting for relieving the
alleged pecuniary wants of the dethroned Pontiff, has not
been generally successful, at least in more than one dio-
cese in Ireland. The peasantry, as well as the better
class of farmers, in Kildare and the Queen's County, have
all but openly " pronounced" against the impost, declar-
ing that while so much distress exists at home it is " too
bad" to cripple their scanty resources by any fresh tax
upon the fruits of their industry. To such an extent had
this feeling prevailed " out of doors," that the subject
formed part of an altar discourse on Sunday last, the
officiating clergyman soundly rating his grumbling flock
for their worse than lack of enthusiasm in the cause of the
accredited head of the Roman Catholic Church.