The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

REDUCTION IN TUE FEES OF COUNSEL—At a meeting
of the Dublin bar, on Wednesday, Sir Thomas Staples,
Bart., in the chair, a resolution was moved by G. Fitz-
gibbon, Esq., Q.C., and seconded by Loftus Bland, Esq.,
M.P., to the effect that gentlemen of the outer bar should,
henceforth, be at liberty to accept of half a guinea fee on
a summons and plaint under the New Law Procedure
Act. This resolution was carried unanimously.
JUVENILE CRIME IN DUBLIN.—In Dublin at present
juvenile depravity is something appalling. Of committals
to the contagion of the gaol in 1852, there were 1,936
children under ten years of age ; 4,221 between ten and
fifteen ; and 8,468 between fifteen and twenty. Numbers
of other persons have been in prison no less than 20 times
in one year ; and two women were mentioned of the ages
of 35 and 38 years who had been in gaol no less than 112
and 113 timel! Of 51 persons transported in 1852, 8
were under 16 years of age; 26 from 16 to 20; but only
3 from 30' to 40, and only one was over 40 years old. Of
those 51 persons, it was the first conviction upon only 3 !
The rest had been repeatedly in gaol.
THE GREA.T Tincr CASE.—After two days' display of
forensic eloquence on the part of counsel, the Court of
Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Tuesday, made absolute the
conditional order, previously granted, requiring Mr. Hugh
O'Callaghan, the police magistrate, to make a return of
the informations sworn before him in the memorable
-polemical case of " O'Brennan v. Smyth," better known
as the " great tract case." This is but the preliminary
step to ulterior proceedings in the matter. The informa-
tions once produced, the question of their legality will be
fought inch by inch, and until every argument pro and
con. is thoroughly exhausted.
TIIE BELFAST AND CORK STEAM-PACKET COMPANIES.
—The differences between the above companies have been
satisfactorily adjusted. At a meeting of a deputation
from each board, held in Dublin, on the 14th instant,
Mr. Pike, managing director, and Mr. Glover, the secre-
tary of the Cork Company, met W. R. S. Lepper, the
chairman of the Belfast Company, and Mr. Valentine,
who formed the deputation from Belfast, in the most
friendly spirit. The Telegraph will be at once withdrawn
from the Cork and Liverpool line, and the Minerva from
the line between Liverpool and Belfast.
TIIE LATE FLOOD.—The expense of repairing the da-
mage done to the bridges throughout this country will
not, we believe, amount to more than £9,ooo.—Cork Con-
stitution.

JUVENILE CRIME.—A few days ago, a boy, named.
John Hull, aged nine years, who lived in Little Patrick-
street, Belfast, stabbed with a knife his half-sister, a girl
about sixteen years of age, with whom he had been quar-
rdiedelling, and from the effects of the injury she shortly after

FIRE.—The extensive flour mills of Ballyclough, within
three miles of Limerick, have been destroyed by fire. The
buildings were insured a fortnight before for £2,600, in
the offices of the Imperial and Manchester Companies, but
the property destroyed exceeded that value by about £l,OOO
more.

THE " YOUNG IRELAND" PARTY, or " the Irish party
of Independent Opposition," are making desperate efforts
to establish some degree of political importance on the
approach of the new session of parliament. They have
commenced with a " banquet" in Louth, to be followed by
public dinners in Meath, Wexford, New Ross, &e.
THE DARGAN INSTITUTE.—There was a full meeting of
the committee of the Dargan Institute held on the 9th inst., at
the Commercial-buildings, Dublin, the Marquis of West-
meath presiding, when the following resolution was adopt-
ed :—" As it appears to this committee that a public gal-
lery for the exhibition of works of the fine arts, and their
applications to industry, is still much required in Ireland,
and, if established, would tend to improve the public taste,
as well as to advance those numerous branches of manu-
facture in which beauty and originality of design are
requisite, resolved, that it is the opinion of this com-
mittee that the best way of applying the funds placed at
its disposal, and the most suitable mode, under all the
circumstances, of commemorating the Great Exhibition of
1853, and its generous and patriotic founder, Mr. Dargan,
will be by erecting a suitable building for the reception
and exhibition of works of the fine arts, and their appli-
cations to industry, to be called ' The Dargan Institute.' "
MuEDEE IN TIPPERARY.—A correspondent of the
Freeman gives the following particulars of a brutal case
of murder perpetrated in the western part of the county
of Tipperary :—" A most foul and dreadful murder was
perpetrated on a very industrious man, named Philip
Ryan, of Ballysa, in the county of Tipperary, two miles
from Killaloe, between the hours of six and seven o'clock
on yesterday evening. The poor fellow, accompanied by
his wife, who was selling milk at the market of Killaloe,
in returning home was attacked by three men, and bar-
barously, inhumanly murdered on the road. Not satis-
fied with breaking his head, after life must have departed,
they cut his throat, and, also, from his chin to his
stomach, giving the appearance of a crucial incision. I
have to add that his poor wife was also struck down, but,
in their hurry to dispatch him in a satisfactory manner,
they forgot her. She in the meanwhile crawled into a
ditch, and concealed herself in the briars and bushes, and,
fortunately, in the darkness, they could not find her.
She lies in a dangerous state, but is expected to recover.
She has identified the three men, cousins to her husband.
They now lie in the Killaloe Bridewell. Land ! land !
land ! was the cause of this diabolical murder."

SCOTCH INVESTMENTS.—The Freeman publishes the
following :—" A gentleman, who left this to pass the
Christmas with his friends in Scotland, has found the
practice of investing in Irish property, under the Incum-
bered Estates Court, so much in favour with Scotch
capitalists, and has so successfully encouraged them in their
tendency to this speculation, that he has already received
commissions to lay out various sums in this way, altoge-
ther amounting to more than £200,000. It is also satis-
factory to observe that many of these, who have already
laid out money in our country, are about to repeat the
experiment, after having had sufficient experience to form
a sound opinion as to its wisdom."
hum ELECTIONS.—Mr. Butt, M.P., has the following
notice of motion on the order-book of the House of Com-
mons, which he is to move on the meeting of parliament :
" To call attention to the special reports made during the
session by the committees who tried the election petitions
from the counties of Clare and Mayo, the city of Cork, and
the borough of Sligo, and to the facts of intimidation and
clerical interference to which these reports referred ; and
to move for a select committee to inquire how far similar
evils prevailed at the last general election in Ireland; and
to consider the present state of the law relative to intimi-
dation and undue influence, and the necessity and expe-
diency of adopting any new provisions to secure freedom
of election."

MELANCHOLY EP/INT.—An inquest was held last week
on the body of a young man named Todd, who came by
his death in the following manner :—He had gone into a
forge in Portlongfield, near Killeshandra, to get some
shoeing done, and took up the sledge to strike a little. A
young man who had been out shooting came in shortly
after, and Todd, turning round to see who was there, the
gun, which must have been on full cock, went off, and
he received its charge of shot in the breast, and fell dead
in a moment.

RIBBON MURDER.-111`Mahon, the farmer, who, about
five weeks ago, was brutally assaulted at Crossmaglen, in
one of the proclaimed districts of Armagh, in pursuance of
the decree of a Ribbon society, died on Sunday last, having
lingered until that day in great pain. Poor M`Mahon's
crime consisted in paying his rent in defiance of an anony-
mous caution against such an act. The verdict was " wil-
ful murder" against Peter Hamil, now in Armagh gaol.
THE LITE LORD BERESPORD.—It is stated by a local
paper, that the late Marshal Beresford has bequeathed his
estates in the county of Carlow, together with a sum of
£16,000, to the eldest son of one of his gallant companions
in many a hard fought field, the late General Sir Denis
Pack, of the county of Kilkenny.
ILLEGAL MARRIAGES.—At the petty sessions of Castle-
bar, held on Wednesday, two Roman Catholic priests, the
Rev. Richard Hasty and the Rev. Richard Ward, were
summoned to answer the complaint of the Rev. William
Baker Stoney, the rector of the parish, that they., or one
of them, had celebrated a marriage between a private sol-
dier, a Protestant, and a woman, a Roman Catholic. The
informations were received, and the case sent for trial at
the ensuing assizes at Mayo.

CARVING AT TABLE.—A man asking another, whom
he was about to help to chicken, whether he wished the
leg or wing ? "It is a matter of perfect indifference to
me," said the other; "and infinitely more so to me,"
replied the carver, laying down the knife and fork, and
resuming his own dinner.
THZ AUTHOR OF "SWEET HoME."—The life of J.
Howard Payne, the author of " Sweet Home," was one of
remarkable vicissitudes. "Of an evening," says one who
knew him, " we would walk along the streets, looking into
the lighted parlours as we passed. Once in a while we
would see some family circle so happy, and forming so
beautiful a group, that we would both stop, and then
pass silently on. On such occasions he would give me a
history of his wanderings, his trials, and all the cases
incident:to his sensitive nature and poverty. ' How often
(said he once) I have been in the heart of Paris, Berlin,
London, or some other city, and heard persons singing or
the hand organ playing " Sweet Home," without a shilling
to buy the next,meal, or a place to lay my head. The world
has, literally, sung* until every heart is familiar with its
melody. Yet Ilavellaeen a wanderer from my boyhood.'"
—The Musical .'s ant