The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Little new or interesting has occurred since our last, if
we except a strike for wages by the labourers under the
Board of Works, upon the canal that is being cut between
Loch Corrib and the sea. This work was undertaken in
one of the most impoverished districts (immediately ad-
joining the town of Galway,) in that impoverished coun-
try.. The ordinary wages there seldom, if ever, exceeded
tenpence a day. In this work, however, where the pay-
ment was proportioned to the work done, a man, by
giving a fair day's work, might have had sixteen-pence as
his fair day's wages. But the strike is in order that the
payment may be by the day, irrespective of the amount
of work done. We notice the incident at all only as
sadly illustrative of the hopeless character of:the Irish
peasantry, and the demoralizing influence of the Poor
Law as at present administered, that affords the shelter of
ont-door relief to those fellows that otherwise must have
supported themselves by honest labour. What is to be
done for or with the country ? for 'tis true as an axiom,
that so long as the finest pisantry on the earth can take
sixpence a day, in idleness; out of any other man's
pocket, they will prefer it to three times the sum, the
reward of their own industry.

The southern papers give an account of the faithful and
intrepid conduct of the Rev. D. Foley ; assailed and inter-,
rupted by a popish mob in the parish church of Tralee, on
Sunday evening, he yet persevered undaunted, speaking
the truth in love, setting at naught the malice of his ene-
mies. This is but a sample of what the ministers of the

should she ever regain the power of effecting her own will

upon them

The trial of Gavan Duffy has at last assumed a shape
in which it is likely that the opinion of a jury will be
taken.

Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, the young gentleman who
figured rather prominently in the councils of the late
Irish Confederation, has entered the service of His Ma-
jesty the King of Sardinia as a lieutenant of Lancers,
with pay at the rate of 180 f. a month.
Archbishop M‘Hale, and the other, Roman Catholic
prelates of Connaught, have adopted a resolution in con-
clave, to act immediately on the Pope's recommendation
of forming a Roman Catholic College independent of
Government.

The provincial papers report several cases of death from
destitution—viz., one at Limerick, two from Tipperary,
two from Galway, one from Mayo, and one from Ferma-
nagh. These are in addition to many others, which had
occurred previously.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A MAGISTRATE.—On
Saturday night week, J. S. Scott, Esq., of Launsdowne,
Queen's county, was fired at near his own gate. The
ball passed through the lapels and breast of his coat, car-
rying away a portion of letters he had in his pocket, with-
out injuring his person.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Friday, a man named
Wm. M'Connell, residing at Coshquin, Derry, had been
engaged in shooting, and after enjoying his pastime, he
entered his own house, leaving the loaded gun in the
kitchen, and retired. At this time, a youth entered the
house, and on lifting the gun M'Connell's daughter at-
tempted to wrest it from him, being apprehensive of
danger, as she told the lad that the gun was loaded. In
the struggle, a discharge took place, the contents enter-
ing the head of the unfortunate youth. M'Connell, on
hearing the report, entered the house, just in time to
w7tless the death of the lad.

FATAL CONFLICT IN THE COUNTY MONAGHAN.--011
Friday morning, there was a wake in Rosslea, and before
daylight a number of young men present adjourned to a
house in the neighbourhood where an illicit still was in
full work. While enjoying themselves, the house was
surrounded by a party of the revenue police, who called
on the persons inside to surrender. The consequence was
that one man named Quigley was shot dead, and another
dangerously wounded. A large number of prisoners were
captured, and conveyed to Clones by the revenue police,
and many serious injuries besides gun-shot wounds were
inflicted on both sides. It is said that Quigley is a
respectable man, and brother-in-law to the Rev. Mr.
Caulfield, parish priest of Rosslea.
ANOTHER FIGHTING PRIEST.-At the last meeting of
the Carlow board of guardians, the matron of the work-
house complained that father Wyer, " whirling a stick
round his head, ordered her not to dare to cut off the hair

of one of the women—which she was about to do accord-
ing to custom. He said in a menacing tone that he would
put a stop to hair cutting in the house." The board hav-
ing heard the priest's version of the story, which admitted
the main fact, came to the following resolution :—" The
board regret to say, that it appears to them, on hearing
the complaint of the matron relative to the conduct of the
Rev. Mr. Wyer, Roman Catholic chaplain, on the 26th
of January, and a statement of Mr. Wyer in reply, that
and was quite unjustifiable in the manner of his interfer-
ence with the matron in the execution of her duty •, and
the rev. gentleman is referred to the printed rules, clearly
defining his duties."
MARRIAGE FESTIVITY.-FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.-
A wedding, between Cunningham Greg Robinson and
Margaret Lewis, took place on Monday. Between six
and seven o'clock in the evening, a number of boys and
girls assembled about the door where the newly-married
couple and friends met to pass the evening, and com-
menced cheering, throwing stones, and kicking at the
door, with great violence. Two shots having been fired
outside the door, and some of the windows broken, Cun-
ningham Greg Robinson took a bayonet from a chest in
the house, rushed out of the back door, and, after being
absent a few minutes, returned, in company with his two
brothers, with blood on his forehead, and the bayonet
stained deeply with blood, and stated, he had " given
something to somebody that would keep him from his
work for some days." A few minuten afterwards, the
dead body of George Cunningham was found, with a
wound on his person. The jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter against Cunningham Greg Robinson and
against Alexander Robinson, for aiding.—Belfast Whig.
THE MURDERER OF THE LATE REV. MR. LLOYD.-It
is said that this man, on his passage from this port to
Dublin, freely admitted his guilt—simply adding, by way
of extenuation, that he could not refuse to act as he had
done. He was a member of a ribbon society, at a consi-
derable distance from the scene of the murder, and the lot
fell upon him to carry out the decree of death passed by
the society in the neighbourhood of Strokestown. He
says he was bound to do it. If he had not done it, he
himself would have been shot. He had never heard of
the Rev. Mr. Lloyd until he received his instructions to
murder him, and the way he carried out his horrible mis-
sion is worthy of a place in the Thug records of the coun-
try. He says he dressed himself like a beggar, and sta-
tioned himself at the door of the church from which the
rev. gentleman had to issue. Then, to make sure of his
victim, he asked him by his name for charity, which was
responded to by some donation. The villain then made
his way across a field to the high road where Mr. Lloyd
should pass, and where his assistants were in waiting. Too
well he executed his commission.
APPREHENSION OE THE- MURDERER OF MAJOR
MAno:s.--On Wednesday last, the Teterboro' constable,