The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

IRELAND

Mr. T. B. M`Manus was la3t week very ill of a severe
bilious attack. The attack was at first thought to be
cholera.

On Thurs

—way week at Kirkpatrick, in Tipperary, an in-
dustrious man, named James Henessey. was shot dead
soon after daybreak. Thp vrimp hnd

ya as!. IIL ...putes
about land.
The Protestants of Derry are about to erect a testimo-
nial to the late Professor Butler. At a meeting for the
purpose in the Cathedral, on Wednesday, the Bishop
presided.

auc rr uterjoru ivews states that Matthew King, one of
the state prisoners recently liberated from the county
gaol, finding himself worse off than when a prisoner,
actually applied next day for re-admittance_
The Clare Journal desci
starvation, near Ennis. Ft
have been famished to deatl

Mme dreadful case:

the poor-law union'

MURDER FROM JEALous.v.—A man named Long, a
farmer, of Limerick, has murderad his farm servant. The
act seems to have been suggested by je'ulousy. Long had,
on Monday night last. returned from the fair of Rothkeale
to his own abode at CappanihaneLnear Croom. He found
' • ' ' .1.

tit in 1

lion of intoxication

and jealousy prom

the poor wretch lay asl

hinirien of rue opportunity tor so doing. in pieces.
The new ministry had issued their political programme, REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—We happen to know that a
which declared their adhesion to the principles contained clergyman at Leitrim who has been receiving out-door
in the resolutions of June s—resolutions that had been relief; two other gentlemen, one a captain of militia, the
enthreceisived by the deliberative assembly with so much other having had a property of £GOO or £7OO per annum,
uttstn.
are now reduced to pauperism in an adjoining county, the
The French government had determined upon despatch- latter having been for years defrauded by his tenantry.
ing 3500 troops in six steamers to the assistance of the Another sad instance of reverse of fortune and station is
Pope, for his personal safety. This has been asserted, by that of a lady candidate as inmate of the workhouse ; this
the Reforme, an opposition journal, to be only a stroke of melancholy victim of fortune's frowns is the sister of a
policy, on the part of General Cavaignac, for gaining po- gentleman who was once possessed of property amounting
pularity with a view to the Presidential election ; but the to £9,000 a year.—Sligo Journal.
fact that such a demonstration is looked upon as likely to DISORGANISATION OF SOCIETY.—
gain popularity proves that the assistance thus proffered been made upon a poor man who was taking home a bag
on the part of France, will be pushed forward vigorously of meal to his family, and he was desperately beaten be-
to its ostensible purpose. cause he would not easily surrender it. The perpetrators
In the mean time there is good reason to hope that of this, however, have been taken and lodged in gaol.
other means of succour to the Pontiff have already anti- One man is threatened with death if he acts as herdsman,
cipated the French 'goiernment. ' The news from Naples it is presumed on pastures whence tenants have been
states that the misfortunes of the Pope have been expected evicted ; and another if he takes a farm. Tenants are
there for some time, and that Admiral Parker had a fort- sworn not to pay more than one half-year's rent, and
night before despatched her Alajef;ty's steam-sloop Bull- landlords are warned not to receive more • while, to cap
dog, Commander A. C. Key, to Civita Vecchia, to assist the whole, the excise collector is warned that in a certain
the retreat of the Pope, and to receive him on board for district named they will pay neither license nor paper duty,
conveyance to any place he might select for an asylum. and he must not seek either there. —Liinreick vaper.
Looking at the horrid state in which Rome is now placed, DREADFUL DESTITUTION.--1 he provincial pape
in all the violence of anarchy, and amidst a host of assas- ceived from the South and West are tins whn ay.vvr _ _

violent attack has

shall cettai
found his

y I.llkug uv weir ',Lowy violence, we of cases of the most frightful destitution,- disease,,
ply hear with satisfaction that the Pope has death. The potatoes have nearly disappeared from these
way in safety to Malta or some other place of doomed regions—the harvest earnings are spent in pur-
chasing food down to a recent period—the poorhouses are
21st ult. announce that a crowded to overflowina.. end nntw;th.f.,„,l:-.....t._

Letters from Rome of th!

tie extent

um...Jur reuer is auministered the poor in the
. .
on that day to vote an address to the Pope to declare the mountainous and boggy districts are suffering all the hor-
fidelity of the Chamber to his Holiness. The resolution rors of famine. Starvation rages in the counties of Mayo,
The Abbe de Rosmini had quitted Pome Cork, Sligo, Kerry, Clare, and Galway, to a fearful extent
and more or less in several P'•

was rejected
for Paris. c'A

ged with a secret mission

A despatch by electric tele-

aer counties nearer to the

graPi
intell
ultimo

dated Paris,

metropolis
A

evening, states that official strange report appears in the Monaghan paper
~ad arrived from Civita Vecchia to the 26th Saturday—namely, that Lord Blayney, one of our most
fhe Pope had left Rome on the 24th in dis- constantly resident noblemen, and not an embarrassed
;wise, and bad arrived at Gaeta, to which place the one, had parted with his residence and estates at Castle-
steamer Lenare had gone to meet him, and convey him blayney, county Monaghan, and was about to reside in
diffto France. Rome remained tranquil, and seemed in- England. This would be a most unexpected remnvnl
erent as to . _ Tinrta'a rharse...em.e. 'Ph,. 01. _