The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There are eleven persons to be tried for murder at the
Tullamore assizes.
Ribbonism, in some parts of the county of Donegal,
has latterly manifested its ferocious spirit to a most alarm-

ing extent.
The Limerick papers of Wednesday have reports of five
more inquests on the bodies of persons who died of star-

.vation

COUNTY MEATH.—tharles Coyle has been convicted of
the wilful murder of Catherine Gaffney, and sentenced to
be executed. The prisoner confessed his guilt.
Sixty-five cases of cholera have been reported in the
Cahirciveen Union, thirty of these having proved fatal.
The appearace of the epidemic in Valentia is also reported.
It is said that New Par& House, the property of Mr.
Pennefather, in the Cashel union, has been taken for an
auxiliary workhouse. New Park, in its day, was one of
the most aristocratic residences in the country.
The tenantry of the Kilwarlin estate have testified their
continued respect towards the Marquis of Downshire,
their landlord, and their dieapproval of the slanderous at-
tacks lately made on his character at Banbridge.
George Tuthill, Esq., Faha, was presented on Thursday
by his gardener with a dish of new potatoes, very fine,
and grown in the open air, never having been under glass.
They are of the species called " Early Man's."—Limerick
Chronicle.
SLOW AND SITRE.—Tn transmitting the munificent sum
of two pounds, from Wexford, in aid of the repeal fund,
the repeal warden holds out the hope that a still larger
sum will soon follow, because, " while Wexford is slow,
Weaford is sure."
The Limerick Examiner relates a visit to an infirmary
at Kilrush, containing three hundred persons, all with
the appearance of idiots, reduced to the utmost extremities
for want of food. One half were said to b.! beyond reco-
very. and would in fact die from starvation. Can this be

true ?
At the Roscommon assizes, Bridget Mann was convicted
of murdering her child by poison. The learned Judge, in
passing sentence of death upon her, observed that the
crime of which she had been found guilty was the most
shocking he had ever met with. He would not hold out
a gleam of inipe that her life should be spared.
The Cork Constitution says that in many places in that
county, and in Waterford and Tipperary, the farmers are
turning up the meadow land for the purpose of taking a
crop of oats out of it, with, it is suspected, the intention
of decamping with the proceeds to America, leaving, of
course, the landlord without his rent, and, if they can,
the collector without his rates.
The Belfast papers renort two more incendiary fires in
the province of Ulster. One was perpetrated on the pro-
perty of Mr. Gordon, J.P., at Dundonald, in the county
of Down ; the other on the farm of the Rev. Robert
Parke, at Ballymoney, in the county of Antrim. Seve-
ral persons were present at the first-mentioned fire, and
although solicited by the police to aid in their efforts to
extinguish it, they refused with jests.
Lord Clarendon has raised, by his parliamentary expla-
nation, neither his own character nor the character of his
court. He held a levee on Wednesday. The list of
attendants is the most meagre we have ever seen. Instead
of the three or four columns which scarcely sufficed to
• contain the names of the nobility and gentry who crowded
to Dublin Castle before it had been dishonoured, one slim
column has now more than room enough for all.
TERRIBLE SCENE.—The town of Tipperary, on Satur-
day week, was in a most excited state, owing to a rescue,
attended with loss of blood, rarely, if ever, seen in this
country. Ryan, a farmer from Cappawhile, lent to Mr.
Dillon, of Burgesland, money some time since, and ob-
tained an order for its recovery, and in the execution of
the same was met by a hundred men armed with reaping-
hooks, bludgeons, and scythes. The bailiffs and helpers
succeeded in driving the cattle to Tipperary pound, after
a desperate conflict, the men covered with wounds and
blood.—Limerick Chronicle.
The Cork Reporter gives the following account of a
dreadful accident on the railway works :—" A fearful
accident occurred this morning, at six o'clock, at the
tunnel at Gaggin's-hill, Bandon railroad works. As a
party of three workmen were descending a shaft in a skip,
the rope urfortunately gave way and precipitated them
about ninety feet on five men below, who were preparing
to ascend the shaft. Three of the latter were killed on
the spot, and five others very badly injured. One English-
man, ;.amed Sleaton, had his thighs and leg fractured
dangerously."
CONTINUED AGITATION.—There was another meeting
of tenant farmers held in Ulster, on Tuesday last. The
place selected was the Presbyterian meeting-house at
Killinchy, and the object " to consider the present de-
pressed condition of the farming interest." The speeches
of the three Presbyterian clergymen on the occasion are
not calculated to conciliate my Lord Londonderry and
other free trade proprietors, nor does it appear they were
delivered with any such intention. The language of their
reverences is simply this—" You have brought ruin upon
the landholders by your nefarious legislation. now you
must participate in the results. You must make sweep-
ing reductions in your rents. My Lords, 'tis no com-
pulsion—but you must."
ErarGßATlON—During the last two days'our quays have
been quite alive with emigrants and their friends preparing
to start for Liverpool, and from thence to America. Yes-
terday morning, at seven o'clock, upwards of 100 persons
sailed, or rather steamed, on board the William Penn,
and at twelve o'clock about four hundred on board the
Foyle, Liverpool steamers. Should this expatriation
continue for some months longer, from the various other
ports of Ireland, in the same ratio as from this, our po-
pulation will not only be decimated but demiated before
the end of the present year. Such is the extent of emi-
gration from this and the neighbouring counties, that we
are credibly informed we shall shortly have American
liners trading between Waterford and New York— Water-
ford paper.
THE ASSIZE—STATE 01? THE COUNTRY.—As far as
the Irish judges have proceeded upon their circuits, they
have had to complain of the heavy calendars laid before
them. Lord Chief Justice Blackburne thus addressed the
grand jury of the county of Meath—" The calendar of
your fine county presents a fearful aggregate of crime.
The offences are most numerous, many of them of a very
serious character, and bearing indisputable evidence of a
most disorganised state of things in the county. The
offence of Whiteboyism appears to prevail to an alarming
extent, and exhibits itself in its accustomed form by the
organization of conspiracies against life and property."
Mr. Justice Perrin, in addressing the grand jury of the
county of Louth, said " the cases for trial were consi-
derable : they were more than sixty, and the crimes with
which some of the parties were charged were very serious.
There were three cases of bcrcicide ;" and Mr. Justice
Jackson told the grand juryt f^ I are that " the calendar,
presented a formidable aspect. There were nine cases of
of murder. There was an exceedingly large number of
cases of arson, and other serious offences."

FEARFUL DESTITUTION.—At an inquest held on the
body of a labourer, named Patrick Cane, at the slate
quarries in Tipperary, on Thursday last, it appeared that
the poor man had been seeking for work to the last :
that he was returning in the evening, when he fell from
exhaustion and expired on the spot. His wife deposed
that for several days their food consisted of a few turnips,
gratuitously given by the neighbours, with a little Indian
meal mixed in water. They had often only a meal a day
of such food. it was with great reluctance she acknow-
ledged the destitute manner in which she and her husband
lived, and she said she would not tell it but for being on
her oath. Another inquest of the same kind is reported
alone with the preceding one in the Nenagh Guardian.
" The house in which the body lay," says that journal in
describing the second case, " was almost roofless, one end
of it being dilapidated. There was no appearance of fire,
food, or covering in it. Although the deceased was only
23 years of age, from her pallid appearance, and the hue-
less and fleshless state of her body, she appeared to be as
old as 60."

PERSECUTION.-At Dingle Petty Sessions, on Friday,
informations were allowed against several parties for as-
saulting the Rev. Mr. Lewis, an unobtrusive and estimable
Protestant Minister. The following portion of the pro-
ceedings in court affords a curious specimen of the doings
of Popery in Ireland :—One witness said Mr. Lewis was
excited, but cool ; the people were all shouting at him as
if he was a mad dog. Sub-Constable Marshall was
sworn, and deposed to the arrest of Moriarty in the
crowd. Mr. Supple to witness (after conferring with the
priest, Father Owen O'Sullivan'—ls he dnmb ? Witness
—He is not dumb foil shouting.—Father Owen here
stalled up, and protested that Moriarty was an idiot, and
quite dumb ! but, while he was in the act of making this
statement, Moriarty first uttered some indistinct sounds,
and then exclaimed, in very intelligible Irish, suiting the
action to the word and the word to the action, " I was
not doing anything but huzz-a-a-ing like the rest !" The
scene that ensued in the court baffles description. It was
heightened, too, by Mr. Hurly's exclaiming, " A miracle !
a miracle !" When the laughter had subsided Sub-
Constable Lorimer was called, and proved that he knew
Moriarty for the last two years ; that he believed him to
be a labourer as good as any in the country, and that he
considered him to be more knave than fool. This witness
was cross-examined with a view to establish the idiotcy of
Moriarty, but he firmly adhered to the opinion he had
before expressed.

A SCElVlC.—Magistrates Court, Waterford.—A num-
ber of persons named Dwyer were charged with taking
forcible possession of Mr. Bagwell's land from Michael
Barett. The bench decided on sending them for trial
before the Assistant-barrister.—Mr. Lonergan said : Tak-
ing advantage of the delay in calling the next case, may I
request your worship's attention to the law in the case of
Barrett against Dwyer.—Mr. Prendergast : I object to
t`bis matter being again gone into. The bench have de-
cit:ed, and this is only a waste of public time.—Mr. Lo-
nerg,..‘n lam about reading the law for the bench. Sit
down, Mr, Prendergast : You had better not be im-