The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE COUNTY CORK

The repeal agitation has some influence here—the ;itids
of the people are much excited by the expectation of a great
Change. Last Sunday we had a Cork temperance band in
full military costume, with a large party of teetotallers; they
were, however, very orderly ; still the military character of
the proceeding may have a bad tendency in laying the foun-
dation of a regular system of organisation and military
training. The parish priest here has declined to advise the
people for or against repeal. He stated that his opinion
was that it would be injurious even if carried, hut he thought
it would never be granted ; and he then told the people that
he would leave them to act us they pleased; that possibly
some few beneficial measures might be extorted from
the ministry by the stir. So far as I can judge from hear-
ing the sentiments of the people in this quarter, I don't
think a rebellion is anticipated. The fact is the whole
business is got up and managed by the priesthood for the as-
cendancy of the Romish religion. They had too nearly suc-
ceeded with the whigs in annihilating the Church of England
in this country to despair of success; and I am afraid from
the tone of Lord John Russel, Lord Listowel, &c., and the
expediency principle of our Prime Minister, that sooner or
later the Church will. be sacrificed—perhaps not in Mir), at
once, but by gradual compromises as heretofore. Already
we have lost church rates, one-fourth of our revenues, 10 of
the bishops, numbers of the dignitaries and benefices, and
the reversionary interest in church lands. At present Pro-
testants are scarcely tolerated in the south. How would they
be were the sanction and protection of the law taken from
heir religion and transferred to Popery ?"

MEETING OF KING'S COUNTY MAGISTRATES

There was a very numerous meeting of the magistrates of
the King's county held at Parsonstown on Tuesday, convened
by the Earl of Bosse, to consider the measures proper to be
adopted in consequence of the recent murder of Mr. John
Gatchell, a magistrate of the county. The noble Earl was
furnished with a copy of the Arms Bill, which he had read
for the meeting, and which was unanimously approved. A
committee was formed to watch over the new registry of fire-
arms, and to prevent in every way arms getting into the
hands of the peasantry. Resolutions and subscriptions were
entered into to co-operate with and assist Government in the
protection of witnesses. It was deemed unnecessary to enter
into the subject of reward for the apprehension of the mur-
derers, there being already persons committed to abide their
trials for the crime. His Lordship put down his name for
£lOO, and before the meeting separated £lOO was subscribed.
Among the resolutions agreed to are the follwing :
" We deeply regret that another crime, and that of the
most heinous character, should have disgraced this country,
and that we should thus be constrained to relinquish the
sanguine hope of restored tranquility, which was grounded,
not on the solid basis of the law re-asserting its rights in the
conviction of the guilty, but on that very questionable evi-
dence, the comparative cessation of outrage in its worst form
during the last two years.

" o:sn a former occasion we ventured to express an opinion
that because the assassin had, in every instance, been pro-
vided with arms in an efficient state, the presumption was,
that these arms bad not been concealed, that they had not
been kept in a dry place, openly, and perhaps, even had been
registered. On that occasion we strongly pressed upon the
government the urgent necessity of a more efficient arms'
act; and, although differing on general political subjects, in
this we acted unanimously. We do not see that an efficient
registration of arms can act injuriously to any one; neither
do we see how any real objection can be made to an enact-
ment which would require that all fire-arms should be

branded ; such a measure would act as a security against
theft, precisely as the marking of any other description of
property, while it would afford very valuable security against
the application of tire-arms to improper purposes.
" A peasant in his cottage, with a thatched roof, which can
be ignited in a moment, though he may have his gun, is in a

state of perfect Jefencetennege apinst an &need banditti..2w
had he r.o gun he would not be more defenceless while his
cottage would not present the same temptation to outrage;
and farther, ~, may add, that in the numerous outrages,
period, ~e know of no instance where the inmates of a soli-
tary
thatched connected with
cottage
tt
the robbery
ag
e actually
arms, extending over a long
a successful resistance to an armed banditti."

INQUEST AT CARRICKMACROSS

The inquest on the body of Peter Agnew, who was killed
durink the recent affray between Mr. Shirley's tenantry and
the police, was held at Carricknaacross on Wednesday and
Thursday.

Mr. O'Hea attended as counsel, and Mr. evoker as agent,
for the next of kin to Peter Agnew, deceased; and Mr.
Gibson appeared for Mr. Wilcocks, R.M., and the police.
A jury, composed of six Protestants and thirteen Roman
Catholics, was sworn, and several witnesses who had taken
part in the riot were examined, their evidence going clearly
to prove the dangerous position of the police, and the fury of
the mob, when the order to fire was given. The evidence on
the behalf of the next of kin having terminated,
ttoerlyi ne
to
Mr. Gibson tendered the evidence of Mr. Barry and
the police, but they were objected to by Mr. O'Hea, and
after some argument Mr. Gibson stated, that as the investi-
gation had been conducted with so much good taste and
e
yh
eApi er ea, he (Mr. Gibson) would not press their
evidence, as Mr. O'Hea had stated it would not be satisfac-
Mr. Gibson then tendered the evidence of a policeman who
had not fired a shot, but whose mouth had been badly cut,
and several of his teeth nearly knocked out by a stone ; this
was also objected to by Mr. O'Hea, but he would not object
to evidence of the nature of the wound.
Doctor M'Effer was then examined, and proved that the
policeman's teeth and gums were considerably injured.
The jury soon after retired, and in half an hour returned
the following verdict:—
We find that Peter Agnew came to his death on the Gth of

June-insC.,atiVaheracloone chapel, in the parish of Malleis:--
acloone, by a gun-shot wound received from a party of the
constabulary commanded by Mr. Wilcocks, stipendiary ma-
gistrate, and Mr. Barry, sub-inspector, firing on a body of
people assembled about the said chapel on that day, and that
it has not been sufficiently proved to us that at the time of
the firing the party of, constabulary were in imminent risk of
their lives, and that we have no proof who fired the identical
shot which caused his death.
The verdict is tantamount to an acquittal, as the evidence
shows that the opposition
. was of such a nature as to justify
the magistrate in firing for the purpose of dispersing the
rioters and forcing a passage along the road, though the life
of the party was not in imminent danger. A troop of the
3d dragoon guards, and a company of rifles, have arrived in
Carrickmacross, and tranquility has been restored.

ATTACK ON THE POLICE.—Sub-Inspector Fitzsimon, and
his party were severely maltreated at the fair of Molahiffe,
Kerry, and one policeman got his head fractured. Magis-
trates were previously called on to attend the fair, but de-
clined.—Limerick Chronicle.

ACCIDENT AT KILCULLEN.—Two men, named Keogh,
were drowned, on Wednesday, about half a mile below the
bridge of this town. They, in company with three others,
were washing sheep, the property of Mr. Burchell, of Browns-
town. They were both young, and have left families. Another
man was drowned here a few days since.—Dublin paper.

THE DEFAULTING CORPORATION TREASURER.—By let-
ters received from Mr. Ross Cox, it would appear that he is
on the "trail" of Mr. Finn, the defaulting treasurer to the
corporation. On the 21st of May Mr. Cox left New York
for Pennsylvania, next for Baltimore, and was on the 29th
of May in Philadelphia, whence he was to start ou the next
day for Ohio.—Dublin paper.

ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER—A STEAMER SUNK.—As the
steam-tug, Adelaide, belonging to Messrs. Streaker, was pro-
ceeding, on Wednesday, to the Kish Light, towing a small
lighter with stores, she was discovered to have sprung a leak,
from some cause not ascertained. She was immediately put
back to the North-wall, and just as all the stores on board
were landed on the quay, the vessel sunk, and remains in that
position at present.-:-Dublin paper.
Lord Roden has addressed a letter to the editor of the
Dublin Mail on the duty of the Irish Protestants at the pre-
sent crisis, in which he dissuades them from all processions
and assemblies of large bodies, to which many of them were
inclined to have recourse. From the former he advises them
to abstain in consequence of their having been declared ille-
gal, and from the latter because his lordship considers them
superfluous and unwise.
COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.—The Government has
appointed Captains Sir G. Back and R. Fair, R.N., to sur-
vey the harbours of Holyhead and Porthdinllaen, and report
on their capacities as packet stations. They left this place
for Porthdinllaen, by land, on Tuesday last, and will return
before the end of the week. An order has been received for
one of the packets on this station to be at their service to go
on with the survey at both places.—Carnarvon Herald.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.—The
Dublin Mercantile Advertiser gives the following letter re-
ceived from a correspondent at Drunmore E...st, county Wa-
terford, under date of yesterday :—" Since I wrote last
evening we have witnessed a very melancholy scene. A
large American barque, laden with cotton, has been wrecked
at Browston Head. There were 16 hands on board, and
only one saved out of the whole. The gale bas not decrea-
sed, only tends a little more to the west."

HORRIBLE Cr RCUMSTAN CE.—Mr. Brereton, who resides
near Nenagh, directed two of his men, one of them an
Orangeman, to watch his plantations on Wednesday night
with tire arms, suspecting that some persons might have re-
course to them for green boughs to adorn their h-oises at the
approach of Mr. O'Connell yesterday into Nenagh. Horri-
ble to relate the Orange watchman having, it is supposed,
mistaken his fellow watchman for one of the people, fired at
him, shattering his abdomen almost to pieces. On last even-
ing the unhappy victim was not expected to survive many
hours.—Limerick Reporter.
MURDER, AND DEATH OF THE MURDERER.—An atro•
cious murder was committed on Tuesday morning, at Willow
Hill, about three miles beyond Carrigaline. The victim was
a woman named Buckley, between 30 and 40 years of age,
the mother of two children, and withiu a couple of months
of being again confined—the murderer was her brother-in-
law, Thomas Buckley. He lived in the same house, and
going out and finding a cock belonging to Mrs. Buckley
fighting with one which had belonged to his mother, who is
dead, he struck the former, which a son of Mrs. Buckley (a
boy about 12 years old) observing, the little fellow called
out, " Oh, mother, he'll kill the cock." " Come in," ex-
claimed the mother. "or he'll serve you in the same way."
Buckley, hearing this, made a rush at the boy, who, how-
ever, escaped into the house. Buckley followed, and pro-
ceeding to the room in which be was in the habit of sleeping,
he returned to the kitchen with a priffazin. Seating himself
on the table, he watched until his sister-in-law stooped
down to do something to the fire, on which potatoes were
boiling for breakfast, and then struck her on the side of the
head with the " griffaun." The child, we understand, says
that he gave her six blows. The skull was fractured behind
the ear, the face greatly lacerated under one of the eyes, and
the cheek laid open. Buckley immediately made off, but in-
formation having keen conveyed to the Ballyfeard station,
Sub-constable Moloney, with two other active policemen
i (Coglilan and Pigott) went n pursuit, and, after searching
the plantations at Hoddersfield, fell in with his coat and
shoes. From this they concluded that he bad swam across,
but soon after they met some fishermen who had found the
body floating near the little cottage so well known to " pic-
nickers," and not far from the spot where lie had left the
shoes and coat. When the policemen saw it life was extinct.
The wom in died the following day.—Cork paper.
PROFFERED ASSASSINATION.—In the course of Wednes-
day evening the greatest bustle was observed in and about
the neighbourhood of the court, in consequence, as it was
understood, of communication having been made from the
authorities at the Home-office to Mr. Twyford, in the absence
of Mr. Hall, the chief magistrate, for issuing a warrant for
the apprehension of a man of the name of Mayne, who, from
the accounts which our reporter was enabled to collect, had
written a letter to Sir James Graham, offering, for a certain
reward, to assassinate Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Twyford, in the
absence of Mr. Hall, was occupied during the whole of the
night upon the subject, and between four and five o'clock on
Thursday morning he went away in a cab, and on his return,
about eight o'clock, being met by other persons connected
with the Government, they remained in consultation some
time, but the entire proceedings. were conducted with so much
secrecy that the result of their deliberations has not been
°Moored to transpire, and we were unable to learn whether
any person had been taken into custody.—Times.—The fol-
lowing further particulars of this case, about which so much
mystery has been made have appeared .—On Monday morn-
ing Sir J. Graham received a letter directed to the right hon.
baronet's private residence in Hill-street, apparently written
in a rambling, incoherent manner, in which the writer, ob-
serving upon what he terms " the treachery of Mr. O'Con-
nell," proceeds to say "that he would undertake, as he
might be advised, to risk his own life against that of Mr.
O'Connell's" On the prisoner being informed by Mr. Hall
of the nature of the charge against him, the evidence of Sir
James Graham read over, and being shown the latter, he im-
mediately, and without the least hesitation, admitted that be
was the author ; and on being asked what could have induced
him to take such an extraordinary step, he reeled that the
night before he had been dining with a party of friends, and
had taken too much wine—that he certainly wrote the letter,
and posted it by mistake, having other letters in his pocket—
that he became immediately afterwards sensible of the ex-
treme folly which lie had been guilty of, and acquainted
his friends of the act, and asked them if it would not be bet-
ter to send another letter to Sir James Graham in explana-
tion—but they looked upon the epistle as being so ridiculous
that they thought no public notice would be taken of it, and
therefore he did not do so. He now exceedingly regretted
what he had done, and hoped that the contrition on his part
would be favourably considered. After consideration, Mr.
Hall told the ptisoner that the charge against him was one
of a most serious and important character, and that no minis-
ter of state could have passed it by without public notice. It
had, however, been determined to admit him to bail, himself
in the sum of £4OO, and two snreties in the sums of £2OO
each, to appear at the next-July Sessions of the Central
Criminal Court, to answer any charge that might be preferred
against him. The prisoner then gave in the names of Mr.
Jones, a shipowner at Gloucester, and a gentleman named
Watkins, as his bail, who it was understood, were in Lon-
don, but they had not arrived at the Home Office when our
report was sent off; consequently, the prisoner at present in custody. The prisoner has been deprived of his
situation for his indiscretion.