The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

ARCHES COURT,—
GoRHAm v. THE BISHOP OF

MARCH 19.
EXETER

mission under seal from the judicial committee.
Upon the motion of Dr. Bayford,a monition was gi

to the registrar of the Bishop of Exeter, to transmit the
original presentation to the court in order to carry out the
sentence of the indieinl enrnmittp.

A meeting was held in Dublin on Thursday, the High
Sheriff in the chair, to memorialise the government
against the abolition the lord-lieutenancy. It was thinly

attended

A Tipperary paper notices that a few nights since a pig
wakened up a boy by getting on his bed. When the
youth got up, he found the roof of the hovel on fire, and
several sparks had fallen on the pig's bed.
LIMERICK.—The tide of emigration was never known
to be greater than at present. Crowds occupy the differ-
ent railway
stations
a between this and Dublin en route for
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Liverpool, whilst in the ports of Limerick, Waterford and
Cork, vessels are daily filling with emigrants.
Mr. Wilkins, a grocer at Fermanagh, went to bed on
week, after having locked up £l2O in bank

notes in the adjoir

when he rose, he feuticl7l7;t the key had '''''''' from"
beneath his head during the night, and that the cash had

The eminent firm of Russell and Sons, of Limerick, the
most extensive corn dealers in Ireland, have addressed a
circular to the proprietors and teuants of land in the
south of Ireland, calling upon them to lay aside all notion
of a .return to protection and high prices, and to turn their
attention to the cultivation of flax, which, if properly fol-
lowed up, will, they say, amply compensate for whatever
injury the agricultural interest may have suffered by the
operation of free trade.
A TRUE POPISH WIS

,sand times, while the
college discussions have been proceeding, have we wished
that both the Viceroyalty and the Viceroy (with a mill-
stone about their nerkal rnnlrl h.

Channel ; and now, behold, Jove has heard one-half of
our prayer ! When this devout wish shall be consumma-
ted, the highest public institution in this city will no
longer be the castle, with its manifold abominations, the
delegate of a central and corrupting authority; but, as it
ought to be, the city itself, its incorporated authorities,
its magistrates, and office bearers.— Tablet.

John- O'Grady, a wealthy farmer in the county of Lime-
rick, has been convicted for the murder of his wife and
maid servant on the Ist of November, 1846, and sentenced
to be executed. The murder was particularly remarkable
for the total absence of all apparent provocation. The
prisoner first murdered the servant in the stable by stab-
bing her with a bayonet fixed on a stick, and then killed
his wife by discharging two pistols at her while she was in
bed. The defence was temporary aberration of mind, but
this wes not sustained by any evidence. Matthew and
William Gavin were convicted at the same assizes for the
murder of John Ryan, at Cappamore, and sentenced along
with O'Grady to be executed on the 10th of next month.

AN AWKWARD DISCLOSURE.—On Tuesday,— three
gentlemen walking in Patrick-street perceived a small
parcel on the flagway ; they paused for a momeet until a
beggar woman attempted to pick it up, but was prevented
by one of the gentlemen, who took it. She instantly
claimed it as her property, and when asked what it con-
tained, she quickly replied, "a little tea and sugar she
was taking home to her sick husband." The gentleman
declared his belief that she had no claim on the parcel,
particularly as it was directed " Mr. Ratcliffe—to he de-
livered immediately ." The woman followed the three
gentlemen, urging her claim and charging them with
taking her property, and the consequence was, a crowd.
Feeling annoyed, they proposed opening the parcel, sta-
ting that if the contents were what she alleged, she should
get it, and they turned into a shop to avoid the crowd
while they disclosed its interior. The shop they went
into was a china and glass establishment, in the centre of
which was a counter, on which there was a display of
handsome vases, besides tea cups and saucers. Having
apologised to a female in the shop for the intrusion, the
glass doors of the shop were closed, and one of the gen-
tlemen commenced unstringing the parcel, while many
anxious faces pressed against the windows from outside.
One paper was removed, and the end of the second was
unfolded, when out sprang an immense rat. In the jump
he knocked down a vase, and galloped nimbly over the
cups and saucers, tumbling them as he proceeded. The
consternation was excessive, and one of the gentlemen in
his alarm drove his elbow through a pane of glass in the
door. The lady of course screamed, and at last rushed
into the street. During the time the rat was hopping
along the skirting of the walls, tumbling many jugs which
were ranged around the shop. In a short time the alarm
of "a rat ! a rat !" got abroad, and immediately some ten
or twelve active fellows rushed in, and at the cost of seve-
ral China articles the chase resulted in the death of the
vermin. During the pursuit, the three gentlemen,
ashamed of the confusion which the picking up of the
parcel had occasioned, and fearing to meet the laughter
of those who had hoaxed them, hurried quickly from the
scene, while the claimant was no longer to be found.—
Cork Constitution.