The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

IRELAND,

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The prisoners confined in the gaol of Ennis, notwith-
standing the special commission, amount to 511.
Government has made a grant of £lOOO to the Belfast
Flax Improvement Society.
The Erne Packet gives an account of the discovery of a
plot to assassinate a bailiff in the employment of the Earl
of Erne.

A practice of hissing during the playing of " God save
the Queen has of late become so prevalent in the Dublin
theatres as to amount to a common nuisance.
The constabulary of Tipperary have been tolerably suc-
cessful. Thousands of guns and pistols are concealed in
the banks of ditches till the present activity subsides.
The constabulary from Newport on Tuesday lodged in
the ordnance barracks, at Limerick, 1031 guns, 48 pistols,
three blunderbusses, six guns with bayonets, pawder-
flasks, bullet-moulds, &c., taken from the peasantry.
ALTAR DENIINCIATIONS.--The Nenagh papers an-
nounce the formal suspension from his clerical functions
of the Rev. Anthony Nolan, parish priest, the rev. gen-
tleman having pleaded " guilty" to the charges preferred
against him by a sub-inspector of constabulary.
A Tralee paper states the receipt of information of a
most foul conspiracy rgainst the life of Mr. Frederick
Mason, of Kilmore, in the barony of Clanmaurice, county
of Kerry, and that owing to the exertions of a magistrate,
Mr. G. V. Stokes, several of the parties implicated are in
custody.

" RESPECTABILITY" IN IRELAND.—A writer in the
Dublin Evening Packet says of the late Mr. Waldron :
"The deceased has been some time on his keeping to
avoid arrest, and though an improvident, he was a highly
respectable gentleman of good fortune, but by no means
remarkable for his observance of law or good morals."
A fearful famine has set in Mayo. The Telegraph says
that whole villages are depopulated in Ballintubber. In
one large townland every head of a family except two men
has been cut off. Six men and women died of starvation
in Tulla, and three others were dying. The bodies of the
dead lay unburied, in some instances for seven days toge-
ther.

The poor rate in Scariff for three months, at 7s. 6d. in
the pound, amounts to £17,600. A Scariff ratepayer
writing in the Clare Journal states, that the rating is so
oppressive that many farms have been given up, and many
of the people preparing to emigrate. Eight houses and
stores have been taken for additional workhouse accom-
modation. The writer states, that a rate amounting to
total confiscation would not support the poorer popula-
tion in the absence of employment.
On Tuesday Patrick Ryan (Small) was executed at
Ennis gaol, for the murder of the late James Watson,
Esq. He ascended the scaffold at half-past two o'clock,
in a very feeble state supported by two priests. The
wretched man appeared almost insensible, and had to be
held up whilst the executioner was adjusting the rope.
He fainted off before the bolt was drawn, and died in-
stantly. The evening before his execution he declared
his innocence in the gaol. A great concourse of persons
congregated before the prison to witness the spectacle.
UTILITY OF ORANGEISM.—A petition against the bill
for establishing diplomatic relations with Rome is in
course of signtature by the Orange lodges in the neigh-
bourhood of Downpatrick. We earnestly hope that Pro-
testants generally are adopting a like course and forward-
ing petitions to the legislature upon the same momentous
subject. The promptitude with which expression is given
to Protestant feeling through the Orange Association is a
proof of the efficiency of the organisation for one impor-
tant purpose—not the least useful of the many which it
subserves.

TERRIBLE CALAMITY.-011 Sunday night week, the
house of Mr. Clarke, pawnbroker, Killarney, was burnt
down. A family named Farrell, consisting of eight per-
sons, were in the house at the time ; one of whom hav-
ing had occasion to leave his bed, perceived the fire. and
gave the alarm to the rest of the inmates. Some of
them endeavoured to escape (unfortunately before a lad-
der could be procured) by jumping out of the bed-room
window in the upper story, a height of nearly forty. feet.
The unfortunate mother, Elizabeth, was killed in the
attempt ; the father and his son and daughter are de.
spaired of in consequence of the injuries received from
the fall. Another child having fallen into the arms of
one of the crowd present, escaped apparently uninjured ;
but the rest of the family, namely, three children, were
burnt to:death.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting, on Wednes-
day, Mr. O'Mahony took the chair, and delivered a long
speech in reply to the letter of Lord Shrewsbury. A let-
ter was read from Mr. J. O'Connell, detailing the proceed-
ingsof the banquet given to him in Paris. Two priests,
named Hannigan and Masterman, delivered very violent
speeches. The former said he would submit a resolution
to the committee, to the effect that every parish should
meet in the neighbourhood of their respective chapels on
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emancipation. The latter priest (Masterman) detailed
what he termed a number of " Protestant atrocities"
which had been perpetrated on the Irish Catholics. The
rent for the week was declared to be £66.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

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The dividend for the half year of the Hull and Selby
Railway will be at the rate of £9 18s. per cent. per annum.
The dividend on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway,
to be declared next month, will be six per cent. for the
last year.

Tliomas H. Iliggin, Esq., managing director of the
Preston and Wyre Railway, has received the appointment
of managing director of the Belfast and Ballymena Rail-
way.

A man, named Barker, for some time in the employ of
the Eastern Counties' Railway Company as porter at the
Cambridge station, has, by a late decision of the Court of
Chtincery, been declared to be entitled to property to the
extent of £30,000.
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Parker, the carrier, to recover £6,000 for overcharges—
the list of which fills folio volumes two feet in thickness,
and the list alone costs £1,300. Pickford's case with the
South-eastern goes over till April.
LATE ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
—On Tuesday the coroner's inquest was brought to a
close, when the jury found a verdict of " manslaughter"
against the driver and stoker of the luggage-train that ran
into the passenger-train near Woking, by which the driver
of that train was killed, and many passengers seriously hurt.
The Marquis of Breadalbane, who is Chairman of the
Scottish Central Railway Company, when in Edinburgh
some time ago, was waited upon by a deputation of the
Sabbath Alliance, to solicit his support in regard to the
question of railway travelling on the Sabbath, when his
Lordship expressed his opinion to be in accordance with
that of the deputation.
Out of 3400 miles of railway now opened, 300 miles only
are upon the broad or exceptional gauge of 7 feet-1
-11th
of the whole length of railways opened—while the remain..
ing 3100 miles, being 10-11ths of the whole, are on the
national gauge of 4 feet 81 inches. Only 50 miles of
broad-gauge railway have thus been opened since the
commissioners reported, while upwards of 1000 miles of
railway on the national gauge have been opened.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The proceedings at the meeting
of the Brighton Railway shareholders, on Monday, excited
a good deal of interest among the Stock Exchange people.
The impression is very strong that either by neglect or
design an unfair advantage was taken, by a knowledge of
the state of the finances, to operate on the Stock Exchange,
before the official announcement; and the appointment of
the committee of shareholders for that and other matters
is relied upon to probe into the bottom as an example to
other concerns.
DREADFUL DEATH.—An engine-driver, named Wing-
field, on Tuesday, detached his engine at Brandon station,
on the Eastern Counties' line, for the purpose of running
it into the shed, and while doing so perceived that his
lamp was in some way defective. He had noticed that his
stoker, whose duty it was to attend to the matter, was in
a state of intoxication, and consequently clambered to the
front of the engine to make all right himself. While in
the act of doing so he fell over, and was literally crushed
to atoms under the wheels of the engine.
MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of this
company was held on Saturday, at the Derby station.
The directors reported a balance of £2,17.975 12s. 3d.,
which, after deducting £42,238 10s. 5d., the amount of
the guaranteed dividend on the six per cent. stock and
shares, enables them to tl-clare a dividend of £3 10s.
upon each £lOO of Midland Consolidated Steak of
£3 10s. upon each £lOO of the Consolidated Preferential
Stock, and after the rate of 7 per cent. per annum upon
£lO of each of the £4O shares, of .-£2 Itis. 3d. upon each
£lOO of the Consolidated Birmingham and Derby Stock,
after the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from the opening
on the 6th of September to the 31st December last upon
£32 10s. (the amount then called up) of the Erewash
Valley, and leave a balance available for the present half.
year of £45,672.

OPENING OF THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY FROM GLAS.
GOW TO BEATTOCK.—On Monday this important line was
formally opened, so that the citizens of Glasgow have
now, for the first time, a direct railway communication
with the metropolis, and all the English lines. At a quar-
ter-past nine o'clock; two first-class carriages and a
second-class were in waiting at the station at Townhead,
for the reception of the party invited, and started at
twenty minutes before ten. when the signal was given,
and the first engine in connection with a direct railway to
London was issuing its furious snort towards the south.
The construction of the carriages is most elegant, and
surpasses anything yet seen in the north. After a delight-
ful trip, the party arrived at Beattock station at a quarter
to one o'clock, where they partook of a sumptuous lun-
cheon..

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of this company
was held on Wednesday, at Manchester. Mr. John Cop-
man, the deputy chairman of the board of directors, pre-
sided. The secretary (Mr. Meadows) read the report,
which, besides other particulars, stated that the receipts
to the present time amounted to £2,336,623 13s. 5d., and
the expenditure £100,714 over that sum, against which
must be placed a balance of £21,861 on the revenue ac-
count. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the
report, briefly referred to the resolutions which would be
submitted to the meeting, and particularly referred to the
reduction which had been proposed in the direction, viz.,
from 15 to 12. Mr. Peisey asked, why the expenses were
greater on this than any other line ? The Chairman said
the traffic was local at present, and of course it was more
expensive than • general traffic. The report was then
adopted. Several suggestions to the board created a
somewhat animated discussion ; but finally the resolu-
tions proposed by the.directors, which embodied the sen-
timents expressedin the.report, were carried. The audi-
tors were re-elected ; as were also the retiring directors,
with the exception of Mr. Randell, who was replaced by
31r.lameti Lee, of Xatichester.

Feb. 22, 1848.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

JUDICAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.
SHORE V. BARNES.
This was an appeal from a decision of the Arches Court
of Canterbury, in which the Rev. James Shore, of Bridge-
town, Devon, who was ordained a priest of the Church of
England in the year 1829, but in 1844 became a dissent-
ing minister, and took the oaths and signed the declara-
tion set forth in the 19th George 111., was, in pursuance
of letters of request issued by the Bishop of Exeter, de-
dared liable to ecclesiastical censure and punishment
under the Church Discipline Act, (3d and 4th Victori4
for having officiated in an unconsecrated chapel or build-
ing without license or authority, and contrary to the in-
junction of the Bishop of Exeter, and admonished to ab-
stain from offending in like manner in future. The ap-
pellant, on the trial, protested against the proceedings, on
the ground that he was not amenable, inasmuch as he had
ceased to be a clerk in holy orders, having, from consci-
entious motives, seceded from the Church of England,.
and become a Protestant Dissenting minister. The pro-
test was overruled by the Judge, (Sir H. J. Fust) and,
on the ground that the appellant did not then ask permis-
sion to appeal to the Privy Council, their Lordships af-
firmed the sentence with costs, thus confirming, though.
apparently on a mere point of form, the dictum—" once,
a priest always a priest."

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
BURON V. DENMAN.
Tn this case, which was a trial at bar, M. Buron,
Spanish merchant and slave trader, established at Galli-
nas, on the coast of Africa, was the plaintiff; the Hon.
Captain Joseph Denman, son of the Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of Queen's Bench, a captain of the royal navy,
was the defendant; and the action was brought to re-
cover damages, estimated at £lBO,OOO, against the defen-
dant for having, in November, 1840, with a party of sea-
men and marines, taken possession of certain slaves, seized
and burned certain warehouses, destroyed sundry casks and
barrels of spirits and gunpowder, and, in a word, effectu-
ally destroyed a large slave-trading establishment which
had flourished for many years. Mr. M. D. Hill led for
the plaintiff, the- Attorney-General for the defendant.
The first day, Monday, was occupied by a detail statement
of facts in support of the plaintiff's case. On Tuesday,
the Attorney-General opened that for the defendant,
which was, substantially, that the defendant was sent with
his squadron to the Gallinas, by Sir R. Doherty, then
Governor of Sierra Leone, to claim the liberation of two
English subjects ; that the plaintiff and others had seized
possession of two islands at the mouth of the Gallinas to
carry on their nefarious traffic, contrary to the wishes of
Liacca, kink of the country ; that, in pursuance of a treaty
with Siacca, the defendant seized the barracoons, the
contents of which were handed over to King Siacca, and
the buildings themselves set on fire; that 900 slaves were
found in the possession of the plaintiff ; that the spirits
were destroyed in consequence of a suspicion that they
were poisoned, and the gunpowder thrown into the river
from an apprehension of treachery ; that the plaintiff and
his brother slave-traders had blockaded the river, pre-
vented the access of British vessels, and carried on their
proceedings in spite of the native kind ; that the capture
of the barracoons was the mast effective blow ever struck
at the slave-trade in that quarter ; and that Commander
Denman. for his conduct on this occasion, was promoted
to the rank of Captain, and received £4OOO out of £7750
voted by parliament as a further reward. Numerous wit-
nesses were examined in support of these facts, and the
case sas again adjourned. The case was resumed on Wed-
nesday, and terminated at three o'clock in the afternoon,
in a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the
treaty with the African king had been ratified by the
Crown, with a full knowledge of all that Captain Denman
had done. To this a bill of exceptions was tendered, on
the point whether a subsequent ratification of the defen-
dant's conduct was equivalent to a prior command to pur-
sue it.

IN RE BARTON, ISLAM, AND HIGGINSoN. A special
examination of witnesses. in relation to this bankruptcy,
took place on Wednesday, Mr. Brandt, barrister, (in-
structed by Mr. Lowndes,) appeared on behalf of the as-
signees, and Mr. Bardswell for the witnesses. Mr. Henry
Davies, of the firm of Messrs. Davies and Co., was ex-
amined at some length as to their share and transactions
with the bankrupts, and Mr. John Moss, banker, was also
examined as to the grounds on which the bank claimed to
hold certain share certificates. After these gentlemen had
been shortly examined, Mr. Brandt said he thought, from
the information afforded by Mr. Davies and Mr. Moss,
the object of the present examination might be amicably
arranged between the parties. To ascertain the dates of
the transactions which had been alluded to was the prin-
cipal object, and he had no doubt that might be effected
by a further investigation. He did not for a moment sup-
pose that there was any attempt on the part of any one in
the transaction to conceal any thing. Mr. Parsons, the
managing clerk for the bankrupts, was examined as to the
bills of lading of the ship Vigilant. That vessel he said,
did not arrive in Liverpool from Rio Janeiro until after
the bankruptcy. The bills of lading arrived about 12th
to 15th November, and were sent to A. W. Lyon and co.
They came as a ship letter to Barton, Irlam, and Higgin-
son. Mr. Haynes Higginson handed them to A. W.
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ness stated that he did not remember the circumstances.
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