The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

I R-E•L A N D.

There is a falling off of 200 subscribers to the Lawyers'
library, Dublin. this year.
All the accounts from Ireland, as to the harvest, are
very satisfactory.
New potatoes were selling in Cork last week at Id.
per lb.
On Saturday, Mr.. Reynolds, was served with nine writs
of summons, for penalties of £5O each, for acts done in
his capacity as Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The Tralee Chronicle says :—" We learn with regret
that the potato blight has exhibited itself in the vicinity
of Dingle, and at Glenbeigh, and other parts of Inve-
ragh."
James Nocher, the recently-appointed gamekeeper to
the .Rev.1.V...13. Forde' of Seaforde, county Down, was
shot by an assassin on Sunday week. He was on his way
home at two o'clock in the morning, when he was shot
dead, his body being almost riddled with slugs from the
head to the stomach. _ _

The Mayor of Limerick has called a public meeting of
his fellow citizens, relative to the severities of Mr. Wilm.
Smith •O'Brien's incarceration. Much indignation has
been expressed about the treatment which Mr. O'Brien
has received from the authorities at Maria Island, and
it turns out that there is no such place in existence.
STATE OF IRELAND.—Rent is becoming a thing of the
past—an obsolete obligation, of which it is an offence to his
freedom to remind the tenant. In the Clare Journal we
read :—A rescue, of stock seized under an execution, at
the suit of Synge against Synge, took place yesterday at
Caherhue, when the sheriff and the police acting under
him were attacked by the country people and driven into
a sand pit, where they were detained until the stock was
removed. Mr. Synge was from home at the time. None
of the party engaged in the rescue have yet been arrested.
The Limerick Chronicle tells us that—A sanguinary
fight took place at Newcastelon Tuesday between country
people from near Abbeyfeale, named Donoghue, and
bailiffs who, it appears, made a distress on the Tionog-
hues and drove off their cattle. They were followed and
beaten, and the cattle rescued.—From the Carrick-on-
Suir Correspondent of the Clowned Chronicle we learn
that a poor process-server was all but murdered for pre-
suming to carry a summons into a part of law-loving
Tipperary :—On Tuesday last, George Allen went to
Curraheen (about four miles from -here) to serve a pro-
cess; just after leaving in company with his son, they
were attacked by four assassins, for such I must call
them, who beat them both until left for dead on the
road. Fortunately Head Constable Urrick passed by,
and seeing their situation, procured a car, and had them
removed into Carsick, but faint hopes are entertained of
the elder Allen's recovery. As yet no person has been
arrested for the offence." Thus the work goes on, and
these are not the worst results which may be expected
from the doctrines inculcated on the dishonest and the
vindictive.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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In 1815 the salary of the Lord Chancellor was £5OOO,
and now it is £lO,OOO, with £4OOO in addition as speaker
in the House of Lords, but fees and emoluments were
considerable [in 1815, though they
.cannot now be ascer-
tained.

In the Queen's Bench, London, on Tuesday, at the
sittings before Lord Campbell and a special jury, the
case of Tayleure v. Lennox was called. This was an
action to recover compensation for an alleged criminal
conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The pleadings in
the case were opened to the jury by Mr. Crompton, and
the Attorney-General, (who appeared for the plaintiff,
who resides in Liverpool,) was on the point of stating
the case to the jury, when Mr. Hugh Hill, who represen-
ted the defendant, Lord Arthur Lennox, interrupted the
learned Attorney-General, and said that inasmuch as the
inquiry if gone into would be attended with pain to many
parties, he was ready to consent to a verdict for the plain-
tiff with £5OO damages. The Attorney-General on the
part of the plaintiff having agreed to this proposition,
Lord Campbell directed the jury to find a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages £5OO, which they did accordingly.
CURIOUS CASE.—In the Queen's Bench, on Wednes-
day, an indictment was preferred against Lord Dunboyne,
under the 41st section of the 6th and 7th William IV., c.
86, which enacted, " That any person who should wilfully
make, or cause to be made, for the purpose of being in-
serted in any register of birth, death, or marriage, any
false statement touching any of the particulars by the act
required to be known and registered, should be subject to
the same pains and penalties as if he were guilty of per-
jury." There were several counts in the indictment,
which, in substance, charged the defendant that he wil-
fully and knowingly made a false representation, in the
month of December, 1843, for the purpose of registering a
marriage, as required by that act to be registered. It ap-
peared that the defendant had married a widow privately,
and soon after was married publicly, when he described
himself as a bachelor. The marriage was kept secret
from the lady's friends, on account of their objection to
the union, and of considerable property to which she was
entitled. Mr. Cockburn contended that what was done
by the defendant was every-day_practice, , where partiq
married at the registrar's office, went immediately to the
Roman Catholic church, and were there married again.
He also cited the case of the late Lord Eldon, who hav-
ing been married in Scotland, and subsequently in Eng:
land, on the last marriage he described himself in the mar-
riige register as " John Scott, bachelor," and his lady as
" Elizabeth Surtees, spinster," notwithstanding they had
previously contracted a valid marriage by the law of Scot-
land. The jury found a verdict for the defendant, thus
acquitting Lord Dunboyne of any attempt at fraudulent
perjury.