The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Letters from Ireland announce the failure of a firm in
a principal city with liabilities of upwards of £lOO,OOO.
Trade is miserably bad at Limerick, Sligo, Galway,
Wexford, Waterford, and other seaports, which are filled
with unemployed able-bodied labourers.
The Westmeath Guardian reports two more inquests
held on the dead bodies of an old woman and a man, who
died in that county within the last few days of destitution.
The Limerick Examiner of Wednesday states that
serious apprehensions of an outbreak were entertained in
that city for the past few days, owing to the largo number
of workmen at present without employment, as the dock
works are suspended, and less employment than usual
afforded in stores.
Dr. Slattery, the Popish "Archbishop of Cashel and
Emly," has published a manifesto declaring the atten-
dance of the faithful on the Godless Colleges to be unlaw-
ful.

STARVATION.—Another inquest has been held in Clare,
in a case of starvation, for want of out• door relief. The
case took place in the union of Ennistymon, and the ver-
dict was " Died from starvation, in consequence of being
turned out of the workhouse, and getting no out-door
relief."
The Leinster Express gives a curious account of a man-
sion and three hundred and fifty acres of land. near Dur-
row, in Queen's county, formerly the property of Mr.
Richard Lalor, who has abandoned it for America. The
mansion is being dilapidated and spoilt of its marble
chimney-pieces, and other fixtures, and the timber on the
estate cut down and destroyed without interference by
the peasantry.
ABDUCTION.—The house of Pat M'Garry, who resides
within two or three miles of Ballintogher, was at midnight
on the 7th instant broken into, and his daughter Mary, a
girl of about 21 years of age, forcibly carried away, with
the express determination of the assailants to compel her
to marry a man named Pat M`Loughlin, a rejected suitor.
Her father was severely beaten in his endeavours to resist
them in carrying out their purpose. The girl was, a few
hours afterwards, found in the house of James M`Lough-
lin, about a mile distant from 111`Garry's house. Several
persons have been committed for trial.—Sligo Journal.
OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY DOWN.—Several outrages
in this county are related in the Belfast papers. As, for
instance, a number of armed men having surrounded the
house of Mr. Anketel, near Ballpnahinch, Mr. Kerr's
agent, and fired five or six shots through that gentleman's
bedroom window, though fortunately without wounding
or injuring any person in the house. Several landlords
and agents in the county have been served with threaten-
ing notices, and an incendiary fire took place near Dun-
donald, and it is supposed another occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Danaghadee.
A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—CoIoneI Blacker, of Carrick,
near Portadown, lately held a meeting with his tenants,
when the subject ofitreduction of rents was freely dis-
cussed between the parties. The gallant colonel at length
frankly told the tenants assembled that, having full confi-
dence in their own sense of justice, he would leave it to
themselves to fix the rent which in the present circum-
stances of the country they could afford to pay, and for
this purpose he would appoint them as a jury to act con-
scientiously in the matter. The tenants accordingly con-
sulted, and fixed upon £1 per acre as the sum suited to
their own means, and this arrangement was immediately
confirmed by Colonel Blacker.

FIRST SALE OF LAND UNDER THE ENCUMBERED
ESTATES COMMISSION.—The lands of Kinlough, county
Mayo, the property of Mr. Balfe, were put up for sale by
the Commissioners in Dublin, on Thursday. This was
the first sale under the Commission, and much interest
was felt respecting the result. The property consisted of
236 acres and 15 perches, Irish plantation measure, held
by a single tenant, J. Kirwan, Esq., at the yearly rent of
£192 Is. ld. It was subject to a quit rent of £1 109.101-d.,
and rent charge of £ll 7s. 24d. The rent was paid with
the utmost regularity, and the lands were described as
worth fully Bs. more than was paid for them. They were
favourably situated and in fine heart. After some spirited
biddings, Mr. Pierce Joyce was declared the purchaser, at
£3,500, which is estimated as 23 years' purchase. This is
a favourable beginning.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning the inha-
bitants of Mill-street, Newry, were awoke about three
o'clock, by a terrible noise which occasioned the greatest
alarm. It was soon found that the house occupied by
Mr. Michael Downey had fallen in, carrying with it a por-
tion of another. The family of Mr. Downey were all in
bed at the time. Mr. Downey himself, and his son, a very
fine young man, were noth killed. Miss Downey and a
female servant who slept in the front of the house,
escaped, and a young man was also saved, the particular
corner of the house in which he slept being the only one
that stood. The adjoining house was occupied by a per-
son named M'Kevitt, who, with his family, was in bed at
the same time also. A young child was killed in this
house, but the remainder of the family were uninjured.
Another of the children, after being buried in the ruins
for two hours, and when all hopes of its !recovery were
given up, was taken out without a scratch on it.
CONTINUED PERSECUTION AT DINGLE.—The state of
society in Dingle is become barbarous in the last degree—
it is more like Rome under Romish laws, or Algiers or
Tunis under the rule of pirates, than like a part of the
British dominions. if a stranger from a quiet Christian
town in England or Scotland had been there for the last
three months, he would have found it difficult to persuade
himself that Dingle was under the protection of English
law. On Saturday week, the Rev. Mr. Lewis went to
visit a man in typhus fever—immediately the house was
surrounded by a mob, composed chiefly of the boys of the
monks' school, shouting, whilstling, and blowing horns,
so loud that he could not raise his voice shave them.
Sunday was one endless scene of riot and disorder. It is
stated that the priest harangued the people in inflamma-
tory terms, but be this as it may, the boys of the monks'
school waited for Mr. Lewis's appearance in the streets,
and collecting a mob of several hundred persons, followed
him yelling, whistling, and calling names in a most
riotous and disorderly manner; he was literally borne
along by the mob. At the evening service ifirailaritceue
took place also.