The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mrs. M`lver, who died last week at Belfast, lived to
see no fewer than six generations of her own family.
At the Roscommon assizes there are no less that 66
cases of murder and conspiracy to murder.
The county of Clare Spring Assizes commence at Ennis,
today. There are 260 prisoners in gaol for trial.
About a fifteenth of the whole number of physicians,
surgeons, and apothecaries in Ireland, died during 1847.
At Roscommon assizes on Wednesday, Thomas Dono-
hue was convicted and senter.ced to death, for the mur-
der of the Rev. John Lloyd, on the 28th November last.
The state of Mayo is not less deplorable than that of
Galway. The names of seventeen persons whose deaths
starvation has caused are given in the Mayo Telegraph.
The Cork Examiner mentions that two awkward sports-
men lately fired at a bird near Passage, and missed their
aim • hut managed to hit a corn-stack, valued at £BO,
which caught fire, and was wholly consumed.
A MISSION TO THE POPE. -- Bishops Mac Hale,
Browne, and O'Higgins have set off, post-haste, to Rome,
to persuade the Pope how mistaken he is in enjoining his
Irish clergy to refrain from political diatribes and altar
denunciations.

The Limerick Examiner states that on Saturdey, in
the Kilrush market, there were upwards of two hundred
loads of potatoes. The public way was completely
blocked up. The consequence was a very considerable
fall in the price of this root.

THE LATE REV. THOMAS MA GUIRE. There are
four persons in custody on suspicion of having been con-
cerned in the death of this divine. At the conclusion of
the inquest the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against Mary Reynolds, the housekeeper of the rev. gen-
tleman.

The Repeal Association met on Monday. Mr. John
O'Connell announced, by letter, that he had postponed
his motion for repeal till he had made a tour of the pro-
vincial towns of Ireland. Mr. Dillon Browne and Mr.
Morgan J. O'Connell were denounced as renegades. The
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James Skeahan and James Quane, convicted at the late
special commission for Limerick of the murder of Mr.
Ralph Hill, suffered the extreme penalty of the law on
Tuesday, in front of the county gaol. An immense mul-
titute of spectators were present. A sympathising local
journal indignantly exclaims, " And this is the way to
life."
the people the inviolability and sacredness of human
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DR. WHALE AND THE POOR RATE.—Notwithstanding_
all the asseverations to the contrary, it appears from a let-
ter addressed by the Poor Law Commissioners to the
Tuarn board that " his Grace" has failed M his efforts to
convince the authorities that he has, by proxy or other-
wise, paid his rates ; in other words, they believe that he
is still a defaulter (accidentally of course), and they fairly
ground their belief on the fact of his Grace," or his
proxy (the Rev. Mr. Ryan), being unable to produce a
receipt for the amount alleged to have been paid to the
collector, a man named Lally.
Everybody is heartily tired of the pedantic virulence of
Mac Hale. He has written another swaggering reply to
the Earl of Shrewsbury, whom, in a dignified spirit of
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of Bridget Haly :—llad heard something said in
the Chapel respecting the Roman Catholic voters who had
voted for Mr. Guinness. Here the witness suddenly
fainted. After the confusion incident upon such an occa-
Arr P Cochrane said he had observed a person sit-
ting behind the petitioner's counsel frown upon the wit-
ness several times (alluding to Priest Murphy). If that
person's own taste did not keep him out of the committee-
room while the witnesses were under examination, he
would consider it his duty to move the committee upon
the aubject. Ho 1,04 yvovo is,arropn•ioly upon
the part of the individual he alluded to. He trusted it
would not be necessary to say more upon the subject.
Mr. Cripps and Sir J. M‘Taggart had observed the pro-
ceedings of the person alluded to by Mr. Cochrane, and
Perfectly concurred in the observations which had fallen
from him. Father 3,lurphy retired, and did not present
himself in the room during the remainder of the day.—
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THE POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT.-0111* townsman,
Mr. Thomas Smith, has published a pamphlet, entitled,
" Results of the Central Administration of the Poor Laws,
exhibited in some of its workings in the Extensive Town-
ship
of West Derb " &c. The author is himself a mem-
bery of the board of guardians in the union referred to ;
has devoted much attention to the effects of the new Poor
Law, and brings to the field in the achievement of his
object, a practical knowledge of his subject, a mind stored
with statistical facts, a feeling of genuine humanity to the
destitute poor, and a desire that, in adequately relieving
them, the ratepayers should not be subjected to extrava-
gant impositions through the mal-practices of officials.
The work, which is written in the vigorous style attain-
able only by an English scholar, is dedicated to Lord
John Russell, as First Lord of the Treasury ; and, in his
prefaratory address, the author expresses his strong disap-
probation of the new Poor Law, and the tyrannic, expen
sire, and cruel manner in which it is administered. He
contends that we have a class of inhabitants suitable for
the office of local administration ; foresees that by the
present system, which does away with settlements, the
rates will become national levies, and the poor be pen-
sioners and national annuitants, and urges that the
scheme generates a corruption of morals amongst those
concerned in carrying it on, which "cannot fail to lower
the condition, the reputation, and the power of the na-
tion." We regret that we have not space for details or
extracts, but must refer to the work itself, which we think
exhibits in a clear manner, the total inefficiency of the
Poor Law Amendment Act for the objects for which it
was framed, and shows that, while it exacts much heavier
contributions from those who are assessed, it leaves the
poor without adequate relief, and tends, at the nine time,
to degrade and demoraliee them.