The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

COURT AND FASHION.

On Wednesday night last, between eight and nine, a The Court remains at Windsor, but within the last day
small farmer, named Thomas Brown, was shot dead on or two the Queen and the Royal family have been pre-
, the high-road, within a few yards of his own house, near vented from taking their habitual out-door exercises. by
Cashel. the inclemency of the weather. On Thursday, Prince
CONCILIATION-HALL ERAWLS.—ME. Henry Grattan, Albert went to London, for the purpose of witnessing the
M.P., has directed his solicitor to apply for a criminal in- Westminster plays.
formation against Mr. John Reynolds, M.P., for the words HER MAJESTY'S ACCOUCHEMENT.—The services of
attributed to the latter in a speech delivered in Conciliation- Mrs. Lilley, as her Majesty's monthly nurse, have been
.Hall at the sitting of that grave deliberative assembly. again retained. The interesting event, it is expected, will
According to the Tipperary Free Press, the presidents not take place before the latter end of March or beginning
and vice-presidents of the Queen's three colleges building of April. Her Majesty will be confined at Buckingham
in Ireland, have already each received a Year's salary— Palace.
£BOO and £soo—while the main walls of the intended The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at Woburn
edifice are not yet raised. Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
DEATHS By FEVER.—It is to-day our melancholy duty of Bedford, on Friday, from his seat, Hickleton Hall,
to record the deaths of four of our medical friends, who, Doncaster.
within a few days, have been sacrificed to fever :—On the DEATH OF THE EARL OF HARROWBY.—We regret to
23d inst., Dr. George Seymour, surgeon to the Kilconnel learn the sudden death of the Earl of Harrowby, which
Dispensary •on the 24th inst., Dr. Charles Donnollon, took place on Sunday morning week, about four, a.m., at
of Winterfield, medical attendant to the Annadown Dis- Sandon-hall, Staffordshire. The venerablenobleman had,
pensary ; on the 25th inst., Mr. Francis Bodkin, for up to Friday week, appeared in his usual health, and had
many years apothecary to the Clifden poorhouse ; and on passed over his birth-day on Wednesday, the 22d instant,
the 26th inst., Dr. Edward Lambert, of Oranmore, a in cheerful spirits. On Friday morning he was assailed
gentleman much beloved, leaving a widow, with a young by alarming symptoms, and by noon that day his illness
and interesting family, to deplore his loss. Independent assumed the most dangerous aspect. He continued to
of the above, we are sorry to add that serious apprehen- decline rapidly up to the hour of his dissolution, without
sions are entertained for the recovery of Dr. Mulville, of any favourable change. Viscount and Lady Frances
Gort, and Dr. Hynes, of Kinvarra.—Galway Vindicator. Sandon, the Honourable G. Dudley and Lady Georgina
The state of Ireland has not improved much since the Ryder, and several other members of his family, were at
proclamation, which has fared scurvily enough at the the time staying* at Sandon-hall. The late Dudley Ryder,
hands of the peaceful in Tipperary. The " boys" have Earl of Harrowby, county Lincoln ; Viscount Sandon a
torn it down in several places, and as if in defiance taken Sandon, county Stafford ; and Baron Harrowby, of county
to the old work of plundering arms. The King's County Lincoln, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was
Chronicle states that robberies of that nature abounded eldest son of Nathaniel, first Lord Harrowby, and Eliza..
last week. In the county the threatening notice has been beth, co-heir of the Right Rev. Richard Terrick, Lord
on the wing. The lady of Colonel Westenra, in the ab- Bishop of London. He was born on the 22nd of Decem-
sence of her husband, received one, threatening her with ber, 1762, and had, therefore, completed his 85th year on
death if money was not given to some person or persons. Wednesday week.' In July, 1795, he married Lady Susan
A Mr. Tyre, a benevolent Englishman, residing near Leveson Gower, sixth daughter of Granville, first Mar-
Tullamore, received a similar notification. His crime as guess of Stafford, and aunt of the Duke of Sutherland.
a landlord was a suggestion that a rate of seven shillings By that estimable lady, who died in 1838, he had a large
in the pound be levied on the district. He, of course, family, four sons and five daughters—namely, the late
prepares to emigrate until better times. Viscountess Ebrington, Viscount Sandon (now Earl of
SCRIPTURAL INSTRUCTION IN IRELAND.—That valua- Harrowby), the Hon. Granville and Dudley Ryder, Lady
ble institution, the Sunday School Society for Ireland, Mary Saurin, Lady Wharncliffe, the Ho'n.Frederick Dud-
has recently published a paper containing some interest- ley Ryder, the Hon. Edward (died in infancy), Lady Har-
ing facts connected with the spread of Sunday school in- riet Hervey, and Lady Louisa Fortescue. I p-olitics the
struction, and shewing the extensive demands upon the late earl was a Tory of the old school. The deceased
society for assistance to the schools. It appears that 818 earl entered on public life soon after attd;aing his ma-
schools, containing 68,267 scholars, have received assist- jority. He represented for several years prior to his
ance in books during the last six months ; and that 36,796 elevation to the peerage by the death of his father, in
Bibles, Testaments, and portions of scripture, besides 1803, the borough of Tiverton, in the House of Com-
-28,914 Scripture reading books, and spelling books con- mons. In 1800, he was appointed Treasurer to the
taining reading lessons selected from the sacred Scripture, Navy by Pitt. He held that appointment up to Viscount
have been granted to the schools during the same period.. Sidmouth's advent to power, and after Pitt's return to
It is also a striking fact that the number of Bibles granted take the helm 'of the government, in 1804, he was
ap-
during the last six months exceeds by 9954 the number pointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but pre-
disseminated during the corresponding period of the year sided over that department little more than twelve
1846. months. On the Earl of Liverpool's accession to office,
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—MONDAY.—A letter from Mr. in 1812, the noble lord (who had been created Viscount
Dillon Browne to Mr. Dunne, who had severely censured and Earl in 1809) was appointed Lord President of the
the conduct of the hon. member for Mayo for the vote he. Council, which he held up to the formation of the Can-
gave on the " coercion act" was read, and with some reso- ning administration, in 1827—a case unparalleled on
lutions founded thereon, referred to a committee. Mr. record. In February, 1820, the noble earl, then residing
John Reynolds addressed the meeting at considerable . in Mansfield-street, gave a cabinet dinner, and it was at
length on various topics. He censured the conduct of that particular meeting that the Cato-street conspirators
Messrs. Grattan and Browne for their vote on the bill for thought pf carrying out their bloody scheme. The dis-
the prevention of crime in Ireland, stating that the former covery of the plot, and the eventual execution of the
ought to be the last man who would vote against his ringleaders, our readers are familiar with. Of late years,
country, and that many a pound and many a sleepless the deceased earl had avoided all interference in political
night he had cost him (Mr. R.), and that but for the citi- matters. He was nominated to the privy council as far
zens of Dublin he would not now represent the county of back as 1790 ; was a Governor of the Charter House, a
Meath. He next proceeded to censure the conduct of the Doctor of Civil Law, a Trustee of the British Museum, a
examiner of recognizances on election petitions, and con- Commissioner for Building Churches, a Fellow of the
eluded by calling on the people to supply funds to enable Society of Arts, and High Steward of Tiverton. The
him to defend the petition—that he would do his duty late earl is succeeded in the title and family estates by
they might depend and he hoped they would do theirs. Dudley Viscount Sandon, who was born the 23d of May,
The rent was £27 18s. sid. 1798, and married the 15th of September, 1823, Lady
FURTHER CONTEMPT OF THE LAW, AND ASSASSINA- Frances Stuart, fourth daughter of John, first Marquis of
TIONS IN IRELAND.—We learn from the Cork Cotzstitu- Bute, by whom he has a numerous family.
tion that there is a priest named Kenyon, in Tipperary,
who has braved the law as correctly laid down by the ma.

gistrates in his locality, and being thwarted, has from the
altar so denounced its administrators that they are in
hourly danger of losing their lives ! The case is briefly
this. Kenyon built a wall near his house at Templemore,
which encroached upon the public road. On the morn-
ing on which he commenced it he was warned of the en-
croachment in a friendly way by Mr. Crawford, the county
surveyor. He, however, persevered, and being sum-
moned before the magistrates was fined £l, and the wall
was levelled, as the law required. He commenced the
wall again, and was again necessarily summoned. After
Ithe encroachment on the public rights had been proved,
the chairman of the magistrates, who had presided on the
former occasion, recapitulated the case, showing that
Kenyon had said that "A man may be got to commit a
murder for money, but no one could be got to throw
down that wall ;" that an assault was made upon
those sent to throw it down by 5 to 600 ruffians, many of
them armed ; that government military had to be em-
ployed ; and that Kenyon after this rebuilt the wall ; and
(added the speaker) he bad since so spoken of him from
two altars that he was on the list for assassination. On
this statement, which caused great sensation in court, no
fewer than three other gentlemen on the bench, exclaimed
almost simultaneously, that " they had received similar
information." The chairman said he had stated the real
facts of the case, and the bench came to the unanimous
conclusion that the wall should be againievelled.-7" These
facts," says the Cork paper, " show the pacific disposition
of his reverence, and the degree of credit, that is due to
the veracious Titulars who have appeared as sponsors for
the priests."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY

IN RE BARTON, IRLAM,

AND HIGGINSON

The adjourned hearing for the second examination of
these bankrupts took place on Wednesday, before Mr.
Commissioner Sergeant Ludlow, at the District Court of
Bankruptcy.

Mr. Slyers, solicitor, of the firm of Messrs. Lace, Myers,
Rigge, and Roscoe, appeared to prove a debt of a bill for
£3OO, on the part of Messrs. Nelson and Adam.
Mr. Myers then made a similar application on the part
of Nelson and Adam for a bill of £lOOO, drawn on Hig-
ginson, Dean, and Stott, by Sir Samuel Gibb, and which
having become due on the 14th Dec. last, was then dis-
honoured by the bankrup4:

The right to claim was allowed in both cases.
The court then proceeded with the examination of Mr.
Dean, a partner in the house, who resided for the most
part in Barbadoes. He was examined at considerable
length by Mr. Lowndes. At the close of the examina-
tion, the latter gentleman said that the assignees had
found his accounts in a most satisfactory state. It ap-
peared that Mr. Dean had been prevented from making
out his balance sheet in full, owing to some of the books
being away ; and a question arose, on which some dis-
cussion took place, whether he should pass his examina-
tion now, or whether it should be adjourned until his
return from Barbadoes.

It was arranged that the further examination of Mr.
Dean should be postponed till the 19th of Ju!y, 1848 ;
and the next examination of Mr. Higginson should take
place on the 11th of January next, at twelve o'clock.

The court then rose.
IN RE BOYDELL AND WILLIAMS

Tuesday last being the day appointed for the adjourned
meeting under the fiat issued against Messrs. Boydell and
Williams, Mr. Dodge, solicitor to the fiat, stated to Mr.
Commissioner Sergeant Ludlow, that at the former hear-
ing of the bankrupts he had prayed an adjournment in
consequence of discovering that several leaves were miss-
ing from the bankrupts' ledger, a circumstance which at
the time gave cause for suspicion. He had since gone
carefully over their books, and in justice to the bankrupts
he was now bound to say that, having investigated the
whole matter with respect to the missing leaves, his own
impression was, that everything relative to the books was
quite correct. It appeared that the bankrupts had em-
ployed a young man as clerk, who had not previously been
in the habit of keeping a ledger, and that he had torn out
some leaves in consequence of blunders committed by
himself. The learned Commissioner said it was very
proper for Mr. Dodge to state what he had stated, and it
was also very proper that the matter should have been
sifted as it had been, as without it there might have been
a kind of floating impression abroad that something was
wrong. Mr. Dodge said that his observations only applied
to the books so far as he had investigated them. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow.—" Just so ; and as far as your investi-
gation goes, it is favourable to the bankrupts." Mr.
Dodge.—" Yes sir ; I have no further opposition to offer,
and I do not think the bankrupts have anything to fear
from any further opposition on the part of other creditors."

In the Secondaries' Court on Friday, a verdict for £2OO
was taken by consent in an action brought against the
South-Eastern Company, for injuries sustained on the
line by a Mrs. Mary Thiselton, which occasioned her
death. The accident occurred through a cart knocking
away some of the timbers of an arch which is being
formed over in Bermondsey. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of accidental death. The Company pay all ex-
penses, even to the letters of administration.