The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Irish repeal rent for the twenty weeks ending with
the 7th instant, amounted to £28,303, being an average
of £1,415 per week. The highest week was that ending
June 17, when it amounted to £3,380.
The Limerick Board of Guardians have resigned their
offices en masse, in consequence of the 41st article of the
Poor Law commissioners depriving the guardians of any
control over the clerk.

THE SHINBONE INVESTIGATION.—This investigation
bas at length been brought to a close. Brophy, one of
the policemen implicated, has been suspended. No de-
cision has as yet been come to with respect to the other
parties; but, we understand Mr. Parker has been or-
dered not to leave town.—Dublin Mail.
A BANKRUPT CORPORATION.—The Cork Constitution
of Saturday states, that the councillors of that body (a
radical clique) have the " liberal" sum of Eleven Pence
Halfpenny in hand, (would'nt some charitable individual
drop them four of the new half-farthings to make up the
shilling ?) their debts amounting to Ten Thousand Nine
Hundred and Ninety Eight Pounds Six Shillings and
Two Pence !

DEATH OF THE LADY HEYTESBURY.-011 Sunday
evening week the death-bells of St Audoen's, Dublin,
announced the melancholy intelligence of the demise of
her Excellency the Baroness Heytesbury, an event for
wlych the public must have been prepared. Her excel-
lency breathed her last at 25 minutes before four o'clock
on Sunday. The late baroness was second daughter of
the late Hon. William Henry Bouverie, and grand-
daughter to the Earl of Radnor : she was born in 1783.
BALLINASLOE FAlR.—This most important fair—the
largest in the kingdom—was held last week, and appears
to have gone off well. "On the whole," says a report,
" the prices of wedder sheep, although a little lower, were
remunerative and demand good ; yet the expectations of
holders have been in many instances disappointed, but
considering the scarcity of winterage, decidedly remunera-
tive prices were obtained; but contrasting money paid
for stores in May last, the return did not meet the antici-
pations. Breeding eyes went off freely at an advance of
trona 4s. to ss. over last year's prices. Scarcely any good
sheep remain unsold ; there were 6.000 more exhibited
than in 1843. Good beef went off briskly.

DREADFUL MURDER.—The Sabbath evening has again
been chosen by the assassin to commit his deed of blood
in the county of Tipperary, and the victim who has fallen
a sacrifice on this occasion gave no offence beyond the
fact that he had some connexion with land. It appears
that on Sunday night week, David Maxwell, under agent
to Mr. David La Touche, was in his own house in Iker-
rin, which is only a mile from Roscrea ; the room he had
been sitting i❑ was on the ground floor, and he was in the
act of undressing himself in order to go to bed, when he
was fired at, and a ball passed through his back, and
lodged in the left breast. The poor man was promptly
attended to, but after lingering a short time in great
agony he died yesterday. No clue has yet been obtained
to lead to the detection of the murderer.—Dublin Paper.

ELOPEMENT.—On Saturday night week, a young and
interesting female, Miss Catherine Cleary, eloped from
the residence of her father, a wealthy farmer at Coolrush,
Tipperary, with a young farmer named Sherlock. They
drove off in a car to a relative at Miitown, near Banagher.
On the Monday following, at a very early hour, two armed
horsemen (relations of the lady) dashed up to the locus
in quo of the lovers, and the house being soon afterwards
surrounded by a large party of " Tipperary boys," armed
with sticks, pitchforks, &c., the garrison, after some re-
sistance, was compelled to surrender, and the lady was
taken away vi et armis. Her sobs and tears were una-
vailing, and as she was led forth she cast a last fond lock
at her " gallant Lothario."

BARBAROUS MURDER.—The Cork Constitution of
Thursday gives the report of an inhuman barbarity.
which, in the mitigated vocabulary of agrarian crime, is
called an " atrocious outrage," but which, in the common
language of indignant human nature, would, anywhere
but in Ireland, lie termed a series of barbarous murders.
Out or a ramuy or six—a rawer, motner, one son, ana
three daughters—upon whom the general onslaught was
perpetrated by a gang of armed miscreants, the son has
died of his wounds, and but little hopes of life remain for
the motber and one of the daughters; the father's skull
was fractured ; and he and the two daughters who are
likely to survive, were left by the murderers to all ap-
pearance dead. And this forsooth is—an agrarian out-
' rage.—Dublin

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The Conciliation Hall, at the
usual weekly repeal meeting yesterday week, was almost
deserted ; nevertheless the rent took a rise, and amounted
to £630. The principal speaker was Maurice O'Connell,
who, in tha course of his address, whilst speaking of the
magic effects produced by love of country, related an il-
lustrative anecdote. " Father O'Shaughnessy," said be,
" was tcavelli g in France, and happened to be called
upon to read prayers over a man that was possessed by a
devil. Well, he did so, and the devil was expelled, but
on leaving the man he just said—' Why, then, Father
O'Shaughnessy, would it not be better for you to stay at
home in Ireland with your own flock than to be turning
me out of my home here ? " Well,' says Father
O'Shaughnessy, when I heard the fellow speaking of
old Ireland, I could not help loving him—bad luck to
him !' " The hon. M.P. promised a long letter from his
father at the next meeting.