The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

IRELAND,

A farmer at Omagh and his sister have been committed
for trial for manufacturing threatening letters.
FALL OF BUILDING PROPERTY.—We know a concern
in this city that paid £3,000 a year, which is now rented
without a fine ar.£lso.—Limerick Chronicle_
At the Limerick Special Commission, on Thursday, a
man, named Frewen, was sentenced to transportation for
life for concealing the man Ryan, who, as will be seen,
has been convicted of murder. .

Sir George Grey has issued a circular to all the magis-
tracy of Ireland, directing their attention to the propriety
of arresting and strictly examining all vagrants and sus-
picious-looking strangers. Some of the lieutenants of
counties have anticipated the wishes of the-government.
The diminished . planting of potatoes has caused a
serious depreciation of manure in some localities. ,In
Limerick the authorities heretofore received a handsome
sum for the sweepings of the streets, but now they have
to pay for their removal.
.

The Roman Catholic inhabitants of Strokestown have
signed a document 'declaring that they have been in the
habit of attending the Chapel there every Sunday and
holVay, and that they never heard Major Mahon de-
nounced by the Rev. MT. M`Dermott.
A farmer, named -Brown, was brutally murdered at
Ballymore, county Tipperary, on Wednesday morning.

- . . . .. .
The causes assigned are, that some few months ago Brown
got married, to the discomfiture of some rivals, and with
his wife obtained a sum of money and a few acres of
land. Suspicion has fallen on some of the rejected lovers.
The Morning Post, the chief organ of the Tractarians,

them good Roman Catholics. If Rome would take the
trouble to reform Ireland :on Romish principles, a great
good would be achieved." Will any one deny after this

and Popery.
FEARFUL
.ATTEMPT.—A •diabolical attempt was made
to inveigle John Congreve, Esq. of Mount Congreve,
county Waterford, into a well-laid snare, for the purpose
of miirdprimy him_ We nre in nossession of the facts, but

inquiry is being made by the local authorities

—Dublin

The Tyrone Constitution reports the arrest of Mr.
John Buchanan, of Straghroy, and his sister, for manu-
facturing threatening letters. The investigation which
took place but-too clearly proved the charge. John Mar-
shall, Mr. Buchanan's servant, has been held to bail,

rged v

The name of a respect

THE VOLUNTARY (?) SYSTEM
able Roman Catholic inhabitant of Nenagh was on Sun-
day nosted on the Nenagh Conciliation-hall, and directly

opposite the chapel gate, in

,quenee of the sma

o#' his donation On gUnday last to the P.P. of the town.
The sum given was attached to the foot of this species of
altar denunciation by shoemaker's wax.-2Venagh Guar-

The Newry Examiner mentions that on Friday week
schooner Hetty Clifton, lying in that harbour. was
ated for the purpose of destroying vermin, and
were provided ashore for the crew. Two of the
_amen, however, got drunk, forgot that they were not
to sleep on board, and went to pass the night in the fore-
Castle. where they were found suffbcated on the following

tion, within the past week, in the barony of Erris, county
of Mayo. Two deaths in the county of Kerry, and two in
the county of Galway, from the same dreadful cause. In
the mountains and boggy districts of the West extreme
destitution has set in, owing to the Consumption of the
small crops of potatoes, and the expenditure of the money

savings from the late harvest.
AFFAIR. OF HONOR.—On Tuesday, Mr. John Francis
Blake was brought up at the Head Police-office, in the
custodv'of James Malone, 49, one of the Detective Force,
charged with having an intention of committing a breach

the present Sir Thomas Blake, and son of the late Sir
Valentine Blake, of Galway. The gentleman who was to
have encountered him "on the daisy" is Mr. Edward
J. Irwin, the owner of Faughaballagh, and an eminent
sporting character. The cause of quarrel involved in the
case remains a mystery.

Dr. AV Hale, with

horn must now

Slattery, the Roman Catholi

section of the Irish Roman Catholic priesthood which
considers that the true remedy for the present social con-
dition of Ireland lies in denouncing the best landlords and

_ active magistrates from the altar. The channels
which have been chosen for effecting this authoritative re-

cognition of the practice in question have been two letters,
addressed by these Prelates respectively to Lords John
Russell and Clarendon, and a series of resolutions adopted
at a meeting of the priests, presided over by Dr.
MELANCUOLY CONDITION.—A Roman Catholic farmer
of Ireland, writing to his landlord in Dublin, says :
" Sir, I have but one large pistol, and if the country who
are all in one combine, find I will have to send it into the
police, the villians will murder and rob me
,that night—
.

there is nothing but badness going in these

bear it, for it is sure c

3e man that pays

ais rent is an innemy to the country

here is nothing

of the youngsters, besides every kind of divilment, with
scamperers going here and there, night and day, snatching
at all they can reach. They say the countrys their own
now to do as they plase without the Repeal or a haporth.
I am. shockinelv Rap imarave.
ments. Its no less than what business has the blackgard
to be quicking ditches, and making dranes."
TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.—The affairs of I "land

-rem nave
assumed a new aspect. The murders by which the land
has been stained have awakened a terrible re-action
among surviving Protestants. In some parishes they

have -declared that for every Protestant murdered they
will require the life of the Romish priest, a resolution
induced by the intemperate language (to say the least) of
some of the ministers of that persuasion from the very
altar of peace. The Rev. Henry Brennan, of Kilglass,
and his curate, have received a notice adorned with a
coffin and entreating them to " Beware !" This is not
to be justified, but ought not some allowance to be made
for persons virtually deserted by the Government, and
hourly in peril of their lives ? At all events, the rejoinder
of Mr. Brennan, who has applied to the Lord Lieutenant
for protection, is not likely to conciliate matters. He
intimates that the letter was " fabricated by a junta of
rabid parsons for the purpose of reviving religious bigotry
and sectarian animosities."
EFFECTS OF POPERY IN IRELAND.—The Prussian
State Gazette, in an article on the Irish Coercion Bill,
says—" It is impossible for any one who is acquainted
with the condition of the people of Ireland, their absolute
dependence on the priesthood, the access of the Popish
priest to the conscience of each individual by means of
the confessional, and the whole tendency of this infernal
war—it is impossible, we say, for such an one to doubt
that the priests are informed of each individual assassina-
tion. The Romish church, with its agitating and ab-
solving priests, is, therefore, in Ireland the great confede-
rate in crimes, which, in their cruelty and bloodthirstiness,
are not exceeded by the accumulated horrors of the night
of St. Bartholomew in France. Let the public imagine
what the moral condition of such a people must be when
their very religion is blood-stained. Well may the
Journal Des Debats call Ireland 'the red stain on the
map of Europe ;' but it is not red from the blood effused
by an oppressive government, but from the sanguinary
contests and the secret wickedness of its own sons."
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the last meeting a number
of subscriptions were handed in, and a letter read from
" the Lion of the Fold of Judah," enclosing £39 from
the deanery of Tuam. A young priest, named Mulligan,
addressed the meeting at considerable length, and charged
the landlords, as a class, with the worst possible disposi-
tion and feelings—they were, he said, oppressors, and

without bowels 'Of compassion of any sort. His attack was
of the most sweeping and calumnious description, and was
rapturously applauded. The speaker also denounced
Messrs. Grattan and Browne.—Mr. John O'Connell then
came forward and spoke on a variety of subjects at con-
siderable length. He alluded to the dinner given to him
at Limerick last week, and to the friendly disposition
which was manifested by the Young Irelanders who at-
tended. He also referred to an article in the Edinburgh

Review, and stated that it might be taken as a programme

of the intentions of government with regard to Ireland,
and that it was written by Mr. Trevelyan.—Rent for the
week, £l5l. _ _ _

THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special ccmmission
for the county of Limerick was opened at Limerick, on
Tuesday, when Chief Justice Blackburne delivered an
elaborate charge to the grand jury, describing the condi-
. .

tion of the district, which had rendered this commission
necessary, for the prompt administration of justice, and
the vindication of the law. On the following day the bu-
siness began, and a man named Ryan was convicted of
the murder of John Kelly, at Knocksantry, by shooting
him with a blunderbuss. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentence of death was passed without the slightest
hope of mercy. The Lord Chief Baron gave the following
harrowing summary of the prisoner's crime :—" A man of
your own class of life—a farmer resting from the labours
. .