The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Tuesday the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., and Lord
Carew were invested with the ribband and badge of the
most illustrious Order of St. Patrick at Dublin Castle.
Mr. Conolly, M.P., has given four acres of land to Mr.
King, of Manchester, with right of water-power at one of
the falls of Lough Erne, near Ballyshannon, for the erec-
tion of a flax-spinning manufactory.
A few days since a fox entered the house of a man
named Murphy, near Dangan, where an infar.t was asleep
in a cradle, both parents being out at the time, and seiz-
ing the infant by the throat carried it away. An instant
purs&t was made, and reynard was compelled to abandon
his seizure, but when found the child was dead. The
throat was shockingly mangled.—Clare paper.
The Spanish Government have conceded a grant of 250
square miles of country on the banks of the Guadalquiver,
in a.e provinces of Andalusia and Estremadure, contain-
ing 160,000 acres of land, of the richest quality, to be
colonized by Irish sett-Jets, and exempt from taxation for
twenty-five years. The district in question, depopulated
by the expulsion of the Moors, has never since been fully
occupied.
DISLOYALTY.—The Limerick Chronicle says, " The
Rev. J. Brehan presided at the annivetsary soiree of the
Young Men's Society, which was held at the Old Ex-
change, on Sunday night, and numerously attended. The
health of the Pope was toasted before that of her Majesty;
and on ' The Queen' being given the majority of the
company evinced their disloyalty by loud hisses, while
not more than a dozen rose to drink the toast !"
STEAM BETWEEN NEW YORK AND GALWAY.—The
following is from the New York Shipping List, of the
sth instant :—" The new steam-ship Bienville, we under-
stand, has been chartered, for one year, by the Irish
Steam-ship Company, to ply between this port and Gal-
way, Ireland. She is of a superior model, and Is now at
the Morgan Ironworks, receiving her machinery. She is
expected to be ready for sea next month."
BARBAROUS AND INHUMAN MURDER.—The Newry
Telegraph says— The body of a man, who has been identi-
fied as John M'Donnell, a native of Buttevant, in the
county of Cork, was discovered on Sunday morning lying
in the canal between this town and Fatham. A large
sledge hammer was lying by his side in the water; his feet
were exposed above the surfam. There were two wounds
inflicted on each side of his head, sufficient to cause death.
He was a workman on the Belfast Junction Railway, and
was reported by his fellow-labourers to be in possession of
money saved.
SERIOUSILLNESS OF LORD PLUNKETT.—This venerable
nobleman, who has been so long and so highly distinguished
as a lawyer, a senator, and a judge, now lies under a
dangerous and, it is apprehended, a hopeless illnes, at
his residence, Old ConnaPat. near Bray, about ten miles
from Dublin, where,since.he Thad ceased to hold the Irish
seals, on the appointment of Lord Campbell to the Irish
chancellorship in 4831, he has lived in the privacy of the
domestic circle. The noble and learned lord has nearly
reached his 90th year. He was called to the Irish bar in
Hilary• Term, 1787.
ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.—On Wednesday morn-
ing, as Mr. Richard Dvas, J.P., and agent to Sir Montague
Chapman, was proceeding on his car from his residence at
Lleathstown, near Athboy, in the county of Meath, to-
wards the fair at Carlanstown, he was fired at by an assassin
from behind a hedge, and his horse mortally wounded.
Five or six slugs entered the animal's side, and it died
shortly afterwards. Mr. Dyes and his servant providen-
tially escaped On the examination of the place from
whence the shot was fired, it was ascertained that the mis-
creant concerned in it must have lain in ambush for many
hours, as the ground on which he was stretched was quite
warm.