The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

IRE LAND.

The repeal rent for last week was £406.
On Saturday week four children were burnt to death at
Skibbeteen in a house which was accidentally destroyed
by fire.
At Brookeborough, in Fermanagh, an old man, named.
Smith, upwards of eighty years of age, has been commit-
ted for the murder of his wife by chopping her head off
with a hatchet.

At the Donegal assizes, en Friday week, Michael
Dogherty was found guilty of having murdered James
Friel, at Tullinadal, on the 27th ult., by stabbing him
with a bayonet. He was sentenced to be hanged.
In compliance with the requisTon of the churchwar-
dens of the parish of Ballyculter, Ireland, who had been
',quested to do so by a hundred Protestant parishioners,
a meeting was held on Tuesday last, in the Ballyculter
sclool-house, "for the purpose of taking into serious
consideration certain alarming innovations in the Divine
service of the parish church, and the propriety of for-
warding petitions to the Queen and both Houses of Par-
liament, praying the immediate interposition of their
authority in arresting the progress of these errors, and
the consequent injury to the reformed religion of this
country." After several speeches from persons of local
influence, a petition embodying the above resolutions was
agreed to be adopted.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—This anniversary was celebrated
with more than usual ruffianism in Dublin. During the
whole line of the procession from the Barracks to the
Castle, all business was suspended, add every shop was
closed for some hours—the peaceable citizens were beaten
and abused, and the houses and the shops of those ob-
noxious to the mob were attacked and assailed. The
windows in the establishment of Messrs. Hamilton and
Killinger, on Ormond• quay, were broken, and a bludgeon
-flung in, which, but for the merciful interposition of Pro-
vidence, would have caused the dee, h of one of its mem-
bers. The head of that highly respectable firm was, it
will be remembered, foreman of the jury that found a
verdict of guilty against Mr. O'Connell and his co-con-
spirators; and hence the popular mob demonstration that
went the extent of demolishing his premises.

ATTEMPT TO BURN A MAGISTRATE AND PARTY OF
PoercE.—On Wednesday night, near th s town (Castlerea)
T. Byrne, Esq., J. P . was on duty with four police,
when they met four armed men, whom they took into
custody ; but seeing there were so few police to contend
with, one of the prisoners knocked Mr. Byrne down, and
shouted out for the " boys" to come on, when up came
over 300 men armed in all points. Mr. Byrne and the
police ran into a house close at hand, and on entering
it several shots were fired at them, but without effect.
Report says one of the party was shot by ;he police; the
house was set on fire in five different places, and Mr.
Byrne and the police were obliged to remain in tt until the
greater part was consumed. They at length fled, and
fortunately escaped. The military and police are now
assembled in Castlerea, in large bodies, horse and foot,
to suppres covacre meetings.—Dublin Packet.
IRISH CRITICISM ON MISS FAUCIT. —The "glorious
girl," as the Nation calls this amiable and clever young
lady, has been playing Antigone in Dublin ; and the re-
veal organ thus discourses thereupon.—" For our own
part we may say, that when first we saw her act this part,
we were wildered and enchanted by her extraordinary
grace—hand, foot, form, eye, voice—nay, her very gar-
ments—were a Greek vision—we felt a genuine pain
when, in her parting scene, she was tortured at the sha-
dow of that fearful deeth—we were savoge at her fate
rather than astonished at her skill. Mourning, piety,
faith, genius, and heroism, hastened by us in stormy
changes, till she went to her tomh, and we looked around
and.found we had been dreoming an ennobling dream !
This play of Antigone was acted thirty-six times running
at Athens. Is Dublin so overlaid with ignorance, cant,
and stupidity, as not to welcome it? We wish but one
change in Miss Faucit—we wish her an Irishwoman."
IRISH W'ttEAT.—The Dublin Mail says "there are
certain parties io Ireland who make a trade of buying up
wheat in its pure and unadulterated state, in the markets.
They, at the same titne, purchase from the great mill-
owners, who deal so extensively in fleur for exportation,
all their mill-screenings, which is the small wheat, and
dirt and offal of the wheat, for the purpose of mixing it
with the pure wheat, and sending tt over to England.
There can be no doubt that this is a downright swindle,
and they who practice it ought to be made, if they are
not, amenable to the laws. If a trudesi, an adulterateS
tobacco, tea, toff e, or any other article of consumption,
he is liable to severe penalties.—We trust that the mer-
chants of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Bristol, will enquire
into the matter, for they are the partit s defrauded—whilst
the lrish agriculturist is more seriously injured and
brought into suTicion by dishonourable and fraudulent
speculators. Every one knows how the poor farmer is
taxed at the mill-door, if his wheat is not properly cleaned ;
and yet we now see a profit is made en that very dirt !! !"
TRIAL BY JURY A " DELUSION, A MOCKERY, AND A
SNARE."—When these words were applied ti the great
" mirister" trial of last year, none, except those blinded
by party zeal, c uld agree in their appropriateness to that
(-evasion ; but occasions do arise in the ordinary routine
of public business connected with crown prosecutio! s at
the assizes in ..high their application is, indeed, very evi-
dent. NA e will be at once understood to allude to those
cases it, which the prisoner exec vises his right of peremp •
tory challenge to the jury, and the crown refuses, even et
the request of the persons wroneed, to put off an ob-
jectionable juror, or to permit the prosecutors so to do.
At the present assizes in Inland we have heard of two
instances at leas' in which it has been apparerely the
means of ft ustrating the ends of justice. One in the
county Leitrim, where nineteen protestant jurors were
challenged; one was left on the jury with eleven Roman
catholics. The indictment was for manslaughter. The
evidence appeared conclusive; but the prisoner was ac-
quitted, and bonfires and r joicings immediately suc-
ceeded. The ,econd case to which we have alluded oc-
curred at Tralee. The prisoner had been for some years
a pretended convert from teornanism, but having seized
and taken possession of a horse belonging to a clergyman,
he thought proper to return to his former profession. He
was indicted for larceny ; his attorney had the long panel
called over; twenty protestants were challenged; one
juryman was wanting. The next name was a protestant.
" Have you any obj, ction to him ?" was asked by the
crown solicitor. "Just the same as the rest, but my
number is out," was the reply! The consequence may
be easily conceived. A legal quibble as to the animus
furoredi was raised by the counsel for the prisoner; and
the jury, after upwards of two hours' hesitation, brought
in a verdict of " not guilty," accompanied, however, with
a recommendation to the prisoner to give up the horse !
Such trials as these are a mockery indeed.—Dublin paper