The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There was a crowded meeting of the 'Repeal Association
on Monday. The Earl of Miltown was present, and spoke
at some length. The rent for the week amounted to £B5.
CURIOUS ROBBERY.—A few nights since, •a farmer's
cow-house, in the neighbourhood of Lisronagh ;was entered
and the hair of the tails of several cows shaved off and
carried away.—Tipperary Coratitution.
EXECUTIONS.—The culprit O'Donohee, convicted of
the murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, was executed at Ros-
common gaol, on Wednesday. John Darcy, convicted
of the murder of John Smith, on the Cashel Railway, un-
derwent, on Thursday, the extreme penalty of the law in
front of Maryborough-gaol.
RUMOURED DESIGN TO ASSASSINATE LORD CLAREN-
DON.—It is stated that his Excellency Lord Clarendon
received, some days previous to the memorable 17th, an
anonymous letter, informing him that he was to be fired
at in St. Patrick's Hall during the ball. This circum-
stance—much more naturally than any apprehension of
an enzeute—would account for the extreme anxiety appa-
rent throughout the evening in his Excellency's counte-
nance.—Dublin Herald.

DISTURBANCES IN BALLYNAHINCII.—About eight or
nine o'clock on Thursday morning, a large body of per-
sons, belonging to the Repeal party, entered the town,
with drums and flags, and were met by the Protestant
party, who broke the drums and tore the flags, and a
general melee ensued, in which one man bad his hand
severely wounded, by a shot. However, a portion of
dragoons soon arrived, and peace and tranquility were
restored.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER.—A woman, named Fitzpatrick,
was barbarously murdered in her own house, near Kilcash,
Tipperary, on Wednesday, under mysterious circum-
stances. Her husband, on returning to his house on
that evening, found the door locked, and forcing an
entrance, found his wife lying dead on the floor, her head
chopped to pieces with a hatchet, which lay near her.
The unfortunate woman was far advanced in pregnancy.
An inquest was held on the body, but no clew found to
the murderer.

CoNvicnoN.—At Kilkenny assizes, Thomas Browne,
and Patrick Shea, have been sentenced to death for the
murder of Mr. Prim. Shea received the awful announce-
ment in silence, having merely beaten his breast whilst
the last words, " May the Lord have mercy on your souls,"
were being pronounced ; but Browne exclaimed in loud
accents—" I lay my death upon the turnkey, and the late
gaoler, whose soul is now burning in the pits of hell."
This shocking exclamation created a sensation of horror
in the Court ; but Shea motioned with his hand to his
fellow culprit to keep silence, and observed to the Court
that he had one request to make, which was, that his body
might be given to his friends. Judge Crampton explained
that the law would not permit a compliance with his re-
quest. The prisoners were then removed, and whilst
crossing the dock, Shea was heard to observe—" It is too
bad that innocent men should die."
THE ORANGEMEN OF ULSTER.—The Protestant yeo-
manry of the north, deprived as they have been of those
privileges which they had been taught to consider as a
birth-right, vilified by the press, and irritated by pecuniary
distress, have yet not cast aside the old watchwords of
their loyalty. We are no admirers of the opinions or
principles of Orangemen. We deprecate the smallest
shadow of a return to principles of " asecndancy ; " yet,
in smple justice to a body of men who have stood boldly
by what they thought right, and in doing so have done
good service to the state, we cannot but hope that when
the present crisis shall have passed away, it may not be
forgotten that, at a time when the services of every honest
man in Ireland are required in defence of law and order,
the Protestant peasantry of Ulster have been among the
foremost to stand forward in defence of " Queen and con-
stitution."—Morning Chronicle, Whig paper.

PROSECUTION OF REPEALERS.—On uesday, informa-
tions were sworn at the head Police-office, Dublin, against
William Smith O'Brien. Esq., M.P., John Mitchell, Esq.,
and Thomas Frances Meagher. Mr. Parker, the chief
magistrate, waited upon Mr. Smith O'Brien, at his lodg-
ings, in Westland-row, who saw and took his " parole"
to appear the next morning at the head office. Notwith-
standing this very important proceeding quietness pre-
vailed, and the city was never more tranquil. On Wednes-
day, the three parties attended at the Police Court to en-
ter into bail, to take their trials next term for seditious
writing and speaking. After the sureties tendered had
been accepted, the traversers left the court, followed by a
large concourse, who vociferously cheered them into
D'Olier-street, where the three gentlemen delivered
speeches to about four thousand persons. Mr. O'Brien
pledged himself to say and do more than ever to proeure
for Ireland her native parliament. Mr. Mitchell declared
that he would continue to write week after week, articles
for the purpose, of creating discontent and disaffection
among the Irish people; and Mr. Meagher said that he
was not afraid to meet the hirelings of the bloody govern-
ment in the Queen's Bench or in a wider field.
AWFUL DEMORALIZATION.—The Sligo Journal con-
tains a report of a trial of several persons for the murder
of a man named Burke, including among the conspira-
tors his own wife ; and few can read the proceedings
without being actuated with feelings of horror at the pic-
ture of demoralization which it presents. The wife and
her brothers conspired to commit the deed, and according
to the evidence of two of the children of the deceased,
" the entire family knelt down to pray !" to call, as one
of them said, a " blessing on the deed," preparatory to
its committal ! ! There are historical evidences to show
that people who commit murder in cold blood shudder at
the act, and feel remorse of conscience after the perpe-
tration of the deed. There are others who murder pro-
fessionally, like the Indian Thugs, who fear neither God
nor man ; and there be many who shed blood through
passion and the impulse of revenge; but this is the first
time we have ever heard of an entire family kneeling down
to pray for " the blessing of the Almighty" on the san-
guinary deed they were preparing to commit on a near
relative ! ! It is 'a fearful picture of the demoralization
of some portion of our countrymen ; and frightful as the
picture is, it demands our attention more particularly, as
it manifests a species of coolness and religious fanaticism
unparalleled in the history of our country.—Carlow Sen-
tinel.

THE DUBLIN MEETING ON MONDAY.—The meeting
called by the Young Irelanders, for the purpose of voting
an address of sympathy to the French nation, was held
on Monday, but seems to have proved a failure, as the
numbers that attended were small, and the speeches were
somewhat less violent than might have been expected
from the seditious language used by many of the speakers
in former writings and speeches. Mr. John Mitchell,
of the United Irishman, who said he was desirous of
restraining himself, and would allow nothing to escape
him that could interfere with the cordial unanimity which
they should show on that occasion moved an address to
the French people. This document said that the meet-
ing addressed the citizens of the French republic as
slaves should address freemen, and begged them to look
on the sufferings of the eldest and most persecuted sister
of their common Celtic race with commiseration and sor-
row. The address was of course carried, and Mr. R.
O'Gorman moved a resolution, that the laws of the
British legislature are not in conscience binding upon the
Irish people. and resistance or obedience to its authority
is a question of expediency, not of duty. This resolution
was also passed, as was another, advocating the assembly
of a council of three hundred, which was moved by Mr.
McGee, and seconded by Mr. Meagher, who said that they
must trample on the convention act ; and that if one drop
of blood were shed by the armed government, a thousand
would be shed in England, and all the workhouses would
be- burnt to the ground.— Mr. O'Donohue then moved
the adoption of an address, calling on the Queen to re-
store the Irish parliament. This address was carried ;
and after a speech from Mr. Smith O'Brien,--who
thought that it would be advisable to defer the demand
for an Irish national guard until his return from Paris,
when he could consult the French provisional govern-
ment respecting the best mode of organising such a
body,—the meeting terminated.