The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

John Martin and Kevin O'Dogherty, the Irish exiles,
have arrived at Sydney.
There are executions new at the suit of contractors in
the Scariff, Kilrush, and Ennis workhouses.
Eight fishermen were drowned, last week, i❑ Dingle
Bay, by the swamping of a boat during a storm.
Mrs. Catherine Hunter. housekeeper to the Lord
Bishop of Waterford, was accidentally burned to death on
Saturday.
A large body of people demolished a bridge on the pub-
lic road leading to the collieries near Massford, in the
county Carlow, last week.
A Sligo paper says that a gentleman lately went to dine
with a neighbour, and when about to returm borne his gig
was seized by a collector for the arrears of his host's poor-
rates.

REVERSE OF FORTENE.—A gentleman who, not many
years ago, represented a neighbouring borough in the
imperial senate, is now a recipient of out-door relief !
Nenaqh Guardian.
The Kerry Journal, with regard to the Irish poor law,
says that government intends to fix the maximum rating
upon land and other hereditaments at present rateable at
two shillings in the pound ; and to provide for the defi-
ciency in the poor law expenditure by an income tax on
Irish property.
A few nights since, some persons entered the stable of
a poor widow named Margaret Doonican, residing at
Clondalla, and cut the neck off an ass belonging to her,
with some sharp instrument. She has lately had some
dispute with a neighbour about land, which is the cause
assigned for the perpetration of the wanton act.
On Monday evening, about four o'clock, as Daniel Bay-
ley, Esq., of Moorock, near Ballycumber, was proceeding
alone from Clare to his residence, he narrowly escaped
assassination from a man named -Digan (one of his
tenants). When Mr. Bayley arrived near Digan's house,
a shot was fired at him through a hedge, but fortunately
missed him, as he was driving in his gig at a smart pace.
Mr. John Reynolds is no longer legally lord mayor of
Dublin. Judgment was given, on Tuesday, by the Court
of Queen's Bench in the case of " Wauchob v. Reynolds,"
when the judges decided by three to one that the point
raised as to the ineligib'lity of Mr. Reynolds to remain
on the burgess roll was sustained, and it was accordingly
ordered that his name should be erased from the list of
burgesses.

DEATH OF AN ORANGEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL.—
Mr. James Nixon, of Tulnadell, near Derrygonnelly, died
on Friday se'nnight, aged 83. He was the third Orange-
man (on the society being originally instituted) who was
initiated in this county, and for very many years did the
state good service, when services were needed and valued.
The remains of this quiet, inoffensive man were followed
to the grave by upwards of 200 of his brethren, with all
the insignia of the order.—Fermanagh Reporter.
ROMAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.—By way of " putting
down" the Queen's Colleges, and thereby preserving
intact the old hatreds between classes and creeds, Dr.
M'Hale and his clique of bigots have set a project on
foot for the establishment of a purely Romish University,
the gates of which are to be as firmly closed against Pro-
testant or Dissenter as were those of Bandon against
" Turk, Jew, or Atheist." As a beginning, Mr. Richard
Devereux, of Wexford, has contributed a donation of
£2OO.
POisONING.—The case of the alleged poisoning at
Glenaul, county Armagh, was terminated on Monday.
The jury, after a deliberation of three hours, returned the
following verdict :—" The late Arthur Bernard Bleazby,
late of Glenaul. came by his death by poison, called
arsenic, having been administered into his body as the
said jury believes by the hands of Sarah Maria Bleazby,
and that William Gordon, her steward, was accessory
thereto, and that both said individuals are guilty of the
murder of the said A. B. Bleazby." They were then
committed to the county gaol.
STATE OF IRELAND.—On Sunday week about one
hundred persons came to the lands of Ballykilmurry, in
the parish of Ardmore, in this county, with ploughs and
horses, to set wheat for Mary Mansfield, tenant to the
Earl of Donoughmore. The police were on the lands at
daybreak ; but they only laughed at them, and set four-
teen acres of wheat. It was to avoid a distress for the
poor's rate that the corn was thus sown. The entire of
the farmers have entered into a combination to pay as
little rent as they can, and assist each other in every way
to take away the crops. It appears that several persons
who came to set this wheat resided upwards of ten miles
from Ballykilmurry, and many of them were strangers,
who were not known to the police.—Waterford Mail.
The following letter has been addressed to his tenantry
by the Marquis of Queensbury, in reply to an application
on their part for a reduction of rent :
" Kinrnount Tan. , 1850.
" My friends,—Your petitions have reached, me for 19a
reduc-
tion of your rents. After the blessings of the, last years'
abundant harvest—which filled your stackyards to overflowing
—as well as a very fair potatoe crop, this appears to me un-
reasonable. You have not had time to suffer from the effects
of free trade, be they bad or good. You are not rack-rented.
When a farm in your locality is vacant, competition never fails
to offer.
" I more than usually require my share of my rents, such as
it is, this year, and am quite unprepared to grant any reduc-
tion. Come to me next year, and if you can prove you are
suffering from the new system, though I indulge in no super-
fluity, 1 will then be ready to meet your just claims oy farther
self-denial, if possible. I am, with best wishes,
" QuEExsnuity, Lt.
STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN IRELAND. —During the
debate on the address Lord Stanley said, " The class of
persons that occasioned these low prices told the landed
gentlemen that they must reduce their rents. He for one
need not reduce his rents in Ireland. He was not sup-
posed a harsh landlord in Ireland; but it was his full in-
tention to make a return of income in Ireland as liable to
the property tax this year as nil (laughter and hear). For
the last eighteen months he had not received a single shil-
ling from his property in Ireland (hear, hear), although
he had been in the habit of laying out one-third of the
rental in the improvement of it ; and he believed there was
not a more contented peasantry in the south of Ireland.
Be had at this moment about one fourth of this land
thrown upon his hands, because he could not find a tenant
that would occupy it. This was not an extreme case in
Ireland, for there were, unfortunately, many such. His
land was so good that it yielded on an average 26 tons of
turnips to the statute acre. He would ask, then, whether
it was unreasonable when we said this state of things
ought not to exist—when the poor rates ranged from 16s.
to 18s. in the pound—when estates were brought to market
in Ireland in such profusion as to render the chance of a
purchaser extremely little—after having bestowed both
time and capital for years past upon the improvement of
their estates—when they could not at the present time
find a tenant to occupy their land on account of the
grievous burdens that were imposed upon it, and the un-
remunerative price for their produce ?"
APPALLING CATASTROPHE.—The Li ra erick papers bring
the particulars of a melancholy catastrophe in one of the
workhouses in that city. Between 8 and 9 o'clock on
Tuesday night, shortly after the inmates (500 women) had
retired to rest on the lofts of the store—it being one of
the auxiliary receptacles—a false alarm of fire was raised.
A fearful scene of confusion ensued, the women rushing
to the ladder leading from that portion of the building to
the ground floor. The frantic efforts of all to gain access
to the ladder, upon which several had crowdrd together,
necessarily caused a crush and confusion, until ultimately
the paupers on the other lofts congregated in the narrow
passage, when the ladder broke, and numbers were pre-
cipitated to the ground from a t eight of not more than
ten feet. The scene that ensu is almost indescribable
—the shrieks from below ind...:ed those above to press
more eagerly towards the staircase, and as they came to
the verge of the passage down they fell in crowds over
each other ! For some time all remonstrance was uneven-
ing to dissuade the paupers from rushing headlong to ruin,
and before the surprising nerve of the matron, Mrs.
Sleeman, and assistant-master, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, had
effect, 27 women were killed, or rather suffocated, from
falling on the top of each other ! Many others were
much injured; some of them dangerously so. The jury,
in their verdict, blamed the act of the Limerick guar-
dians, who approved of the recommendation of the com-
mittee to take the Clare-street workhouse, censured the
committee by when the recommendation was made, and
decktred that the building should forthwith be put in ha.
bitable order, and an open passage made to the yard