The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The reward for the apprehension of the assassin of the
late Patrick Clarke, Esq., now amounts to £1322.
The statement that Mr. Wilson, of Carrickmacross,
had been murdered, turns out to be a malicious fab-
rication.
Belfast is at length chosen as the site of the Ulster
College, and Dr. Henry, a member of the National Board
of Education, has been chosen principal.
On Thursday last John French, Esq.. son of the Dean
of Elphin, and nephew to Lord De Freyne, was fired at,
at his own gate, at Cloonquin, Roscommon. Mr.
French's only fault was, that he had spoken disrespect.
fully of the Molly Maguires.
THE TIDES.—The only place on the earth where the
solar tide is greater than the lunar tide is at Courtown
harbour, south of Dublin. In all other places the lunar
influence predominates to the extent of about four times
and a-half (according to Newton.)
REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—On Sunday week, the
Rev. Roderick Ryder, and four other persons, publicly
abjured the errors of Popery, and signed the renunciation
roll of the parish, in St. Audoen's Church, Dublin.
One of the four was formerly a student of St. Jarlath's
College, Tuam, and is now a student of Trinity College,
Dublin. Mr. Ryder is described by Romish bishops as
a man of eminent zeal and piety, and is the sixth priest
who has renounced Romanism in Ireland within a

short time.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Moneta? evening, about
the hour of seven o'clock, as James Henzie, steward of
Mrs. Bennett, of Monaquil, was about eating his supper,
and in the act of raising a potatoe to his mouth, a shot
was fired in through the kitchen window, which drove a
large musket ball through his hand, under the thumb,
which passed up along the wrist, down towards the elbow
joint. There were two policemen in the house for pro-
tection, who were sitting in the same apartment, but
owing to the doors being locked, they had some little
delay in getting out, and when they did, there was no
trace of any one to be seen.
BARBAROUS MURDER.—On the evening of Sunday
week, a man named James Costelloe, a tenant of Burton
Persse, Esq., of Moyada Castle, county Galway, and
who acted as rent-warder, was murdered on the townland
of Killeshulan, near Freshford. The unfortunate man
was seated at supper with the members of his family, and
was shot through the window by some unknown assassin,
who took deadly aim from the outside. The ball passed
through the neck, and killed him on the spot. The
deceased was a witness most instrumental in the con-
viction of the notorious Tracys, which circumstance
would be of itself sufficient to adjudge death to him by
the Rockite code ; but he was also lately concerned in
driving stock distrained for rent on a neighbouring farm.
STATE OF IRELAND.—Last week an address, signed
by the Marquis of Westmeath, Lord Castlemaine, twelve
deputy-lieutenants, and thirty-three magistrates of the
county of Westmeath, on the disturbed state of that
county, was presented to the Lord Lieutenant. From
this address it appears that from the summer assizes of
1844 to the present period, there were in that county 31
cases of attacking houses, 7 burglaries, 8 waylaying and
assault, 15 aggravated assaults, 84 threatenibg letters, 29
injuries to property, 10 appearing armed, 13 burnings,
&c. &c. His excellency states in reply, that the acting
crown solicitor of the circuit has been sent to Mullingar
to make inquiry, whether a special commission should
issue for the trial of the persons now in gaol as suggested
by the address.
BRUTAL MURDER.—On Wednesday fortnight a Miss
Irvine (sister to the clerk of the crown for Fermanagh)
was found dead under the feet of a horse in the stable at-
tached to her residence near Enniskillen. She was co-
vered with wounds and bruises, especially about the head.
No inquest was held, and it was supposed that Miss Ir-
vine, who, though an elderly lady, was of active habits,
had upon this occasion gone to fetch some apples from
the loft above the stable and bad fallen, in descending,
under the horses' feet, and had thus been trampled to
death. Things remained in this state until last week,
when, suspicions being excited, Miss Irvine's maid ser-
vant was arrested, and she has been committed for trial
charged with the wilful murder of her mistress. The ser-
vant had been reared by Miss Irvine from infancy, but
circumstances that have since transpired leave little doubt
of her guilt. The poor lady is supposed to have been mur-
dered by a cleaver which was in the house, and cannot
now be found.

RAILWAY EV TELLIGE CE,

The Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company have
abandoned all the proposed extensions and alterations of
their line, and will not go parliament next session.
The Railway Director, hitherto published every even-
ing, will, up to the opening of Parliament, be published
only once a week.
Wednesday's publication of Herapalh's Journal has
been discontinued in consequence of the decrease of rail-

way business.
The Lancashire and North York Company have amal-
gamated with the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junc'ion. The Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, an ex-
Ming railway, has also been amalgamated with the same

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, the new Bishop of Oxford,
and tutor to the Prince of Wales, has just attained his
40th year.
" An Octogenarian friend of the Bible Society" has
transmitted £5OO for the Association through the Bishop
of Chester.
The Jamaica Journal mentions a rumour of the inten-
tion of the Venerable Dr. Pope to resign his archdeaconry
in that island, and to return to England.
The Rev. Benjamin Harrison, M.A., one of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury's chaplains, is to be the new Arch-
deacon of Maidstone, vacant by Archdeacon Lyall's pro-
motion to the Deanery of Canterbury.
THE SEE OF OXFORD•—The income of this bishopric
has hitherto averaged but £2,500, but will now, under
the recent act 6 and 7 Will. IV. regulating the incomes
of future bishops, be augmented so as not to be less than
£4,000, and not to exceed £5,000 a year.
At the meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, held on Tuesday, Mr. Blunt's motion to
circulate the Apocrypha with the Bible, although people
had been fetched (as was confessed in the debate) more
than one hundred miles to vote for it, was negatived by
176 votes against 62.
The vicar of Leigh having submitted to the bishop the
question, whether the inhabitants of chapelries, having
burial grounds of their own, have any right to interment
in the parish churchyard, has received the following reply,
dated November 12th :—" I conceive the individuals in
chapelries, which have cemeteries attached and a district
formed, can no longer claim sepulture in the parish
churchyard, except when a family vault, assigned by
faculty, gives an individual a right not belonging to the
inhabitants generally."

THE COURT 4 FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Queen is expected to return to Windsor Ca; tle
from Osborne-house to-day. Her Majesty will hold a
Privy Council on Thursday or Friday, when a proclama-
tion will be agreed upon, appointing a day for the meeting
of Parliament for the despatch of business.
The Duchess of Kent, Duke of Cambridge, and Prin e
Edward of Sage Weimar are staying at Witley Court.
The ship Ernest, from Africa, brings two lions and a
lioness for the menagerie of the Queen.