The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The widow of a once very influential magistrate of the
county Mayo was on Monday last appointed assistant
matron of Clanmorris Workhouse at a salary of £l5 a-year.
On Monday, as some labourers were at work at a deep
cutting at the railway works near Moate, Athlone, a
considerable quantity of earth fell on them, and three
were crushed to death.

A woman was arrested by the police in Limerick, on
Saturday, in the act of selling one cwt. of human bones,
which she had 2 emoved from the burial ground of Killaloe.
She had also a quantity of shrouding and caps worn by
the dead.

The anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was com-
memorated in the " Maiden City" by the hoisting of a
crimson flag on the cathedral, and an orange and purple
flag on Walker's pillar. The joy-bells rang forth merry
peals during the day. Three shots were fired from a piece
of ordnance on the wall, when the flags were raised.
According to the Freeman's Journal, the Austrian
minister has handed to Lord Palmerston the sum of
£3,000, " the munificent subscription of the people of
Austria towards the relief of the Irish poor." It is under-
stood, it seems, to be the desire of the contributors that
the money should he disbursed through the agency cf the
Roman Catholic bishops.
As the mail train of the Great Southern and Western
Railway of Ireland was on its passage from Cork to
Mallow on Monday night, some scoundrel, standing on
one of the bridges, heaved an immense stone, which
dashed through the guard-box ; but, fortunately, the
guard was not in his place at the time, or he must have
been killed.
The harvest accounts continue to be favourable. In
reference to the potato crep, the Dublin Evening Post
says :—" That the disease has been in existence tbr some
weeks past—commencing much earlier than usual—is a
matter beyond all doubt ; but its progress in the few
localities affected has been so slow, and its range so very
limited, that the apprehensions excited at the outset have
been in a great measure allayed, and hopes now prevail
that the crop so extensively planted will escape with
comparatively little injury."
AFFRAY IN THE VICINITY OF BELFAST.—The Belfast
Newsletter, of Friday, states that a collision took place
near Belfast on the preceding day, the " Twelfth of July,"
between an Orange procession and a small body of police.
They arrested the leader of the procession, who carried
a drum, and took him to the police-station. Tha Orange-
men attacked the station, and compelled the garrison of
five policemen to use their firearms. William Walker,
the rescued leader, and William Anderson, one of the
rescuers, " fell badly wounded."
SERIOUS AFFRAY.—On Saturday evening, three young
men left Newry to proceed home by Canal-street, and
thoughtlessly commenced singing certain songs that gave
offence to the numerous railway labourers that lodged in
that part of the town. A number of those " navvies,"
of course, followed them to beat them, and coming up to
them, proceeded with their intention. The three hap-
pened, however, to be armed with some kind of sharp
instruments, which they immediately used in their own
defence, with such serious effect, that two of the " navvies"
were wounded, so that their lives are despaired of.
THE MURDER OF MR. MAITLEVERER.—Justice has
been so far foiled, and the murder of Mr. Mauleverer is
as yet unatoned for. The three men who have for some
time been in custody (including the car-driver, M`Nally)
on suspicionof being deeply implicated in thedreadful deed,
were indicted at the Armagh assizes on Thursday, and all
pleaded not guilty. When the jury panel was called, they
refused to join in their challenges, and the attorney-gene-
ral directed the other prisoners to be put aside, and Brian
Hanratty to be tried. After seventeen peremptory chal-
lenges on the part of the prisoner, and without any chal-
lenge on the.part of the 'Crown, a jury was sworn. After
a great deal of evidence, the jury found the prisoner not
guilty, though the foreman said they cutertained a strong j
bus,picion,of.hio guilt.