The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Tom Steele has declared his intention of being present
at the orange meeting in Enniskillen, to-day.
A man named Cooney, a witness for the Crown at the
late Tipperary assizes, in a case of murder, wherein the
accused was found guilty of the charge, attempted tocommit
suicide by cutting his throat, a few days since. Ia the
prospect of dying, he made a solemn declaration that the
evidence he gave at the trial was false.

THE REPEAL AGITATION.—At the weekly repeal
meeting, on Monday, another letter was read from Mr.
O'Connell to his " Dear Wray," urging the return of
sixty members of the Repeal Association at the next par-
liamentary election, and showing how this might be done.
The rent was stated to be £276.
Mr. O'Connell, on a recent occasion, said that the
Roman Catholic prelates had confirmed his opinion as to
the uncanonical nature of the Bequests Act. Dr. Mur-
ray, in consequence of this assertion, has written him a
most courteous letter, that he is mistaken—that the act is
not uncanonical.

IRISH ASSIZE INTELLIGENEE.—TVVO men were con-
victed, at the Nenagh assizes, of shooting at Theophilus
Roe, who had excited animosity by taking 8 acres of land,
and sentenced to be transported for life. At the Meath
assizes Matthew Lecl:in wa= put upon his trial for a mur-
der originating in an ejectment from land. Joseph Sher-
lock, a small farmer, was murdered in December, 1843.
Ile read been engaged in ejecting three families of cotters,
the Lockitis, Smiths, and Coughlans. Sherlock's wife,
since dead, had declared that one man ran up to her hus-
band as he was walking by the side of a car, in the even-
ing an.] shot him. Coughlan had turned approver; and
swore that the murder was planned by him, ttvo Leckins,

and two Smiths. They waylaid Sherlock, and the ac-
cused presented a pistol at him, but it missed fire.; James
Smith then took it, did something toit, and shorSherlock,
'Smith had been tried and acquitted.; and Matthew
Leckin had been put on trial for the fourth time.] In
cross-examination, Coughlan made these admissions :
" I did not hate Sherlock, or dislike him, or bear him
any malice for turning me out. I went to shoot him be-
cause I was invited, the same as if I was invited to eat a
potato. I went to confession that morning. I did con-
fess to the priest, and received the sacrament and absolu-
tion. I did not tell him I intended to commit murder or
had agreed to it, or that I was going to see Sherlock mur-
dered." The prisoner had made a confession to a magis-
trate; but it appears to have been obtained by working
on his hopes and fears, and the Judge cautioned the jury
respecting it. The man was acquitted.
DISMISSAL OF AN IRISH PROTESTANT MAGISTRATE.
—Mr. Watson, the magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of
the county of Antrim, has been dismissed from these of-
fices by the government for having presided at an Orange
meeting. This step has created no inconsiderable sensa-
tion in the north of Ireland, where for a number of years
Mr. W. has enjoyed the unbounded confidence of the
Protestant party, as well as the respect and esteem of his
Roman Catholic fellow-subjects.
MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS"— At Galway, a few
days since, Michael Hoban was sentenced to death, for
having on the 18th July last, on the Galway coast, mur-
dered Mark Faherty by throwing him into the sea. There
were only the prisoner and the deceased in the boat toge-
ther, and the evidence to be offered was purely circum-
stantantial. The evening before the murder the prisoner
complained of the conduct of the deceased, who, he said,
cheated him in the partnership concern of the boat, and
expressed his intention to quarrel with him and punish
him. When the prisoner arrived at his destination, he
stated that the deceased fell overboard ; and in about a
fortnight after his body was found in the bay, bearing
marks of violence, evidently inflicted during his lifetime. 1