The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Monday, a party of six Terry Alts were captured at
Borrisoleigh, where they had attacked a house.
In the Queen's County, a man named Quin,
Upper Famans, was killed in a sort of faction figh
had beaten a man named Dorling, who gathered some of
his friends to be revenged. Seven of them set upon
Qu!n, and beat him to death. Five of the cowardly
assailants are in custody
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AMONG COTTON-SPINNERS.—The cotton-
spinners in the employment of the Messrs. Lepper, of
the Lodge Mills, 'Belfast—the most extensive firm in that
branch of manufacture in Ireland—have this week struck
work, in consequence of a proposed reduction in their
prices.—Banner of Ulster. [We thought we were to
have no reduction of wages, when free trade was granted.
—En. L. S.]
At Leighlin-bridge. in the county of Carlow, there was
a serious riot on Wednesday week. About two hundred
persons, under pretence of wanting work and food, com-
menced breaking up the public roads, and threatened to
plunder the houses. The mob was fast increasing in
numbers and daring, when a detachment of the 931 High-
landers and a strong body of police were brought in from

The ringleaders will be prosecuted.
THE IRISH CHTIRCR AND THE MINISTRY.—Lord
Ebrington, one of the new Lords of the Treasury, in
a3swer to some pungent questions that were put to him
on Thursday, by a Wesleyan minister, at Plymouth, thus
expressed himself :—" As the sum of £lOO,OOO a-year was
given by the state to the Protestant Dissenters of Ireland,
he had no objection that the surplus revenue of the Irish
Protestant Church should go to the Roman Catholics.
(Great uproar.)'.' We entertain not the least doubt that
the present ministry will sacrifice the Irish church to pro-
pitiate O'Connell, unless they are restrained.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A MAGISTRATE.—
On Thursday week an atte.mpt was made to assassi-
nate Charles Fermi', Esq., of Dalystown, J. P., near
Loughrea, in the county of Galway. This gentleman ob-
served a strange man at his parlour window, looking sin
very intently. He asked his business ? " Charity,"
replied the fellow. He was told there was nothing for
him. Whereupon he presented a papei to Mr. Farrell,
which he refused to look at. This movement was evi-
dently intended to arrest the attention of that gentleman,
for the fellow drew a pistol from his breast,and was in the
act of cocking it, when Mr. F. rushed towards him,calling

to his servant's. The intended assassin was apprehended
after a run of three miles across the country, and on his
person were found two ball cartridges, together with the
loaded pistol. He was identified at the gaol of Loughrea.
His name is Burke, and he had just been liberated after
six months' imprisonment for robbery.
Mix. O'CONNELL AND THE NEW MINISTRY.—At the
meeting of the repeal association on Monday last, Mr.
O'Connell spoke respecting the course which was to be
adopted towards the new ministry. He professed his de-
termination never to abandon his advocacy of repeal, but
said that he wished the people of England would bid for
Ireland, and that he should like an instalment of repeal
this year. He adverted to Sir R. Peel's speech, declaring
that there should be perfect eq'iality between England and
Ireland, ant said that it was but an abstract of his own
speeches, an echo of his own requirements. He was de-
termined to bring the question of repeal under the con-
sideration of the Howe of Commons in the earliest part
of the next session. With regard to the pending elections,
he said that he would return a repealer for Dungsrvan if
he could ; but that he was resolved not to offer any
vexatious opposition. He would urge the electors to re-
turn a repealer, but at present he had no candidate pre-
pared. He afterwards declared his intention of opposing
any proposition for extending to Ireland the English sys-
tem of ont-door relief to the poor.