The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

IRISH MISCELLANY

A young man named Reilly has been arrested at Bel-
fast, on a charge of high treason. _ _

The °rangerlen of -Dublin have generously come for-
ward to memorialise the Lord-Lieutenant in favour of
Smith O'Brien.

General Napier has written to say that the statement
in the Freeman's Journal about his having pledged him-
self to secrecy about Mr. Young's letter, is not true.
The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops have declined to in-
terfere in any appeal for mercy in the case of the Crown
convicts, and have also passed a resolution " deprecating
a state provision for their clergy."
On Tuesday night the windows of the Police Barrack
of Bouleagh were smashed with stones. The barrack
was built by the Irish Mining Company. this was the
place that Mr. Smith O'Brien required to be given up to
him to lodge his body guard in.
The Dublin Post, the organ of the Irish government,
solemnly assured its readers over and over' again that the
report of General Napier's appearance at the state trials
was all talk, and yet when he did appear, the Post has
not published the extraordinary letter which he was sum-
moned to produce.
On Friday morning two houses in Catherine-st., Dublin,
occupied by numerous indigent individuals, fell a heap of
ruins while most of the inmates were in bed. No fewer
than seventeen persons were buried beneath the materials.
Only twelve were extracted alive ; the other five, all fe-
males, being taken out dead.
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATII.—On the 4th,
near Markethill, Mr. Richard Grey, a respectable farmer,
who lived on the estate of the Earl of Charlemont, fol-
lowed the remains of a deceased neighbour to the burial
ground of Claddy, Miltown, and whilst paying the last sad
homage to the dead at the funeral, fell a lifeless corpse ou
the grave which he had assisted to make.—Ulster Gaz.
A JUROR ATTACKED.—During the trial of Mr. Smith
O'Brien, Mr. George Bradshaw, one of the jurors, was
attacked within a mile of Clonmel whilst travelling in a
gig, and two men rushed on them and seized the horse,
which they pulled down on his haunches. The Messrs.
Bradshaw resisted, and their assailants fled ; they took
one of the fellows prisoner, and the police have captured
the other.

ARRESTS.— On Sunday, when the steamer Albert
reached Dublin from Liverpool, two persons were arrested,
and in the box of one of them a small pistol, a gun, a
cane-sword, a foil, and a powder horn were found. They
were taken before the magistrates, but were liberated, on
proving that they were American citizens going to Ireland
on their lawful calling. The arms were not then given
up, but the rest of their property was.
SCREENING THE PRIESTS.—MORE FOUL FLAY. —A
correspondent informs us that it was publicly stated, in
the club-house at Clonmel, by an official of high standing
in the constabulary department whom he names, " that
Mr. Trant was prepared to prove, if permitted by the
Attorney-General, that a Roman Catholic priest"—and
not Mr. Smith O'Brien—" was the first to demand of the
police that they should surrender their arms." We leave
this fact, for the present, to the consideration of the honest
public.—Dublin Herald.
BARBAROUS MURDER.—A most cruel and wanton
murder was committed on the townland of Drumhilla,
between Cootehill and Ballaby, on the night of the Bth
or morning of the 9th inst. The name of the unfortunate
victim was James Conolly. His body was found with the
skull smashed into pieces, and it was evident that more
than one person must have been concerned in the murder.
At the inquest, the jury found a verdict of " Murder
against some person or persons unknown ;" adding that
strong suspicion existed against the son of the deceased,
Philip Conolly.
DARING AND FATAL ATTEMPT.—On Thursday, in pur-
suance of a long-concocted scheme, a daring attempt was
made by the convicts in the Carrickfergus gaol to procure
their liberty. Fortunately, the governor was forewarned
of the attempt by a convict named Orr. The attempt
was to be made at eight o'clock, when the prisoners were
conducted from their night quarters to the apartments
they were to occupy during the day. The attempt was
still, however, made somewhat unexpectedly, but by the
promptitude of the governor, who drew out his pistols,
and motioned the convicts back to their cells, it did not
succeed. The prisoners got beyond his reach and scaled
the walls, when one of them, named Edwards, was shot
dead by the sentinel. The other, seeing the grovernor
approaching with a biunderbus, fell on his knees and
begged for mercy.
AN UNPROFITABLE DEPENDENCY.—IreIand is one of
the least taxed portions of the British empire. Out of
fifty-two million pounds levied in the United Kingdom,
scarce £4,500,000 is raised in.lreland, from a population
equal to half the population of England. The total net
revenue of Ireland in 1846 was only £4,333,933,—a sum
barely more than sufficient to provide the interest of the
portion of the national debt assigned to Ireland. Taking
the annual revenue, in round numbers, of Ireland at pre-
sent as £4,600,000, the expenditure as £3,600,000, and the
interest on debt at £4,260,000, the deficiency is £3,200,000.
Ireland, therefore, costs the British Exchequer at least
this sum. Estimating the annual deficiency of Ireland at
three millions sterling, the cost of Ireland to England
since the Union, amounts to £141,000,000. This fact
deserves consideration in both countries.

FRIGHTFUL MURDERS.—On Sunday, at daybreak, six
or seven armed men, with their faces blackened, entered
the house of a man named Bryan, at Ashford, Tipperary,
where three men were placed by the landlord to distrain,
and murdered these men in a terrible manner. At the
inquest, Patrick Cushen deposed that he lived half a mile
from Bryan's house ; that on the night of the murder the
three men came to his house, and Regan called out that
there were men pursuing him ; Regan entered and locked
the door; soon after, several men came up and asked to
be admitted, but were refused ; they then broke open the
door, and some of them, with guns, rushed in ; Dwyer
and Walsh implored mercy, but in vain ; they were mur-
dered in the kitchen ; Regan, who was dragged out by
others of the party, was placed on his knees ; witness
heard repeated blows given to him, and he saw a gun pre-
sented at him ; witness retired, fearing he might himself
be shot.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEAM-ENGINE.—ECONOMY
OF FUEL.—We have just seen the copy of a registered
patent, obtained by Mr. Wm. Rowan, of the firm of J.
Rowan and Sons, of this town, for an improvement in
engineering, whereby a considerable saving of fuel will be
effected, and a greater degree of regularity obtained in
the working of the steam-engine. The principle on which
this improvement is founded, is no less remarkable for its
elegance and simplicity than for its easy adaptation to all
steam power. It consists of a slider acting in connexion
with the governor on the expansion valve, adapting the
motion of the engine to the weight of the pressure, by
cutting off the steam at any given point of the stroke,
and thus securing regularity of motion, and economising
fuel to a great extent. The improvement is now in full
operation, on the engine at the York-street Foundry, as
well as on several others, amongst which may be men-
tioned an engine of forty-horse power, recently erected
for Messrs. Langtry and. Co., Portadown.—Belfast Whig.