The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

V SOUTH WALES

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The Connaught Watchman says that, at a concert
given at Ballinasloe last week during the fair, a Roman
Catholic clergyman having refused to take off his hat
during the performance of the National Anthem, he was
hooted out of the roam.

EMIGRATION.—Upwards of
the port of Dublin every day—a huge number at any time
but especially at this most unpropitious season of the yeat .
From Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Derry, and other ports, the
emigration continues without the slightest prospect of
abatement, untill all the saverity of winter may check it.
An epidemic of a serious character, causing very ex-
tensive mortality, is at present very prevalent among the
children in the 'county of Armagh and other parts of the
North. The affection is of the throat, and presents some-
thithr of the character of croup and scarlatina, and in
most cases has resisted the application of medical treat-
ment- Two anti three members of the same family have
been carried off by it, and in some cases it has assailed
adults with fatal effect.

00 emigrants sail from

At the last meeting of the TUIlm guardians, in the
county Clare, the cheering fact was- noticed that there
were no able-bodied paupers•in the workhouse; and it was
further remarked that, unless the threatened pressure of
additional taxation to meet past liabilities reduces more of
the rate payers to insolvency and ruin, this union is not
likely to have any able-bodied paupers• chargeable to it in
future. In the paper which contains this agreeable in-
telligence there is a drawback in the shape of an advertise.
ment, calling for another poor rate of .ss. in the pound T.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.—The Mayo ConthJu-
lien says :—Oe last Wednesday the Westport guardians
were informed by their treasurer that ;Ch.—being one-
third of their funds—was stopped for the repayment of the
annuities ! This is assuredly " crying havoc,-and let slip
the-dogs of famine r The public may not be aware that
up to a recent period the Westport union was receiving its
weekly supplies by means of the rate-in-aidond yet stul-
tified Lord John stops one-third of the new rate to pay
for the blank cheques of the Board of Works on Mr.
Mason'S honesty !! This is the beginning, what will be the
end ?: Starvation to the poor, annihilation to those who
were once rich, and• emigration for the rest.

A course has.beeosugested by the Bank of England for
the supply of bullion in Ireland, which may save trouble
and risk to emigrants. Emigrants now take sovereigns,
which they change for American money, receiving gold
eagles or other coins at the rate of $484 50c. for £lOO.
The Bank of England having an abundant supply of
American eagles,' which they can part with at .84/34F85c.,
they suggest that emigrants might take these instead of
sovereigns, which they might do at a profit of 35- cents,
or Is. scl. per cent, and thus avoid the necessity of a
change and the possibility of deception. A communi-
cation has been made to the Bank of Ireland to carry into
operation this suggestion, if thought desirable.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—A lamen table and fatal accident
occurred on Thursday, the 16th inst., at Deramfield, near
Killeshandra, the residence of Dr. Rich. Hinds. Mr. Geo-
Thos. Hinds, of Mount Prospect, Rathgar, brother of Dr.
Hinds, had been on a visit with him for some time past. Four
or five gentlemen dined with them on Thursday evening
last. Immediately after dinner Mr. George Thomas
Hinds took up a loaded blunderbuss, and, in play, said he
would shoot one of the gentlemen, and followed him round
the table presenting the piece. ' This gentleman, in his
flight to escape the dangerous weapon, took up a stick
and struck the barrel &Om him, when, horrid to relate, the
gun by some means became reversed and went off, lodging
the monster charge in the abdomen of its bearer, George
Thomas Hinds. His death was instantaneous. The
above are the facts as they transpired at the inquest. The
verdict was accidental death, without blame being attached
to any one.—Freemart's Journal.

AITIRDUR IN TIPPERARY.—The Irish papers contain
an account of a barbarous murder which was perpetrated
on Monday evening in the`south riding of Tipperary, the
particulars of which are as follow :—" Yesterday evening
(Monday) a most atrocious murder took place at Bally-
._

tarsna. about four miles from Littleton and six from
Cashel, and after such an interval of quiet as the country
has enjoyed it is painful to find that Tipperary should be
disgraced by such foul crimes—crimes which have tended
so much to prevent the influx of capital, and injured the
position of the peasantry by preventing employment. It
appears that the Rev. Mr. Drapes, who has some clerical
preferment, lately became the tenant of a farm, the pro-
perty of Captain Lanphier, and from which several tenon-
try had been ejected, and a bad feeling was since that
period displayed towards the new occupant, and those
acting under him in tilling the ground. Yesterday the
Rev. Mr. Drapes went to the lands from Littleton, and
remained on them until near dusk, when he got into his
gis in 05,1,• 4v s.-tarti home. necomnaniea bS hia bailiff', a
man of the name of James Donnelly, who is married and
has a large family. They had driven but a short distance
when it became very dark, arid when close to several
houses by the road side a shot was aired from the hedge,
and at the side at which Mr. Drapes was driving. That
gentleman at the moment was stooping down to arrange
a portion of the harness, and was thus providentially saved
from the aim of the assassin, but the ball entered the
back part of the head of Donnelly, and, traversing the
base of the skull of the unfortunate man, came out in
front. No further shot was fired, and the moment Mr.
Drapes arrived in Littleton the police turned out, and in
consequence of what they heard several persons were
arrested and are now in custody. Several of those who
lived quite close to the scene of this dreadful occurrence
were also arrested, and one and all deny that they heard
the report of any firearms, although this could not have
been possible. Dr. Bradshaw came from Thurles, and
rendered every possible attention to the bailiff, but the
wound is mortal, and before this he is dead. An investi-
gation is now being held, and some very important facts
have been ascertained."