The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

I IiELAND

A farmer at 0 nagh and his sister have been committed
for trial for manufacturing threatening letters..
FALL OF BUILDING PROPERTY.—We know a concern

without afine at £lso.—Limerick Chronicle.
At the Limerick Special Commission, on Thursday, a

been convicted of murd

Sir George Grey has issued a circular to all the magis-

of arresting and strictly e

Some of t

lieutenants of

mit now they h:

ay for their removal.
he Roman Catholic inhabitants of Stroll

by the Rev. Mr. M`Dermott

A farmer, named Brown, was br
Ballymore, county Tipperary, on

lay morning.
w months ago Brown

The causes assigned are, that son
got married, to the discomfiture of some rivals, and with
his wife obtained a sum of money and a few acres of
land. Suspicion has fallen on some of the rejected lovers.
The Morning Post, the chief organ of tl►e Tractarians,
says, "The first thing to be done with Ireland is to make
them good Roman Catholics. If Rome would take the
trouble to reform Ireland on Romish principles, a gfeat
good would be achieved." Will any one deny after this
that there is an intimate connexion between Tractarianism

.
FEARFUL ArrEMpT.—A diabolical attempt was made
to inveigle JohoCongreve, Esq. of Mount Congreve,
county Waterford, into a well-laid snare, for the purpose
of murdering him. We are in possession of the facts, but

le by t

authorities

The Tyrone Constitution reports the arrest of M

took place but too clearly proved the charge
shall, Mr. Buchanan's servant, has beer

John Mar

or having a guit

know ledge of the letters

THE VOLUNTARY (?) SYSTEM.—
able Roman Catholic inhabitant of

The name of a respect

Npnagil was

day posted on the Nenagh Conciliation-hall, and directly
opposite the chapel gate, in consequence of the smallness
of his donation on Sunday last to the P.P. of the town.

iven was attached

e foot of this species of
Nenagh Guar-

tion by shoemaker's wax

The 2VeicrY Ex

ainer mentions that on Friday week

fumigated for the. purpose 6f destroying vermin, _ and

ngs were

Idea ashore for the crew. Two of the
got drunk, forgot that they were not

There are reports of three deaths from extreme destitu-
tion, within the past week, in the barony of Erris, county
of Mayo. Two deaths in the county of Kerry, and two in
the county of Galway, from the same dreadful cause. In
the mountains and boggy districts of the West extreme
destitution has set in, owing to the consumption of the
small crops of potatoes, and the expenditure of the money

savings from the late harvest.
AFFAIR OF HONOR.—On Tuesday, Mr. John Francis
Blake was brought up at the Head Police-office, in the

custody of James Malone, 49, one of the Detective Force,
charged with having an intention of committing a breach
of the peace by fighting a duel. Mr. Blake is brother of
the present Sir Thomas Blake, and son of the late Sir
Valentine Blake, of Galway. The gentleman who was to

have encountered him "on the daisy" is Mr. Edward
J. Irwin, the owner of Faughaballagh, and an eminent
sporting character. The cause of quarrel involved in the

case remains a mystery

Dr. M`Hale, with whom must now be associated Dr:
Slattery, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, has
identified himself—for it really comes to that—with that
section of the Irish Roman Catholic priesthood which

considers that the true remedy for the present social con-
dition of Ireland lies in denouncing the best landlords and
most active magistrates from the altar. The channels
which have been chosen for effecting this authoritative re-
cognition of the practice in question have been two letters,
addressed by these Prelates respectively to Lords John
Russell and Clarendon, and a series of resolutions adopted
at a meeting of the priests, presided over by Dr.
MELANCHOLY CONDITION.—A Roman Catholic farmer
of Ireland, writing to his landlord in Dublin, says :
" Sir, I have but one large pistol, and if the.country who
are all in one combine, find I will have to send it into the
police, the villians will murder and rob me that night.—

They don't know but I have more fire-arms than that. Sir,
there is nothing but badness going in these parts. They
take your property amost before your face, and you have
to bear it, for it is sure deth to peach. The man that pays
his rent is an innemy to the country. There is nothing but
card-playing, and thy-drinking, and plotting in the heads

.f
scamperers going here and there, night and day, snatching
at all they can reach. They say the countrys their own
now to do as they plase without the Repeal or a haporth.
I am shockingly envied on account of my little improve-
ments. Its no less than what business has the blackgard
to be quicking ditches, and making dranes."

TERRIBLE RETRIBI7TION.-Thj affairs of Ireland have
assumed a new aspect. The murders by which the land
has been stained have awakened a terrible re-action
among surviving Protestants. In some parishes they
have declared that for every Protestant murdered they
will require the life of the Romish priest, a resolution
induced by the intemperate language (to say the least) of
some of the ministers of that persuasion from the very
altar of peace. The Rev. Henry Brennan, of Kilglass,
and his curate, have received a notice adorned with a
coffin and entreating them to " Beware !" This is not
to be justified, but ought not some allowance to be made
for persons virtually deserted by the Government, and
hourly in peril of their lives ? At all events, the rejoinder
of Mr. Brennan, who has applied to the Lord Lieutenant
for protection, is not likely to conciliate matters. He
intimates that the letter was " fabricated by a junta of
rabid parsons for the purpose of reviving religious bigotry
and sectarian animosities."

EFFECTS OF POPERY IN IRELAND.—The Prussian
State Gazette, in an article on the. Irish Coercion Bill,
says—" It is impossible for any one who is acquainted
with the condition of the people of Ireland, their absolute
dependence on the priesthood, the access of the Popish
priest to the conscience of each individual by means of
the confessional, and the whole tendency of this infernal
war—it is impossible, we say, for such an one to doubt
that the priests are informed of each individual assassina-
tion. The Romish church, with its agitating and ab-
solving priests, is, therefore, in Ireland the great confede-
rate in crimes, which, in their cruelty and bloodthirstiness,
are not exceeded by the accumulated horrors of the night
of St. Bartholomew in France. Let the public imagine
what the moral condition of such a people must be when
their very religion is blood-stained. Well may the
Journal Des Debats call Ireland the red stain on the
map of Europe ;' but it is not red from the blood effused
by an oppressive government, but from the sanguinary
contests and the secret wickedness of its own sons."
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the last meeting a number
of subscriptions were handed in, and a letter read from
" the Lion of the Fold of Judah," enclosing £39 from
the deanery of Tuam. A young priest, named Mulligan,
addressed the meeting at considerable length, and charged
the landlords, as a class, with the worst possible disposi-
tion and feelings—they were, he said, oppressors, and
without bowels of compassion of any sort. His attack was
of the most sweeping and calumnious description, and was
rapturously applauded. The speaker also denounced
Messrs. Grattan and Browne.—Mr. John O'Connell then
came forward and spoke on a variety of subjects at con-
siderable length. He alluded to the dinner given to him
at Limerick last week, and to the friendly disposition
which was manifested by the Young Irelanders who at-
tended. He also referred to an article in the Edinburgh
Review, and stated that it might be taken as a programme
of the intentions of government with regard to Ireland,
and that it was written by Mr. Trevelyan.—Rent for the
week, £l5l.
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission
for the county of Limerick was opened at Limerick. ,r 1
Tuesday, when Chief Justice Blackburn delivered an
elaborate charge to the grand jury, describing the condi-
tion of the district, which had rendered this commission
necessary, for the prompt administration of justice, and
the vindication of the law. On the following day the bu-
siness began, and a man named Ryan was convicted of
the murder of John Kelly, at Knocksantry, by shooting
him with a blunderbuss. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentence of death was passed without the slightest
hope of mercy. The Lord Chief Baron gave the following
harrowing summary of the prisoner's crime :—" A man of
your own class of life—a farmer resting from the labours
of the day, sits in his cottage, surrounded by his family,
and at his own hearth—his nephew, a boy, seated at one
side of him—his niece, a girl of early age, at the other—his
children in the room—his wife, their mother, occupied in
a little office of motherly attention, washing the feet of
one of those infants preparatory to putting the children
to bed. That man is sitting in his chair in that scene of
bliss, when you enter the dwelling-house with a blunder-
, buss charged with eleven balls—you approach him—you
place it within a few inches of his back, and, in the pre-
sence of his wife and children, you shoot him dead ! You
saw before you, for he saw you, the boy, who looked up,
saw you, and identified you ; that boy was in the direction
where you were firing; and you incurred the risk of a
double murder, and nearly perpetrated the two, for some
of the balls that perforated the body of your victim,
reached the boy and inflicted wounds upon him. Is it
possible to conceive an assemblage of circumstances unit-
ing in themselves so much ,the character of that horror
which belongs to the crime of murder, as those;"

A WELL-TIMED REPROOF.—The Earl of Shrewsbury, a
Roman Catholic peer, has addressed a letter to Dr.
NV Hale on the recent. Trish outrages. Lord Shrewsbury
insists on reminding the archbishop of his duty, and urges
for a satisfactory explanation of his conduct, because " it
is currently reported, and readily believed, that in what
concerns religion, your grace's diocese is in a state of pe-
culiar destitution ; that you have ever debarred your poor
from the benefits of education under the national system,
without any efficient substitute of your own—that you
have never admitted Father Mathew within your limits—
and that too many of your parishes are without a school,
and some of them without a chapel, though the repeal
rent is regularly levied, and ungrudgingly paid." With
regard to Dr. M'llale's assertions that there have been no
crimes, but deeds of retaliation ; no murders, no assassin.
ations, no robbery, no pillage, no injustice, no cruelty, no