The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

An amusing hoax was played off on several officers in this
garrison, last week, who received cards for an evening party,
purporting to come from the residence of a lady at the fashion-
able end of the town. Hard to say, if to say, the eclaircisse-
*tent at the mansion was more annoying to the lady hostess than
the gallant gentry on whom the ruse was played.—Limerick
Chronicle.

Many of the chief constables in this county are already on
the move for London to solicit the patronage of their political
friends for promotion as stipendiary magistrates in the West
India islands, where a strong staff of this description will be
formed, under the new system proposed by Government for
regulating the colonies.—Dublin Warder.

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTUNCE.—John O'Neill, a barber, residing
in Mill-street, Newry, had been
influence,
addicted to whiskey-
drinking, and under its baneful excited too by some
deadly passion, he, a few nights back, deliberately proceeded to
murder his wife, by means of pouring a quantity of aqua fortis
into her ears and mouth, when asleep ! After the commission
of this crime, his wretched victim still lingering, and, though as
yet unable to speak distinctly, intimating her knowledge of his
guilt, and determination to bring him to justice, he attempted
suicide on the morning of Saturday, by cutting his throat in
the most determined and desperate manner with a razor.—
He was discovered, about six o'clock, by his daughter, who gave
immediate alarm. Surgeon Morrison succeeded in staunching
the blood, and sowing up the frightful gash, several arteries
having been cut through, and the windpipe nearly severed. The
miserable man was removed to the Hospital, were he now re-
mains under the care of Surgeon Morrison, but in such a state
as to leave the hope of recovery extremely doubtful.. His wife
is not expected to survive.—Aewry Telegraph.
EIIIGRATION FROM THE NORTH,—Forty ships have sailed
from our port this season for America, with the respective
number of passengers on board; from which it will be seen,
that emigration has been fully as active • this as in former sea-
ions. Among the ernigrQuis were a good many farmers, who,
at one time at least, were in comfortable circumstances, and
also a few gentlemen possessed of considerable property. It is
remarkable, that the great periodical emigrations from this
district which take place have had. no perceptible influence—
indeed, we are sure, they have had none whatever, on rents or
wages. New tenants rapidly fill up the vacancies caused by
emigration ; and they continue; or, at least, they make an effort,
to pay the old, rents b,y living more miserably than their pre-
decessors could well submit to. This deterictratioki of the qua-
lity of the' tenantry -cannot fail eventuully to produce most
bitter fruits. I°tal74lships, 12,987 tons register, 6,504 passen-
gers. There only remains in pert the brig. Ann, for Philader-
phia, and ships Forth and ilwretta for St John, N. 8., to sail
in the ensuing 4eeic, which vessefs, it is expected, will have
nearly their complement.—Derry Journal.

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Earl
of Liverpool, from Ostend, arrived off the Cu.totn-huuse, Lon-
don, at three o'clock r.rn., June 19.