The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The collection of the repeal rent is entirely abandoned
in Cork and Limerick.

The sheriff of the city of Kilkenny is in custody on a
charge of having forged several powers of attorney.
The Protestant colonists at Dingle have suffered an-
other calamity at Dingle in the total loss of their mission-
ary boat, which was dashed to pieces against one of the
cliffs during the late storm.
SALE ON FIRE-ARMS IN CAvAN.—lmmense quanti-
ties of new fire-arms, of Birmingham manufacture, have
been selling by public auction in the different towns
throughout this county.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—Mr. M. O'Connell,
one of the younger sons of the " Liberator," received on
Saturday last the official announcement of his appoint-
ment to the lucrative office of Registrar of Deeds, in suc-
cession to Mr. G. 0. Moore, who retires on his full pen-
sion. The salary is about £l5OO a-year. The ex-repeal
member for the county of Meath has for several years
filled the situation of chief clerk in the office to the head
of which he has just been promoted.

The works requisite for couverting Cork into a naval
station have-at last been commenced ; and we may anti-
cipate that this long-promised and very judicious interpo-
sition in favour of the population of the South of Ireland,
will now speedily be carried into effect.
TIPPERARY GALLANTRY ! !!—On Saturday last, two
armed men visited the house of Mrs. Blake, at Kylepark,
and handed that lady a notice, desiring her " not to look
for rent, or if she did, that they would come again and
settle her." When passing the avenue they fired two
shots. _ _

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—On Sunday ,night an
armed party of men were met on the road near Cottage
by some labourers, who were employed by a Mr. O'Don-
nell to go to work on his farm. The armed party made
them turn back, and informed them that they would not
permit any strangers to work in the neighbourhood.—
C/onmel Paper.
The Irish provincial journals of last week furnish a large
numbet of cases of disturbances. In the King's County
the people have stopped and plundered cars laden with
flour, and attacked the mills; while in the.same county,
and in Mayo, they are betaking themselves to killing sheep
and taking away the carcases. Burglary and the robbing
of arms still continue, and the general demoralization
seems on the increase.

THE DUNGARVON RIOTERS.—On Tuesday, these
men, fifty-one in number, were tried. The ringleader,
Patrick Power, was sentenced to twelve months' impri-
sonment and hard labour, and the rest were liberated, on
finding two sureties in 40s. each, and themselves in £5, to
keep the peace. Power asserted to the bench that be had
been four days and nights previous to the riot living on
boiled cabbage, and that he had joined the riot in despair.
A numerous meeting of the land-owners and others was
held at Fermoy on Saturday last, to consider the state of
the country. Mr. O'Connell was present. The speakers,
lay and clerical, seemed disposed to account for the exist-
ing distress, not by the failure of the potato crop, but by
throwing the whole blame upon the government, which,
according to some of them, has merely to will that there
shall be plenty of provisions and employment, in order to
convert the prevailing destitution into peace and plenty.
DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Saturday,a private soldier
of the 34th depot, named John Rankin, put a period to
his existence, by deliberately shooting himself whilst on
sentry at Clonmel. He loaded his musket, into which he
.put two balls, placed the muzzle under his chin, and with
the aid of a string tied to a trigger and brought round his
foot, actually blew the upper part of his head off. The
deceased on previous occasions made two unsuccessful at-
tempts at suicide; once by drowning, and subsequently
whilst serving with the regiment in Canada be partially
cut his throat.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Thursday
evening, about six o'clock, as Mr. Benjamin John Cooke,
of Galbooly, near Thurles, was proceeding across his own
yard in the direction of an out-house, he was fired at, one
slug entering his temple, and completely destroying one
of his eyes ; two more shattered his jaws ; three were
lodged in his neck, and four in his shoulder. The gentle-
man now lies in a most precarious state. Mr. Cooke is
an excellent man, and, but a short time previous to this
dreadful attempt at his life, offered to forgive his tenants
a year's rent, and to give them a considerable sum of
money each, if they would give up land, for which they
refused to pay anything near the value.— Tipperary Paper.
THE DOW SHIRE ESTATES.—The Marquis of Down-
shire, whose estates are, generally speaking, amongst the
most improved and prosperous in Ireland, has, with a
view of mitigating.the present distress, made a temporary,
but at the same time a very important, reduction on the
scale of rent now due and payable. The scale, indeed.
excludes the holders of old and valuable leases held at a
rent approaching to nominal, from any abatement, but
including the payers of rent from £1 to £lO, up to those
paying from £25 upwards; and, considering that the
average rent paid by the tenantry of Ireland does not ex-
ceed £2O or £25 a-year, the scale, if carried universally
into operation, would amount to a reduction of nearly
one-half the rental of the whole country.

THE PEASANTRY ARMED.—The peasantry of Tip-
perary are armed to the teeth ; every man has his gun,
blunderbuss, or pistol. It is fearful to contemplate what
may be the result, but such is the fact. The people do
not disguise their possession of the arms ; they walk about
with them in the noon d q. and it is a common expression
amongst the lower classes to say " here are the fowlers,"
when they see those desperadoes traversing the country.
The government, as we said in our last number, must
step forward—they must disarm the revolu►ionists of Ire-
land before it is too late. Ireland requires, nay, demands,
a stringent arms act. If strong measures are not taken
forthwith, this country will present a scene of bloodshed
and rapine unparalelled in the annals of crime. We use
strong language, but the times require it.—Tippera, y
Constitution.

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.—" Like people, like priest,
and I will punish them for their ways and reward them
their doings !" Solemn and awful words, spoken of a
corrupt race and a corrupt priesthood nearly three thou-
sand years ago ! but alas most applicable at the present
day. It is sad indeed to look on things around us, but it
is more sad to witness a judgment unimproved. That it
is so, in some instances, may be gathered from the follow-
ing circumstance :—On Sunday, the 18th instant, in a
large borough town in this county, the Roman priest ad-
dressed to his flock this precept:—" It would be sinful of
you to see your families perish with hunger while the
fields are full of cattle." The hint was not lost by those
who in solemn mockery are styled " the most moral, (?)
and religious ! people on the face of the earth, as may be
seen by the practice :—On Tuesday, a large mob marched
to a gentleman's ground near the town referred to, and
drove off a flock of sheep, which, after some difficulty,
the people recovered. On Monday, they were about to
slaughter two cows, and would have done so had not the
owner made some sacrifice to them. Here we have " Pre.
cept and Practice"—the precept worthy of the priest, the
practice of the people."—Cork Constitution.

EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE.—At the Dublin
Commission Court, en Friday, Mary Downes, alias
Fitzgerald, alias Browne, a respectable looking young
woman, about thirty years of age, was placed at the bar,
and indicted for having intermarried with Henry Augustus
Browne, in the month of June, 1842, her former husband,
William Fitzgerald, being alive. Considerable interest
was attached to the proceedings in this case, from the fact
that Mr. Browne, who is a barrister, and the prisoner's
second husband, was himself tried and convicted of bigamy
a few months since, and sentenced to seven years' trans-
portation, for marrying Miss Copeland, daughter of Mr.
Charles Copeland, the manager of the Royal Bank in Dub-
lin, having previously married the prisoner. The court
was crowded to excess at an early hour, and particularly
by members of the bar. Mr. Browne was in court,seated
beside his counsel, having been brought up on a habeas
corpus. The prisoner pleaded guilty, but put in an affi-
davit mitigatory of punishment, to the effect that she and
Mr. Fitzgerald, were Roman Catholics, and had been
married by a clergyman of the Church of England, who
she believed was degraded, and that consequently she
thought at the time of her second marriage that her first
union was not valid. She was sentenced to two months'
imprisonment, and it is thought that the effect of the con-
viction will be the acquittal of Mr. Browne.

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The attendance in the
ball on Monday was wretchedly small, and the proceed-
ings altogether destitute of interest. The Mayor of Kil-
kenny occupied the chair. The Head Pacificator. Mr.
John Reynolds, Capt. Broderick, and Mr. John O'Con-
nell, were the only occupants of the bench appropriated
to the speakers. Two letters were read from the " Libe-
rator," one commenting on resolutions recently adopted
by the Cork Repealers, advising a reconciliation between
Old and Young Ireland—and the usual weekly epistle on
the subject of the distress. Mr. John O'Connell repeat •
ed his speech of the previous week, and denounced the
" criminal negligence" of the government in not admi-
nistering relief more promptly,—when a large document
was handed to the chairman, who rose and said—Gentle-
men, this paper has been handed to me, but I presume it
should come through the secretary. The worthy mayor
then handed the document to Mr. Ray.—Mr. O'Connell
immediately gut up, and having taken the document from
the secretary, pitched it over the rail, and desired
one of the clerks of the hall to throw it out, amidst loud
cheers.—Mr. Steele : Throw it into the street. That is
the proper way to treat it. (Hear, and cheers.)--It was
said that the document was the remonstrance got up by
the Nation newspaper against the proceedings of the as-
sociat on. In a few moments after it was expelled, when
Captain Broderick was addressing the meeting, a noise
was heard at a side door. Immediately on hearing it,
Mr. Steele rose and said—Mr. Chairman, I have given
directions to the police to put out any intruder. (Hear.)
—Mr. O'Connell : If that is the individual who brought
in that paper, put him out ; he is not a member. (Cheers.)
—The rent for the week amounted to £ll5 Os. 4d., in-
cluding £52 from Liverpool.