The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-15 00:00:00

3. That in the disturbed district of Ireland certain m

litary tribunals shall be created for the trial of offences
less than capital ; these tribunals to be composed of a cap-
tain and four subaltern officers, to have power to pro-
nounce sentence of transportation for life, to be carried
into execution instanter upon conviction, and without
appeal.
I popish priests to be taken into the pay of the Go-
vernment; but from what fund their wages are to be pro-
vided we have not learned.—Standard.

That it is the clear duty of Government to restore the
authority of the laws in Ireland, and to put down the
reign of the Agrarian terrorists who spread death and de-
solation throughout the country no rational man can
doubt. It may indeed be a question whether the existing
laws, if firmly and judiciously acted upon under a more
capable executive than that to which the destinies of the
sister island have been for some time past confided, are
not sufficient for the repression of outrage and the resto-
ration of the public peace without the introduction of new
and anomalous enactments, which, in putting down one
evil, create another, making the violence of a faction the
pretext for striking at the liberties of a whole people,
and in the name of order, sacrificing the most sacred prin-
ciples of a free constitution. We say this may be agues-
tion, for, as the government of Lord Anglesey has been
exceedingly weak, vascillating, and apparently without
any fixed principle of policy, the existing laws have not
had a fair trial. There can be no question, however,
that the tranquillity of Ireland must be restored before
any measures can be carried into effect by which its con-
dition may be permanently improved.
While it is the clear duty of government to restore the
authority of the laws, it is equally its duty to ascertain
that all fair means have been tried in vain before violent
measures are resorted to. A viceroy of superior intellect
—of more steadiness of purpose—of a higher capacity
for civil affairs than the present Chief Governor of Ire-
land has ever displayed, accompanied by a more popular
Chief Secretary than Mr. Stanley, might be worth a vo-
lume of statutes of terror and extermination. Ministers
can make this experiment without coming to Parliament
for new powers. Why do they not try all the means
within their reach before they have recourse to others,
which, even when proved to be necessary for the restora-
tion of the public peace, make wise and good men sad
for the dangerous precedents they establish, and the evils
they inflict on humanity ?—Morning Herald.

EXPENSES TO BE ALLOWED IN FUTURE, TO WITNESSES IN
COURTS OF JUSTICE, AT ASSIZES, &C.—The taxing office of
the superior courts have agreed to the following allowance to
witnesses subpoenaed to give evidence, and which have been
approved of by the judges:— £ s. £ s.
For travelling expenses per mile (one way) 0 1 to 0 7
To journeymen, labourers &c., per (1ay.... 0 5 to 0 15
.

To iradesMen, yeomen, and fainiers, pe'r day 0 5 to 0 15
To auctioneers, accountants, short-hand-
writers, merchants, &c. residing in Lon-
don, and if trial be there.
If at country assizes, such personsrmust be
allowed 1 1
Professional men 1 1 to 2 2
Attorney's clerks 0 15 to 1 0
Females, according to station in life 0 5 to 1 0
SUICIDE.—On Monday last, Ann Kershaw, a young woman,
17 years of age, put an end to her life by jumping off the
bridge into the canal, near Rochdale. It appears that she had
qurrrelled with her parents, and, in the heat of her passion,
had taken this inconsiderate method of revenge.
QUESTIONABLE ECONOMY.—Gibraltar' Jan, 22.—An order
has come to reduce even the skeleton of the naval department
here. The agent for transports, the agent-victualler, the mas-
ter shipwright, stores and provisions, are to be put in charge of
a clerk of each. Rear-Admiral Briggs, Commissioner at
Malta, is to come here to carry this reduction into effect.
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.—Among the thousand and
one Munchausen communications from Antwerp, during the
siege, was one in the Morning Herald, which made the French
discharge one gun against the citadel 300 times in one day !
Such is the stupid ignorance of many of those who impose
themselves upon the press as correspondents. The quickest
firing we have ever known was fifty rounds, three minutes be-
tween each round, and 147 minutes in firing the rounds. This,
too, was a peace experiment, with nine feet 24-pounders. Now
if metal could have borne it, and the time of firing the rounds
only is reckoned at 50 in 147 minutes, it would have occupied
nearly 15 hours to have executed the task. To fire 300 rounds
from a heavy piece of ordnance in eight hours, for the French
hardly batte-ed Antwerp in the dark night, is a most astonish-
ing task, nly capa')le of being executed by the correspondent
of the Morning Herald. A hundred rounds a gun would have
been good w sor five hours, at three minutes a round; but
what man could keep this up without interruption, and under
an enemy's fire?--United Service Gazette.