The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

The Board of Health at Naples has thought fit to place
all vessels from the United Kingdom of England, Scot- I

IRELAND

land, and Ireland in quarantine, in consequence of a re- Owing to the flooding of the pits at Clonbrock, &c., in
port that two cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred in the Queen's County, a thousand colliers have been thrown
London in the month of November last. It is intimated out of employment for several weeks.
that all vessels which may have cleared from the port of A fire broke out on Wednesday, in the house of Mr.
London since the 3d of December will be refused admit- Lanauze, No. 33, North Frederick-street, Dublin, by
tance altogether into the port of Naples, and that vessels which an elderly lady, aged 80, met her death.
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rom any other port of the United Kingdom will be sub- A renewed attempt at reconciliation has been made by
jetted to a quarantine of from 14 to 21 days. We trust the " Old Ireland' 'party ; but Mr. O'Brien has rejected
that the Foreign Secretary will lose no time in protesting the overture, and the co-operation of the parties seems
with suitable alacrity and vigour against this absurd mea- now as far off as ever.
sure, so extremely injurious to the mercantile interests of The extensive corn mill and stores of Mr. Corban, at
this country, and so utterly unwarranted by the facts of Kilworth, Cork, were burnt down on Wednesday. 6000
the case. barrels of wheat were destroyed, and the premises which
ENGLISH MUSIC IN SPAIN:—The Lancashire bell- were worth nearly £6OOO
he I ringers, who, when i

)ne of the leading conspirators in the murder of the
Rev. Mr. Lloyd has died in prison. It has clearly tran-
spired that he held Mr. Lloyd's horse and gig, while the
a other assassin was engaged in the bloody transaction.
t lAt the late Tuam Sessions, the assistant-barrister said,

vo months ago, had
the honour of performing before the King and Royal fa-
mily at St. Cloud, made their appearance last week at the
Grand Theatre of Barcelona, and were received b 3
crowded audience with a warmth even exceeding t

which tney experiences at tne navannan. The Spaniards that thefts of sheep and cattle had lately been so corn-
appear to be delighted with this kind of music, but they mon in the western district of Galway, that every peasant's
were near being disappointed by a curious circumstance, cabin might be said to have been turned into a felon s
When the bell-ringers reached the Spanish frontier from shambles.
'iris, on their way to Barcelona, all their bells were At the Cork City Sessions Mr. Robert Hardy was found
-ed, on the ground that the importation of bells is guilty of assaulting and beating Captain Bunbury, but the
*sited in Spain. In vain did they observe that these jury added that though in the eye of the law he was
eir musical instruments, and not bells introduced guilty, he was fully justified in every other respect," the
and it was not until the British Consul at Bar- complainant having broken his promise to marry the de-

celona had sent an express to Gerona, with a strong re- fendant's sister.
monstrance against the rigid interpretation of the law by The Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin is pleased to
the Spanish functionaries that the bells were released. style the indignation which has been excited in every
EMANCIPATION v. SLAVERY.—At a recent meeting at honest and manly mind at the denunciations by priests
Brownsville, Jamaica, a series of resolutions were passed from the altar "as the calumny of intemperate bigots
declaratory of the actual and anticipated evils resulting against the ministers of our holy religion;' and this is
from the application of free trade principles to the culti- believed in Ireland. At whose door lies the fault if the
vation of sugar. And by whom were these resolutions report has gathered strength ?
passed ? Not by planters. but by emancipated labourers. THE PRICE OF THE LIFE OF A PROTESTANT.—A re:
Nor is this all. At the meeting which adopted them, spectable man in Wakefield has received a letter from a
several of the speakers were emancipated labourers. The near relative of his residing in Limerick, which states
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, ,e in which they expressed ,neir sentiments was not among other alarming intelligence, that for is. 6d., the
perhaps as classical as the orations of Cicero, but the rea- Terry Alts would engage to take the life of any Protestant,
soning it clothed was sound and clear. Independently of who was a working man. For destroying the life of a Pro-

their novelty, as emanating from such a body, these reso- testant person of higher station, a larger sum was fixed !
lutions are deserving of consideration, as our readers, we A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Rev. Dr. M'Ennery, P.P.,
are sure, will admit after perusing them. Petitions, it of Tralee, delivered an address to his congregation the
will be seen, founded upon them, are to be presented to other day, earnestly deprecating crime and outrages of
the Queen and both Houses of Parliament. If we can every species ; inculcating the obligation of industry and
find room, next week, we will extract from the Jamaica mutual charity; and exhorting all classes, landlords,
Dispatch, in which there is a report of the meeting, a tenants, and peasantry—to the christian-like discharge of
• nen or two of negro oratory. their mutual duties.
On Friday, Andrew Dea, a youth of seventeen years of
age, was found guilty, at the Limerick Special Commis-

TRAORDINARY 6(
ties. the i

with a pistol. The reason alleged for-the act was some
quarrel with deceased about land rented under him.
Sentence of death was passed upon him. The 7th of

A split has taken place among the " Irish Confedera-
tion," or Smith O'Brien's party : Mr. Duffy, the pro-
prietor of the Nation, preferring to fight theoretically in
his newspaper, whilst Mr. Mitchell, an eloquent, though
very indiscreet, speaker at the public meetings of the
body, wishes to throw off all flimsy disguise, and, repu-
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, .
diating all attempt to conciliate the gentry, at once to
declare war and abide the issue.

The Cork papers report two awful murders at Castle-
townroche, those of a widow and her niece, who were
found strangled in bed on the 6th instant. Round the old
woman's neck was a cord by which she was choked, and
the young woman, who slept with her, had marks of vio-

took her life. Both were in bed when they were mur-
dered, and the young woman evidently had struggled hard
with her assassins. It appeared that plunder had been
the object of the murderers, who are supposed to be two
men who lodged in the old woman's house.
On the very day when the notorious convict Ryan was
sentenced for murder at the special commission in Lime-
rick, a farmer named Martin M'Malion, residing at a
nlace called Cratloe. in the County el.rp_ had his habi-

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tation broken into at midnight, by a party of eight men,
armed, and with their faces blackened. On making a

search for arms, resistance was offered to them ;
after a conflict, desperate though unequal, M`Mahon was
shot dead, he having previously smashed with a shovel a
gun of one of the party which had been presented at him.
Six of the party were almost immediately arrested.
ORANGISA.I.—The fearful outrages committed for so

long a period in many districts of Ireland appear to af-

,he orange

arid much good wif

,ss result from

men selected from the middle and lower class,

themselves together for the purpose of self-protection
I resistance to the aggressions of the lawless and dis-
' A meeting of the orangemen of the Dartree

affectec

he town o

the 11th of January instant, the Right Worshi

aful the

District Master in the chair, when resolutions were passed
regretting the dreadful occurrences which are taking

le institution.
—On the 24th December a
Some of the parties engaged
ier clothing ; and subse-

place, and tully organising
SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENT
riot occurred in Ballymena.
in the melee stripped off their u

from Mexico is Of
T17,1Q hocriwn afnf

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spectable inhabitant, who found the document, of which the
following is a true copy, in one of the pockets :—" Obliga-
tion.—l solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God,

h ; and that 1 will,

at all times, as far as in my power, do everything that may
disadvantage all Protestants, by night and by day, and in
all places ; and that I will aid and assist all Catholics, in
all wiarrpla. and that T will tin all in my power in this
Kingdom of Ireland. So help me God, and keep me sted-
cf. ;In +Ma my 11

not be taken out of your lodg ye-room, on an account, only
by the secretary."... This document speaks volumes.

SKET CH OF AN IRISH LANDLORD BY ONE OF THEM-
SELVES).-At a dinner given to Mr. Howe, one of the
agents of the Dufferin estates, Lerd Dufferin said :—" An
Irish landlord is unlike any other landlord under the sun.
(Laughter.) He lives in a peculiar atmosphere of his
own. (Renewed laughter.) The daily conditions of his
life and the occasional conditions of his death are totally
dissimilar from those of other men. He is a complete ge-
nius of himself—an erratic body in the social system.
(A laugh.) He may be described as an individual who
does not get rent ; as a well-dressed gentleman who may
Late cockshay of th
inc

_tate neighbourhood ; a superficial aex, by which to
mark the geographical direction of the undercurrent of
assassination; a cause of bewilderment to coroners, and
of vague verdicts to distracted juries ; a subject for news-
paper paragraphs, and a startling text for leading articles ."
(Loud laughter.)

AN ARCHBISHOP POlSONED.—Alarming reports are
current through town about the state of John of Tuam 's
health. A Shrewsbury Cake, sent as a New Year's gift,
by an officious friend, has so disordered his powers of di-
gestion, that he cannot away with it ; and he is "in his
retirement marvellously distempered." It is supposed
that nothing short of a visit to Rome, and a course of the
famous Vatican antibilious powders can restore his system
to its wonted tone and action. The Town Commissioners
of Tuam, to mark their sympathy with the illustrious suf-
ferer, have forbidden pastry cooks and others, under heavy
penalties, to deal in the like unchristian dainties in future.
Any person seen in possession of Shrewsbury confectionery,
after this notice, shall be put to his purgation after a me-
thod of treatment still less endurable than that of the
Vatican Doctors. We have just learned that the hon. and
learned member for Limerick is suffering most pitifully
from the same cause.—Dublin Mail.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION, MONDAY.—Mr. J. O'Connell
read a letter from Dr. Cantwell, relative to what he
called "'the presumptuous letter" of the Earl of Shrews-
bury. Mr. T. O'Brien, M.P., next addressed the assem-
bly on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. Mr.
Reynolds spoke at considerable length on various topics,
and concluded by reading a petition to the House of
Commons for the repeal of the Jewish disabilities, and
moving its adoption by the association. Mr. J. O'Con-
nell read a letter from the Count de Montalembert, a
peer of France, inviting him (Mr. O'C.) and the other
members of the family to be present at the Cathedral
of Notre Dame on Thursday, the 17th February, when
the funeral oration of their immortal father will be deli-
vered in the presence of the Archbishop, by the first ora-
tor of France and perhaps of the Church, Father Lacor-
daire. The memory of the great O'Connell will then be
celebrated by honours which until now have not been
rendered save to kings and the inheritors of the throne."
The letter goes on to invite the O'Connells to a banquet
to take place on Sunday, the 13th, or Monday, the 14th
February. Mi. O'Connell then said that he would
willingly take two or three days off his exile in England,
and give them to the good friends of liberty in France."
The rent was £69.
STARVATION,—_The Tralee_Chronick.renorts the death.
of four childrenfrom starvation, on being turned out of
the Kenmare (Kerry) union workhouse by the master, in
obedience to an order he received from the board of
guardians to get rid of all widows having two children.
The following is the poor mother's evidence :—" Cathe-
rine Connolly sworn.—The poor woman wept most bit-
terly, and after some time told the following melancholy
tale :—She and her children, the eldest of whom was 14
years of age, were in the Kenmare poorhouse. Was put
out.. Was put out a good while after breakfast, and got
no relief since. Asked the relieving officer for relief, and
he answered her that her name was not on his books, but
to come to him the following Monday at Lauragh and
that she would get it. Asked the master of the work-
house for a ticket, and he said there was no occasion, as
her name was on the book of the relieving officer. Parted
with the children for the purpose of getting her name on
the book, thinking they would be able to make out their
home by themselves. Is sure they would have lived, had
they got anything to eat. They had nothing to eat from
the time they left the workhouse but one plate of gruel
between the five of them ; they got it at the house of
John Harrington; and has no doubt on her mind but
they died of hunger." The jury returned a verdict that
they.came by their death through the neglect of the board
of guardians.

SPECIAL COMMISSION AT ENNIS.—On Friday, the
Chief Baron and the Court were occupied the whole of
the day with the trial of the two men, Patrick Ryan and
James Hayes, for the murder of Mr. Watson ; and from
the notoriety of the case, and the peculiar nature of some
portions of the evidence, the court was crowded. After
the trial, the jury, after an absence of ten minutes, pro-
nounced a verdict of " guilty" against both the pri-
soners. Hayes betrayed considerable emotion at the
announcement, but the prisoner Ryan appeared to treat
it with the greatest indifference. After the trial was
coueluded, several prisoners against whom true bills had
been found by the grand jury were brought up to be
arraigned. Amongst them were Thomas Winernherny
and five others, for the murder of a man named
M`Mallun, on the 3d instant, and M'lnernherny, on the
Clerk of the. Crown asking him whether he was
_guilty or
not guilty, immediately answered, " I am guilty, my lord,
but these five others are not." Mr. O'Hea said it must
be some misapprehension. The Lord Chief Justice
pointed out to the prisoner that, if he persisted in his

plea of guilty, he must most assuredly be hanged.
The Prisoner : I am guilty, my lord, and there were five
others with me : but not these men hi the dock.—The
Lord Chief Justice then directed an attorney to explain
to the prisoner the position in which he was placing him-
self ; and, after a few minutes' conversation between the
prisoner and the attorney, the question was again put, and
they all then pleaded " Not guilty."

IDENUNCIATIONS FROM THE ALTAR,

The Dublin Mail of the 12th has a most extraordinary
account of the boldness of a gentleman named Holmes,
who, at the chapel of Ballaghaderreen, county Mayo, de-
nounced to his face the parish priest, a Mr. Tighe, for
having used inflammatory language towards his brother,
a resident proprietor. Mr. Holmes had travelled from
England for the purpose of addressing this priest's con-
gregation, and on Thursday, the 6th instant, he was
accommodated by Mr. Tighe with a place at the altar,
and after pointing out in plain but forcible language the
kindness and sacrifices of his brother to benefit the people,
he thus continued :
And what is the return he has met with ? Do you
require to be told Why, when he left home, a month
ago, it is notorious that the assassins who were to murder
him had arrived in the parish, and were harboured amongst
you! There are those amongst you that know it. I can
account for the presence of those miscreants. They were
attracted hither by the inflammatory harangues of your
priest here (pointing to Mr. Tighe). I tell him so to his
face. (Tremendous uproar in the chapel. Cries of "Turn
him out," " he is a liar," and a scene of great confusion,
during which the curate in vain attempted to address and
appease the people, followed). At length Mr. Tighe suc-
ceeded, after many ineffectual efforts, in obtaining a
hearing.
Mr. Tighe—lt is false that I made any attacks on Mr.
Holmes ; there have been houses levelled in this parish,
and poor wretches turned out, but. I never attacked Mr.
Holmes.
Mr. Holmes—l know that you did, and I tell you at
this altar, to your face, and in the presence of the congre-
gation, that your attacks on my brother from this spot
have brought these murderers to this parish. Here the
uproar re-commenced, and some of the more violent of
the congregation appeared to pass over the rails to the
altar, the priests endeavouring to restrain them.
Mr. Holmes (advancing in front)—l am not afraid of
you. I came here to tell you these truths alone, and I
am not to be deterred by five hundred of you.
Mr. Tighe—My friends, this is the house of God. Let
us have no more of this. Mr. Holmes has charged me
with attacks on his brother, which
anyt'-'- let him ad,'

ling more to say,
chapel.

you outside