The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

FORT:TON 4r COLONIAL INTELLIGENCI

SPAIN.—The Madrid journals of the 13th state that
General Espartero had on that day taken the oaths and
his seat in the senate. There was a very numerous at-
tendance, and the general was loudly greeted. 'The pro-
ceedings in the Chamber of Deputies was confined to
subjects of mere local interest. The journals contain nt t

line of pol

al news

The Queen of Spain has ordered the Court to go into
mourning for a fortnight (the first week of whieb bt
of the most rigorous kind), in consequence of the death
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misted that there are mot less than 50,800 per
,drid suffering from the grippe. The malady
ry inconvenient, presents no alarming symp

The Bsyle .Gazette states that there are ;just grounds
for apprehending that Father Maguire came by kis death
by unjust means. On the.i'tb instant, Mr. Mogiire died
without previous illness and in the everting his sister-in-
law also died. A, post mortern examination -was held,
when it was ascertained that neither of the bodies had any
appearance of having died of fever which -was alleged•to be
the cause of death.

Hordes of miserable creatures belongittg•to the western

and eaQtern parts of the county of CClaik, •are every day
brought before the magistrates of Cork City,.Oharged with
begging and breaking windows, and are
_committed to

committed to the county jail for short ;periods of impri-
sonment for seeking charity in their 'native vlaces, and
when discharged, they are thrown into ,the.ttity -without
the mans of getting back to their own 'unions.
CLARE SPECIAL ICIOMMISSION.—OR ?ilonday the jury
convicted John Crowe, a farmer, forinciting Ryan and
others (convicted) to murder Mr. Watson, the agent to
the property of which Ile was tenant. It appeared in evi-
dence, that the murderers slept at prisoner's 'house the
night before the murder. He is not sentenced yet.—
Thomas M'Enerney, one of a gang of eight, was con-
victed of the murder or Martin M•Mahon,.under circum-
stances of fierce brutality. Three others of the gang in
custody wish to plead guilty.
THE PRIESTS AND THE PAITPEF S.—The:list of persons
proscribed on Monday at the Repeal Association was :not
very long, but it ' h names, viz.—The chief

embraced hig
golo•rnor of Ireland, tbe chief magistrate of Dublin, the

and a few other personages. Then comn►enced the .dis-
gu-airig p'oeess of reading letters from the poorest dis-
tricts in Ireland, filled with mtlancholy .dt tails of the
poverty of the people and their sufferings.; and, instead of
containing solicitations for relief, these letters covered

RN:PEAL —At the weekly meeting on Monday, the
elp.irman, Mr. J. H. Dunne, said he felt both shame and
humiliation at the omission by the Lord Mayor, from the
list of toasts at the recent civic dinner of the memory of

le said was a gross and premeditated
in,ult to the memory of " that great man. Mr. John
O'Connell. in the course of his speech. said that two of

otit a•i the avowca advocates of giving up lega
and plunging the country into violent rebellion
eher parties spoke, and at the close the
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Several

rent was an-

an need to be Xll3.

The judges of the Special Commission at Ennis, on
Saturday week, sentenced to death Ryan and Hayes, the
two men found guilty of the murder of Mr. Watson.
The remainder of the day was occupied in the trial of
Michael Butler and Matthew 11,urigan, each about 35

i the murder of

Cleary

in the.evening, the deceased left BroadtOrd, on his way to
Limerick, and when about a m►le and a half from the vil-
lage he was was overtaken by two men, one of whom dis-
charged a pistol at and wounded him, from the effects of
which he died in a fortnight, Immediately after the out-
rage he matle a sworn intormation, upon which the priso-
ners were taken up, and identified by Cleary before his
death. The cause of the murder was revenge against the
deceased for having been engaged in prosecuting, at the
Spring Assizes last year, s )me parties for a Whiteboy out-
rage. Tile prisoners were ti,und guilty, but not sentenced.