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

fHE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

The works requisite for converting 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 et. Ireland,
will now speedily be carried into effect.
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TIPPERARY GALLANTRY .—On oaterda
armed men visited the house of Mrs. Blate, at Kylepark,
and handed that lady a notice, desirieg 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
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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-

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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.—
Clonmel Paper.
The Irish provincial journals of last week furnish a large
number of cases of disturbances. In the King's County
the people have stopped and plundered cars laden with
Roux, 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 he 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 he 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 roost 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 DOWNSIIIRE 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 rest 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 £23 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.

UNIVERSITY ~• CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, OCT. 29.—1 n a .gongreoflob held this day
the followLig degrees were`COnferied •:—Bachelor in Civil
Law—C. C. Clifford., f6II'S:W Of All Souls.—Masters of
Arts—E. V. Richards, arid C. W. F. Glyn, students of
Christ Church ; N. F.,‘Senior, Christ Church ; Rev. W.
P. Wood, St. John's.; Rev. J. Lloyd. Worcester.—
Bachelors of Arts—R. T. H. Griffith, Queen's ; T. B.
Alacnamara, Magdalene Hall; J. E. Kirkpatrick, Lincoln;
T. Stainton, Wadham ; M. W. Gregory, Wadham ; C.
Warner, Worcester.
The Bishop of Chester has arrived at the episcopal re-
sidence in Chester.
Dr. Scoresby has broken up his establishment at Brad-
ford, and is about to repair to the Isle of Wight.
The parishioners of Bradford are about to present their
late pastor, Dr. Scoresby, with a splendid service of silver
plate, valued at 150 guineas.
The Bishop of Newfoundland will preach at Leeds on
Monday next, for the Gospel Propagation Society.
The Rev. Wray R. Hunt, late of St. Saviour's, was
presented, on the occasion of his leaving Liverpool, with
a copy of Scott's Commentary on the Bible, and a
pocket Communion service, by a few friends, members of
the congregation.
Sir J. Gladstone, of Fasque, has munificently contribu-
ted to Trinity College, Perthshire, the sum of £2OOO, in
addition to his former most liberal subscriptions. The
Duke of Buccleuch has also augmented his former muni-
ficent contribution by an additional £lOOO
On Monday the Bishop of Ripon consecrated a new
church at Woodside, Horsfortb, near Leeds ; and on
Wednesday Dr. Hook I9id the foundation stone of a new
church in 1 ork-road, near Leeds, for which the munifi-
cent sum of £lO,OOO has been given by an unknown indi-
vidual. _ _