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

COURT AND .FASHION

The Court has removed for a short time to Claremont,
where her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the junior mem-
bers of the royal family, have been taking their habitual
out-door exercise since our last.
The Earl .of. Powis, who was accidentally shot by his
son, the Hon Robert Herbert, while shooting in the pre-
serves at Powis Castle, on Friday week, is going on well.
Raby. Castle, Durham, has been the gay scene of those
festivities usual at this season, and the Duke and Duchess
of Cleveland have entertained their guests in a style of
magnificence worthy of that truly princely residence.
Lady Zetland has recovered from the effect of her fright
on the railway, her maid is also in a fair way of recovery,
and instead of her hands having been cut off by the en-
gine, she has only lost two fingers, that were amputated.
It is now fully admitted that had her ladyship and her at-
tendant remained in the carriage, no accident would have
occurred.

During the festivities at Woburn Abbey, private the-
atricals were indulged in. According to the bill of the
amusements, the performances were " in honour and

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IRELAND.

Owing to the flooding of the pits at Clonbrock, &c., in
the Queen's County, a thousand colliers have'been thrown
• out of employment for several weeks.
A -fire broke out on Wednesday, in the house of 7ilr.
Lanauze, No. 33, North Frederick-street, Dublin, by
-which an elderly lady, aged 80, met her death.
A renewed attempt at reconciliation has been made by
the " Old Ireland' party ; but Mr. O'Brien has rejected
the overture, and the co-operation of the parties seems
now as far off as ever.

The extensive corn mill and stores of Mr. Corban, at
.Kilworth, Cork, were burnt down on Wednesday. 6000
barrels of wheat were destroyed, and the premises which
were worth nearly £6OOO.
One 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
other assassin was engaged in the bloody transaction.
At the late Tuam Sessions, the assistant-barrister ,eiid,
that thefts of sheep and cattle had lately been so corn-
.rion in the western district of Galway, that every peasant's
cabin might be said to have been turned into a felon's
shambles.

At the Cork City Sessions Mr. Robert Hardy was found
• guilty of assaulting and beating Captain Bunbury, but the
jury added that " though in the eye of the law he was
guilty, he was fully justified in every other mspect," the
•complainant having broken his promise to marry the de-
fendant's sister.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin is pleased to
style the indignation which has been excited in every
honest and manly mind at the denunciations by priests
'from the altar "as the calumny of intemperate bigots
against the ministers of our holy religion;' anti this is
believed in Ireland. At whose door lies the fault if the
xeport has gathered strength ?
THE PRICE OF THE LIFE OF A PROTESTANT.—A re-
spectable man in Wakefield has received a letter from a
near relative of his residing in Limerick, whichh-states
among other alarming intelligence, that for ls. 6d., the
Terry Alts would engage to take the life of any Protestant,
whowas a working man. For destroying the life of a Pro-
testant person of higher station, a larger sum was fixed !
A -Goon EXAMPLE.—The Rev. Dr. M'Ennery,
of Tralee, delivered an address to his coOgregation the
other day, earnestly deprecating crime and outrages of
every species ; inculcating the obligation or industry and
mutual charity ; and exhorting all clages, landlords,
tenants, and peasantry—to the christian-like disettarge of
their mutual duties.

On Friday, Andrew Dea, a youth of seventeen years of
age, was found guilty, at the Limerick Special Commis-
sion, of the murder of Edmund Murphy, by shooting him
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
February was fixed upon as the day of execution.
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-
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-
lence on her neck, the print of the thumbs of those who
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•Mahon, residing at a
place called Cratloe, in the County Clare, had his habi-
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 ; and,
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.
ORANGEISM.—The fearful outrages committed for so
long a period in many districts of Ireland appear to af-
ford a feasible apology for the reorganisation of the orange
confederacy ; and much good will doubtless result from
men selected from the middle and lower classes banding
themselves together for the purpose of self-protection
and resistance to the aggressions of the lawless and dis-
affected. A meeting of the orangemen of the Dartree
(Monaghan) district was held in the town of Newbliss on
the 11th of January instant, the Right Worshipful the
District Master in the chair, when resolutions were passed
regretting the dreadful occurrences which are taking
place, and fully organising the institution.
SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENT.—On the 24th December a
riot occurred in Ballymena. Some of the parties engaged
in the melee stripped off their upper clothing ; and subse-
quently a vest, owner unknown, fell into the hands of a re-
spectable inhabitant, who found the document, of which the
following is a true copy, in one of the pockets :—" Obliges-
tion.—l solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God,
to be revenged on all heretics, and all manner of them dis-
senting from the Holy Catholic Church ; and that I 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 Catholks, in
all quarrels, and that I will do all in my power in this
Kingdom of Ireland. So help me God, and keep me sted-
fast in this my Greenman's obligation. P.S.—This shall
not be taken out of your lodge-room, on any 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
be shot with impunity, the legitimate cockshay of the im-
mediate neighbourhood ; a superficial index, 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, hasp 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 asourse 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.'

ie letter goes on to invite the O'Connells to a banquet
to take place on. Sunday the 13th, or Monday; the 14th
February. Mr. 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 Chronicle reports tlie death
of four children from 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

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nounced a verdict of " guilty"—against both the pri-
Hayes betrayed considerable emotion at the
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been found by the grand jury were brought up to be
arraigned. Amongst them were Thomas Milnernherny
and five others, for the murder of a man named
M`Mah,n, 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 ont-torthe prisoner that, if he persisted in his

*ilea of guilty, he must most assuredly be hanged.
The' Prisoner : I am guilty, my fiord, and there were five
others with me: but not these men Li 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."