The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

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IRELAND

Mrs. M`lver, who died last week at Belfast, lived to
Ere no fewer than six generations of her own family.
At the Roscommon assizes there are no less that 66
cases of murder and conspiracy to murder.
The county of Clare Spring Assizes commence at Ennis,
to day. There are 260 prisoners in gaol for trial.
About a fifteenth of the whole number of physicians,
surgeons, and apothecaries in Ireland, died during 1847.
At Roscommon assizes on Wednesday, Thomas Dono-
hue was convicted and sentenced to death, for the mur-
der of the Rev. John Lloyd, on the 28th November last.

. • _
The state of Mayo is not less deplorable than that of
Galway. The names of seventeen persons whose deaths
starvation has caused are given in the Mayo Telegraph.
The Cork Examiner mentions that two awk ward sports-
men lately fired at a bird near Passage, and missed their
aim ' • hut managed to hit a corn-stack, valued at £BO,
which caught fire, and was wholly consumed.
A MissioN TO THE POPE. Bishops Mac Hale,
Browne, and O'Higgins have set off, post-haste, to Rome,
to persuade the Pope how mistaken he is in enjoining his
Irish clergy to refrain from political diatribes and altar
denunciations.

The Limerick Examiner states that on Saturday, in
the Kilrush market, there were upwards of two hundred
loads of potatoes. The public way was completely
blocked up. The consequence was a very considerable
fall in the price of this root. _ _

THE LATE REV. THOMAS MAGUIRE. There are
four persons in custody on suspicion of having been con-
cerned in the death of this divine. At the conclusion of
the inquest the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against Mary Reynolds, the housekeeper of the rev. gen-
tleman.

The Repeal Acsociation met on Monday. Mr.
O'Connell announced, by letter, that he had post

his motion for repeal till he had made a tour of the pro-
vincial towns of Ireland. Mr. Dillon Browne and -Mr.
Morgan J. O'Connell were denounced as renegades. The
week's rent was £37.
James Skeahan and James Quane, convicted at the late
special commission for Limerick of the murder of Mr.
Ralph Hill, suffered the extreme penalty of the law on
Tuesday, in front of the county gaol. An immense mul-
titute of spectators were present. A sympathising local
journal indignantly exclaims, " And this is the way to
teach the people the inviolability and sacredness of human
life."

A WISE QUESTION.—Lord Nugent, on Thursday even-
ing, 'adverting to the case of a man named Howard. who
had been left for execution for murder by the late special
commission in Ireland, but of whose guilt some doubts
had since arisen, and the lord lieutenant had thereupon
granted a week's reprieve, very gravely inquired of Sir
trstateyn:Ydr,suielrdxepochmi
eiyapi
George Grey if " Howard's innocence should be established
to the satisfaction of the government, the right hon. baro-
net would state to the house whether the man would Le
pardoned 1" Did he expect Sir George to reply, " Oh,
no, we mean to hang him at any rate ?
DR. WHALE AND THE Poon RAT.—Notwithstanding
all the asseverations to the contrary, it appears from a let-
ter addressed by the Poor Law Commissioners to the
Tuam board that " his Grace" has failed in his efforts to
convince the authorities that he has, by proxy or other-
wise, paid his rates; in other words, they believe that he
is still a defaulter (accidentally of course), and they fairly
ground their belief on the fact
.of " his Grace," or his
• (the Rev. Mr. Ryan), being unable to produce a
proxy
receipt for the amount alleged to have been paid to the
collector,
Everybody is heartily tired of the pedantic virulence of
Mac Hale. He has written another swaggering reply to
the Earl of Shrewsbury, whom, in a dignified spirit of
revenge, he style Earl Talbot, because that noble lord, in
his letter, addressed him simply as My Lord Archbishop,
a man named Lally.
and not as Archbishop of. Tuam. Mac Hale argues that
both titles—his own and his opponent's—are equally valid:
the one is created by the )sape (conferring a territorial
dnt
has
toanosnpsao
overdonennutpi
anticipate
then a jt con-
ditionhha
his
nns
Mac Hale!), the other flows from the crown of England.
that the former be recognised as authentic.
jurisdiction
TheA Nidn.o Tei
ItiooErni
tdrwoepnpi
PRIEST.—Doctor
repudiates
sai
pTt ell
_sKe rtiphnMesoacall latter,
business. He has been taught that a priest is not as po-
tentigaominious expulsion by silently sneaking from the com-
mittee-room.--He could not trust the case to his well-
trained witnesses (unfortmiate fellows ! they have made
an exposure of their " morality," which their priest can-
not again be in haste to boast of) :—he must station him-
self in view, and endeavour to frown and fist "to screw
their courage" to the swearing point. One witness—a
woman--but let us take the scene from th cross-ex-
amination of Bridget Haly :—Had heard sometbingsaid in
the Chapel respecting the Roman Catholic voters who had
voted for Mr. Guinness. Here the witness suddenly-
fainted. After the confusion incident upon such an occa-
sion, Mr. B. Cochrane said lie had observed a person sit-
ting behind the petitioner's counsel frown upon the wit-
ness several times (alluding to Priest Murphy). If. that
person's own taste did not keep him out of the committee-
room while the witnesses were under examination, he
would consider it his duty to move the committee upon
the subject. lie had remarked gross impropriety upon
the part of the individual he alluded to. He trusted it
would not be necessary to say more upon the subject.
Mr. Cripps and Sir J. Sl•Taggart bad observed the pro-
ceedings of the person alluded to by Mr. Cochrane, and
-urred in the observations which had fallen
`her Murphy retired, and did not nrc.,,,+

perfectly co.

himself in the room during the remainder of theda3
Cork Constitution.

THE POOR LA
Mr. Thomas Smith, I
" Results of the Cent
exhibited in

OF townsman

AMENDMENT AC
as published a pamphh
JAdministration of the I
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Fel/. 29, 1848.

POLITICAL VARIETIES,

On Friday Colonel Estcourt was elected for Deli°
unopposed.
On Thursday, Sir T. Birch presented in the House°
Commons a petition from Liverpool against any increo
in the army or navy expenditure.
'
THE FIRST INCOME-TAX.—This impost came in alb
the last year of the last century. It was laid on in 17v1
and then amounted to ten per cent.
The Presbytery of Edinburgh have agreed to petit°
parliament against the bill for establishing diplomatic rc"
lations with Rome.

KINSAIIE.----ihe committee have decided that gr'
Guinness has not been duly elected. Mr. Serjeant King:
lake then intimated his intention of proceeding with
scrutiny, with a view of seating Mr. Watson as a member
for the borough.
COMMITTEE ON MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURE.--$t
Vernon Smith, Mr. Herries, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Henn'
Mr. Henley, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Rice, Mr. Stafforu'
Dr. Bowring, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Horsoln
Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Henry Arthur Herbert, all
Mr. Corhally.

COMMITTEE ON NAVY, ARMY, AND ORDNANCE r's;
PENDITURE.—Lord Seymour, Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. 1-101
Mr. George Bankes, Sir James Graham, Marquis °
Granby, Sir William Molesworth, Mr. Corry, Mr. Waiter'
Mr. Edward Ellice, Mr. William Miles, Mr. John Greene'
Mr. Baring. Mr. Cobden, and Sir Thomas Acland.
SLAVE TRADE —The select committee on the slate
,
trade was nominated as follows :—viz. Mr. Hutt. lin
Gladstone, Mr. Edward Stanley, Mr. Hume, Earl °
Lincoln, Mr. Cobden, Lord Harry Vane, Mr. Jackson+
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Evellt/
Denion, Lord Courtenay. Mr. Simeon, Mr. Moncktn°.
Manes, and Lord John Hay.

It has been announced thlt Mr. Coulson, of Lincoln
inn, has been appointed by Sir Geo. Grey to succeed s',
Bethune as parliamentary counsel to the Home-office,
duty being to prepare the bills originating with anY„.ue;
partment of the government, and revising or report's;
upon any bills brought before parliament, and referred to
him by Cie Secretary of State. Mr. Bethune, Mr. C 0;
son's predecessor, proceeds immediately to India, vibe'
he will fill the place formerly occupied by Mr. MaraulaP
WINDOW DUTIES.—On Thursday night, the follool
were amongst the members who voted in favour. of the
repeal of the window tax :—Sir T. B. Birch, J. Brother'
ton, W. Ewart, R. Gardner, J. Greene, Lord R. Gros'
venor, A. Henry, E. Hindley, Col. Sibthorp, R. Thick.
nesse. and Sir J. Walmsley. In the majority against the
repeal were W. T. Egerton, W. E. Gladstone. J. Ile,rY.
wood, William Jackson, Sir J. Jervis, J. W. Patten,
Thornely, J. Tollemache, and E. J. Stanley.
Lord Granville Somerset, M.P., died at half-past ter`
o'clock on Wednesday evening, at his residence in 11°r;
ley-street. The fatal complaint was a disease of tb
heart and a general break-up of the constitution, con'`;
quent, it is said, on the excitement which attended tb
late Monmouth election, and the annoyance which heel'
perienced
perienced from the petition against his return. He sri,e
attended up to the last moment by his brother, the Dube
of Beaufort, and in the chamber of death their difference'
ceased.
• a'
NEW HINT.—Mr. Smee, in his pamphlet. on the • t„,
come-tax, urges that, while at present 500,000' pers°
have to pay the whole tax, calculated, in the pres,c,l
budget, at nine millions per annum,: the extension of rl'a,
tax to all persons having incomes of £5O and moor,
would bring in 1,820,000 new contributors, and rai,eoo
furthersu in (even at sevenpeneein the pound) of-£5,177,' 0
per annum. Mr. Smce, however, only proposes this °,l
the supposition that the working classes shall be relieve
from the malt-tax, and some other taxes which prey
heavily upon them.
TAX THE LA N D.—Make the owners of fixed
_propel
of the land, which pays no legacy duty, contribute tlo
equitable share, and the lords would start up in arnli
Touch the humbler classes, and the polling-books .„1
soon have strange tales to tell, such as Edinburgh s';)
Lambeth have already shown to be possible. Profession
men are, however, powerful out of doors ; and if the)'. e.i,
not disposed to submit to this barefaced extortion,
time they should make their power felt. Let the el;
who by labouring day and night earns £5OO per al l° if
for the support of his family remember that, when De4i,
called upon to pay £25 out of that £5OO to this in 11340
be is just paying in a proportion seven times greater r'in.
the idle possessor of land. It cannot be that such an
justice should be longer endured.
In January, 1846, a few weeks only before Free for
was permitted to begin its career of ruin, by agitation
the abolition of all restrictions, an annual balance 511,;fi
was issued from the Treasury, the foot of which
these magic words_:—

"Surplus Revenue, £3,817,640 Ils. 2d." ea
Well: Free Trade, in the January of the present, ept
had had more than a twelvemonth's tenure of experirico
and enjoyment. In January, 1848, again does a ha
sheet issue from the Treasury ; and its concluding Ui
and very conclusive comment, may be found in thee"
but ungratifying announcement :
" Deficiency, £2,956,689 Bs. Id."
There it is: Lord John points to it with a laugh;
people
to
with malignant complacency, quietly tells the !
make it good by nearly doubling the existing income' be
WHO REPEALED THE CORN LAWS ?-It would 001
long affair, or I could shew the world who it Was, a 0
repealed the corn laws. At present, this much ;V,
state: I advised the creation of the Zolverein, .to o'
advice was followed; I then advised the getting amyt,
agitation to aid the manufacturing interests, two be,
Cobden and the League worked out to fruition 11,1,001
bests. For thirty years I stood alone on the Liverra
Exchange. as the advocate of free trade in corn; 31-1
all times I have said that I should live to see it lavi'a
have seen it law ; and, moreover, caused its heil
tic
The Zolverein really caused it ; and that I advised (10
Baron Billow to create that association, and that h'"glitt,
create it, his letters to me prove. I owned a princiPtes./
in Prussia, three estates noble, (the Mariensee Otto;
and three estates not noble (that is, estates not insf, th°
titles of nobility); and I had in Liverpool to sign
emancipation of all the serfs, which I gladly did:
.n,."
was that led to my advising the way to master o'o
lightened landowners.—Pamphlet by nr. Pickering; wiaf
THE MANCHESTER " GAME COCK."—The fh_rfee,°„
little incident created some amusement in the 107",, v
Commons, on Thursday evening. Colonel Sibtleal
the discussion upon Mr. Colville's motion for I°la°
bring in a bill to enable all occupiers of land, havieil4,
right to kill hares on that land, to do so without,;de
required to takeout a game certificate, said—" He üb'ssll
know nor care whether the hon. member for Manf
intended to bring in a bill or not ; but he held in his
' two bulky volumes, containing the evidence tiefer.„.'sefl
committee appointed on the motion of the hon. nie"-00"
in 1845 and 1846, on the subject of the game laws
what did it all end in ? Much in the same way as'- V
rn
motions of the hon. gentleman had done—i" e',
Parturiunt montes nascitur ridiculus mus.' But b
io,01:
was the hon. member now? (Laughter.) He had 401'
he was a man of no game at all. (Laughter.) lie '.110;
game cock. (Laughter, which was renewed on the n
member for Manchester entering the house and talol7porgr
11
seat.) He was glad to see the hon. gentleman oneeoV,
on his perch. (Renewed laughter.) The hon. '''sb!,
failed in establishing any case by these voluminousfo t
cations, but he, nevertheless, called upon the house
the expense of the inquiry. Now, if he (ColonFnA'i
thorp) had obtained a committee, and had so al: 0,
failed—if he had had the presumption, he would I,"iftic'
insolence, to dare trouble the House of Cotnmonsii,i/11
a useless manner, he certainly should have felt ti
ter);
bound to bear the whole cost. (Hear, and lauVolioslof
Thousands and thousands are squandered every seFotlo4;
printing voluminous parliamentary papers, nine-re cella,
which are uselessly moved for. It would be an esnobl",,
check upon this waste of the public money if the roaes:"
who call for them were required to defray their elf!',V
whenever they failed to show that the public sera}'
been promoted by their publication.
.110
II
MR. W. JACKSON'S MAIDEN SPEEC.--w•A 0
straightforward statement of the manner in whiP-iffiA
African trade is conducted, made by Mr. William Pino,';
in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, is e'art,
value than a hundred reports of- Committees, and ;004
the great value of having practical men in parl'?s
He tells us, and it is a well known fact, that 5131actl."(s
purchased on the coast of Africa for £4, and re-c;
Cuba and Brazils at £lOO per head; that the paltry ) P 0
4;el
of £4 is paid in merchandise, on which, _no denbt'asOet .
fifty per cent profit is obtained, thus reducing the to io;
cost to £2 ; that the sole object of the Africans is
unknown,ati exch ati gaenodf commodities,consequently
value.
t:c;
arrives, then, at the very sensible eopolusion, 0511,1 e;
gidaoeo:itenri -'get ri away,
merchandisewdileaa .yl 100 l f a there,
garll,ledat ht other
htseell alaresvueArrefsr: produceihcwaa lnitsh forwbtehileel:glei°; 3'°::1111:%,1
irthcsns
parties tradintg to that coast, and
her i ouu w
ltld
of take
in exchange out human beings ;
that bloody wars are carried on, and prisoners :i1C156
slaves. No reasonable man can doubt that thous`,,, ott
free labourers could be procured for a mere sons °y
that we can successfully compete with other sugar'tie,4
and eventually withdraw a large squadron main° etlli
an immense cost to the nation. Taxation is nocr,g orl'y
to such a height, that public men must listen Jtir
practical men have demonstrated • and, -should I";o.lofinis
son's suggestions be adopted, the results to our
jii
would be ofan importance which we cannot NUS' e,,soo'id
The numerous friends and admirers of Mr. JacriveY
be exceedingly gratified to learn that he was coraPl,,,,
on his powerful speech front all sides of the betil,ers'?
Robert 11. Inglis, se 'or member for Oxford V" „
's
esP;tt,
rliately foil -I him, declared " his sPet ti„,`)e
-lost rem
_aful, fora fill I ';');I'
Ing atnessed for se
eph , who spoke next, q„t
IV more efficient speech had tell
after him Mr. Cara
_llO

one of the most remarkab
which he (Sir n. Inglis) ha,
sions." Mr. Joseph Hume,
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