The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Belfast Presbyterian Synod have adopted almost
unanimously a petition in favour of " tenant right."
On Tuesday a man of the name of James M`Keowin,
residing in Nenagh, caught a young robin which has four
legs !

.The Queen has appointed the Hon. and Rev. Robert
Plunket, Archdeacon of Killala, to the deanery of Tuam,
vacant by the death of the late Dean Carter.

On Saturday, a violent storm, accompanied by rain,
hail, thunder, and lightning, visited a considerable portion
of Tipperary and Limerick.

Lord Gough arrived at Derry on Wednesday. The
apprentice boys welcomed his arrival by firing numerous
rounds of cannon from the city ramparts. A splendid
banquet took place on Thursday evening.
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ACcording io the Limerick Chronicle, mortality and
emigration have so thinned the ranks of the Roman
Catholic priests in that diocese, that the Bishop (Dr.
Ryan) has not a clergyman to fill a vacant curacy at
Bruff.

REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—A gentleman rf highly re-
spectable family and connexions, the owner in fee of dif-
ferent estates not many miles from Newp3rt, in Tippe-
rary, and which realised until very recently a rental of
over 13,000 a-year, died within the last few weeks a
recipient of in-door relief within one of the Dublin
workhouses.

THE EARLDOM OF Roscommox.—ln reference to
this barren title—for there is no property attached to it—
the Dublin Evening Mail says the rightful claimant en-
listed as a private soldier, and went with his regiment to
America, where he is now residing. He is the son of the
late Mr. F. Stephen Dillon, who opposed the claim of the
late earl before the House of Lords, in 1828, and who
died some time afterwards in very embarrassed circum-
stances.

DREADFUL MURDER.—On Thursday, Robert Lindsay
Mauleverer, of Mahera, county Derry, was employed in
giving each tenant a plot of bog, free, and had just tran-
sacted tall his business in time to go by the train that
passes Colville, at one o'clock, p.m. He left the hotel
at Crossmaglen on a car for the Colville station; and in
less than half an hour the car returned with the melan-
choly intelligence that he had been brutally murdered.
The driver states that he was shot from behind a hedge,
but that cannot be true, there being only a low stone
fence at the place ; and from the circumstance' of his
head being greatly fractured, it seems more probable that
he was murdered with a spade, or some such instrument.
The unfortunate gentleman was highly respected ; he
was a magistrate for the county Derry, and was exten-
sively employed as a land agent. The sole object of this
great crime appears to have been the gratification of re-
venge, as there was a considerable sum of money found
on his person.—Dublin Mail.—LThe Belfast Whig
accounts for the discrepancy as to the cause of death by
reporting that, after the unfortunate gentleman was shot
dead, the country people, instead of seizing the assassin,
showed their diabolical feeling by striking the body with
their spades.]
SCENE AT A MEETING.—At A-meeting of the proprie-
tors of the Hibernian Bank, held in Dublin, on Monday,
a very civilized " row" arose. An amendment was moved
by Mr. Reynolds, M.P., the lord mayor, to a motion
originating with the directors; and whilst the votes were
being taken, this gentleman, as usual, insisted on being
conspicuous. The report is as follows: —The:Lord Mayor
called on Alderman Sir T. O'Brien who stood :near the
tellers; not to be interfering with the voting. It was great
presumption in him to do so. Who cared about his
money ?—Mr. P. O'Brien, jun. : That is nice gentlemanly
conduct on the part of the head of the Corporation.—Near
the close of the polling, the Lord Mayor, addressing
Alderman M'Kenna (who was standing behind the chair
of one of the tellers), said: Go away out of that, sir : you
have no right to be there.—Alderman M'Kenna: Sir,
you are very impertinent to speak to me in that manner.
You are a foul-mouthed ruffian.—The Lord Mayor.: You
have no right to be standing there. You are interfering
with the voting of the people ; go out of that.—Alderman
M'Ketina : I will do no such thing, You are a most im-
pertinent ruffian.—Lord Mayor: May I ask you, Mr.,
Chairman, to prevent this fellow from creating disorder
in the meeting ? (To Alderman M'Kenna): You have
no right to be there, sir.—Alderman M'Kenna: 1 have a
better right to be here than you.—Lord Mayor : You are
a foul-mouthed fellow, but you have no right to interfere
with the voting.—l wont suffer :you to browbeat me.—
Lord Mayor : Put that person out. Go out of that, sir.
;--Alderman M'Kenna : I will not.—Lord Mayor: Who
cares about your foul-mouthed language? I implore you,
Mr. Moylan, to keep order and prevent this person from
interfering with the voters (hear, hear).—Eventually Mr.
Reynolds carried his amendment.