The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Messrs. Whitworth's street-cleansing machines are now
used in Dublin and Belfast.
The flour and oatmeal deliveries from Caber mills to
Caber are escorted by a party of dragoons, threats of
popular violence being apprehended.
At the Tipperary assizes, on Tuesday, William Fogarty
was sentenced to be hanged for an attempt to murder Mr.
Mc. Donnell.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—Mr. Plumptre gave notice in
the House of Commons, on Friday, that it was his inten-
tion to propose a bill to repeal the Bth and 9th Victoria,
authorising the endowment of the College of Manooth.
S r R. Peel has declined to present the petitions of the
Re!. J. Sinnott, and the repeal wardens of Wexford,
praying for the appointment of Roman Catholic chaplains
to regiments in toreign stations.

PRIESTS PROTECTION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—The
gross amount now raised towards the £9,,0 is £852 6s. 9d.,
so that only £47 13s. 3d. is now required by the 9th inst.
to obtain the lady's offer of £lOO.
CAUSE AND EFFECT.—Mr. Kirk, tbe member for
Carrickfergus, was one of the few Irish members who
supported the ministerial measure for the destructiori of
Irish agriculture.—Mr. Kirk's son has just been ap-
pointed to a lucrative situation under the Government.
The Coercion Bill was roughly handled in Conciliation
Hall, on Monday, by Tom Steele. Addressing Lord St.
Germans (in his absence) Mr. Steele said " Why don't you
dare to prosecute me for denouncing you as a cold-blooded
projector of a massacre ?" -' Nine groans for the bloody-
minded Lord St. Germans!" (Awful yelling.) The rent
for the week was £255.

On Sunday week (Sunday again), three men entered
the house of Th.lnas Cantwell, near Mountmellich, and
presented a double-barrelled pistol .at him, which he
grasped, and while endeavouring to wrench it from the
ruffians, it exploded, and two balls lodged in the body of
Cantwell's brother, wbo is since dead. The Cant-
wells had; rendered themselves obnox'ous by acting es
bailiffs. _ _ _

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—A valuable mare, the property of
Mr. John Gray. steward to the Rev: John Digby Wing-
field, of Geashill, having been observed to take suddenly
ill, was sent to a neighbouring veterinary surgeon, who
could not form any opinion of the animal's illness, until,
after having died in a few days, he discovered in her
bowels a number of large sharp " brogue nails," which
must have been maliciously made up in a ball and thrust
down the poor animal's throat.— Dublin paper.
ARRIVAL OF PROVISIONS.—VesseIs are arriving daily
with Indian Corn. On Monday four ships arrived from
England with 10,000 bags of Biscuit intended for the u,e
of the poor of this country, in addition to the Government
importations of Indian Corn from America, and further
supplies of bread are expected. The Biscuit is not made
of Indian Corn Meal, but bag been manufactured at the
Government dockyards of Deptford and Portsmouth.
Three vessels have arrived for private speculation with In-
dian Corn, to be sold in England or Ireland.— Cork paper.
ILLEGAL MARRIAGES.—At the Newtownlimavady
Petty Sessions on Tuesday last, the Rev. Edward Do-
herty, a clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, was
charged with having celebrated a marriage between a
Pr .testant and a Roman Catholic, contrary to the statute.
The prosecution was brought on by direction of the
Registrar-General of Marriages, and after the examination
of a witness, and some addresses on the part of the legal
and other gentlemen concerned, the magistrates decided
on receiving information against Mr. Doherty.

NEW SCREW IRON STEAM-SHIPS.-00 Friday week.
the first iron screw steamer (the Shamrock) ever built in
Dublin was launched from Mr. Barrington's foundry, at
Ringsend-bridge, amid the cheers of a great concourse of
people. The hull only of the Shamrock is as yet afloat,
and measures 135 feet in length, 14 feet in depth, by 22
across deck, and so far she presents a model of sym-
metrical construction. On the following day the launch-
ing of the first iron screw-steamer, 300 tons burden, ever
built in Cork, took place amidst great rejoicing.

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE-IN LOUGH
On the 20th inst., Mr. Samuel Park, of Ballybegley, ac-
companied by three servants, went to Latterkenny mar-
ket to purchase turf, and had with them a boat for the
purpose of conveying them home. They did not start
from the port until late in the evening, probably waiting
on the tide. The night was extremely cold, with • high
wind and sleet. When they came near the Isles of Ma-
norcunningham, Mr. Park, who had been rowing, became
exhausted, and said to the others that he was done, and,
shortly after, it was found that he had expired. The
others now determined to abandon the boat, and made
for the shore, which they reached in safety ; and Golagly,
one of the party, sought admission into a house near the
shore, but was refused, and he, melancholy to relate, pe-
rished within a few yards of it. The others were more
fortunate than their companions, and are safe.
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—On Friday at Nenagh,
Patrick Rice and Patrick Hayes were found guilt' of a
conspiracy to murder the late Patrick Clarke, Esq. 'I be
trial occupied the Court fully eight days, and the result
was looked for with deep interest, not only in the county
of Tipperary, but in Dublin, where Mr. Clark was well
known and respected. The ill-fated gentleman's offence
—which was punished by his assassination—was the dis-
missal of the convict Hayes from his service, and by the
evidence on the trial it appeared that this man openly
declared, in August last, two months before the crime was
perpetrated, Mr. Clarke was a bad man and ought to be
shot. The propriety of his murder was on two or three
occasions discussed in the presence of several persons.
The prisoners were indicted for conspiring to murder, as
no direct evidence could be given of the actual perpetration
of it by Hayes, although satisfactory proof was given he
planned it. He procured the aid of Rice and another man,
not amenable to the law, and was not far away from the
scene of murder. Both the prisoners were sentenced in
the most solemn terms to death without any hope of
mercy. In connection with this case, and as a lamentable
evidence of the chance which justice has in Ireland, we
give the following. No one can venture to aid her without
the risk, and in an exposed district the certainty, of having
himself murdered or his property injured. We quote
from a paper not over ready to publish the failings of its
friends—we mean the Freeman's Journal:

HOUSE LEVELLING-REVENGE.

The house of Byrnes, the principal prosecutor in the case of
Mr. Clark, was levelled to the ground, on the night of last Fri-
day. There were some potatoes in a pit at the rere of the honse,
which were scattered about, and trampled on so as to render
them useless.

CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH INFORMER.—At the Ne-
nach assizes, on Friday, two men, named Edward Ryan
and John Conway, were charged with firing into the house
of Pat. Hogan, of Bawn. One of the principal witnesses
against them was an approver, named James Darmody, a
young man 26 years of age. In the course of his cross-
examination, he admitted having been concerned in no
less than five murders, besides a fatal fight, robberies, &c.
On the first occasion he was only 16. The following ex-
tracts from his ev'dence on cross-examination, will give
some idea of his character :
" Upon your oath, would you not shoot a man if you were
lusted don't think I would.

" And why did you go shoot a man for Fogarty ?—I did it be-
cause I knew him. (Sensation.)
" So, if any man you knew asked you to murder another, you
would do it ? —When I am on such business, I would not kill a
man unless I was attacked.

" Weie you at Hogan's house at any lime after the attack ?
I was, in about a month after. It might be three weeks.
"What brought you there ?—I went to fight for him.—
(Laughter.)
' Counsel— So you went to fight for Hogan, though you went
to murder him three weeks before ? (Laughter.) I did. Pat
Murphy took me there, to have a fight with a party at Hogan's.
" When you went to Hogan's house, you were shown the bed.
room he slept in ? I was.
" Upon your oath, if you got into his room, would you not
murder him ? (Here the approver turned a ferocious look upon
Mr. Rolleston, and, without any hesitation, replied, in a loud
and resolute voice, ' I would.)
" What induced you to give information ?—I heard that one
the party was going to turn approver, and I turned before him.
"So you told all you knew to save yourself ?—I did.
"Murders and all ?—Murders-,and all. (Murmurs.)"
FREE TRADE AND THE FAMINE IN IRELAND.—The
Dublin Scarcity Committee reported in November last,
that even up to that time there had been (-sported from
the Irish ports, grain, nearly enough to feed the entire
population for a twelvemonth ! What a collection of lu-
natic vagaries, then, have we here :-1. A country grow-
ing, as we have no doubt Ireland did last year, twice as
much food as her population required: and vet declared
to be in danger of FAMINE!! 2. While hundreds of
ships are leaving her ports with grain for the English
market, no one thinks it even desirable to retain any of
this grain for the consumption of the people. although
they are at that moment reported to be in danger of star-
vation. 3. But it is resolved to send 4.000 miles over
the water, and to fetch from America a few ship-loads
. of
maize, as the only conceivable way of " averting famine.",."
4. And this being the plan resolved upon, and it being
quite certain, that if the Government proposed it *as
needful to avert famine, such a vo'e would pass the House
of Commons without an hour's (kbate,—Sir Robert Peel
cannot tfl; ct so simple and easy an object without plung-
ing the country into a revo'ution as a means. Because a
little maize is wanted in Ireland, therefore the whole pro-
tective system of Great Britain must be changed ! Be-
cause £5(),000 worth of Indian corn is to be brought into
Cork,--therefore the value of Oe wheat harvest in Eng-
apd 4 to 4 reduced £10,000,00) per 4ptir to

complete the chaos of absurdity, because some of the po-
tatoes in Ireland have become rotten, therefore all foreign
silks, cottons, linens, and woollens are to be henceforth
.allowed to come into England duty free.