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

IRELAND,

Mrs. M`lver, who died last week at Belfast, lived to
s:e 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 onWednesday, Thomas Dono-
hue was convicted and senter_ced to death, tier 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 awkward sports-
men lately fired at a bird near Passage, and missed their
aim ; but 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,
t ) 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 Kilrusb 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 Acsociktion met on Monday. Mr. John
O'Connell announced, by letter, that he had postponed
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 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 bed thereupon
granted a week's reprieve. very gravely inquired of Sir
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 be
pardoned ?" Did he expect Sir George to reply, " Oh,
no, we mean to hang him at any rate ?"
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Team 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
proxy (the Rev. Mr. Ryan), being unable to produce a
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collector, a man named Lally.
Everybody is heartily tired of the pedantic virulence of
Mac Hale.
the Earl of Shrewsbury, whom, in a dignified spirit of
his revenge,letter, h
r, addressed him simply as My Lord Archbishop,
and not as Archbishop of Tuam. Mac Hale argues that
both titles—his own and his opponent's—are equally valid:
the one i 3 created by the Pope (conferring a territorial
jurisdiction within her Majesty's dominions upon John
Mac Hale !), the other flows from the crown of England.
The doctor repudiates the latter, except upon the con-
dition that the former be recognised as authentic.
ANOTHER PRIEST.—Doctor Murphy has overdone his
business. He has been taught that a priest is not as po-
tent in London as in Kinsale, and he had to anticipate an
ignominious expulsion by silently sneaking from the com-
taittee-rootn.—He could not trust the case to his well-
trained witnesses (unfortunate 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 the cross-ex-
amination of Bridget Holy :—Had heard something said 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 he had observed a person sit-
ting behi"d 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. He 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. 111•Taggart had observed the pro-
ceedings of the person alluded to by Mr. Cochrane, and
perfectly concurred in the obsirvations which had fallen
from him. Father l‘lurphy retired, and did not present
himself in the room during the remainder of the day.—
Cork Constitution.

THE POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT.-OUr townsman,
Mr. Thomas Smith, has published a pamphlet, entitled,
" Results of the Central Administration of the Poor Laws,
exhibited in some of its workings in the Extensive Town-
ship of West Derby," &c. The author is himself a mem-
ber of the board of guardians in the union referred to ;
has devoted much attention to the effects of the new Poor
Law, and brings to the field in the achievement of his
object, a practical knowledge of his subject, a mind stored
with statistical facts, a feeling of genuine humanity to the
destitute poor, and a desire that, in adequately relieving
them, the ratepayers should not be subjected to extrava-
gant impositions through the mal-practices of officials.
The work, which is written in the vigorous style attain-
able only by an English scholar, is dedicated to Lord
John Russell, as First Lord of the Treasury ; and, in his
prefaratory address, the author expresses his strong disap-
probation of the new Poor Law, and the tyrannic, expen-
sive, and cruel manner in which it is administered. He
contends that we have a class of inhabitants suitable for

the office of 1

rates will become r

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and urges that the
norals amonzst those

"cannot failto lower
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