The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

INQUEST AT CARRICKMACROSS

The inquest on the body of Peter Agnew, who was killed
during the recent affray between Mr. Shirley's tenantry and
the police, was held' at Carrickrnaeross on Wednesday and
Thursday.

Mr. O'Hea attended as counsel, and Mr. Croker as agent,
for the next of kin to Peter Agnew, deceased; and Mr.
Gibson appeared for Mr. Wilcocks, A.M., and the police.
A jury, composed of six Protestants and thirteen Roman
Catholics, was sworn, and several witnesses who had taken
part in the riot were examined, their evidence going clearly
to prove the dangerous position of the police, and the fury of
the mob, when the order to fire was given. The evidence on
the behalf of the next of kin having terminated,
Mr. Gibson tendered the evidence of Mr. Barry and
the police, but they were objected to by Mr. O'llea, and
after some argument Mr. Gibson stated, that as the investi-
gation had been conducted with so much good taste and
feeling by Mr. O'H ea, he (Mr. Gibson) would not press their
evidence, as Mr. O'l-lea had stated it would not be satisfac-
tory to the people.
Mr. Gibson then tendered the evidence of a policeman who
had not fired a shot, but whose mouth had been badly cut,
and several of his teeth, nearly knocked out by a stone; this
was also objected to by Mr. O'Hea, but he would not object
to evidence of the nature of the wound.

Doctor M'Effer was then examined, and proved that the
policeman's teeth and gums were considerably injured.
The jury soon after retired, and in half an hour returned
the following verdict :
We find that Peter Agnew came to his death on the 6th of
June inst.', at Maheracloone chapel, in the parish of Maher-
acloone, by a gun-shot wound received from a party of the
constabulary commanded by Mr. Wilcocks, stipendiary ma-
gistrate, and Mr. Barry, sub-inspector, firing on a body of
people assembled about the said chapel on that day, and that
it has not been sufficiently proved to us that at the time of
the firing the party of constabulary were in imminent risk of
their lives, and that we have no proof who fired the identical
shot which caused his death.

The verdict is tantamount to an acquittal, as the evidence
shows that the opposition was of such a nature as to justify
the magistrate in tiring for the purpose of dispersing the
rioters and forcing. a passage along the road, though the life
of the party was not in imminent danger. A troop of the
3d dragoon guards, and a company of rifles, have arrived in
Carrickthacross, and tranquility has been restored.

ATTACK ON THE POLICE.—Sub-Inspector Fitzsimon, and
his party were severely inaltreated at the fair of Molahiffe,
Kerry, and one policeman got his head fractured. Magis-
trates were previously called on to attend the fair, biit de-
clined.—Lirnerick Chronicle.
ACCIDENT AT KILCULLEN.—TWO men, named Keogh,
were drowned, on Wednesday, about half a mile below the
bridge of this town. They, i❑ company with three others,
were washing sheep, the property of Mr. Burchell, of Browns-
town. They were both young, and have left families. Another
man was drowned here a few day,s since.—Dublin paper.

THE DEFAULTING CORPORATION TREASURER.—By let-
ters received from Mr. Ross Cox, it would appear that he is
on the " trail" of Mr. Finn, the defaulting treasurer to the
corporation. On the 21st of May Mr. Cox left New York
'for Pennsylvania, next for Baltimore, and was on the 29th
of May in Philadelphia, whence he was to start on the next
day for Ohio.—Dublin paper.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER—A STEAMER SUNK.—AS the
steam-tug, Adelaide, belonging. to Messrs. Streaker, was pro-
ceeding, on Wednesday, to the Kish Light, towing a small
lighter with stores, she was discovered to have sprung a leak,
from some cause not ascertained. She was immediately put
back to the North-wall, and just as all the stores on board
were landed on the quay, the vessel sunk, and remains in that
position at present.—Dublin paper.
Lord Roden has addressed a letter to the editor of the
Dublin Mail on the duty of the Irish Protestants at the pre-
sent crisis, in which he dissuades them from all processions
and assemblies of large bodies, to which many of them were
inclined to have recourse. From the former he advises them
to abstain in consequence of their having been declared ille-
gal, and from the latter because his lordship considers them
superfluous and unwise.

COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.—The Government has
appointed Captains Sir G. Back and R. Fair, R.N. to sur-
vey the harbours of Holyhead and Porthdinllaen, and report
on their capacities as packet stations. They left this place
for Porthdinllaen, by land, on Tuesday last, and will return
before the end of the week. An order has been received for
one of the packets on this station to be at their service to go
on with the survey at both places.—Carnarvon Herald.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.—The
Dublin Mercantile Advertiser gives the following letter re-
ceived from a correspondent at Drunmore Eat, county Wa-
terford, under date of yesterday :—" Since I wrote last
evening we have witnessed a very melancholy scene. A
large American barque, laden with cotton, has been wrecked
at Browston Head. There were 16 hands on board, and
only one saved out of the whole. The gale has not decrea-
sed, only tends a little more to the west."

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE:—Mr. Brereton, who resides
near Nentigh, directed two of his men, one of them an
Orangeman, to watch his plantations on Wednesday night
with fire arms, suspecting that some persons might have re-
course to them for green boughs to adorn their lI .uses at the
approach of Mr. O'Connell yesterday into Nenagh. Horri-
ble to relate the Orange watchman having, it is supposed,
mistaken his fellow watchman for one of the people, fired at
him, shattering his abdomen almost to pieces. On last even-
ing the unhappy victim was not expected to survive many
hours.—Limerick Reporter.
MURDER, AND DEATH OF THE MURDERER.—An atro-
cious murder was committed on Tuesday morning, at Willow
Hill, about three miles beyond Carrigaline. The victim was
a woman named Buckley, between 30 and 40 years of age,
the mother of two children, and within a couple of months
of being again confined—the murderer was her brother-in•
law, Thomas Buckley. He lived in the same house, and
going out and finding a cock belonging to Mrs. Buckley
fighting with one which had belonged to his mother, who is
dead, he struck the former, which a son of Mrs. Buckley (a
boy about 12 years old) observing, the little fellow called
out, " Oh, mother, he'll kill the cock." " Come in," ex-
claimed the mother, "or he'll serve you in the same way."
Buckley, hearing this, made a rush at the boy, who, how-
ever, escaped into the house. Buckley followed, and pro-
ceeding to the room in which he was in the habit of sleeping,
he returned to the kitchen with a griffaun. Seating himself
on the table, he watched until his sister-in-law stooped
down to do something to the fire, on which potatoes were
boiling for breakfast, and then struck her on the side of the
head with the " griffaun." The child, we understand, says
that he gave her six blows. The skull was fractured behind
the ear, 'the- face greatly lacerated under one of the eyes, and
the cheek laid open. Buckley immediately made off, but in-
formation having been conveyed to the Ballyfeard station,
Sub-constable Moloney, with two other active policemen
(Coghlan and Pigott) went in pursuit, and, after searching
the plantations at Hoddersfield, fell in with his coat and
shoes. From this they concluded that he• had swam across,
but soon after they met some fishermen who had found the
body floating near the little cottage so well known to " pic-
nickers," and not far from the spot where lie had left the
shoes and coat. When the policemen saw it life was extinct.
The women died the tollowing day.—Cork paper.

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PROFFERED ASSASSINATION.—In the course of Wednes-
day evening the greatest bustle was observed in and about
the neighbourhood of the court, in consequence, as it was
understood, of communication having been made from the
authorities at the Home-office to Mr. Twyford, in the absence
of Mr. Hall, the chief magistrate, for issuing a warrant for
the apprehension of a man of the name of Mayne, who, from
the accounts which our reporter was enabled to collect, had
written a letter to Sir James Graham, offering, for a certain
reward, to assassinate Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Twyford, in the
absence of Mr. Hall, was occupied during the whole of the
night upon the subject, and between four and five o'clock on
Thursday morning he went away in a cab, and on his return,
about eight o'clock, being met by other persons connected
with the Government, they remained in consultation some
time, but the entire proceedings were conducted with so much
secrecy that the result of their deliberations has not been
allowed to transpire, and we were unable to learn whether
any person had been taken into custody.—Times.—The fol-
lowing further particulars of this case, about which so much
mystery has been made have appeared.—On Monday morn-
ing Sir J. Graham received a letter directed to the right hon.
baronet's private residence in Hill-street, apparently written
in a rambling, incoherent manner, in which the writer, ob-
serving upon what he terms " the treachery of Mr. O'Con-
nell," proceeds to say " that he would undertake, as he
might be advised, to risk his own life against that of Mr.
O'Connell's" On the prisoner being informed by Mr. Hall
of the nature of the charge against him, the evidence of Sir
James Graham read over, and being shown the latter, he im-
mediately, and without the least hesitation, admitted that he
was the author; and on being asked what could have induced
him to take such an extraordinary step, he repled that the
night before he had been dining with a party of friends, and
had taken too much wine—that he certainly wrote the letter,
and posted it by mistake, having other letters in his pocket—
that he became immediately afterwards sensible of the ex-
treme folly
which he had been guilty of, and acquainted
his friends of the act, and asked them if it would not be bet-
ter to send another letter to Sir James Graham in explana-
tion—but they looked upon the epistle as being so ridiculous
that they thought no public notice would be taken of it, and
therefore he did not do so. He now exceedingly regretted
what he had done, and hoped that the contrition on his part
would be favourably considered. After consideration, Mr.
Hall told the prisoner that the charge against him was one
of a most serious and important character, and that no minis-
ter of state could have passed it by without public notice. It
had, however, been determined to admit him to bail, himself
in the sum of zeloo, and two sureties in the sums of £2OO
each, to appear at the next July Sessions of the Central
Criminal Court, to answer any charge that might be preferred
against him. The prisoner then gave in the names of Mr.
Jones, a shipowner at Gloucester, and a gentleman named
Watkins, as his bail, who it was understood, were in Lon-
don, but they had not arrived at the Home Office when our
report was sent off; consequently, the prisoner at present
renirins in custody. The prisoner has been deprived of his
situation for his indiscretion.

FRENCH SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND

PARIS, JUNE 5, 1843.—0ne of the cleverest things lately
done by the French for keeping up the population of Algeria,
and which is nothing more nor less than " Bucking " on a
grand scale, has just been perpetrated. Perhaps the publi-
cation of this letter may save the lives of other hundreds or
thousands of our poor countrymen, whose poverty and whose
industry lead them to accept employment, no matter how
laborious or how dangerous,
You may remember that towards the finish of the works
on the Rouen Railroad considerable numbers of Irish labour-
ers were imported by the contractors from England to enable
them to complete the undertaking within the prescribed
period. The job over, the poor fellows were, of course, left
to shift for themselves, which (voluntary immigration from
France being at an end) presented to this wide-awake govern-
ment a capital opportunity for supplying the vacuum hourly
occasioned by fell disease in the European population of Al-
geria. Crimps were employed, and with so much success,
that already 200 of those poor men—all Irish, let me ob-
serve—have been carried off to Algiers, where they are sure
to be carried off for the last time, in a few weeks, by another

This experiment is about to be repeated on an immense
scale. Will your government sanction it? Or is there any
law or any reason to oppose to it? These questions I leave
to you to answer, adding only that I pledge infself for the
correctness of my statement.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following is a calculation of
the last weekly returns of 43 railways, 1,561 miles in length.
Number of passengers on 28 railways, 372,526, consequently
the total for the week must be above 500,000. The receipts
for passengers on 43 railways, £75,372 16Q. ; d;tto for goods
on 38 railways, £23,558 Bs. 2d.; total, £98,93145. 4d. This
:0( i 0 of
3per illil
there-
fore, certainly at the rate of about £4,500,000 a year, and
is
carryingaijal r2aog, eoo°f o,passengers.eper week. The traffic,

pavimituotavp profttbirillis

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FuTpAy.
In the House of Lords last night the Lord CHANCELLOR

laid upon the table a letter from the Governor-General of
India, acknowledging the thanks of the house for his services
in India.

The Earl of ABERDEEN postponed until Tuesday his bill
respecting the Church of Scotland.

Lord BROUGHAM postponed the second reading of the
Slavery Bill until Monday week.

The Lord CHANCELLOR communicated to their lordships
a message from her Majesty assenting to the nuptials of the
Princess Augn-ta of Cambridge with the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and relying upon Parliament
to make suitable provision for his royal highness.

In answer to some remarks of the Marquis of CLANIU-

CARDED

The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the government had
received the written opinion of the Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land to the effect that the meetings held in Ireland for the
purpose of obtaining a repeal of the union had a tendency to
outrage, and might be dangerous to the public peace, and
that therefore it was not proper to confide in those magis-
trates who attended those meetings. There could be no ob-
jection to public meetings to repeal any act of Parliiiment,
but it was obvions that meetings such as those held for ti ,e
purpose of repealing the union might result in bloodshed,
and should, therefore, be discouraged.
Earl. FOKTESCUI explained that on a former occasion he
bad said, while Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, thdt he would
confer Government patronage or honours on no persons as-
sisting in the agitation for a repeal of the union. This, how-
ever, was very different from depriving persons of honours
and appointments already conferred.
Lord BROUGHAM contended that those meetings were
illegal, inasmuch as they were called, not for the purpose of
discussion, but with a view to intimidate by a demonstration
of physical force.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
In the House of Commons last night Mr. T. DUNCOMBE
presented a petition from Cooper and other chartists, com-
plaining of the treatment they received in Stafford gaol. The
hon. member asked if the detention of the petition by the
gaoler or magistrates for a period of fifteen days was a breach
of privilege?

The SPEAKER said he did not consider it a breach of pri-
vilege, but it was decidedly an improper interference with the
right of the subject to petition.
Mr. HUME gave notice be would on the next open day
ninve that the payment of a pension to an independent
foreign sovereign was unjust, and that the pension of £21,000
to the King of Hanover should be discontinued.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Sir A. L.
Hay, said it was his intention during the present session to
move for leave to bring in a bill giving additional facilities
for the endowment of quoad sacra ministers in Scotland,
but he did not propose to ask for any grant of public money
for that purpose.

. .
Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to a question from Dr. Bow-
ring, said that the government was direcl!ng its attention to
the anomalous position in which British merchants were
placed in their commercial transactions with Turkey.
Sir R. PEEL brought down a message from her Majesty,
assenting to the marriage of the Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge with the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, and hoping that the house would enable her Majesty
to make suitable provision for her royal highness.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply to a question from Mr. Ewart,
said he did not think it fair to extort from members of the
government their opinion as to the legality or illegality Of the
meetings now being held in Ireland, but he would say that in
Ireland, but he would say that in considering the question of
illegality, numbers formed a considerable ingredient by which
to form a jtldgment.

In reply to a question from Mr. R. YORKE,
Sir J. GRAHAM said he did not contemplate any large mo-
dification of the poor law, but he would, on an early day,
bring forward his bill for its amendment.
The Canadian Wheat and Flour Bill went through com-
mittee after a short discussion, and the report was ordered to
be received on Monday.

Lord ELLIOT then moved the committee on the Irish
Poor Law Bill, upon which
Mr. REDINGTON moved, as an amendment, that the bill
should be referred to a select committee. He had originally
supported the Irish poor law, but experience of its practical
operation convinced him that the whole system required re-
vision.

Lord ELLIOT declined assenting to the proposition, as it
would open up the abstract question as to whether there
should be a poor law at all—a matter which he conceived to
be settled. There was no desire to treat the subject as a
party question, and any suitable amendments would no doubt
be adopted in committee.

After 'some conversation, Mr. REDINGTON withdrew his
amendment, and the house went into committee on the bill.
The first three clauses were agreed to with some amend-
ments ; after which the house resumed, and the chairman
reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

" H K " could scarcely expect us to insert his doggrel.
We will look over the papers forwarded by "A Constant
Reader."

We cannot fathom the meaning of " Free Trader."
There is not a single copy of the STANDARD of 26th May
remaining.