The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-01-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND. on Saturday last, gave judgment in the case of Maitland --a— v. Backhouse. His lordship said, after detailing the facts, A large crowd of hungry people broke the windows it appeared manifest to him that Messrs. Backhouse had and tried to enter some bread shops at Kilkenny, on not made the inquiry into the nature of the transaction Tuesday. but a troop of soldiers soon dispersed them. which, considering the peculiar situation of Miss MaltAu unfortunate woman, whilst suffering from derange- land, they were bound to have done, before discounting melt, murdered her husband whilst asleep, with a hatchet, a note for so large an amount. It appeared that both Mr. at Killahara, in Tipperary, on Monday. Maclean and Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan were at that On Friday week no less than one hundred and two time in want of money; for they had tried to raise some half-starved creatures were committed to gaol at Galway, on a check, which had been refused. This check was for stealing turnips, or the like articles of food, transmitted to London, and forwarded to the Joint Stock On the 13th instant, John Tracey, of Loughmore, dur- Bank, but was not cashed. Now this transaction was, of ing a paroxysm of insanity caused by fever, strangled his course, fully capable of explanation, but none such had wife to death. been offered by any of the defendants, although it was At Clare Special Commission, two men named Butler clear that they ought to have given one to the court. and Hoursgan have been convicted of the murder of Peter Immediately after this the promissory note was offered to Cleary. They reeeived the announcement of their doom Messrs. Backhouse, and the amount carried to Bolckow with apparent indifference. and Vaughan's account, and then the check was cashed. The Irish estates of the Duke of Buckingham are to be These circumstances were calculated to arouse attention, sold by auction in April next. They are of considerable and the fullest information ought to have been furnished extent, comprising no less than 25,000 statute acres, and of the way in which the note reached the hands of the are situate in the counties of Westmeath, Clare, Long- hankers. Without imputing any improper motives to the ford, and the Queen's County. Messrs. Backhouse, he must say they were bound to have Hoasesenteeleto.-31r. Robert Hardy, of Cork, who made the strictest inquiry, as there was more than horsewhipped Captain Bunbury, of the 67th Regiment, enough in the transactions to raise their suspicions. With for jilting his sister, has been sentenced to be imprisoned respect to the continuing of the injunction, when he was for fourteen days, and to pay a fine of £2O for the offence. called to the bar, there was reason for the court exercisThe punishment is considered excessive, especially by ing greater caution in interposing its authority, as one, the ladies, two, or three years might elapse before the matter could The Court of Queen's Bench have ordered a sum of be disposed of ; whilst now the question might be decided £4,200 to be levied off the county of Antrim, with the in as many weeks. Then, with respect to the paying the present county rate, and to he repaid to the government £5OOO into court, there was no case whatever made out at the Spring Assizes. This sum was expended by the by the pleadings of there being any danger that the money Belfast and Lisburn boards of health during the resent would be lost. If such had been the case, it should have period-of destitution and fever. been explicitly alleged ; but, on the contrary, such did The necessary securities have been lodged at the Stamp not appear to be the fact, as the parties were represented Office, Dublin, for the publication, on the Ist of Febru- to be posseesed of great wealth. With regard to the costs, ary next, of a new journal to be called The United Irish- the proper course seemed to be, to make them costa in iftPll, and which, it is stated, is to be conducted by some the cause, for then the party who ultimately turned out of thethe " YNatiooung Ireland" party, who recently seceded to be in the right would be paid the costs of those profrom n newspaper. It will, of course, be still ceedings. Mr. Cairns observed, although it might not more ultra thanSEARCH most