The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-05-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL MURDER.—On Saturday, a dreadful murder was committed upon a man named Edmund Doogan, at Doon, near Broadford. He was fired at from behind a ditch by two men, and when he fell they fractured his skull in several places, and cut his throat, nearly severing the head from his body. The cause assigned for this  The following h from Vera Cruz, under date of the 29th of March :—At ten o'clock, the whole Mexican army marched out, and stacked their arms on the road .near the cemetery. Our army then marched on each side of the Mexican lines into the town. All the best of the inhabitants had left the city before the attack. On our enThe city is very  ;ering  purchased a revisionary lease of some land, the title to which expired this day.—Clare Journal. The accounts received from Ireland, particularly from  the western and southern counties, exhibit an alarming increase of pestilence in several districts ; but it is worthy of remark, that iu all cases where efficient sanatory arrangements are adopted, a decided decrease in the virulence of the malady has been the consequence. In some parts of the northern province too, for instance, Enniskillen, Lurgan, and Belfast, fever is making fearful ravages. In the last-named town, on Saturday, a public meeting was held, to make arrangements for providing additional hospital accommodation, and to raise a general subscription.  handio  ke a deserte  much injured by the shot and shell. Nine thousand Mex.: ican troop's were within twelve or fifteen miles of the city on the night of the 28th, and were driven back by Col. Harney, of the Dragoons. During the sixteen days that intervened between the disembarkation of the troops and the opening of negociations, there were five days of violent " northers," in which all landing of stores, &c., was interrupted. By the terms of capitalation, the garrisons were allowed to march out of the city with all the honours of war, and then to lay down their arms. They were provided with four days' provisions. The Mexican officers were allowed to preserve their arms and private effects, and five days to retire to their respective homes.  All the materiel of war, and all public property found in the city, the castle, and their depcndencies, to belong to the United States. The sick and wounded Mexicans were to be allowed to remain in the city, and no private property or building was to be taken possession of by the American forces.  •Th 3 Rev  Thomas Scott  A 'motion of a formal nature was agreed to. Mr. BRIGHT moved for a select committee to inquire into the progress of the cultivation of cotton in India. Sir J. HonuousE made no opposition to the appointment of the committee.  On Tuesday the citizens of Dublin entertained at dinner Capt. Clarke, of the American ship Victor, arrived in that port with provisions. The occasion was not lost by the Young Irelanders, who introduced unceremoniously their favourite political views. Mr. Meagher, in the  When they abjured th,  3ible  Lord G. BENTINCK quoted the opinion of Mr. Huskis;son, that if we gave due protection to the cotton culture a our East Indian empire we should have not only suffi,eient for our own manufactures, but for the consumption a the whole world. The noble lord also impressed upon the house the important fact that every bale of cotton brought from India would come in British vessels. He -suggested that the committee, if appointed, should consider the question of railway communication in India, and 'inquire whether, by restoring the duty on American cotton, and by reducing the land tax-in India, we might not 'obtain cotton from a country that would take from us our -manufactured articles in payment instead of the gold, aye, the new sovereigns demanded by America. At this period of the discussion the house was counted  Math in the month of July is fixed -lass of persons from the error of  The whole amount of the called-up capital of the Great Western Company is £5,751,150, and its present outstanding debt amounts to £4,216,370. The company possesses a power of raising, by calls and new shares, a further sum of £3,958,850. By the bills of the present session, as far as an estimate can be made, a power will be conferred of raising an additional sum of more than £11,000,000, or about twice the amount of the present paid-up capital.