The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL MURDER.—With great regret, indeed, we have to mention that a dreadful murder has been committed in the county Clare—dreadful, truly, as regards the individual thus prematurely cut off in the very flower of his age, married only a few months, and we may say just entering into life. Mr. Thomas Brew, of Shyan, near Kilrush, was murdered at his own door, on Monday evening, after alighting off his horse, on his return from Kilrush. Mrs. Brew herself went to the door, upon bearing her husband knock, just in time to find him on the ground with life all but extinct. We may easily conceive the state of her feelings on such an occasion, but we own to depict them is beyond our power. That this has been a premeditated act. there is no room to doubt, and we are doubly pained to think that the state of feeling amonz a portion of our peasantry is such, that the life of a fellow-being is sacrificed to the base passion of revenge. We understand that the deceased was some time past brought into collision with some tenants holding a portion of the land he lived on, and the opposition he met with led to a severance of all those kind feelings which ought to subsist between landlord and tenant. How this opposition to the rights of the deceased was promoted and fostered, we hope a short time will develop. That it was fostered and encouraged we have been assured, and we are led to believe that the costs of such opposition, in every instance falling upon the tenants, was the cause of severe privations, and almost their absol LORD Mouxu.: introduced by the government turns of  Trish counterfeits. it an  rest of th its effect by repetition  ary to throw a fres ind ger  of Timm  The kind of ruse has so lost attempt was felt to be nebest it in order to give it a guise .nd, accordingly, Lord John  Russell at first made hohourable members on 'both sides of the house raise their eye-brows, by saying that, instead of keeping the.rneanure back for use throughout the session, he meant to carry it forward without delay. Ministers, however, are not quite so rich in expedients that they can thus easily dispose of their newestand best ; so, on Monday night,. Lord John made the much more congenial announcement that the bill was to stand ouer for awhile—to some time even beyond the lst of April; the 23rd of April is the day which he happened to mention. The whigs have always some special and all-sufficient reason for such postponements. and this time the reason is unusually cogent and amusing ; they cannot go on with the bill because they nave not sufficient information on the.subject of its main provision to enable them to come to a final decision upon it. They were in such a hurry to bring in some showy bill to drive Lord Stanley's out of the market, that they positively botched up one in ignorance of its probable working ; and before they can venture to offer it out and out for the deliberate refusal of a committee, they must carry it back to the workshop, and take it to pieces again, and remake it, or rather learn how to make it. They need more infOrmation, they say, about the poor-law rating, which is the basis of their franchise, before they can determine what the franchise shall be; the fivepound franchise was the toy of the hour-=all pasteboard and tinsel. And so the House of Commons must wait awhile, that ministers may begin to frame the bill which they have already induced the house to accept. • Lord Stanley was quite aghast at the subterfuge through which his desperate onset was made to be wasted in a vacated field ;. and hackneyed ministerial backers, who would have voted with Lord John the next minute whatever he chose to affirm, almost blushed as they whispered, " Really this is too barefaced." In the meantime, ministers have the use of the " new reform bill," for two months of the session at least.—Spectator.