The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-04-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WIDER TWO OTHERS.  When the news of this dreadful butchery reached the fair of Tipperary, about half-past eight in the morning, not more than an hour after the atrocious deed, a marked feeling of exultation, approaching to delight, was quite apparent in the features of the peasantry, who passed from one to another the tale of blood, with a satanic grin of triumph, in which malice and ferocity were equally blended. The gentleman who thus fell a victim, in the prime of life, to the deadly aim of remorseless assassins, was a magistrate of the county, most respectably connected, and intimately acquainted with all the surrounding gentry. He held the charge of several large landed properties, having been agent to the Archbishop of Cashel, Lord Hawarden, and the Board of Erasmus Smith's schools. Mr. Cooper has left an afflicted widow with a young of phan family. There is nothing to account for the above shocking outrage, which was perpetrated in the neighbourhood of military and police stations, and at the close of the maiden assizes for Tipperary—over 70 persons having been returned for murder, and not one convicted! What will Judge Moore say to this homicide in his next charge, if he goes that circuit? Reckless indeed must the desperadoes in that county be ,of human life, after so clear an acquittance of blood-stained malefactors at last assizes. There is, however, in the eyes of a Christian and moral world, a black stain upon the character of the county of Tipperary, which not all the rhetorical artifice of judicial oratory can efface, whether administered from the bar or the bench, to enlighten the appalling enormities of habitual bloodshed and crime in that devoted quarter, and which retributive justice can only atone for in a full and ample punishment. TILE TIPPERARY MURDER•  Fifteen hundred pounds in addition to the three hundred by Government) have been offered by the magistrates and gentry of the county of Tipperary, for the discovery and conviction of the murderers of Mr. Cooper. What a contrast to this is presented in the conduct of the "excellent population," on the same occasion :  " A curious circumstance (says the Tipperary Consiitut;on) connected with this dreadful and long concocted murder is, that immediately after the several shots had been fired, Mr. Cooper distinctly heard shots fired in the direction of Ballintemple road, also several shots evidently proceeding from another party of six persons, who had undoubtedly been placed on that line in case Mr. Cooper should have gone that road. There were also scouts placed in different directions, and on Mr. Cooper* return with the dead and wounded gentlemen, he met two of thitse. Mr. Wayland said to them, Boys, this is a bad business; s-ton't you bring on the hats, and catch the horse for us?' To which they returned a most impertinent and brutal answer, and said,‘ Bad luck to them if they'd have anything to say to them ! V-4 When the police and magistrate§ went to search fur the ruffians they were mocked by the women, who used to call them, and, in a jeering manner, say, Why don't you come here, may be you'd find them here.' Some said— ` One of the nobs was shot and there would soon be more of them.' In fact, the entire conduct of the farmers and peasantry, before and subsequent to this tragical circumstance, fully demonstrates the league which exsists for the persecution of those concerned with rents or otherwise."  After perusing these details—and they only constitute a thousandth part of what we might lay before our readers—it is impossible not to feel the most intense disgust with the present administration, tolerating, nay, encouraging, as they do such outrages upon life and property. The time will assuredly soon arrive when they must he called to an account for their glaring partiality towards the priests of Ireland, to all whose representations, however murderous their object, they have always lent a willing ear. [reland wants a firm and determined government. The only men that can rule her turbulent population successfully are men who will cripple the power of the priests and interpose the strong arm of the law between their deluded followers and the persecuted protestants. Such men are alone to be found in the conservative opposition in both houses of parliament.  TILE " ALBION" ANp