The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL MURDERS AT RATHURE.—At eight o'clock on Thursday morning, two dreadful murders were committed at Itathure Castle, vvithin two miles of Limerick. The victims of assassination were Mr. Ralph Hill, subagent to David Fitzgerald, Esq., and a land bailiff named Madden. It appears that Mr. Hill, in the discharge of his duty, had made a distress the day before on corn belonging to John Quain, tenant to Benjamin Friend, Esq., who was indebted to his landlord to a large amount. After the seizure keepers were placed on the premises, and Mr. Hill returned to Limerick. On Thursday morning, accompanied k y Thamas Flannery, he again visited Quain's house, for the purpose of removing the corn from the haggards, where they were met by Quain's son, with whom Mr. Hill was talking, when four shots were fired at him and his bailiffs from behind the haggard, melancholy to relate, with fatal effect. Mr. Hill was killed on the spot, and the bailiff (Madden) also fell a victim to assassination. One of the keepers, James M`Mahon, was wounded on the head, the skull having been laid bare by slugs, and Flannery received the contents of a gunshot in the back of the hand.  AN IRISH Row.—A meeting of Young Irelanders was held inißelfast last week, which was even more uproarious than such meetings usually are. Several persons were calling for the military in order that something like order should be preserved. A stone from the street was thrown up, which broke one or two panes of glass ; and those near the window made a rush—some forward, some altogether out of the house ; whilst about twenty of those in the body of the hall snatched up sticks, about four inches in diameter, and six or seven feet long, crying out to their friends to clear the platform, and following up their preaching by tramping their way over the shoulders of those who stood just below the platform ; and when they ascended thereto, nothing could exceed the alarming aspect which was then presented in the face of the meeting. The sticks went bang over the heads of several, till they were caught and broken ; and then many parties got into grips, pulling and dragging each other about in fearful confusion. The mob shouted to have the platform and room cleared ; and the scene that ensued for fully ten minutes was really startling. Many made towards the door ; others ran down the steps on the left of the platform, leading towards the floor ; while those who remained on the platform were all pushing to and fro, in the greatest excitement. Mr. Meagher, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. O'Brien were surrounded by the clamourists ; but they refused to move from where they stood, and Mr. Meagher, at the top of his voice, exclaimed that he would not be removed, unless he were made a corpse. At this stage of the proceedings, some eight or ten of the police forced their way up the room, and thence to the platform, where they secured a number of those who appeared to be the ring-leaders in the scuffle. In the melee, several were precipitated down the steps ; and, for fully ten minutes, the greatest disorder prevailed, nearly every one shouting, at the top of his voice, either pro or con. The noise had somewhat subsided, when some ofthose who had been put out of the room flung up stones from the outside, and again broke some of the windows.  A