The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-08-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND HIS TRISIE TENANTRY.--The Galway Packet (eminently Celtic authority) thus speaks of the Saxon Chief Justice :—Lord Campbell will entertain his Moycullen tenantry at a public banquet in the large school-room at Moycullen on next Monday. We have heard that the invitations amount to 400. He will also entertain his Barna tenantry in a similiar manner during the ensuing week. This speaks well for the future career of Lord Campbell as an Irish landlord. We have also been informed that he has engaged a female teacher to instruct the daughters of his tenantry, in sewing and embroidery. Should his lordship proceed in this course of conciliation and kindness, instead of letting loose upon his property—as, unfortunately, was the case on the estate of the Law Life Assurance Company—the ferocious crowbar brigade, there will not be more promptly paid rents nor a happier tenantry in Ireland."  MAGICAL CfccunnE.Nci—The Belfast papers contain the particulars of a shocking occurrence which has taken place in the barracks of that town. A private of the 12th Regiment of Foot, named Robert Henry O'Neill, a native of Belfast, who joined the regiment in April last, and who has been somewhat remarkable for his sullen disposition and aversion to rules of discipline, had been heard to threaten revenge on a.young soldier named Brown, a corporal in the Grenadier Company, for having reported him for some breach of discipline. The deceased, who was an expert penman, was engaged writing at a table in one of the barrack-rooms, at the south end of the square, and two or three other soldiers were variously employed in the apartment, when O'Neill entered. In this room were situated O'Neill's quarters, as well as those of the men present—the entire party, including O'Neill and deceased, numbering five persons. The deceased continued to write. During this time O'Neill had his musket on his knee, and appeared to be engaged in cleaning it. Suddenly, without attracting the attention of any one in the room, O'Neill moved towards the doorway, levelled his piece, took deliberate aim, and poured the contents of the musket into the unfortunate man sitting at the table. Brown, after receiving the fire, uttered a slight cry and dropped his head on the table, and his murderer ran down the steps leading to the barrack square. He was instantly pursued, and on his reaching the square he was called on to stop, when he turned round with great coolness and said, " Oh, I'll stop—'twas I shot him," he afterwards expressed himself happy that he had done the deed. The unfortunate victim was raised in a dying state from his reclining position on the table, and the spectacle which he presented was one of the most distressing character imaginable. The ball (it was first supposed there were two in the musket when fired, but it seems there was only one) had taken effect, in the first instance, almost between the eyebrows, passed down the left cheek, tearing it almost completely away, with half-a-dozen teeth, in its progress, and lodging in the chest, One of the lungs was also greatly injured, and portions of the face of the unfortunate man were scattered throughout the room. He received all the skilful treatment his condition demanded, from the assistantsurgeon of the regiment, Dr. Mackay ; but with the exception of being heard to complain that he was getting very cold, from the time he went into hospital until he expired at 11 o'clock, he was unable to make any communication to those in attendance. The deceased was a young man, who joined the regiment in London about four years ago, and, besides, being a person who had received above an average education, his gentleness and inoffensive character made him respected by his comrades generally.