Glasgow Courier. — 1847-01-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

IRELAND.  Bank of Ireland.—The directors this day determined to raise the rate of discount to 5i per cent. on Irish bills, and to 4i per cent. on English bills.—Post of Tuesday. Mr. Robert Hunter, collector of the Customs at Strangford, has been appointed to the vacent collectorship at Coleraine; Mr. John Fitzpatrick, clerk, at Belfast, succeeds Mr. Hunter, at Strangford. Dublin, Jan. 25.—Her Majesty's steam-ship Stromboli arrived in Kingstown Harbour with a cargo of biscuits and Indian meal for some of the relief committees. Oatmeal, Indian meal, and flour, were sold by the retailers to-day at a considerable reduction on last week's prices. At an extensive establishment on Burgh Quay the prices are as follow:—White and yellow Indian meal, 2s. 7d. a stone; oatmeal, 3s. 2d. to as. 7d. do.; flour, as. to 3s. 64. do.; rice, 35. 104. to 4s. sd. The great run by the poor is for oatmeal, ' hence the price is above that of flour. This day the distillers of Dublin met, and resolved to petition Parliament against the proposed measure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which, they say, will totally ruin the trade in Ireland. Mr. O'Connell agreed to take charge of the petition and support its prayer. Irish Relief Works—A letter in the Times of Friday, dated Enniscorthy, county of Wexford, January 16, gives the following account of a relief road job:—" There are about 100 people employed on the road in question; they commence work at 9 A.m., give up for dinner at 11 AM., resume at 1 P.M., and are dismissed at half-past 3 P.M., thus working but four hours and a half in the day. The employment may be called a family affair, as the 100 people do not belong to more than 30 families, and of these many are of farmers holding more than twenty acres of land (Irish), equal to more than thirty English. There is one instance of a farmer who holds eighteen acres (Irish) of good land at 10s. an acre. His horse is employed at 2s. 3d. a-day, and led by his wife; he is employed himself as a workman, and so are his two sons, each at Is. 2d. a-day ; making in all, for one starving family, the pretty sum of ss. 9d. per diem, or rather more than the pay ot an ensign, This is by no means an exceptional case. Many families og labourers are receiving 3s. and 4s. daily for four and a half hours' idleness, whichever you choose to call it. To this expenditure you have to add the pay of innumerable overseers, who oversee, or overlook, everything. If you refuse credit to this communication because it is anonymous, all I have to say is, that I do not think my life would be safe if I put my name to it." Awfully Sudden Death.—As awfully sudden an event as ever happened was the death yesterday morning of Mr. Henry Staines, of Mount Merrion. He came in by the Dublin and Kingstown Railway from his country residence, to his office in Abbey Street, where shortly afterwards be suddenly expired. On Saturday he was engaged with Mr. W., a solicitor named an arbitrator in a heavy suit in which the late Mr. S. was interested, and had actually got a decree for upwards of £12,000 last week from the Lord Chancellor. The arbitrator on parting wished to impress upon him the necessity of his accepting .£9OOO in full of all claims and without any trouble--that life was uncertain, and he should not miss the opportunity which presented itself. His reply was— "My dear friend, I am greatly obliged to you; but having gone through all the trouble and anxiety, it is not for me now to give up. Thank God, I never felt better in my lif !" and he added that "he had that morning received a letter respecting the health of a mutual friend of both parties in London, and expressed his apprehension that they would never see him agam."—Dublin Packet of Tuesday. Murder of a Policeman in Tipperary—As Mr. Edward Wayland, of Ballywalter, and two policemen, on a public car, were going up the mountains on 'Thursday morning, above Tureen, to pay the poor people working on the road, they were suddenly attacked by six armed men, with their faces blackened; the assassins fired and shot one of the police dead, sitting by Mr. Wayland's side. A desperate scuffle ensued, the robbers trying to get at the money, but they were disappointed. Mr. Wayland discharged his pistols, but cannot say if they took effect. The safety of the money is to be attributed to the courageous and manly resistance presented by Mr. Wayland and the surviving policeman.—Dublin Evening Post.