The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-01-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  AGITATION AND MURDER IN NEW ROSS.  DuaciN, Jars. 3.—A letter from New Ross, arrived this ;miming, brings the shocking intelligence that old Counsellor Foot, of Rosbercon, a village ou the Kilkenny side of the river, was savagely murdered at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Ills cold and mangled body was found about half an hour after in a small lane adjacent to his dwelling-house. The brains were actually dashed out with stones! Five men were iinme6iately taken up by the police on suspicion, and lodged in the gaol of New Ross. It will be recollected that this old gentleman (aged 72) was seriously wounded in a sanguinary attack about a year since, when a shot was fired at him from behind a hedge, the effects of which confined him during several weeks of suffering to his bed. The assassins have now taken a surer mode of destroying the devoted object of their vengeance. The impunity ou which they calculated in the present awful state of partisan feelitir, which our unpriucipled and reckless agitators have excited in this district is very remarkable, four of his labourers being at work in a adjoining field at the very mementof the brutal murder. His son, Edward Lundy. Foot, also a barrister, sets off this evening from this city to investigate the circumstances of the awful transaction, and take measures for bringing the daring and ruthless perpetrators to the bar of justice. This is a service of danger at such a crisis, when all the ties of good- neighbourhood, old friendship, and christiau charity-are set at naught by the barbarous dictation of the demagogues of the hour. Exclusive dealing—denunciation of political opponents—lines drawn in the dust to exclude individuals from all sympathy and assistance, even in their utmost need of the common offices of humanity—death's head and cross-hones affixed as the brand of excommunication, at once the symbol and incitement to destruction—these ate the doctrines and illustrations which Mr. O'Connell and his associates are inculcating and enforcing for the " moral pacification" of the country. The melancholy subject of this letter is one of the first fruits of their labours, and forms of itself the most natural and effective commentary on the late unchristian address of Mr. O'Connell to " the men of Ross." Poor Mr. Foot was already a marked man, ou the old ground of quarrels nit,' hi, tenantry. It only needed a line in the dust, drawn before his.deor, to exclude him (as AL-. O'Connell assured us) from the pale of civilised society, and all the sympathies of his fellow men. The result proves too well the truth of his prophecy, and of his power to cause it to come to pass. Will a British Government ever exert its power to bring Ireland within the pale? It is still as it was ere the arrival of Strongbow—the wild forest chase of agitators, denunciators, excommunicators, and assassins.  THE LIVERPOOL BEEF STEAK Cl.tl3.—Lord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas honour the Beef Steak Club with their presence at dinner on Saturday next, at the Adelphi Hotel. RIOTS AT Haetrax.— On Wednesday last, this borough was the scene of one of those disgraceful outrages which are always to be feared from au unruly mob (luring an election. Party spirit arnonigst the friends of the respective candidates Messrs. Wood, Prothero, and Wortley, it appears ran very high, and several skertuishes in the streets. between them, took place, in one of which the colours of Protbeio and Wood were wrested from the assailants. In return for this, the Whig mob patriotically cracked the wiudows of the inhabitants in every street they passed throngh. They afterwarLls proceeded, armed with bludgeons, to the houses of some of the most wealthy inhabitant; which they broke open, and commenced a work of destruction by breaking to pieces all the valuable furniture they could lay their hands on. Pianofortes were thrown into the street, beds ripped open, wines drank, &c., until property to a large auteunt was destroyed. The riot assumed so serious a character that the civil power were unable to quell it; consequently, military aid was sent for, and a detachment of the lith Lancers arrived from D.,vsliary. 'rile cowardly ruffians were then dispersed, and the ringleaders taken into custody. No lives were Lust, but several individual,: were most severely injured. • We have beard it whispered that Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart., of Middle-hill, in this county, is about to be united to a lady posseesiug the ample dowry of £3oo,ooo.—Worcester Herald. THE Dl KR OF