The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1856-03-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  SLIGO ELECTION.—Mr. George Henry Hughes, Q.C., and am-Solicitor-General, has responded to the call of the Liberal electors, and arrived in Sligo on Thursday night, with a view of prosecuting his canvass. With the exception of Mr. John P. Somers, all the other promissory candidates seem to be under a cloud. The Right Hon. John Wynne is the favourite of the Conservative party, but up to last night his address had not been published in the, local papers. SEtztaitE OP s RAILWAY UNDER EXECUTIO;T.—It appears from the Cork papers that on Monday a seizure of the plant of the Cork and Bandon Railway, at both termini of the line, was made by the city and county high sheriffs, under two executions for different amounts, one of which amounted to over £3,000, at the suit of an English firm. The taking possession was merely formal, the sheriffs being satisfied with a receipt of an inventory of the property. The traffic, therefore, continues as usual. TEE TIPPERARY JOINT•STOCS Thorx.:--Every day there are fresh indications of the ruin impending over the shareholders of the unfortunate Tipperary Bank. There is a widespread feeling of pity for the position of Mr. James Sadleir, the chief victim of his brother's frauds, and upon whose shoulders will fall the full weight of the suicide's transgressions. The member for Tipperary is, in fact, a ruined man, and it is said that he has already broken up his establishment, parted with servants, equipage, &c., and is prepared to meet with becoming fortitude the sad reverse which has cruelly crushed his worldly prospects. MORDSR IN IRELAND.—The Belfaet Netvs Letter has the following account of a murder at Saintfield :—On Saturday last, a general and most painful sensation was created at Saintfield by the discovery that a respectable woman, named Margaret Withers, had been murdered. She was about 50 or 80 years of age, unmarried, and had resided alone. Her body was found suspended by a small cord round her neck, and attached to a beam of the house. Her arms were placed across her breast, and she held a candlestick in one of her hands. She had been heartlessly assaulted in the first instance, as her skull was greatly injured. About a fortnight ago she was in Belfast, and sold a quantity of pork, for which she received some £l2 or £l5. It is conjectured that it was the desire to get Possession of this which had led to the perpetration of the murder, in cold blood, of an old unprotected woman. The deceased had possession of a small farm, and was held in much esteem by all who knew her. As a variety of rumours are afloat with regard to this horrid affair, it is to be hoped that the authorities will institute a searching investigation. CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused in Dublin and elsewhere, within the last few weeks, by a revelation made in  the Prerogative Court, in connection with a will case recently tried. The testator, named Richard Roe, of the county of Meath, bequeathed his property to his wife, and at her death to his niece. The will, as appeared in evidence, was drawn up by the Roman Catholic curate of the parish, and on the application for probate by the latter, it came to light that, after the making of the will, and in absence of the testator, he had inserted words into the body of the will, reserving to the wife of the deceased the right of disposing of the chattel property as sbe might think fit. The clause, it further appeared, was a virtual annulling of the original document, and being inserted in the surreptitious manner above-mentioned, was most properly expunged by Judge Keatinge. In coming to this decision the learned judge accompanied his act by some extremely caustic remarks, pronouncing the affair "a scandalous transaction." He added that within a comparatively recent period three similar cases of alterations in wills had been made—in one case proved to be after the death of the party—and "that in every one of these instances the alteration had been made by a Romau Catholic clergyman !" Since the above was written, two very remarkably similar cases have come before the Prerogative Court (Dublin), wherein Roman Catholic clergymen figure as the makers of wills, drawers-up of codicils, &c. 

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