The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

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upon the same day the

new docks.
THE TELEGRAPH AT CORK.— On the completion of
the telegraph between Dublin and Queenstown, consider-
able advantages are likely to be conferred on merchants
and traders, not only in America, but also in England.
A swift steamer is to be kept running from outside the
harbour's mouth to Queenstown, which is to convey intel-
ligence of such vessels as are outward or homeward bound,
to be transmitted by telegraph to Dublin, London, &c.
THE SYNOD OF THIIRLEB.—Their "lordships" the
prelates assembled at the late Synod have, it seems, unani-
mously "decreed" that the College of Thurles—at present
a monastic, school on a large scale—is henceforth to be re-
garded as the Provincial College for Munster," their "lord-
ships engaging to patronise and encourage it in every way
in their respective dioceses." This, it is to be presumed,
is meant as a back-handed blow at the Queen's infidel"
colleges in Cork.

THE QI7EEN AND THE RAGGED CELTS. At a
meeting of the Sanitary Association of Dublin, held
on Tuesday, Sir Edward Borough, Bart., in the chair,
the following communication from the Honourable
Colonel Phipps was read, and received with marked gra-
tification : Balmoral, Sept. 7, 1853.—My dear Sir
Edward,—The Queen -and Prince are very glad to hear
that you intend to start the attempt of obtaining model
lodging-houses for families. For such an object her
Majesty and his royal highness would considerably in-
crease their donation, and I have great pleasure in being
able to authorise you to announce that; if a subscription
for the purpose of improving the lodgings of families in
Dublin is commenced, with a fair promise of liberal sup-
port, her Majesty and his royal highness will head the list
of subscribers with a donation of £3OO. The Queen and
the Prince consider it of very great importance to the
social condition of the people of Dublin that this attempt
at the improvement of the habitations should be success-
ful; but her Majesty and his royal highness feel also very
anxious that some attempt should be made to improve the
feeling of the lower classes in Ireland with regard to the
state of their clothing, and to induce them at least to
make some exertion to keep their clothes, of however poor
a quality, in a decent state of repair. It might, perhaps,
be possible to join to the advantages of improved and
cheap lodgings, some condition that the .tenants of these
apartments. would be expected.to make some attempt at
mending their clothes, and they should be made to feel
some shame at raggedness, which is (as is seen in other
countries) by no means a necessary accompaniment of
poverty."

EXiRAOIIDINARY CIIICUMBTANCE.—During the past
week, the residents in the neighbourhood of Quaker-road
have been thrown into a state of much excitement by a
very singular and almost unaccountable phenomenon,
which has furnished the lovers of the marvellous with food
for gossip, and has produced grave suspicions as to the
possible recurrence of supernatural events. In the begin-
ning of last week an aged lady, belonging to the Society
of Friends, died, after a brief illness, and was interred in
the Quaker's Cemetery. There were not wanting rumours
that the deceased lady had during her life-time expressed
a wish to be buried in the cemetery of the cathedral church
of St. Finn Barr's, and various speculations were indulged.
in as to whether the shade of the departed would be satis-
fied with its present resting-place. On Thursday night,
however, the inmates of a cottage adjoining the Quaker's
Cemetery were alarmed by a violent shower of stones
thrown on the roof of their residence, which continued at
intervals during the entire night. No reason could be
assigned for such a circumstance. The inmates of the
cottage were universally considered to be the most quiet
and inoffensive of mankind. They were universally re-
spected, and were in particular beloved by the poorer por-
tion of the surrounding neighbours, whose distress they
had ever been ready to alleviate. The only explanation
offered of the circumstance—at least by the gossips of the
neighbourhood—was that the ghost of the deceased lady
had resorted to this method of intimating her disapproba-
tion of the locality in which she was interred. Some
persons, however, were sceptical enough to suppose that
on examination the ghost could be easily discovered,,
arrested, and sent for a few months to the treadmill, and
for this purpose a party of police from the Capwell station
were sent for, and kept watch there both by night and day..
Great excitement was caused through the city by this pro-
ceeding ; numbers of persons visited the locality and
stopped there a considerable time in order to get a sight
of the ghost, if it should make its appearance. The ghost,
however, appeared to dislike being attended by so crowded.
an auditory, and though the stones were thrown twice or
thrice during the night, no one could get a glimpse of it,
though every eye was eagerly strained for the purpose.
The following night, however, one party distinctly states.
he saw the supernatural visitant. It had taken up a rather
inconvenient position, being seated astride upon the chim-
ney of one of the houses in Quaker-road, arrayed in bright
scarlet, with a black scarf covering its head. On the
following day a girl passing by the cemetery was alarmed
by seeing the ghost standing on one of the graves. It
had changed its attire, being clothed in white, with long
flowing garments, and the frightened observer states the
apparition raised its hand and beckoned thrice, as if on
the point of speaking. Next night the stones were again
repeated; intense excitement was felt through the neigh-
bourhood, large numbers visited the spot, and others
collected at the cemetery of St. Finn Barr's, under the
impression that the shade of the deceased would proceed
there from its present burial place. They were, however,
disappointed. No farther appearance was made by the
ghost ; but repetitions of stone-throwing occur at intervals ;
and thus the matter rests for the present.—Cork Consti-
tution.