The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Sir EDWARD WDONNELL, Chairman of the Great
Southern and Western Railway, has been elected Lord
Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year.
TIIE EXODUS. —A Louth paper states that some of the
best and most efficient members of the constabulary force
located in that quarter are leaving every week for either
America or Australia. The causes assigned are the scan-
tiness of the pay and the severity of the duty.
M-Gen. MAC D ON ALI), who took a conspicuous part during
the insurrection of '4B, met with an accident on Friday,
whilst out with the Kilkenny hounds, which threatens to
result fatally. His leg has been broken in two places, and
being very much advanced in years, it is hardly expected
that he will recover.

A WOMAN named Hayes, at Kailbritain, near Bandon,
has been committed for trial, charged with manslaughter,
she having inoculated four children with smallpox, two
of which subsequently died. It was reported that nu-
merous other deaths had previously resulted in her
practice.
IRISH PROPRIETORS.—Lord Charles Pelham Clinton,
brother of the Duke of Newcastle, was the purchaser of
the whole of the Bere estates of the Earl of Bantry; and
as his lordship had previously become the owner of other
property in the county of Cork, Lord Charles may be
fairly classed among the new Irish landlords.
RUN UPON TIM SAVINGS' BANKS.—The trustees of
the banks have received a communication from the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt
directing the Bank of Ireland to pay the trustees'
draughts to any amount they may require, without wait-
ing for the usual period of four days, so long as the
present run upon the banks continues.
ASSAULT ON SCRIPTURE READERS.—Last week two
Scripture readers, residing in Borris, having occasion to
pass a couple of times through the village of Graiguena-
mana, were on each occasion assailed and followed where-
ever they went by a large crowd of furious women and
children, who hooted and pelted them with mud and filth
to their heart's content. The men did nothing whatever
to call forth any popular demonstration, having merely
walked quietly down the street; but their calling was
known to some of the inhabitants, and that was quite
sufficient to procure their being immediately denounced
for insult and outrage.

ELECTErt TELEaBAPIC COMPAICY OF Inus...tron..—We
are informed that this company have succeeded-in laying
down, from Ballycopeland Bay, upwards of three miles of
submarine wire, which is securely " buoyed," and the Al-
bert, with her Majesty's steamer Asp, under the command
of Lieutenant Aldridge, R.N., (both now lying at Donag-
hadee Pier) intend to connect this line with the 28 miles
of iron wire on board the Albert, and run across to Port-
o'-Spital the first favourable opportunity. It is gratifying
to learn that so great was• the perfection of the coiling,
that the entire distance was actually payed out from the
hold of the Albert without even the assistance of .a single
iaclividual.—Belfast Chroniele.
KELLY v. BIECIL—EKBEZZAEMENT.—This case came
to'a rather untimely conclusion in the Queen's Bench, on
Friday. Counsel for the plaintiff requested to have the
case postponed, on account of Mr..Mnrphy, a material wit-
nessl• being absent in London. He• had gone there to se-
cure• the• attendance of some others- also, as soon as the
prosecutrix knew that the trial was fixed for that day.
The Chief Justice refused the application, unless the ap-
plicant would pay the costs of the• day. On this being
declined,. the Court said it was evident that it was all a
sham, eat insisted that the trial should beproceeded with.
No evidencewas then offered against the traverser, and he
was acprlted. In the Chancery proceedings Birch has
filed an ail:davit, in which he says that he•believes himself
to be the son of Mrs. Kelly. The whole affair is now in
course of compromise. .

EXTRAOIVDIN.ART CASE.— About two• years ago, a
woman nainfeMadden, residing in the May,. a short dis-
tance from this-town, while taking a brealifast, of atirabout,
felt something stick in the side of her throat. She suffered
great pain foraeveral days, and, owing to the swelling of
her throat, shewas.unable to swallow anything but fluids.
Several attemptfrhad been made to relieve her„ hut with-
out effect. After some time the pain and softness left the
throat, and proceeded gradually upwards, and for the last
few months she suffered from constant racking.psine across
her forehead, jnnt; over her eyes. On Suntlaty morning,
the 13th instant, after repeated fits of sneezing, she felt
something move in)her nostril: she became alarmed, and
told her husband, who, together with her father) accompa-
nied her to the Medierd-hall, in this town. Ow examining
the left nostril, Dr. Coogan perceived a foreign. body
situated high up, andiafter considerable troublesueceeded
in extracting a briarlivamble, 11 inch in lengthy better
than a of an inch imeircurnference, and armed with three
strong, sharp, . and slightly curved thorns on each-side,
nearly of an inch Ibug each :it was quite covered.: with
matter. From her protracted suffering the WOMILIV wan
very much spent, hut she is now rapidly recoTeriag..—
Ballyshannon Hera d 1
' OITTRA.GES IN TM:NOS-EH OF IRELAND.-011:Friday,
35 persons, principallk farmers residing in the lOcality,
were sworn in as special constables for the district of
'Neigh. No circumstance has yet transpired tending to
~lead to the detection ofthe perpetrator of the murderous
outrage on the Rev. MrrGraham. It is ascertained that
,:the fellow spent a portion of the day previous lraking
"about the place, where tlin.must have been seen. Mean-
while, the commissiom of some fresh outrages maaksathe-
' unchecked progress of the: riband conspiracy. Forin-
istanee, "As Patrick 315.1ahoxt, a tenant on the Tipping,
estate, was returning home; after paying rent, abort: ten
lo'clock on Friday nklit, he was waylaid by a party of
:.rnen, on the townland‘ of Maxine, within two miles of
Croesmaglen, and brutally beaten. There are several
:1-monuds on his head. anal:tie face is badly bruised. From.
the =hire of the wouadale cannot survive long. During
Mlle latter end of last week no fewer than three of rages.
accurred near Newry, district of Upper Fatham.
night, Peter Kin„,,P..m4abourer employed on the Newry
'and Enniskillen Railivan while proceeding from Newry,
was, assailed by three or.ifour men, who fell upon him ww-
'xpectedly, and several] injured him. James Irvine :a
gauger or steward on thew Newry and Enniskillen Rail-
way, while on his way home experienced similar, thongh.
somewhat rougher, treatment. On Saturday night, a.
'Rouse in the same district, the roof of which was some-
;what dilapidated, was., razed, to the round."—Ne. tary,
Tklegraph.
THE PATRIOT AT Hibatn—The character of patriots)
'like that of other peoplb;-is best judged by their conduct
.at home. Tried by this standard, one of the mink
'iassertors of " the rigita-of the tenantry," Captain Megan,
cuts but a sorry figurer: The gallant member for West-
incuth, it seems, oweLhie.-sueee at the last election in no
`.small measure to the.j*lioious expenditure of money. and.
';refreshments by his retainer& Among those who stood
:forward to fight " dm-constitutional battle" for the, dis-
'.iinguished champioraof the" maid Church," and " thefirst
`gem of the sea," was, one• Peter Kelly, a tenant of the
Captain's, who, after. the election was over presented to
him a bill of £74 for:expenses incurred on his The
Captain, being by titie • time warm in his seat, either.,was
:'simply unable to discernthe necessity of paying 0(.40,
or, perhaps, had "conscientious scruples" as to the pro-
priety of refunding,raoneys expended under what he had
a right to consider-suspicious circumstances. Be-this, as
it may, Peter Kelly: thought he hada good elaim„audsued
the Captain. In doing this, Peter unfortunately lost
sight of the fact that he'was a few days behind hand,with
his rent, payable on the Ist of November last ; a.circum-
stance of which ther•eloquent advocate of a tenant-right "
took advantage, and ,distraixted upon his importunate cre-
ditor and. unready tenant. A sale of Kelly's: farming,
stock took place -accordinaly, and Captain 'Napa, himself
became a purchaser.. Bat if Peter Kelly had been unwary
in invoking thcaidof the law to enforce his eleetioneenng
claim against the Captain, the Captain was no Jess unwary
in the stowing-away othis purchase. He conveyed it to a
barn on the same estate, in the possession of a man named
Green, an under-touant of Kelly, who was; in: arrears to
Kelly, even, as Kelly had been to ' Captain Magan.
Under these. circumstances Kelly, judelag that what
was sauce for .the goose was sauce for the, gander also,
distrained, forthwith upon Green, and se-seized his own
corn placed, on: Green's premises by Captain Magan.
Not relishing this counter-move the Captain resorted to a
course stillanore• extraordinary. He, a Member of Parlia-
ment, a JlLstice.of the Peace, and a tenant:leasaier, collected
a band of his bo/s," snd attempted forcibly7to rescue the
twice-seized corn from the hands of Kelly. Following the
examplaof his superior and landlord,, Kelly called together
his " boys" likewise, and a pitched battle ensued, in which
the reliant Captain was routed, mat one of his followers
left dead one the field. This was succeeded by an appeal to
that force,—so detestable in the eyeaof honourable mem-
'hers of Captain Magan's kidney,—the British Military,—
the.very type and instrument of Irelansrs bondage, and of
thuhateful tyranny of the Saxon, With this aid,—behind
which. Irish as well as Manchester patriots never hesitate
toskulk at a pinch,—Captain Mogan. had the satisfaction
of recovering his corn, and handing his vanquished foe
, over ton* civil power on a charge of assault and murder.
What the result of a judicial; investigation into this tho-
roughly Irish and patriotic. affair may be, it is impossible
to say; nor have we the least wish to prejudge the ques-
tion. We give the story, asoVetlnd it in the Irish journals),
as a remarkable illustration: of the character of " the Irish.
Patriot at home," a farce-which:,--however melancholy Is
deilauement in Ireland,—might, if reproduced on a minor
theatre, next season, have no indifferent success, and
would, we should think, prove particularly attractive. as
well as instructive, toonembers of Parliament.—John

THE DEARNESS OF BREAD.—A political baker attri-
butes this to the war in Turkey, for he says,, " i,t is all
owing to the rise in the (y) East.
NEW MASS-ROUSE AT CAMBRIDGE.—The foundation-
stone of a new Mass-house, to be dedicated to " Our Lady()
and St. Charles," has been laid at Cambridge by the
Pseudo Bishop of Northampton. In spite of advertise-
ments, there were scarcely 100 spectators attracted by the
display of Popish ceremonies on the occasion.
PADDX IN YANICEELAND.—ThC runaway Irish convict,
O'Donoghue, was so violent in his abuse of England in a
recent lecture before the Irish Social Association in Balti-
more, that he was not permitted to proceed with his
discourse, which was too highly flavoured even for Yankee
palates.

PERSECUTION IN RO3IISR COUNTRIES.—A public
meeting of the members and friends of the Protestant
Alliance took place at Freemasons' Hall, London, on
Tuesday, for the purpose of memorialising the Government
on the aspect of Popery abroad ; especially with reference
to the persecution of Protestant British subjects in Tus-
cany, Spain, Portugal, and other Romanist countries of
Europe. The chair was taken by the Earl of Shaftesbury,
who addressed the meeting at considerable length, in the
course of which he adverted to the burial question at
Madrid, the cases of the Madiai and Miss Cunninghame,
and the course generally pursued by the Grand Duke of
Tuscany with respect to Protestants. Sir Culling Eardley
moved a resolution declaring that the unceasing encroach-
ments of the Romish priesthood, in procuring the enact-
ment of new, and the revival of obsolete laws, against the
peaceable profession of Protestant Christianity, in countries
under their influence, calls for decided action on the part
of British Protestants, in order to the security .of them-
selves and their fellow-subjects, while residing in, or tra-
velling through, countries where the religion of Rome is
dominant. The Rev. W. Miller, of Birmingham, seconded
the resolution, which was carried by acclamation.. A
memorial to the Earl of Clarendon, founded on the fore,
going resolution, was moved by the Rev. GH• Dads,an of
Bristol, and seconded by the Rev. w. •Arthur, also
adopted. The proceedings closed w ith a vote of trAnliii to
the noble ettairum.