The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-10 00:00:00

shall begin with the Gazette—not that it presents a picture of
the whole truth—but because what it does present is aminia-
ture, an abridged representation of the hideous truths that are
to follow. Two proclamations exhibit the leading features of
the country—assassination and arson. One announces the
attempt on the life of Mi. Edward Smith, (lately detailed in
this paper), the other the total destruction by fire of the house
and property of Mr. Ledger, in the county of Limerick, per-
petrated by a body of armed at midnight.
The accounts from the provincial journals may be said to
be nothing more than an enlargement of these features, or a
multiplication of them, with the awful addition of sacrilege,
the plunder of fire-arms, and other crimes of an insurrec-
tionary character. We shall classify the contents of our ex-
tracts in counties, viz.:—
COUNTY OF Ti PPERA RY.—TWO murders, one case of arson,
two of the plunder of fire-arms, one sacrilege.
COUNTY OF CLARE.—One murder, awfully barbarous.
COUNTY OF WEXFORD.—One sacrilege, and the inter-
ruption of divine service in a Protestant church on the Sab-
bath day.
COUNTY OF KlLKENNY.—Disasters and outrages arising
from the fatal anti-tithe meeting of Knockrue.
COUNTY OF ARMAGH.—A murder.
We have thus to record in one publication the prepetration
of four murders; one attempt to assassinate; two gross sa-
crilegious outrages; two robberies of fire-arms; and to wind
up all with the account of. a drunken and diabolical revel
upon the Sabbath-day, ending in a furious faction battle, on
the very spot where the earth was yet soaking in the life blood
of those deluded victims of agitation, who meeting to dese-
crate the Sabbath by an illegal political meeting, met with
an untimely death in the midst of their crime.
Is not this a hideous—a frightful state of the country ?
We ask not redress from the government; it were vain to
ask it. But we beg the man who is able to procure redress
—we beg the Duke of Wellington to look into our case—
and if he wish his country as well as we believe he does—
and as he lately declared he did—let him take the vigorous
but necessary measures of ridding her from the mis-govern-
ment which produces such horrible consequences.
The government press boasts that there are no capital con-
victions at the assizes, and puts this fact forward in proof of
the tranquillity of the country. No convictions ! To be sure
there are none. How could there .be ? Bad as is the con-
struction of the juries, acquittals in every instance are se-
cured by the conduct of the crown lawyers; and it is in these
times quite sufficient that the government prosecutes, to in-
sure the escape of those charged with felonies, however atro-
cious. The crown foregoes its rights of challenge, and the
party accused "puts by" twenty jurors, if necessary, until he
fills the box with his own relatives and connexions; his sworn
brother Ribbonman ; and in many instances, the participator
in his crime, and the partner in his guilt.
And, with matters thus arranged, we are triumphantly told
—that, there are no convictions.
We append the details upon which we have offered the fore-
going comments:—
(FROM THE DUBLIN-GAZETTE OF TUESDAY.)
"DUBLIN CASTLE, AUGUST 2.—On the evening of the 28th
ult., about half-past nine o'clock, Mr. Edward Smith, son of
D. V. Smith, Esq., of Oakwood, parish of Kilcommon, in the
King's County, was fired at by some person in ambush, within
a few yards from the avenue gate leading from the high road.
—One hundred pounds and a free pardon, &c.
" AUGUST 3.—Between the hours of two and three o'clock
on the morning of the 22d ult., the house of Mr. Zechariah
Ledger, of Killbreedy, parish of Bruree, and county of Lime-
rick, was attacked by seven or eight armed men, who set fire
to it and burned it to the ground, together with property to a
considerable amount, for which outrage two men have been
apprehended and fully identified.—Fifty pounds, &c.
" DRUMMOND."
MURDER.—On Wednesday evening last, a woman (a
stranger, name unknown) was found lying in a state of in-
sensibility on the road side, near Ternpletoohy. At first it
was thought to be the effect of liquor, but, on the following
day, the police hearing of the case had her removed to the
village of Templehoohv, and had medical advice procured,
when it was ascertained that the stupor did not proceed from
liquor as was at first supposed, but was caused by an exten-
sive fracture on the side of her head. The poor woman died
the sime day. A coroner's inquest was held on the body,
and a verdict of wilful murder returned against some person
or persons unknown. She is supposed to be the wife of a
pedlar.
MURDER AGAIN.—On the 17th of March last, a man,
named Connors, was murdered near Ashlypark, about half-
way between Burrisokane and Nenagh. His wife identified
some of the murderers, had them apprehended, and they
were to be tried at the last assizes. However, a few days
before the assizes, two men came to the deceased's wife, with
a false token, and told her that her sister wanted her on par-
ticular business; she, thinking their story was correct, went
with them, and has not been since heard of.—Tipperary Con-
stitution.
INnEN DI A R ISM.—On Tuesday night, the dairy-house and
furniture belonging to Mr. Alleyn, of Tipperary, was en-
tirely consumed Fortunately a person in the house was
alarmed by the flames, or a family, about eight in number,
would have shared the same fate. The reason assigned for
this outrage is, that the dairyman (named Walsh) had taken
a farm a few days before, which was occupied by some de-
faulting tenants.—Limerick Standard.
On Thursday evening last, two men,_ with their faces
blackened, went to the house of Robert Kennedy, within a
mile and a-half of this town, and took two guns. Kennedy
was attending the funeral of a frfend when the occurrence
took place—had he been at home they would hot have got off
so easily. It is said that Kennedy's wife knows one of the
ruffians. Kennedy transported a man named Egan, for
taking a gun from him about two years back.
Two ruffians, with their faces blackened, went to the house
of Mr. Palmer, near Cloughjordan, on the 22d ult., whilst
the family were in the above town at prayers, and took a
blunderbuss and case of pistols. The " fine pisantry" are
determined to be well armed for the winter's work.
Mose BA RBOUROUSMURDER.—AIthough the following
barbarous murder was perpetrated so far back as Friday week
last, the 27th ult., yet, so silently are those matters kept by
the government and the populace just now, that the particu-
lars were not communicated to us before yesterday. We,
however, lose no time in giving them to the public, in nearly
the same words as they were narrated•—On the day men-
tioned, a young man of the name of James O'Neill, of this
county, was, with two other young men (comrades,) coming
through Liscanoor, in the county of Clare, after bathing in
the river, which floes near that place. They were at the
time amusing themselves by playing on a flute, when a fellow
named Darby Considine, overhearing the sound of the in-
strument, came out of his house, and in an impassioned
tone, asked them, "Why they dared to make such a noise,
and a friend of his sick in the place ?" O'Neill replied,
that be was a stranger in that part of the country—that he
was consequently not aware of any one being sick there,
and that if he had been aware of it he would nothave played.
Instead of this appeasing the fellow, it had the contrary
effect—for, calling two others to his assistance, the three of
them commenced to beat the young men in the most savage
manner. O'Neill, after receiving several blows, made an
effort to escape, but being quickly pursued by Considine, the
latter overtook him in the middle of a potatoe garden, where
he most barbarously kicked and struck his unfortunate vic-
tim. Not content with this, however, he seized him by the
collar of the coat. and dragged him out on the road, where,
raising a hurley above his head and striking him with it with
his main force, he—horrible to relate—killed biro on the spot
at the first blow ! His two blood-thirsty assistants he came
up and began to strike the unfortunate deceased with stones,
which they ceased not to do until satisfied that they had made
a finish of him, and until they had broken his skull in such a
manner as to cause the brains to protrude! ! ! Considine
and-the two others have since absconded. This murder, it is
most important for the public to know, was perpetrated within
only a few perches of the police station at Liscannor. We
do not believe it possible for even the greatest savages on the
face of the earth to commit a more cold-blooded or a more
horrible one ; anti yet what reward have the government
offered to bring the offenders to justice ? £2OO, the reader
will naturally suppose, as should we ourselves if in his place,
No, reader, it is not the one-fourth of that amount. They
have ordered the chief constable of police at Ennistimon,
Mr. Kittson, to offer forty pounds only, for their discovery !
Comment on this would surely be superfluous.—Limerick
Standard.
SACRILEGE.—On last'Sunday evening, between the hours
of six and seven o'clock, as the Rev. Mr. Goolde was reading
the burial service over the remains of Michael Shea (a Pro-
testant) in Finnoe churchyard, two men, one armed with a
stick, the other with a spade, followed by others, rushed in,
knocked the minister aside, (alike regardless of his calling,
and the manner in which he was engaged) and commenced
huddling the coffin into the grave and covering it, remarking
at the same time that they would not allow any friend of theirs
to be damned. The widow of Shea threw herself into the
grave, and implored of the miscreants to let the service he
read; the man with the spade struck her, and she fell pros-
trate on the coffin, while the other fellow shovelled the clay
on her. Her outcries alarmed Thomas Waller, Esq. whose
house is in the vicinity of the grave yard. and were it not for
his interference and that of Counsellor Waller, Dr. Hopkins,
and Thomas Stoney, Esq. it is not unlikely but the savage
monsters would have buried the woman alive sooner than
allow the burial service to be read by a minister.—Nenagh
Guardian.
MORE S ACR I LEGE.—On Saturday last a funeral entered the
grave-yard of Rossdroit, county Wexford, during divine ser-
vice. The mob, composing the procession, attempted in the
most insulting manner to prevent the service of the day pro-
ceeding within the church; they succeeded in drowning the
voice of the officiating clergyman, the Rev. Ephraim Hinson,
the further outrage would in all probability have been com-
mitted, had not several of the congregation immediately risen
to avenge this insult to the house of God. The scene now
presented was appalling—several females were carried in a
state of insensibility into the vestry, and the service speedily
concluded. It is needless to state, that the dastards who were
foremost in the outrage were also amongst the first to retreat,
and were chased to the company of their fellow-ruffians in the
grave-yard. Has it come to this, that no protection will be
afforded to the altars of our religion, and that Protestants of
the country must in future trust to their own strong arms for
the defence refused by a mob-led, priest-ridden, and besotted
legislature ? Waterford Mail.
APPENDIX TO THE KNOCKRUE ANTI-TITHE MEETING.—
Another victim of anti-tithe agitation, or, according to the
logic of our local contemporary, another martyr has to be ad-
ded to the bloody catalogue hitherto produced by the mani-
festoes of such ministers of peace at; the Right Rev. Doctor
Doyle, and such disinterested patriots as Daniel O'Connell.
A man of the name of M'Daniel, of Courtown, was buried on
Thursday last, having survived the injuries received on the
Sunday of the meeting, by the falling. of the platform, not
quite two days. But there is another circumstance connected
with that Sunday's meeting, which it is right the public should
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be made acquainted with. Notwithstanding the instituted
sanctity of the day itself—notwithstanding the awful exam-
ples before their eyes, a very considerable number of those
who call themselves Christian members of the Catholic Church,
commenced (a few moments after the awful occurrence rela-
ted in our last) a most disgraceful scene of whiskey drinking
on the very spot where the blood of their deluded fellow-crea-
tures was actually soaking into the earth! and which termi-
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Duke Henry of Wurteroberg, uncle to the King of Wur-
temberg, died at Stuttgardt, on the 28th ult.. in the 67th year
of his age.
SNUFF TARING.--A New York paper says that a dead
body of a person, who,. when alive, had been a great snuff
taker, was galvanised, in that city, and as soon as the galvanic
battery was applied to the spine, the body very gently raised
its arms, and put its fingers to its nose as if taking a pinch of
snuff.
GLUTTONY.—A female in the neighbourhood of Kirkella,
on the 16th ult., undertook after supper, for a wager of six-
pence, to eat sixteen boiled eggs in ten minutes. She dis-
patched them in seven minutes and a half, went to bed, and
the Issarning was ready for a dozen at breakfast,=_Hull Times.

ABSENCE OF MIND.—A gentleman while out shooting in
Tennessee, put the wadding into his clothes, and rammed
himself down his rifleinstead. Having, however fortunately
left his caps on, he was instantly shot to the top of a pine
tree, into the society of a racoon, who explained to him his
mistake.
BONES.—It appears by a return ordered by the House of
Commons that the declared value of bones of cattle and other
animal l, and of fish, (except whale fins,) whether burnt or
not, otitis animal charcoal, imported into the United King-
dom in the year 1835, amounted to £155,279 Os 11d; and in
1836 to £171,806 7s 10d.
BRUTAL ASSAULT.—Robert Ward, who is constable for
Wuerdle and Wardle, was charged along with John Whit-
worth, with committing an indecent assault on Elizabeth
Swire, who was far advanced in pregnancy, and has since
been prematurely confined, the prosecutrix being unable to
attend they were ordered to find good and sufficient bail, to
appear on her recovery.—. Blackburn Standard.