The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

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IRELAND.

THE COUNTESS OF EGLINTON.—A superb jewelled
casket of Irish manufacture and device, has been pre-
sented as " an offering of grateful remembrance to Kathe-
therine, Countess of Eglinton, from her Trish friends."

OS Drr.—That Mr. John Reynolds, cm-brigadier, and
late M.P. for Dublin city, has obtained the appointment
of marshal of the Four Courts, with about, £9OO per an-
num, vice J. E. Caulfield, Esq., promoted to something
better in Loudon.—Tablet.

AN OVERLOAD.—A few days since the corn-mill be-
longing to Mr. Trayers, of Ballytnoe, fell in from the
weight of Indian corn on the stores, and broke down all
the machinery.. All the corn was washed away by the
flood. The loss of property is estimated at £I,OOO.

AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT.—The Board of Na-
tional Education intend erecting three district model
schools at Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny, with agri-
cultural farms of about 70 acres in connection therewith.
Sites have been taken for the purpose, and the designs
are by the board's architects.

DEATH -FROM GLANDERS.—A whole family, named
Uncles, residing at Maugherow, near Llsadell, have been
swept away by glanders. The father purchased an in-
fected horse at a fair in Mayo ; he soon afterwards took
the disease from the beast, then his wife and four children
caught it, and they all died in great agony. We have
heard that two girls, about two miles from this town, have
also been lost by this dreadful disorde►.--Sligo Champion.

ARRIVAL OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—The Earl of
St. Germans made his public entry into Dublin on Thurs-
day afternoon. His excellency rode on horseback from
Westland-row to the Castle, and his reception was ex-
tremely cordial. The Lord Mayor and Corporation pre-
ceded the procession from the railway terminus to the
castle. The Countess of St, Germans and the Ladies
Eliot rode in a close carriage, and were also cordially
greeted.
ABDUCTION.—At Kapla, in Queen's County, Miss
Claney, the sister of a respectable farmer, possessed of
many "golden charms," was abducted by a body of ruf-
fians and carried off in her night-dress. Though many
must have heard her screams, none responded to them till
the party met Mr. Dowling, a Romish priest, who stopped
them and succeeded in causing the young girl to be given
to his charge. Mr. Dowling, having lent her his cloak,
brought her to a neighbouring farm house, where he got
her clothes, and then restored her to her afflicted family..
Pour men are in custody.

THE CONVICT KIRWAN.—The rumours of investiga-
tions into former alleged crimes against Mr. Kirwan are
said to have resulted- in, proving his innocence—one of
the supposed murdered._ persons being still alive, and the
other died from disease of the heart on well-attested evi-
dence. Yet it was stated that Kirwan was in possession
of certain letters that would have told much against him,
and that two officers, sent to obtain them, were delayed
entering his cell till: he had succeeded in destroying them ;.
a single scrap on the floor attesting the fact. And now it
is said that Mr. John. M'Manus has " resigned" the
deputy-governorship of Kilmainham gao], in consequence
of the treatment of the convict Kirwan.
THE REV. T. D. GREGG.—The first of two sermons in
Latin, being Cie third of a series preparatory to taking out
the degree of doctor of divinity, was preached by the
Rev. Mr. Gregg, in the College chapel, on Friday even-
ing. It was a critical dissertation on the two versions
given in the authorised Bible, of Daniel ix, 9—the theme
of the two preceding English sermons—ye hel kenaph
shik-ootsitn meshonten : translated in the English text,
" for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it
desolate ;!'- and in the margin, " upon the battlements
shall be the idols of the desolator." The faults of both
versions were pointed out by the reverend gentleman,
and we understand that he purposes establishing the true
sense of the passage in his next Latin sermon.

BRUTAL MURDERS.—Westmeath is just now the field
of blood in Ireland. Two murders are reported near Kil-
beggan. One was committed on Thursday night, and the
victim a man in the employment of an Englishman, who
occupies a farm close to the town of Moote. The victim
of the other was Thomas Farrell, a man of sixty; and a
Romanist, farming a small tract of land a quarter of a
mile from the town, and near a well-frequented road.
About seven o'clock in the evening, the moon shining
brightly, five young countrymen, in no way disguised,
with arms in their hands, went to the house. Two re-
mained at the door on guard. Farrell was at his fireside,
telling a story to his family—his wife and two daugh-
ters and a servant-boy—and three of his neighbours,
young men, all sitting round the fire, when the three men,
armed with guns, raised the latch of the door and came in.
One of them said, "lam in search of a person I want,"
and proceeded towards the only other apartment of the
house, the door of which was closed. When he returned
to the kitchen he said to the old man, " Tom, lend me
your gun for a few days, and I will return it." Farrell
desired the servant-boy to reach him the gun, which was
beside him ; Farrell stood up when the boy handed him
the gun ; getting it in his hand, the assassin desired the
boy to stand back, and in an instant the two that kept
guard fired their muskets at Farrell, who fell dead. The
assassins then departed, apparently unrecognised by any
of the persons who witnessed the murder.