The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.— A literary
reunion took place at the house of J. M'Glashan, Esq.,
Dublin, (proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine.)
for the purpose of presenting him with a testimonial of
esteem for his public and private worth. The testimonial
consisted of a tea and coffee service, beautifully designed
from one of the most celebrated Dresden patterns, and
wrought in an elaborate and artistic manner, of Irish
silver ; a large salver and claret jug, finished to correspond.
The centre of the salver contained an elegant design.
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—Thomas Leech, aged 15
years, was charged at the Dublin police-court, on Mon-
day, under the following circumstances :—Thomas Cal-
laghan stated that on Saturday afternoon he was standing
on the footway at Mountpleasant-avenue, when the pri-
soner, who had a pistol in his hand, came up to him and
asked him if he had any money about him. Complainant
laughed, supposing it to bea joke; but the other on that
said, " Come, out with it, or I will put the contents of
this pistol through you." At the same moment he pre-
sented a pistol at him, fired it, and, in consequence, his
(Callaghan's) face and eyes were burned. The prisoner
was committed for trial at the sessions.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A COURT OF JUSTICE.—
One of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in a
court of justice took place at the quarter sessions of Gal-
way, on Wednesday. In an action with regard to a right
of property, a witness was subpoenaed to produce a lease.
He refused to surrender the document " without the con-
sent of his partners" in it. The

:curt threat

him to jail ; he still persisted in refusing. Accordingly,
four or five policemen seized him, and attempted to throw
him down on the table. The witness, however, showed
fight, kicking and tripping with all his might. In the
melee the witness's chair was upset, and, there being
now a clear stage, physical force gained the ascendant,
and poor Paddy was stretched on his back, but not until
he had succeeded in causing some consternation among
the young gentlemen of the bar, who sat round the table,
and who, having a due regard for the preservation of their
faces, quickly vacated their seats. As soon as the deed
was taken from him, and he had recovered his legs, he
laughed heartily, saying he did " not care about it, as
they took it from him by force ; but he would not give it
up without the consent of his partners."
THE CONVICT' KIRWAN.—On Monday morning, last
week, William Kirwan, under commutation of sentence
from death to transportation for life, was removed from Kilmainham Gaol for Spike Island. On taking his de-
parture he appeared in good health, and evinced rather
lively spirits. No one of his former friends was present,
but he had been visited by one of them on the previous
night. He was dressed in the prison uniform, but wore
a top coat of his own over it. The Dublin Freeman of
Wednesday says :—ln connection with the investigation
now being proceeded with before the authorities of the
head police office and the commissioners of police, touch-
ing the mysterious disappearance and fate of Mr. Boyer,
an examination of the premises formerly occupied by
William Bourke Kirwan, at 2. Parnel's•piace, Harold's-
cross, was commenced on Monday. The operations were
begun by six or seven labourers, under the directions of
Sergeant Redmond, G division, being set to work to dig
the garden, comprising an area of something less than a
rood in extent. The search was carried on by trenching
to the depth of four and four and a•half feet, according
to the character of the soil, but no sign whatever of the
object sought presented itself. At two o'clock on Monday
afternoon, the men, from the incessant rain that prevailed,
were obliged to discontinue their labours. The work was
resumed at an early hour yesterday morning, when, at
eight o'clock, a small coffin, about two or two and a
quarter feet long, was discovered buried four feet beneath
the surface. It was approaching the last stage of decay—
the lid and sides appeared to have long since fallen in, and
were fast crumbling away ; the bottom alone, which rested
on a dry subsoil, remained somewhat sound. It was
carefully bandaged by order of Mr. Redmond with hay
ropes, and a man conveyed it under his arm to the Lower
Castle Yard, where it was placed in one of the buildings
attached to the commissioners office. Sir Arthur Clarke
and Dr. Ireland were soon after in attendance, and the
contents of the coffin were examined. Amid a mass of
clay that had fallen in lay, in their natural order, but
detached, a number of human bones, quite bare of flesh,
perfectly dry, and which the medical gentlemen pro-
nounced to be those of a perfect grown child, which had
lain in the earth for many years. The thigh bones
measured about the length of an ordinary-sized man's
fore finger, and were little more than half an inch thick.
The skull, or rather fragments of it, the ribs, &c., were
in proportion, and it was intimated that there was no
necessity for an inquest on the remains. The search will,
it is said, be prosecuted until the entire of the garden,
with some lower portions of the house, shall have been
thoroughly explored. During the night a constant watch
is kept on the garden by the police.