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

STATE OF IRELAND.

MI:RDER.—A passenger by the Dublin coach to this city
on Wednesday, upon whose veracity we can place the fullest
reliance, has given us the following piece of information:—
On Monday night last, a woman of rather respectable ap-
pearance, and of about the age of forty, was found murdered
in the neighbourhood of Blackchurcii, within ten miles of
the city of Dublin. She had a large gash on her forehead,
and a very severe wound extending to a considerable depth
in her side, from which her bowels protruded and caused a
very offensive effluvia. The body was found on the top of a
quickset hedge, where it was evidently dragged, and near to
the spot lay a large clasp knife, full of blood. Who the
female was, had not been known, but the inquest was not to
have been held until yesterday for the purpose of obtaining
information.—Limerick Standard.
OUTRAGE.—On Sunday evening last, a man named Sulli-
van and his niece, while on their way home to the residence,
which is about a mile from Cashel, they were followed by a
ruffian, who set a dog at Sullivan, with an intention to ill-
treat the young woman while the dog would be tearing her
uncle; but when he saw she would not satisfy his wishes, he
then set the dog at her—so they both lie in a most dangerous
state in the county Infirmary; their bodies are all bit and
torn by the dog. The ruffian was arrested and lodged in
bridewell by Head-constable Stack.—Tipperary Constitution. li
OUTRAGE.—MichaeI Kieran, Laurence Kieran, and
Thomas English, left the market of Dundalk, on the 23d
inst. with the intention of going home to Drumas, county of
Monagham. Having got as far as Philipstown, they were
overtaken by Francis M'Kenna, Anne, his wife, and James
Fitzimons, who were all seated in a cart. M'Kenna, on
joining them, asked them to take a seat, which they did, and
proceeded together as far as Miltown, where he jumped out,
and refused to sit any longer in the cart. His wife begged of
Kieran to help him in again, and whilst he was doing so
M'Kenaa stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife, causing
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protrusion of the bowels to a-considerable extent. nfot ma-
lion of the outrage having been forwarded to Mr. Armstrong,
c. c. he, accompanied by Dr. Walker, left Dundalk on the
following morning, and proceeded to the place, where they
found the unfortunate man, Kieran:in a slate of great agony
After considerable difficulty the bowels were replaced by Dr.
Walker, and the sufferer conveyed to the county Louth
infirmary. M'Kenna and Fitzimons have been taken into
custody, and committed to Dundalk Gaol.— Drogheda Journal.
MURDER.—The body of a man named Peter Shanley was
found murdered on Saturday last, within a hundred yarils
of the town of Mohill, County Leitrim, from the market of
which place he was proceeding home. His skull was frac-
tured with several blows of a hatchet. The body was found
covered up with weeds. Six persons are in custody on sus-
picion of being concerned in the sanguinary deed. A man
named M‘Manus is also missing from the same neighbour-

I;;;d.—Limerick Standard. -
ANOTHER MURDER IN THE COUNTY ARMAGH !—On
Tuesday last, a young man named Murphy, son of a bailiff,
employed by Mr. Courtney, of Mountbailey, was murdered
on the new road near Silver-bridge. The parties, we are
informed, had settled some trifling dispute, and had shaken
hands when about parting, when unfortunately some expres-
sion revived the dispute, after which deceased received a
blow from one of the adverse party, which'deprived him of
life. The murderer has fled from justice.—Newry Telegraph.
POPERY.—EVII. EFFECTS OF MARRIAGES BETWEEN PRO-
_ . . .

TESTANTS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS.—The following inci-
dent, for the truth of which we pledge ourselves, will serve
to show the animus of Popery. The names of the parties
alluded to in it, though in our possession, we do not, for
several reasons, choose to disclose, but we may mention that
they move in the middle rank of life, and are what may be
called respectable :—Within the last iew days, a young man,
a Protestant, was married by a Protestant clergyman of this
city, to a young woman, a Roman Catholic. The father of
the young woman is a Protestant, but, her mother being a
Roman Catholic, he permitted the girl to be brought up in
the faith of the Romish Church, in accordance with the
mother's desires. At the wedding, in the evening, a nu-
merous party of both persuasions were present, and every-
thing went on agreeably for a few hours. At length, how-
ever, a Roman Catholic female present threw out an insinua-
tion to the effect, that "no marriage had taken
inas-
much as they were not joined together
by the nest." The
bride's father very properly suggested, that the present was
not a fitting place for the introduction of any subject border-
ing upon religion, and that a personal favour would be con-
ferred upon him, if it were not brought forward a second
time. Upon this, all the Roman Catholics in the room,
females as well as males, broadly reiterated what had been
said before, and, as with one voice, exclaimed, that the cere-
mony, which had been gone through in the morning, was a
perfect nullity. The Protestants here interfered—they en-
deavoured in the first place to prove that the marriage was
perfectly valid, and, in the next, to remonstrate with their
opponents upon the impropriety of their conduct in broach-
ing such a topic at such a time. Both argument and remon-
strance were in vain—the Roman Catholic party became
furious, and, from words, they proceeded to blows. Their
protestant antagonists endeavoured, of course, to defend
themselves as well as they were able from the unexpected
assault made upon them—a scene of indescribable confusion
followed which lasted a considerable time, and which at
length ended in the bride's father and the bridegroom himself
being severely beaten, and in several others of the party on
both sides receiving black eyes and bloody noses.—Limerick
Standard.

(From the Dublin Evening Muir.")
We have frequently, when writing upon the foregoing
topics, assumed a tone of sarcastic levity very foreign indeed
from the feelings of our hearts, and, under other circum-
stances, quite unsuitable. But it was almost impossible to
contrast the "tranquility" which the government asserted to
prevail, with the facts which bespoke the real state of the
country, without smiling at the cool impudence which could
plume itself upon such a state of things, and laughing openly
at the Marquizzical charlizianerie which could extract a re-
port of peace out of the outcries of murder, and draw titles
of commendation from that fearful state of society- which, as
Doctor M`Hale truly says, made "the country echo with the
artificial chorus of praise on a paternal government." We
can, however, smile no longer. The airs of the coxcomb
cease to be ridiculous when they involve the community in
danger. We might laugh at the idiot flaunting in the fea-
thers of state, but when he begins to toss firebrands, we call
to:en/Az/wad bind him.
day is of the most Serious description
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