The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

IRELAND

THE FouNDATIoN of a new pier was laid at Queens'town, on Thursday, by Admiral Sir William Carroll,
presence of Sir James Graham and the officers of the fleet
at present in the harbour, and a large concourse of people._
TUE FLEET.—The Dublin Mercntile Advertiser, of
Saturday, states that sailing. orders for the fleet at Queens;
town were hourly expected, and that the officers
sailors were forbidden to leave the ships. Their destlna
tion is said to be the Baltic

THE WELLESLEY ESTATES.—The whole of tne
of the Earl of Mornington, which are situate in six of Ina 6.
Irish midland counties are advertised for sale in the 1-••
cumbered Estates Couit. The encumbrances on these 0
tates are of an enormous character. dler
CANDLE FROM IRISH PEAT.—A specimen of -
manufactured from Irish peat, was exhibited on Tuesdaj!
at the meeting of the Harbour Commissioners. It is 'lll
pure white colour, quite transparent, and apparently_equZ
to the finest wax. It was forwarded to the Board of Trade,
and is named the Paraffine candle.—Banner of Ulstern.,Le
GALWAY.—A report gains ground that a vacancy i
representation of Galway borough- is on the eve of taking
place, by the appointment to a colonial situation of gr•
Anthony O'Flaherty. The following persons are said to.
be already candidates for the seat :—Sir Thomas Redd.
ton, Mr. Henry Grattan, Mr. John Reynolds, and DP-'
Richard A. Kirwan.
MAYNOOTIL—The London Gazette of Tuesday offielali
Y
announces the appointment of the Earl of Harrowby, tie
Right Hon. D. R. Pigot, Chief Baron of the Court of fri;
chequer in Ireland ; Montifort Longfield, Q01;e
Travers Twiss, D.C.L.; and James O'Ferrall, Esel."-t the
Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring
management and government of the College of 310•911tre
SERIOUS ELECTION RIOT.—A riot of a serious
occurred in Lisburn on Thursday night, which was ,ee,;;;i
menced by some persons in the interest of the millis,e',l6
candidate assaulting a workman in the employment OIX,e
Conservative candidate. The fight became general. -1-Zie
committee-rooms of each candidate suffered considera"
the
damage ; that of the Conservative much more than
other. into th.
A ,00c1 des'
A ROMISH PRIEST DENYING THE BIBLE.—..
of surprise was excited on Tuesday, in the Revision Co 1);
by the conduct of a Romish priest who refused t°
The
sworn on the authorised version of the Scriptures.
impugnant came forward to sustain his right to vote 0e
an elector for the city of Dublin. On being handed
Testament in use in the court, he produced a copy of th,`
Douay Bible on which he desired to be sworn, allegiuZt
that the oath taken on the Protestant version would%
be binding on his conscience, inasmuch as it was lle'ea
true and correct one. The case was allowed to stand °cd.
for the present—the assistant or revising barrister, hi:"...
ever, expressing his opinion that no one had a rik,ditAtoo
urge such an objection. A case occurred recently lo "'a
House of Commons, in which the Speaker insisted °ll,,
party who professed a creed of his own being sworn 0"
the authorised version of the Scriptures.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.-4
Kelly, the inheritor of upwards of £500,000, under th,6
will of her husband, was brought up to Capel-strel
Police-court, Dublin, on Tuesday, on a summons sue;
at the suit of Mrs. Dease, the heir-at-law, for consPj
with Mr. C. W. Campion and Mr. J. R. Malone to ene
the destruction of certain documents which had been P"
in issue in the celebrated cause of Thewles, now Dense, Ti
Kelly. Mrs. Kelly is charged with having sworn tlO
certain letters written by herself were forgeries, but as 3
man named Malone had possession of these letters Mls*
ail 4'
Kelly, Campion, her attorney, and Malone, it is eg
had them burnt, Malone receiving £5OO for committinj
them to the flames. Mr. Depard Taylor was the princiPed,
witness ; he was present when the letters were consumed'
and handed the money to Malone. He was formerly grt
Kelly's friend, but she has a suit now pending as sto
him for borrowed money. The case was adjourned
yesterday (Monday), and these proceedings are a fit segue
to a most extraordinary story, unparalleled in legal P
ceedings Malone is not to be found, but Campion _
forthcoming. On Friday, an application was made to the
Lord Chancellor to allow Mrs. Kelly's affidavit to be Pre'
duced as evidence against her, but his Lordship refused.
PATRIOTIC EXPLOIT.—On the Queen's recent visit_
Ireland, Mr. Thomas Mahon, a celebrated professor of the
Irish union bag-pipes, came from a distant county to Pll/
his homage to Her Majesty, and memorialised the Cie:
to permit him the honour to play in her presence.
some unavoidable delay, the memorial was received, a?
with the wonted kind consideration ever shown by Pe'
Majesty to the humblest subject claiming her attention!
Mahon's, prayer was at once granted. On the eve of attention!
Majesty's departure a command was given for him to
tend on board the Royal yacht at Kingstown ; but, 1111 i
fortunately, Mahon, despairing of success, and hearing thad
the Queen had actually gone, had returned, dispirited al,l_
disheartened, to his distant home, and did not receive t.iP:
command. A patriotic Irish gentleman, anxious for.nf
country's good, and a lover of its national music, on be
made aware of the circumstances, felt strongly for 11P
countryman's misfortune, sent again for Mahon, and
dertook to bring him from Dublin to Balmoral—a disld,
of fully 500 miles—to claim her gracious Majesty's in
gent favour already granted. After a rapid and necessarg
expensive journey, the travellers reached Balmoral, n.°,"„
seeing her Majesty and suite driving on the opposite ran'
of the Dee, en route to the gathering of the clans at 13..r11:1,
mar, they proceeded onwards, reached the meeting ar°'
but there all their efforts to effect the object of the-ir lone
journey were unavailing. They saw her Majesty hagaro
amidst the deafening cheers of the clans, &c.thou
daunted, and finding it impossible to get accomno-„`" the
of any sort at Braemar, or any mode of conveYall,c,"ol
travellers returned on foot to Balmoral late at nigov; de-
at length, on the following evening, succeeded in tke"; her
sired object. Mahon was most kindly ree,ivecl ,
Majesty, and had the honour.to play for some tike Nei;ity
presence, was commended for his performance, and doll
honoured and requited by a:permission to assume henoce;
forth the title of her Majesty's Irish Piper—webu
which he surely owes as much to the patient'
satisfactionra
of his Mend, as to his own merits and
Majesty
which he must hope to have afforded her gracious
and the royal family by his performance on a singularly
ingenious, curious, and harmonious musical Ireland'instrumen10
intimately associated with the earliest annals of
We wish Mr. Mahon every prosperity credit
ably success inweft,
ing the laurels and honours he has so justly and so rew
ably acquired.—Aberdeen Journal. AlrrnD;l4
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED _L.-L.,-
tlhNe ADHubciintrs
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JournalA.mn.
Sunday evening a dreadful occurrence took place 111
house of ill-fame in French-street (Dublin). A gentleinw:
ofetfhoeillo9wtinh ginisstatnakt r-1--f!`r%1:11
attempted the life of a girl living in No. 27 in the aboct:
street, and immediately after committed suicide by slitie„
ing himself. Shortly before four o'clock some boys I' is
ing near the house were startled by the sharp report ca,
pistol shot, immediately succeeded by the screams e 9
female, and in a few minutes after by a second shot. 11`;,
gave the alarm to the constable on the beat, who iroulth
diately proceeded to the house, and was told that
shots had been fired by a gentleman who was then
to
two-pair back bedroom, The constable went up sriv
and on entering the room was horrified at seeing the Pow,
of a man stretched at full length on the floor, and bleed
slightly from a bullet-wound in the left breast. Althongd
five minutes had scarcely elapsed from the time the see,,,eo
-shot was heard, life was quite extinct. The deceased_‘"
but partially dressed ; he had on dark trousers, gliie
stockings, a coloured shirt, and dark satin waistcoat ;
portion of the shirt around the wound, and the left en
of the waistcoat, which was unbuttoned, were on fire, 6,"„,g
would appear the muzzle of the pistol must have been eiri,
to the breast when the fatal shot was fired, The grfti.
Emma Fawcett, a native of England, whom the uni„g
nate deceased had attempted to destroy before termina.";,,
his own existence, was found lying on a sofa in the drasg
ing-room, bleeding from several wounds inflicted by °the
shot, scattered over the right side of her person, from
temple to the knee ; the dress which she wore sy
all stained witn blood. She left deceased
in the bedroom (the same in which the be 'go
found) to go down to the drawing-room, and, hail
been absent but a short time when she hear" hint'
calling her on the stairs. She was going up to ile
and had ascended some three or four steps wheed
stepped forward with a pistol in his right hand Obeli
scantly fired at her—the charge,which appears to have
down
of small shot, striking her in a slanting direction ,s the
wards. She immediately turned and rushed back
drawing-room, exclaiming, ' Oh, I am shot !' and the.eot,
came unconscious. The proprietress of the establislu4ae
Fanny Stuart,' said the deceased came to her lions' the
on the night of the 30th of August, the day after:pee.
arrival of the Queen, and had remained there ever n iit
He appeared to have a considerable sum of moiler- 70r
gold, which he spent in the most lavish manneriv
chasing for the females in the house, and partioll,w'sot'
Emma Fawcett, various and costly articles of dret'i.
withstanding his great extravagance, he has left °.",i-cloe,
a bag filled with sovereigns, which was found 410
of his bed-room by the police. He was frequeliois nna
tioned as to where he came from, and who /1,.°,,t0tY ""„d
his replies were often evasive—always unsatisr, he 01.1";,t
contradictory. The night of his arrival he siou,lisjanelt;
veterinary surgeon, attached to the Queen's estu" -t
and subsequently he stated that he had been so' let, if ue
Australia. The name he gave was Webster, vetted uneY'ei
his real name, was one he appears to have trace!): DO,
for on the railway labels pasted on his luggagel' toett Pei
H. Webster, passenger to Dublin.'—Einina ~, a•
ghethweasiassetartweeolydaevyesr shoebewrassince sallytieghaetsdtult
con, duct
cated, and was becoming quite insane in his u
manner. The police found on the dressing-
pistols, and beside them a bag of bullets,
quantity of powder. The pistols are quite neiN:
111ellarci)i
very superior description; the maker's name 1511060
son, Lord-street, Liverpool.' A considerable qwas viar
wearing apparel, of the best style and t
quaildialY Inacied
about. The deceased is of the middle size, _g
8 h Worn,.3„
and of a sallow complexion. His face is rune ac might
would indicate a life of hardship or dissipation.
hat older, 0
be about 35 years of age, but looked somewhat for 1.„
having lost some of his teeth, and wearing ?a1.Vr:5..0.011,..1!
worthy of remark that his hair, which is
af
slightly grown, having been recently sht.v a "
that it had
accounted for to Emma Fawcett by 312,
stagfor att4eca
togtaethearoldviotlif 0
been done in hospital, where he was treated,
wth a dis°ss-0
of glanders, which he took from contactos
.0 he
cble seve;nil,
horse. A miniature of himself, end ea
Fawcett, is a faithful likeness. According
ason for believing Pe
aran
since received, there seems some
.re
th London Ins ill
morocco leather case, which h9presentetod
intofotrbloe go
morocco
shm
the deceased had been a clerk in e
ta_
July under disgrace u
derable am°
money belonging to the company to a eons).
-
Company, who had
fablsco.nredumed
sfrthonmeetshathaevis
obgnrabezot.

TUE LEGION OF HoNoun.—The Annuaire de la
d'Honneur for the present year, which has just been I"ns
',g.
fished, gives the following as the number of perso.,se
___ 4-I,n nraar nn HIP Ist of January t'

longing to tue eruer ou Luc ...
Ep and Princes of the Imp ems-family, 5' ifieerSl
crosses, 57 ; gr.and officers, 214. commanders, 927; ,°O9
SUICIDE BY THREE SISTERS AT he IS.
4,633; and knights, 46,80b—making a total of 62,1 'able
dolor
event took place on Wednesday in the Rue d'Arasterlra
Three females, the eldest only 20 years of age, 00%01
suicide with the fumes of charcoal, hi a chamber:teio
they occupied with their mother, the widow a lr.,„ of
officer. The three girls took advantage of the abs Ittyleir
end tot iosg
their mother, now at St. Germain, and put an
existence. This fatal act is attributed to tile Vie°
of a considerable fortune by the 4144