The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE CARLOW ELECTION.—The prevailing opinion is
that Mr. Sadleir will be defeated in Carlow. The Tenant
League has pronounced against, and " The Friends of
Religious Equality are about to assemble to take his de-
fection into consideration.

THE CONVICT KIRNVAN.—Notice has been received
in Dublin of the commutation of Kirwan's sentence to
transportation for life. It is said that Judge Crampton ,
who tried the case, has since expressed himself much
more favourable to the prisoner, and the London Standard
says that it was upon his representation the sentence was
remitted.

DEATH BY DROWNING. —On Wednesday morning
Captain Townley, of the schooner Strangford, met his
death by drowning. One of the harbour constables,
named John Houston, while on duty at Clarendon Dock,
heard a splashing, and immediately afterwards discovered
that a man had fallen into the dock. In a few minutes he
succeeded in recovering the body, but life was extinct.
MURDER.—On Wednesday, Hugh Cauley, an inoffen-
sive land-bailiff, at Crowl, near Cloughjordan, was shot
dead while reading a letter at his own fireside. It is
stated that an armed gang came to a window, one of whom
took deliberate aim and shot the unfortunate man on the
spot, also severely wounding his son, who was holding a
candle for his father at the moment. Several persons are
under arrest on suspicion.
DEATH OF A ROMISH PRELATE.—The notorious
William O'Higgins, " Lord Bishop of Arciaeh," died on
Monday, at his residence at Ballymahon. The deceased
occupied a prominent position throughout the memorable
repeal agitation of the years 1843-4, and his speeches on
several occasions earned for the speaker a share of noto-
riety which few persons in his position could be supposed
to be ambitious of. For a long time past he had with-
drawn from the sphere of politics.
DR. CULLEN.—The Times notes, as a symptom of
amendment, that Dr. Cullen simply writes himself " Paul
Cullen, Catholic Archbishop," without territorial desig-
nation. The Archbishop has been making inquiry into
the revenues of the various convents ; and, finding that
Mrs. Ball, the prioress of Rathfarnham Convent, had
completed the purchase of Toughcooster Castle, formerly
the residence of Lord Gort, for £17,000, expressed great
dissatisfaction at the same. The estate has since been
re-sold by private contract for £20,000.
THE UNDER-SECRETARYSHIP.--The important post of
under-secretary to the lord-lieutenant, which rumour had
variously assigned to Mr. Anthony O'Flaherty, M.P.,
Sir Thomas Redington, the late possessor, Mr. John Pen-
nefather, &c., has been unexpectedly given away to the
Hon. Charles Clements, son of the Earl of Leitrim, and
representative for that county up to the last general elec-
tion, when he was defeated by Dr. Brady. This appoint-
ment leaves the representation of Galway in statu quo,
and thus a brand is saved from the flames by the conti-
nuance of Mr. O'Flaherty in the ranks of the Irish brigade.

THE IRISH COURT. - The Earl and Countess of
Eglinton held their farewell reception on Tuesday at
Dublin Castle, and the attendance, notwithstanding the
unfavourable state of the weather, was extremely
numerous. Long before the ceremony commenced the
Castle-yard was filled with the equipages of the visitors,
and for nearly two hours subsequently there was no
cessation of the arrivals. For an undress levee it was
unquestionably the largest within a reasonable stretch of
memory, and must be regarded as a gratifying testimony
of public approval of the principles which guided Lord
Eglinton in his government of Ireland.—The officers of
the Dublin garrison took the occasion of presenting the
Countess of Eglinton with a magnificent bracelet, set
with brilliants and emeralds, and bearing the inscrip-
tion :—" To Teresa, Countess of Eglinton and Winton,
by the officers of the staff and household, in memory of
1852."

THE CONVICT KIRWAN. There is another charge
against Kirwan for murder. He was on intimate terms
with a man named Boyer, who, however, suddenly died,
and Kirwan took possession of his property under a deed,
whereby, as he alleged, the deceased had left him sole
executor. He agreed to pay the widow £4O a year, which
he had regularly done. The .Freeman's Journal says,
" If rumour speaks truly, there will be even further inves-
tigations into other mysterious matter connected with the
careerof the culprit." The Limerick and Clare Examiner,
alluding to the past life of Kirwan, states that about four
or five years ago he ran away with a young and interesting
girl, of a respectable family, whom he subsequently aban-
doned in Liverpool. On his return to Dublin, he was
assaulted and well beaten by her brother ; and when he
appealed to the magistrates they declined to inflict a
punishment, in consequence of the extreme nature of the
proncatiou.