The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

IREIA D

MRS. LATHAM BLACKER has at length sunk under her
sufferings from the injuries which she sustained in the
railway collision at Straffan.
THE Munster News states that upwards of forty fami-
lies have recently left the parishes of Lorrha and Durra,
in the county Cork, for America. "All that district,"
adds the News, " will, ere long, be deserted."
THE EXTENSIVE ESTATES of Glinsk and Creggs, county
Galway, containing nearly 7,600 statute acres, were dis-
posed of by private contract, under the Encumbered Estates
Commission, for £55,000.
THE LADY MAYORESS of Dublin is confined with an
attack of measles, having taken to her bed the day after
her brilliant ball. The attack is a severe one, but her
ladyship progresses favourably.
SUDDEN DEATIL—AS Mrs. Moran, wife of a solicitor,
was proceeding from her residence in Hardwicke-street,
Dublin, on Wednesday, she suddenly fell to the ground,
and was taken up in an insensible state. She died from
disease of the 'heart.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDING was opened for the
first time on Friday as a winter garden. The formal cere-
monial took place at two o'clock before the Lord Lieu-
tenant and the Countess St. Germans. Six military bands
were in attendance.
THE IRISH EXODUS.—The Limerick Examiner
(Romanist newspaper) commenting upon the flight of the
population from Ireland, expresses its opinion that this ex-
traordinary social revolution "is clearly the work of God,"
and "is destined to effect a great and mighty end." It is,
in fact, a " new era in the history of mankind."
FALL 05 A HOUSE IN DUBLIN.—On Wednesday, the
house, 27, Bride's-alley, Dublin, fell in, crushing beneath
the ruins Bridget Madden, a widow, who was asleep in bed
at the time. Her son lay beside her also apparently dead,
but he showed some signs of life, and was removed to the
hospital, bruised, however, most seriously.
THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES Commissioners, on Tiles-
day, sold portions of the estate of Sir J. C. Carden, Bart.,
in the county of Tipperary. Of the nine lots set up, but
three were sold; the rest were adjourned for want of fair
offers. The lots sold fetched 192 years' purchase. An
estate in Galway, the property of Daniel M`Nevin, a minor,
was sold in several lots, at moderate rates. The produce of
the day's sale amounted to £29,093.
ASSAULTING. A ROMANIST PRIEST.—In the Dublin
Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, the case of Foy v.
Collum occupied the Chief Justice and a special jury up to
the rising of the Court. It was an action brought by a
Romanist priest against a Presbyterian preacher for an
assault, which took place on the 12th of July last, in the
parish of Shircough, county Cavan. The case was brought
to a conclusion on Tuesday, when the jury brought in a
verdict for the plaintiff-250 damages and costs.
FIRING INTO THE HOUSE OF A CLERGYMAN.—Some
seven or eight miles from the district of Meigh is Rath-
&Band, county Down. On Tuesday morning, a shot was
fired into the residence of the Rev. Mr. Rosborough,
of Lessize. He and Mrs. Rosborough had left on
the day before for Belfast, and had not returned up
to Tuesday night ; they were consequently absent at the
time of the outrage. The lord-lieutenant has offered a re-
ward of £5O, in addition to a sum of £3O offered by th 3
Crime and outrage Reward Fund, privately subscribed fo:
information to lead to the apprehension of the perpetrators.
PARRICIDE.—One of those awful crimes which arc of
rare occurrence, even among Irishmen, the murder of a
father by his son, took place on Thursday, near Abbey-
knockmoy, Galway. An altercation ensued between the
deceased, named Nolan, and his son, in consequence of the
latter wanting to go to the market of Monivea, contrary
to his father's wishes. The younger Nolan struck the
father with a spade-tree. The blow proved fatal, death
being almost instantaneous. The unhappy parricide im-
mediately absconded, and the police went in pursuit, but
with what success we have not yet learnt.— Galway Packet.

Pelt NOBILE FRATRITM.—Two Irish Ecclesiasti2s, one
a Popish priest, the other a Presbyterian minister, had a
tilt iu the Irish Court of Common Pleas on Monday.
" Some day, in July last, the priest set out for the village
of Shircough, with a gun, and on his way to the intended
scene of his sport, twice discharged his piece close to the
cottage of the minister. The latter, who was at the time
superintending his haymakers, conceiving the gun to have
been levelled at his dwelling, fell upon the priest, and
endeavoured to take the gun from him, when an assault
ensued, for which the priest eventually recovered £5O
damages and costs."

MIRING ENTERPRISE IN DONEGAL—The Northern
papers give some flattering information with respect to
mining operations in progress throughout the county of
Donegal. According to these statements one speculation
is realizing as much as 100 per cent. ; and a Derry journal
is quite confident that silver and lead mines will be found
and turned to good account in that part of Ulster. In
addition to this bright prospect, there is said to be a
mineral production there much more valuable to Derry
than the richest loads of the precious metals, and that is
coal, which, it is confidently asserted by competent judges
may be found in ample quantities within a short distance
of the "maiden city."

" AFFAIR OF HONOUR."—The Tuam Herald pub-
lishes copies of a hostile correspondence which has passed
between Mr. Peter Reynolds, Romish priest at Claremor-
ris, and Mr. J. F. Browne, a magistrate of Galway. The
cam belli arose out of an expression made use of by the
latter at some local meeting to the effect that certain cor-
porate funds, with the knowledge of Mr. Reynolds, " went
in a way that they ought not to go." This insinuation
roused the ire of Father Peter, and hence a series of mis-
sives which resulted in a declaration on the part of the
priest, that his honour was satisfied, and that his antago-
nist had disclaimed, sincerely and promptly, all and every
intention of uttering a single word offensive to him.
ALLEGED ESCAPE OF SMITH O'BRIEN.—The Limerick
Reporter contains the following :—" We have just been
handed a letter from a highly respectable Irishman, resi-
dent in Melbourne, giving full details of the escape of
Smith O'Brien from the penal exile to which the British
Government doomed him, and from which he has been
released by the courage and fidelity of a few Irish friends
in the colony, and the sympathizing aid of the commander
of an American trading vessel which was in the offing to
take him away to the free shores of America. There is
no doubt whatever of the fact ; and we need not state that
we feel considerable pleasure in being the first medium of
announcing it. The writer of this letter was one of those
who assisted Smith O'Brien in his escape. We may add
that Smith O'Brien was bound by no parole."
THE " HIGH CHURCH" PARTY IN IRELAND.--DUB-
LIN, Saturday Evening.—l am enabled to state, on the
very best authority, that the lord primate has just termi-
nated his connexion with the college of " St. Columba,"
by the withdrawal of his name as chief patron of that in-
stitution. Under the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. Wil-
liams, a member of Oxford university, and a clergyman of
undoubtedly rare scholastic attainments, it was strongly
suspected that the religious education afforded to the
pupils savoured too much of modern innovations upon the
simplicity of the reformed faith to be palatable to the
tastes of an overwhelming majority of Irish protestants.
This was, perhaps, after all, only matter of suspicion, and
as lonc, as his Grace continued his patronage St. Columba
might have flourished as an educational institution with-
out let or hindrance. A recent circumstance, however,
has materially darkened its prospects. Mr. Williams, as
" warden" of the college, having added his signature to
the celebrated " protest" against Bishop Gobat, the primate
at once took the course indicated to mark his sense of the
impropriety of an act which no longer left any doubt as
to the bias of Mr, Williams's opinions upon the leading
theological question of the present time.—Times.