The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A correspondent of the Nation thinks highway robbery
has seen its height in Ireland, four such robberies about
Cork having realised lld.
On Saturday week, John O'Donnell, bailiff to the Earl
of Lucan, and a most inoffensive man, was shot near
Castlebar. _ _ _

On Thursday week J. W. Johnston, Esq., J.P., was
fired at from behind a hedge while returning from Emyvale
(Fermanagh) petty sessions. Several slugs entered his
arm, but it is hoped the wounds will not be fatal.
The Leinster Express gives the particulars of the
murder of John Rourke, an inspector of Ballasting, on
the railway. He had remonstrated with the men, who
afterwards waylaid him and dashed out his brains with a
hammer.

MURDER IN 'MAYO.—JoIin O'Donnell, one of the prin-
cipal Bailiffs of the Earl of Lunn, was shot dead on
Saturday, at Islandeady, a short distance from Castlebar.
O'Donnell, who bore the character of a quiet, inoffensive
man, was employed in enforcing payment of rent in that
neighbourhood.

THE Pooß IRISH !—The sum of fifteen thousand pounds
has, in a very short space of time, been collected among
the Irish for a monument to the late Mr. O'Connell, and
the Corporation of Dublin, whilst their countrymen are
perishing of want, or dependent upon the charity of the
English, have given one hundred and fifty pounds for his
picture !
On the 28th ultimo, as a ploughman named Devane was
returning home from Borrisoleane, he was met by four
men who knocked him down and beat him on the head
with stones, and then attempted to throw him over a
bridge. Some persons coming up, the murderers were
stopped, and the poor man was conveyed to a hospital,
where a large stone was extracted from his head. His
case is hopeless.
IRISFF CRIME.—The total number of murders, at-
tempted murders, robberies of arms and firing houses
amounted last month to 195 for the whole of Ireland. but
out of that Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary furnished 139,
the amount of offences in those counties being 71 per cent.
on the whole amount of offences, while the population
was only 13 per cent. on the whole. The plague, how-
ever, spreads, as spread it undoubtedly will if not checked
in time. King's County, Roscommon, and part of Fer-
managh, already exhibit the bloody contagion.
KILLING NO MURDER.—The Romish papers in Ireland
seldom allow any assassination to take place without
almost justifying the murderer. Even in the case of the
Rev. Mr. Lloyd, the Dublin Pilot, the organ of the
O'Connell family, rushes to point out the real causes of
the recent murders, and then says, " Mr. Lloyd was a
gentleman of very extreme views, but only a small pro-
prietor of land, though very wealthy. The rev. gentleman
had, it is well known, incurred much unpopularity during
the period of destitution through which the country is
passing, and has passed ; as also as a poor-law guardian."
Such is Popery.
IRISH MURDERS.—" Tbink of 196 murders in one
year ! Why. you have gained glorious victories with less
loss of life. With less profusion of English blood, you
rolled back the fiery tide which the exulting valour of
France poured upon the heights of Busaco. But why do
I talk of battles ? Oh ! how tame and feeble the compa-
rison between death in the field of honour, and that death
which is inflicted by Irish assassins. It is not the fatal
hour of that death that is most terrible ; it is the wasting
misery of suspense ; the agony of expectation—that is,
listening for weeks and months to every nightly sound,
lest it be the fatal knell that is to summon a whole family
to destruction. These are the real terrors from which the
act of murder is too often a merciful relief."—Sir Robert
Peel.

FATAL AFFRAY. —On Monday night three policemen
at Newcastle, county Limerick, saw eleven men conceal-
ing themselves in a ditch, and evidently bent on some deed
of outrage. Nothing daunted at their superior numbers,
the brave party advanced towards them, and one of the
ruffians sprung upon the head-constable, who quickly
drawing a six-barrelled pistol struck the scoundrel on the
head, and felled him to the earth. Another of the gang
then came to the rescue, deliberately firing at the head-
constable. The shot took effect in his arm, which it
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THE
EFFECTS OF ALMSGIVING.-0111' readers will not
require to be reminded of the lamentable precedence in
misery and helplessness successfully asserted by the popu-
lation of the county of Mayo during the past winter and
spring. Some of them may, perhaps remember the
apathetic indifference with which offers of seed and exhort-
ations to provide for the future by cultivating their land,
were listened to by the people along the coast of that un-
fortunate district ; but few will be prepared for the new
cry of woe that proceeds from the far west. A corres-
pondent informs us that, living in the midst of bogs, and
receiving their daily food from the hands of public officers,
the inhabitants of Belmullet have yet neglected during a
summer of such extraordinary dryness as that which has
passed, to provide themselves with a stock of turf ! It will
not be denied that we have, from the outset, predicted the
consequences of the alms system; but the catastrophe of
Belmullet has arrived with a rapidity which we confess we
scarcely expected.—Dublin Mail.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting
on Monday, Mr. Alderman Moran, presided. A letter-
from Mr. John O'Connell, to "My dear Ray," was read.
It recommended "addresses, petitions, remonstrances,
instructions," as the only means of saving the state in
"in whatis not unlike a death struggle," and concluded
in the following terms :—" Who now shall say that repeal
is not needed ? Who now shall prate of the good inten-
tions and benevolence of English Ministries and Parlia-
ments ? . Who now shall call himself Irishman, and
withhold his aid from the great struggle to recover back
that native Parliament which never would have suffered
the country to sink down into such wretchedness, and
which even now would at once upraise her, save the lives
of the people, and restore and secure to them the bles-
sings of prosperity and peace ?" The speakers were Mr.
D. O'Connell, MX., Mr. J. H. Dunne, Mr. M. R.
Layne, the Hon. Cecil Lawless, M.P., and Mr. Hyland.
The rent for the week exhibited a woful falling off, being
announced as £8 3s. Od.
THE MURDER-INSTIGATORS IN IRELAND.—As long
as it shall be competent to the Roman Catholic priests of
Ireland to denounce with impunity certain persons from
the altar—and we find, as a consequence, that the parties
denounced within four and twenty hours meet with a vio-
lent death—what chance is there that the bloody current
should be turned back to its source ? The priest sends
out his Thug upon a sacred mission ; he hallows his
cause--he blesses his weapon—he gives him absolution
for the seeming crime. As long as this spirit shall con-
tinue, even a far more stringent measure than the bill in-
troduced by her Majesty's Ministers must prove a practi-
cal nullity. * * The Roman Catholic hierarchy will
not, it seems, interfere, nor thrust with indignation the
inciters to those foul deeds from the communion of the.
church, and the holy office they have abused for the vilest
purposes. * * The single speech of Archdeacon Laffan,
which we printed some few weeks back, was in itself suffi-
cient to have. accounted for all the murders that have taken
place between this and then. Sir G. Grey, however, in
discussing the crimes, abstained from pointing. out this--
.onea the chief causes of all the mischief.—Tunce.

After all the concessions to Popery that have been made
.within the last eighteen years, from Sir Robert Peel's
Emancipation Bill down to his endowment of Maynooth,
what has been gained for Ireland, so far as concerns the
security of life and property ? Is not Ireland in the year
1847, much in the same state as it was at the beginning of
the century, when Lord Chancellor Clare said, that were
he to offer to give a villa, with six acres of land, on con-
dition that the tenant should reside in it for six months,
he should not find a person willing to accept the danger-
ous gift.
THE CONSPIRACY.—A secret conclave sits in the town
of Elphin, and a few days previous to the murder of Mr.
Lloyd, had held its satanic council. Several clergymen in
the neighbourhood of Elphin and Strokestown are soon to
fall victims ; their names were distinctly mentioned in
these towns, with the sentence added, that " they must be
shot." They have had no immediate, or, in fact, any
connection with land, and their only fault is, that they
were the friends of the late Major Mahon and Rev. John
Lloyd ; and that, as has been said, " they fed the poor last
year to bring them to church, they shan't do it again."—
One of these clergymen narrowly escaped assassination
last Sunday, by his having returned to his house an hour
earlier than usual : two men were in wait for him. It is
no longer an agrarian conspiracy, but a religious and
political one. Every Protestant who would support order
is marked. Parties of strange men armed are constantly
seen in the neighbourhood of Boyle, Elphin, and Strokes-
town, and it has been ascertained that several are inhabi-
tants of M unster.—Dublin Mail.
A FATHER SUSPECTED OF ROASTING HIS CHILD
ALlVE.—Reports of a nature involving the commission of
the above unnatural crime were circulated in the town of
Bandon on Tuesday. It appears that information reached
the ears of the police on that day to the effect that on Sa-
turday night last, a comfortable fanner named Robin or
Robert Sullivan, residing at Kappah, about four miles
west of the town, returned home from market and retired
to rest, the only person in the house (his wife being some
months dead) being his young children, two servant girls,
and a servant boy. After being some time in bed he got
up, and lifting his little son, a child between four and five
years of age, he deliberately placed him on his back on the
fire to roast, keeping him down by force. while the poor
little fellow, as may be supposed, screamed most piteously.
The servant boy, hearing the child's cries, came to his re-
lief, and seeing the unnatural crime which was being per-
petrated, attempted to prevent its proceeding further, but
was attacked by Sullivan, (a remarkably athletic man,)
with a reaping-hook, and forced to desist. The child
lived till Sunday night, and was buried on Monday. A
party of police from Bandon, proceeded on Tuesday to the
house of Sullivan, who, with the servant boy, were not,
nor have they been since, forthcoming. They then re-
paired to the church-yard, and exhumed the body, when
enough was discovered to lead to the suspicion that the in-
formation already narrated was not without foundation.—
Cork Constitution,
FRIGHTFUL MURDER OF A CLERGYMAN.— Intelli-
gence reached Dublin yesterday week that the Rev. Mr.
Lloyd, of Smith Hill, near Elphin, was shot dead on Sun-
day, on his return home from Aughrim Church. He was
accosted by a man, who coolly informed the reverend gen-
tleman that he had not long to live. Mr. Lloyd said he
was not aware of ever having injured any one. " Oh,
yes," responded the assassin, " you have dispossessed a
tenant on the Leitrim estates ;" and then, pulling a short
gun from under his coat, lodged the contents in the vic-
tim's body, who expired shortly after. It appears that
Mr. Lloyd was accompanied by a child and a servant.
At about two miles' distance from his own residence, he
was met by his two appointed assassins. The servant
made off. One of the murderers seized the reins, whilst
the other fired, and severely wounded Mr. Lloyd. As
the first shot did not prove fatal, the assassin re-loaded
his piece, and having removed the child from the seat of
the gig, fired on Mr. Lloyd a second time, and killed him
outright. The murder completed, the assassin replaced
the child in the gig, and having handed him the reins,
bade him drive home. He and his companion then made
off together. All accounts concur in stating that Mr. Lloyd
was a most benevolent gentleman to the poor. During
the past season of distress, he converted one of his offices
into an infirmary and fever hospital, attended the patients
daily—out of his own purse paid for nurse-tenders, food,
medicine, and every other necessary; he fed the hungry,
clothed the naked, educated, with the assistance of his
amiable, worthy sister, between 70 and 100 children daily ;
fed these children during the famine, and continued to
extend the same Christian benevolent care over them
until removed from this sinful world by the hands
of a fiendish assassin. The interment of the Reverend
gentleman took place on Wednesday, and his remains
were followed by a large concourse of people. From be-
fore daylight carriages, cars, gigs, &c., were arriving every
moment until ten o'clock, when the mournful procession
commenced moving slowly along. Nearly all the wealth
of the county was in attendance. Sad and sorrowful, in-
deed, was the appearance : no one could tell who would be
the next victim.
AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—To render the incident which
we are about relating intelligent to our fair readers, to
whom such matters are of very deep interest, we must
allude to a rumour lately circulated through the city—to
the effect, that a gallant officer of a regiment stationed in
this garrison (the 16th Foot, we believe) won the affec-
tions of one of the loveliest of the city's belles, and pro-
mised to make her his bride ;—that all tedious prelimi-
naries had been arranged, rnd settlements drawn out, and
a day appointed for their being signed by the intended
bridegroom ;—that the gallant officer being reluctant to
fetter his liberty, even by the rosy chains of hymen,
marched out of the Cork Barracks, apparently on a shoot-
ing excursion on the morning of the day when he was ex-
pected to sign the death-warrant of his bachelorhood, and,
walking to Fermoy, there got "leave of absence;"—that
when the lawyers and friends assembled at a certain house
on the South Mall, they waited in vain for the truant
lover;—that when, alarmed at his unaccountable absence, I
the lawyers and friends wended their way to the Barracks,
to have the matter explained, the bird was discovered to
have flown ; —that rage and consternation were felt there-
upon, and that the brother of the lady 'vowed a vow of
deep revenge. So much for the rumour; now for the
fact. —As the Juverna arrived at the quay this day, at
twelve o'clock, a group of officers might be seen on the
quarter-deck of the vessel, surrounded by some fifty or
sixty passencrer of a less warlike character. The moment
the first plank was put out from the quay to the steamer,
a young gentleman leaped actively upon it, and sprang on
board at once. Rushing towards the spot where the
officers stood, lie selected one of the sons of Mars as his
man, and, raising a whip, he struck him across the face,
the neck and head, accompanying each blow with such
complimentary expressions as—" youblackguard !"—" you
ruffian !"—" you scoundrel!" The assailant then re-
tired a few paces, to where his " friend" stood, looking
admiringly on, and asked him " was there anything more
to be done ?" To which the friend replied in the nega-
tive; and both tranquilly retired from the ship, as if un-
conscious of having caused a striking sensation, and went
off in a car. The gallant officer bore the assault apparently
with the utmost philosophy, not making the slightest re-
sistance to the outrage. His brother officers looked on
with countenances in which amazement and rage were
curiously blended. Immediately atter, the gallant officer
got into a car, and drove up to his quarters at the Bar-
racks, accompanied by some military friends. The gen-
tleman who committed the assault is Mr. Thomas Hardy,
brother of the lady in question ; the gentleman assaulted,
is Captain Bunbury, of her Majesty's 67th Foot.—Cork
Examiner.

A WELL DESERVED TESTIMONIAL.
[Our protestant readers will probably never forget the
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taodosursembled thousands a mass of information valuable
for time and eternity. No speaker at these meetings
grappled with the subject more convincingly and fervently
than the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan, and no one was conse-
quently more honoured with radical vituperation. The
following article which we take from the Dublin Evening
Mail of last week, will, however, show the opinion en-
tertained of the reverend gentleman, by those politically
and religiously opposed to him, who reside near and are
intimately acquainted with him.]
The following tribute to the great uncompromising ad-
vocate of Church of England Protestantism will, we are
persuaded, be perused with • no small gratification by a
vast majority of our readers. Dr. Montague is the Ro-
man Catholic clergyman of the district of Killyman :
" At a meeting of the Drumespal Relief Committee,
parish of Killyman, held October 26th, the Rev. Dr.
Montague, in the chair, it was moved by the Rev. An-
drew Wilson, Presbyterian minister, seconded by R.
Lloyd, Esq., High Sheriff of the county Tyrone, and
carried by acclamation, that the following resolution be
adopted :
" Resolved—That we cannot separate without tender-
ing to the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan our warm acknowledge-
ments and cordial thanks, in so high a degree due to him
for the uniform attention, and courteous demeanour dis-
played by him in the discharge of his duties as chairman
of this committee ; but more especially for his unremit-
ting, laborious, and efficient exertions during the late
period of unexampled distress—exertions characterised no
less by a praiseworthy desire to guard against reckless'and
improvident expenditure, than by the most self-denying
devotion to the interests of the suffering people—exertions
which must insure to him the lasting gratitude of all of
every class within the sphere of his benevolence.'
" JOHN MONTAGUE, P.P., and V.G.,
Chairman." _

Such is the cordial recognition of the worth and the
services of this most able antagonist of Romanism during
the period of the last year while he laboured, with un-
tiring and devoted zeal, to mitigate the pressure of fa-
mine in his immediate neighbourhood. Protestant, Ro-
man Catholic, and Presbyterian, all felt the warmth of
his Christian benevolence, and are all eager to testify
their admiration of his labour of love. We question
whether any of the compromisers—whether any of those
whom the loaves and fishes of Government patronage
have reduced into a betrayal of the cause of Scriptural
education—could contrive, with all their address, to
procure such a tribute of regard and affection as is con-
veyed in the above resolution to one who has never lost
an apportunity of bearing a faithful testimony against
the errors of Popery and the insidious policy of the Church
of Rome. And yet, he, because of his fidelity, is one of
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apostates ! All his learning—all his ability all his
parochial usefulness, are of no avail, because he cannot
conscientiously give in his adhesion to a system of edu-
cation which removes the Word of God from its proper
supremacy, and makes it of none effect by men's tradi-
tions. But he has chosen the better part, and feels, we
are 'persuaded, more peace of mind, and more content-
ment of heart in his ht,nourable privacy, than will ever
be felt by those who, for worldly advantages, may con-
sent to the disparagement of Holy Scripture, and who
will be more fortunate than they deserve if they retain
the approbatious of their friends, even to one-half the
extent to which he has extorted .the admiration of his
honest opponents.