The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

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BARON RICHARDS.—Owing tit, the delicat
health, Baron Richards has, by theb advice of his physician
left Ireland for a visit to the Pyrenees. The laborious•
duties of Chief Commissioner of the Encumbered Estates
Court have well nigh made shipwreck of the learned
baron's constitution.

The returns from the country,
particularly respecting the potato crop, are looked to with
much interest, the vast bulk of them are highly favourable.
That the blight has appeared in a few districts is fully
proved, but it is apparently in a very mitated form as
compared with that of last year.

STATE OF. THE C

HARVEST PROSPECTS.—We have had set
extremely fine weather, and if no untoward• change sets
in, harvest-work will probably commence something ear-
lier than was anticipated a few weeks since. The agricul-
tural reports are all favourable, with the exception of a
few isolated complaints of the " appearance" of blight in
the potato.
MunnEu.—At Galway assizes, John Hurley sva, found
guilty and sentenced to death, for the murder of Katherine
Kendrigan, a fellow-servant, at Dunsandle, in revenge for
the young girl, a mere- child, having caused his dismissal
by giving evidence of a series of dishonest practices on his
part. When sentence was-passed upon the hardened mis-
creant, he declared he would have s
and the prosecutors, "either hi- this

al days of

f the jury

le next

AlrlYrlfEß SYNOD AT ThlnitES:—The Tipperary Free
Prese—bigh Romanist authority—announces that, " in
compliance with the instructions of the Most Rev. Dr.
Cullen,. delegate of the Holy See, a provincial Synod,
under the presidency of the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, of
Cashel, NVII be held at Thurles in the ensuing month.
The preliminaries have not been. as .yet finally arranged,
but in all probability the sittings-of the, Synod will com-
mence about the Ist of September." The " Apostolic
delegate" is, determined not to do. his work by halves.
The Romanist Primate (Dr. Dixon) is now, it seems, a
mere cypher as: regards spiritual at

the govern-

ment of Irish" Church."
ATTEMPT TO. ASSASSIN ATE A CLEILGYMAN.-011 Friday
night, a little after eleven o'clock, the Rev, Wm. Turpin,
vicar of Clara, was fired at in his own horse, about three
miles from the town. He had just enteredchis study, with
a lighted candle in his hand, when a shot was discharged
through the window-, the shutters of which -had not been
closed. He escaped unhurt, although the assassin fired in
the direction of a desk at which Mr. Turpinis in the habit
of sitting. Mr. Turpin is of a singularly gentle and un-
offending disposition; and had only recently taken posses-

sion of -the vicarag

He succeeded• the Rev

Skelton

Cresson, whose life vas attempted in a s
manner about twelve years ago.
-A MASONIC BALL was given, on Wednesday, in the
Rotunda, at Dublin, for the purpose of raising. a fund to
liquidate the cost of erecting the Masonic Female Orphan
School, recently built in that city. Among the distin-
guished personages present were :—The Lord Lieutenant
and the Countess of St. Germans, the Duke and-Duchess
of Leinster, Sir Edward and Lady Blakeney, Viscountess
Gough, Earl and Countess of Bective, Lord and. Lady
Castlereagh, Viscount and. Viscountess Avomnore, Earl
and Countess of Lucan, Lord and Lady Rossmore, Lord
and Lady Howth, Lady Dormer, Lady Elizabeth. and
Louisa Cornwallis, Ladies Mary and Emily St. Lawrence,
Sir E. and Lady Elizabeth:Borough, and Lady Redington.
ATTACKS ON PROTESTANT STREET-PREACHERS IN. IRE-
LAND.—Two missionaries, the Rev. Messrs. Dickenson and
Lewis, were assailed by a mob, in Limerick, on Sunday
evening, in consequence of Mr. Dickenson having com-
menced preaching in the street ; and it was with difficulty
that they were rescued. When some of the persons- eon-
cerned in the assault on them were brought up at the
Police-court, it was stated by the police that the pwee of
thecity was seriously endangered by street preaching,.and
the rev. gentlemen consequently promised not to attempt
again to preach in the open air. Disturbances of a similar
kind have taken place in several other towns in the south
of Ireland. It is stated that. }:00 missionaries have gone or
are going from England anth.Scotland, for the purpose of
open-air preaching.
IMPERTINENCE REBIIKE'Do—A lady, plainly dressed,
went a short time ago, into, a shop in Dublin, ancl pur-
chased several articles, which she was about to pay for,
when the shopman teased her to look at some other things,
which she did not inquire for; After wasting his eloquence
in vain for some time, he at last said, "Oh ! if you would
but buy this dress, you would then look like a lady indeed."
The inference to be drawn from this was anything .but
complimentary, and the patience of the lady being com-
pletely exhausted, she resented the fellow's impertinence
by refusing to purchase the articles already selected. The
shopman stormed and talkedof legal proceedings, to corn
pel her to complete her b
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