The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

IRELAND

EVANGELISATION IN IRELAND.—A meeting was held
in the Round Room of the Rotunda, on Thursday, for the
purpose of hearing the reports of the English and Scotch
ministers who have returned from their mission to the
southern districts of this country. _ _ _

THE CONVENTUAL SYSTEM.—A petition of appeal has
been presented to the House of Lords against the decree
of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, pronounced on the 9th
of June last, in the remarkable case of "Blake v. Blake,"
the facts of which were published shortly after the de-
livery of judgment. An order for hearing was made on
the 15th of the present month, and early in the next ses-
sion of Parliament the question will be argued before the
highest legal tribunal as to the right of persons professed
as nuns, and having taken the vows as such, to acquire or
inherit personal estates.
TEE SUPPRESSED BisnoPßlcs,—An educational
squabble among the guardians of the South Dublin Union
the other day elicited a curious revelation with regard to
Mr. Secretary Stanley's celebrated measure for the reform
of the Irish branch of the established church by the lop-
ping off of ten of its bishoprics. It transpired on the high
authority of Captain Lyndsay, son of the late and last
Bishop of Kildare, that this bold step was taken by the
advice and with the sanction of the present primate, Lord
John Beresford. In order that there might be "no mis-
take" about the matter, Captain Lyndsay stated that Lord
Derby (then Mr. Stanley) brought fotward the Church
Temporalities Act, he proposed to reduced the salaries of
those bishops, but the Primate objected, and recommended
that the sees shouldsbe suppressed.

Lour) CAMPBELL AND HIS IRISH TENANTRY:--The
Galway Packet (eminently Celtic authority) thus speaks
of the Saxon Chief Justice :—Lord Campbell will enter-
tain his Moycullen tenantry at a public banquet in the
large school-room at Moycullen on next Monday. We
have heard that the invitations amount to 400. He will
also entertain his Barna tenantry in a similiar manner
during the ensuing week. This speaks well for the future
career of Lord Campbell as an Irish landlord. We have
also been informed that he has engaged a female teacher
to instruct the daughters of his tenantry in sewing and
embroidery. Should his lordship proceed in this course
of conciliation and kindness, instead of letting loose upon
his property—as, unfortunately, was the case on the
estate of the Law Life Assurance Company—the ferocious
crowbar brigade, there will not be more promptly paid
rents nor a happier tenantry in Ireland."
TRAGICAL OccunumwE.—The Belfast papers contain
the particulars of a shocking occurrence which has taken
place in the barracks of that town. A private of the 12th
Regiment of Foot, named Robert Henry O'Neill, a native
of Belfast, who joined the regiment in April last, and who
has been somewhat remarkable for his sullen disposition
and aversion to rules of discipline, had been heard to
threaten revenge on a young soldier named Brown, a cor-
poral in the Grenadier Company, for having reported him
for some breach of discipline. The deceased, who was an
expert penman, was engaged writing at a table in one of
the barrack-rooms, at the south end of the square, and
two or three other soldiers were variously employed in the
apartment, when O'Neill entered. In this room were
situated O'Neill's quarters, as well as those of the men
present—the entire party, including O'Neill and deceased,
numbering five persons. The deceased continued to write.
During this time O'Neill had his musket on his knee, and
appeared to be engaged in cleaning it. Suddenly, with-
out attracting the attention of any one in the room,
O'Neill moved towards the doorway, levelled his piece,
took deliberate aim, and poured the contents of the musket
into the unfortunate man sitting at the table. Brown,
after receiving the fire, uttered a slight cry and dropped
his head on the table, and his murderer ran down the steps
leading to the barrack square. He was instantly pursued,
and on his reaching the square he was called on to stop,
when he turned round with great coolness and said, " Oh,
I'll stop—'twas I shot him," he afterwards expressed him-
self happy that he had done the deed. The unfortunate
victim was raised in a dying state from his reclining po-
sition on the table, and the spectacle which he presented
was one of the most distressing character imaginable. The
ball (it was first supposed there were two in the musket
when fired, but it seems there was only one) had taken
effect, in the first instance, almost between the eyebrows,
passed down the left cheek, tearing it almost completely
away, with half-a-dozen teeth, in its progress, and lodging
in the chest, One of, the lungs was also greatly injured,
and portions of the face of the unfortunate man were
scattered throughout the room. He received all the skil-
ful treatment his condition demanded, from the assistant-
surgeon of the regiment, Dr. Mackay ; but with the ex-
ception of being heard to complain that he was getting
very cold, from the time he went into hospital until he ex-
pired at 11 o'clock, he was unable to make any communi-
cation to those in attendance. The deceased was a young
man, who joined the regiment in London about four years
ago, and, besides, being a person who had received above
an average education, his gentleness and inoffensive
character made him respected by his comrades generally.