The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

WILLIAM DARGAN. Esq., has been appointed a deputy-
lieutenant for the county of Dublin.
THE MURDER OF MR. RYAN.—Richard Hackett and
Thomas Noonan were on Thursday night, at Waterford,
found guilty of the murder of O'Callaghan Ryan, Ef.q.
Mr. Justice Crompton passed the sentence of death on
them.

THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY,--A central
office is about to be established in Dublin, and in a few
months Cork, Belfast, Galway, and other towns interme-
diate with the city will be placed in connection with the
English lines, by means of the submarine wires from
Donaghadee to Portpatrick.

CONVICTION OF RIBBON LEADERS.—Two men, named
Patrick Coddington and James Mullen, were tried at the
assizes of Meath, on Thursday, on a charge of Ribbonism;
they were sentenced to seven years' transportation, and
forthwith removed from the dock to the convict-ship.
The whole system of Ribbonism and pass-words was re-
vealed in the course of the trial.

ENGLISH SETTLERS 1N IRELAND.—According to the
Evening Post, the plan of creating English agriculturists
in Ireland has proved a total failure. In Tipperary the
experiment has been tried to a greater extent than in
most other counties; there were, it appears, upwards of
20 very considerable farmers in different parts of that
county, of whom more than a moiety have returned home.

GREAT WESTERN DocKs.—The directors of the Great
Southern and Western Railway have, we understand,
come to the determination to commence the docks forth-
with. The construction, it is supposed, will cause an ex-
penditure of £50,000. Together with the works at the
terminus, they are expected to be ready against the com-
pletion of the tunnel in May, 1854.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.-At College-street Police-
office, Dublin, on Wednesday, an elderly man, named
Rooke, was charged with having thrown Catherine
Agnew out of a window, in College-green, on the pre-
vious night. The accused was a care-taker in the house.
The window is about 50 feet from the ground. Two
policemen deposed to having heard the screams at eleven
o'clock on Tuesday night, and the noise of something
having fallen in College-green. They found the woman
lying on the flags. She stated she had been pushed out
of the top window by Rooke. She was carried to Mercer's
Hospital, where she made a " dying" declaration to the
effect that it was for the purpose of obtaining money the
crime was committed.

THE QUEEN VIcToRrA. STEAMER.—The arrangements
for raising this unfortunate vessel are still progressing
most satisfactorily, the process being by inflation. The
plate has been saved by the diver, but he cannot be in-
duced to go down a second time, as the scene which pre-
sented itself in the cabin was the most horrible he had
ever been called upon to witness. He says that on his
going down the cabin stairs, he thought that he had en-
tered a wax-work exhibition, the corpses never having
moved from their positions since the vessel went down.
There were some 18 or 20 persons in the cabin, who
seemed to be holding conversation with each other ; and
the general appearance of the whole scene was so life-like,
Cult he was almost inclined to believe that some were yet
living. From their various positions and countenances,
they could have had no idea of the disaster which was
hastening them to so untimely an end. This at once
accounts for the non-finding of the bodies.
CONSERVATIVE ORGANISATION.—An association has
just been formed, which embraces the names of many of
the leading members of the Irish peerage, and a large
number of influential commoners, banded together to
resist the tide of papal and democratic aggression which
has been so long rushing over this land. It is entitled
" The Central Conservative Society of Ireland." Amongst
the members already enrolled are :—The Earls of Roden,
Enniskillen, Mayo, Donoughmore, Lord Castlemaine,
Lord Clarina, Lord Naas, M.P., the Earl of Desert, the
Earl of Bandon, Lord Lorton, Lord Clonbrock, Lord
Bernard, M.P., Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P., lion. R.
S. Hutchinson, Right Hon. J. Napier. M.P., Mr. G. A.
Hamilton, M.P., Mr. J. H. Hamilton, M.P., Colonel
Taylor, M.P., Mr. Vance, M.P., Mr. Grogan, M.P., Mr.
George, M.P., Mr. Davison, M.P., Mr. Whiteside,M.P.,
Mr. Ross S. Moore, M.P., Mr. Macartney, M.P., Col.
Vandeleur, M.P., &c.