The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

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The assassins of Mr. Cage are in custody. One of
them—the fellow who charged the guns with which the
diabolical deed was perpetrated—has turned approver.
He actually arranged the time and place for the murder,
but he denies that he fired either of the shots. He says
he was crouching behind the principal assassin, and after
he fired the first shot, he (the approver) handed him the
second gun.
Mr. Gavan Duffy has succeeded in hooking a bishop to
take part in the grand " National Conference" now in
course of active preparation. Mr. John O'Connell, pro-
bably calculated upon a monopoly of the " stars," hav-
ing already secured the " talents" of Drs. O'Higgins and
Ffrench; for the performances at Conciliation-hall. The
hon. gentleman, however, was out in his reckoning, as
tl:e opposition theatre has found a stronger charm in
the eyes of the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, the aged titular of
Dromore.

STRANGE ACCUSATION.—The every Telegraph alleges
that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by means of a letter
transmitted to the Duke of Bedford, endeavoured to deter
the Viscountess Jocelyn from attending in the suite of
Her Majesty in the late Royal progress in Ireland, lest
her Ladyship should suffer insult from the mob, on
account of her relationship to the Earl of Roden, anti his
Lordship's supposed implication with the lamentable
affair at Dolly's Brae. The reply made in the Castle jour-
nal of Tuesday, on the part of His Excellency, was, the
admission of his (the Earl of Clarendon's) having trans-
mitted to the Duke of Bedford (brother to the Prime
Minister, be it observed) a letter to that effect written by
a third hand, which had been purliined by some means
or other.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ORANGEMEN.—The
Dublin Herald says :—" It is a fact that, after certain
communications between Colonel Phayre and the Castle
authorities, £6OO was handed by Captain Kennedy to
Colonel Phayre for the purpose of purchasing 500 stand
of arms, to be distributed among the Orangemen of Dub-
lin ; and that 500 stand of arms were bought with that
money, were so distributed, and remain in the possession
of the Orangemen at the present moment. Secondly, it
is a fact that several cases of arms were brought over to
Dublin from Birmingham, and shipped at the quay of
Dublin for Belfast, where they were issued to the mem-
bers of the Orange institution exclusively. We may add
that we have been informed, on what we believe to be
excellent authority, that most, if not all the guns mounted
with bayonets, carried by the Orangemen at Dolly's Brae,
were part of the arms thus transmitted to Ulster by the
Government to arm the Orangemen of the north." The
Dublin Mail confirms this statement.

BRUTAL ATTACK ON PROTESTANTS.— OR Sunday
evening several young men and women were walking in a
bye road at Glassdrummond, about one mile from this
town, when, without the slightest provocation, they were
suddenly attacked by nine or ten navvies, who had been
sitting round a boiler, erected at the roadside, for pre-
paring the horses' food. The dastardly assailants, who
cried " Massacre the bloody Orangemen," were not con-
tent with being nearly double the number of the others,
but made use of shovels and shovel-shafts for the better
execution of their murderous designs. One poor girl,
named Hannah M'Knight, who was not present when the
attack was commenced, but who ran out hearing that her
brother was being killed, was knocked down by a tremen-
dous blow on the head with a shovel-shaft. A man named
James Campbell was beaten almost to jelly, and two
others, named Patterson and Trimble, are seriously ill
from the effect of the blows they received. Four of the
navvies have been arrested.—Newry Telegraph.
COUNTY DOWN MEETIAG.—A meeting of the nobility
and gentry of the county of Down was held in Dundrum,
on Monday. The high sheriff presided. The Marquis of
Downshire proposed, and Roger Hall, Esq., D.L. and
J.P., seconded, a resolution to the effect—" That we
view with indignation and alarm the arbitrary act of the
government in the dismissal of the Earl of Roden and
Messrs. Francis and William Beers from the commission
of the peace—an act which has not been called for by any
breach of their duty, nor for any crime recognised by the
law of the land ; and which we feel to be fraught with
manii est injustice, inasmuch as it not only tends to destroy
the liberty of the subject, but puts a restriction upon the
free opinion and conscience of the magistrates." The
addresses of the noble mover and the seconder of this
resolution were loudly applauded, and the motion adopted
with acclamation, J. W. Maxwell, Esq., D.L. and J.P.,
proposed a second resolution. The Rev. Mr. Gordon,
J.P., seconded the motion, which passed. Major Nugent,
D.L. and J.P., Charles Douglas, Esq., D.L. and J.P.,
Madden Hall, Esq., J.P., and Wm. B. Forde, Esq., J.P.,
severally addressed the meeting in support of resolutions
condemnatory of the conduct of the government in this
business, and voting an address to Lord Roden.
MR. BERWICK AND LORD RODEN.—The report from
Mr. Berwick, the government official who was sent down
about the recent Ribbon massacre at Dolly's Brae, has
issued his report, and a lengthy document it is. With
respect to Lord Roden's conduct, he says —" Lord
Roden, who is a magistrate of the county, and Deputy
Grand Master of the Orangemen, received as his brethren
and guests an armed assemblage of Orangemen on the
12th of July, who had, in my opinion, rendered them-
selves amenable to the law. lam certain that Lord

Roden had no intention to countenance any illegal con-
duct of that body, and that no man laments more than
he does the occurrences of that day; but uneducated men
of both parties will not fail to draw their own conclusions
in such matters, and to believe that the sanction of the
magistrate was given to the acts of his party, and his
protection thereby secured." Therefore let Lord Roden
go ! But is it not inimitable ? "I am certain that Lord
Roden had no intention to countenance any illeval_con-
auct or mat noay—that no man laments more than he
does the occurrences of that day; but" But for Mr.
Berwick's " but" we must refer to Mr. Berwick's self.
Whatever " uneducated men" may do, we think we
could tell him the " conclusions" which those of a differ-
ent character will draw from his report. It will scarcely
be favourable to the conduct of his Chief.