The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-12 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TULLAMORE

" This county is again convulsed to its centre, by an at-
tempt to murder the Rev. Skelton Gresson, a gentleman uni-
versally respected. About eight o'clock on Sunday, he was
going home in his gig from Clara, about seven miles from
this, when he was fired at from behind some trees on the
road-side. Both his servant and himself were hit, but not
dangerously wounded. In September last the life of Mr.
Biddulph, J.P., was attempted, and himself wounded, five
miles from this, towards Frankford. ' In December, James
Henessy was savagely assaulted at Mucklow, three miles off
—since dead. In January, this year, a conspiracy to mur-
der Mr. Finnamore, near Clara, was discovered; and a man
named Hussey was attacked, near Clara, now lying without
hope of recovery, from the effect of blows from a spade, &c.
There are several other less fearful crimes, but of an aggra-
vate(' character, where death has not yet ensued ; and this is
the moment that government, in cold insulting mockery of
the misery and despair of the inhabitants of this county,
' order the police, by night or day, to go singly without arms,
excepting their cor stable's staff! !'
" Lord Charleville is leaving us in disgust—Mr. Gresson
is his chaplain, and a constant resident in the castle. Who
can blame him ? If I had money I would go too."

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(From the Dublin Evening Packet.)
" Clatworthy, Feb. Ist, 1841
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING PACKET.

" SlR,—Nothing that I can say will give additional weight
to those severe remarks which, in your paper of the 28th ult.,
you have with so much justice and truth made on Mr. Leth-
bridge's letter.

" On such a letter comment from me will be superfluous;
and I shall content myself with reiterating my most solemn
affirmation, that on no occasion, for the last 10 or 12 years,
not even on the 18th of July, 1839, have I had any private
conversation with Mr. Lethbridge.
" The matter now rests on the credit due to the testimony
of the conflicting parties, which can only be judged of by the
habits and character of each individual ; and to this test I
cheerfully and with entire confidence submit my case.
" I have now the grateful task of returning you my best
acknowledgments for your kind and ready insertion of my
letters, as well as for drawing the attention of the public to
them in so conspicuous a manner; andkeg to remain,

" W. BERN4p.p."
It is impossible—totally impossible—to describe our feel-
ings on rising from a perusal of the foregoing letter. We
use the word rising in its literal sense, for sit quiet we could
not after reading such a damning proof of the insanity, or
worse, of Mr. Lethbridge, whose conduct in reference to the
Rev. Mr. Bernard, is without a parallel. Infamous we
would call it, if we were convinced that the gentleman was
of sound mind ; but we cannot bring ourselves to believe
that any sane person would do as Mr. Lethbridge has done
in this matter. The language attributed to Mr. Bernard
must be the coinage, of a disordered brain, as must also be
the diary which the would-be Joint of O'Connell's Tail speaks
about. Could any man in his sober senses record a private
conversation for the purpose of proclaiming it to the world?
Forbid it honour.

If we believed Mr. Lethbridge's story we should pronounce
him the most consummate scoundrel that ever drew breath.
But we do not belive it, and therefore pronounce the man to
be mad, stark mad. And this is the kind of person that the
Anti-Stanleyites called upon to prop up their villanous
league, for the perpetuation of fraud and perjury in this be-
nighted country, in order to minister to the blighting—the
thrice blighted—thrice infected sway of the monster, Daniel
O'Connell. A worthy prop of such a cause. But we must
have done with Mr. Lethbridge for the present, and we
hope for ever. lie must never again obtrude upon the
public.

ated Great Britain and' I;lll,fivedistinct languages, cut THE HABERDASHERS' LECTURESHIP.—The election for
up into so many dialects that it would be endless to enume- the lectureship of the Haberdashers' Company took place
rate them. There is the English language, properly so on Monday last, when at the close of the poll, the numbers
called ; Scotch language, and there are the Gaelic, the were :—Rev. Mr. Dale, 21; Rev. Mr. Gurney, 15 ; majority
Welsh, and the Irish language. for Mr. Dale, 6.
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