The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

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According to the Nation there are 168 estates in Ire-
land for sale. No wonder.
The Belfast municipal elections have terminated in the
return of Conservatives for every ward by a large majority.
By the municipal election last week, the Conservatives
have gained, in Cork, two aldermen and two councillors.
A schoolmaster, named Gowdy, was fined 20s. at the
Coleraine petty sessions, on the 15th instant, for having
assaulted one of his pupils by severely. flogging him.
A sicop, lying at Glin, near Limerick, was, in a gale,
last Sunday, driven from its anchorage, and went down
with twelve hands on board, only one whom was saved.
PERSECUTION.—At Kildare petty sessions informations
were laid against a Romish spriest and several other per-
sons, for intimidating a Presbyterian clergyman from
preaching.
DISTRIBUTING NEWS.—In one parish in Ireland, the
newsboy supplies all his customers, who live at great in-
tervals of distance, by leaving their newspapers for them
in their pews at church.
On Monday intelligence reached Lloyd's that the
French brig Camelia, of St. Malo, laden with Indian corn,
had been totally lost, in Ballenkillig Bay, county Kerry,
the master and crew, except a boy, king drowned.
IRISH GRATITUDE FOR ENGLISH BOUNTY.—Thos.
Darkin, an Irish piper, has been repeatedly committed to
gaol at Manchester, for breaking the windows of the house
of the Bolton overseer. He declares he will persist till he
has obtained 15s. to mend his pipes. _ _

The Dublin Nation alludes 4tO certain members of de
Old Ireland party who were opposed to Sir Robert Peel's
Colleges, and took pert in the anti-bequest agitation, as
" a gang of blacklegs, swindlers, brothel hunters, and
drunken hypocrites ! ! !"
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Mr. E. D. Williams presided
at the weekly meeting on Monday. A letter from Mr.
John O'Connell, strongly deprecating and deploring the
prevalent outrages and murders, was read. The rent for
the week, which included £5 3s. sd. from Liverpool, per
Mr. James Levingston, was announced to be £4olls. 7d.
About four or five hundred persons, composed of men,
women, and children, again congiegated outside the doors
of the Nenagh workhouse, at the last meeting. They
were quiet and orderly, and their appearance was truly
deplorahle to behold. They were clothed in rags, which
were drenched with the rain. There was a small body of
police present to preserve the peace.
. Violence continues its progress. In the 'tines county
the effect has been excessive. alarm on the part of the
landed gentry; and the local papers state that many are
preparing to break up their establishments and retire to
the continent. One gentleman, a Mr. Walsh, magistrate,
guardian, and resident landlord, advertises the sale of his
furniture and stock preparatory to departure. Others, it
is said, are ready to follow. Few can censure this com-
pulsory absenteeism, for no man can afford to be patriotic
at the expense of his life.
On Monday week, a man named Griffith, who was
employed to attend the engine by which the trains are
lowered down and drawn up an inclined plane on a rail-
way leading from a colliery near Meath, was killed in a
horrible manner. A loaded train had been pushed too
far, so that it descended with terrific speed ; and, in en-
deavouring to check it by fixing a pin in the break, he
was caught by the unattached chain, which carried him
round the drum, severed his head from his body, cut his
waist in two, and scattered pieces of his flesh over the
machinery.
INSOLVENCY AMONGST IRISH FARMERS. —The Dub-
lin Gazette of Tuesday se'nnight, contains a list of no
less than 73 insolvents whose cases are to be disposed of
at Nenagh, Tipperary, on the 7th of December next. Of
this number, 41 are set down as " farmers." The same
Gazette gives the name of 31 insolvent, who are to be
brought before the commissioner at Limerick, on the 9th
December ;of this list 10 are " farmers." Friday's
Gazette contains the names of 48 insolvents who are to
appear at Ennis, •on the 4th of December-30 of this
number are "farmers."
FRIGIITFUL CASE OF AIIDUCTION.—On Sunday night,
a lawless gang under arms paid one of their nocturnal
visits to the house of Roger Molony, of Lisnamuck, near
Curragh Chase, in this county. At once they smashed
the windows, and havingjhereby effected an entrance,
rushed like so many demo& up stairs where his daughter
lay in bed with her sister. They seized their innocent
victim and dragged her off in her night dress, amid her
shrieks and the lamentations of her family. Having pulled
her along mercilessly for about a mile through fields, over
ditches and fences, her feet and head bare, they entered
the house of Mr. Richard Creagh, where they left her
with the monster whom they designed for her husband ;
but they were grossly disappointed, for Mrs. Creagh, a
highminded woman, afforded that sanctuary and protec-
tion she so mu ei wanted, and in the morning restored
and accompanied her to her disconsolate parents. The
principal is still at large, but several of his companions in
guilt have been lodged in bridewell.—Limerick Chron.
A TALE OF HORROR.—Mr. Stafford O'Brien shocked
the house on Tuesday night with the following narration
of the circumstances connected with the recent attempt
to assassinate Mr. Bayly, near Nenagh :—" With re-
spect to one crime," remarked the hon. gentleman, "be-
ing connected with the district where it happened, I will
state the facts to the house. and they will skew—for it is
not, I regret to say, a solitary crime—the state of feeling
which exists in Ireland respecting that species of crime.
I allude to the attempt upon Mr. Bayly. Mr. Bayly is a
man so well known that any eulogy I could pass upon
him would be idle indeed. There may be cases of persons
accused of hard dealing, but hard dealing is no excuse for
assassination. Mr. Bayly, however, needs no eulogy
which I can bestow ; and Mr. Bayly—l say it with grief,
I am obliged to say it, and in the face of parliament I say
it—is one of those men whose character deepens the
shame which belongs to a state of society that could suf-
for an attempt at his assassination. He was going in his
gig to Nenagh to witness the result of an experiment for
lighting the town with gas. My informant tells me, that
he remarked two men watching behind a wall, and a
young country girl on the other side of the road. Upon
his return from the town Mr. Bayly was driving home
with his brother-in-law, when his murderers aimed at
him from behind the wall. The shot entered his jaw, and
forced out some of his teeth, splitting his tongue in half.
His brother-in-law (Mr. Head) after the shot, heard the
country girl, who had been set to watch and give the sig-
nal to the murderers, say loudly ' Well done boys ; now
make off as fast as you can.' Mr. Head took his wounded
brother-in-law, who exhibited a horrible spectacle, into
the house of a tenant of my father ; and he said, ' For
God's sake go for a surgeon to Nenagh.' Nenagh was
about a mile distant. I blush for the Irish people—l
blush Tor human nature—not one single soul would go for
a soldier, and his brother-in-law was obliged to leave Mr.
Bayly in the torment and agony of his wounds, and him-
self go for a surgeon. We have heard that in Ireland
there is a feeling of fear at giving assistance and protection
against violence; and, if 11fr. Head had asked them to
assist in pursuing the murderers, and they had refused.
even this we should deeply deplore. But when the victim
lay bleeding in the house, how to reconcile such a refusal,
on the part of men and Christians, with thefeelings which
exist in other countries, I know not, or what must be the
consequencesif such a state of things shall continn.e. The
vengeance was not considered complete; the victim was
not dead ; he hail only his tongue split and his teeth
knocked out."