The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-10 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

MURDER.—A passenger by the Dublin coach to this city
on Wednesday, upon whose veracity we can place the fullest
reliance, has given us the following piece of information :
On Monday night last, a woman of rather respectable ap-
pearance, and of about the age of forty, was found murdered
in the neighbourhood of Blackcburch, within ten miles of
the city of Dublin. She had a large gash on her forehead,
and a very severe wound extending to a considerable depth
in her side, from which her bowels protruded and caused a
very offensive effluvia. The body was found on the top of a
quickset hedge, where it was evidently dragged, and near to
the spot lay a large clasp knife, full of blood. Who the
female was, had not been known, but the inquest was not to
have been held until yesterday for the purpose of obtaining
information.— Limerick Standard.
OUTS AGE.—On Sunday evening last, a man named Sulli-
van and his niece, while on their way home to the residence,
which is about a. mile from Cashel, they were followed by a
ruffian, who set a dog at Sullivan, with an intention to ill-
treat the young woman while the dog would be tearing her
uncle; but when he saw she would not satisfy his wishes, he
then set the dog at her—so they both lie in a most dangerous
state in the county Infirmary; their bodies are all bit and
torn by the dog. The ruffian was arrested and lodged in
bride,,vall by Head-constable Stack.— Tipperary Constitution.
OUTRAGE.—MichaeI Kieran, Laurence Kieran, and
Thomas English, left the market of Dundalk, on the 23d
inst. with the intention ot going home to Drumas, county of
Monagham. Having got as far as Philipstown, they were
overtaken by Francis M'Kenna, Anne, his wife, and James
Fitzimons, who were all seated in a cart. M'Kenna, on
joining them, asked them to take a seat, which they did, and
proceeded together as far as Miltown, where he jumped out,
and refused to sit any longer in the cart. His wife begged of
Kieran to help him in again, and whilst he was doing so
M'Kenna stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife, causing
protrusion of the bowels to a considerable extent. Infoima-
non of the outrage having been forwarded to Mr. Armstrong,
c. c. he, accompanied by Dr. Walker, left Dundalk on the
following morning, and proceeded to the place, where they
found the unfortunate man, Kieran, in a state of great agony.
After considerable difficulty the bowels were replaced by Dr.
Walker, and the sufferer conveyed to the county Louth
infirmary. M'Kenna and Fitzimons have been taken into
custody, and committed to Dundalk Gaol.—Drogheda Journal.
MURDER.—The body of a man named Peter Shanley was
found murdered on Saturday last, within a hundred yards
of the town of Mohill, County Leitrim!, from the market of
which place he was proceeding home. His skull was frac-
tured with several blows of a hatchet. The body was found
covered up with weeds. Six persons are in custody on sus-
picion of being concerned in the sanguinary deed. A man
named M'Manus is also missing from the same neighbour-
hood.—Limerick Standard.
ANOTHER MURDER IN THE COUNTY ARMAGH !—On
Tuesday last, a young man named Murphy, son of a bailiff,
employed by Mr. Courtney, of Mouutbailey, was murdered
on the new road near Silver-bridge. The parties, we are
informed, had settled some trifling dispute, and had shaken
hands when about parting, when unfortunately some expres-
sion revived the dispute, after which deceased received a
blow from one of the adverse party, which deprived him of
life. The murderer has fled from justice.—Newry Telegraph.
POPERY.—R' VIE EFFECTS OF MARRIAGES BETWEEN PRO-
TESTANTS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS.—The following inci-
dent, for the truth of which we pledge ourselves, will serve
to show the animus of Popery. The names of the parties
alluded to in it, though in our possession, we do not, for
several reasons, choose to disclose, hut we may mention that
they move in the middle rank of life, and are what may be
called respectable :—Within the last few days, a young man,
a Protestant, was married by a Protestant clergyman of this
city, to a young woman, a Roman Catholic. The father of
the young woman is a Protestant, but, her mother being a
Roman Catholic, he, permitted the girl to be brought up in
the faith of the Romish Church, in accordance with the
mother's desires. At the wedding, in the evening, a nu-
merous party of both persuasions were present, and every-
thing went on agreeably for a few hours. At length, how-
ever, a Roman Catholic female present threw out an insinua-
tion to the effect, that "no marriage had taken place, inas-
much as they were not joined together by the Priest." The
bride's father very properly suggested, that the present was
not a fitting place for the introduction of any subject border-
ing upon religion, and that a personal favour would be con-
ferred upon him, if it were not brought forward a second
tune. Upon this, ell the Roman Catholics in the room,
females as well as males, broadly reiterated what had been
said before, and, as with one voice, exclaimed, that the cere-
mony, which haft been gone through in the morning, was a
perfect nullity. The Protestants here interfered—they en-
deavoured in the first place to prove that the marriage was
perfectly valid, and, in the next, to remonstrate with their
opponents upon the impropriety of their conduct in broach-
ing such a topic at such a time. Both argument and remon-
strance were in vain—the Roman Catholic party became
furious, and, from words, they proceeded to blows. Their
protestant antagonists endeavoured, of course, to defend
themselves as well as they were able from the unexpected
assault made upon them—a scene of indescribable confusion
followed which lasted a considerable time, and which at
length ended in the bride's father and the bridegroom himself
being severely beaten, and in several others of the party on
both sides receiving black eyes and bloody noses.—Limerick
Standard.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
We have frequently,
when writing upon the foregoing
topics, assumed a tone of sarcastic levity very foreign indeed
from the feelings of our hearts, and, under other circum-
stances, quite unsuitable. But it was almost impossible to
contrast the "tranquility" which the government asserted to
prevail, with the facts which bespoke the real state of the
country, without smiling at the cool impudence which could
plume itself upon such a state of things, and laughing openly
at the Marquizzical charlatanerie which could extract a re-
port of peace out of the outcries of murder, and draw titles
of commendation from that fearful state of society which, as
Doctor M`liale truly says, made "the country echo with
We
the
artificial chorus of praise on a paternal government."
Can, however, smile no longer. The airs of the coxcomb
cease to be ridiculous when they involve the community in
danger. We might laugh at the idiot flaunting in the fea-
thers of state, but when he begins to toss firebrands, we call
for manacles and bind him.
Onr task today ii of tto mast serials description, We

shall begin with the Gazette—not that it presents a picture of
the whole truth—but because what it does present is a minia-
ture, an abridged representation of the hideous truths that are
to follow. Two proclamations exhibit the leading features of
the country—assassination and arson. One announces the

attempt on the life of Mr. Edward Smith, (lately detailed in
this paper), the other the total destruction by fire of the house
and property of Mr. Ledger, in the county of Limerick, per-
petrated by a body of armed men at midnight..
The accounts from the provincial journals may be said to
be nothing more than an enlargement of these features, or a
multiplication of them, with the awful addition of sacrilege,

.be plunder of fire-arms, and other crimes of an insurrec-
ionary character. We shall classify the contents of our ex-

racts in counties, viz. :
CU UNT Y or TIPPER A RY.—Two murders, one case of arson,

two of the plunder of fire-arms, one sacrilege.
COUNTY OF CLARE.—One murder, awfully barbarous.
COUNTY OF WEEFORD.—One sacrilege, and the inter-
ruption of divine service in .a Protestant church on the Sab-

bath day.
COUNTY OF KlLlCENNY.—Disasters and outrages arising
from the fatal anti-tithe meeting of Knockrue.
Coe NT r -er-A it yrs -

We have thus to record in one publication the prepetration
of four, murders; one attempt to assassinate ; two gross sa-
crilegious outrages; two robberies of fire-arms; and to wind
up all with the account of a drunken and diabolical revel
upon the Sabbath-day, ending in a. furious faction battle, on
the very spot where the earth was yet soaking in the life blood
of those deluded victims of agitation, who meeting to dese-
crate the Sabbath by an illegal political meeting, met with
an untimely death in the midst of their crime.
Is not this a hideous—a frightful state of the country?
We ask not redress from the government; it were vain to
ask it. But we beg the man who is able to procure redress
—we beg the Duke of Wellington to look into our case—
and if he wish bis country as well as we believe he does—
and as he lately declared he did—let him take the vigorous

but necessary Measures of ridding her from the mis-goveru-
ment which produces such horrible consequences.
The government press boasts that there are no capital con-
victions at the assizes, and puts this fact forward in proof of
the tranquillity of the country. No convictions! To be sure
there are none. How could there be ? Bad as is the con-
struction of the juries, acquittals in every instance are se-
cured by the conduct of the crown lawyers; and it is in these

times quite sufficient that the governii.entprosecutes, to in-
sure the escape of those charged with felonies, however atro-
cious. The crown foregoes its rights of challenge, and the
party accused "puts by" twenty jurors, if necessary, until be
fills the box with his own relatives and connexions his sworn

brother Ribbonman ; and in many instances, the participator
in his crime, and the partner in his guilt.
And, with matters thus arranged, we are triumphantly told
—that there are no convictions.
We append the details upon which we have offered the fore-
going comments:—
(FROM THE DUBLIN GAZETTE OF TUESDAY.)
"DUBLIN CASTLE, AUGUST 2.—On the eveningof the 28th
ult., about half-past nine o'clock, Mr. Edward Smith, son of
D. -V. Smith, Esq., of Oakwood, parish of Kilcommon, in the
King's County, was fired at by some person in ambush, within
a few yards from the avenue gate leading from the high road.
—One hundred pounds. and a free pardon, &C.
"AUGUST 3.—Between the hours of two and three o'clock
on the morning, of the 22d ult., the house of Mr. Zachariah
Ledger, of Kilibreedy, parish of Bruree, and county of Lime-
rick, was attacked by seven or eight armed men, who set fire
to it and burned it to the ground, together with property to a
considerable amount, for which outrage two men have been
apprehended and fully identified.—Fifty pounds, &c.
T. DRUMMOND."
MURDER.—On Wednesday evening last, a woman (a
stranger, name unknown) was found lying in a state of in-
sensibility on the road side, near Templetooby. At first it
was.thought to be the effect of liquor, hut, on the following
day, the police hearing of the case had her removed to the
village of Templehoohv, and had medical advice procured,
when it was ascertained that the stupor did not proceed from
liquor as was at first supposed, but was caused by an exten-
sive fracture on the side of her head. The poor woman died
the sime day. A coroner's inquest was held on the body,
and a verdict of wilful murder returned against some person
or persons unknown. She is supposed to be the wife of a
pedlar.
MURDER AGAIN.—On the 17th of March last, a man,
named Connors, was murdered near Ashlvparli, about half-
way between Burrisokane and Nenagh. His wife identified
some of the murderers, had them apprehended, and they
were to be tried at the last assizes. However, a few days
before the assizes, two men came to the deceased's wife, with
a false token, and told her that her sister wanted her on par-
ticular business; she, thinking their story was correct, went
with them, and has not been since heard of.— Tipperary Con-

stitution.
INGENDIARISM.—On Tuesday night, the dairy-house and

furniture belonging to Mr. Alleyn, of Tipperary, was en
tirely consumed Fortunately a person in the house was
alarmed by the flames, or a family, about eight in number,
would have shared the same fate. The reason assigned for
this outrage is, that the dairyman (named Walsh) had taken
a farm a fw days before, which was occupied by some de-
faulting tenants.—Limerick Standard.
On Thursday evening last, two men, with their faces
blackened, went to the house of Robert Kennedy, within a
mile and a-half of this town, and took two guns. Kennedy
was attending the funeral of a frfend when the occurrence
took place—had he been at home they would hot have got off
so.easilv. It is said that Kennedy's wife knows one of the
ruffians. Kennedy transported a man named Egao, for
taking a gun from him about two years back.
Two ruffians, with their faces blackened, went to the house
of Mr. Palmer, near Cloughjordan, on the 22d ult., whilst
the family were in the above town at prayers, and took a
blunderbuss and case of pistols. The " fine pisantry" ..are
determined to be well armed for the winter's work.
MOST BARBOUROUS MURDER.—Although the following
barbarous murder was perpetrated so far back as Friday week
last, the 27th ult., yet, so silently are those matters kept by
the government and the populace just now, that the particu-
lars were not communicated to us before yesterday. We,
however, lose no time in giving them to the public, in nearly
the same words as they were narrated --On the day men-
tioned, a young man of the name of James O'Neil), of this
county, was, with two other young men (comrades,) coming
through Liscannor, in the county of Clare, after bathing in
the river, which flows near that place. They were at the
time amusing themselves by playing on a flute, when a fellow
named Darby Considine, overhearing the sound of the in-
strument, came out of his house, and in an impassioned
tone, asked them, "Why they dared to make such a noise,
and a friend of his sick in the place ?" O'Neill replied,
that he was a stranger in that part of the country--that he
was consequently not aware of any one being sick there,
and that it he had been aware of it he would not have played.
Instead of this appeasing the fellow, it had the contrary
effect—for, calling two others to his assistance, the three of
them commenced to beat the young men in the most savage
manner. O'Neill, after receiving several blows, made an
effort to escape, but being quickly pursued by Considine, the
latter overtook him in the middle of a potatoe garden, where
he most barbarously kicked and struck his unfortunate vic-
tim. Not content with this, however, he seized him by the
collar of the coat, and dragged him out on the road, where,
raising a hurley above his head and striking him with it with
his main foree, he—horrible to relate—killed him on the spot
at the first blow ! His two blood-thirsty assistants he came
up and began to strike the unfortunate deceased with stones,
which they ceased not to do until satisfied that they had made
a finish of him, and until they had broken his skull in such a
manner as to cause the brains to protrude !! ! Considine
and the two others have since absconded. This murder, it is
most important for the public to know, was perpetrated within
only a few perches of the police station at Liscannur. We
do not believe it possible for even the greatest savages on the
face of the earth to commit a more cold-blooded or a more
horrible one ; and yet what reward have the government
offered to bring the offenders to justice ? £2OO, the reader
will naturally suppose, as should we ourselves if in his place.
No, reader, it is not the one-fourth of that amount. They
have 'ordered the chief constable of police at Ennistimon,
Mr. Kittson, to offer forty pounds only, for their discovery !
Comment on this would surely be superfluous.—Limerick
Standard.
SACRILEGE.—On last Sunday evening, between the hours
of six and seven o'clock, as the Rev. Mr. Goolde was reading
the burial service over the remains of Michael Shea (a Pro-
testant) in Finnoe churchyard, two men, one armed with a
stick, the other with a spade, followed by others, rushed in,
knocked the minister aside, (alike regardless of his calling,
and the manner in which he was engaged) and commenced
huddling the coffin into the grave and covering it, remarking
at the same time that they would not allow any friend of theirs
to be damned. The widow of Shea threw herself into the
grave, and implored of the miscreants to let the service he
read; the man with the spade struck her, and she fell pros-
trate on the coffin, while the other fellow shovelled the clay
on her. Her outcries alarmed Thomas Waller, Esq. whose
house is in the vicinity of the grave yard. and were it not for
his interference and that of Counsellor Waller, Dr. Hopkins,
and Thomas Stoney, Esq. it is not unlikely but the savage
monsters would have buried the woman alive sooner than
allow the burial service to be read by a minister.—Nenagh
Guardian.
MORE SACRILEGE.—On Saturday last a funeral entered the
grave-yard of Rossdroit, county Wexford; during divine ser-
vice. The mob, composing the procession, attempted in the
most insulting manner to prevent the service of the day pro-
ceeding within the church; they succeeded in drowning the
voice of the officiating clergyman, the Rev. Ephraim Hinson,
the further outrage would in all probability have been com-
mitted, had not several of the congregation immediately risen
to avenge this insult to the house of God. The scene now
presented was appalling—several females were carried in a
state of insensibility into the vestry, and the service speedily
concluded. It is needless to state, that the dastards who were
foremost in the outrage were also amongst the first to retreat,
and were chased to the company of their fellow-ruffians in the
grave-yard. Has it come to this, that no protection will be
afforded to the altars of onr religion, and that Protestants of
the country must in future trust to their own strong arms for
the defence refused by a mob-led, priest-ridden, and besotted
legislature ? Waterford Mail.
APPENDIX TO THE KNOCKRUE ANTI-TITHE MEETING.—
Another victim of anti-tithe agitation, or, according to the
logic of our local contemporary, another martyr has to be ad-
ded to the bloody catalogue hitherto produced by the mani-
festoes of such ministers of peace as the Right Rev. Doctor
Doyle, and such disinterested patriots as' Daniel O'Connell.
A man of the name of M'Daniel, of Courtown, was buried on
Thursday last, having survived the injuries received on the
Sunday of the meeting, by the falling 'of the platform, not
quite two days. But there is another circumstance connected
with that Sunday's meeting, which it is right the public should
be made acquainted with. Notwithstanding the instituted
sanctity of the day itself—notwithstanding the awful exam-
ples before their eyes, a very considerable number of those
who call themselves Christian members of the Catholic Church,
commenced (a few moments after the awful occurrence rela-
ted in our last) a most disgraceful scene of whiskey drinking
on the very spot where the blood of their deluded fellow-crea-
tures was actually soaking into the earth ! and which termi-
nated towards nightfall in a disgraceful scene of fighting and
uproar, extending nearly a mile from the fatal spot! Now,
Christian reader, contemplate a Sabbath so begun and so ter-
minated, and then admire and adore the long suffering of the
Almighty.—Kilkenvy Moderator.

Duke Henry of Wurtemberg, uncle to the King of Wur-
temberg, died at Stuttgardt, on the 28th ult.. in the 67th year
of his age.
SNUFF TAKING.—A New York paper says that a dead
body of a person, who, when alive, had been a great snuff
taker, was galvanised in that city, and as soon as the galvanic
battery was applied to the spine, the body very gently raised
its arms, and put its fingers to its nose as if taking a pinch of
snuff.
GLUTTONY.—A female in the neighbourhood of Kirkella,
on the 16th ult., undertook after supper, for a wager of six-
pence, to eat sixteen boiled eggs in ten minutes. She dis-
patched them in seven minutes and a half, went to bed, and
the morning was ready fora dozen at breakfast.—Hull Times.
ABSENCE OF MIND.—A gentleman while out shooting in
Tennessee, put the wadding into his clothes, and rammed
himself down his rifleinstead. Having, however fortunately
left his caps on, he was instantly shot to the top of a pine
tee, into the society of a racoon, who explained to him his
mistake.

B
ONES.—It appears by a return ordered by the House of
Commons that the declared value of hones of cattle and other
animals, and of fish, (except whale fins,) whether burnt or
not, or as animal charcoal, imported into the United King-
dom in the year 1835, amounted to £155,279 9s 11d; and in
1836 to 171,806 7s 10d.
BRUTAL AssAum—Robert Ward, who is constable for
Wuerdle and Wardle, was charged along with John Whit-
worth, with committing an indecent assault on Elizabeth
Swire, who was far advanced in pregnancy, and has since
been prematurely confined, the prosecutrix being unable to
'attend they were ordered tßoiacfinkdb gronoda staanddsufficient bail, to
appear op her recovery,— u a