The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

Nor. 14, 1848.

WHAT THE IRISH REBELS HAD INTENDED

TO DO.

For the last few days, the inhabitants of Dublin have
been entertained with a plan, on paper, of the way in
which the revolution of Ireland was to have been achieved,
beginning with Dublin. The mode of operation has been
revealed through the American press, by a Mr. Darcy
Magee, one of the confederates, who escaped to the land
of liberty. The modue operandi was to be introduced
also into the towns of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Kil-
kenny, Galway, &c., and the insnrrection effected accord-
ing to the following arrangement :—About the first week
in September, if all had been allowed to go on smoothly,
a particular evening at about nine o'clock, was to be fixed
for the insurrection. It was to be managed by the clubs.
The city was then (early in July) marked out in sections
or military divisions, on maps supplied by a gentleman
connected with the üblin corporation. To each of these
sections there was a club attached. For instance, the
" Dr. Doyle" was to head the rising from its own quarters
in Dolier-street, down Townsend-street, Great Bruns-
wick-street, and the Coal Quays, to the Grand Canal.
Beyond that boundary the " Henry Jackson" and the
" St. Ruth" Clubs were to barricade and burn—to shoot,
pike, and plunder, all Her Majesty's soldiery and loyal
subjeets. Great things were expected from the " Grattan"
Club at the opposite side of the Liffey, while the Moly-
neux" (Brennan's), the " Merchant's Club" (Darcy Ma-
gee's own), and "The Oliver Bond," under Richard,
O'Gorman, jun., were to do the real Parisian " three
glorious days."
The hour of 'nine or ten o'clock being fixed, the clubs
were to issue forth simultaneously, and set fire to houses
here and there—by way of signals to their friends—to call
out the people, and to distract the authorities. The work
of barricading was then to commence ; and as the streets
of Dublin are, generally speaking, fully double the width
of those of Paris, and instead of the broad stone pavement
of the French capital, are smooth as M•Adam's shingles
can make them, the paved crossings would contribute but
little towards the desired object ; particular attention was
then directed to the area railings and to the lamp-posts.
These failing to raise proper barriers, the grocers' shops
were accurately noted down for the information of the
patriots, as places where counters, casks, tea-chests, and
other bulky articles could be obtained. The barricade
made, the adjoining houses which commanded it where to
be taken possession of, for and in the name of the Irish
Republic. Communications were to he broken into the
adjoining houses—the doors and windows barricaded with
mattresses, beds, furniture, and anything that could ob-
struct the entrance of a soldier. When all the barricades
were formed, then the gas pipes were to be cut, and the
city reduced .to utter darkness. Public buildings were to
be burned ; and, in short, the city also, if deemed neces-
sary for the safety of the rebels.
Gavan Duffy, John Martin, Keven O'Doherty, and
Dalton Williams, were to be released from Newgate, and
that odious building burned to the ground—of course the
robbers therein confined being first enlarged and enrolled
in the patriotic ranks. The council of five—that is, or
was—Messrs. Meagher, Devin Reilly, Dillon, Magee, and
another, were to be a provisional government until order
was restored in Dublin. O'Gorman was to be one of the
military leaders, and a variety of other situations were
equally well provided for. Such is an outline of the plan
actually adopted at one of the clubs, and recommended to
the chief club—the " Dr. Doyle," of which Mr. Charles
Gavan Duffy was president.

COMMITTAL OF A BARONESS FOR FELONY•

At the Worship-street (London) Police-office on Friday
the Portuguese baroness, Maria Calota Alves Cabral, and
her servant Maria Rosa, were placed at the bar for final
examination before Mr. Arnold, charged with having
stolen a silver brooch, a quantity of linen, wearing apparel,
and other articles, the property of her landlady Mrs. Esther
Pitman, the proprietress of a boarding establishment for
distinguished foreigners in Finsbury-square.
Since the former examination, which appeared in our
last paper, the police have been engaged in unremitting
efforts to trace the missing portion of the property, com-
prising a gold watch and various other valuables, which
the prosecutrix had lost since the prisoners had resided in
her house ; but it was intimated that the only article re-
covered was a diamond ring, which was accidentally found,
since the prisoners had been liberated upon bail, secreted
beneath some papers at the bottom of a drawer in the
butler's pantry.
Mr. France, a solicitor, addressed the magistrate upon
behalf of the prisoners, and said that he wished to offer a -
few explanatory observations respecting the property
found in the possession of the accused lady at the time of
her apprehension. The magistrate would recollect that
the articles in question consisted of a silver brooch, be-
longing to Mrs. Pitman, which had been taken from the
hand of the baroness, and two towels and some pieces of
soap, which were found concealed beneath the upper part
of her dress. With regard to the brooch, it was positively
asserted by the lady that she had received it from her ser-
vant Rosa, who alleged that she had picked it up in the
passage, and was now ready to testify to that fact ; and he
was instructed to assure the magistrate that she had been
furnished with the soap and towels, according to the cus-
tom of the establishment, for her personal use. Although
it might appear somewhat remarkable for a lady to deposit
such things in her bosom, the suspicion naturally attach-
ing
to such an act would be at once obliterated when he
mentioned that she was a person of most singular and ec-
centric habits, and was suffering from mental weakness
approaching to imbecility.
The prosecutrix was here recalled by the magistrate,
and stated, iu answer to his questions, that sho had never
observed any marked peculiarity in the habits of the elder
prisoner, nor anything in her conduct and manner to indi-
cate that she was labouring under mental aberration.
Serjeant Brannan also reminded the magistrate that, in
addition to the two towels discovered upon the lady's
person. he found another in the room, which was the one
left for her use, and a fourth concealed in her wardrobe.
The prisoner's solicitor, in continuation, said that
although the unhappy condition of the baaoness might
not have attracted the notice of her landlady it was, never-
theless, the fact, in confirmation of which he might men-
tion that a letter had been placed in his hands from 3
gentleman at St. Michael's, in the Azores, where she
formerly resided, intimating that the subject had been
formally brought under the notice of the judicial authori-
ties there, who were so satisfied of her mental incapacity
that they had appointed trustees for the management of
her extensive estates in that island.
Mr. Arnold said that the observations of the learned
gentlemen were strictly for the consideration of a jury;
and, although there appeared some circumstances in the
case of the elder prisoner which might tell in her favour,
he felt it his duty to commit them both for trial. lie
had no objection, however, to allow the bail which bad
already been put in to be extended for her appearance at
the sessions.

The Solicitor, however, intimated that the Consul-
General of Portugal, le Commandeer Vanzeller, who had
before been bail for the baroness, was not now in at-
tendance, and as he understood that he declined, in con-
sequence of his official capacity, interfering any further
in the matter, the unfortunate lady had no hope of ob-
taining any other sureties, as she had no personal friends
in this country.
The depositions of the witnesses were then read over
by Mr. Hurlstone, the clerk, and explained, through ibe
medium of an interpreter, to the prisoners, who were re-
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FIRE.—DEATH BY SUFFOCATION.-0/1 Wednesdal
night a fire broke out on the premises of Mr.
Charles Beasley, linen-draper, Redcliff-pit, Bristol.
The men and engines of the various fire-offices were
speedily on the spot, and having a good supply of water,
from the plugs of the Water Works Company, they were
enabled to prevent the flames extending beyond the shop,
to which the damage, as regards the stock, was entirely
confined. We are sorry to add, however, that a female
servant in the employ of Mr. Beasley, met with her death
in consequence of the fire ; her name is Phoebe Carter,
aged 22 years.
PRINCE ALBERT AND THE CORNISH MINES.—LadY
Basset's court for her tenantry of the Barron of Penwerrist
was held at Selley's hotel, Falmouth, this week, on which
occasion Mr. Marriot, her Ladyship's steward, announced
that Prince Albert, at his own risk, had set to work a
mine in St. Ann's parish. Though these operations were
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the mines promises to make the Prince very popular
amongst them.

BENEFITS OF EARLY CLOSING.—The Young Men's
Christian Association, which has for its object the im-
provement of the moral and spiritual condition of cow;
mercial young men, recently announced their proposea
course of twelve lectures, to be delivered during the en-
suing season in the great room, Exeter-hall. Before the
notice had been issued three weeks, three thousand tickets
for the course were sold—the vast majority of them te,
young men, who thus manifestly refute the charge that
"if time be given it will be abused." Many bitter regret°,
are often expressed by young men who are anxious to ays;',
themselves of such opportunities of improvement, hab
who are utterly prevented by the unreasonable and anti-
Christian late-hour-system, which still so widely prevails'
EXTRACT FROM ADMIRAL BARRINGTON'S WILL .1
" Many testimonials of my friendship and regard I meant
to leave, would time admit of it ; but the enemy is in
sight, and I trust, with the assistance of my gracious teal,
good God, to make a gallant defence and to save or/a"
with my country."

.TEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL.
IDirect.l Indirect.' Direct.l Indirect.

Australia
Bahia
Barbadoes
Bombay
B. Ayres
Calcutta
C. G. Hope
Charleston
China
Demerara
Havana
Jamaica
La Guavra

July l 31Lima I Sept. 1°
Sept. 26 Maranham Sept.l2
1 Oct. 1 Mauritius . ' .. Aug. 7.4
Oct. "
3 Mobile , SO
Aug. 26 Monte Vides . • Aug. 2$
Sept. 21 New Orleans .. Oct. n.,
New York 1 .. . • ''''
Oct . 21 Pernambuco. Sept. 30, .. na
Aug. 30 Rio Janeiro .. Sept. fa
Oct. 5 Savannah 1 .. Oct. 1;
.. 1 St. Helena . ' .. Sept. 4
.. 7 Valparaiso .. ,Aug.
.. 7 era Cruz .. Pct. ",

TIDE TABLE.
MORN. lEVENO.I HOHT.

h. m.
0 54
1 42
2 32
3 25
4 27
5 40
6 57

HOLYDAYS, ETC.

h. m. I ft. in.
1 17 20 2
2 8 18 6
2 58 16 7
354 I 14 8
6
5 13
3 3
19 12 9 22d Sund aft.Triniti•
632 12 7