The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

IRE LAND.

Capt. Elliott, of the 4th Dragoons, and his son about
fourteen years old, were unfortunately drowned in the
river at Athlone, on Wednesday last. The boat which
the captain had hired was found sunk, but there is no
account how the accident occurred.

On Sunday two men and a woman were drowned at
Voughal by the upsetting of a boat.
REPEAL ASSOClATlON.—Therepealers held their usual
weekly meeting on Monday, in the Conciliation Hall.
On the motion of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., Mr. R.
Dillon Brown, M.P., was called to the chair. The fol.
lowing sums were handed in from America:—£l2:i from
Montreal, Canada ; from St. John's, New Brunswick,
£240; and from New Orleans, £242. In consequence
the rent amounted to £1,162 3s. 9d.
DARING ABDUCTION.—OnThursday evening, between
five and six o'clock, while a young lady of this city, Miss
Cussen, was walking in company with her aunt, Mrs.
O'Leary, on the Boxborough-road, they were met by
four men, unknown, one of whom was armed, who seized
on Miss Cussen, and dragged her down the avenue lead-
ing to the Cork-road, where two covered cars were in
waiting, in one of which a respectable young man, in ap-
pearance, was observed. The victim of this outrage
screamed violently when torn from the grasp of her aunt,
and with great exertion was thrust into the car in which
the gentleman was, when another struggle ensued, and
she succeeded in getting out, but was again dragged into
the vehicle, and the assistants having mounted the second
car the party drove off rapidly on the Cork-road with their
prize. There were a few persons attracted to the spot,
one of whom seized the horse's head, but was obliged to
let it go when a pistol was presented at him. Miss Cussen
is supposed to have a handsome fortune, which may ac-
count for the abduction.—Limerick Chronicle.

THE QUEEN AND IRELAND.—The Dublin Evening
Mail of Friday contains the following extraordinary an-
nouncement :—" It is stated in a private letter we this
day received from London, and written by one who has
peculiar means of obtaining authentic information, that
it has been resolved that her Majesty should visit Ireland
this year. If our information rested here, the duty de-
volving upon us, as journalists, would be clear and sim-
ple; for it would merely consist in a cordial and sincere
call upon all her Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, of
every class and creed, to unite on this auspicious occasion
in paying every tribute of respect and fealty to the Sove-
reign of their affections—the only rivalry being one of
love. But, alas ! the authority upon which the fact of
the intended Ro al visit rests, adds—' Sir Robert Peel
intends to make the Royal progress the opportunity of a
coup d'etat—that of releasing Mr. O'Connell and his
co-conspirators from prison, as a graceful concession on
the part of her Majesty on her first visit to her Irish
dominions.' Is it possible that a Prime Minister of
England can—is it credible that Sir Robert Peel dare—
convert his Royal Mistress into a political puppet in his
hands, or induce the Sovereign of England to play so
disreputable a part as this, in so vile and so contemptible
a drama ?"

A RETRoonNnE, MOVEMENT.—The unusual circum-
stance of a barrister beaisng admitted to the roll of attornies
recently took place,
quearPPears by a late decision of the
Irish Court of Exchequer, an application made by
the Solicitor-General, who
Symes, late a barrister- ght be admitted as an
barrister-at-law, that a Mr. Arthur-
been articled. It
attorney, notwithstanding he liticli
appeared the applicant was brother of
Radcliffe Syn)es, a solicitor, who dise:dits:ureclSarni.nlyle'dihnoinnaFaaens-
bruary last. At his decease several •
incomplete state, and the application arose from many
psrties interested being of opinion their interests would
be promcted by the applicant acting as their solicitor. It

appears that Mr. A. Symes was called to the bar in 1836,
and during the last three years he acted as the legal ad-
viser of his brother in the- abovementioned suits and ac-
tions. Under these circumstances, he applied to the
Court to be admitted, and was strenuously opposed by the
Law Society. lie thereupon petitioned the benchers, and
they accordingly gave him permission to be " appren-
ticed," and ordered his name to be struck off the barris-
ters' roll. The applicant was then debarred, and he at
once articled himself. The counsel, in opposition to the
application, observed that, " Mr. Symes, after serving an
apprenticeship of a full week, now came into court and
sought to be admitted an attorney ! He supposed the day
was not far distant when half-pay officers from the army
and navy would be applying to be transformed into attor-
neys, and that some ordeal shoud be gone through by
candidates for the bar than that men should be called to
the bar with wigs on their heads, and nothing inside their
wigs but their heads." The Court, however, thought its
powers might be exercised in favour of Mr. Symes, and a
rule was made that he should be admitted an attorney.