The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

THE IRISH STATE PRISONERS.

At the present moment the following notice of the early
life and career of the faction who have brought about the
present state of things in Ireland may not perhaps be un-
interesting. A brief biography of Mr. Smith O'Brien's
life•has already been made public. Mr. C. Gavan Duffy
is the son of a farmer in the county of Monaghan. In
his early career he moved in a very subordinate position ,
indeed. The first prominent position he occupied was
that•of a writer on the Dublin Morning Register, a repeal
or -radical publication, now extinct. He subsequently
proceeded to Belfast, where he was employed by the
priests of the district to edite and otherwise manage a
journal known as the Belfast Vindicator. Mr. Duffy,
while in this position, supported the Whigs. On the
latter party been driven from office in 1841, the Vindi-
valor grew more violent, but, nevertheless, its circulation
gradually decreased, and it was almost defunct when Mr.
Duffy, by publishing a violent article against government,
in reference to the execution of a man named'Woods, for
murder, whom he described as-having been illegally con-
victed by a Protestant jury, -brought down on him the
vengeance of Mr. Blackburne, the Attorney-General of
the period. Duffy was duly tried and convicted, and
would have been brought up 'for judgment had he not
expressed contrition, and Mr.'T. B. Smith, who had suc-
ceeded to the office of Attorney-General, forgave him.
In 1842, Mr. Duffy, whose name had claimed some degree
of notoriety, established the Nation newspaper, by 'which
he was supposed to have made a large fortune, that.paper
having enjoyed for several years a large circulation in Ire-
land. It is now certain that he has not done so, and that
•in truth the sedition of the Nation was very unprofitable,
for its owners affairs are-in the most extreme state of
derangement. His assets will hardly pay his liabilities.
'lt is understood that he has out on mortgage a sum of
41,500; besides book debts, which in his peculiar case will
probably be difficult to realise, his liabilities amount to
-upwards of the sum above-named. Of these, 00 are
owing to his paper manufacturer, and £4OO to the engineer
who recently supplied him with .a patent printing machine.
Mr. Duffy is a Roman Catholic. He is not more than
thirty-two years of age.
Mr. Meagher is the son of "Mr. Thomas Meagher, M.P.
•for Waterford City, a merchant and an alderman of that
place, who has amassed considerable wealth by trading
with America. The young gentleman, now about twenty-
six. years of age, possesses some property independent of
his father, with whom, as well as with his brother, he has
always been at variance so far .as politics are concerned.
He also is a Roman Catholic. According to his own
statement, he was induced to :embark in the cause of
repeal by O'Connell's many warlike appeals to the youth
of Ireland.

Mr. Doheny, who, in point of ,years, is something more
than a Young Irelander, is, according to his own account,
of Jumble origin. He cannot be less than forty-five
years of age. He is a barrister, and has been many
things. For several years he-followed the occupation of
schoolmaster. He subsequently occupied himself by
acting as whipper-in to whig attorneys-general and soli-,
citors- general in the boroughs of ,Clonmel, Cashel, and
Dungarvan. For nine years he was understood to be
employed in the Tithe Million-office, Dublin Castle. He
is a Roman Catholic.

Mr. Dillon is a barrister, and took a gold medal and
other honours in Trinity College, Dublin. He was for-
merly a writer in the Dublin Morning Register. Mr.
Dillon. who is also a very young 4nan, is son to an exten-
sive corn merchant in the county of Mayo. He is a Ro-
man Catholic.

Mr. 07,Gorman, jun., is son to :an extensive woollen-
draper in Xublin, and is a Roman Catholic.
Mr. Martin is understood to be .a gentleman of inde-
pendence, , but whether small or large is not generally
known. Ile was the first northern Protestant who joined
the confederates, and has latterly rendered himself con-
spicuous by being editor of the Felon newspaper.
Mr. O'Doherty, of the Tribune, lately tried, is a medical
student. Me is a native of the south of Ireland, -and a
Roman Catholic.

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME BILL.

(Foam the Morning Herald.)
This bill was do the House of Lords,

Presented, read first time, and ordered to be
printed
Read second time.- . l7
Considered in Committee
Reported and reprinted .. ..
Read a third time and passed, and SENT to
the Commons
Brought down from the Lords to the Com-
mons
Read first time and printed
Proposed to be read second time August 17
The bill went through EVERY stage in the House of
Lords, in three weeks. it has been twenty-three weeks
;and six days, or five and and a-half months, in the House
Commons without moving a stage.
From the meeting of Parliament to August 11, 1848,
there have been presented—
AGAINST TI BILL.

Petitions
FOR TIIR.

Petitions none I Signatures none.
Does this statement require a comment ?

There are horses in Arabia of which written genealogies
have been kept for more than 2,000 ye‘srs.
If you will not have illumination from above, you shall
have conflagration from below, and whoever refuses light
will get it in the form of lightning one day!
An American court has decided that marriage contracts
made on a' Sunday are valid, on the ground that they
come under the head of `.` works of necessity and charity."
HARROGATE FACTOTUM.-.—OH
—" a signboard in Harro-
gate is the following inscripten :.Hudson, umbrella
maker, town bellman, optician, dealer of tobacco, lodg-
ings, baker."
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF LOVERS.—A you" man,
who lived at No. 122, Rue St. Martin, Paris, was° found
dead from voluntary suffocation by the fumes of two bra-
ziers of charcoal, which he had lighted and placed at the
foot ,sr` his bed. The cause of his suicide could only be
divined from his having closely grasped in his right hand,
against his heart, a lock of hair, and a small parcel of
dried flowers. He was buried, and all was left to conjec-
ture for several days, when a young mantuamaker made
away with herself in the same manner, leaving behind her
a letter, desiring that her death might not be imputed to
any one, but taken as an expiation for 'that of the young
man who bad previously destroyed himself, and of which
she was the cause by her desire for luinrias above their
means, which he had not sufficient resoint.inn rjr.f4se
pert thw3. bringing himself to distress,