The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-19 00:00:00

OULD IRELAND.''

She has been milked by the Liberator the whole season,
and has given 1,300 quarts of milk per week on an average ;
besides 7,0001b5. of butter to Maynooth College. and
70,000 lbs. of butter to the trustees, of the Agricultural
Bank ; all of which can be attested on oath by Ray, cow-
boy to the Liberator, who had the care of her. Being
quite dry, she must be sold without reserve, as she is
totally useless to the Liberator, who, having a large,
young, sucking family, must have milk for them. She
would answer any gentleman in the habit of feeding for
the stalls. She is perfectly quiet when coaxed, wheedled,
and cajoled, but if treated harshly is inclined to be wicked.
N.B.—She would have been entered at the late show
at Belfast, but that the bloody Orangemen of Ulster
would not admit her because there was no Saxon blood in
her veins.
September 13, 1843.

BRIEF MEMOIR OF O'CONNELL.—DanieI O'Connell
was born on the 6th of August, 1775, at Carhen, near
Caherciveen in the barony of Iveragh, and county of
Kerry—the very year in which British oppression forced
the American people to seek for security in arms, and
commenced that bloody struggle by which they established
their national independence. His father was Mr. Mor-
gan O'Connell, of Carhen, who was married to Catha-
rine, daughter of Mr. John O'Mullane, of Whited-
church, in the county of Cork. His father's mother was
of the family of O'Donouges (dhuv), or the black chiefs
of their tribe. Mr. O'Connell was educated on the con-
tinent, partly at Louvain, partly at St. Omer, and partly
at Douay. On his return to Britain he had to undergo
the formality of studying his profession (the law) in
England, for, to use his own words, " when he was pre-
pared to enter Trinity College, Trinity College was not
prepared to receive him." Having swallowed the regular
number of legs of mutton at the Middle Temple, he was
duly admitted to the Irish bar, in Easter term, 1796.
Mr. O'Connell married on the 3d of June, 1802, his
relative Mary, daughter of Mr. Edward 0 Connell, M.D.,
of Tralee ; he succeeded his father in 1809, and in 1825,
by the death of his uncle, Maurice O'Connell, succeeded
in the family estate of Derrynane. The O'Connell fa-
mily are proverbial for living to a very old age. General
Count O'Connell, Knight of the Cross of the Order of
the Holy Ghost, and Colonel of the late 6th Regiment of
the Irish Brigade in the British service, was uncle to the
Liberator; he died on the 9th of July, 1833, at Meudon,
near Blois, in France ; he was the youngest of 22 child-
ren by one marriage, of whom one half lived to the age
of 99, at which age this venerable patriot died ; he was
born in August, 1734, at Derrynane, the residence of his
father, Mr. Daniel O'Connell.—Limerick Reporter.

WALES.

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

On Saturday night week, about twelve o'clock a small
party of men attacked Hendy Cate, on the road from Pon-
tardulais to Llanelly, and began to pull down the gate, and
set fire to the toll-house. The gate-keeper, Sarah Wil-
liams, an old widow, seventy years of age, ran for
safety to the house of a neighbour, but, unfortunately re-
turned a short time afterwards to secure some of her fur-
niture. Several shots had been heard previously by the
neighbours ; but immediately on her return to the toll-
house a shot was heard, followed by a loud scream, and
the poor woman rushed back, wounded in the face and
neck, and fell at her neighbour's door. She was assisted
into the house, but died immediately afterwards. Many
speculations are afloat as to the cause of her death—some
suppose her to have been wounded by accident. and others
that she was deliberately shot for imprudently avowing
her knowledge of the rioters. It is currently reported in
the neighbourhood that immediately before she was shot
a neighbour heard her say, " I know you ; you shall suffer
for this to-morrow ;" but no evidence of this nature was
offered on the inquest. Col. Trevor, Col. Love, and the
officers of the staff were sleeping, at the time, at the house
of Mr. Neville, a magistrate, within a mile of the toll-
house. The troops were at Llanelly, about five miles
distant. The inquest was held at Pontardulais, before a
jury consisting of freeholders and farmers. The jury,
after a short deliberation, found a verdict that " The de-
ceased died from the effusion of blood into the chest,
which occasioned suffocation, but from what cause is un-
known." On Monday the three men taken at Pontardu-
lais on the morning of Thursday last, while engaged in
the attack upon the gate and toll-house, were conveyed to
Swansea, where a public examination of witnesses took
place. The prisoners, whose names are John Hughes
(the Rebecca), David Jones, and John Hugh, were placed
at the prisoners' dock, and accommodated with seats.
Jones, who appeared in a dying state on Thursday morn-
ing, seemed to have recovered. Hughes (the Rebecca)
was pale and thoughtful ; while John Hugh, who stood
before the court in the dress he had on at Pontardulais at
the riot, seemed very apprehensive of the probable con-
sequences of his conduct. The following is a correct
translation of the writing found in the prisoner Hughes'
pocket by Mr. Cox :—" Daniei Jones, 13rynhir, come with
your armour (or covering) to Lanbystia, to assist us, on
Wednesday night next, or else you shall not have another
(or further) notice. " B Ecc ."
yarious witnesses were examined to prove the participa-
tion of the prisoners in the riot and the illegal proceed-
ings connected with it, after which the prisoners were
remanded.

On Sunday morning week the barns and outbuildings
of Air. Chalmers near Llanelly were set fire to and com-
pletely destroyed.. The men who committed this diabol-
ical act were then seen to go across the country to
another farm of the same gentleman and here three
stacks of corn and one of hay were burnt.

It is now ascertained, beyond a doubt, that the special
commission for the trial of the Carmarthen Rebeccaites
will take place early in next month.

" Rebecca" last week compelled another farmer to take
home an illegitimate child which he had neglected. This
new assumption of judicial powers by Rebecca will not
only make libertines more watchful in their conduct, but
will, very probably, raise up an imperiusn in imperio in
Rebecca's own camp against her supremacy.