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

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IRELAND,

All is again quiet at Abbeyfaile, and the mails pass and
repass without a single policeman to guard them.
Numerous arrests of persons implicated in the late trea-
sonable conspiracy, continue to be made every day, both
in Dublin and in the provinces ; but none of the leaders
have been captured since Mr. Meagher's arrest. The
National of last Monday, announces that Mr. Morgan,
solicitor to the reformed corporation of Dublin, has escaped
to France.

Saunders's News-Letter states, on the authority of its
Clonmel correspondent, that a small party of police, on
the Clogher road, within half a mile of Clonmel, were at-
tacked with a volley of stones from some elevated ground
by the road-side. None of the police were hurt, but they
failed to capture any of their assailants.
The scene of recent insurrection in the south of Ireland
is now one of perfect tranquility. The scent lies very hot
in Limerick after Mr. Richard o=Gorman, jun. Several
persons, including some of the Yankee sympathisers— have
been arrested and committed to gaol, in Dublin and in the
provinces. They are, however, people of inferior note.
The Cork Constitution states that the gunpowder seized
at Dungarvan had not been shipped for an unlawful pur-
pose, but fell into the hands of the authorities, through
the imprudence of the master, who, attempting to escape
the difficulty of the county being proclaimed, was silent
respecting it, and thus excited suspicion.
Summonses are to be issued immediately to the jurors of
Tipperary, calling on them to attend the special corn.bis-
sion, which will be opened early next week, for the trial
of Smith O'Brien, Meagher, Duffy, &c., who have been
taken in arms or been in correspondence with the rebels.
It is said that they will be tried in one "monster indict-
ment" for conspiracy.
The Nenagh Guardian asserts that, when Mr. Meagher
and his two friends, Leyne and O'Donoghue, were first
seen on the high road by the police, there was a fourth
person with them who was permitted to escape, and that
this person was no other than the notorious and pro-
claimed rebel, Mr. Doheny ! They do not merely in-
sinuate, but distinctly allege, that Mr. Doheny had
peached, and that it was through his information that Mr.
Meagher was captured.
Mr. Martin was on Wednesday found guilty under the
treason-felony act, and Mr. O'Dogherty was on Thursday
again placed on his trial, when Mr. Butt, on behalf of the
prisoner, challenged the array, but the challenge was dis-
allowed. The indictment preferred against Mr. Duffy
under the treason-felony act, has been abandoned, as cer-
tain documents discovered among Mr. Smith O'Brien's
papers have supplied the crown with materials for putting
Mr. Duffy on his trial for high treason.
The Dublin Herald says that Mr. Martin was tried by
an exclusively Protestant jury.
INTIMIDATION OF JURORS.—Shortly after the foreman
of the jury in John Martin's case had returned home after
the prisoner's conviction, he was waited on by Mr. James
Martin, a brother of the felon, who said to him—" I
come here to challenge you to mortal combat, for having
bullied the jury in the case of my brother." This was
declined by the foreman, who handed over the would-be-
duellist to the police. James Martin afterwards wrote to
apologise for his silly impudence. On Friday, this person
was committed by the Chief Baron for a month to prison,
his lordship stating that the sentence was less severe on
account of the prisoner's having expressed his sorrow for
the offence, and the appeal made on his behalf by the
foreman of the jury.
On Friday, fourteen prisoners were removed from the
gaols of Kilmainham and Newgate, under a strong escort
of constabulary and city police, and sent by railway to
Kingstown, from whence they were transmitted, on board
war steamers, to Belfast.

On Saturday the jury in the case of O'Doherty were
again discharged, being unable to agree, and the Attorney-
General intimated that he would again try him at the next
commission. Application was made to admit the prisoner
to bail, but this was refused. On the same day John
Martin, convicted of treason, was sentenced to ten years'
transportation, and was removed to Newgate in chains.
Prior to the sentence being passed, Mr. Martin said that
he would not condescend to ask for mercy. He was
strongly of opinion that he was morally right, and that he
had done nothing that would stain his character as a man,
a patriot, or a Chrisean.
The Clonmel Chronicle announces the arrest of one of
the rebels wounded at Ballingarry :—" A man of the name
of Janes Dwyer was brought into Clonmel on Friday, and
lodged in the county gaol; he was one of the insurgent
band in the battle of Boulagh Common and at Ballingarry,
and had a dreadful wound in the right breast. Ever since the
affray he has been concealed in one of the pits in the vici-
nity of Boulagh, and from information received by the
authorities, he was arrested down in the pit a few days
since, and conveyed to Killenaule, from which place he
was escorted into Clonmel."

Lord Hardinge reviewed the troops under General Mac-
donald, at Limerick, yesterday week.
The Morning Herald states that there are in Ireland
full 3,000 Roman Catholic priests, and 1,500 professed
religious women of various orders.

THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND.—The failure, we
regret to say, appears to be as complete as that of 1846.
There are now lying before us reports from Tipperary,
Carlow, Cork, Sligo, Limerick, Derry, Antrim, Down,
Louth, Armagh, and Monaghan, and unhappily they all
concur in representing the pestilence as universal.
The Irish papers report the premature death of Mr.
G. Nimmo, an engineer well known in that country. It
seems that as Mr. Nimmo, accompanied by two men in a
sailing boat, was crossing one of the bays in Connemara,
the boat, when at full sail. struck upon a sunken rock,
which cleft her in two. The two men, with this much-
lamented gentleman, perished. _ _

NEW SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—Last Monday a meet-
ing of abour6o noblemen and gentlemen, among whom
were Lord Cloncurry, Earl of Miltown, Lord W. Fitz-
gerald, Sir M. Chapman, &c., was held in Dublin, when
it was resolved to form a society " to promote the peri-
odical sitting of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin,"
the annual subscription to be £l.
CURIOUS ASSOCIATION.—A correspondent of the Cork
Constitution says,—" Some few years ago I paid a visit
at Dromoland, the seat of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart.,
County Clare. Sir Lucius, pointing out to me the various
members of the family pictures, showed me one of Lord
Chancellor Hyde, (Earl of Clarendon, and grandfather
of Queen Anne,) among the ancestry of the house of
O'Brien. Would that the unfortunate William Smith
O'Brien had not endeavoured to sully the brilliancy of an
escutcheon so distinguished ! and exposed himself to the
censure and rigour of the law, so well administered by
the present Earl of Clarendon.
AN IRISH VAGRANT'S DEFENCE.—An ingenious de-
fence was made in a case tried at Galway, at the present
assizes. M. Connelly was placed at the bar and arraigned,
the grand jury having presented him as a vagrant. The
evidence adduced against him clearly proved that he was
a notorious bad character. He had no settled place of
residence, was constantly before the magistrates at petty
sessions on charges of sheep stealing and killing sheep ;
he has publicly sold in markets legs of mutton at 6d.
each, and was committed for trial both at quarter sessions
and assizes • but so ingeniously did he continue to com-
mit these offences, that exidence could not be adduced
legally to commit him. The case for the prosecution
having closed, the prisoner made a few observations to
the ennrt in Trish. whirl, Mr

statement of the prisoner being both ingenious and
poetic.—Mr. Bourke said : My lord, the prisoner sub-
mits that all the evidence given on the part of the prose-
cution must be construed in his favour ; and that the fact
of his being so often tried, and on no occasion convicted,
clearly shows he must be an honest man—(loucl laughter)

—for the same reason, my lord, as the prisoner states,
that the more frequently gold is molten in the furnace
and tried for its genuine character, the purer it becomes.
—(Loud and continued laughter, in which Baron Lefroy
heartily joined.)—He further submits, my lord, that his
case is analogous to that of Jonas in the whale's belly—

(laughter)—for that when Jonas escaped from the belly
of the whale, he went forth an untainted character, and so
be insists be should be considered, having escaped from
the clutches of Mr. Lopdell, who, the prisoner states, is
in mind very like a whale, and who sought to devour him.
(Laughter.) He further, my lord, insists that the fact of
his having meat frequently in his possession, and having
gone about the country selling legs of mutton, demon-
stratively proves his innocence. for that it is merely evi-
dence to show he is a man of industrious habits prosecu-
ting his trade as a butcher.—(Loud laughter.) he sub-
mits, my lord, to go into the dock and stand his trial for
sheep stealing, or any other offence that may be brought
against him ; but he denies the existence of a power in
the jury to find him guilty as a vagrant, the whole weight
of the evidence in his opinion going to prove he is an
honest man.— (Loud laughter)—He was sentenced to the
usual penalty in such cases.

STRANGE POLICE CASE.—At the Henry-street Police-
office, Dublin, on Thursday, a respectable-looking young
man whose name appeared as George Bailey, of Calen,
Wiltshire, was charged with having a gun and a case of
pistols in his possession without license. The following
are the heads of the case :—On Wednesday (the day
before), Mr. Bailey arrived at Dublin from Liverpool, and
went to Fleming's Hotel, North Wall. In the course a
of the evening, some discharged soldiers arrived
from England and also stopped at the same hotel. Two
of them slept in the room over Mr. Bailey's bedroom, and
about two o'clock next morning, one of them who was
very drunk, got up with the intention of proceeding down
stairs. The window of the room looked on a shed, and
the man mistaking it, as it was open, for the door, walked
out on the sill, and finding his mistake attempted to re-
cover himself. He failed, and laid hold of the window
sill to support himself. lie fell so far, and his legs hung
down. In his exertions to regain the room his feet came
into contact with the window of the room in which Mr.
Bailey was asleep. He kicked away for some time, and
broke several panes of glass. Mr. Bailey was roused, and
having a good deal of property in the room, jumped out of
bed, thinking he was going to be attacked by robbers, and
seized a small pistol which he had left loaded on the
dressing table, when by some accident it went off, the ball
severely wounding himself in the hand, and passing to the
other side of the room. The man at the outside of the
window, hearing the report, and thinking it aimed at him,
fell from his position, and coming on the shed, tumbled
through another window, and cut one of his legs severely.
When the waiter ran up stairs he found Mr. Bailey nearly
covered with blood, and afterwards found the soldier half
dead from fright and hurt. The man declared he had
been shot, though the ball (lid not go near him. The
soldiers gave the alarm to the police, stating that their
comrade had been shot: A surgeon was brought, Mr.
Bailey's hand was dressed and the soldier was sent to the
hospital. The constable called was puzzled and decided
on charging Mr. Bailey with having arms in his possession
without a license.—Mr. O'Callagan, the magistrate, clues-

possession of them,
❑wstions, that he had

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