The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

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The effects of Conciliation-hall were sold last week,
and brought good prices.
Twenty-six hunting establishments have been given up
in the south of Ireland, owing to the poverty of the
owners.

It is said that Jenny Lind and her partners, Messrs.
Lumley and Knowles, netted £lO,OOO in a fortnight, in
poor distressed Ireland !

The Waterford Chronicle, a repeal paper, says that
the bacon trade of that town, is ruined through free
trade.

O'Brien contradicts the statement that he has been
preparing articles of impeachment against Ministers and
Judges.
Government in the last two months sent out from the
unions in Ireland 925 young women, who sailed from
Plymouth for Australia.
It is said that there is a charge due to the family of the
late Bishop of Down of ton thousand pounds, and that
Dr. Sadlier has declined the appointment in consequence.
The Globe states that by a humane Act of last session—
(a Small Debts Bill for Ireland)—about two thousand poor
debtors will be liberated in that country.
On Friday, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles J. Napier,
the hero of Scinde, was entertained at a magnificent din-
ner in Dublin :on Wednesday. The Duke of Leinster
presided, and Prince George of Cambridge was present.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM IN DUBLIN.—The arrival of the
ex-Home-Secretary in Dublin, has, in the absence of any
other excitable topic, led to some speculation among the
quidnunes. The right hon. baronet dined on Tuesday
with the Chief Secretary.
EMIGRATION.—The hundreds of country persons that
weekly leave the port of Cork for Liverpool, intending to
take passage from that for America, are incredible.
Saturday week the deck of the Nimrod steamer, which
left for Liverpool, was crowded with emigrants—all appa-
rently farmers or farm labourers. They were all comfor-
tably clad.

An occurrence has taken place of a very suspicious na-
ture, and which will have the effect, in all probability, of
further postponing Mr. Duffy's trial. This is the abstrac-
tion of an entire barony from the county jury lists, which
was placed in the hands of Mr. Shaw, the printer, on
Bachelor's-walk. In the circumstances attending the
procedure there is conclusive evidence of contrivance and
design.
IRISH DISTRESS.—A few days ago, public commisera-
tion was excited by the report (well-founded) of a gentle-
man of £2OOO a-year, in the county of Limerick, being,
along with a large family, compelled to subsist for months
on " yellow meal " and the garbage of his garden. But
another and much more remarkable instance of the
" beginning of the end " is foreshadowed in the acceptance
by a baronet of the unassuming and not very lucrative
office of collector of the poor-rates.
SHOCKING MURDER.—On Saturday night a man named
John Twomy, a shoemaker, residing in Blarney-lane, left
his house, with a young man named Cornelius Mahony,
a paper stainer, in search of whiskey. Having been
travelling from public-house to public-house until three
o'clock on Sunday morning, they were met by four des-
perate characters. A brutal attack was made upon
Twomy and Mahony, which resulted in the death of one
of them and the mutilation of the other.

In the last Irish Ilue and Cry, James Wilkinson is de-
scribed as having stolen " £24 10s. and other articles of
wearing apparel," a cow is represented as stolen, the co-
lour of which is set down " as rising six years old."
James Goodwin stabbed a man at Coolaskea, with " a
knife 17 years of age, five feet three inches, with fresh
complexion and curled hair." (Rather a formidable and
remarkable knife that.) Two heifers found at the turn-
pike gate of Tonnish-bridge are described "about the size
of Kerry."

PAUPERISM.—On Monday last there were in the Cork
Workhouse 4,281 paupers ; in the Midleton, 1,731 ; in
the Kinsale, 1,090; Mallow, 1,037; Dunmanway, 746;
in the Fermoy, 1,831; in the Macroom, 1,388 ; in the
Skibbereen, 3,057 ; in the Bandon, 2,028 ; making in
nine workhouses out of the eleven in this county, (we
have no returns from Bantry or Kanturk) the number of
paupers receiving in-door relief on that day, 17,189.
The applicants have been very numerous during the past
fortnight.—Cork Constitution.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday week, Capt.
Lyon, of the 92d Highlanders, and his officers were re-
turning from shooting near Limerick, and the former had
the gun at his side, with the muzzle under his arm, when,
in some way, the gun went off, and the contents shattered
his arm, which had afterwards to be amputated to the
shoulder.—On Wednesday last, Lieutenant Smith and
some other officers were out shooting at Belturbet, near
Dublin, when, after discharging one barrel at a bird, Smith
proceeded to reload it, when the other barrel went offend
tore his hand in a dreadful manner.

A Row IN A WORKHOUSE.—Ou Tuesday as a poor-
law Inspector was passing through the workhouse at Cork,
he observed on the filthy state in which the tables and
seats were in, when the female paupers. about six hun-
dred in number, rose en masse and attacked the Inspec-
tor, having armed themselves with stones, tins, and bot-
tles, and he had to fly to protect his live : stones flew in
all directions and the windows were smashed. The riot
rose to such height that thirty police were sent for; but
the women were drawn up, armed with stones, bottles,
and tins, and it was therefore deemed prudent to call in
the military, who took five of the ringleaders into custody.
A similar row took place in the Nenagh Workhouse a few
days since.
A " MODEL" MARRIAGE.—AS " models" of things
and people are now Quite the rage, the following particu-
lars of a " model" marriage forwarded by a Montrath
correspondent may not be uninteresting to single men
and spinsters :—On this day, the 9th of November, 1848,
Margaret Down, of marriage notoriety, was led to the sth
time to the hymeneal altar, by the chivalrous William
Bergen, one of the gallant sons of Mars. who boasts of
his long service, and of his having survived eight general
engagements—yet he could not be happy without encoun-
tering a ninth. The gay old bridegroom is 85 years of
age, which, when added to that of his fair partner, make
160 years. He had the misfortune of losing his right eye
at the battle of Salamanca, and she lost her left eye at
Vinegar Hill.—Cork Constitution.
REMOVAL OF THE STATE PRISONERS.—The state pri-
soners, Messrs. O'Brien, M`Manus, O'Donohue, and
Meagher, left Clonmel on Thursday morning last, at half-
past six o'clock, for Thurles, on their way to Dublin.
They left under a military escort in a coach drawn by
four horses, on the top of which were several police-offi-
cers. The escort consisted of three car loads of soldiers.
As they passed thfOugh the streets the crowds collected
loudly cheered them. They reached Thurles at twelve
o'clock, without molestation or disturbance. Thence
they were conveyed by rail to Dublin, where they arrived
at half-past three. • They alighted at King's Bridge ter-
minus, where soldiers and police were stationed. They
all looked remarkably well, particularly Mr. Meagher,
who seemed even improved. A considerable number of
very respectable persons, including several ladies, were
present, and shook the prisoners most warmly by the
hand. Thence they were taken in covered cars to Kil-
mainham Gaol, and again banded over to Mr. Allison, the
governor. It was stated that they would have the same
apartments assigned to them that they occupied before.
THE WRIT OF ERROR.—The Court of Queen's Bench,
Dublin, was on Friday morning crowded, it being gene-
rally known that the state prisoners from Clonmel would
be brought up at the sitting of the judges on the writs of
error. Counsel appeared for the crown, and others for
the prisoners. At eleven o'clock the prisoners O'Brien,
Meagher, M`Manus, and O'Donohue appeared in court,
and took seats at the side bars. The clerk of the crown
having called on Mr. O'Brien to assign error in his case,
Mr. Barton handed in the assignment, a very long docu-
ment assigning various errors in the proceedings against
him. Similar documents were handed in behalf of the
other prisoners. It was agreed by the court to give time
to consider the assignments, the prisoners to be
brought up next day. On the suggestion of Mr. White-
side, the court agreed that the prisoners should be trans-
ferred to Richmond Bridewell, instead of remaining in
Kilmainham Gaol. They were accordingly so removed.
On Saturday the prisoners were again brought up, and
the argument was adjourned to Tuesday (this day.)
CASE OF JOHN MARTIN.—The arguments in this
writ of error were heard last week in the Court of
Queen's Bench, Dublin, and continued for several days.
Judgment was not given till Saturday, when Mr. Martin
was brought forward. The Chief-Justice entered into
the objections raised against the caption, the counts in
the indictment, the challenge to the juror Duff, and to
the terms of tae sentence, and concluded by stating that
he and the other members of the bench overruled every
one of the objections raised by the prisoner's counsel.
Judge Crampton : " I fully concur in the opinion of the
Chief-Justice, for the reasons stated." Justices-Perrin
and Moore made similar statements. The conviction of
the prisoner thus stands confirmed. Mr. Martin was
then removed.
SPREAD OF ROMANISM IN IRELAND.—It is as certain
and unquestionable as any fact in history, that the re-
conversion of a great proportion of the people of Ireland
to Romanism, was not a home or native work, but was
begun and carried on for many years. by foreign agents,
—missionaries from the Papal city. The Court of Rome
at this period possessed, in the Order of Jesuits, the
most accomplished political intriguants of the day. Atli
it was from this fraternity that its agents were selected,
for the work of checking the Reformation, both in En-
gland and Ireland. While Campion and Parsons were
sent to the former, Saunders and Allen were sent to the
latter. When they arrived in Ireland, they found the
bishops, priests, and laity, all going on quietly in the
services of the Reformed Liturgy. There was generally
throughout the country, that external conformity, which
we might expect from a rude and untutored people, who
knew little about the forms of religion. They commen-
ced by acting on the ignorance, prejudices, and national
antipathies of the people against everything English, as
associated with religious debasement and national con-
quest,. They traversed the land, preaching that Elizabeth
was excommunicated and deposed, and that all her ordi-
nances, civil or ecclesiastical, were invalid, as the acts of
an heretical person. To the priests, and the discontented
among the chiefs, they produced the Papal Bull for the
Queen's deposition. His Holiness wrote to " all and
singular" (A.D. 1575), " that discerning the seasonable-
ness of this opportunity, you will, each according to his
power, aid the piety and valour of this noble general
(Geraldine, the rebel leader), and fear not a woman, who,
being bound by the chain of an anathema, bath departed
from the Lord, and the Lord from her." -" And that you
may do this with the greater alacrity, we grant unto all
and singular of you, who, being contrite and confessing,
shall follow the said General or forward his purpose, a
plenary indulgence of all their sins." Thus was the
standard of Romanism once more raised in Ireland. It
was raised in rebellion, and in rebellion, open or covert,
it has ever existed.—Record.

"A Practical Schoolmistress," says, in the Educational
Times, "It would be impossible for me-to state how often
the question has been directly put to me by mothers,
' Can you make a stylish yirl "' .