The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body met, 83 usual,
yesterday week. The attendance was even smaller than
the previous meeting. Among the donations were £l2
from Manchester and £l3 Bs. from this town. The rent
was £391.

John Walsh, Esq., a Dublin barrister, was drowned,
accidentally, in the canal at Firiglass, on Saturday week.
The celebrated Father Mathew was arrested while in
Dublin a few days ago, for the balance of a debt incurred
for temperance medals.
PRESENT TO MR. O'CONNELL.—The Rhenish Ob-
server states that the inhabitants of Coblcntz and the
neighbouring towns had opened a subscription for the
purchase of a cargo of Rhenish wine of the first quality,
as a present to Daniel O'Connell.
R S. Maxwell, Esq., High Sheriff of Cavan, has de-
clined to call a public meeting to forward the interests of
'the proposed Dublin and Cavan Railway, arid has given
the following unusual but conscientious reason for his
refusal. He says, "My objection is entirely of a religious
.nature, and amounts, in a word, to this, that a vast in-
crease in the desecration of the Lord's Day must neces-
sarily result from the establishment of the Dublin and
Cavan Railway, unless it be intended (and I take it for
granted it is not) to conduct it on a wholly different princi-
ple from that which regulates every other railway. By
giving my name, or contributing my aid in any way to the
object in question, I conceive that I should be taking a
pin in the promotion of an evil which I, as a christian
man, consider cannot be too strongly deprecated, or too
strenuously resisted.
A LAUGHABLE OCCURRENCE.—The neighbourhood of
No rthumberl<md -avenue, Kingstown, was on Friday thrown
into a state of the utmost excitement, it having trans-
pired that a lady bad made an assignment with a gentle-
man who had advertised for a wife. Accordingly, at the
hour mentioned (three o'clock) the expectant inhabitants
of the avenue were highly amused on beholding, as Burns
would say, " a fine fat fagel wight" make his appearance,
wiping his fat face with a white handkerchief, the lady
having requested that he would occasionally nlace a white
handkerchief to his face, as the means of recognition, and
further stating that she would drive up in a pony phaeton
in a great shower of rain, with the servant on the rumble
protecting her with an umbrella. On seeing her the un-
fortunate man fancied that the object of his search was at
length before him ; and, after a few convulsive applica-
tions of the handkerchief, started forward, and with a
spring, remarkable for a man of his size, fairly jumped
into the phaeton : and before the astonished lady could
recover from the fright his sudden appearance occasioned,
he had encircled
her his arms, calling her by every en-
dearing appellation; and it was not until the lady had
• uttered scream after scream, and his shoulders were well
belaboured with the umbrella by the servant, that he ap-
peared to th ink he had got into the wrong box ; so, mak-
ing his escape as expeditiously as possible, he hastened
off to the train without staying to make further inquiries
for his inamorata; and it is earnestly hoped the lesson
he has received will pperforma radical cure for his love.—
Dublin paper.—[This in all probabitity the same
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Dublin gent. who advertised a our own columns on Tues-
day last.]