The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-26 00:00:00

IRELAND

We learn by the Dublin papers that Mr. and Mrs. C.
Kean have'just concluded a most brilliant engagement in
that city. Tuesday night was their benefit, when there
was £260 in the house. We understand that their share
of the profits on this engagement will net £9OO.

Captain James Pitt Kennedy—an officer of engineers
—has been elected secretary to the Irish Landlord and
Tenant Commission. Capt. K. was the superintendent of
the farm established by the National Board of Education
at G'a3nevin.

REPEAL ASSOCIATIO:q.—The weekly meeting of the
Association, held on Monday in the Conciliation Hall,
was thinly attended ; Mr. John Reynolds in the chair.
The first speaker was Mr. John O'Connell, who, in al-
luding to the death of Mr. Tyrrel, styled him " a martyr
to the cause of his country," and proposed that the aged
father of the deceased should be provided for, and that a
monument should be erected to record his virtues and
patriotism. " The best vengeance (observed the speaker)
that the people could take, for the loss of Mr. Tyrrell,
would be to force from England, despite her armed array,
by the strength of public opinion, the full and ample mea-
sure of her rights to old Ireland." The proposal was
seconded by Mr. Steele, and unanimously agreed to.
The meeting was also addressed by Dr. Gray, Mr. O'Neil,
Mr. O'Neil Daunt, and Mr. Conway. A long letter was
read from Mr. Joseph Sturge, urging objections against a
repeal, and showing that a connexion could not be main-
tained between the two countries, through one sovereign,
with two independent sets of advisers ; this communica-
tion was referred to Mr. O'Connell to reply. The week's
rent was about £5OO.

" SUGDEN'S MARTYRS."—A Mr. Henry Moriarty,
having " felt it his duty" to resign the commission of the
peace for the county of Roscommon, communicated such
his intention to the Chancellor, who, with his usual
promptitude, relieved " the disgusted" from his magis-
terial labours. Here the matter might have dropped but
for Mr. Moriarty's own indiscretion, backed by his
" friends" of the radical press. " "What a lesson to our
rulers," sang the latter; " here is a Protestant gentle-
man, who, although no repealer, feels so thoroughly dis-
gusted with the present policy of ministers, that he has
manfully thrown his commission in the Chancellor's
teeth.' And to all this the would-be martyr tacitly
responded " Amen !" However, the old adage of one
story being good till another is told was verified to the
letter in the present instance, as will be seen by the fol-
lowing communication, addressed to Mr. Moriarty by
Mr. H. Sugden, a perusal of which will at once show on
what a slender foundation the former rested his claims
for martyrdom :

• • Secretary's-office, Four Courts, Dublin, Dec. 13.
" Sir,—My attention has been drawn to a statement in
the Freeman's Journal, of the 12th instant, copied from
the Roscommon Journal, in which it is stated that you
had felt it your duty to resign the commission of the peace
—that you had thrown the commission in the Chancellor's
teeth ' • and this is accompanied by a copy of my letter of
the 4th instant, in which I informed you that directions
had been given by the Lord Chancellor to supersede you
at your own request. As you, I presume, sent my letter
to the press, and as it does not refer to any preceding
correspondence, I beg to remind you that a complaint
was forwarded to the Chancellor against your personal
conduct, and that he informed you that he should be
compelled to supersede you unless you desired a public
investigation of the charge. This you declined, but re-
quested to be superseded at your own request, to which
the Lord Chancellor acceded, and my letter was a formal
announcement of his intention. The statements to which
I have referred in the newspapers are wholly unfounded.
" I have the honour to be, air,
" Your most obedient servant,
" H. SUGDEN, Secretary.

" H. Moriarty, Esq., &c."

THE " HAND-PROMISE" IN IRELAND.--Few would
rely upon the word or oath of any man who had been
known to break a hand-promise. And, perhaps, few of
the country girls would marry or countenance the ad-
dresses of a young person known to have violated such a
pledge. The vow is a solemn one, and, of course, given
by mutual consent; by mutual consent, also, must it be
withdrawn, otherwise it is considered still binding. When-
ever death removes one of the parties, without the other
having had an opportunity of " giving it back," the sur-
viving party comes, and in the presence of witnesses, first
-- the hand of the deceased, repeats the form of

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