The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MURDER.-At the King's County Assizes last week,
George Jubee was convicted of the murder of Adjutant
Mackay of the sth Fusileers, and was sentenced to suffer
death, but he was afterwards reprieved, and is to be trans.
ported for life.

A society has been formed in Dublin, called " The So.
ciety for the Diffusion of Scriptural Knowledge, in Ire-
land." It is composed of professing protestants, who cir-
culate extracts from the Douay version of the Bible
amongst the poor members of the Roman Catholic
church.

THE REV. T. MAGUIRE.—This notorious champion of
the Papacy is now delivering lectures in Dublin on what
he calls the " Protestant Corruptions of the Holy Scrip-
tures in their translations." He has been effectually an-
swered by a Protestant clergymen, and all his misrepre-
sentations refuted.

THE REPEALERS.—The conspirators, who have been
blowing cold for some time, appear to begin again to blow
hot, as the soothing system does not seem to produce the
repeal rent, which last week was announced only at
£303 4s. 4d. Some very stout bluster speeches were de-
livered at the meeting on Monday, and Mr. John O'Con-
nell declared that his father would not betray the people,
but " would so to prison.'

CONVICTION OF Two MURDERERS.—At Limerick
assizes on Thursday last, Edward ('onway, Patrick Lynch,
and John Lynch, were indicted for the murder of the Rev.
Mr. Dawon, the two former prisoners having been put on
their trial twice before for the same offence, which was
perpetrated nine years ago. A number of witnesses were
examined, and the trial lasted nearly two days. The jury
returned a verdict of " Guilty " against Thomas Conway
and Patrick Lynch and a verdict of acquittal for John
Lynch. The last named prisoner having been discharged,
the court then proceeded to pass sentence of death.—
Dublin Evening Freeman
THUNDER STORM.—On the Ist instant the village of
Bona was visited by a terrific thunder storm. In one
house a poor man named David Harrington, his wife, and
two children (a boy aged 14, and a girl 11) were all struck
senseless. The wife being the first to recover the shock,
on looking about perceived her husband and two children
lying apparently dead. She at once alarmed her neigh
hours, who, on coming, found the house in a most shat-
tered state, the chimney and part of the sidewall taken
away, the roof broken, together with nearly every article
in the house more or less injured. The owner of the house
had lost the sight of one eye altogether, and was severely
burned in the face, hands, and feet—so much so, that his
whiskers were burned to the skin. The little girl had
two of her front teeth broken. The boy's face was se-
verely burned, also his legs and hands, to such an extent
that he is so swollen and black that he would not be known
to be the same person. This little fellow has got an in-
jury on the forehead which exposed the bone, and is in
much danger.—Tralee Chronicle.
MURDER IN IRELAND.—A correspondent of the
Morning Post furnishes the following curious table of
the progress of murder and conciliation in Ireland for
fourteen years, ending 1837. It is to be remarked, that
Lord 'Wellesley, the first " conciliator," arrived there
about the Ist of January, 1823—50 this writer allows him

a year to sow the seed, and
A.D. Murders.
1824
1825
1826
1827 .............. 94
1828
1829* 143
1830

:ommences with 1824 :
A.D. Murders.
1831
1832-......
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837

Seven years of the tories. Seven years of the whigs.
Total . 652 Total.. . . 1366
Emancipation. t Reform.
Three features are prominent here. The years of " eman-
cipation." and of " reform" exceed the average of the
period. But the years 1835-6-7, which were Lord Nor-
manby's glorious days, are fearfully conspicuous—their
sum of horror being seven hundred and thirteen murders.
'We shall merely add the closing remarks of the writer
referred to, who furnishes this table :—" Now, when it is
recollected that almost every one of these were perpe-
trated by papists, and the great majority on Protestants,
clergymen, landlords, and others, 1 think it may be fairly
be conceded that conciliation in Ireland is not good for
any portion of her inhabitants, and its real signification is
permission to one party. to perpetrate any amount of
atrocity upon the other with impunity.

Ma. SHIEL AND THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.—We
gave in our last an article from the Dublin Evening Mail,
showing the extension of the Irish Church, and the num-
berof converts it has effected. We wish we couldgive entire
another article, from a recent number of that paper, in
which it is demonstrably shown that the ancestors of Mr.
Shiel were Protestants—the last conformed being an
esquire of 1788—only fifty-five years ago. In this arti-
cle it is proved that the blessings of the Reformation
were extended to the ancestors of the great Daniel him-
self. After showing that the prefix of "0" was usurped
by an uncle of the " liberator", the Mail proceeds, " It is
a common practice with Mr. O'Connell and his party, to
designate, with a view of decrying, in many instances of
holding up to scorn and contempt, in some to persecution
and death, those who conscientiously conform to the
Protestant faith, as " turn-coats," " apostates, " rene-
gades," " deserters of their God," and such like. Now
let us see what these people have done themselves, and
that within the last sixty years, and subsequent to the
birth of the present leader, who rails against and vilifies
s andthe
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yearshe of pe persons o n
which
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re-
canted
that religion of which his direct and immediate progeni-
tors, as the christian-names sufficiently prove—the mem-
bers of his own family—were, and still are, professors."
O
onapnegdrivythen goes on, " But above all,
f7t
popery,
and beyond all—and of this Mr. O'Connell may well feel
proud—the Rev. John Connell, a popish priest, who
publicly read his recantation in the year 1771. This took
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place at a period when few persons in his profession, no
matter how they might have felt, possessed the moral
courage thus openly to recede from a religion the doctrines
of which they did not believe, and to the discipline of
which they could not conscientiously conform. Our
foregoing notice of the Councils' inscribed on the recan-
tation roll has been entirely confined to the southern
branches, resident in the counties of Kerry, Clare, Tippe-
rary, and Cork. The Connells of Cavan and Longford
were the Tir-Connells from Donegal, who were, from the
period of the Reformation, and still continue to be, stanch
and conscientious Protestants. Of these was the late
Colonel Connell, connected by marriage with the Edge-
worth (Kilshrewly) family, and his descendants, a son of
whom is now, as a christian minister, an honour and an
ornament to the Established Church."