The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

IRi!,LAND.

W. B. FERRANTI, ESQ.. M . P.—The Dublin Protestant
Operative A•sc.ciati, n, which numbers amongst its mem-
hers near!y 1.800 electors, have voted address to Mr.
PertaA, to be presented in a gtild box, expressing their
he,t thanks for toe spec ch he made in the House of Com-
mons, dnrnK the late deflate on the state of Ireland.
WIIIGGERY AND EPP. AL.—The Globe (whig leading
journal) gives a siL.:tifievnt Ltnt of the tendency of whig
Poiit'v in the following paragraph :—" A meeting of the
kaditir. Irish whit...s is to be held at •Charlemont House,
during the present week, for the purpose of norni-
tt,ting a depu•ation to present a memorial to the Queen
in reference to the present condition of Ireland. // is said
that the memorial will go the length of entreating her
Majesty to take measures for holding occasional parlia-
ments in Dublin."
SIGNAL. FIRES.—The committee of a loan fund, in the
neighbourhood of Nenagh, at their last day of meeting re-
fused to grant loans (except in two or three cases) in con-
sequence of the fires throuLt hoot that neighbourhood the
night before, which was accompanied with yellings, the
answer to many disappointed applicants being, that "the
fires the night before had burned their application papers,"
and which was received with great dismay. Several on
the following day returned to the principal member of the
committee and begged of him to consider their wants; but
his stern, though just, reply was, " that their money was
also burned." The Nenagh Guardian observes that this
lesson will be apt to have the desired effect.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting of
this association, on Monday, Mr. John O'Connell was
the principal speaker. He announced that the association
could no longer distribute the repeal newspapers through-
out the country. A letter from the liberator was read,
hut the following extract comprises the only matter of
importance contained in it:—" There is not the least

reason for any kind of despondency. On the contrary,
it appears to me to be as clear as the noon-day sun, that
the repeal must succeed if the Irish people observe two
essential conditions of success. The first is the strict
observance of the peace—the total absence of riot, tumult,
outbreak, or force ; in short, to continue peaceable under
every circumstance and in every event. Secondly—to
continue perseveringly and unremittingly the repeal agi-
tation—to continue that agitation in strictly legal chan-
nels, and in no other—to abandon and avoid any course
that may be declared, however wrongfully, to be illegal ;
and to continue to model every public body into such a
shape as shall set every prosecution at defiance; in short,
to continue constitutional and legal agitation so long as
one shred of the constitution remains." The rent for the
week was announced as amounting to £624 16s. Sd.
PAPIST EQUALITY.—The Rev. Mr. Gregg, at a meet-
ing of the Dublin Protestant Operative Association, in
alluding to the above subject, said, that he had never been
so wretched in his life as in reading the debate on the state
of Ireland. The early part of that debate had been un-
redeemed by one single feature which was not discou-
raging. Although Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley
had declared, as it was reported, it was the intention of
Government to maintain the Protestant church, they had
virtually surrendered, inasmuch as they conceded that the
Roman Catholics were entitled to equality, and should
not be in any manner disparaged on account of their prin-
ciples. After such a concession as that, it was vain to
talk of maintaining the Protestant church in Ireland.
After such a concession bold language on the subject was
absurd language ; for if Roman Catholics were entitled to
equality, as respected their principles, their circumstances
must give them the ascendancy, for they were in the ma-
jority. If Roman Catholic principles were unobjection-
able, then common sense and the case of Scotland showed
that their church should be established in this country—
and the same concession was made by every previous
" Conservative" speaker. Hence the cry was in every
one's mouth, that " the game was up with the Protestant
church." He (Mr. Gregg) had been compelled to hang
his head with shame at the debate as reported.
H YDROPTIOIII A.—We regret to have to record a most
melancholy instance of death by hydrophobia, The vic-
tim was Miss Anna Delacour, eldest daughter of the
respected treasurer of the county, James Delacour, Esq.,
of Sunny Hill. She was in her 18th year—would have
completed it, indeed, on the Ist of May—of a person most
attractive, and of a disposition which endeared her to all
who knew her. She had, unfortunately, a pet dog, and
remarking about the end of January that the dog did not
seem well, she asked her father to look at him. He did
so, and, on communicating with an uncle of the young
lady, they suspected that the animal was mad, but, with-
out imparting their suspicion to Miss Delacour, they said
they would put him into a warm bath. On hearing this,
the nature of the malady seems to have struck her, for
she instantly observed, " If the dog is mad, it is all over
with me, for he has licked my lip, and there is a slight
sore on it." The dog, on the day that he was put into
the bath, died, but nothing that could excite apprehension
occurred in the case of Miss Delacour, until Wednesday
last. On that day, however, she became indisposed.
About 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening the character of the
malady was unequivocally displayed. Paroxysms came
o.i, recurring from time to time with great violence until
half-past three on Thursday evening,—that is, about five-
and-twenty hours from the first indication of illness,—
when she expired. Her death was a death of peace.
Throughout the most agonising of her sufferings reason
was unimpared, and when each paroxysm passed away
she exhibited a degree of serene composure that astonished
all who witnessed it.—Cork paper.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday, the
21st instant, three sailors belonging to the " Rocket."
lying in the Newry Canal, went to their births in the
o alo, -.1>0u.0 "rimy
contrary to the captain's positive direction-; and, it is
supposed to prevent any appearance of smoke, they had
taken down part of the funnel for carrying it off. On
Thursday morning the mate went to call them, and no
answer being given, he went down into the forecastle, and
found one man (Samuel Hamilton) quite dead, and the
other two in a completely insensible state. Dr. Starkey
and Surgeon Moloy were immediately called in, and all
that professional skill and humane attention could suggest
has been done by them for the invalids ; but, we are sorry
to say, they still remain in a most precarious state, and it
is the opinion of the medical men that there are but faint
hopes of their recovery. An inquest on the body of
Hamilton was held on Thursday, before Mr. John Boyd,
justice of the peace and seneschal (who has been un-
ceasing in his attention to the hapless survivors.) The
jury after hearing evidence as to the circumstances, re-
turned
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are so unhappily prone to indulge in. of placing fires in
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their sleeping apartments, without any means been taken
to give vent to the smoke. We trust the melancholy oc-
currences at our quay will operwe as a warning to sea-
faring persons. They will despise it at their own peril.
Since the foregoing w.is out in type, we have heard of the
death of another of ,he poor fellows. His name has not
been communicated to us.—Nenagh Telegraph.