The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

SATURDAY.

Mr. Moore, Q.C., addressed the court on the part of
the Rev. Mr. Tierney. The grounds of his application
for a new trial the le9rned counsel stated to be, that the
verdict was unsustAtied by evidence, and that there had
been misdirection on the part of the Lord Chief Justice.
Mr. O'Hagan, on the part of Mr. Duffy, took, gene-
rally, the grounds for argument adopted by Mr. White-
side.

The Solicitor-General rose to address the court on be-
half of the Crown, contending against the points urged by
Mr. Whiteside.

At five o'clock the court adjourned till yesterday (Mon..
day) morning, when the Solicitor-General would resume
his address.

Over 120 prisoners have been committed to the Bride-
well of Tralee during the last month.

Members of the Cork Board of Guardians have discon-
tinued the use of the repf...al button, in consequence of a
request to that effect from the chairman of the board.
The Limerick Chronicle mentions the marriage of the
Rev. Mr. Burke, lately a priest of the Church of Rome,
to the widow Kennedy, at Kilfenora church.
We deeply regret to state, that letters were received in
town, on Thursday, announcing the death of the Rev.
Charles Boston, Rector of Letterkenney, and ex-Fellow
of the University of Dublin.—Dublin Evening Post.
Mr. Stafford O'Brien M.P. intends to bring in a bill to
prevent Vestries being held in Churches in places whose
population exceeds one thuusand persons. Limerick
Chronicle.

At Lord Wicklow's seat, Shelton Abbey, county Wick-
low, there is a tree of the Olea punculata, near forty feet
high, a wonder to all the gardeners in the neighbourhood,
and probably the only specimen in Great Britain in the
open air.
The Repeal Association held their weekly meeting in
Dublin, on Tuesday last. when Mr. O'Connell, Mr. J.
'0,12.-fon, Mr. J. A- Cl,Suitl, uncl other, addressed the
repeaters assembled ; but nothing was said of the least
general interest. The rent received for the week was
about £275.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
night week, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock,
a very melancholy and fatal accident occurred to Mrs.
Egan, of this town. After her family had retired to rest,
this lady proceeded to a lower apartment in her house, in
the Irishtown, and commenced reading by the light of a
candle, when her clothes caught fire, and she was so
dreadfully injured that she survived but a short time.
Mrs. Egan has left a fond husband and a young family.—
Tipperary Constitution.
• THE CONVICT MAHONY.—This unfortunate criminal
was to be executed in front of the county gaol this day,
but a respite arrived on Saturday, postponing the execution
until the 23rd of next month. He was convicted at the
last assizes of the wilful murder of his sister-in-law, her
daughter, and her servant woman, near the town of Mac-
room, on the 17th August last. The unfortunate crimi-
nal, since his first committal has evinced little intelligence
beyond that of the lower class of animals, giving inco-
herent replies to any questions put to him in Iri,h, which
is the only language he at all understands. When sentence
of death was pronounced against him he appeared uncon-
scious of his awful position, and remains in that way to
this present moment, and though every exertion has been
made to instruct him, he is totally devoid of any knowledge
of a future state. These circumstances having been re-
presented to the Lord Lieutenant, he directed a cautious
investigation into the state of his mind, from which it is
evident that although he may not come under the class of
" idiocy," he might be considered an irresponsible being.
The respite is for the purpose of making closer inquiry
respecting him.—Cork Constitution of Tuesday.