The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

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AP THE SINEWS <O,I, WARP' AT BA LLINGARaIr.—The
whole stock of money found on the persons of the leaders
at Ballingarry arngunted to the heavy sum of £2t).

Smith O'Brien has undertaken to pay for competent
legal assistance for,nll the poor men who are to be tried,
leasing the choice of iadiviutuds to themselves.
Belfast Northern Whig immortalises a cabbage.,
stands four -feet high, is sixteen feet in eireumfer-
Euld weighs 501bs.

Almost every relation of Mr. Smith O'Brien, including
his venerable mother, wife, mother-in-law, brother,
cousins, and sisters' are now at Cloninel, watching with
anxious and painful solicitude his trial.
Whilst Mr. White,.of Mayo, executor of Lord Clan-
morris, was distraining for rent on Friday week, a large
mob assembled, beat 3.1 r. White, and after cutting open
his portmanteau, burned all the documents it contained.
It is said that an insurance company, in which Mr.

Smith O'Brien had effected an insurance On his life six-
teen years ago, refused last week to receive the accruing
premium. This may have been a very cautious step, but
its strict legality is rather _questionable:

MR. DUFFY SHOWING WHITE FEATHER.—Notice
has been given to the Government that the great literary
leader of the confederate Inoxement, the life and soul of
the party, intends to plead guilty to whatever indictment
the Crown may prefer against him—throwing himself on
the mercy of the Executive to dispose of him as may seem
fitting in the 'case of one who does not even question its
authority, much less offer any opposition to its paramount

operation

It is reported, in circles cognizant of the movements of
the Roman Catholic church, that a sleputation, consisting
of not more than three of the bishops, Inc.ludingArchbishop
Murray, had a lengthened interview with Lord John Rus-
sell during his visit to Lord Clarendon. The object of the
conference, however, whether it related to the political
prisoners, the grave question of a state provision for the
clergy, or the general condition of the country, remains a
secret.

Lord John Russell has escaped the ordeal of a witness-
box at Clonmel Assizes ; the counsel for Smith O'Brien
having found out that the attorneys committed a mistake
in serving him with a subpoena. He is not the noble
lord, says the Dublin Herald, who sent a letter to an
agitator during the Reform Bill, suggesting that it was

it fifty thousanc

men to march on London as

the surest method of carrying their object; but it was
some other lord, and the Confederates have the letter.

If so, most wonderful they should require a deliberation
of counsel to read the signature !
Mrs. Doheny has received a letter from her fugitive
husband, announcing his safe arrival in Boulogne. He
states, that he passed through the County Waterford and
County Cork in the costume of a Tipperary farmer. but
when he got into the City of Cork, he deemed it prudent
to assume another disguise, and, having purchased an old
violin and dressed himself in a tattered suit, he played
through the streets for two days, awaiting the sailing of
the Juverna for Bristol, in which he took passage on the
deck. When arrived in Bristol he again changed his
dress, and put on a suit of black, with white cravat, and
thus attired, passed up to London, and thence to the Con-
tinent.

TREASONABLE EDITORS AND LADIES.—Mr. Killaly.
the editor of the TiTalelford Chronicle, has been lodged
in Clonmel Gaol on a charge of high treason. Two young
ladies, Miss Eliza Power and Miss Ryan, were arrested

the charge of being engaged in treasonable practices. The
latter is charged with harbouring her brother and Mr.

o"Manney, For whose apprehension a reward of £lOO has
been offered. The ladies were travelling on a car when
taken into custody. Miss Power had fire-arms and a
parcel of letters belonging to Mr. O'Mahoney in her pos-
session. The letters, with a very novel head-dress, namely,
a parcel of percussion caps, were found in her bonnet.

WIDOW CORMACK IN COURT.—The Cork Examiner
says,—" A little before the sitting of the court, a fresh,
good-looking woman, dressed in black, and apparently
about forty years of age, mounted the steps to the witness
table. and, placing a seat in front of the bench, coolly
seated herself thereon, to the astonishment of those in
court. Justice Moore came in, assumed his place, and
immediately perceived the lady in black. The judge looked
at her, she at the judge ; his lordship grew puzzled, she
snore easy and familiar. One of the officials of the court
solved the riddle. It was widow Cormack, one of the
principal witnesses, who must have mistaken her way, and
taken the court for the apartment in which the witnesses
are generally assembled, or it might be for the grand jury-
room."

THE ROMANIZING GOVERNMENT.—A correspondent
of the Standard thus addresses the editor of that paper :
" Sir,—You ask, in this day's paper, why has the law not
been permitted to lay hold of them the (priests) ? &c., &c.
The answer is plain,—Monahan, the attorney-general, is
a Roman Catholic ; Redington, the under secretary, ditto ;
M'Kenna, the assistant under secretary, ditto ; O'Farrell,
first commissioner of police, ditto; Baldwin, law adviser
to the castle, ditto ; O'Brien, their new serjeant, ditto ;
Sausse, crown prosecutor at Clonmel, ditto. All these
Roman Catholics are the persons who have the evidence
against the priests in their hands on this great occasion.—
The truth is, the whole thing was got up by the priests—
this is accurately known ; but they deserted their tools,
because they saw that the people of England would force
the goverment to act, and that the government was too
strong at the moment."—llere, then, we have the fact
that, so far from Romanism being persecuted, it is actu-
ally favoured in Ireland at this moment. We showed, on
Tuesday, that the Romanists had obtained nearly the
whole of the public grant for education. We now see
that they have occupied nearly every office connected with
the government.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM THE KILKENNY GAOL.—
On Tuesday, about noon, a desperate attempt was made
by some of the prisoners confined in the Kilkenny county
gaol to effect their escape, by boring a hole through the
boundary wall of the prison surrounding the yard in which
they had been locked up for the purpose of labour at stone
breaking. Upon the alarm being given, and Mr. Robins,

the governor approaching the doorof the yard, four of the

fellows posted themselves on the passage with uplifted
hammers, threatening to knock the brains out of any one
who would attempt to enter. Whilst these men stood in
defence of the breach, the rest of the gang were still busily
employed at boring through the wall, and had made con-
siderable progress in the work, when the governor pro-
cured the assistance of three policemen who were acciden-
tally passing by,a soldier of the 75th Regiment, undergoing
confinement, and Mr. A. Colles, who chanced to be pre-
sent, and arming these, he proceeded with his three turn-

keys to make a demonstration against the mutineers. Mr.
Robins mounted the wall by a ladder, and drove the fel-

lows from the door by presenting a blunderbuss at them,
and the turnkeys and police then rushed into the yard and
soon had all the fellows in irons. A similar attempt at
escape from the gaol was made not long since, but with a
like result.—Kilkenny Moderator.
THE REBELS AND THE GOVERNMENT.—We censured
what we considered the scandalous self-degradation of her
Majesty's ministers in Ireland, in receiving a message
from the insurrectionary leaders by an authorised ambas-
sador—Priest Mackey—specifying the terms and condi-
tions upon which they were prepared to surrender, with-
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out taking any steps io compel an explanation of his con-
duct from the ambassador himself. We were then under
the Arnpression that the reverend delegate had been pe-

remplorily and somewhat sternly, dismissed_by the_Ca;tle

official, and blamed the government only for not having
taken proper steps either to bring the officious screener of
the proclaimed traitors to justice, or, at all events, to sub-
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ject him to examination beforethe'privy council. with a

view to elicit a disclosure as to thelr whereabout. We
were not then acquainted with the astounding facts which
within the last few days have come upon unquestionable
authority to our knowledge. Father Mackey conveyed to

the government, as we formerly stated, an oifer of su.rren-

der on the part of Mr. Meagher, and some of his compa-
nions, upon condition of an amnesty to all the other par-
ties concerned in tke conspiracy. This offer, as we then
stated, was rejected, but (will the reader believe it ?) the
negotiation was actually kept open by the government;
and her Majesty's ministers in the Castle of Dublin con-
descended to recognise the privilege assumed by this Ro-
mish priest to fetch and carry between the Queen's go-
vernment and the proclaimed outlaws, as though he him-
self were the subject of an independent power, and of
right exempt from the jurisdiction of her Majesty's courts
of justice. In his officially-recognised character as am-
bassador from the rebel camp, Priest Mackey, upon the
rejection of his first proposal, offered, but without the au-
thority of the unfortunate gentleman on whose behalf he
made the offer, that if the government would guarantee
his own life, Mr. Meagher would surrender himself into
the hands of the authorities. This second proposition
was accepted, and Mr. Redington. with his own hand,
wrote to Priest Mackey a letter giving, on behalf of the
Queen, the stipulated undertaking! To Mr. Meagher's

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credit be it told. the moment, in Lis place of concealment,
his ecclesiastical messenger placed Mr. Redington's letter
before him, he penned a brief but peremptory rejection of