The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

rger given.
and

1 Yesterday

Pere, and no'

numbers of the notices were withdtaw

many of the drafts re-deposited, some of the owners re-
marking, ' We'll have no war now.' The arrest of O'Brien
has had a very sedative effect."
DR. WCARROV_ —Thig riPrann tolln true arrAel-ad ;71

Dublin, on Monday, and committed to New

Aca.7.vit, allU WM/ buppuseu Uu represent. toe 00(ly 01
Irish sympathizers in America, was formerly a resident
of Liverpool. His, profession is that of a surgeon, and he

is undeistood• to be a man of remarkable ability

some time past he has sailed as surgeon with the Sarah
Sands, American screw steamer; and he only gave up
this situation to follow his trpfisonshlk tactvs nn tbs. nth Pr

side of the channel. The Executive have, for some time,.
had their eye on him and his brethren in the crusade
which he was conducting on behalf of the Young Ireland
party in America : he need not hope to escape the fate
which has befallen him. Dr. M`Carron was arrested in

rather a strange manne

Believing himself

known and unsuspected, he sought and obtained an order
to visit his brother-in-law, Mr. Duffy, of the Nation, at
present incarcerated in Newgate ; the officers of the prison
treated him with all civility, and he was not disturbed in

hat he v

taken to secure to

Tisoner, and that measures would be

Duffy the solace of his brother-

in-law's constant company. r Bergin, another American
sympathizer, has also been arrested : he is also an Irish-
man. Papers are said to have been found in the posses-
sion of these parties which indicate a much more careful

and well-provided conspiracy than was supposed to exist,
and curious disclosures may therefore be expected on their
trials.

Michael Healy was executed at Clare, last week, for the
iirdar 10'1\Ta.,n,.n

The Cork papers announce that it is the intention o
Mr. John.O'Connell to take up his permanent residence
in London for the more efficient discharge of his duties as
a director of the National Bank. The hon. gentleman, it
is stated, means to retire from politics.

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SENTENCES.—At Nenagh assizes, Martin Ryan was
sentenced to death for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd ;
and William Cartlev and John Ryan. fnr ennsnirinp• to

who is still living, though his

murder Mr. Richard Bayly,
life was despaired of for some time.
At an assize ball, on Tuesday, at Cork, the dress of a
young lady, named M'Carthy, took fire in one of the
dressing-rooms, but the tire was fortunately extinguished
by the aid of a gentleman, without doing the wearer more

injury than slightly scorching her fair arms.
At Newry, on Friday, a young child was in danger of
being ridden over, and a woman, who ran to rescue her,

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woman, also fell, and the wheel of the heavily laden cart
passed over them both, and killed them instantaneously.
The child escaped uninjured.
The anniversary of the relief of Derry was celebrated by
the Apprentice Boys on Friday with all the usual demon-
strations. An excellent sermon was preached to the
clubs by the Rev. W. Alexander, curate of the cathedral
and chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, from Isaiah, xxxvii.
34, " By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord."

EXECUTIONS.—On Tuesday, at Roscommon, Patrick
Hasty and Owen Beirne were executed, the former for
conspiring to murder the late Major Mahon, and the
latter for conspiring to murder the late Rev. Mr. Lloyd.
They both confessed the justice of their sentence, and
H^.tv attrib, '

asty attribute- his wretched end to "a knowledge and
participation in the accursed system of Molly Maguire-
ism."

The accounts from Ireland about the potato are very
contradictory. Even in the same district. one person will
tell you that " they are very bad,"—another, that "they
never were better." A friend who left Dublin on Tuesday
for the country some miles to the west writes that on his
journey he observed " all the potato gardens, with no
more than a dozen exceptions, black or nearly so ;" but
in many places.. in which the same observation has been
made, the root has, heretofore at least, been sound.

MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF CLUB LAW.—A working
shoemaker in Dublin who was secretary to one of the
seditious clubs, on hearing of the proclamation for dissol-
ving them, being apprehensive of arrest—fled. Shortly
after the police clime to search for him ; and his wife, who
was far advanced in pregnancy, became so frightened, that
she was seized with premature labour, which ended in
her death. She has left two infant children, who now
have no one to protect them. So much for club law.
HEROIC CONDUCT.—As Mr. John Hilton, steward to
G. Gough, Esq., of Ardsallah, was proceeding to ring the
work-bell at six o'clock yesterday morning, a dog
that accompanied him, by harking and growling, drew his
attention to the shrubbery, which was quite close. On
turning round he saw a large athletic man, six yards dis-
tant, with a pistol presented at his face, and with great
self-possession, made a sudden headlong plunge at the
villain, which tumbled him ; a desperate struggle ensued,
in which the pistol was taken and retaken several times,
and which did not terminate for three quarters of an hour.
Hilton, having inflicted a severe wound on the fellow's
head, then collared and marched himin to the stable-yard,
where he completely secured his prisoner. It is worthy
of remark, that Mr. Gough had given some gunpowder to
a workman on the evening before, for the purpose of pro-
tecting his crops. The wadding found in the pistol was,
beyond doubt, torn from the paper in which the powder
was enclosed, and the miscreant who attempted the mur-
der, though a stranger, happened to be a cousin of the
labourer who had charge of the powder. —Clonmel
Chronicle.

EFFECT OF FIRMNESS.—The orders of General Mac-
donald for the preparation of a special train to take Smith
O'Brien to Dublin, were conveyed to Thurles railway
station by Captain Makensie, who on arriving there found
the only engine in reserve puffing away and on the point
of starting for some other portion of the line. He imme-
diately went up to the driver and told him that General
Macdonald's commands were that he should remain, and
take a special train up to Dublin. The driver refused to
obey, stating that he would not take his orders from such
a quarter, whereupon Captain Mackenzie quietly pulled
out a pistol, and told the man that if he did not at once
do as he was ordered, he would blow his brains out. This
had an immediate effect, and the engine was retained for
the purpose for which it was wanted. Had it not been
for this firmness, Smith O'Brien must have remained at
Thurles that night, and next day, by the pulling up of the
rails or otherwise, his transmission to Dublin might have
been difficult or impossible. As a proof of this we may
mention that one of the trains next day between Thurles
and Tipperary ran against a huge block of stone, which
had been placed on the line during the night, and which
did considerable damage to the engine.
AWFUL SCENE.—At Nenagh assizes, on Monday,
Richard, James, and Mary Conolly were found guilty of
aiding at the murder of Thomas Dillon, on May 18, for
the actual commission of which two brothers of the male
prisoners had been previously found guilty. At the open-
ing of the case the female prisoner, an old woman, who
was aiout eighty years of age,_ being unable to stand,

sat down near the side of the iioCk. Mr. Henry Phillips,
a juror, said that he as a juror, wished to have the old
woman standing at the bar, so that the jury might see her.
Court : She is too old and too feeble to stand. Mr.
Scott (Counsel for the prosecution) : She is eighty years
of age. Oh, is it not truly melancholy to contemplate
that a woman of her years, being on the verge of eternity,
should stand at the bar charged with being privy to the
murder, with having held a basin to receive the blood
which flowed from a gash in the throat of the victim, and
which had been inflicted by her sons—(sensation).
Court : Mr. Scott, Mr. Scott, I hope you will not go into
those matters, and not become excited. I know the
particulars of the whole case. Mr. Scott then proceeded
to state the case according to the evidence, and having
concluded, the old woman stood up and grasped the rail
of the dock with her shrivelled bands. Her grey hair
hung loosely about her head, and her appearance was that
of a maniac; she screamed loudly and extended her at-
tenuated arms, and repeatedly clapped her hands, at the
same time exclaiming wildly, and oscillating her head and
shoulders—" Oh, gentlemen, look at me, look at me ; oh,
trisha Dhei na Glora—my two boys are hanged, and my-
self and my other two boys here ; ochone, ochone," and
she began to cry most bitterly. Thomas Looby, an ap-
prover, having been called upon ascended the witness ta-
ble, when Richard Conolly cried out—" Oh, Looby,
Looby, you hanged our brothers, and now you are going
to hang our poor mother and ourselves. I declare to God,
this day, I will follow you, either dead or alive, until I
have satisfaction from you. You took our land from us,
and—" The old woman : " Oh, Looby, Looby,
Looby." This was truly a touching scene, and, while it
lasted, the utmost sensation prevailed in court."
MORE INTOLERANCE.-At the Petty Sessions at Skib-
hereen, held about a fortnight ago, a case came on in con-

sequence of the demolition of a garden-wall in the old
churchyard of Abbey Stewry, which elicited

of gross religious tyranny
am^ MrAllw ..ner%onfnfif

an exposure

It appears that some year
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send, vicar of the parish named, did his utmost during the
famine to alleviate the distresses of the poor without re-
gard to the religion of those who were the recipients of
the relief he had the means of bestowing through his own
resources as well as the government fund. During his
exertions he invited the co-operation of,the Roman Ca-
tholic priest, and they worked well and amicably together
the worst period of that fearful visitation. ,During its
continuance, Mr. Townsend found that the churchyard
,wall, where so many victims of the. contagion were. daily

I interred, was in a delapidated state, and the dogs entered
by night and rooted amongst and tore the bodies. He, in
consenuence, had a wall which divided the churchyard
from a garden repaired, and also a small gate-house, the
expense being defrayed partly by himself, and partly by
Lord Dufferin, in order to prevent scenes which were an
outrage to all humanity, and which took place in the spring
of 1847. After the worst season of calamity had passed
away, Mr. Townsend erected schools for boys and girls, to
which the children of the parish were indiscriminately ad-
mitted, and many of the Roman Catholics availed them-
selves of the boon. Lately, however, the wall was demo-
lished, though no objection had been urged against it as a
nuisance for the first six months after it was built. The

his it was provk

by a Witness in t

he case,

man, also a Roman
its children to Mr.

Townsend's schools, and it further appeared (though not
absolutely in evidence, as the question was not urged upon
the witness) that the mischief had been urged from the
altar of a Roman Catholic chapel. The people themselves,
of all classes universally, approved of the erection of the
wall their bu*;^' nd 4Able, which it

tnaKiat, —.al-ground respectb...
never had been before. It now lies a heap of ruins.
Rev. Mr. Townsend, in a moderate and feeling letter,
stating the particulars, makes the following remark amongst
t others, and we sincerely trust the writer's hopes may be
s realized :—" I

lave good reason for believing that such
altar assailments will not long be borne. The people's
wits have been too long in movement towards thinking
and reflection from the appeals made to their reason and

ing to the spirit of the age, they will disentr'ammel them-

,ye of e
been I

such encumbrances upon the
Rht to make A. linnaphold wnrrl