The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

Oct. 17, 1848

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Ten o'clock

LATEST FROM IRELAND.

THE WRIT OF ERROR.

The Freeman's Journal of yesterday says, " The pre-
liminaries for the issue of the writ of error have been
perfected by Mr. O'Brien's legal advisers, and the ne-
cessary documents have been lodged in the pro 3er quar-
ter for some days ; but it is said the Irish law officers are
unwilling to let the writ issue. They have been silent all
through the pest week. There was a sort of tacit under-
standing that on Saturday the course of the Crown would
be detprfmined. We waited for Saturday and still nothing
bas been done."

TRLkL OF OWINOUE.

THE VERDICT.

On Saturday evening the jury, having retired at half-
past seven o'clock, applied several times to the Court
for assistance before bringing in their verdict. At length,

at ten minutes past eleven, an intimation was conveyed to
their lordships that the jury had agreed to their verdict ;
and the whispered conversation which had been carried on
in the court instantly subsided into a profound and an-
-lious silence.

The jury were then directed to come into court, and
having taken their seats in the box, the foreman handed
the issue paper to the clerk of the Crown, who having
called over the names of the jurors, to which they respec-
tively answered, said—
" Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed to your ver-
-25,000 I ' diet
? "

Foreman—We have.
Clerk
of the Crown—ln the case of Patrick O'Dono-
hue, yow !fay you, gentlemen, is the prisoner guilty or
not guilty?
Foreman (in a low but firm tone)—GUILTY.

This announcement; owing to the previous statement
of the foreman, that the jury were not likely to agree,
evidently came by surprise on the greater portion of those
present, and produced considerable sensation and excite-
ment in court. The prisoner alone seemed unmoved at
this result, so unfavourable to his hopes. -
_ _

After a short pause, JUDGE MOORE perused the issue
paper, and then handed it to the Clerk of the Crown, and
directed him to read it. It was to the following effect:—

"We find ' guilty' on the first five counts, and 'not
guilty' on the 6th. We unanimously recommend the pri-

soner to mercy in the strongest manner, in consequence
of his having withdrawn, and having disconnected him-
self from his associates previous to the attack at Farrin-

The Chief Justice then directed the court to be ad-
journed to ten o'clock on Monday (this day), immediately
upon which the judges retired.
A rush was instantly made to the dock by several
friends of Mr. O'Donohue, including Mr. Maher, his
junior counsel, and his solicitor, Mr. Laffan, who were
anxious to take their leave of him before he was conveyed
back to prison. He shook hands cordially with them, and
sustained a brief conversation with a cheerfulness and
composure truly astounding, considering the painful posi-
tion in which he stood—a position which might well shake
the fortitude of the most courageous man. As he was
leaving the court a person in the crowd leant over the
dock, and, stretching out his hand to Mr. O'Donohue,
addressing
some words to him, the purport of which did
not reach us. Mr. O'Donohue, however, turned round
and addressed this individual in the following indignant
terms :
" Sir, I do not kno re who you are ; but the observa-
tions you have just made, induce me to think that you
are little better than the witnesses who have sworn away
My life. I think you are one of the Dublin detectives ;
and I will not pollute my hand by touching yours." Mr.
O'Donohue then retired to the department underneath,
from whence he was shortly afterwards conveyed to the
Prison van, guarded by a strong force of police.

Ylittraturr.

VARIETIES

_ ANECDOTE OF FOOTE.—When in company with a num-
ber of gentlemen who were trying to outvie each other in
marvellous statements, the conversation happened to turn
upon a calamity which had not long previously occurred,
the explosion of the powder-mills at Hounslow Heath.
Many extraordinary stories were related, and amongst the
number. one of the company declared that, as he sat
baying his hair dressed, his servant and himself were
thrown out of the, dining-room into the bedroom, where
they broke a looking-glass to pieces. The story was
smiled at as a problematical one ; but Foote, who had
hitherto listened with seeming attention, immediately said
be was not at all surprised at the circumstance, as he
himself was forced forty feet from the place where he sat
at breakfast by the shock he received at the concussion.
" Aye, sir," said a young gentleman, " that was very
strange indeed." " Not at all, sir," replied the English
Aristophanes, " for on finding the room shake, I ran down
stairs into the street to inquire what was the matter."
SHOPPING, AND A SHOPMAN.—Shopping ? What a
bore I I grant you, shopping is at times a bore, especially
if you go to shop with ladies. A man is never more out
of his element than when he enters the haberdasher's.
There you stand, perhaps, at the door shop, for the time,
a discarded appendage—a mere fag-end of humanity—
whilst your fair friends plunge into the mysteries of silks,
satins, laces, and mouslin-de-laines, winding up with the
purchase of a yard of bobbin or a penny- worth of pins.
I have admired the patience of Job, but am astounded at
the endurance of a shopman. And yet is patience his
Only virtue ? Verily, as Madame de Stael said of Bona-
Parte, " He is a system, not a man ;" a regular combina-
tion of physical and moral excellencies. The labour of a
Hercules, the winged heels of Mercury, the lying versa-
tility of tEdipus, the eloquence of Cicero, the good looks
of Gannymede, the craft of Ulysses, the polish of a Paris
--all are mere items in the composition of a perfect shop-
2Pan—Dublin University Magazine.
A SMART DOG.—A shepherd once, to prove the quick-
ness of his dog, who was-lying before the fire in the house
Where we were talking, said to me in the middle of a sen-
tence concerning something else—" I'm thinking, sir, the
0W is in the potatoes." Though he purposely laid no
stress on these words, and said them in a quiet uncon-
cerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared asleep, im-
mediately jumped up, and leaping through the open
Window, scrambled up to the turf roof of the house, from
Which he could see the potato field. He then (not seeing
the cow there) ran and looked into the barn where she
Was, and finding that all was right, came back to the
house. After a short time the shepherd said tl

ItorWagaft;;a;dihe dog repeated his look out; but on
the false alarm being a third time given, the dog got up,
and, wagging his tail, looked his master in the face with
80 comical an expression of interrogation, that he could
not help laughing aloud at him, on which, with a slight
growl, he laid himself down in his warm corner with an
offended air, and as if determined not to be made a fool
of again.—American paper.
MR. O'BRIEN DURING THE PASSING OF THE SEN-
TENcE.—Mr. Smith O'Brien, true to the last, profaned
the awful scene with an outbreak of temper which proved
as little his courage as it did his self-respect. He defied
his Sovereign and his judges, and contumaciously repeated
his offence, as far as words could do it, in a tone worthy of
the most agitious malefactors at the Old Bailey, or the
wretched offenders familiar to the authorities of Bow-
street. He still showed that utter want of meaning or
consistency which has marked the whole of his career.
When he recommended all Ireland to follow his example,
did he mean that he had resisted arrest, or openly rebelled ?
To urge a nation to avoid the police, to hide in the moun-
tains, and take up arms against a constable when pressed,
is a ridiculous sort of suggestion for any sane man to make
anywhere, much more one placed in Mr. O'Brien's awful
position—on the very steps of the scaffold. On the other
band, if he seriously meant that his countrymen ought to
rebel as he had done, he might at least have had the grace
to acknowledge the fairness of his trial and the justice of
173 verdict. But his speech meant neither one thing nor
the other. It was simply an act of vulgar bravado and
Peevish persistence in crime ; and to all intelligent persons
will condemn the man, much more than an honest con-
fession would have done. Mr. O'Brien has added one
tiller° example to the great induction, that a causeless re-
Delis generally a vain and foolish man.—Times.

MiiVc}On.--:inliEOpTE.-There exists on Long Island,
near Brooklyn, several manufactories of milk—the process
of which should be known. One of these dairies covers
.a space of 600 feet front by 300 feet deep, carefully closed
in, so as to be as private as possible—the business of the
People being to drink the milk, not to know how it is
roade. In this enclosure 400 cows are kept all the year
round. These cows are fed on the refuse slop of whisky
distilleries, and it is given to them warm. Each barrel
costs six cents, but being adulterated with water and cheap
feed brings the price still less. Such is the fondness of the
pars for this vile compound, that after having fed upon it
„T' a week or more, their appetites become so de; laved
iat they will take no other food. The result is, their
fiak-producing organs are stimulated to a wonderful de-
re; they yield enormously, but soon become diseased ;
ineir gums ulcerate, their teeth drop out, and their breath
°ecomes fetid. Though thus diseased, they do not fall
!way in flesh, but on the contrary puff up and bloat to an
2Pearance of great fatness ; their joints stiffen so that
VeY cannot lie down, and rarely or never come out alive,
Bad as this is, the milk is afterwards mixed with molasses
Yorkand whiting, and then sold to the people of New
for pure milk ! Any one may observe the thirty-six
vaas that carry it round every morning. It is of course
very injurious to children, who use it in much greater
uantities than adults. Some idea may be formed by com-
puting one barrel of slop to a cow, costing sixpence, and
the milk produced being 80 cents.—New York paper.