The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

IRE LAND.

The Rev. Dr. Carson. of Tubbermore. Ireland; unfor-
tunately dislocated his shoulder last week, by falling into
the dock at Coleraine. The reverend gentleinan has,
we regret to state, since expired.

There are 4G parishes in the county Galway which this
3 ear declined waking any remittance to the
_repeal fund.
There are 15 parishes in the county Leitrim which have
also declined contributing.

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.—Thepopularfeelingagainst
the Rev. I%lr. Brasbie convert), at Dingle, is such,
that on Sunday it was necessary to call the aid of a large
party of marines to escort him to and from church.—
Limerick Chronicle.

NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—The Commis-
sioners of Education have, in consequence of the increased
parliamentary grant, appointed five additional inspectors
of Schools ; two of them are Protestants, and three Ho-
man Catholics.

REPEAL AGITATION.—The usual weekly meeting of
the repeal association was held in Dublin, 'on Monday,
Sir Valentine Blake in the chair. The rent amounted to
no more than £634 13s. 11d. The chief topic was the
plan of " arousing an organised determination in the
whole Irish nation of abstaining from the consumption of
all taxed articles," with a view to " touch England in
her most sensitive part, and force from her an immediate
compliance with Ireland's moderate demands !"
FATHER MATHEW AND THE REPEALERS.—The Irish
repealers have made a new movement ; or, rather they
have laid their grasp on the temperance movement, long
accused of.being too much at their service, and have now
openly appropriated it. The repeaters, with the sanction
it is alleged of Father Mathew, are to take the pledge
against tobacco; and, after May, 1845, against all excise-
able articles. The purposes of this on the part of the in-
carcerated arch-repealer are obvious ; by the close alli-
aoce with Father Mathew, he enlists in his favour a pre-
valent fancy of the day, and that a fancy of a religious
type ; he artfully, if not very consistently, associates re-
peal of the union with the prospect of renewed sensual
gratifications, just as Mahomet associated with his doc-
trines, the company of houris, and other delights in Para-
dise ; and under cover of a virtuous moderation in diet,
he begins a lawless attack on the revenue already damaged
by Father Mathew's pious successes. The only part of
the matter for surprise and regret is the Father's consent
to prostitute his mission to the factious purposes, after be
had so well shielded it from such suspicion. If O'Connell
gains by ticking his transient interests to more permanent
interests, by just so much does Father Mathevi lose.
Even if the temperance movement appeared. to be Making
lee-way, which is to be surmised, the mistake and-weak-
ness of resorting to such an expedient are not the less.
Possibly, however, there may be a little pious fraud in the
alliance: by allowing his flock to take " the pledge,"
until " the repeal," the priest may think that he has trap-
ped them into taking it for ever, or, as the saying is,
until the Greek kalends.—Speclufor.
TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE.—OR Thursday last, as some
men were raising stones at the foot of the hill in a line
between the two forts, at Ctughard, county of Kerry, they
came to a verticle aperture of about two feet square, like.
the entrance of a vault,-and about six feet below the sur-
face of the ground. On that day and Friday, some boys
entered the opening, and having advanced for four ,Or five
feet, they returned in safety. On Saturday a young lad
named Bunnian, and a boy named Kennedy entered, they
not returning as soon as was expected, the people outside
became alarmed, and at length the tidings reached Ken-
nedy's father, who was working at,a lime-kiln at a short
distance. The father hastened to the spot, and at once
entered ; but, not returning, three young men, named
Hennessy, Coghlan, and Sullivan, followed to seek for
their friends. The day passed over, and night came on,
and still none of the six persons appeared. On Sunday,
thousands assembled at the fatal spot—several ineffectual
attempts were made by the Roman Catholic curate and
others to extricate the bodies, and at length about six
o'clock, p.m., a powerful young man named Bunnian, a
distant relative of the first named person, headed a party
of six, who entered. TI el proceeded through a narrow
passage before described, and at a distance of a few feet
were :We to stand neatly erect ; they thus advanced
through four cellars, each about four feet long, connected
in a circuitous direction by narrow apertures, the walls of
the cellar being formed of grit-stone, overlapping each
other. Having passed through these, the party reached a
straight hall, about twelve feet long, at the end of which
the leader (Bunnian) struck upon one of the bodies they
were seeking. He proceeded to drag out the body, and
the rest of the party were returning before him—but im-
mediately after they heard the body drop from his hand,
and himself fall on it, gasping in a state of suffocation.
At this time Lyons, one of the party, dropped, and Casey,
another of them succeeded in bringing him out alive. A
second of the party was overpowered. and he was; like-
wise, saved by another. Poor Bunnian was lost. Thus
Sunday passed over—but on Monday, the people dug
down, over the place where the party who- escaped led
them to suppose the bodies were, about thirty .feet from
the original entrance. They thus found the body of old
Kennedy, with his arms clasping the body of his son, and
near them the body of Bunnian, who entered with the
latter. The fresh air being admitted through the cellars,
others entered and released the bodies of the other Bun-
nian, and Coghlan, Sullivan, and Hennessey. It was
heartrending to see the widow Kennedy throw herself in a
state of distraction, on the coffins that contained the
bodies of her husband and her son, as they lay on the
road in front of her cabin—they were her only support.
Coghlan and Sullivan were step-brothers, and their com-
mon mother is in her second widowhood, having survived
both her hu.bands. The elder Bunnian who left a wi-
dowed mother to deplore his untimely end—she lost three
daughters last year on their passage to America. Casey
and the rest of the party who entered with him deserve to
be rewarded for their exertions.