The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Dublin Gazette of Tuesday contains the names of
121 insolvents, of whom 56 are set down as farmers.
The military and police have been called upon to aid in
collection of the poor rate in Nenagh.
The special commission for the trial of the leaders and
other parties implicated in the late insurrection is fixed to
be held at Nenagh on Tuesday, the 19th inst.
A GREAT SIMILARITY.—Of whatever the Irish rebel
leaders may be accused, they certainly manifest great con-
sistency, for there is as much difficulty in the apprehen-
sion of their speeches as of their persons.
It is stated that the Irish Treasury in Dublin Castle is
to dispensed with, and that all its duties are to be trans-
ferred to the Bank of Ireland. The staff of the privy
council is to be consolidated with the chief secretary's
office.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S VlSlT.—After all, it is not
likely that the Irish public will be enlightened as to the
result of the Premier's visit, which is said to have been
undertaken without any definite object, further than a
reconnoisance or mere tour of general observation. His
lordship left Dublin on Saturday for Belfast, and will
thence proceed to join the royal party in Scotland.
MELANCHOLY Accinzmr.—The Rev. Marcus Clark,
of Shronell, county of Tipperary, and brother to the late
Mr. Clark, who was barbarously murdered about two
years ago in that county, was drowned yesterday morn-
ing about eight o'clock, while in the act of bathing at
Burn's Hole, Kilkee. His body was subsequently picked
up by canoes. The distress of his unfortunate wife is
indescribable.— Clare Journal.
Two respectable inhabitants of Kilrush, county Clare,
are charged with having solicited a man named Curtin, to
assassinate Colonel Vandaleur, the owner of the town.
The gentleman has rendered himself obnoxious, as well
by his recent activity in searching for Mr. R. O'Gorman,
as because of some recent evictions on his estate. Curtis
is, however, a man already known to the police as an in-
former, and his veracity is much doubted.
The camp at Turtulla, near Thurles, was struck on Wed-
nesday and the " flying column" broken up. The 74th
and the 85th Light Infantry marched for Dublin. On the
same day Major-General M`Donald, with his aides-de.
camp, Colonel Pennefather and Captain M'Kenzie, left
for Kilkenny. Previous to his departure the gallant
general issued a general order, indicating his warm ap-
proval of the conduct and bearing of this body of troops.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—A most appalling accident
happened on Sunday, the 27th ult., near the town of Mo-
naghan. R. Lamartine Grason, Esq., and his lady, were
taking a drive in a pony phaeton, in the direction of Ros-
more Park, when the two ponies took fright, and bounded
over a bridge that crosses the Ulster canal, and fell into
the canal, about one hundred and twenty feet deep, killing
Mr. and M.a a...cm. and Miss A. Graham,
to the unfortunate young gentleman. Mr. Grason has
left no relative to inherit his large property, about £lB,OOO
per annum. _

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—
The Lord-Lieutenant and Lord and Lady Russell visited
the National Schools in Marlborough-street, Dublin, on
We dnesday, and were received at the institution by the
resident Commissioner, the Right Hon. Alexander
M`Donnell, the Archbishop of Dublin, and Dr. Murray,
Lord Bellew, the Rev. Dr. Henry, the Rev. Mr. Howie,
and several other gentlemen. Mrs. Whately and the
Misses Whately, Mrs. and the Misses M`Donnell, and
many other ladies were present. Their Excellencies and
Lord and Lady John Russell were conducted
through the schools, in each of which the children under-
went an examination in presence of the distinguished
visitors, who expressed themselves highly gratified by the
discipline and general appearance of the children.
THE "MORAL FORCE" REPEALERS.—Mr. John O'Con-
rell has issued an address to his countrymen, declaring
that repeal alone can cure the evils of Ireland, professing
admiration of the patriotism of the gentlemen who have
proposed the new scheme for rotatory or peripatetic par-
liaments, and announcing his intention to endeavour to
resume the agitation for repeal; but this address, which
is as dull and verbose as all Mr. J. O'Connell's speeches
and writings, also contains the satisfactory statement that
unless money be subscribed Conciliation Hall will be sold
within a month, to pay the debts of the Repeal Associa-
tion. As it is altogether unlikely that any money can
now be raised by the moral force repealers, it may be pre-
sumed that Ireland will be freed from one set of the de-
magogues who have so long traded in agitation.
INJURY FROM LIGHTNING.—On Monday, the house
of Mr. James Nelson, of Tullanee, near Mull, was struck
by the electric fluid, which entered the roof, about half-
way from the eave, making a hole of ten or twelve inches
square in the ceiling, shivering a window in the apartment
in pieces, and setting on fire the curtains of a bed in which
four children were sleeping. An interesting little girl of
eleven years of age had one of her legs severely scorched,
and an elder brother was so much damaged that he was
us an insensible state for several hours. It next descended
to a room beneath, and in its progress literally broke a
desk in atoms, and demolished a window. Nelson, his
wife, and two children occupied this room • and a boy,
about four years of age, was so stunned by ihe fluid, that
for a long time it was feared he would not recover.—Derry
paper.
CLERICAL PEACE-MAKERS.—It is not generally, if at
all known, that during the progress of the arresting ma-
nia warrants were in the hands of the police for the appre-
hension of two Roman Catholic clergymen in the arch-
diocese of the most Rev. Dr. Murray ; and who, owing to
the intervention of the latter, narrowly escaped compani-
onship with the insurgent leaders now lying prisoners in
her Majesty's gaols of Kilmainham and Newgate. The
names of the rev. disaffected are not unknown to the
readers of Irish intelligence as being constant spouters at
the meetings of the Confederation. The Rev. Mr. Mee-
han, of St. Michael and John's Chapel in this city, and
the more celebrated Father Thaddeus O'Malley, having
by their speeches and writings rendered themselves ob-
noxious to the authorities, orders were issued for their ar-
rest. Before, however, they were put into execution,
their friends strongly advised them to absent themselves
until the storm blew over. Both gentlemen having reso-
lutely declined this course, Mr. O'Malley's capture was
effected. In the inevatime their diocesan interposed in
his behalf, and after being tso hours in custody the rev.
gentleman was set at liberty, but upon what conditions is
unknown beyond the precincts of the lower Castle-yard.
In Mr. Mechan's case the warrant, it is said, was abso-
lutely suspended.

SHARP PRACTICE.—In a county bordering upon this
resides a magistrate, an excellent man, greatly esteemed
both for his personal qualities and the suavity and up-
rightness with which his duties are discharged. He has
unfortunately contracted some debt, through, perhaps,
liberality of disposition, and has necessarily become cauti-
ous of the instruments of the law. In fact, bailiffs seldom
could come near him. Several clever limbs of the law'
having been foiled, at length one fellow undertook to do
the business, and he did it in this way :—He arrived in the
town where the magistrate now and then attended to pre-
side at petty sessions, when no danger was likely. He
discovered that on next day his worship was expected.
He accordingly repaired, after the hour of attendance, to
a public-house hard by, and out of this he was to go ap-
parently tipsy. Passing on a door or two, he tripped and
reeled against a window, and dashed in a pane of glass, of
course not by design. And of course he could not pay for
it ; so a constable was sent for, and the fellow was arrested,
taken to the Court-house, and placed in the dock. His
turn came for examination by the magistrate, and the very
gentleman he wanted was before him on the bench. The
magistrate asked him who he was, whence he came, why
he had been guilty of drunkenness, and why he had broke
the window as he did ? The answers to the first questions
were evasive—to the others the reply was in a deprecatory
half-sheepish tone, " Shure, sir, 'tis a good man's case.
Oh ! yes, sir, shure I couldn't help it." The answers
were not satisfactory, and he was about to be committed
as a drunkard and a vagrant. But again he appealed—
" Plaize your worship, I'm an honest boy ; I can show
you a good character ; I've it here in my pocket "—put-
tirg his hand into his breast pocket, and pulling out the
" character " covered with soiled paper. " Read that
your worship," and he handed it to the magistrate. The
latter took it, but his eye scarcely fell on the document he
opened when he was seen to change colour slightly, and
was somewhat stunned. He was roused from his embar-
rassment by the " drunkard and the vagrant," " You
see, your worship, I am not so drunk as you thought.

Here is the copy, sir; you are served now, please your
worship, and I call on you now to protect me. You have
the police hero about you, sir; and I require them to see
me safe." The out-manoeuvred gentleman recovered his
self-possession and good humour. " Faith," said he,
" my good fellow, sure enough, you've your wits all right
about you. You did what you were sent for." And the
clever under-strapper of the law departed from the court-
house.—Clare Examiner.