The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

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A week ago it was announced that the condemned
prisoner, Patrick Lyons, now awaiting his execution at
Kirkdale Gaol, for the murder of Margaret Fahy, atWar-
rington, had made a confession to the Roman Catholic
Priest, which went to exonerate his wife, Bridget Lyons,
from any participation in the offence, of which both were
found guilty by the jury. In consequence of this revela-
tion, a petition was sent up to the Home-office for the
mercy of the Crown to be extended to the female prisoner.
Subsequently, however, to this, Lyons retracted the con-
fession in question, and, in fact, asserted that Mr. Mar-
shall had misrepresented his meaning altogether. But a
very short time after making this assertion he again
returned to his original statement, and expressed his
remorse to the governor of the gaol for having deviated
from it. He is still attended by the Rev. Mr. Marshall,
and persists in the truth of the confession, which, of
course, was not made under any sacramental tie, but
which is believed to convey the actual facts of the crime.
The prisoner's statement, it will be remembered, fully
bears out the remark of the woman, made before receiving
her sentence, that her husband could acquit her of the
murder if he chose ; and the circumstance of the obvious
ill-feeling existing between them at the time bears out the
correctness of his version of the unhappy story.
Lyons is himself, as we learn from the governor of the
gaol, well in health, and little affected by the contempla-
tion of his awful position. The woman is not well; and
is most dejected and uneasy. The uncertainty as to the
arrival of a reprieve undoubtedly unsettles her; and this
has not yet arrived, and may possibly not do so, if at all,
for three or four days to come. At present the execution
of both is fixed for Saturday, the 26th instant. The male
prisoner is represented as a very ignorant man, but with
no indication in his features of a predisposition to commit
a crime of the sanguinary character proved against him.
His forehead is not so low as described by those who saw
him on his trial ; nor does he appear to have the mere
animal propensities so strongly prodominating. We can-
not discover, however, that he is thoroughly alive to a
sense of his wretched state.

MYSTERIOUS CASE

—A case came on before the coroner
Saturday for inquiry, in which a woman, whose name
is unknown, was the principal object. It appeared a
liceman was called by a woman into No. 4 Court,
lifford•: q tare, abouttwo o'clock on Wednesday morning.
'hen ti e officer arrived at the spot he found the woman
in;ant by the side of another female, who was a

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ta'e of intoxication. He dismissed the former, who
retired into her own house (in the court), and took the
other woman to Rose-bill bridewell, where she was re-
ceived by tierjeant Wright, who, like the policeman.
imagined she was intoxita"ed, as her breath smelt of
spirits. She was, however, sent to the Northern Hospital,
where she expired on the following day, after which a
fracture was found in the lower portion of her skull. A
witness stated that her house was in the court in question.
lhe jury returned an open verdict of found dead.

RAI IN G CONFLAGRATION ATTHE NORTH DOCKS.—
Yesterday afternoon about two o'clock, a fire broke out in
n extensive cotton shed, situated in Beacon-street, near
he Nelson Dock, known as Hughes' sheds. At the time
the flames burst out, a number of men were at work
cn within the shed. These men were quite unconscious of
con- any cause which miglit have occasioned so sudden an ap-
earance of the destroying element amidst the vast quan-
tity Limerick itity of inflammable property by which they wera Sur-
'"''e flames very soon gained a frightful ascen.
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SITTING OF THE COURT ON GOOD FRIDAY.—In the
'rse of yesterday, when arrangements were being made
for the trial of particular cases, the Recorder reminded
,ar that Friday would be a dies non, as regarded the
of the court ; and still they bad progressedpo

far, so very favourably, that he hoped to terminate the
sessions on Saturday night. Several gentlemen at the
bar reminded the learned Recorder 'that the Judges of
Assize generally sat for the latter part of the day on the

"14 Good Friday, tiller having attended divine service in the
forenoon ; and, it was also added that, as term would
commence next Tuesday, the members of the bar would
be, probably, by this arrangement, detained from town,
at much inconvenience. The Recorder answered, that
his opinion on the subject was such that he should give
pect all parties connected with the sessions the opportunity of
ily removed. attending divine service on Good Friday, so that the
business of the 9038i0119 would be suspended.