The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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port PhoSECUTiONS.—The Limerick Re-
s
-0a that the proprietor and printer of that
journal nave been held to bail upon an indictment for a
taf an article which appeared a month ago, though
subsequent articles, explanatory of the paragraph, have
since ‘kipeared. The prosecution is on behalf of the
crown.
A gentleman, named Baker, who had been for many
years contractor, or builder to Trinity College, Dublin,
on Wednesday committed suicide, by shooting himself
through the head with a loaded pistol. He has left a
wife and a large family of young children. For some
time he was subject to fits of mental abstraction, And no
doubt is entertained that he committed the fatal act in a
moment of derangement.
On Monday morning, the premises of Mr, William
Murphy, of Freshnock, or Faythe of Tacumshane, con-
taining a great quantity of agricultural produce, were set
on fire, it is supposed by three strangers, who were
offering matches for sale, and demeaning themselves so as
not to excite the feelings of the charitably disposed.
They were arrested the following day, one of them forty
miles distant from the spot.—Wexford Conservative.
A meeting was held on Monday in Covent-garden, Lon-
don, the High-bailiff in the chair, to take into considera-
tion the proceedings of the government for the subjuga-
tion of Ireland, and petition parliament for the immediate
release of O'Connell and the other state prisoners. Mr.
Thomas Duncombe, Col. Rawdon, Mr. F. O'Connor,
Mr. Davenport, Mr. Lloyd, the Rev. Dr. Wade, and Mr.
Somers Harford were the speakers.
THE STATE TRIALS; FORGERY.—The Dublin Mer-
cantile Advertiser states, that an individual, employed in
a public office, was lately detected presenting a forged
order for payment of the expenses of certain witnesses
examined during the state prosecutions. He is held in
custody, but has not been committed for trial, owing to
some unwillingness to prosecute him. The Mercantile
Advertiser says, " The public will naturally look for some
explanation of this strange affair.
THE BATTLE OF THE BoYNE.—The members of the
Dublin Protestant Operative Association gave a soiree on
Monday evening, in the Rotundo, in commemoration of
the " Battle of the Boyne." The Round Room was
crowded to its utmost limits with a most respectable as•
semblage, and was hung round with banners bearing dif-
ferent mottos, amongst which were the following :—" The
Church and State," " Protestant Ascendancy," "No
Ecclesiastical Commission," " The Orange Societies of
Ireland," "The Earl of Roden," " The Ten Bishops Re-
stored," " The Altar, the Throne, and the Cottage,"
" Scriptural Education," &c. The bells of the churches
in Dublin rang merrily on the occasion.
DARING ATTACK.-011 Sunday last during Divine
service, three fellows armed, with their faces blackened,
ent to the lands of St. Johnstown, and entered the house
of the steward of James Millett, Esq., from whence they
took a gun. They were in the act of carrying off the gun
when they were met by the steward named Sauce, and his
son, returning from prayers, both of whom immediately
fell upon them, and attempted to regain their property.
A desperate scuffle ensued, and the result was, that Sauce
and his son were seriously wounded, after fighting with
great gallantry. Several persons were looking on while
the ruffians were making off, and never interfered! The
fellows took off the gun, after defeating Sauce and his son
with much difficulty.—Tipperary Constitution.
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE SIR EDMUND NAGLE.—
When a young man, travelling in a post-chaise up
Shooter's-hill, a highwayman rode up, presented a pistol
into the window, and demanded his money or his life.
Sir Edmund then a very athletic man, seized the arm of
the ruffian, twisted the pistol from it, dragged him through
the window, and, placing him beside him to keep him
quiet ordered the post-boy to drive on. The humble
supplications of the highwayman were answered with
" Be easy, boy, be easy, I won't hurt ye." Still the con-
science-stricken robber kept pleading, till at length the
chaise reached the captain's lodgings, when he hauled the
fellow out of the coach, walked up to the garret, and
locked themselves in. He then took off his own coat,
and said, " Now, sir, I neither mean to hang ye, nor hurt
ye, but I'll just give ye a broth of a beating," which
having accomplished, he opened the door, bade the robber
be off, and the next time he stopped a coach, to rap at
the window, and ask if Pat Nagle was inside, before he
ventured to poke his pistol into it.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The repealers met on Monday
as usual, in the Conciliation-hall, Valentine Maher, Esq.,
M.P., in the chair. The receipt of several large sums of
money having been announced, Mr. O'Neill Daunt
stated, as a proof of Mr. O'Connell's undiminished influ-
ence, that he had been nominated Lord Mayor elect on
that day by the Corporation of Dublin. Mr. O'Connell
had declined the offer, but the moral effect was the same,
and the fact showed the futility of the measures taken by
government to extinguish his influence. A letter was
read from Mr. Luke Shea, a justice of the peace for the
county of Cork, enclosing a subscription of £3 to the
funds of the association, and requesting to be proposed a
member. Several other new members were proposed and
admitted. The rent for the week amounted to £2,152
The receipts for the last five weeks, as given in the pro-
ceedings of the association, are as follows :—First week,
£2,600 ; second week, £3,100 ; third week, £3,389 ;
fourth week, £3,178; fifth week, £2,ls2;—making not
far short of fifteen thousand pounds in five weeks.
REPEAL PRAYER.—The following is the repeal prayer
to be offered up on Sunday, the 28th instant, in the
various Popish chapels :—" 0 Almighty and eternal God !
King of kings, and supreme Lord of all earthly powers,
be graciously pleased to look down with compassion upon
the people of this country, and mercifully put an end to
their sufferings. Give them patience to endure their un-
exampled privations, and fill their rulers with the spirit
of truth, humanity, and justice. Unite all classes in a
persevering love of country, cordial allegiance to our be-
loved sovereign, and charity toward each other. Direct
our legislators to enact laws founded upon thy holy com-
mandments, and make Ireland prosperJus and happy :
and as thy servant, Daniel O'Connell, who has laboured
with so much zeal and perseverance to promote these
sacred objects is now detained in captivity, give him
grace to bear his trials with resignation, and in thy mercy
vouchsafe to restore him to liberty, for the guidance and
protection of thy people, through our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. Amen."