The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

REPEAL ASSOCIATIONT.—This body met, as usual,
yesterday week. The attendance was even smaller than
the previous meeting. Among the donations were £l2
from Manchester and £l3 Bs. from this town. The rent
was £391.

John Walsh, Rig., a Dublin barrister, was drowned,
accidentally, in the canal at FingLiss, on Saturday week.

The celebrated Father Mathew was arrested while in
Dubli❑ a few days ago, for the balance of a debt inrurred
for temperance medals.

PRESENT TO Ma. O'CoNNELr..—The Rhen;•sh Ob-
server states that the inhabitants of Cobleutz and the
neighbouring towns bad opened a silbscrit ton for the
purchase of a cargo of Rhenish wine of the first quality,
as a present to Daniel O'Connell.
R. S. Maxwell. Esq., Eligh Sheriff of Cavan, has de-
clined to call a pubic meeti:ig to forward interests of
the proposed Dublin and Cavan Railway, and has given
the following unusual but conscientious reason for his
refusal. He says, "My objection is entirely of a religious
nature, and amounts, in a word, to this, that a vast in-
crease in the desecration of the Lord's Day must neces-
sarily result from the establishment of the Dublin and
Cavan Railway, unless it be intended (arid I take it for
granted it is not) to conduct it on a wholly differ,mt princi-
ple from that which regulates every other railway. By
giving my name, or coutiibuting my aid in any way to the
object in question, I co:iceive that I should be taking a
04rt in the promotion of an evil which I, as a christian
man, consider cannot be too strongly deprecated, or too
strenuously resisted.
A LAunnarma OCCURRENCE.—The neighbourhood of
Northumberl nd-avenue, Kingstown, wason Friday thrown
into a state of the utmost excitement, it having trans-
pired that a lady had made an assignment with a gentle-
man who had advertised for a wife. Accordingly, at the
hour mentioned (three o'clock) the expectant inhabitants
of the avenue were highly amused on beholding, as Burns
would say, " a fine fat fagel wight" make his appearance,
a iping his fat face with a white handkerchief, the lady
having requested that he would occasionally place a white
handkerchief to his face, as the means of recognition, and
further stating that she would drive up in a pony phaeton
in a great shower of rain, with the servant on the rumble
protecting her with an umbrella. On seeing her the un-
fortunate man fancied that the object of his search was at
length before him ; and, after a few convulsive applica-
tions of handkerchief, started forward, and with a
spring, remarkable for a man of his size, fairly jumped
into the phaeton : and before the astonished lady could
recover from the fright his sudden appearance occasioned,
he had encircled her in his arms, calling her by every en-
dearing appellation; and it was not until the lady had
uttered scream after scream, and his shoulders were well
belaboured with the umbrella by the servant, that he ap-
peared to think he had got into the wrong box ; so, mak-
ing his escape as expeditiously as possible, he hastened
off to the train without staying to make further inquiries
for his Inamorata; aml it is earnestly hoped the lesson
he has received will perform a radical cure for his love.—
Dublin paper.—[This is in all probability the same
Dublin gent. who advertised is our own columns on Tues-
day last.]