The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

In the month of Septen her last, a soldier, named
Pherson, or the 64th IN gimetit,wo, fobffli in the Grand
Canal, Dublin, with his hands tied bt hind his bark, with
a black
,silk hark ikerchiel. and his puckeis tun ed inside
t•ut. A na‘igitor has been arrested at Staley Bridge, on
suspicion of having murdered him.
TIRE AT THE kOYAL EXCHANGE, DUBLIN.—About
one o'clock on Monday morning, the root of this fine
structure was discovered to be on fire, caused, it is under-
stood, by the negligence of some plumbers ho had been
at work during the day. The alarni was promptly given,
and a number of engines being speedily set to, work, in
the most effective manlier, by par ies of the 30th regi-
ment, from Ship-street barracks, the fire was alit under
before four o'clock, not without doing considerable da-
mage to the roof and the lecture-totem of the Mechanics'
Institute. In the vaults of the buildit,g are stored several
toonsand hog4heads of whiskey in honl, arid had the Con-
ti ntrition extended to the spirits the c,insequences must
have been most disastrous, as the vaults rut, under the
hoes-s in Parliament-street, Danie-stre.et. and the Lower
Castle-yard. Ti.! itthibitaiits of the neighbourhood,
aware of their dangerous proximity to the intLitnniahle
materials. were kept in a state of dieadful suspense while
the fie !awed.

A PRECIOUS VILLAIN.—At a trial for murder, at the
recent Nrnagh Assizes, the witness for the crown, J trnes
Darmody, was cross-examined by Mr. Sausse, and the
following revelation: of precocious and confirtm.d esinie
were elicitesl:—" Ho v old are you ? Twenty-seven years
of age. Did ;ou not dog Shanahan from Rumsleigh to
the place where he was murdered ? I did nor. You said
you were to put hack your hand to Maher to show if
Shanalto would know you that night. Were you not
sure he would know you ? Yes. but I thought by saying
so 'to "quash" Maher. Now, was nut your sign-sl to
bring his., no ? It was not. You did not give the poor
man a blow ? Not a stroke. You are a noted murderer ?
No, Sir, I never lolled a man. Were you never eriga led
M killing a man ? I never did the like. Were you at the
murder of Rollin, Lord Haw,rden's steward ? I was
present. And at El o4rttes, ot flaws' ? but no man
was shot there. Was there not a man murdered ? There was.
Did not an armed party enter his nou:e? firer, did. Did
you not go to sho t a man you owes ? No doubt I
did. Did you see. the pistols loaded b .fine your party
called to H.,gan's ? I would not say. Wnen was it you
went to Roltoo's noose ? A.,out t,n years ago. llow many
were of the party ? et en. W. r- you ti,ren years or age
then? I belteve I was:over sizteeir.. Who b oke in the
door? Michael Fitz.terald and l'eddy Ryan. Was Butler
shot that night? They beat him with stones. Where
were you ? I was placed in the yard. Did not the party,
while the bleeding holy of Bolton was in the iard, violate
the person ot the daughter? I do not know. Did not
three of your parry viultve her ? lichael Ryan and I
carried her out on the road. For what, purpose? I o
not know. Was it for her good ?. It was s.m. fir her
good at all evens. Your tar y kiiled the man's lather ?
Yes. And you ware sentry in the yard ? I was. And
yet you never went ta murder a man ? I never did.
Where did you go after leaving Ltolson's? To -a atill-
hous . Was nothing done there? No n ore than drink-
ing. Were you at James Ryan's murder ? He was only
beat, and I gave him three knocks for what he d'd to use.
You wen afterwards to tight at. Ravin's. whose house.
you formerly attacked ? 1 went to a chalietige, and did
not know at he till e it was fir Hogan we were to fight.
How many miles did you go for that? Twelve. Y
were arrested for a robe ery at To..nravara ? Yes. and
then I tiff.-red to tell all I knew if I got my pardon."
T ie jury refa,,ed to convict upon the evidence of such a
villain, and the prisoner was acqnitted.