The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

POLITICAL VARIETIES.

The committee on the Bolton election have declared
W. Bolling, Esq., duly elected.
Lord John Russell is indisposed, and it is said that he
intends to resign office.
Lord Robert Pelham Clinton, son of the Duke of New.
castle, is a candidate for the representation of Kinsale.
Mr. Benjamin Hawes a sub-secretary in the Colonial
Office, and the defeated of Lambeth, is the Whig candi-
date. The polling is expected to take place on Saturday.
Mr. Gregson, the Radical member for Lancaster, has
been unseated and convicted of bribery ; and the election
has been declared void.
At the beginning of the business in the Commons, on
Monday, Mr. Hume asked Lord John if the ministry in-
tended to interfere in the affairs of the French govern-
ment. Lord John replied in the negative.
A deputation, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Rev. George Everard, Mr. Field, &c. &c., had an inter.
view with Lord John Russell on Thursday, to present to
his lordship a petition to the House of Commons for the
repeal of the legacy duty on charitable bequests.
The parties to the petition against the return of Fear-
gus O'Connor for Nottingham, have, for some cause not
explained, signified their intention not to proceed with it
before the election committee, and as a matter of course
he has been declared duly elected.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of the
debate on Monday in the House of Commons stated, that
he had the authority of Government to announce that it
it was not their intention to press the increase of the In-
come Tax, but to continue it as at present for the ensuing
three years.
For Lyme Regis, the case for bribery against the sit-
ting member has failed, and the tables are now turned
against the petitioner, Sir Fitzroy Kelly. But, to judge
by the disclosures going on, if ever there was a " rotten"
borough under the old system, the reformed eonsituency
of Lyme is deserving of the title.
A new writ has been ordered for Kinsale, in the room
of Mr. Guiness, unseated. When the news of Mr. Gui-
ness's defeat reached Kinsale, most disgraceful riotings
took place among the radicals. Lighted tar barrels were
carried through the town, and the houses of several of
Mr. Guiness's supporters were attacked, and the windows
broken.
WATERFORD.—The nomination took place on Saturday
week. The poll was appointed f uesday, and at the
close the numbers were—for Si .W. Barron (Liberal),
319 ; Mr. Costello (Old Irela ), 301 ; Mr. Meagher, 154.
vear-T
S I The last named was the Y9ttng Ireland candidate, but he
s
'I polled all his friends by eleven o'clock, at which hour he
us retired.

RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH AMBASSAbOR IN ENG-
% LAND.—The French charge d'affaires, the Comte de. Jar-
con. received, on Tuesday, a communication from M. de
Lamartine, announcing that he had become minister of
foreign affairs in France, and tendering him, in very flat-
-63 tering terms, the office of representing the French repub-
lic at this court. The count. in reply, regretted his in-
= ability to accept the mission in the spirit in which it was
yMI offered by M. de Lamartine, and requested that he might
wi be superseded as early as possible.

IRELAND

F Great numbers of persons are still doing at Mayo from
stavation.
About twenty men charged with Ribbonism have, with
p all their papers, been lodged in Lifford gaol.
Henry A. Herbert, M.P., pays the entire poor-rate for
r- e: his numerous tenantry in Kerry, and all he demands in
return is a diligent cultivation of their farms.
:e An English gentleman, resident at Kinsale, is now ma-
nufacturing oil from sprats very profitably. During the
past season he has caught forty-four boat loads, and from
these he procured fourteen puncheons of oil, which he
sold during last week in Cork at ls. 2d. per gallon.
In the Roman Catholic diocese of Ossory, which in-
cludes the county of Kilkenny, the priests have been
enj3ined by their diocesan, Dr. Walsh, to abstain from
all political allusions whatever, and even to desist from
subscribing to the " Conciliation Hall" rent.
At a meeting of the Young Ireland party in Dublin, on
Thursday, Lord Wallscourt was in the chair. One of the
speakers recmamended the formation of a national guard
" to defend the country.", The meeting ended with cheers
for a " young republic.
Mr. C. Cahill has retired from the Repeal Association,
because " it does not appear that there is any honest or
bona fide intention evinced by their acts to carry out their
professed object ; and besides, if a man followed a lion, it
is not a .necessary consequence that he is to be led by a
mouse."
AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Friday, Mrs. Armstrong,
of Ballincar (a lady most respectably connected), in a fit
of temporary insanity drowned herself and her three young
children. She tied two of them on her back, took the
third in her arms, aed deliberately walked into the sea.
They all perished.—Sligo Champion.
There are not less than 27,000 persons on the out-door
relief in the union of Ballinrobe, Mayo. The cost of out-
door rations is about £BOO per week, and, with the ex-
pense of the workhouse, would amount to £50,000 per
annum. The whole valuation of the union amounts to
£BO,OOO per annum only.
A COMPLIMENT.—The Dublin Post of Thursday, al-
luding to the affairs in France, the finance difficulties in
England, and the clamour raised against the measures
proposed for the national defences, concludes by saying :
—" We declare solemnly, we regard the crisis which is
approaching as the most terrible England has seen since
the battle of Hastings. And it is the more terrible, be-
cause of the stupid sleep, or nightmare rather, in which
the whole community is so swinishly buried."
The great rock of Cashel has fallen. In connexion
with this ancient monument exists one of those prophe-
cies which abound so much in the traditional history of
Ireland—namely, that the year wl,ieh wittmcnaa the fall
of the rock would also see a great revolution in England.
Not a peasant in Munster who does not believe this. A
funeral procession reached the spot a few minutes after
the fall. Had it reached before, the loss of life might
have been most fearful.
FEARFUL MURDER.—On Friday night week, a young
woman named Mary Herlihy was found on the Monerea
Marsh, Cork, bleeeding profusely from a stab in the neck.
The stab was inflicted with a knife which was found on
the spot the following morning. The caroted artery and
jugular vein were completely cut across. The moans of
the woman first attracted observation, but she died almost
immediately after being discovered. The deceased was
pregnant at the time she was murdered.
TOM FOOLERY.—On Wednesday, the rnemberi of the
" Desmond Confederation," Young Ireland Club, Castle-
street, Cork, had an immense piece of tri-coloured bunt-
ing floating in the breeze from their building, with the
view of fraternising with their mercurial brethren in
France, now luxuriating in the excess of revolution and
anarchy.—ln the evening the windows were illumiated,
and a large placard, conspicuously placed, bore the words
' France is Free ! an example to the WORLD !"
A POSER.—The Rev. J. W. Franklin, rector of Clon-
mulsk, Ireland, says," I would rest the question with the
advocates of the National Board on the following fact :
That, supposing a school in which fifty children were
reading the Scriptures, if any one individual of them,
through the interference of their parents or their priest.

wereto complain of offence being- given to their religion;
feelings by the rule of the National Board, the remaining
forty-nine—yes, though thirty of them were Protestants
—would be compelled to give up their Bibles during
school-hours. I challenge the great doctors on the side of
the board to deny the fact ; and if they admit it, to show
me how the Scriptures are honoured under such a
system."

CONVICTIONS.—At the Roscommon assizes a man
named Donoughoue was put upon his trial for 'intr-

der. From the evidence adduced there was not asshadow
of doubt as to the guilt of the prisoner, who called no
witnesses for the defence; and the jury, without hesita-
tion, brought in a verdict of "guilty." The prisoner did
not seem much moved. He was sentenced to be executed
on the 22nd. inst. Patrick Flynn, who had been tried
and found guilty of the murder of Michael Duignan, was
then put forward. Baron Lefroy, addressing the prisone,
aaid, you went with.a party who traversed the country

taking up arms. 1 don't know that when you went you
intended to commit the murder which you afterward:,
perpetrated ; but as you proceeded from house to house,
at last you came to the house of deceased—you presented
a pistol at the wife of the deceased, and her husband then
came in, and you turned your baud from her and fired at
him, and laid him dead at her feet.
AWFUL SCENE.—Wednesday was the day fixed for the
execution of John Lonergon, and of Henry and Philip
Cody, at Clonmel. The culprits were attended by the
Rev. Mr. Power, Roman Catholic curate, and, after a few
minutes spent in prayer, John Lonergon came out on the
drop. Philip Cody then walked out with a firm step, and
after the hangman had fixed the rope. &c., Henry Cody

came et

fter settling
when all

Philip Cody. was standing in front of the drop,
of a aarirlan Tionra ("nay

at the hangman, caught him. and actually had him
half-
way over the railing, when the Rev. Mr. Power caught
Cody, and prevented him throwing him down, otherwise
the finisher of the law would have been killed. Philip
Cody, who, as before stated, had the rope adjusted and
the cap over his face, on hearing the noise tore the cap off
his face and actually got the rope off his neck, and was
going to help his brother. On the hangman coming out
again, Henry COdy made two desperate kicks at him, and
hurt him much. Father Power got them at length into a
quieter state, and in a short time they ceased to live.
Loss OF THE CALYPSO.—The splendid iron vessel, the
Calypso, Capt. Savery, was driven on shore near Arklow,
in the storm on Saturday night. She left Dublin on
Saturday night, bound for Rio de Janeiro, with a large
and valuable cargo, wind from the N, but had not pro-
ceeded farther than the coast of Wicklow, when the wind
suddenly shifted to S.E., S. and S.W., blowing a most
terrific gale that carried away her topmast. Becoming,
in a degree, encumbered, and the sea breaking fearfully
over the bulwarks, fore and aft, she was driven on shore.
The crew, about 16 in number, we are happy to state,
were all saved. The captain (J. Savery) writes as follows :
—" The rollers making a breach fore and aft, washing
everything before them, bulwarks, stanchions, spars,
boats, and all on deck, we drove on shore at 3 P.m,. and
in this miserable condition we remained till 9 a.m., cling-
ing to the mizen rigging, the sea breaking over us enough
to smother the men, till Lieut. Lyons, and some of his
men, accompanied by some of the humane inhabitants of
Mizen Head, rendered us every assistance in rescuing us
from our awful situation, by hauling each of us from the
ship to the shore with a hauling line. During my stay
on the wreck, endeavouring to see my crew safe on shore.
I could no,t-hut admire the daring and intrepid courage of
one of Ueut. Lyon's men, James Dillon, often nearly
forfeiting his own life to rescue others. As for myself, I
should, I think, have died with the cold, only for his hu-
manity in sharing with me part of his own clothes. I
have not saved a single article. The vessel's bottom keeps
well together, and if the weather moderates, I should
hope some of the cargo might be saved." We under-
stand the vessel is insured.—Cork Examiner.

ANOTHER SAMPLE OF A ROMISH PRIEST.—At the
Waterford election, last week, Mr. Costello was proposed
by a Roman Catholic priest, of the name of Cuddihy,
and throughout the entire of his speech the audience
manifested the most unequivocal impatience, disgust, and'
contempt of the speaker. Groans, hooting, and cries of
" you lie"—" down with him"—" out with him," &c.,
greeted him throughout the entire performance ; and one
of the crowd went the length of asking, when he com-
plained of such language being held to a priest, " And
what business has a priest in such a place ? "—an interro-
gatory with which the rev. spouter did not attempt to
deal. His language in addressing his flock is a perfect
anthology. "Oh you ungrateful wretches," he exclaims
—" oh you dastardly crew"—" oh you mad individuals."
This complimentory effusion was followed by " cheers,
groans, and tremendous confusion." Then came an
eminently decent and humane allusion to the late Thos.
Davis. " Davis, the coward. who ran away from the
monster meetings." Loud cries of shame compelled the
reverend gentleman to direct his Billingsgate elsewhere,
and he turned upon the Young Ireland party, collectively,
as " cut-throat felons," and a " foul and filthy gang."
Mr. Cuddihy is particularly happy in repartee. Here is
a sample :

Mr. 'Doheny is to be proposed as a candidate to make a
speech ; but I can tell you he was not let open his mouth in
his own county at a meeting lately. (Cheers, and cries of
" You lie.")
Mr. Doheny—l was not there at all. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—You had the audacity to call the Li-
berator a liar : do you dare call me a liar ? (Cheers and groans.)
Mr. Doheny—l repeat, I was not at the meeting It all.
(Great applause.)

The lee;•. Mr. buddihy—l saw you there, and how dare you
tell me a lie to my face? (Cheers, and cries of " You are a
liar.") _ _

Take also the following
The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—" Hang the calfskin on those recre-
ant limbs." (Yells' and cries of Kick him out.") There is
none of you able to do it; but for this (pointing to his coat) I'd
beat the best half dozen amongst you. (Cheers and biases.)
What can be more polished than his sarcasm, too ?
Take an example:—
Imagine Mr. Meagher and the paltry Nation gang going to
war with Queen "Victoria. Oh, Beelzebub! (Groans and
laughter.)

The nice propriety which regulates the Rev. Mr. Cud-
dilly's oratory is pre-eminently observable in the passage
in which he arraigns Mr. Meagher of irreligion :
He (Mr. Cuddihy) arraigned Mr. Meagher for—
A voice—The colleges.
The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—Damn the colleges 1 I would not gire
a damn for them. (Cheers, and cries of Shame.") The rev.
gentleman then went on to say he arraigned Mr. Meagher for
infidelity.