The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

O'CONNELL ANNUITY OF 1832.
Irishmen will see with pride and pleasure the list of the sub-
scription to this annuity, which we this day publish. It amounts
to upwards Of TWELVE THOUSAND POUNDS. This is the reward
of long and zealous and effective labour in the cause of the peo-
ple—it is the tribute of a grateful country to a benefactor. No
man ever laboured so long and so well in the cause of the peo-
ple as Mr. O'Connell, and no country was ever more grateful
for services done or intended, than poor Ireland—poor in purse,
but rich in resources, and rich in spirit and in thankfulness.
There is no intention, we believe, of at present collecting the
annuity, on account of the distress into which the tithe war has
plunged the people; but, of course, it is only a deferring of the
time ; for the country cannot afford to lose Mr. O'Connell's
services. Greater questions than have yet been settled remain
to be discussed, and require his vast abilities ; and the people
will not—they ought not, receive these services for nothing.—
Dublin Freeman's Journal.

O'CONNELL ANNUITY.—WeII may Mr. O'Connell advovate
agitation. It has proved a good mulch cow to him and his. The
papers of this morning contains a list of subscriptions (four
columns of names and parishes) to the last year's annuity,
amounting to a sum of £12,242 4s. sd. Thus Mr. O'Connell,
by his political trade, turns in an iocome more by one third
than that received by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and ex-
ceeding by one half the salary of the Chief Justice • and this
without depriving him of his professional emoluments, or dis-
qualifying. him from exercising that system of itinerant black-
guardism in which he so greatly rejoices.—Dublin Eveninf Mail.

THE POLITICAL UNIONS.—THE 88TH REGIMENT.—We are
authorized to contradict a statement made by one of the orators
at the Trades' Union—" That four of the soldiers of that dis-
tinguished corps the 88th had enrolled themselves as members
"of that body." This appears, even without a contradiction be-
ing given, impossible, from the fact that the service companies
of that regiment are at Corfu, the reserve at Chatham, and not
a single soldier of the 88th is at present in Dublin.—Dublin
Times.

On Christmas night, Major Rose, of the 92d regiment, sta-
tioned in Cashel, had a very narrow escape from death ; he
dined abroad that day, but a little before his return home, a
private of the name of M'lntosh, who had been for some time
in confinement, possessed himself of a firelock, which he loaded,
and then proceeded to the major's room, the door of which he
found open ; having entered it he searched, happily in vain, for
his officer. The unfortunate man, who was in liquor, was im-
mediately secured, deprived 'of his gun, and handcuffed; next
morning he was sent off under a strong escort to head-quarters
at Fermoy.—Clonmel Herald.
CAPTAIN Roo( DISCOVERED.-The outrages from which
sprung Captain Rock, originated, it is known, on the operty
of Lord Courtenay, (now Earl of Devon) in Limericic. Mr.
Matthew Barington, Crown Solicitor for Munster, in his testi-
mony before the select committee on the state of Ireland, a
copy of which reached us this morning, thus detects the "real
Captain Rock:—"The CaPtain Rock of Ireland was a tenant
or resident on the estate, his name was Dillane. We took him
as an approver, and it tended much to the. peace of the country;
he is now in America That was the origin of the Rockites.'
Globe of Thursday, Jan 3.
REPEALERS.—AFFECTION FOR PROTESTANTS.—On Christ-
mas Day—" the better day the better deed," the Cathedral of
St. Patrick was, as is usual on ,the anniversary of this great.
Christian festival, excessively crowded. Towards the close of
the service a set of miscreants, in the holiday garb of trades-
men, and supposed to be of the "Trades," tumultuously rushed
into the church from the door way near the altar. The greatest
confusion followed their inroad. Some of them sprung upon
the communion table, where they brandished bludgeons, and
continued with their hats on, calling out for the Anthem ! It
was found necessary, from the turbulence and indecency. of their
conduct and deportment, as well as from the numbers in which
they. appeared, and their evident dptermination to outrage the
service of religion as well as the feelings of the congregation,
to forego the sermon intended, and
is proceed with the anthem
with which the evening prayers terminate, with a view of clear-
ing the church. This but a foretaste of what Protestants may
expect, when Ireland is as she ought to be,
" Great, glorious, and free,
_ _ _ First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea."

—Dublin Evening Mail.
AWFUL ACCIDEN T.—A private letter from Tralee mentions to
us a distressing accident which occurred on Saturday last, in
the neighbourhood of Killarney, in which two lives were lost,
and the safety of a most valuable life endangered. On Satur-
day.morning, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, of Grena, accom-
panied by his relative, 111 r. Humphrey Moynihan, left Grena,
on a shooting excursion. In proceeding to their sporting ground.
they had to cross the Flesk River, three or four miles from Kil-
larney, by a ferry, which is constructed by a rope thrown across
the stream, and a boat attached to it, which is worked by a
sliding ring and rope, to enable the ferryman to guide it more
steadily. The river was greatly swollen by the late rains, and
the current rendered exceedingly rapid, so that it was thought
prudent that only Mr. O'Connell, the ferryman, and a poor
female, who sought the passage, should attempt it at first. It is
believed that the ferryman was intoxicated, but by some acci-
dent he lost hold of the main rope, the boat was swung from her
course, and he flung overboard. Mr. O'Connell instantly used
every exertion in his power to rescue the unfortunate man, and
had nearly succeeded, when the efforts of the poor fellow to get
into the boat filled it with water and swamped it. The woman
clung to the rope for a few minutes, but overpowered by alarm,
benumbed with cold, and exhausted by the force of the current,
she sunk and was lost. The ferryman struggled a short time,
but without avail, and also sunk: Mr. O'Connell being a good
swimmer, had generously risked his own safety to aid him, but
finding himself become faint from exertion, and the excessive
cold, he was obliged to leave him to his fate, and save his oWn
life, which he happily effected. Mr. Moynihan, unfortunately,
could not swim, and by some fatality, the people belonging to
the neighbourhood of the ferry were all absent at the moment,
so that even when assistance did arrive it was too late. The
accident was a most awful one; but had the young gentleman,
whose life was so much endangered, shared the fate of his un-
fortunate companions, not only his family and neighbourhood,
but the country of his birth, would have had reason to regret
his loss. We know no more amiable or promising young man.
—Dublin paper.

Three men, have been committed to Worcester Gaol, charged
with manslaughter, in having occasioned the death of Edward
Biggs, during the progress of the late election at Kiddermin-
ster, on which- occasion the three prisoners were special con-
stables. •

MURDER BY A RESURRECTIONIST.—Last night an attack was
made by a body of resurrectionists on the persons guarding the
church-yard of goorge's parish. In this encounter the beadle
of the parish, a man named Thompson, was shot dead, and his
assailant haithis leg broken, and was otherwise so desperately
wounded, that he now lies in a most dangerous state in Jervis-
street hospitilic--Gto4e.
CHILD STOLEN.7-0D Monday night a child, six weeks old,
was stolen from its mother, Isabel Brand, who resides in Hang-
man's-close, Edinburgh, and no trace of it can be found.
Isabel Brand states, that on Monday night she met a woman in
Nicholson-street, whom she dicl not know, who asked her the
way to some street which she named in the Old Town, and on
being informed, then asked her to go and get a dram with her.
They accordingly went into a pubtic•house in Crosscauseway,
and had some whiskey. The stranger woman asked her to go
out to a shop and buy a yard of flannel to her, and she would
hold her child till she came hack. Brand went, but on her
return found neither woman nor child. All efforts to find
either have been fruitless. Previous to entering the public-
house, the woman said she was going to see her aunt in Dal-
keith. She appeared about 30 years of age, and wore a mantle
of Rob Roy tartan, and white straw bonnet. The mother, of
course, is in a most piteous state of anxiety about her child.—
%Edinburgh Cuurant.