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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

THE 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 gorng on, if ever there was a " rotten"
borough under the old system, the reformed cons,ituency
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 for Tuesday, and at the
close the numbers were—for Sir H. W. Barron (Liberal),
319 ; Mr. Costello (Old Ireland), 301; Mr. Meagher, 154.
The last named was the Young Ireland candidate, but he
polled all his friends by elevetto—Clock, at which hour ho
retired.

RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENG-
LAND.—The Frerich 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-
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
offered by M. de Lamartine, and requested that he might
be superseded as early as possible.

REL A N D

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persons are still doing at Mayo from

stavation

About twenty men charged with Ribbonism have, with
all their papers, been lodged in Lifford gaol.
Henry A. Herbert, M.P., pays the entire poor-rate for
his numerous tenantry in Kerry, and all he demands in
return is a diligent cultivation of their farms.
An English gentleman, resident at Kinsale, is now ma-
nufacturing oil from sprats very profitably. During the
past season he has caught forty-four :,oat 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
enj)ined by their aiocesan, 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 recolamended 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, and 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 hi'storry of
Ireland—namely, that the year which witnessed 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

tue spot the 'mowing 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 members of the
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Jesmond Confederation, _ reland 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 WORL D !"
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,
were to complain of offence being given to their religious
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
the Scriptures are honoured under such a

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system

CONVICTION'S. Roscommon assizes a man
named Donoughoue was put upon his trial for mur-
der. From the evidence adduced there was not a shadow
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

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then put forward. Baron Lefroy, addressing the prisone,
aaid, you went with a party who traversed the country
taking up arms. I don't know that when you went you
intended to commit the murder which you afterwards
perpetrated ; but as you proceeded from house to honse,
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 hand from her and fired at

nd laid him dead at her feet.
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 nu-prayer, Jolla Lonergan came out on the
drop. Philip Cody then walked out with a firm step, and

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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
"

Mr. Dobeny—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 tit all.
(Great applause.)
The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—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 axle to do it; but for this (pointing to his coat) I'd
beat the best half dozen amongst you. (Cheers and hisses.)
What can be more polished than his sarcasm, too ?
Take an example:-
- Imag.ine 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 ! I would not give
a damn for them. (Cheers, and cries of " Shame.") The rev.
gentleman then went on to say he arraigned Mr. Meagher for
infidelity.