The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A little girl was burned to death at Blarney-lane, Cork,
on Saturday, whilst lighting papers in the are.
Edward Gower, a private in the 30th regiment, stationed
in Cork, was accidentally killed in a pugilistic encounter
with a comrade, named Peter Hoey, on Friday.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. Intelligence arrived on
Saturday morning that the lady of Tuthill, Esq., of
Rapla, and the sister of Judge Jackson, was found out-
side the house quite dead. She had fallen out of an upper
window of her husband's residence, situate about two
miles front Nenagh.

At Mayo assizes bills of indictment for a conspiracy to
burn the Achill Protestant colony and the house of the
Rev. E. Nangle, were ignored by the grand jury ; but the
accused were tried for administering an unlawful oath
to Francis AV Hugh to engage in the plot and to keep it
secret. The jury were discharged without finding a ver-
dict.

It appears that Dr. Montgomery, of Belfast, is now
holding, as a teacher of the Arian heresy, a comfortable
manse, and a glebe, we believe of twenty-four acres, de-
dicated by the original donor for the support of the ortho-
dox faith. This cruel act of misapplication of the funds
dedicated to the perpetuity of truth, to its averthrow, Dr.
Montgomery is perpetrating ; and what he has the assu-
rance to request of the government, is the introduction
of a bill to permit him, and others similarly circum-
stanced, to continue to hold this property, and which the
law, in its ordinary course, is about to return to its legiti-
mate and true owners I—Record.—The bill has since been
brought in.
BLASTING WITH THE AID OF ELECTRICITY.—The first
experiment, on a large scale, made in Ireland, to blast
with the aid of electricity, was tried on Saturday last at
Knockmaroon-hill, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. The
spot selected for the interesting operation consisted of an
immense bank of earth, about a quarter of a mile in su-
perficial surface ; 4,5001 b weight of powder was consumed.
The necessary arrangements having been made, the im-
mense hill rose slowly, as if by magic, with a rumbling
noise, and shortly after the entire mound removed itself
into the hollow beneath, amidst the plaudits of the crowd,
who cheered Captain Larcolm, the engineer under whose
superintendence the experiment was conducted. The
place where the hill had been is completely level, so per-
fect was the success of the experiment.—Dublin paper.
MELANCHOLY CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.—On the 22d
of last month a fine boy of the name of James Mortin, 14
years old, was bitten by a young dog he had been rearing.
The circumstance was passed over as a mere trifle until
Sunday about noon, when the malady manifested itself in
all its horrors. The state of the poor sufferer was melan-
choly in the extreme until Tuesday evening last, when
death put a period to his agonies. Dr. Foley attended
him during the night of Monday, and contributed much
to allay the paroxysms. He was visited on Tuesday by
the other medical gentlemen of the town, but it was
manifest that his final sufferings were fast approaching.
What renders the circumstance still more melancholy is,
that five more of the family, including the father, were
bit by the same dog.—Clare Journal.
MALICIOUS INJURIES.—ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS.—
Joseph Cavanagh claimed four pounds for his house and
furniture maliciously burned in the parish of Clough
Prior. The claimant deposed that he was in Nenagh
prosecuting when the injury was done. Mr. T. G. Stoney,
one of the magistrates attending that sessions, said there
was some doubt of the malice in this case. until one of
the parties opposing the presentiment said Cavanagh had
been denounced by his priest from the altar ; upon hear-
ing this he (Mr. Stoney) said, that recollecting that a
short time previously a man had been murdered after he
was denounced from the altar, he had no doubt of this
burn►ng being maliciously done, and that it resulted from
the circumstance of his being anathematised. There were
no less than seventeen presentments for malicious out
rages in the barony of Lower Ormond.—Nenagh Gziar-•
dian.

MURDERS IN IRELAND.—At the Tullamore Assizes,
Thomas Dowling was found guilty of the murder of Mr.
Gatchell, and was sentenced to be hanged. When the
prisoner heard the sentence pronounced, he declared, in a
strong and clear voice, that he was wholly innocent of the
murder of Mr. Gatchell. He knew he was to die, and he
was perfectly prepared to meet his fate. And then, turn-
ing. to the jury-box, he said—" Gentlemen, if the same
degree of mercy be shown to you in another world that
you have shown me in this, I can tell you that you will
have little to hope for." At Castlebar, sentence of death
has been passed on James Fahey, who had been convicted
of wilful murder. The 20th of April was named by Baron
Lefroy as the day of execution. At Carrickfergus, John
Cordery, a private in the 66th Regiment has been found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged, for shooting Serjeant
Wm. Dodd, of the same regiment, on the 29th February
last.

DISGUSTING DEPRAVITY .—Amongst the prisoners for
trial in the county, is a monk from the neighbourhood of
Youghal, charged with the violation of a child, aged eleven
years, described as ricketty, and subject to epilepsy. The
child was taken to the monk to be chdrmed, her parents
believing that he had the power of relieving her of her in-
firmities. She was left with the monk, and subsequently
taken away. The following day she was again to undergo
the charm, as it was called, and was about being carried
to the monk when she refused, and appeared uneasy at
the idea of returning. The mother, suspecting that some-
thing was wrong, questioned the child, who gave to her
parent a disgusting detail of what had taken place on the
previous day. The poor mother was shocked at the hor-
rid narrative, and in the anguish of the moment proceeded
to her confessor, the priest, and related her story. The
priest very properly directed her to go at once to a magis-
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r te. an a preter tutor ati 8 against' the delinqiient for
the crime. The woman did she was directed—the monk
was arrested, and he now lies in the county jail to await
his trial. The offence was committed at the beginning of
this month.—Cork Paper.