The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE Dublin Evening Post states that 300 of the Pr:
vincial constabulary are to occupy all the military PI,
in Dublin except the castle guard. Six English 111.,,!'17
regiments are ordered to Ireland; several Irish
regiments are at once to be embodied.
A HEAVY DEFAULTER.—Mr. E. O'Flaherty, an ex '
who has lately been appointed a commissioner of ink
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tax, in Ireland, by the present government, has tiis
peared, and it has been discovered that he has put seo
forged bills in circulation. The total amount represes_z,
by the bills in circulation is differently computed, valr
from £14,000 to £20,000.

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THE LATE ATTEMPT AT ABDucmoN.—At the ki'"et
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Bench Chamber, Dublin, yesterday week, an applicl
was made to the Lord Chief Justice, to have Mr. C 51.644
and his confederates admitted to bail. The Chief .1115,,e)
said he was of opinion the outrage committed was Of 5;6
a character that he could not exercise a discretion ill tciitt,
favour. A question might arise as to whether an iv
ment for actual abduction might not be sustained. ~;;
the information of Miss Arbuthnot herself, it apPrfj
she was to a certain extent removed in the car to7ll
the door. Whether there was abduction or not, co
only be decided at the trial, and where there was a
sibility of an indictment being sustained, he could
admit the parties to bail. It is said that Mr. Carden p;
plead in his defence that he believed Miss Arbuthnot
be disposed to favour his advances, but that she 05fe
strained by her relatives, whom alone he sought to c°`,
by a show of violence.

TICE 12Tii Jurr.—The anniversary of the Battle ofd
Boyne has, we may venture to state, passed off peace
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The Belfast' and Newry papers say that nothing occt4
out of doors save the extra marching and counter-InT
ing of constabulary. A meeting of Protestants was is Ci
at .the Music Hall, Dublin, to commemorate the
1088.. Win. Waring Maxwell, Esq., J.P., was in the ePty
Letters of apology for non-attendance were read froni„g
Earl of Enniskillen, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Bandon,';
the.city and county Members. The Rev. Dawson 3135
moved the first resolution as follows :—"Resolved,--gi
we remember, with gratitude, that the Revolution of
which called the House of Brunswick to the thro,niiii
these realms, tended to strengthen the force of legi
it
authority, and to establish adequate remedies agaillslit)
possible abuse, thus rendering tyranny in the Bried
State impossible, and disloyalty in the British sots/.
crime —conceding liberty without license, and establis
power without either insolence or oppression; that p
consider it the most glorious temporal privilege of Met ti
live beneath such a Constitution, and that it would 11°0
loss but gain to die in its defence." This resolution
carried unanimously, as were others expressive of
loyal and Protestant feelings of the meeting.

METROPOLITAN DECLINE

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(FROM THE COURT JOURNAL.)
Fnom year to year the season gets shorter, and cert3illJ
now does not extend over two months, during which is p
there is a recess that deprives the metropolis of the vi;'l rt
for a few days' life ; it is true it is very rapid duriogq,
remainder of the time, but the season is not so agreeavid
and considerably more fatiguing than when it exteiltp
over more than three months of the summer. But WI te
London seems now a sort of unpleasant duty which gi'gtile
be shuffled off as soon as possible. The wishes oireel•
members of the two houses also keep pace with this 'tigb
lag. It seems, however, difficult to satisfy it, for tilt)„,,r)
this session will 1-

ue, perhaps, one of the shortest on ref/
for many years, there is yet a good •month's work !:e'cor
the houses which must be got through, though, as itt
not involve any great political question, it will be, pervoi
left in a great measure to the leaders of the parties
those who may hare a particular interest in the bills' et;
-The clubs, too, begin to wear quite a barren 9slip
indeed, throughout the season they have not been In 01!
show. Owing, perhaps, to the absence of many %,iir
members on foreign service, those clubs of a purelY,/
terry and naval character are indeed nearly desert"-'
visitor often hearing but his own footsteps echoingtile,;
the dreary saloons, and the evening passing cheerl,,
away—the few occupants partaking themselves earl:ol4
%eking the customary comlony of

their dormitories

mends and boon companions. to
We have even begun to think that clubs are likeiuriei
be numbered among the things that were and the getbe
of the past seasons, for they are undergoing some (4 fot
changes which are marking our metropolitan life. ,
some time the steadiest and most aristocratic of olkt
James's have had a lifeless aspect ; and at five o'cloelthy
the afternoon of the finest day, of the most fashioes;eo
period of the day, could not number more than half-a-d°oo
occupants of their windows, and these mostly the eP
habituis of a quarter of a century. No crowds of a4° oi
round each window, peering forth over the shouldello
one another, anxiously looking out at the occupants °,"
carriages which roll past with their friends. Truly, ler
we think we may assert the season of London has 1-41
gone a change of late years.
The time is even too rapid for the metropolis, an"'
assuredly pass it and leave it to stagnate—unless its ee,co
pants are clever enough to fix the wandering throngo
its precincts by some new attractions and gayer offorl„ocer
than it has lately put forth. Perhaps the smoke nuisleo
which is to receive its quietus on the Ist of August, 11.64
finished, will give a salutary impulse to its clime, To
tempt the straggler to stay that was formerly cholie_,'o,
its folds. Its fetes, parties, races, Crystal Palace, Tor
theatres, reviews, rides and drives, fancy fairs, 11°40
shows, meet at Kensington, with its band pouring 'y e
the romantic and lachrymal strains of " Vilikins," are
longer attractions sufficient. Spirit of fashion or of Ft'!
sure, lend thy aid in the declining years of the great el

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SEVENTEEN SEEM' KILLED BY LITIITNING.--
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a heavy thunder-storm which raged on Saturday last, 'ill.
Searles, at Buddle Farm, Cheriton Fitzpaine, had se the
teen sheep struck by the electric fluid and killed On
spot.—Exeter Gazette.
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TERRIFIC FIRE AT BONV-COMMON.-011 SaturSaturday?aro;
ing, just after. the men got to work, a terrific fire wi-tell
out on the preMises of Messrs. Ayton and Battley, Pote
and, tar manufacturers, Bow-common. The London, tike
Brigade engines promptly arrived, but in the interva,,',ia
flames had obtained a terrific ascendancy, there e,`'oati
upwards of 250 barrels of tar alight, threatening
destruction to the premises, and it was only by the fete
strenuous exertions of the firemen that the' flames °
subdued. The origin was the heat from the boiler. ~r
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—On Friday morning no f 0 it0
than seven serious fires broke out in London an(ooz.
suburbs, resulting in extensive loss of property. col
happened at the immense new Manchester warehol.ooo
Messrs. Cook and Gladstone, St. Paul's :Churchyard, tt
largest building of the description in. the metropolis' jel
originated at the back, in what is called the shippingrea
partment, adjoining Sermon-lane, and when disc°ll4
soon after midnight, the fire had possession of the vt`:„lts
of the offices on the basement floor. The as's npef
numbering between 200 and 300, who slept in the tlyd
rooms, succeeded in escaping. Within a very short
afterwards all these rooms were enveloped in the gePellt
blaze. As quickly as possible the engines were brovry
into requisition, and the firemen, after great efforts,ove
vented the flames extending beyond the department a" l
mentioned, which was burnt to the ground. The eO,
structure escaped injury. Among the property cons_llA to
were marine policies on goods that had been shilWv-fOOl
the extent of one million and a-half sterling. Theor,
were fully insured.—The other fires happened in
street, Spitalfiefds, destroying a portion of the pre.,oer
Mr. Ware, shoe maker ; at New-street, Oravel'l itt;
Ijoundsditch, consuming part of the house of Mr. cat itJ
oilman ; at Oxford-street, damaging the establishnl;elr
Messrs. Unthank and Ritchie, drapers • and at P,,,.°0
street, Shoreditch Westbourne-park-road, Padding'"
and Rotherhithe and Lambeth. No lives were lost.
COuRT MARTIAL AT WIND3OR.--A general Court- fib
tial was held last week at the Infantry Barracks, Will g 0
to try Lieut. Jamas Edward Perry, of the 46th Regif°,4'
for cmduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.vr
nel James Lindsay, of the Grenadier Guards, was P:..0" t;
dent; and Major Arthur J. Pack, Assistat-Ade-lope'
General, officiated as Deputy Judge Advocate. t)°7or
Robert Garrett, the commanding officer of the 46th, 00
peared as prosecutor. The charge was one of Per9°ott,
violence on Lieut. Thomas Fergus Greer, also of the tot)
It appeared that both officers, on the night of the
ult., were in the billiard room, when Lieut. Greer lost 100
by tossing' to Lieut. Perry. The former asked far 04
revenge, and they continued playing till Lieut. Peril 00
won £lOO. It was in consequence of Lieut. Greed
sisting on this gambling process being further carried
that high words ensued, both in the billiard roonkreff.
afterwards in the apartments of the prisoner. WO
offensive terms were used, and Lieut. Greer admitted .ot
he was the first to lay hands on his brother officer. I): iti4
Perry then seized a candlestick, with which he beat
opponent about the head and inflicted such severe /Pi ,ge
that surgical attendance was required. Lieut.- PerrkV,
his defence, which was listened to in profound s;!e
mid appeared to make a great impression on the yaw'to 104
It set forth that being personally unwilling as he,vol
pecuniarily unable to indulge in excesses, he- had ba
been what is called "a quiet man"—a course which °e'
- '-‘,.ted him to unexampled persecution and annoys'

..ite hands of many in the regiment, to whom lie„eli
an object-of laughter and reproach. After entering Iltrfo,
into this matter, and mentioning his vain apPe".". ti

!ous conduct

—conduct which had provoked cologrefc"ll/
at on the impulse of the moment, and 1:7,g
' had acted as he had done. After remain
11 deliberation, the Court broke up. Ileac"
" -'--romulgated until it has been apllf

by the highest authority