The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

AN ADMIRALTY ORDER has been received at Limerick
Custom-house, payable to Denis Hickey, being wages due
his son, Cornelius Hickey, shipu right on board the lost
Erebus and Terror, exploring expedition of Admiral Sir
John Franklin. •

A MAIDEN ASSIZES.—Mr. Justice Ball, in opening the
assizes for the city of Waterford, told the grand jury he
had no observations to make, beyond congratulating them
on the state of the calendar, which simply contained the
words "No prisoners in gaol for trial." His lordship
trusted that the creditable state of the city thus repre-
sented would long continue.

LARGE DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.....
At the Wexford assizes, on Tuesday, the orphan children
of Mr. and Mrs. Macsweeney got five thousand pounds
damages against the Great Southern and Western Railway
Company, on account of the loss of their father and
mother, who were killed by the railway accident at
Straffan, last autumn.

THE Tirrsitsult ABDUCTION.—In her informations,
Miss Arbuthnot states, that upon Sunday, the 2d of July,
she went to the church of Rathronan with her sisters, the
Hon. Mrs. Gough and Laura Arbuthnot, and Miss
Lyndon. On going into the churchyard she observed Mr.
Carden standing behind a tombstone, on which she turned
into the church. On their return, when about half-way
between the church and Rathronan-house, he suddenly
appeared, and rode after them, his horse being close up to
the car; when close to the gatehonse the car stopped on a
sudden, and through the front window she saw a carriage
with a pair of horses, and the door open, standing by the
road side; immediately Mr. John Carden jumped off hie
horse, opened the door of their car, and seizedn iiiiee, r
fail
the
arm. Miss Lyndon was sitting outside her, and
in holding her, caught hold of Miss Lyndon, darnadg
her out of the car. Four men attempted t°
eldest sister, and failed, but she dorgrer
John Carden and thrown on the.
eroa
by
d Mr. Carden ; she
with him. She herself was
.sea wdas, dPraugngeidngoubterbydol‘wirn.
resistedo n
"Takewili
which
withhhathet
o one
us; cnpc
d her, and also endeavoured to
• getting her feet against
she succeeded m
drag her out; saidta and doonne't of
mindh is
tfhoello others.wers—"
in. She heard him say _
ded
her life was in
the in
hung for • ulleasstt;lalecikeeou '
e s'phaenealpsporefohtelniemrecar. ,Goanudghso,
danger!lptehhalersela
den —Smithwick, the herdsman, one of the
from Mr. Car • .
sidetiolfist,h,
posed
thhoatw3as
.engage.d in defending Miss Arbuthnot, de-
li- Carden called on his men, and asked them
imvleiant"t. they were doing. That four men attacked him
(Smithwick)
theithw car.
ick) whThenahtehleaidknhocolkdedof
one lklr. Cardenofthe me
topnll uhim
from down,
That a woman named Healy knocked down another with
a stone, and that he got rid of the others. When Mr.
Carden saw him first coining round the car to the lady's
assistance, he called out " Muder !" and called for the
boys. He cried out, " What are you doing, boysl s-
_,
W.
do you not shoot ?" This Smithwick was struello.7 '
head with a skull-cracker, and was severely wouged. a
is stated freely in Dublin that a plea of insanitL-Lemnet.:'
racy ill:guilty—will be Om iu A his trig.