The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

IRELAND,

COLLISION AT SEA.—The Hibernia steamer,
North-wall, Dublin, ran down a small smack about
mile from the Pigeon-house. It is supposed the oet
were drowned. The masthead of the smack aPPears

.e water.
Al°.'
DECREASE OF THE POPULATION.—It is ipr
of the northern papers that the population of the,kroio
of .Agherton, in the neighbourhood of the pre,,srtfei
town of Coleraine, has decreased 1,500 within the m"
years, chiefly on account of emigration. „„ gorl
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED NEAR ARRAN .^—,-,'
evening, a canoe, in which were three persons9llo4,V
Patrick M ,
`Donough, John Conneely, Patrick go",
and two others, whose names are unknown, wn
into the Arran Island Rock, near the lighthous:olo
upst by a sudden squall, and four out of then

_ perished.—Galway Vindicator.
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ABDUCTION OF A. GIRL IN DIIBLIN.—A few 7,',„ boy:,
Mrs. Ellen Quinlan, the proprietress of a lodgin,,,ewaw_,,
No.l, Sandwith-street, Dublin, applied to the ins.„6"-fitiv,
of that city for a warrant, and tendered infn COr,;
against an Englishwoman who came to lodge
plainant's house, and remained there for- six weerhot, c;i
the name of Bridget O'Dea. It appeared lion
Friday week, Mrs. O'Dea announced her inteleitve
departing that evening for Liverpool ; she too
Mrs. Quinlan, and requested that Mrs. Quinlan's u'D
a young girl, should be allowed to see her to tb-,a
and bring her bandbox. The mother consented, tip De,:
girl accompanied Mrs. O'Dea., but has not sine's,o
heard of.' On inquiry at the packet offiee,..,,it_,Nrasforl4.,l
tamed that places or berths had been '''""
O'Dea and the girl, Hannah Quinlan, to Liverrmo
thence per railway to Dewsbury, in Yorkshilleott,
magistrate immediately issued a warrant to be
to England for the arrest of the woman O'Dea'
the recovery of the girltl
.
THE SHIPPING TRADE OF BELFAST.—The Mork' 'ol
Whig observes that, during the past week, the adec'eo.re
aij,e
foreign shipping have presented an unusual
animation :—" There are at present upwards ofi
averaging from 700 to 1,300 tons burthen,
Prince's dock ; and so completely packed is tinhealnutteerl64l3v;
foreign shipping that vessels of large tonnage bathe W-A
compelled to haul along Albert-quay. During 00",
five years—indeed, since the great emigration
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raged in the North—we have not been visited by cot"
larffe number of foreign ships; and the eroPl°;yot.i"
which has been afforded to the labouring P°Pri COi!usually engaged at the quays is, consequently, ce.,oidi
siderable. In the coasting trade, however, bnslider
rather dull; there is comparatively a small Dial On
vessels in port, principally owing
f
to adverse win
the coal trade is not so well supplied as usual. -P," aw,;
":,
is merely temporary, and it is to be hoped that t`l-00'
mation in the foreign department will extend to -
branches of the shipping trade."
A MODERN MALVOLIO.—An bin;
dual, named James Dunne, appeared on summonsftertil;
head police-office, Dublin, last week, before Mr. rc,ielir
answer the complaint of Matthew Kelly and Bridge Neste;
alias Dunne, for assaulting and for having used t'feo
ing language towards them. It appeared that thevtot)
complainant had lately got married to Kelly, great 81
disappointment of the defendant, who had been P 310" ";,/
addresses to her. Some days ago, he happened veroureil
the newly-wedded pair in the street, and was so °losto
with a sense of the fair one's perfidy, that he,ll •", 4id;iir
her in no measured terms with her cruel condnet, Os
proceeded so far as to strike the bridegroom. 3ey/
dant did not deny the charge, but, in defence, "nS
to the bench a document, from which the follevroP?
extracts :—I James • Dunne was after a voting pets to
name Bridget Wynn, got her hand & word .:661°`'ci Pool
present, and said she would marry me I treatie ocl op
suggastick spirits gook (joke) and coffee, gird
oaten pit
several shillings on her I refined 26 young v',oo 0117
Bridget w3-nn occount my youth and beantlb I
and my charactor was destroyed by her I , °,,fj•
not born to suffer what I did by Bridget will,' /-133''')?
night morning or evening I have no comfort e' h ti)tre
The document then went on at considerable lenit;felw,gir
cite the-various persecutions the writer had sun P)0
prosecution of his suit with the faithless fair eri'i;itll
narrating many astounding facts in connection 4e41
love and his state of mind all of which e%en-q-ver,P,
truth of the adage that " the course of true love nor:
run smooth," the defence proceeded to detail t1ie1?..4;
offers of marriage which the defendant had had, To
those from " a fine fair-haired young woman," w scetet
duced herself with £3OO fortune to him,
and, also, from a young woman, " who kept lour.lot r
in Francis-street," who offered him £5O and
turf." It then concluded in the following tern's •-of fit
sions and sufferings I went through in this poi ani
Was enough to commit murder on my life I 1-1„,;(11,./et
and above love for her Its well I did not lose,
soul by her. She speaks to another now illicto'red.:;sll;
tones She speaks to him in these winning
once I thought all my own.—Your worship, 1,91;,e,10 4,16iP
ing thing did you, ever feel the pain mrtel'of
worship will take my case into consideration
your humble servant James Dunne, the snderteed
reading of this document by Mr. Porter ere3A to
amusement in court. The defendant was ordereVer,
bail to be of good behaviour, or, in default, t°

hours' impriiOnment.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AT A FUNERAL.--- DC,Cl4'°
meeting of the Dublin Protestant Association' _or/
e fo,
Tuesday, Mr. Thomas H. Thompson brought el etiV
disgraceful case under the consideration of the oreacliey
A gentleman, well known as one of the Irish ',a aft,
Mr. Thaddeus Connellan—many years ago bee 31,191
testant, but during the last years of his life rO,O
his Romanist friends. On his death-bed he rest
uo,
refused to have a Priest, and, as he died a Prl),,te:he,l)
body. would not be admitted, by the Priest, illwelat
mg ground of Templeboyle, where he wished to b wral;s
His remains were then brought' to the Cloll'eP,;to
r
Skeen, where the Rev. E. Nangle was ill o' A air of
form the service of the Church over them.rg 0/ tY,I
scene of riot took place, however ; the Cleeo to4;av
prevented from officiating by a Romish mobbedic' 0
corpse, and flinging it into the grave, perf

service over it, saying—
.,f AV'
" Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, nst , (7
If G—d does not take him the d-1 to- ge ottj
and using other blasphemous expressions. tole,,
Thompson) asked was such a state of things 0,; jes"o
in a Christian land : and were the authorities ced, (0,
a • of e
Protestants of the country to the mercies ,oce 00
that chose to collect and interfere with the u..„0ve,(1°,3
Clergy. The resolution which he, therefore,
p
as follows :--f` Resolved,—That we have had vev. , I
called, by our excellent Vice-President, the -`:,1,5t fof;,
Mangle, Rector of Skreen, to an outrage egailar'pe
be resfe-withe,,ll;
against religion, perpetrated in the Chives tIoP4
parish over the body of the late Mr. Theddeiletf4lolo
and that the narrative of the same
witted to the Chief Secretary for Irelana, ice srety
calling his attention to the facts, and that ~.„,g0 of
with interest to see whether this fresh otly;rt
allowed - to
_pass without notice on the V
( f
authorities."

A Oftli,,t'fo.../ift'
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN--`" CIA v,,Avok;
goons, Mr. Charles Brown, was broug-ith R ePAV
Brighton magistrates last week, charged '`,f-iousjp JrAlt.
disturbance at a ball at the Town-hall the Pre t"" 0;0
by insisting upon passing several times three to tbeoteo)
cloak room, and using very gross larigua'pnecieaYr
ant, and assaulting the constable '-
prevent him. The young cornet pleaded °
his regret, paid £5, and was liberated.