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

I_RELAIVD.

Tim Dublin Evening Post states that 300 of the pro-
vincial constabulary are to occupy all the military posts
in Dublin except the castle guard. Six English militaa
regiments are ordered to Ireland; several Irish militia
regiments are at once to be embodied.

A HEAVY DEFAULTEE.—Mr. E. O'Flaherty, an ex b'I.P•,.
who has lately been appointed a commissioner of income
tax, in Ireland, by the present government, has disap-
peared, and it has been discovered that he has put several
forged bills in circulation. The total amount represented'
by the bills in circulation is differently computed, varying
from £14,000 to £O,OOO.

THE LATE ATTEMPT AT ABDUCTION.-At the Queen's
Bench Chamber, Dublin, yesterday week, an application
was made to the Lord Chief Justice, to have Mr. Carden
and his confederates admitted to bail. The Chief Justice
said he was of opinion the outrage committed was of such
a character that he could not exercise a discretion in their
favour. A question might arise as to whether an indict-
ment for actual abduction might not be sustained. Fron'!

the information of Miss Arbuthnot herself, it appeared
she was to a certain extent removed in the car towards
the door. Whether there was abduction or not, could
only be decided at the trial, and where there was a pos•
sibility of an indictment being sustained, he could not
admit the parties to bail. It is said that Mr. Carden will
plead in his defence that he believed Miss Arbuthnot to
be disposed to favour his advances, but that she was re-
strained by her relatives, whom alone he sought to coerce
by a show of violence.

TUE 12Th JtiLY.—The anniversary of the Battle of the
Boyne has, we may venture to state, passed off peaceablY;
The Belfast and Newry papers say that nothing occurred
out of doors save the extra marching and counter-march-
ing of constabulary. A meeting of Protestants was hell
at the Music Hall, Dublin, to commemorate the events of
1088. - Wm. Waring Maxwell, Esq., J.P., was in the chair•.
Letters of apology for non-attendance were read from the
Earl of Enniskillen, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Bandon, and
the city and county Members. The Rev. Dawson Massey
moved the first resolution as follows :—"ResolvedThat
we remember, with gratitude, that the Revolution of 1688,
which called the House of Brunswick to the throne of
these realms, tended to strengthen the force of legislative
authority, and to establish adequate remedies against its
possible abuse, thus renderit'= tyranny in the British
State impossible, and disloyalty in the British subject
crime—conceding liberty without license, and establishing
power without either insolence or oppression; that we
consider it the most glorious temporal privilege of men to
live beneath such a Constitution, and that it would not be
loss bat gain to die in its defence." Ills resolution was
carried unanimously, as were others expressive of the
loyal and Protestant feelings of the meeting.

METROPOLITAN DECLINE

(111,011 THE COURT JOURNAL.)
FRO3I year . year the season gets shorter, and certainlY
now does not extend over two months, during which time
there is a recess that deprives the metropolis of the visitors
for a few days' life ; it is true it is very rapid during the
remainder of the time, but the season is not so agreeable,
and considerably more fatiguing than when it extended
over more than three months of the summer. But to visit
London seems now a sort of unpleasant duty which is to
be shuffled off as soon as possible. The wishes of the
members of the two houses also keep pace with this feel'
ing. It seems, however, difficult to satisfy it, for though,
this session will be, perhaps, one of the shortest on record
for many years, there is yet a good month's work before
the houses which must be got through, though; as it caw
not involve any great political question, it will.be, perbal
left in a great measure to the leaders of the parties and
those who may have a particular interest in the bills.
The clubs, too, begin to wear quite a barren aspeeti
indeed, throughout the season they have not been in i
show. Owing, perhaps, to the absence of many of Ore
members on foreign service, those clubs of a purely 0!;;
tary and naval character are indeed nearly de...dr& V';
visitor often hearing but his own footsteps echoing througo
kt.
, and the evening passing cheerleoll
apants partaking themselves early
icking the customary company of al'
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We have even begun to think that clubs are likely t°
be numbered among the things that were and the glorieP
of the past seasons, for they are undergoing some of the
changes which are marking our metropolitan life. For
some time the steadiest and most aristocratic of . old St-
James's have had a lifeless aspect • and at five o'clock. vl
the afternoon of the finest clay, of the most fashionable
period of the day, could not number
occupants of their windows, and these
habitue's of a quarter of a century. No crowds ca
round each window, peering forth over the -'
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one another, anxiously looking out at the occupants of the
carriages which roll past with their friends. Truly, then,
we think we may assert the season of London- has under'
gone a change of late years.
The time is even too rapid for the metropolis, and Will
assuredly pass it and leave it to stagnate—unless its owl'
pants are clever enough to fix the wandering throng withia
its precincts by some new attractions and gayer offerings
than it has lately put forth. Perhaps the smoke nuisance,
which is to receive its quietus on the Ist of August, when
finished, will give a salutary impulse to its clime, all"
tempt the straggler to stay that was formerly choked in
its folds. Its fetes, parties, races, Crystal Palace, opera,
theatres, reviews, rides and drives, fancy fairs, flower
shows, meet at Kensington, with its band pouring forth'
the romantic and lachrymal strains of " Vilikins," are 11°'
longer attractions sufficient. Spirit of fashion or of plea;
sure, lend thy aid in the declining years of the great city •

SEVENTEEN SHEEP KILLED BY LITIITNING.-Duria
a heavy thunder-storm which raged on Saturday last,'-`lr'
Searles, at Buddle Farm, Cheriton Fitzpaine, had Bevel'
teen sheep struck by the electric fluid and killed on the
spot.—Exeter Gaz

RRIFIC FIRE dT Bow-COMMON.—On Saturday molly:
ing, just after the men got to work, a terrific fire broke
out on the premises of Messrs. Ayton and Battley, pitcli
and tar manufacturers, Bow-common. The London Fire
Brigade engines promptly arrived, but in the interval the
flames had obtained a terrific ascendancy, there beitti
upwards of 250 barrels of tar alight, threatening tot
destruction to the premises, and it was only by the moo:.
strenuous exertions of the firemen that the flames
subdued. The origin was the heat from the boiler.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—On Friday morning no feweS,
than seven serious fires broke out in London and f-1;
suburbs, resulting in extensive loss of property. 013,1
happened at the immense new Manchester warehouse;
Messrs. Cook and Gladstone, St. Paul's 'Churchyard, t 1
largest building of the description in the metropolis.
originated at the back, in what is called the shipping "el
partment, adjoining Sermon-lane, and when discovcroie
soon after midnight, the fire had possession of the iv" of the offices on the basement floor. The assistants
numbering between 200 and 300, who slept in the OP°.
rooms, succeeded in escaping. Within a very short tiny
afterwards all these rooms were enveloped in the genet,
blaze. As quickly as possible the engines were brougl'
into requisition, and the firemen, after great efforts, Pre'
burnt vented the flames extending beyond the department abof
mentioned, which was to the ground. The In°o
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structure escaped injury. Among the property consuintZ,
were marine policies on goods that had been shipped
the extent-of one million and a-half sterling. The fir_
were fully insured.—The other fires happened in
street, Sj,italfields, destroying a portion of the premises 'l'
Mr. Ware, shoe maker ; at New-street Gravel-lane'Houndsditch, consuming part of the house
of Mr. Smil
oilman ; at Oxford-street, damaging the establishment 0
Messrs. Unthank and Ritchie, drapers • and at High'street, Shoreditch ; Westbourne-park-roail, Paddingtons:
and Rotherhithe and Lambeth. No lives were lost.
COURT MARTIAL AT WINDSOR.—A general Court-001-
tial was held last week at the Infantry Barracks Windsf
to try Lieut. Jamas Edward Perry, of the 40th Regiment',
for csnduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Colo'
nel James Lindsay, of the Grenadier Guards, was nr°•l-
- ; and Major Arthur J. Pack, Assistant-Adjutalis
General, officiated as Deputy Judge Advocate. Colon"
Robert Garrett, the commanding officer of the 46th, °Y;
peared as prosecutor. The charge was one of person''
violence on Lieut. Thomas Fergus Greer also of the 46t1;,'
It appeared that both officers, on the night of the 281•
ult., were in the billiard room, when Lieut. Greer lost ~Z.
by tossing to. Lie-at. Perry. The former asked for
and they continued playing till Lieut. Perry /1.4 Y
It was in consequence of Lieut. Greer .
sisting on this gambling process being further carried 05
that high words ensued, both in the billiard room, an
afterwards in the apartments of the prisoner. lire'A
offensive terms were used, and Lieut. Greer admitted tht
he was the first to lay hands on his brother officer. Lieur,
Perry then seized a candlestick, with which he beat 1);
opponent about the head and inflicted such severe injuri'd
that surgical attendance was required. Lieut. Perry rea
his defence, which was listened to in profound silence'
and appeared to make a great impression on the auditory
It set forth that being personally unwilling a'
pecuniarily unable to indulge in excesses; he '
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