The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-08-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRISH TRANQUILLITY.--ONE OF LORD NORMANBY'S APPROVERS.  In Tipperary a protege of Lord Normanby has just been figuring as approver. lie was some years ago under sentence of transportation, but his lordship, with that liberality which distinguished all his " gaol deliveries," ordered him to be released. The man was as worthy as the other objects of his lordship's patronage, and so well has he requited the obligation, and illustrated the wisdom of the policy which prevailed in Ireland during the golden days when Normanby was Vice, that, had justice its due, he would have been hanged for murder before now. Rightly, however, to estimate the obligations under which Ireland lies to that much-derided nobleman, it is necessary to know a little of the history of the hero of Tipperary. His name is Lysaght, and he was one of a party concerned in setting fire to the house of a comfortable farmer named Walsh—in fact, it was he who lighted the match, and raised the boy who applied it to the thatch. The persons charged were named Edmund, Pat, Darby, and John Ryan, with one James M`Carthy, and Lord Norinanby's friend certainly did his best to convict them. The jury, however, refused to find them guilty on such evidence, and the judge, (Torrens,) who in charging had described Lysaght as "a miscreant let loose upon the world," concurred in the propriety of the verdict, remarking that, had he been one of them, he should have come to the same conclusion. Now for a portrait—not a full-length one, however—of the " miscreant," and, that he may have ample justice, we shall give it from his own hand. At the close of his examination, he was questioned respecting the murder of a man named Noonan. We shall quote here flointhe report of the Tipperary Constitution :  " I knew-Brian Noonan who is dead, and I knew how he came by his death. " The Court—Did you murder him " Witness—No. " Witness—l was at the murder it wasn't I that murdered him  'great .sensatjon  " His Lordship—l say you are his murderer, for you were concerned in it. How many more murders were you in? " I don't say that I murdered any one else.  " Mr. Hataiell objected to his stating anything about this murder, as it had no reference to any of the prisoners. `• Cross-examined by Mr. Hatchell—l was convicted for posting a threatening notice and firing shots, and sentenced to be transported, but I was pardoned by the government; I had a brother called ' the Caravat,' and I don't know where he is. _ _  " The Judge—And the reward you gave the government for pardoning you was to murder a man. " To Mr. Hatchell—l knocked Noonan down with the Nutt-end of a blunderbuss, and helped to carry him into the heath to hide him. I was present when Leonard, the smith, was murdered, but I didn't strike him myself. I was in the party that shot .Mat Hayes when they attacked his house. I was looking at the party murdering benis Mahony. (Sensation.) - I remember Michael Griffin, Lord Strad broke s herd, who was murdered, but I defy any one to say I was at his murder; I didn't hear my brother the Caravat ' was suspected of this murder ; I was with my uncle running away with a young woman, and he was transported for it; my brother committedgi rape, and another of my brothers held the woman while he assaulted her. (Sensation.) _ _  , " His Lordship.—Did you ever comma a robbery of cattle? " Witness.—No. .4 Mr. Hatchell.—Oh, that is too light an offence my lord, altogether beneath him ; we have several classes of bolder offences, such as house-burning, murders, abduction, rape, and a long list of others, too tedious to go through. (Sensation.) _ . _ _  " To Mr. Hatchell.—When we set fire to the house, we didn't mind how many persons were burnt in it. (Great sensation.) " Mr. Hatchell.—l 'll not disgust the public with any further recital of his villainy. " Mr. Rolleston was about to cross-examine him on the part of another prisoner, when his lordship said, disgustingly, ' Oh, let the wretch go.' He was then sent off the table." Has not Lord Normanby reason to be proud of him ? When he wants a character for his commutations, what has he to do but send for his friend Lysaght ? Lysaght is entitled to some acknowlegment, and is there no appointment in his household with which he can reward him ? Ireland will be nothing the poorer for the loss of both the master and the man.