The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE Tenant League denies that it is dead, and sumreelltsesit
have been issued to sereral members of the body to ullthe
conference in Dublin, on the 22nd inst. The charge of hi
Tenant Right Bill is to be taken from Serjeant Shee, for
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contumacy in refusing to meet the council of the league. vie
BRITISH AND IRISH STEAM-PACKET COMPANT,-,10.
shareholders held their annual meeting at their offices,
quay, Dublin, on Wednesday. The directors declared a eir,
dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, for the balf4,7,
ended the 13th of June, 1855, and they now recomluee
dividend for the past six months at the same sate,
heretofore, free of income-tax.
CAUTION TO NEWSPAPER CARRIERS.—At the
court, on Saturday, a lad named James Davison was chaw.l
Kelly,
certain f
toby deliver Mr.
disappointing the subscribers, and committing a breaeh.„,
contract. The case was proved, and the misdemeanant, ee'"
tnhuemNbeorrstohfertnheWpahpiegr,smaitthsahianv'tifinegidn, ettleercetekin.il
mitted to prison for one week.—Belfast Northern Whi9.4re
FIRE AT THE BELFAST BARRACKS.—By the disastrous Poi
which broke out on Tuesday, in the quarters of the officers of
the Cheshire Militia, now encamped in hutmeuts in the P,355
rack-square, Belfast, a loss of property to a large amount'',
been sustained. The loss of Lieut. Hamilton is very bee":
amounting to £9,000 or £lO,OOO, principally consisting of La
luable deeds ; and Lieut. Reade and Ensign Gale are al'''
sufferers.—BWast News Letter. the
THE MURDER op Miss HlNDS.—Seven persons (says
Dublin Evening Mail) have been lodged in Cavan s,
charged with being concerned in the murder of Miss lII'
They are, with one exception, tenants on the estate of the 'ill;
fortunate lady. A man named James Murphy, from II:,
county of Leitrim, is accused as a principal, and Thomas li—of
is charged with being the chief conspirator and conductor
the diabolical offence.
THE SHIPPING AT QUEENSTOWN.—For thirty years there
-, for
have not been so many British ships lying windbound and
orders in Queenstown harbour as at present, and for nearlYhe
month back. They appear to be jammed up one against t
b other, from Passage down to Camden Fort. They muster
over 300, with about 25 foreign ships, and five men-a-W.'l:
manned by over 4,000 seamen, of whom 2,700 are Reitis
merchant sailors, 300 foreigners, and 1,600 men-of-war's oeu, f
A FEW days since, about two miles on the other side F.,
Castleblaney, a portion of the line, about 30 yards, sunk, ands in
a manner, disappeared. The substratum wanted solidity. ,e
passenger trade is not interrupted. Parties travelling by li
line have to walk about seventy yards, and then resume thr
e
places in the carriages. Sir John M'Neill will have the whole
rectified by one of his ingenious processes on Monday neltt
when the traffic trade will go on as briskly as ever.—Neu'"
Examiner.

CHANGE OF LANDED PROPRIETORS.-Iri referring to the
operations of the Encumbered Estates Court, the Ballinaslee
Star remarks, that "of the counties of Galway and Arsilis
comprising nearly three millions of acres, or about one-seventh
of the whole kingdom, one-fourth of the superficial extent bas'
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changed owners," and adds, " It has been stated that the
majority of the purchasers of the properties offered for Sale
have been English and Scotch. This, however, is not the ease;
of two millions of money invested in this way, not more thall
£400,000 has been advanced by capitalists from across the
channel."

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—Mr. W. G. Plunkett, of Boyle,
and J. C. Bower, Esq., have obtained a patent for the mann' •
facture of paper and textible fabrics from the following Phu
viz., the yellow iris, or common flagger, the burdock, L"
coltsfoot, and from the leaves and stems of red and white beet,
and mangold wurzel; also from the stems of Swedish, Aber-
deen, and other turnip bulbs. We have seen specimens (11c
paper and millboard manufactured by hand from several °'
the foregoing plants, and from fibre from the iris or Yell°l
flagger, which appears to have all the properties of the best
flax. The iris contains a large proportion, at least 75 per cent.,
-of paper material.—Boyle Gazette.
IT is stated that the Lord Bishop of Cork is about 0
institute proceedings, in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for the
purpose of declaring the parish of Inniscarra vacant, by reason
of the conviction and sentence to transportation for life, for
forgery, of its rector, the Rev. William Beresford. These,
proceedings, it is said, will be defended by the creditors 01
the convict. The parish has for a number of years been
sequestered, and the revenue collected by a receiver under
the court, for the benefit of the creditors, whose debts amount
to a very considerable sum. The defence which, it is under-
stood, will be set up, is a denial of vacancy, on the ground;
that the incumbent is not dead in law, as the prerogative or
the Crown may at any time be exercised in his behalf 197
granting him a free pardon.
AN hum PATRIOT'S PROPHECY.—An ultra-Liberal and
Roman Catholic journal, nauseated with the squabbles,
tical and religious, which have rendered the name of an Troll
popular representative a byword of merriment, if no worse,
finds consolation in raking up an old threat of Grattan, uttered
at the period of the union. " Well," said the indignant
patriot, "Ireland will have her revenge; she will send into the
British Senate, and into the bosom of her councils, 105 of the
biggest rascals that any age or country has ever produced.
Horrified at this fancy sketch, the journal piously ejaculates:—;
"Thank God, it has not come to this; for there are many o.`
the Irish members an honohr to their native land ; but the
policy acted on of late by those dubbing themselves our leaders
would very soon have verified the prediction of our immortal
countryman ."