The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

COLONEL BRUEN, who was attacked with serious illness
on Saturday evening week, is out of danger.
RUMOURED DISCOVERY OF GOLD AT LISNAKEAo—It
is rumoured that a mine has been discovered on the Earl
of Erne's estate, within two miles of Lisnakea, the metal
of which is said to be of an auriferous quality.—Ferma-
nagh Mail.

RIBBONMEN EXECUTED.—On Saturday morning Kirk
and M'Coey were executed at Dundalk, in pursuance of
their sentence, for the attempt to murder Mr. Eastwood.
The ill-fated men were attended on the scaffold by two
Roman Catholic clergymen.

KILDARE ELECTION.—SHOCKING BLASPHEMY.--A
priest told his flock that " he (their pastor) had had a
personal interview with the Deity, who had promised to
take the curse off the potatoes if the boys did their duty
in voting for Cogan and Henchy ! !".
CONVERSIONS.—A young lady read her recantation
from the Church of Rome, yesterday, at St. John's
Church, before the Rev. John Elmes ; and, at the same
time, the wife of a respectable tradesman went through
this solemn ceremony.—Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.

SAILING OF THE FLEET FROM CORK.—The Channel
fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Corry, which
contributed so much to the festivities of Queenstown for
some time past, and which imparted such a grand and
attractive feature to the regatta, sailed out of Cork har-
bour on Tuesday, at one o'clock.

MR. WILLIAM KING, of the Commons of Navan, was
returning from divine service on Sunday, when he was
struck by lightning, and lifted from the place where he
was walking over a ditch and hedge fully eight feet high,
where he lay in the most excruciating agony for about
half an hour, when death put an end to his sufferings.—
Drogheda Conservative.

FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—" An informant of un-
questiouable veracity assures us," says the Dublin Even-
ing Mail, " that he himself thus heard a priest point
the moral of his denunciation of a candidate, whose only
fault in the eyes of the church was his Protestantism
' He has,' said this reverend gentleman, ' come in in a
coach-and-four, and will go out in a coffin—with a few
air holes in it, and a cushion for his gouty toe. Commit
no murder ; hut you may pluck him, fleece him, and flay
him alive.' "

ESCAPE OF SEVEN PRISONERS-.—Last night seven of
the prisoners located in Ennis gaol, succeeded in making
their escape, without the knowledge of any of the authori-
ties; and none of them have been yet re-taken.—They
were all in hospital, which appears to be the only portion
of the building from which escape is at all practicable.
Among those who have succeeded in the desperate attempt,
are the two men charged with the attempt to assassinate
Mr. Pierse Creagh of Rahaline.—Two more of the party
were under sentence of transportion.—Clare Journal.
PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRIAGES.—
At the Donegal assizes, the Rev. Mr. Maguire, P.P., was
indicted for having celebrated a marriage between a pri-
vate soldier professing the Protestant religion, and a
young woman who was a Roman Catholic. Mr. Smyley,
Q.C., said he understood from the Rev. Mr. Maguire's
counsel, that the rev. gentleman would plead guilty, owing
to which he, on the part of the Crown, would not press
for punishment if Mr. Maguire would enter into security
in £lOO to obey the law in future.
THE OUTRAGES DURING THE CLARE ELECTION.—
Our Killaloe correspondent writes :—" An old man.
named Connor Scanlan, was making his way on Thursday
to Tulle, to vote for Vandeleur, after refusing to go with
the people. He was met at Newtown, outside Killaloe,
by a lot of women, who stripped him of every stitch that
he wore but the shirt. After lashing him with nettles for
a time, they hung his clothes up in a high tree, and let
him proceed across a mountain to Garranboy, a distance
of two miles, naked as he was. His wife and daughter,
on seeing him approach, locked the door, and commenced
roaring that it was his ghost, and, that he must have been
murdered on the road."—Limerick Examiner.

THE POTATO CROP.—The Dublin Advocate, a paper
w
regarded
gloomy
report of the state of the potato
crop :—il may
tlte as an agricultural authority, has
the
micmfho
`winbge
The glom
fearful malady which has of late years
re-
appeared this season with unusual virulence, and already
chd such ravages on the potato crop has
a large proportion of. the crop. has been attacked. The
appearance of the disease has been manifest for some ten
days ; but as it was then only partial, and had not com-
mitted much mischief, we were unwilling to refer to the
subject in the early stage, more especially as no sugges-
tion could be made in the way of providing a remedy.
During the last few days the disease has very generally
appeared, and in all cases has been unusually rapid in
its action, the foliage of whole fields being cut off in a
few days, and in many cases the tubers have been already
attacked. It is difficult to speculate with any degree of
certainty as to the extent to which the crop may be de-
stroyed. Sufficient has, however, fully appeared to show
that there is cause for well-founded alarm ; and what
makes the matter truly deplorable is the large quantity of
potatoes that hale been planted this geBSQU,"