The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE IRISH SECRETARY.-Sir William Somerville has
been solicited to offer himself as a candidate for the county
Sligo. in conjunction with Mi. Imes.
MAYNOOTH.—A crowded and influential meeting of
Protestants was held in the round room of the Rotunda
Dublin, on Tuesday last, when a series of resolutions and
a petition against the continuance of a pArliamentary
grant to Maynooth College were adopted'.
The Rev. Patrick Kavanagh, professor of logic at the
Roman Catholic College of All Hallows, Et, umcondra,
committed suicide on Sunday week, but cutting his throat
with a razor. He had been in a state of imbecility for
some time previous.

STRONG .DRlNK..—Father Mathew, in reply to an ad.
dress sent to him a few days ago, said, " After a residence
of thirty years- in Cork. I did not believe that I could
anywhere find more harrawin, iliustrations of the ruin
and calamity which drunkenness produces until' I had
visited America."

MEETING OF MAGISTRATES OF THE DISTURBEIYCOUN-
TIES.—Tne lords lieutenant of the counties of Louth,Ar-
mall, and Monaghan have issued circulars to the rnagis-
trates of their respective counties to meet at Cast leblaney,
" for the purpose of considering the propriety ff peti-
tioning parliament to enact measures to meet the disor-
ganisi d state of parts of these counties "

THE IRISH CHIEF SECRETARY.—It is Stated that Sir
William Somerville, Bart., is to be raised to the peerage.
He left Dublin by the mid-day mail on Tuesday last, and
it is believed that he will not return as chief secretary.
If so a vacancy will occur in the representation of Dro.
gheda, for which two or three candidates are already
spoken of.

Tug EXTINCT " WORLD" NEWSPAPER.—The Court
of Queen's 8,-nch have dismissed Mr. Birch's application
for a new trial, applied for on the ground that the Earl of
Clarendon had given his evidence on his honour as a peer,
instead of the usual way by oath, it appearing that the
plaintiff and his advist rs acquiesced in the course at the
time it was adopted.

RESIGNATION OF THE EARL OP' ARUNDEL AS M.P.
FOR LIMERICK.—We are in a position to state that the
Rol of Arundel and Surrey has finally-resolved to resign
his seat for Limerick borough in a short• period after he
meeting of Parliament. The noble earl is reported to be
indisposed at Carlton-terrace. His medical advisers
recommended that he should not attend the banquet given
by his constituents in Limerick on Wednesday last.—
Morning Advertiser.

ELOPEMENT OF A Nurt.—lt has just transpired that
a nun, Miss Fanny Mahony, professed in the convent of
Dingle. eloped from her cell, and indeed from the monas-
tic premises, a week or two ago. She quitted the convent
in disguise about six o'clock in the evening; had a
Bianconi's car waiting for her in the neighbourhood, and
got clear away to Trelee, whence she speedily pursued her
journey to Cahireiveen. She was not missed till dawn next
morning by her sisterhood and the priests, when pursuit
was made, but fruitlessly. She is said to be concealed by
her friends among the Derrinane mountains:

PERILOUS POSITION OF THE PRI ESIS7-4ilt• Telegraph,
the new organ of the Romish church, has drawrran affect-
ing sketch of the position of the priests in the rural dis-
tricts of Ireland: According to this authority, they are
" used up" with hard work and bad pay ; and the worst
of it is, there is no prospect of better times before them.
The people who heretofore supported them in affluence
have withered away, from causes, not strted by the Tele-
graph, and those who remain are more disposed to-become
Protestants than paymasters to their reverences. The
Telegraph sees no means of relieving, not the farmers,
but the priests, from their dilemma, except by an appeal
to the universal Ciurch of Rome.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.—THE RIBBON CONSPIRACY.
—The special commission, issued for the trial of persons in
custody on charges of agrarian murder, was opened at
Monaghan on Tuesday... The chief justice (Blackburne)
opened the commission in an able and impressive address,
and at a subsequent hour two prisoners, named Francis
Kelly and Owen Kelly, were arraiened on a true bill for
the murder of the late Mr. Bateson. On the following
day the trial of Francis Kelly commenced, and the case
for the crown closed on the same day. On Thursday
morning the defence of- the prisoner Kelly was opened
by Mr. Butt, Q.C:, who delivered an eloquent speech.
The jury retired at six o'clock to consider the case, and,
after remaining in consultation for three hours and a half,
were called info court, when, on being asked if they lied
agreed, they foreman said, emphatically, they had not.
The Chief Justice then ordered them to retire again, and
they were locked up for the night. After being locked up
for nearly 24 hours, the jary could not agree to a verdict,
nor were they discharged until the protracted confine-
ment, without food or refreshment, had prodnced serious
illness amongst them. The Attorney-General announced
that he would put Kelly (the same prisoner) on his trial
on Saturday morning. In the meantime, a man named
M`Donnell was indicted for sending a threatening letter.
signed " An Advocate for Tenant-right," to a solicitor;
but, as he declared he was not ready for his trial, it was
postponed to the next regular assizes. So far, then,
nothing—rather worse than nothing—has beenrsdone at
Monaghan.