The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

BELFAST.—TWO large vessels connected with this port—
the Sobraon, belonging to Messrs. Fitzsimons, Sinclair,
and Coates, and trading beta een San Francisco and Hong
Kong ; and the Chippewa, belonging to Lemon and Co—
have been lost. The registered tonnage of the former
vessel was 1280 tons, and that of the latter 746.—Banner
of Ulster.

DEATH OF THE RET. DR. COOPER.—The Ultramon-
tane party have lost an able ally by the death, from
typhus fever, of the Rev. Dr. Cooper, one of the priests
attached to the Church of the Conception in Marlborough-
street, Dublin. The deceased was honorary secretary to
the " Catholic University" project, and a zealous sup-
porter of the Italian policy imported into Ireland along
with Archbishop Cullen.
GOVERNMENT REDUCTIONS.—The broom, it seems, is
about to be applied to the Castle of Dublin. As the re-
sult of an official inquiry, by direction of the late Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, a consolidation of the depart-
ments in the Privy Council and Chief Secretary's office is
to take place, and from 12 to 16 clerks are to retire, as
their services will be no longer necessary. Among the
officers to retire are mentioned Mr. W. Bessonet, Mr. W.
E. Hancock, Mr. George Chomley, &c.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE.—On Tuesday, Mr. Charles
Butler, agent to Colonel Westenra, was aimed at by a
Ribbon marksman, but the gun or pistol missed fire.
Two persons in company with Mr. Butler heard the noise
of the cock of the gun falling. Three men ran away from
the place, which was shaded with trees. A few months
ago one of the party, Mr. Feltus, was fired at while
sitting in his house, and had a narrow escape, from the
slugs having passed close to his head.
THE " CELT" NEWSPAPER.—The proceedings in this
ese were brought to a close on Thursday, when the jury
sound the defendant guilty upon the second, third, and
fourth counts. They also found that tl:e allegations in
the special plea of justification were not true, and that it
was not for the public good that the several matters men-
tioned in the indictment should be published at the time.
The jury could not agree to all the first count ; it con-
tained averments about which they disagreed.
THE WEATHER. A statement in one of the last
Waterford papers may be taken as an average sample of
the reports from all quarters of the kingdom. It is as
follows :—" Our accounts from every part of the country
are fraught with fearful descriptions of the state to which
it is reduced by the wide-spread inundations from un-
precedented rain. Farming operations are impracticable,
the grounds deserted alike by man and beast—and all
things, animate or inanimate, wearing the aspect of un-
redeemed gloom and desolation."

THE IRISH BRIGADE.—Mr. Frederick Lucas assures
his readers, that the parliamentary party with which he is
connected had not been consulted as to the Irish appoint-
ments consequent upon the change of hands in Downing-
street ; and more, he promises that, when the new
ministers are installed, the brass band will, as is usual,
be found ranged in hostile array on the opposition benches.
It is clear from this, that nothing short of a cabinet
•chosen from the leaders of the brivade will ever induce
that respectable cabal to abandon their factious and dis-
reputable course of tactics.
THE DUBLIN INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.—In addition
to the extraordinary interest already manifested by the
Continental authorities, governmental, manufacturing,
artistic, and others, in this great undertaking, we have
now to add that, at an interview which Mr. Roney had,
last week, with the Belgian minister of the interior, M.
Piercot, his excellency stated his intention to be present
himself, with several members of the government, at the
opening, on the sth of May next; before which period
the sum that Mr. Dargan will have placed at the disposal
of the committee will probably exceed £50,000 !

GREAT STORM IN DUBLIN.—EarIy on Saturday a storm
burst over Dublin which, for violence and duration, nearly
equalled the memorable visitation of January. 1837. It
commenced at half-past one o'clock, and lasted, without
a moment's cessation, until nearly six. The greatest
alarm prevailed, many people remaining up all night, an-
ticipating that each successive gust would tumble their
habitations in ruins. The wind blew nearly due west,
and there was bright moonlight during the hurricane.
The streets were strewn with slates and roof-tiles ; in-
deed, a more wild or cheerless-looking Christmas-day
could not be imagined. It is feared that the casualties
must have been very numerous.
THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—The Dublin Mail, speaking
of the great loss which Ireland will sustain by the retire-
ment of the Lord Lieutenant, which it considers inevit-
able, says :—lreland will feel and deplore his loss as the
heaviest blow and discouragement which the changes now
imminent will have inflicted upon her ; for during the
short time he has been among us, he has done more to
advance our social peace and improvement, and to pro-
mote our industrial resources—he has taken a more
generous and cordial interest in the domestic affairs of
this country, in its peculiar tastes and likings, and its
harmless enjoyments, than any precedent chief Governor;
while his rule has been uniformly marked by justice,
firmness, wisdom, and good temper, of which the example
will long diffuse its benefits through every portion of the
people. There is no class of Irishmen who do not admire
and esteem Lord Eglinton, and lament that an Adminis-
tration so well begun should have been so suddenly and
prematurely brought to a close.