The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE IRISH WOOL TRADE.—A greatly- increased de-
mand for wools has arisen in the Dublin market, chiefly
caused by orders on account of French manufacturers.
A special commission is about to be issued for the trial
of agrarian offences in the north, and soon after the open-
ing of Parliament new measures of repression will be
brought forward.
The Limerick magistrates have unanimously resolved
to memorialize the Lord-Lieutenant for a further reduc-
tion of the police force of the county, in consequence of
the tranquillity of the district.
It is rumoured that Dr. M`Hale has withdrawn all fur-
ther opposition to the National schools, and that he no
longer entertains any objection to the clergy placing these
schools under the Board of Education.
Letters from Wexford state that the loss to the cattle
jobbers and butchers of that town, by the shipwreck of
the steamer Town of Wexford, amounts to about £3,000.
Very little, if any, of her cargo was insured.
The Committee of the Protestant Association announce
a general Meeting of Protestants opposed to the Maynooth
endowment, to be held in the Rotunda, Dublin, on the
27th instant, to address the Queen and petition Parlia-
ment on the subject.
Amongst the new regulations for the discipline of the
Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, is one, to the effect
that, the offerings usually made, on the occasion of
marriages, are either to be totally abolished, or reduced
to moderate limits—judos limiles.
SALE OF LORD MOUNTNORRIS'S ESTATES.-013 Thurs-
day the estate of the Earl Mountnorris, situate in the
county of Wexford, was sold for the sum of £55,2003, in
one lot, to Mr. Vere Foster, of Stowbridge, Staffordshire.
He has obtained a favourable purchase.
Among the petitions filed in the Encumbered Estates
Court last week was one for the sale of the estates of the
Earl of Limerick. The gross annual rental of the property
is about £lO,OOO, and the incumbrances, not including
certain untaxed law costs, amount to £110,705.

AFFAIR OF THE HEART.—A beautiful girl, named
Kearney, who was attached to an officer in the army,
followed the regiment to Dublin last week. where some
quarrel arising between the officer and herself, she deter-
mined to commit suicide. Not long afterwards her life-
less body was found in the canal.

RECRUITING FOR THE ARMY.--T understand that the
military authorities promulgated a general order on Thurs-
day, empowering every private soldier to enlist recruits,
and that for every man so enlisted the recruiting soldier
is to receive a bounty of lle. 6d.--Correspondent of the
Times.

THE IRISH COAST GUARDo—The Galway Mercury
says, "We are enabled to state, upon the best autbority,
that orders have been issued to the several Coast Guard
stations round the coast of Ireland to have all the men of
that force, whose term of service does not exceed five
years, in readiness to go on board ships of the line on the
shortest notice."

FAILURE IN THE CORN TRADE.—The Cork Constitu-
tion has the subjoined announcement :—" On Tuesday
great excitement prevailed among the merchants assem-
bled in the Commercial-rooms, it being announced that
Mr. James Berry Adams, one of the largest buyers in our
corn-market, had suspended payment. At first his lia-
bilities were stated to be £35,000, but, towards the close
of the day, that sum was brought down to between
£23,000 and £25.000.

PROGRESS OF TRIITII.—in answer to the extraordinary
assertions put forward by John M`Hale in his last letter,
it may be well to state that the Bishop of Tuam has
declared his readiness to testify on oath, if required, that
in his own diocese, within four or five years, 10,000 con-
verts from Popery have joined the Protestant Episcopal
Church. Nor is the value of such results to be estimated
by the simple fact of so many leaving the Church of Rome,
for it should be always. borne in mind that the present
movement is not a political but a purely religious one.—
Connaught Walchm2n.
THE LATE " WORLD" NEWSPAPER.—On Tuesday
last, the grand jury of the City of Dublin found true bills
for libel against Mr. Jas. Birch, proprietor of the defunct
World newspaper. for a series of libels inserted in the
last three publications of that paper, on Mrs. French,
relict of the late highly-respected Mr. French, High-
Sheriff of the City of Dublin in 1848, at which disturbed
period the energy, and ability displayed by him won the
approbation of all- loyal citizens. Mrs. French is the
daughter of Mr. Brewster, who successfully defended Sir
William Somerville at the late extraordinary trial. The
libels are said.to have been of the most revolting nature.
The Galway papers contain some distressing details of
the progress of evictions in that county. The Vindicator
states that—P. At the Quarter Sessions, held a few days ago
in Loughran, fifty ejectments were entered for hearing.
If we take the average number of each family at six, the
total evictions for one division of this county would
amount to 300. There were 341 ejectments entered for
Galway, and at the same ratio of calculation the number
of exterminated individuals would be 204, making a total
of 504 human beings left destitute—so much labour taken
out of the great field of industry—so many items trans-
ferred to the debtor side of the national ledger—so many
links struck by one flourish of the barrister's pen—from
the human chain that binds society together."

TRE " WORLD" NEWSPAPER.—BIRCH v. SIR W.
SOMERVILLE.—On Thursday last, Mr. Whiteside, M.P.,
as counsel for the plaintiff in this case, renewed the motion
for a new trial upon an affidavit, that in the course of the
former trial it became necessary to examine the Lord-
Lieutenant as a witness, and that he was not sworn but
examined on his honour. Judge Crampton observed, that
there could be no doubt, in a suit between party and party,
in an action at law, a peer cught to be sworn, if a witness.
Mr. Whiteside then submitted that the evidence of the
Earl of Clarendon having been illegally given, and being
material for the defendant, the previous proceedings were
a nullity. Judge Perrin was of opinion that the objection
ought to have been taken at the time, and that the party
could not be allowed to take the chance of a trial, and,
afterwards, if adverse to him, to turn back upon an objec-
tion, on which he did not rely in the first instance. Judge
Crampton subsequently observed that the Chief Justice
would be in court on Monday (yesterday), and it should
stand over till then, in order to ascertain more preciseiy
under what circumstances the evidence was given.
FLAX CULTURE.—At a meeting lately held in Bandon,
for the promotion of the cultivation of flax in the district,
Viscount Bernard in the chair, the Rev. Mr. Townsend
stated the result of a short visit he had made to Ulster,
where the cultivation of flax had been so successful. The
first he visited was the house of Mulholland, of Belfast.
The Mulhollands give employment to 1,400 women and
men. The wages of the former were from ss. to 6s. a-
week each, and of the latter, from 15s. to 40s. Mr. Black
told him he sowed three-and-a-half bushels of flex to the
plantation acre; and the produce, after paying all ex-
penses, was £l5 on the acre. Mr. Black fed his cattle
on the bolls and seeds, boiled with other food, and assured
him that he never had cattle in such good condition as
when fed on such diet. In Belfast and its immediate
vicinity, there were 400,000 spindles at work ; every 100
spindles requiring five workers. The amount of capital
invested in the various establishments was about
£1,600,000, the women's wages being from 10s. to lls.
a-week, and for skilled labour from 15s. to 40s. a-week.
Their mills consumed from 28,000 to 30,000 tons of flax
der year, the produce of 120,000 statute acres.

ROYAL AGES.—At the present crisis some interest may
possibly attach to the ages of the princes who make and
mar the destinies of the world. We subjoin a list :
Pope Pius IX., 59 years; King of Wirtemburg, 70;
King of Belgium, 61 ; King of Prussia, 56; Emperor of
Russia, 55 ; King of Sweden, 52 ; King of Denmark,
43 ; the President Bonaparte, 43 ; King of Naples, 41;
King of Bavaria, 40 ; Dake de Nemours-Orleans, 38 ;
King of Holland, 24 ; Prince Joinville-Orleans, 33 ;
the Queen of England, 32 ; Queen of Portugal, 32 ;
King of Hanover, 32; Count Chambord-Bourbon, 31 ;
King of Sardinia, 31 ; Duke of Aumale-Orleans, 30; the
Sultan, 28 ; Duke de Montpensier-Orleans, 27 ; Francis
Joseph of Austria, 21 ; the Queen of Spain, 21; Louis
Philipe Orleans, Count of Paris, 13.—Kolner Zeitung.