The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.
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Mr. O'Connell's furniture was sold on Thursday, but
there was very little competition.
Lord Auckland, the first Lord of the Admiralty, has
paid a visit to Cork, and inspected the several naval es-
tablishman ents there.
A m, named Owen Lackey, died last week in Kell's
Hospital, Ireland, of farcy, caught from skinning a de-
ceased horse.
The Right Hon. Edward Pennefather, late Chief Jus-
tice of the Queen's Bench, Dublin, expired after a long
illness on Monday.
There are 2370 paupers in Cork Workhouse, where
thirty-two died within the last week. The weekly cost of
an inmate is ls. 51d.
An infant was cruelly murdered at Louth, a few days
ago. Its month was wounded, and part of its tongue cut
off, and then it was thrown into a pound. There are
strong grounds for believing that the mother of the child,
a young woman named Ellen Tuxford, is the murderer.

DENUNCIATION or SMITH O'BircrEN.—" Repudiation"
seems to be all the rage in Ireland. At Limerick a con-
clave of Roman Catholic clergymen, together with a few
civilians (all parties being repeelers), have unanimously
decided "that William Smith. O'Brien, by his conduct at
the late election, and by his acceptance of the representa-
tion of the county, procured by the aid of the Tories, has
forfeited our confidence."
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting of the Asso-
ciation on Monday, Mr. John O'Connell charged the
English authorities with cool and barbarous murder in
their exportation of the Irish poor to Ireland. As to the
collection of rates under the new poor-law, he would go
so far as to dread that all the horrors of insurrection
would occur when the collection of these rates was sought
to be enforced by the military power of England. The
rent for the week was £B9.
THE IRISH LOANS.—We find from the Cork Examiner
of Monday that Killarney, Macroom, and several other
unions of the south of Ireland have been for some time
paying off, whilst several have already discharged, in
weekly instalments, their proportion of the government
loan. At a large meeting of the electoral division of Rath-
cortnac, the Marquis of Waterford who was in the chair
said that he would pay the portion of both landlord and
tenant on his property of nine townlands in that division,
and the tenants might pay him their portion when they
found it convenient to come in with their rents. Edward
Roberts, Esq., said that he would do the same, as did also
Thomas Nugent, Esq., and one or two other gentlemen.
This is a glorious example for the other landlords of Ire-
land.

SLIGO.—In the neighbourhood of- this town, reaping
has been in extensive operation throughout the week ;
numerous hands, men, boys, and women, many of whom
had been previously unemployed, were engaged in the
good work ; the crops which were sufficiently ripe have
been timely cut and secured against any casualty from
change of weather. Monday and Tuesday were parti-
cularly favourable in this respect ; a finer day than Tues-
day last for harvest work could not be desired, and a
vast deal of grain fell under the sickle; on Wednesday,
there were occasional showers of rain, with boisterous
wind, but the labour of the agriculturist was not retarded.
The crops in this immediate vicinity are represented to be
in prime condition, wheat, oats, and barley being sound
and largely productive.—Sligo Journal.
THE ANTI-RENT MOVEMENT.—The "repudiation" of
rents continues to manifest itself in the southern counties
of Ireland, and is sure to spread. The King's County
Chronicle says, that, in Tipperary, a conspiracy has been
entered into to deprive the landlords of their rights. In
several instances formidable bodies of the peasantry assem-
ble by night armed with deadly weapons, reap and carry
off large quantities of corn. In one instance, at Lower
Ormond, 50 acres of grain crop were cut down, and the
greater portion of it carried away. The object of the law-
less gang was to evade its seizure for two-and-a-half years
rent. Tenants are afraid of settling, and landlords are
merely seeking for a portion of the arrears due. Turning
to the north, the Belfast Vindicator bolds out but slender

hope of matters being better in that quarter.
AN HONEST JOURNALIST.—There is one paper in Ire-
land honest and bold enough to state the facts as they
really are, with respect to the much agitated question of
the treatment of the Irish paupers by this country, as
will be seen from the following article, which we take
from the Cork Constitution of Thursday last :—" A great
outcry has been raised by the Dublin and provincial
papers about the death of a boy named Duignan, de-
spatched before convalescence by the parochial authorities
from the fever hospital of the Rochdale union, and who
died on board the vessel employed to carry him and other
Irish paupers to Dublin. A second person, name un-
known, died on the same occasion, from exposure to cold
and wet, and the two deaths have been made the subject
of some angry animadversions on English inhumanity.
But do the writers forget that there is such a thing as
Irish inhumanity ?—that, in fact, Irishmen were first in

the transgression '?—that whole cargoes of unfortunate
fever-stricken paupers were shipped for Liverpool and
Bristol ? Do they forget that this continued for weeks
together, and that, in reply to the remonstrances of these
places, the response of the repeal journals, and of jour-
nals, too, that were not repealers, was, ' You shall get
more of them ' ? Do they forget that they boasted that
paupers should be ' passed over in thousands' until Eng-
land was compelled to adopt their own recommendation
respecting the mode of providing for them at home, and
that they were passed over regardless of the consequences
to those to whom they were so unjustly shipped ? Do
they forget that fever was thus diffused among communi-
ties previously free, and that hundreds of fathers and
mothers and children died of deaths contracted from the
pestilence transferred from our shore to theirs ? What
was there more natural than that they should at last have
endeavoured to protect themselves by a quarantine, or
that they should now endeavour to rid themselves of the
burden improperly imposed on their rates ? and if, in do-
ing so, casualties occur and paupers die, or if there be a
lack of proper provision for their comfort, is it for jour-
nalists who acted as we have described, and never breathed
a syllable of censure except when they thought they had
an opportunity of making the ' exports ' a charge against
landlords—is it for them to ' cast the first stone '? and
are they to raise an outcry about Iwo deaths when the
measure which they commended and counselled was the
cause of thousands 1"

COURT AND FASHION.
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We have the best authority for stating that her Ma-
jesty intends to return from her tour in the Highlands by
the sate route that the royal squadron took on the way
to Scotland. Should the weather, however, prove at all
unfavourable for a sea voyage, the Queen will land at
Fleetwood, and proceed, in as private a manner as possi-
ble, direct by railway, to London.
The weather at Ardverekie has not been very favourable
of late, and, consequently, her Majesty and the court have
been confined to the Lodge. They do not, however, ap-
pear to have been without amusements within doors. Her
Majesty and the court return from Scotland this week.

The Duchess of Kent arrived at Frogmore Lodge from
the Continent on Wednesday.
The Queen Dowager arrived at Bushy Park on Tues-
day, from the Isle of Wight.
Prince Waldemar of Prussia left London on Thursdsy,
on his return to Germany.
Several letters addressed to her Majesty from Osborne
have been opened on their way to Scotland, and a strict
investigation is going on as to who has been prying into
royal secrets. -
Sir Robert Peel has returned to Drayton Manor, Staf-
fordshire, from visiting in the north. Lady Peel and
Miss Peel have also returned to the family seat from a
visit to Mrs. H. Baring at Cromer Hall, Norfolk.
The Duchess of Hamilton has purchased the beautiful
tower and land, the property of the late Mr. Beckford, and
presented it as a cemetery to Walcot parish. The extent
of land, with two acres added, by Major Blathwayt, will
be about five acres.
The Infante Don Juan left London on Tuesday for
Harnburgh. His_ Royal Highness will go to Marienbad,
where he is to meet his august consort. The Conde de
Montemolin accompanied his Royal Highness on board
the steamer, until the moment the vessel got under
weigh, when the two princes took an affectionate leave of
each other, expressing a hope that Divine Providence
might so ordain it that their next meeting should take
place speedily and under more prosperous circumstances.
GENERAL ESPARTERO.—The Duke of Victory has at
length determined on quitting England for the continent.
The gallant duke has taken preliminary measures to break
up his establishment at Abbey Lodge, Regent's Park, and
has made arrangements to leave for Brussels on or about
the. 28th inst., accompanied by the Duchess of Victory
and Mdlle. Espartero. his niece. It is four years since
General Espartero, with General Van Halen and fifteen
companions in exile, arrived in England ; and we are as-
sured that the distinguished general leaves London enter-
taining the liveliest recollections of the sympathy he has
experienced from a large and influential circle of friends
in this country.
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CHRISTENING IN EXETER HALL.—Last Sunday morn-
ing, the infant son of the Earl and Countess of Ducie
was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Cumming, in the large
room, Exeter-hall. The noble lord with his countess
stood up before the vast auditory which overflows Exeter-
hall every Sunday, and the minister put to him the vow
and obligations that belong to this sacrament. Lord
Ducie then presented his child in his arms at the baptis-
mal font, according to the usage of the Established
Church of. Scotland, and the minister poured water on its
brow after the usual manner. The severe simplicity of
the ceremony gave it, in the circumstances, an impressive
character.

A PRINCE TRAVELLING IN A CART.—The Prince Wal-
demar of Prussia recently paid a visit to Earl Fitzwilliam
at Wentworth House, Yorkshire, and on arrival at the
Wortley station, found that he could not obtain post
horses to attach to his travelling carriage ; and the officials
at the station, not knowing the rank of the passengers,
said that the only means of conveyance available was a
spring cart belonging to a neighbouring farmer. His
royal highness and suite availed themselves of this vehicle,
in which they arrived safely at Wentworth House. The
adventure did not end here. A carriage and four, with
out-riders, had been despatched to meet his royal high-
ness, who was not expected to arrive by so early a train as
that by which he came. The two vehicles passed each
other on the road without any recognition taking place, no
one in his royal highness's suite knowing the carriage of
Earl Fitzwilliam, and his lordship's servants not expect-
ing to meet a prince and his suite travelling in a farmer's
market-cart.
The celebration of the coming to age of the Hon. Ed-
ward Henry Stanley, eldest son of -Lord Stanley, and
grandson of the Earl of Derby, who attained his majority
on the 21st July last, will take place during the present
month, at Knowsley. We believe, that on Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 21st and 22d instant, grand dinner par-
ties will be given to a large number of guests assembled at
Knowsley-hall, to whom invitations have been dispatched
through the surrounding neighbourhood. The morning
of Tuesday will, we hear, be enlivened by a cricket match,
appointed to come off on that day • and the morning of
Wednesday will be occupied by a feast to be given to all
the labourers in the employment of the noble earl. On
Thursday, a grand dress ball will be given to members of
all the principal families in every part of this extensive
county (including many, of course, residing in and near
this town,) to whom, and to many in Cheshire, also, in-
vitations have been sent. For this entertainment a very
handsome and spacious temporary room has been built
and decorated. On Friday, a very large number of his
lordship's tenants, residing within reach of Knowsley,
will meet at a dinner, at which, it is rumoured, the Earl
of Derby will himself preside, and at which many of his
family will attend. In the evening a display of fireworks
will take place, for the amusement of the wives and fami-
lies of the numerous tenants ; and the day, as well as the
festivities of the week, will close with a ball on a large
scale, to be given to the tenant's and others coanect,cd with
domain.
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