The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

IRBLAND.
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All the, property of the Guardians of Castlebar Union
is to be sold by the Sheriff* on Thursday.
In one of the streets of Cork there are fourteen shops
closed, and in the main street of Clonmel there are no
fewer than twenty-two shops unoccupied.
The Marchioness of Waterford is building at her own
cost, a new church at Guilcoh, in the county of Water-
ford.

A series of riots took place in Derry on Monday, arising
from the police attempting to take into custody some
drunken persons. The constables were pelted with stones
but ultimately secured their assailants.
Foreign corn is arriving in large quantities at Cork.
On Thursday, ten vessels arrived with maize, two with
wheat, and one with beans; on Friday, four vessels with
maize, and two with wheat.
Haymaking is progressing vigorously throughout Ire-
land, and the general aspect of the grain crops is such as
to promise a prolific harvest. New potatoes, well grown
and sound, have been last week selling by retail dealers in
Belfast at 2d. per lb.
From the 12th February till the Bth June, a period of
seventeen weeks, there left Londonderry for the United
States twenty-seven vessels, containing 4,662 souls ; for
Canada, two vessels, with 238; New Brunswick, three
vessels, and 445—making a total of 5,435.
Two brothers have been committed for trial at the Gal-
way quarter sessions, on a charge of having killed a neigh-
bour's ass, and eaten part of the carcase, and another
man has been committed for trial at Tuam, on a similar
charge, which he so far admitted as to acknowledge that
he had eaten part of the ass.
The Pope has sent Dr. M`Hale 20,000 francs towards
the relief of the starving people of the west. The post
which conveyed this respectable sum—nearly £Boo—was
met by another bound for Gaeta with £345, contributed
by the people of the diocese of Tuam to the exchequer of
his holiness. So that one good turn deserves another.
AN ANTIQUE MESKIN OF BUTTER.—A small cask, of
what was once butter, has been dug up out of a bog at
Leckpatrick, Londonderry. It presents a curious appear-
ance, not unlike that of a mass of white greasy limestone,
and has been buried, probably, two centuries, as the vessel
containing it belongs evidently to a period of some anti-
quity. The parties who first discovered this singular
treasure broke in two the vessel containing it, so that no
Bates are discernable by which the exact age of the deposit
can be ascertained. . _

nISKERS.—At the Police-court, Belfast, on Monday,
a thimblerigging " swell" was brought up, and after a
caution was told he must leave the town. The prisoner
thanked the court, but, before going, begged leave to ask
a question—" Was it fair for the turnkey to shave off
nearly the whole of my whiskers ?"—at the same time
exhibiting what remained, much to the amusement of
the spectators—" Was it fair for him to take them off?"
Magistrate—You have as much still left as I have.—
(Laughter.) Prisoner—Ay, but I'm no way attractive
without them.—(Roars of lLughtcr.) Mr. Seeds (soli-
citor.) Why, a barber would have charged you sixpence
for what the turnkey has done for you for nothing.—Pri-
soner. I would not have employed a barber to disfigure
me in this way, (again exhibiting the remains of his whis-
kers ;) but that cursed turnketv has spoiled my face.—
(Great laughter.) T.he pris.auex wfs then removed.