The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The present amount of the military force in Ireland is
28,000 rank and file of all arms, with 21,682 enrolled pen-
sioners, staffs of militia, and recruiting parties of corps.
We believe this is larger than at any former period.
Miss Martin,.tbe heiress of the late anti-cruelty-to-
arrimals M.P., advertises in the Galway Vindicator that
no person is permitted to bunt or shoot on her lands in
Galway. all the mountains being poisoned.
THE LATE MR. O'CONNELL'S EFFECTS.—The furni-
ture of the late Mr. O'Connell, at llerrion-square, is
advertised to be sold by auction in the course of next
month. It is expected to realize a considerable amount
above the intrinsic value, as remembrances of the de-
parted agitator. The library is not mentioned.

-WHEAT FROM SEED THREE THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
—At Castletown on' the lands of J. 'Eastwood, Esq.,
within one mile of Dundalk, may now be seen a splendid
crop of mummy wheat, the seed of which was taken from
the mummy brought from Egypt, in which it was com-
puted to have lain about three thousand years.
MORE "TRIBUTE MONEY."—The Irish people will
never escape from the gathering begging hand of the
O'Connells :—A '• Monument Sunday" is to be fixed soon
after harvest, for the purpose of making a general collec-
tion in all the Roman Catholic chapels, for the purpose of
raising a monument to O'Connell. This, the people are
promised, is to be the final act of national gratitude.

REPORTED ELOPEMENT.—Notice of an 'action for libel
has been served on the proprietors of a Dublin paper for
the publication of an article, on Saturdaylast, to the effect
that the wife of a professional gentleman, said to be
pointed out, had eloped with an officer. There is no truth
in the report, if it apply to the parties supposed to be
referred to.

CURIOUS IMPORT INTO CORK.—On Sunday, 32 young
pigs arrived from England, by the. Sabrina steamer. Such
an importation to Ireland, at all times remarkable, until
the failure of the potato, for the growth of pigs, is one of
the strange occurrences of the day. Two of these pigs
were sold at 15s. each. Young pigs, when offered for
sale, realise very high prices.—cork Constitution.

TRUTH FOR ONCE.--:-It is seldom we hear such a senti-
ment as the following, from a Raman Catholic priest. It
was spoken at the meeting of the Irish Confederation on
Friday. " I would advise the people (said the Rev. Mr.
Kenyon), not to be led unthinkingly by the opinion of any
one—by priest, bishop, or layman. When a priest took
part in politics, he did so, not as a priest, but as a politi-
cian • and they should not mind the cant of Concilliation
Hall, which was—' It was a priest said it,—it ought to be re-
spected.' A priest was to be respected when he told the
truth." The sentiment was received with loud cheers by
a handful of people at the Music Hall. Dare we hone

that that feeble but honourable recognition of the inalien-
able right of private judgement will ever be responded to
by the public opinion of Ireland ?
DARING ACT OF PIRACY.—The subjoined letter gives
a more detailed account of a daring act of piracy off the
western coast of Ireland, than has previously found its
way into the London journals :—Westport,:Aug. 21.
On the evening of the 15th instant, about the hour of five
o'clock, as the schooner Royal Victoria, from Belfast, was
passing Eagle Island, on the Erris coast, she was boarded
by about thirty pirates, who commenced at once to smash
the batches, and in a most savage manner attacked the
captain, crew, and an officer and two marines belonging to
the Dasher steamer, who were on board at the time to
protect the cargo, flour and meal. the property of Messrs.
Pinkerton and Thompson, of this town. In defence of
his own life and that of the crew, the officer gave the word
" fire" when a man named Peter Lavelle was shot dead,
and his brother severely wounded, and three others taken
prisoners. On Thursday last, Captain French, of the
Dasher, arrived here, when informations were lodged
against the prisoners, who have been committed to the
county gaol. Mr. J. F. Bourke, coroner. and Mr. C.
Kenny held an inquest, and the jury unanimously returned
the following verdict :—" Justifiable homicide," adding,
" that they highly approved of the cool and steady man-
ner in which the officer, Mr. R. Stourges, acted on the
occasion." About 150 boats were pulling towards the
schOoner, but were kept off by the marines firing at them.
I regret to say that one of the four prisoners has escaped
out of the bridewell, and as yet lie is not taken.
HORRIBLE SCENE IN DUBLIN.—Mr. Curran gives the
following account of a visit be paid, in company with two
French gentlemen, to different parts of Dublin :—Near
the " temporary hospitals," which have been described as
so comparatively healthy and pleasant, he found " twelve
persons, men, women, and children, lying indiscrimately
along the pathway and the gutter, waiting to be admit-
ted," some stretched at full length, with their faces to the
sun, their mouths open, and " their black and parched
tongues, and encrusted teeth, visible even from a distance."
Inside was a small shed, roughly covered with boards,
but open in front, " like the sheds in farm yards for
covering dung and rubbish." He took it for a receptacle
of the cast-off rags of fever patients • but hearing heavy
groans underneath the heap filth, he found, to his indig-
nation and horror, thirty-five human beings heaped to-
gether indiscriminately, heads and feet intermingled, on a
wisp of straw. They called to him for water to quench
their thirst ; and on inquiry it appeared that they had lain
there for three days, without relief and without attend-
ance. Some were actually dying, and did die the night
after the visit ; all were afflicted with typhus.
mainder of Dr. Curran's letter sneculates on th

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of submitting any part of the popUlation to such horrori,
and censures the conduct of the government, which might
have adopted a better system of sanatory regulations and
precautions against the extension of disease.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting of this
body, on Monday, Mr. J. A. O'Neill, the defeated candi-
date for Kildare, presided, and spoke at considerable
length. Mr. J. T. Somers, M.P., attacked the Freeman's
Journal, charging it with supineness as to his own cans'
in Sligo, but was called • - Air. J. O'Co”

;o °nit
Mr.` Crean, the secretary, told the meeting how
drawn by Mr. W. H. Gregory, one of the candid