The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A MILD AUTUMN.—There are apple trees in blossom
at the present moment in more than one part of the county
of Waterford.

ASSAULT.—The Freeman's Journal of Wednesday con-
tains an account of a murderous assault on a policeman at
Kingstown. The assailant is not known. The occurrence
took place at a fight where many were engaged.
At Cork, and other places, the Repealers have publicly
resolved to disregard the ban on the Nation, notwith-
standing that the said ban was a peace-offering originated
in Conciliation-hall.

Mr. Robert La Touche, of Harristown, county Kil-
dare, dropped down dead besides his friends, whilst stand-
ing on the upper lead roof of the stand house at the races
at the Curragh of Kildare. A moment before he was con-
versing in the full enjoyment of good spirits.
SPREAD OF INTEMPERANCE.—The Kilkenny Mo-
derator says that on Sunday week the streets of that town
were disgraced by drunkenness and riot. On Sunday and
Monday mornings an unusually large number of persons
were fined by the mayor for being drunk and disorderly
IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND.—Among the improve-
ments on the waste lands of Ireland contemplated at the
present moment is one to enclose a portion of the coast at
Dungarvan, now waste ; it is 1,500 acres extent, and the
cost of the enclosure would be £17,000.

On Sunday week, in St. ;Audoen's Church, Dublin,
ten persons publicly renounced the errors of popery.
Three of the converts were educated for the Romish
priesthood, and another had been a priest's clerk for
thirty years, and is deeply versed in the mysteries of the
profession he has left.
IRISH WHISKEY.—The distilleries of Cork are in full
activity, and their stocks are going off at a rise of 4d. per
gallon. This increase is not caused by any dread of a pro-
hibition of distillation from grain, but from an increased
consumption, it is supposed in consequence of the many
thousands earning large money wages on railways.
The Earl of Enniskillen has established a depot of In-
dian meal at Florencecourt, Fermanagh, and two men are
daily employed selling it, at prime cost, to the tenantry
and dependents in the neighbourhood of his Lordship's
residence, where the potato crop has been totally de-
stroyed.

Pun Lac WORKS.—There are no less than 34 proclama-
tions under the late act, in the Dublin Gazette of Thurs-
day, for barony meetings in the counties of Clare, Cork,
Kerry, Tipperary, Waterford, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo,
Roscommon, Sligo, Donegal, King's County, Longford,
Meath, and Limerick. Every day applications for relief
are received at the castle.

DEATH FROM BOXING.—On Sunday, August 30, two
soldiers belonging to the 95th Regiment, stationed in
Tralee, the one a corporal, the other a private, named
Hennessy, commenced, at first in play, a boxing-match
As generally happens in such cases, the play came to
earnest, when the corporal hit Hennessey with his clenched
hand, and killed him on the spot.
Colonel Blacker and Mr. Archdall, the "Orange" ma-
gistrates, have been restored to the commission by the
present Lord Chancellor of Ireland. It is said that Mr.
Watson and Mr. Cleland, (the latter of whom resigned in
consequence of the dismissal of the former,) have received
an official intimation that the Chancellor was disposed to
reinstate them, but both respectfully declined the honour.
INDIAN CORN GROWN IN IRELAND.—We have seen a
splendid plant of Indian corn, which was grown by R. T.
Usher, Esq., of Wai renpoint, in the open air, i❑ Doctor
Dickson's garden. A small quantity of seed, which bad
been picked up in the hold of one of the steam vessels,
was sown, as an experiment, in the month of May last;
the rapidity of its growth was such as to exceed expecta-

lon, and

the produce

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plant in question is six feet high, and at the base four and
a half inches in circumference. It has six heads or "cobs,"
as they are termed, full of grain—each " cob" being about
eleven inches in length, and five inches in circumference.
The plant has been forwarded for exhibition at the ensuing
show of the Belfast Horticultural Society. Newry
Telegraph.