The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The sum subscribed towards the Irish Relief Fund at
Bombay amounts to £9,3oo—upwards of £22,000 having
been collected throughout India.
Colonel Jones, chief commissioner of the Board of
Works, is now making a tour of the coast of Ireland, with
a view to the adoption of measures for improving the har-
bours and fishing stations. Parliament has made a grant
of £40,000 for this object.
By order of Government proceedings have been insti-
tuted against Mr. Wallnutt, mayor of Limerick, a repealer,
as one of the firm of Stein and Co., for having defrauded
the finance committee, by substituting a different descrip-
tion of Indian corn for that sent to their mill to be
ground.

THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CORK.—
Letters have reached Cork from Rome, in which it is
stated that the Very Rev. William Delany, 8.8. of Ban-
don, who stood second on the list, has been appointed
Bishop of Cork by the Court of Rome ; and that the
consecrating bulls will be received in a few days from this
date.— Cork Examiner.—[Father Mathew was first on
the list].

TUE busn PACKET STATIONS.—We have learned
that £30,000 bas been granted by government for Port-
patrick Harbour, and large steamers are about to be put
on that packet station. At the same time, we under-
stand by way of experiment, an additional mail is to be
carried by contract from Ardrossan to Belfast and Fleet-
wood, to carry, we presume, the north mails to Ireland
and England—the south mails continuing as formerly to
go by Portpatrick and by Holyhead. The new arrange-
ment is said to be a temporary one.—Wiytonshire Free
Press. _ _ _

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MR. O'CONNELL'S REMAINS.—The Dublin Evening
Post says: "The Oriental Steam-packet Company, through
their respected and public-spirited secretary, Mr. Hartley,
have made arrangements on the most liberal scale, for the
conveyance of the remains of Mr. O'Connell from Genoa
to Southampton, free of all charge. The steamer destined
convey the body of the illustrious deceased is expected at
Southampton about the 17th of July. Mr. Hartley has
undertaken to convey the body in one of his own vessels,
and solely at his own cost, from Southampton to Dublin or
Kingston, as the Dublin Cemetery committee may select,
and has given directions that the Queen steamer should
be suitably fitted up for this purpose. It is calculated that
the remains of Mr. O'Connell will arrive in this city about
the 20th of July."
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Generally, the accounts are
much less unfavourable as to the extent of fever and desti-
tution. Food is becoming plentiful and cheaper, and the
fine prospects of the harvest are giving confidence to all
classes. Even in Skibbereen there is a most decided im-
provement. The Rev. R. Boyle Townsend, in a letter
from that place, says—" Though the workhouse is as
crowded as ever, having at this instant eleven hundred in
it, that is, three hundred over its original intended num-
ber, there were but four deaths in the last week—a prodi-
gious change from over one hundred deaths in the same
space of time shortly ago. We have, to be sure, many
epidemics raging still, and much destitution of course, but
nothing above ordinary mortality, nor any want of food
in plenty allowed to exist, through the Lord's blessing."
In some districts, however, Sligo in particular, fever and
destitution still prevail to a lamentable extent.
THE WEATHER.—Summer has set in in right earnest,
not, as has been observed, "with its usual severity," but
with a brilliancy and warmth more resembling a tropical
than the humid, lukewarm, climate of the " Emerald
Isle;" and a continuance of such weather as we have had
for the last few days cannot but raise high hopes of the
advent of better times, by the realization of the prospect
of a harvest of more than average abundance. Nothing
can be more cheering than the accounts from all parts of
the kingdom—there is scarcely a drawback. The grain
crops are described as being seldom equalled, never ex-
celled, in appearances, while the turnip and other green
crops promise a yield which must nearly, if not altogether
counterbalance the loss by failure—supposing it complete
—of the potato. Prices of all kinds of provisions are

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money moved,
leartening as it I "That this meeting, considering the main objects of the
bill now before Parliament, to enable the Birmingham

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Mr. SHIEL'S PANEGYRIC ON O'CONNELL.—Mr. Sheil and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make certain
availed himself of the recent debate upon the Government alterations in the line of the Birmingham and Oxford
project for lending .C 1300,000 to certain Irish railways, to Junction Railway, and to purchase the Stratford-upon-
deliver a panegyric on O'Connell. The hon. member's Avon Canal Navigation, and for other purposes, to be
speech was in his usual style when he lavishes praise— consistent with the interests of the shareholders, desires
somewhat florid and tawdry, but at the same time cold to express its concurrence in the provisions of such bill,
and constrained. He appeared as if wishing to be only expecting those which confer power on the Great Western
decently civil; without any deep feeling of admiration for' Company to subscribe for, or to purchase and hold shares
his departed friend, or of veneration for his memory. Mr. in this company, under the alleged agreement, to the
M. J. O'Connell, who afterwards addressed the house, terms of which the shareholders in this company object,
took no notice of this posthumous tribute, and we suspect: and which enable the Great Western Railway Company
it will be very ungraciously received in Conciliation Hall. to raise capital for that purpose, and to vote in respect
The topic upon which Mr. Sheil expatiated most largely, thereof, of which provision, in the present state of the
was his own regret that O'Connell did not live to reach matter, the meeting cannot approve : and this meeting,
Rome ! Nothing could be more trite or superficial than understanding that certain shareholders have petitioned
the manner in which he handled this point would that the House of Lords against such bill, on standing orders,
he had lived to behold the seat of that ancient and per- respectfully request those shareholders not to proceed
petual faith in which he was an humble believer, and of further with such petition, provided the objectionable
which he was the proud and chivalrous champion—that provisions before referred to are withdrawn, and doth
he had lived to behold the eternal city, that he had knelt hereby express the desire of the shareholders that, sublect
at the altars of that temple, the noblest that was ever to the withdrawal of such provisions, the said bill should
raised by the hands of man, and worthy of the purposes, be allowed to proceed without further opposition in Par-
the high and holy ones, to which it is devoted—and that liament." Mr. Jones, of Liverpool, seconded the motion.
through the marble halls of the Vatican the venerable The chairman said every one present must be in favour
man, though with a feeble and tottering step, had found of such a motion; but if it were carried, it would not be
his way, amidst the array of sacerdotal pomps, and re- of the slightest weight. Whatever came from the Wham-
ceived the sanctifying salutation of the great pontifical cliffe order, required a period of three or four weeks. If
reformer who has ascended the chair of St. Peter amidst the petition were withdrawn, the committee might per-
the acclamations of the world. haps allow the bill to pass. Mr. Mozley enquired,
TRAGIC OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday week, a trooper "Will you withdraw the bill ?" to which the chairman
named Smith, of the 7th Hussars, attempted to shoot replied in the affirmative, provided the shareholders would
Sergeant-Major Trout, in the barracks at Ballinasloe. withdrawn their opposition to the other bill. Several of
On examination, the culprit endeavoured to prove that he the directors dissented, and the chairman declined to put
fired a blank cartridge ; but, in order to do this, it was of the resolution, on the ground that '` " "- -
course necessary that his pouch should contain the usual tioned in the notice calling the Inc
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