The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MR. DARGAN, the Irish railway-king, has declined an
invitation to a public entertainment from the town council
of Waterford, saying that his habits and course of life led
him to pursue his avocations of quiet industry, without
seeking or accepting honours.

THE " NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEX.—It is stated
to be the intention of Lord Clancarty to move in the
House of Lords, and Mr. G. A. Hamilton in the Com=
mons, for a committee of inquiry into the working of the
national system of education in Ireland,. with a view to
have such alterations made therein as will render it less
objectionable to Protestants.

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formed
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with
a view of raising subscriptions, " not exceeding £1" from
each contriktor, towards defraying the legal expenses
of the defence of Mr. J. Delmege. J.P., who is to be
prosecuted 1)y the crown at the ensuing Clare Assizes for
his share in the transaction at Sixnaile.bridge.

THE EARL OF RonEx.—The Rew lord-lieutenant hag
offered to restore the Earl of Roden and the Messrs. BeerS
to the commission of the peace, and has permitted Mr.
Kirwan, at Roscommon, to resume the execution of hiS
magisterial duties. This latter gentleman was visited
with the sentence of six months' suspension (of which a
large portion has already elapsed) for alleged deficiency irk
his duties during the late election for the county of Mayo.
Lord Roden, however, replied in such terms to the offer
made by the lord- lieutenant to restore him to the com-
mission of the peace that Lord St. Germans withdrew his
proposal. The terms of the vice-regal message were not
deemed satisfactory, as Lord Roden was not prepared co
admit that there had, at any time, been a necessity for hiS
suspension.

THE RIBBON CONSPIRACY.—The Westmeath Guard-
ian announces that the Ribbon organization is more
and dominions.
within
n o Cattle t
montht e
four
san-
guinary n!,
ex-
tensive and perfect that county than in any other
guinary murders have been perpetrated." As the inevit-
able result, " sevetal enterprising English and Scotch
}lousespo rtion
are o f the
destroyed,Q
farmers, who have recently settled in this connty, halal
determined upon quitting it immediately, and betaking
themselves to a land where there is some better security
for life and property than in this. They embarked their
capital in our soil, but Ribbonism has driven them frail
it; end in consequence of this the country will lose 0°
advantage of useful example, in an agricultural point of
"eens
view, and a vast source of employment will be destroyed.
THE Rev. T. D. GREGG.—On Thursday a soiree wag
given at the Rotunda, Dublin, to the Rev. Tresharil
Dames Gregg. by his Protestant friends, as a mark 0'
their appreciation of his services. There was a numerciis
attendance, and the banners with which the room wag
decorated were inscribed with the mottoes, " God save the
Queer.," "NoPoperv," " NoMavnooth Grant," "Church
Education," and " The Protestant Champion." The
chair was taken by Mr. G. W. Maunsell, T.C. Amon
the toasts were, "Tile glorious, pious, and imroorta_i
memory of William 111., the uncompromising fog
Popish tyranny and arbitrary power, and firm main%je
of the religion and liberties of our forefathers.'' -11,0
Madiai, and the other sufferers for the truth's.
throughout Christendom," &c.

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