The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

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IRE LAND.

The Quakers of Dublin have subscribed £2OOO for the
suffering Irish poor.
Mr, Thomas Hackett, the recently appointed magis-
trate for Kilkenny, is a pawnbroker. and yet there is an
objection to an M.D. or distiller !
The barque Thetis, from New Orleans, arrived at Bel-
fast on Tuesday with beef and Indian corn. She had met
with very bad weather, and was obliged to throw between
300 and 400 sacks of corn overboard.
The wife of a poor peasant at Castleharrison, Cork, has
been safely delivered of a female child having three heads,
perfectly formed, and on the left hand, which was more
than double the size of the right, six fingers. The child
doing well.
The Nation endorses the indictment of the Mail.
Repeal is sold I and the " consideration" goes to the ac-
count of Mr. O'Connell. In its last number, the organ
of " Young Ireland" deplores " the decline and fall" of a
man and a party to which it once looked for the regenera-
tion of the country.
The Marquis of Londonderry has published a letter to
his Irish agent, in which he states, that not only does he
not intend to make any reduction in rents, but that he dis-
approves and objects to others doing so. It is only fair
to the Noble Marquis to state, that his lands are let at
moderate rents, and that his tenantry, as a body, are the
most respectable, and in point of circumstances, perhaps
the wealthiest in Ireland.
A number of noblemen, including Lord Roden, Earl of
Shannon, Earl Enniskillen, have retired from the Royal
Irish Agricultural Society, in consequence of a resolution
excluding po'itical matters from discussion having been
lately rescinded. The resolution was rescinded by the
O'Connell party to open the door to an agitation for a re-
peal of the union. At a meeting on the 12th inst., how-
ever, a strong effort will be made to restore the rule in

question.
The peasantry of the south of Ireland are purchasing
arms and ammunition openly, eagerly, and to an extent
almost inconceivable. In Enniskillen the demand is so
great that the shopkeepers have c,,mmenced the traffic,
and are unable to keep pace with the call upon them, and
even the manufacturers in Birmingham cannot supply
their Irish customers ; while in the town of Virginia, in
Cavan, an immense quantity of fire-arms were sold by
public auction on the fair day.
AFFECTING SCENE.—Our reporter, writing from
Clonakilty on Wednesday, says •—" 1 was never so deeply
moved as to-day. Going to the Court-house I met two
butts, on each of which were two coffins, containing the
remains of four of the unfortunate crew of the Jessy Tor-
rens ; one of the coffins being short for the body, the foot
board gave way and the legs protruded. The only persons
accompanying them to the grave were the two carmen.
There were nine bodies washed ashore. The body of the
captain's wife has not yet been found."—Cork Conslitut.
On Friday week, the Sealark was wrecked on the coast
of Ballybunnion, Limerick, and all her crew, consisting
of six hands, were lost. The vessel was capsized and
driven on shore near where the Senator was stranded.
On the tide receding, she was found bottom upwards, and
the peasantry broke into and plundered her, in a most
disgraceful manner. Only one of the crew was found in
her—a boy named William O'Brien. lie was quite dead
when discovered. The Sealark belonged to Mr. Richard
Russell, of Limerick, and was conveying a cargo of flour,
meal, and bran, from Askeaton to Tralee.
STARVATION.—Read—read the evidence on the in-
quests at Skibbereen. We were about to quote, but we
protest we have not heart for it. Read it, however. It must
horrify, but it may also humanise. But what a country
do we live in, and what men are they who call themselves
our rulers! Three human beings—husbands and fathers
—lying down to die, with a fortnight's wages due to them,
and a government store " groaning " under the weight of
corn that ought to have been their food ! But " political
economy " forbade. And two others are now reported
to have sunk through famine! How long are these things
to continue?—Cork Constitution.

ORANGEism.—A meeting of the representatives of va-
rious counties in Ireland, was held last week in the
Rotunda, Dublin, when about one hundred of the most
influential members of the Orange institution formed
themselves into a grand lodge, which is designated "The
Grand Orange Lodge of Great Britain and Ireland. The
sittings of the body occupied three days, and the most
perfect harmony characterised the whole meeting. The
Grand Lodge of Ireland embraces amongst its members
men who have never flinched from the discharge of their
duty. The next meeting of the Grand Lodge will be held
in Belfast, in May.—Armagh Guardian.
AWFUL DEATHS IN SLIGO.—Extract of a letter from
Sligo, dated Saturday, 21st November :—" Three more
awfully sudden deaths occurred in Sligo yesterday. Mrs.
Wynne (the collector's lady) was dressing in her room
yesterday morning for church ; she pulled the bell, and
when the servant went into her room, Mrs. Wynne said,
' Oh, my head!' and dropped dead on the floor. Three
physicians were in attendance as quickly as possible, but
their exertions proved unavailing. Mrs. Hudson (a ship-
broker's wife at the quays) was found dead in her bed

yesterday morning, and a Mrs. Ormsby Hudson dropped
dead at her ball-door last night. Her husband is the per-
son who keeps the Repeal reading-room."
OUTRAGES.—On Saturday week an attack was made on
the house of Mr. Hackett, near Clonfert, by no less than
fourteen men ; a servant was mortally wounded, and the
house plundered of fire-arms. In Tipperary the house of
A. G. Richardson, Esq., was attacked, and that gentle-
man had a narrow escape of being murdered, the shot
having passed over his head, and shattered the window of
the room in which he then was. In addition to those,
we have the usual staple outrages of highway robberies,
plundering of flour, assaults ; and in one instance at
Westport, an assemblage of sixty persons, many of them
armed, deliberately levelled a pound, and presented their
guns at the pound keeper for daring to take in cattle dis-
trained for rent.

DUBLIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—The annual elec-
tion for a town councillor for each of the fifteen wards in
Dublin, was held on Wednesday. The only remarkable
feature in the day's proceedings was, the rejection of Mr.
O'Connell's candidates. Mr. Barlow, who was denounced
by the Liberator as a Young Irelander, was returned for
the College ward, by a majority of 108 to 72. His oppo-
nent, Mr. Kilch, has published an address, in which he
attributes his defeat, and that of the professors of moral
force, to a combination of the Young Ireland party with
" the rampart Tories of the ward." Mr. Andrew Rus-
sell Stritch, also fortified by the recommendation of the
Liberator, was beaten by a Conservative, Mr. Walker, in
St. George's ward. Mr. Arabin and all the others were
returned without opposition.

APATHY OF REi,iAneßs.—The repeal rent has dwind-
led this week to so low a figure as £5418+. Bd. It is absurd
to ascribe this steady progression downwards wholly to the
pressure of famine. When nearly two millions of the
ordinary contributors to the repeal fund are now in con-

stant employment, at the rate of from six to nine shillings
a week, it is not to believed that were confidence unshaken,
and hope unabated, a fair average contribution might not
be levied off the country. The class whose payments
chiefly supported the repeal finances was the very hum-
blest. The " copper" contributions were the strength of
the rent, and this support has lately disappeared; and
that, too, at the very time when the wages of labour, from
which it was drawn, have risen to nearly treble their or-
dinary average.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The regular meeting of this
body was held on Monday in the Conciliation Hall. There

was a most numerous attendance in every part of
the building. After a little preliminary business, Mr.
O'Connell said he was prepared to bring up his report
upon the disunion existing amongst Repealers, and in
doing so, wished to say that no man was more anxious

than he was that the friends of Ireland should be joined
hand in hand to restore to her her parliament; but he
believed it was impossible, for it would be seen by the
report he was about reading that the question between
the Old and 1 oung Ireland parties was, in point of fact,
should the Association adopt the doctrine of " physical
force" or not?—(cheers.). The learned gentleman then
proceeded to read the report, which was of great length,
and by no means interesting, and set forth the various
points at issue between the Old and Young Ireland par-
ties. Mr. O'Connell did not at all allude to the exhausted
state of the treasury. The rent was announced as
£54 18s. 9d.