The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The erection of the new Queen's College for Galway
will be proceeded with early in September.
At the Tullamore sessions, four persons, for being prin-
cipals in a cock fight, were tined 1:5 each, with costs, or,
in failure of payment, to fourteen days' imprisonment,
with hard labour.

The Lord Chancellor of Ireland (Brady) has restored
to the commission of the peace about twenty gentlemen
who were superseded some little iime since, for their at-
tendance at repeal meetings. Amongst the number is
Lord French.

THE POTATO ROT. Gauss SUPERSTITION. We
learn from correspondents that a friar, or degraded Roman
Catholic clergyman, near Ballybay, is trading upon the
distresses of the people by delivering to them in bottles a
pretended cure for the potato disease. The friar makes
no direct charge for the cure, but his servant is paid two-
pence for filling each bottle, and we understand that per-
sons have travelled upwards of twenty miles for the cure.
—Northern Standard.

DREADFUL MURDER.—On Sunday week, as a man,
named Patrick Ryan, was returning from the chapel of
Holyford, Tipperary, he was followed by two men, and
brutally stoned to death within a quarter of a mile of the
chapel. Although there were hundreds proceeding from
prayers at the time. shocking to say, no effort was made
to arrest the assassins, or since, has there been any incli-
nation evinced by the people of the neighbourhood. to
give any information that might lead to their detection.
In May, 1843, Mr. O'Connell was removed from the
Commission of the peace for the county of Kerry, on ac-
count of his conduct with relation to political meetings
and demonstrations. On Saturday last, the Secretary to
the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, by order of his lordship,
addressed a letter to Mi. O'Connell, stating that if it
should be Mr. O'Connell's wish to resume the office of a
magistrate, he the Lord Chancellor) was prepared to
give the necessary directions for his being replaced in the
commission. Air. O'Connell has "accepted the offer
with respectful gratitude."
THREATENING NOTICE.—The following notice was
posted upon the chapel in Castlebar on Sunday morning
week, where it remained until a late hour in the day,
when it was taken down by the police :—" Notice.—As
Providence has been pleased to prevent the growth of the
potatoe crop, and that famine is the speculation that may
be expected I—am a friend to Ireland and the pub!ick in
Jener.l I now call the attention of the well minded and
these wishing to keep the poor from starvation not to pay
Rent to any Landlord until we see our friends and the
poor free from starvation this is a Caution I now give
you and I hope you will attend to it."

DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD.—The tremendous torrents of
rain which fell on Monday and Tuesday, in the county of
Limerick, have caused an immense amount of damage.
The rivers Punchbowl and Bleach have overflown, and
caused great ravages Many farms are flooded to the
depth of six or seven feet, and the country for several
miles round is said to be inundated. It seems that most
of the flood is on the lands of the Marquis of Conyngham.
In the county of Clare the devastation committed is very
great, and in some parts it was with great difficulty the
public conveyances could make a passage. In the King's
County, also, the rain has been very he:svy, the rivers are
greatly swollen, and much damage has been done.

MAYNOOTB.—The report of the late visitation of May-
nooth College, presented to parliament by her Majesty,
held under the amended act of last session, is signed by
the Duke of Leinster, Lords Rose and Lincoln, Mr.
Pigott, Archbishops Crolly and Murray. The number of
clerical students is increased from 428 to 522, and the
course of study is prolonged to eight years ! A Professor-
ship of History is established in the college. Of the
candidates for admission this year, 137 were received, 131
excluded. Upwards of 200 students, hitherto annually
educated at their own expense, are now provided for by
the additionaiState grant. There are twenty professors
on the establi ment, whose salaries have been more than
doubled.

THE TWELFTH OF .AUGUST.—Wednesday, the anni-
versary of the relief of Derry, was ushered i❑ by a dis-
charge of artillery, and at six in the morning three com-
memorative shots were fired from Walker's Testimonial
as a signal that the customary proceedings were about to
commence. Flags were then hoisted on the Cathedral
and the Testimonial, and the flag of the Hon. the Irish
Soci ty waved gracefully on the West Bastion. At seven
o'clock the walls were thronged with the apprentice boys
and others anxious to participate in the procedings. Nine
guns were then arranged in order at the testimonial, when
three shots from each gun were fired, and nine more at
the different bastions along the walls, while at intervals
the joy bells rang forth merry peals. At half-past ten
o'clock, the clubs again assembled at their rooms, and
having formed themselves into a procession, marched to
the Cathedral, where a highly appropriate sermon was
preached by the Rev. John Kincaid, from the 12-1 Psalm.
The clubs again formed, and marched from the Cathedral
to the Linen-hall, in which the guns used on these occa-
sions are deposited, and from which they were once more
conveyed to the city walls. Three rounds were then dis-
charged, amid loud cheers, at Walker's Testimonial, after
perambulating the walls. The crowds assembled during
the day were_ immense, but the utmost order and regu-

larity prevailed. In the evening the fl ,gs were taken
down, and three concluding shots were fired, after which
the apprentice boys retired to their rooms, where the re-
mainder of the evening was spent in social festivities.—
Derry Sentinel.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION, DUBLIN, MONDAY.—At the
meeting of the Association, on Monday, a letter was read
from Mr. Smith O'Brien, in which, speAing of the
Nation newspaper, against which the O'Connells have
waged a war of extermination, he says—" I regret that it
has been thought necessary to subject to unfriendly and
ungenerous criticism every expression which has appeared
in the columns of this newspaper. If every article written
in the repeal journals of Ireland—if every speech made by
the advocates of repeal, in times of great political excite-
ment, were in like manner to be subjected to sinister in-
terpretation, who amongst us would escape censure."
This is a home thrust at Mr. O'Connell's war-speeches.
Mr. O'Brien thus speaks of physic-+l force:—" I firmly
repudiate the imputation that I am desirous to encourage
the people of Ireland to struggle for their legislative free-
dom by an appeal to arms ; but, on the other hand, I will
not consent to pamper the pride of England, or to en-
courage her oppression of my country, by telling her that
the Irish people have for ever forsworn the use of the