The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court remains at Buckingham Palace. On Thurs-
day her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the Queen
Dowager, whose health requires that she shall pass the
autumn and winter at Malta, and in the evening honoured'
the performances at her Majesty's Theatre with their
presence.

The Queen gave a state ball (the second this season) on
Friday evening, at Buckingham Palace. The company
present at the reception exceeded in number those attend-
ng any former ball given by her Majesty, the invitations
having been extended to the unprecedented number of
nearly 2000. The guests comprised the Royal Family,
the foreign princes in this country, the whole of the di-
plomatic corps, foreigners of distinction on a visit to Eng-
land, the ladies and gentlemen of the household of the
Queen and Prince Albert, of the Queen Dowager, and of
the different members of the Royal Family, the ministers
of state and the principal members of the administration
and their ladies, and a very numerous party of the nobility
and gentry.

The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladics
Egerton are expected to leave Belgrave Square at the
close of the ensuing week for Worsley Hall.
On Tuesday the Duke of Devonshire gave a grand fete
champetre at Chiswick, in honour of the Grand Duke
Constantine of Russia. It was unfortunately a very severe
summer's day, and abounded in wind, rain, and hail. The
company was numerous notwithstanding.

IRELAND.

Tom Steele has finally retired from the Repeal Asso-
ciation, in consequence of O'Connell's death. _ _ _

The Londonderry Standard states that five of the Pres-
byterian clergy have fallen victims to fever within the last
few days.

The Irish judges are reconsidering the propriety of post-
poning the assizes. It is probable that after all there will
be no postponement, notwithstanding the spread of fever.
According to the Londonderry Standard, no authenti-
cated case of potato disease has been discovered within a
circuit of many miles round that town.

APATHY OF THE IRISH PEOPLE RESPECTING O'CON-
NELL.—The Cork Constitution declares that the venders
of full and particular accounts of the death of the libera-
tor met with no attention from the market people, who
were busy looking over their own affairs.

IMPORTATION OF CORN INTO IRELAND.—A return
moved for by Mr. T. M. Gibson shows that the gross
total quantity of grain and meal landed in Ireland during
the ten weeks preceding the 22d of May last amounted to
1,298,074 quarters, of which 900,176 quarters came from
foreign countries and British possessions, and 397,898
quarters from Great Britain.
DEATHS FROM FEVER.—The following gentlemen have
died of typhus fever :—The Rev. Mr. Thackerberry, Wes-
leyan minister, and Mr. P. Dunnigan, merchant, of Sligo ;
Thomas Mahon, Esq., of Ennis ; the Rev. David L. Ca-
hill, Innoshannon ; the Rev. Timothy Newell, Oranmore ;
the Rev. David Nagle, Effin ; and the Rev. Mr. Touhy,
Dromin

GOOD NEWS.—The Royal Agricultural Society of Ire-
land held a meeting on Thursday, and aftcr reading a con-
siderable number of letters from all parts of Ireland, drew
up a report to the effect that there are no grounds for ap-
prehending a recurrence of the potato disease of the pre-
vious years. Out of seven hundred communications but
two went the length of saying the true disease had ap-
peared. The council reported accordingly. _

GRAND ORANGE LODGE OF IRELAND.—The Grand
Orange Lodge of Ireland, according to notice, held their
half-yearly meeting on Tuesday, the Ist of June, in the
Music-hall, Belfast. The meeting was most influential,
and numerous beyond expectation. In the absence of
Earl Enniskillen, G. M., the chair was taken by James
Watson, Esq., Brookhill. As the proceedings were
strictly private we can mention no more than that the late
Grand Lodge of Ulster is identified with that body, and
are one and the same, thus co Istituting a strong party,
ready and willing as of old to support the Queen and Pro-
testant Constitution against foreign and domestic foes.—
Armagh Guardian.
There was a meeting of the Repeal Association in Con-
ciliation-hall, yesterday week, Alderman Delahunty, of
Waterford, in the chair. Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P.,
eldest son of Mr. O'Connell, deceased, and Mr. John
O'Connell, were present. The most important business
transacted was the reading of several documents, being
addresses and resolutions from various bodies of the Roman
Catholic clergy, from several corporations, and other pub-
lic bodies, proclaiming adhesion to the political conduct
and teachings of the late Mr. O'Connell, and promising
that they would confide in his son, Mr. John O'Connell,
as the expounder of that conduct and policy. The funds
of the association have been placed in the guardianship of
trustees, that of Alderman M'Loghlin and Keshan. The
rant acknowledged was nearly £5O. The whole of the
committee appeared in deep mourning.
MR. O'CONNELL'S FUNERAL AND YOUNG IRELAND.
—lt was very currently rumoured, that it was the wish of
Mr. O'Connell's family that the Young Irelanders should
take no part as a body in the public funeral to be accorded
to their late father. Mr. Smith O'Brien, in order to test
the rumour, addressed a letter to Mr. John O'Connell, in
which he inquires " whether it is their (the family's) wish
that those who dissented from the policy adopted by the
Repeal Association during the last twelve months should
attend the funeral." The duty of replying was devolved
by Mr. John O'Connell upon his brother, Mr. Maurice
O'Connell, who replied that " the arrangements for the
funeral having been entrusted to the Glasnevin Cemetery
committee and the Rev. Dr. Miley, the family leaves it
entirely in their hands." Mr. O'Brien interpreted this
into an intimation that " he should not attend the fu-
neral ;" and it seems indeed pretty plainly to bear that
construction.

FEARFUL OUTRAGES.-Mr. and Mrs. Conyers, of
Castletawn-Conyers, in the county of Limerick—the
former having been the Chairman of the Relief Committee
of the district ; the latter, a lady untiring in her charitable
exertions to alleviate the distress of the people—while
walking from church on last Sunday, were fired at by a
ruffian, who discharged a heavily loaded blunderbuss from
within a few yards of them. Mr. Conyers, we learn,
escaped unhurt, but his lady was slightly wounded. Our
contemporary, the Limerick Chronicle, says no probable
cause for this attack can be assigned. However, some
three years ago a tenant was ejected from the estate of
Mr. Conyers, owing an arrear of rent of four or five years:
after a long course of vexatious litigation, the tenant was
put out of the land, and it was afterwards let to, we be-
lieve, a Roman Catholic clergyman. Whether the recent
attempt at assassination is traceable to this ejectment, we
are not able to say. In the same county ,a Mr. Fitzgerald
was attacked by three armed men, one of whom discharged
two shots at him; while in the King's County a most
daring attempt was made on the life of Mr. Lauder, of