The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. O'Connell's remains are to be interred in Glasnevin
Cemetery, Dublin.
The judges have resolved upon postponing the summer
assizes for Ireland, already struck, to October next, in
consequence of the prevalence of -typhus fever through
the country. This measure will act prejudicially against
the innocent prisoners.
The inhabitants of " Stony Batter," near Dublin, have
applied to the street commissioners, for leave to change
the name of that locality to " Palmerston Place," as the
value of their property has been lessened by the oddness
of the former designation.
ATROCIOUS MURDERS.—Two women, one named Crow-
ley, and the other not known, who were taking home some
meal to supply their families, were murdered last week, in
West Skull, on account of the provisions they carried, and
their bodies were thrown into a lake.
TUN: LATE Mn. O'CONNELL'S WILL.—It is said that
the whole of the landed property in Kerry, including
Darrynane Abbey and the town residence in lierrion-
square, have been bequeathed to Mr. Maurice O'Connell,
M.P. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., is left £5,000, being
part of a policy of insurance effected upon the life of his
father. The name of Mr. Morgan O'Connell, who is
already handsomely provided for in the Prerogative Court,
is not, it is added, mentioned iu the will. These are the
only items that have transpired ; but, as it is generally
believed that there will be a tolerably heavy draw upon
the funds of the insurance offices, consequent upon the
death of Mr. O'Connell, it may be inferred that provision
has been made for the other members of his numerous
family.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—A special committee meeting
of the members of this body was held on Monday, at half-
past three o'clock, in the Corn Exchange-rooms. adjoining
Conciliation-hall,Mr. John O'Connell, M.P. tor Kilkenny,
in the chair, " for the purpose of taking measures to for-
ward the repeal cause." The minutes of the previous
meeting having been read, Mr. O'Connell addressed the
meeting. Ile said he thought they were called upon to
lose no time in considering what should be done to place
the repeal movement on a firmer basis, and not to let, it
die with the man who had struggled for -it dining a long
life. In order that no time should be lost, he had, at. the
sacrifice of feeling, attended there that day to lay before
the committee certain resolutions, which he was sure would
be adopted by the committee.
The news from Ireland mentions the appearance of the
potato disease in Carlow and Tipperary as unquestionable.
The disease has manifested itself in the stalk near the
tuber. All accounts agree in describing the grain crops
as affording promise of great abundance. Experienced
farmers, judging from present appearances, are of opinion
that the harvest will be somewhat later than the average
period. The latest accounts from the country are in the
main gloomy and disheartening. It is only now, at the
eleventh hour, that many relief committees are beginning
to take any steps at all in the way of sanitary precautions.
In some districts, especially where the relief committees
are inactive, there is a decided increase of destitution and
mortality. In some parts of
,Queen's County and Cork,
the landlords and farmers have cheerfully agreed to a
voluntary rating, for a limited period, in the hope that
the exertions about to be made for the extension of em-
ployment under the Drainage Act, and other modes of
productive labour, might enable the district ultimately to
dispense with any rating, voluntary or compulsory.—
[The Cork Constitution, however, declares the potato
crop to be in a healthy state, and gays that there is a good
deal of tzickery employed to produce the impression that
the crop is gone, in order to keep up the price of grain.]