The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Friday night, the Free Church, Great Charles-street,
Dublin, was destroyed by fire. It is not known how the
fire originated, or whether the property was insured.
A committee of the Corporation of London has been
formed for the purpose of deciding on arrangements for
the purchase of some properties in Ireland, to be managed
on Sir Robert Peel's plan.
The potatoes throughout Ireland are generally looking
well, but the Dublin Herald notices the appearance in
some parts of the county of Cork of the peculiar black
spots which infallibly indicate the existence of disease.
ILLEGAL CLEARANCES.—Three men from Lettermullen
have been committed to the county gaol, charged upon a
coroner's warrant with having caused the death of Cathe-
rine Flaherty, by illegally levelling her house. We un-
derstand that instructions have been given by the law
advisers of the crown not to admit to bail in this case.—
Galway Vindicator.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a father, his
two sons and two daughters, with a relative, driven by
hunger, went out on the rocks on the shore of Clare
Island to collect sea-weed for food, when, melancholy to
relate, a wave passed over them, and on its return carried
these six poor creatures into the sea, and they were all
drowned.—Mayo Constitution.
EMIGRATION OF PAUPERS.—On Thursday last sixty-
two paupers left the Derry Workhouse for Quebec, via
the Maiden City, for Liverpool. The party consisted of
forty-ode females and twenty-one males, and the Guar-
dians, in addition to paying their passage, provided each
of them with two suits of wearing apparel. On landing
at Quebec they will receive ten shillings each.
ANOTHER TRADE RUINED.—The Irish tanner; are now
crying loudly against the operation of free trade which has
brought into Ireland extensively the superior tanned lea-
ther of France and other countries. " Owing to the re-
duction of duty upon foreign leather," says the Cork
Constitution, "French calf skins can now be imported
into this city at a rate not exceeding that paid for Irish,
whilst the article is exceedingly superior.
MURDER IN CORK.—An `inquest was held on Tuesday
on the body of a young child, who was barbarously mur-
dered by his brutal father, named Keeffe, in the following
manner:—He deliberately took the child, a boy about
nine weeks old, tied a stone round its neck, threw it into
the river, and then coolly waited on the bridge till he saw
the child drowned. He was fully committed for trial.—
Cork Examiner.

DEPRECIATION OF LAND IN THE WEST.—Five years
since, a member of the Irish bar lent £lB,OOO upon mort-
gage of an estate in'the runty of Galway, then free from
any other incumbrance. The owner possesscd a valuable
estate in another county, and the mortgagee had ample
reason to be satisfied with his security. However, the
great depreciation in the value of land, and the impossi-
bility of obtaining rents, led to the stoppage of the pay-
ment of the stipulated interest of the mortgage. Some
weeks since, with a view to some amicable arrangement,
both parties appointed persons to value the estate in Gal-
way, which, at the time of mortgage, produced a rental
of £lBOO a-year. The present value, however, was esti-
mated at only £12.000, being £6,000 less than the sum
lent in 1844. The unfortunate landlord has offered to
surrender the estate to satisfy the debt ; but, as he holds
other property, the mortgagee has refused this offer, and
intends to avail himself of the Encumbered Estates Act.
A SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE SMOTHERED.—OD Saturday
week, as a man was filling a cart with sand at the sandpit
at Ulterville, on the Lisburn road he pulled up a portion
of a woman's bonnet, and on digging further discovered
the lifeless bodies of a soldier and a woman, which were
extricated as speedily as possible. The name of the sol-
dier was Patrick Breen, of the 13th Light infantry, and
that of the woman, his wife, Sarah Smith. They were
married on the previous day, and in the evening were seen
walking on the Lisburn road. It is supposed that, during
the heavy shower of rain on that evening, they took shel-
ter in a sandpit, a short distance beyond the Deaf and
and Dumb Institution, under an overhanging embank-
ment, and that, whilst sitting there, the bank gave way.
When the sand was cleared away by the workmen, the
ill-fated couple were found closely locked together—the
young wife sitting on her dead husband's knee, with her
arm round his neck, 'while his arm encircled her waist.
In order to protect themselves from the rain, the cloak,
turned outside in, was closely wapped round both ; and it
is supposed that the girl would have forced her way
trough the sand, had she not become entangled with it.

COURT AND FASHION.
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ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.—Her Majesty and tse
Court went to Osborne yesterday (Monday), and will
remain there until the 3rd of August, when they start for
Dublin for a four days' visit. The distress unfortunately
still so prevalent in Ireland precludes her Majesty from
visiting Dublin instate, as any large expenditure on mere
ceremony would be ill:timed and inconvenient to her
subjects. She proposes therefore to embark in the Royal
yacht, to touch first at the Cove of Cork, and to proceed
thence along the Irish Channel to Dublin, where she will
remain fora
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and thence cross to Scotland.

The Queen of the Belgians left Buckingham Palace on
Thursday.

The Queen Dowager has returned from Tunbridge
Wells to the metropolis.

The Duchess of Orleans with the Comte de Paris and
the Due de Nemours and suite, arrived at Blacksvall on
Thursday from Rotterdam.

Prince Albert intends visiting Winchester on the 12th
of this month. His object is to see the interesting anti-
quities with which the capital of the ancient Saxon king-
dom abounds.

The Queen held a privy council on Friday at Bucking-
ham Palace. It was attended by Prince Albert, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the
Foreign and Colonial Departments, the Master of the
Horse, and the Lord Chamberlain.
The King of Muscat has presented six fine Arabian
horses to the Queen. They were brought here by a ves-
sel manned by an Arab crew assisted by an English boat-
swain. Whilst at sea the provender of the animals was
oil seed and dates.

The Duchess of Gloucester gave a grand fete to the
Queen on Friday, at Gloucester-house. The distinguished
circle honoured with invitations to meet her Majesty,
were invited at nine o'clock, and had nearly all arrived
previous to the Queen.
ROYAL VISIT TO GROSVENOR-ROUSE. —The Queen
and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Queen of the Bel-
gians, and attended by a brilliant suite, honoured the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster with their com-
pany on Wednesday at Grosvenor-house. The noble
Marquis's hospitalities commenced with a grand banquet,
which was succeeded by a concert, in which all the leading
Ttalian artistes took part. The guests invited to meet her
Majesty at dinner were—the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Earl Spencer, the Viscount Hardinge, Lord
Robert Grosvenor, the Hon. Beilby and Lady Elizabeth
Lawley, the Hon. W. H. and Lady Caroline Leigh, and
the Earl Grosvenor. A grand concert took place after-
wards, which was attended by all the leading nobility and
gentry. At the banquet, the Queen sat in the centre of
the table, having the Archbishop of Canterbury upon her
right and the Marquis of Westminster upon her left hand.
Prince Albert faced her Majesty, having the Queen of the
Belgians and the Marchioness of Westminster respectively
upon his right and left. The Duke and Duchess of Cim-
bridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Wel-
lington were present at the concert. After the first part
of the concert, there was a short recess. At this period
of the evening, the windows in the rear of the mansion
being opened, discovered a brilliant illumination in the
gardens, the greensward and trees being thickly studded
with variegated lamps. The Queen expressed ber ex-
treme gratification at the beautiful effect.