The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

'Thepresent amount of the military force in Ireland is
28;000 rank and file of all arms; with 2,682 enrolled pen-
sioners, staffs of , militia, and recruiting parties of corps.
`We believe this is larger than at, any former period.
Miss Martin, the heiress of the late anti-cruelty-to-
animals M:P., adiertises in the ;Galway Vindicator that
no person is permitted to hunt or shoot on her lands is
,Galway, all the mountains beinf Toisoned.
*THE LATE 'MR. O'CONNELL S EFFECTS.—The furni-
ture of the late Mr.- O'Connell, at Merrion-square, is
advertised to be sold by auction in the course of next
'month. It is expected to realize .a. considerable amount
above the intrinsic value, as remembrances of the de-
parted agitator. 'The library is not mentioned.
WHEAT FROM SEED THREE 'THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
—At Castletown on the lands of J. Eastwood, Esq.,
within one mile of Dundalk, may now be seen a splendid
crop of-mummy wheat, the seed of which was taken from
the mummy brought from Egypt, in which it was com-
puted to have lain about three thousand years.
MORE "TRIBUTE MONEY."—The Irish people will
-never escape from the gathering begging hand of the
01Connells:—A "Monument Sunday" is to be fixed soon
after harvest, for the purpose•of making a general collec-
tion in all the Roman Catholic chapels, for the purpose of
raising a monument to O'Connell. This, the people are
promised, is to be the final act of national gratitude.
RE.PORTED ELOPEMENT. Notice of an action for libel
has been served on the, proprietors of a Dublin paper for
thepublication of an article, on Saturday last, to the effect
that the wife of a professional gentleman, said to be
pointed out, had eloped with an officer. There is no truth
in the report, if it apply to the parties supposed to be
referred to.

CURIOUS IMPORT INTO CORK.—On Sunday, 32 young
pigs arrived from England, bythe Sabrina steamer. Such
an importation to Ireland, at all times remarkable, until
the failure of the potato, for the growth of pigs, is one of
the strange occurrences of the day. Two of these pigs
were sold at 15s. each. Young pigs, when offered for
sale, realise very high prices.—Cork Constitution.

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TRUTH Fon ONCE.--It is seldom we hear such a senti-
ment as the following, from a Roman Catholic priest. It
was spoken at the meeting of the Irish Confederation on
Friday. " I would advise the people (said the Rev. Mr.
Kenyon), not to be led unthinkingly by the opinion of any
one—by priest, bishop, or layman. When a priest took
part in politics, he did so, not as a priest, but as a politi-
cian; and they should not mind the cant of Concilliation
Hall, which was—' It was a priest said it,—it ought to be re-
spected.' A priest was to be respected when he told the
truth." The sentiment was received with loud cheers by
a handful of people at the Music Hall. Dare we hope
that that feeble but honourable recognition of the inalien-
able right of private judgement will ever be responded to
by the public opinion of Ireland ?
DARING ACT OF PIRACY.—The subjoined letter gives
a more detailed account of a daring act of piracy off the
western coast of Ireland, than has previously found its
way into the London journals : —Westport,:Aug. 21.—
On the evening of the 15th instant, about the hour of five
o'clock, as the schooner Royal Victoria, from Belfast, was
passing Eagle Island, on the Erris.coast, she was boarded
by about thirty pirates, who commenced at once to smash
the hatches, and in a most savage manner attacked the
captain, crew, and an officer and two marines belonging to
the Dasher steamer, who were on board at the time to
protect the cargo, flour and meal. the property of Messrs.
Pinkerton and Thompson, of this town. In defence of
his own life and that of the crew, the officer gave the word
" fire," when a man named Peter Lavelle was shot dead,
and his brother severely wounded, and three others taken
prisoners. On Thursday last, Captain French, of the
Dasher, arrived here, when informations were lodged
against the prisoners, who have been committed to the
county gaol. Mr. J. F. Bourke, coroner, and Mr. C.
Kenny held an inquest, and the jury unanimously returned
the following verdict :—" Justifiable homicide," adding,
" that they highly approved of the cool and steady man-
ner in which the officer, Mr. R. Stourges, acted on the
occasion." About 150 boats were pulling towards the
schooner, but were kept off by the marines firing at them.
I regret to say that one of the four prisoners has escaped
out of the bridewell, and as yet he is not taken.
HORRIBLE SCENE IN DUBLIN.—Mr. Curran gives the
following account of a visit he paid, in company with two
French gentlemen, to different parts of Dublin :—Near
the ," temporary hospitals," which have been described as
so comparatively healthy and pleasant, he found "twelve
persons, men, women, and children, lying indiscrimately
along the pathway and the gutter, waiting to be admit-
ted, some stretched at full length, with their faces to the
sun, their mouths open, and " their black and parched
tongues, and encrusted teeth, visible even from a distance."
Inside was a small shed, roughly covered with boards,
but open in front, " like the sheds in farm yards for
covering dung and rubbish." He took it for a receptacle
of the cast-off rags of fever patients • but hearing heavy
groans underneath the heap filth. he found, to his indig-
nation and horror, thirty-five human beings heaped to-
gether indiscriminately, heads and feet intermingled, on a
wisp of straw. They called to him for water to quench
their thirst ; and on inquiry it appeared that they had lain
there for three days, without relief and without attend-
ance. Some were actually dying, and did die the night
after the visit ; all were afflicted with typhus. The re-
mainder of Dr. Curran's letter speculates on the cruelty
of submitting any part of the population to such horrors,
and censures the conduct of the government, which might
have adopted a better system of sanatory regulations and,
precautions against the extension of disease.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting of this
body, on Monday, Mr. J. A. O'Neill, the defeated candi-
date for Kildare, presided, and spoke at considerable
length. Mr. J. P. Somers, M.P., attacked the Freeman's
Journal, charging it with supineness as to his own cause
in Sligo, but was called to order by Mr. J. O'Connell.

Mr. Crean, the secretary, told the meeting how a bill,
drawn' by Mr. W. H. Gregory, one of the candidates at
the city election, on his London banker, for £750, as his
share of the election expenses, had been returned dis-
honoured, and how the petition now set en foot ostensibly
for the expenses of a petition against the return, was in
reality intended to indemnify the sheriff from the conse-

quenc'es of this defalcation. Mr. John Reynolds, M.P.,
then addressed the meeting at considerable length, com-
menting on the want of punctuality on the part of Mr.
Gregory, and expressing his perfect willingness to meet a
petition on the merits. Mr. J. O'Connell held forth at
great length, touching the Dungarvan and other elections,
and called upon the landlords of Ireland to join the asso-
ciation in its endeavours to re-establish a local parliament,
if they would not have their estates swallowed up under
the poor law. He also read a letter from Dr. Gray, of the
Freeman's Journal, on the result of the Irish elections,
according to which there have been returned fifteen Whigs,
nine Federalists or Precursors, and thirty-seven Repealers,
and amongst the county members a majority of four in
favour of the repeal of the union against both Whigs and
Tories. The rent for the week was announced to be
£5l 18s.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER THE OFFICERS OF KILKENNY
GAOL.—A very daring attempt to escape was made, on
Monday week, by the three prisoners now under sentence
of death in Kilkenny—James Larkin, James Daniel, and
Henry Walshe. After breakfast, the prisoners were turned
into the corridor, for the purpose of giving them an oppor-
tunity of praying. One of the turnkeys, William Lee, was
overtaken by Larkin, who struck him, saying " Now, you
thief." Lee then seized him, and Larkin rushed towards
the stairs, calling out to Walshe and Daniel, who followed
him—" Boys come on ; what are you doing ?" Walshe
left the corridor close behind Larkin, but Daniel followed
slowly. When Walshe reached the st irs, the turnkey
laid hold of him, and a scuffle ensued. Larkin again came
upon Lee, and struck him a blow on the head with a paving-
stone, which felled him to the ground, and attempted to
run out through the door-way, followed by Daniel and
Walshe, but was stopped by a prisoner named Forbes : a
prisoner, named Brenan, caught one of the culprits, and
took two stones from him. The governor ran into the
police guard-room, and loaded all the carbines, while Ser-
geant Coghlen and the other constables ran to the interior
of the building and captured the prisoners ; when, assisted
by two of the turnkeys and some of the prisoners, they
with considerabl, 'ffi d '