The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

usbands and fathers

e, with a fortnigh
store "groaning" under the weight of
rn that ought to have been their fo,'d ! But " political
onomy " forbade. And two others are now reported
to have sunk through famine! I-low long are these thi
to continue?—Cork Constitution
with I ORANGEISM.-1

id a government

's wages due to them,

A. meeting of the representatives of va-
rious counties in Ireland, was held last week in the
Rotunda, Dublin, when about one hundred of the most
influential members of the Orange institution formed
themselves into a grand lodge, which is designated "The
Grand Orange Lodge of Great Britain and Ireland. The
sittings of the body occupied three days, and the most
perfect harmony characterised the whole meeting. The
Grand Lodge of Ireland embraces amongst its members

men who heave never flinched from the discharge of their
duty. The next meeting of the Grand Lodge will be held
in Belfast, in May.—Armayh Guardian.
AWFUL DEATHS IN SLlGO.—Extract of a letter from
Sligo, dated Saturday, 21st November :—" Three more
awfully sudden deaths occurred in Sligo yesterday. Mrs.
Wynne (the collector's lady) was dressing in her roum
yesterday morning for church; she pulled the bell, and
when the servant went into her room, Mrs. Wynne said,
Oh, my head !' and dropped dead on the floor. Three
physicians were in attendance as quickly as possible, but
their exertions proved unavailing. Mrs. Hudson (a ship-
broker's wife at the quays) was found dead in her bed
yesterday morning, and a Mrs. Ormsby Hudson dropped
dead at her hall-door last night. Her husband is the per-
son who keeps the Repeal reading-room."

OUTRA.GES.—On Saturday week an attack was made on
the house of Mr. Hackett, near Clonfert, by no less than
fourteen men ; a servant was mortally wounded, and the
house plundered of fire-arms. In Tipperary the house of
A. G. Richardson, Esq., was attacked, and that gentle.
man had a narrow escape of being murdered, the shot
having passed over his head, and shattered the window of
the room in which he then was. In addition to those,
we have the usual staple outrages of highway. robberies,
plundering of flour, assaults ; and in one instance at
Westport, an assemblage of sixty persons, many of them
armed, deliberately levelled a pound, and presented their
guns at the pound keeper for daring to take in cattle dis-
trained for rent.

DUBLIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—The annual elec-
tion for a town councillor for each of the fifteen wards in
Dublin, was held on Wednesday. The only remarkable
feature in the day's proceedings was, the rejection of Mr.
O'Connell's candidates. Mr. Barlow, who was denounced
by the Liberator as a Young Irelander, was returned for
the College ward, by a majority of 108 to 72. His oppo-
nent, Mr. Kilch, has published an address, in which he
attributes his defeat, and that of the professors of moral
force, to a combination of the Young Ireland party with
" the rampart Tories of the ward." Mr. Andrew Rus-
sell Snitch, also fortified by the recommendation of the
Liberator, was beaten by a Conservative, Mr. Walker, in
St. George's ward. Mr. Arabin and all the others were
returned without opposition.

APATHY OF REPEALERS.—Tbe repeal rent has dwind-
led this week to so low a figure as £54185. Bd. It is absurd
to ascribe this steady progression downwards wholly to the
pressure of famine. When nearly two millions of the
ordinary contributors to the repeal fund are now in con-
stant employment, at the rate of from six to nine shillings
a week, it is not to beleved that were confidence unshaken,
and hope unabated, a fair average contribution might not
be levied off the country. The class whose payments
chiefly supported the repeal finances was the very hum-
blest. The "copper" contributions were the strength of
the rent, and this support has lately disappeared ; and
that, too, at the very time when the wages of labour, from
which it was drawn, have risen to nearly treble their or-
dinary average.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The regular meeting of this
body was held on Monday in the Conciliation Hall. There
was a most numerous attendance in every part of
the building. Alter a little preliminary business. Mr.
O'Connell said he was prepared to bring up his report
upon the disunion existing amongst Repealers, and in
doing so, wished to say that no man was more anxious
than he was that the friends of Ireland should be joined
hand in hand to restore to her her parliament; but he
believed it was impossib!e, for it would be seen by tue
report be was about reading that the question between
the Old and 1 oung Ireland parties was, in point of fact,
should the Association adopt the doctrine of " physical
force" or not?—(cheers.). The learned gentleman then
proceeded to read the report, which was of great length,
and by no means interesting, and set forth the various
points at issue between the Old and Young Ireland par-
ties. Mr. O'Connell did•not at all allude to the exhausted
state of the treasury. The rent was announced as
£3-1 18s. 9d.