The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The number of houses "to be let " in some of the
principal towns in Ireland, affords a melancholy proof of
the general hardness of the times. There are now fif-
teen houses so offered in the best street in Cork, where,
a few years since, it was almost impossible to procure
one.

The Earl of Cork has directed his agent to forgive fifty
per cent., of the year's rent due from his tenants, and has
also given directions that the poor-rate collector should
send in the amount of his claim for out-door relief, the
entire payment of which his lordship has taken on him-
self.

THE GRATEFUL ROHANISTS.—Dr. M'Hale, in a letter
to John O'Connell (Liberator II.), claims for the plun-
dered poor of Ireland all the revenues of the Protestant
Irish Church ; the old church militant thus declaring war,
as it were, against the national churches of both islands,
which are one and indivisible.
IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDS.-Mr. Crawford
Butler, formerly of Carlow, has shown what may be done
in reclaiming waste lands in Ireland. About five years
ago, this gentleman took, as a farm, about 900 statute
acres, near Clifden, in the County of Mayo. The land
was then a perfect waste. He expended upon it about
£3,000 and it now produces the finest crops of wheat,
oats, vegetables, and grass.
REPEAL.—At the weekly meeting, on Monday, Mr.
Scully said that government have sent 1200 tons of meal
for the poor in the west of Ireland, but this was only a
trifle, and government should send as many thousands,
Mr. J. O'Connell, with extraordinary liberality, said that
he did not despise the charity of England, but what he
called for was an advance of money by parliamentary au-
thority. Nothing less would satisfy for the wants of Ire-
land, and the money must be got. The rent was £.37.
ATTACK ON A WORKHOUSE IN IRELAND.—On Mon-
day morning, at Rathkeale, County Limerick, whilst the
guardians wern sitting,' the workhouse was surrounded
by 3000 peasants, who forced an entrance, demolished
the staircase, chairs of the board-room, &c. Some dra-
goons arriving, the mob took refuge behind a wall, from
which they continued to pelt the soldiers. The riot act
was read, but they refused to retire until two Roman Ca-
tholic clergymen appeared, and requested them to do so.
TUMULTUARY ASSEMBLAGES.-Notwithstanding the
remonstrance of Archdeacon Fitzgerald, parish priest,
Ballingarry, the meeting of peasant labourers took place
on Monday, at the hill of Garryfine, whence they pro-
ceeded in a tumultuous body to Buree, firing shots in the
village, and drove the stock of Mr. Robert Fetherston, a
magistrate ; broke the gate, and drove the stock of Mr.
George Massy, at the Glebe; also the stock of the Rev.
Mr. Ryan, parish priest, of Rockhill, and tore and
trampled the turnip field of a farmer near Kearney, in
the same neighbourhood. Many of these marauders
were armed. Some of the cattle has since been restored.
—Limerick Chronicle. _

MEETING OF THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.
—On Tuesday the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, with
only one or two exceptions, met in conclave for the pur-
pose of " doing something for Ireland." There was but
one opinion as to the present condition and future pros-
pects of the country. The prelates from the north, south,
and east, as well as the prelates from the west, knowing
the circumstances of their respective provinces, bore testi-
mony to the fearful privations which the people at present
labour under, and the still more fearful prospect that is
before them. We have only time to announce that the
result of this day's conference has been the unanimous
adoption of a resolution to petition government for the
immediate adoption of measures for prompt and efficient
relief.

ANOTHER MURDER IN KING'S COUNTY.—On Monday
night last, Mr. William Lucas, of Brusna, was shot dead
in the street of that village, within about one mile and
a-half of Shinrone. It appears that Mr. Lucas was the
owner of upwards of 140 acres of the lands of Scorduff,
on which were several tenants who refused to pay any
rent ; many of them were four or five years in arrear.
Mr. Lucas had forgiven mane of them arrears; and, al-
though some of them were well able to pay, they refused
doing and as they would neither pay nor surrender
the land, so,and he was obliged to evict several families. In
consequence of having taken these proceedings, he has
been from time to time served with theatening letters,
almost innumerable. For several months past, it las
been rumoured that he would be murdered