The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

HARVEST PROSPECTS---THE POTATO CROP.

There was never fairer promise of an abundant and
early harvest. The potato seems to have been restored
to its pristine vigour, whilst all the other crops are equally
promising.—Mayo Constitution.

The early-sowed wheat is decidedly blighted throughout
our county. The disease affecting the crop resembles, if
it be not really, " the rust," which is said to be the usual
penalty of a too dry season, but we have never seen it
spread to so great an extent. The potatoes remain free
from any sign of taint, and have resumea the same floury
appearance and grateful flavour which they had almost en-
tirely lost for some years back.—Kilkenny Moderator.
Should the heat continue for a few days the crops will
be nearly fit to cut down. Potatoes, which are generally
of a large size, are selling in our markets at sd. per stone;
.in fact, the population are now being fed upon them.
Nenagh Guardian. _

Within the memory of man the crops of all kinds were
never so promising, and the potato io particular is very
fine.—Limerick Chr nick.

Miss Anne Romer has been singing with great success
in Dublin.

A tobacconist of Dublin has been fined £75 for mixing
1016 of molasses with 160th of leaf tobacco.
DREADFUL MURDER.—A convict named Pearce was
murdered by four other convicts in Carrickfergus gaol on.
Monday morning.
The consumption of tea in Ireland during the month
of June, in this year, as compared with the corresponding
month of last year, has decreased 50,000 lbs.
HORRIBLE OccußnENcL.—At lnistiogul, county Kil-
kenny, a child, four months old, belonging to a rdrmer,
named Mylott, was nearly torn to pieces by two pigs,
which, in the absence of the parents, had taken the infant
out of the cradle.

The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser says, " We have
heard that an investigation has been ordered by the
Lord-Lieutenant respecting the calamitous affray at
Dolly's Brae, and that it is to be held at Castlewellan."
The splendid estates of Mr. Leslie Alexander, producing
a rental of £6OOO a year, and situated in the " model"
county of Londonderry, were set up for sale in the
" maiden city" on Wednesday last, but had the property
been placed in the wilds of Mayo or Galway the attempt
to coax a purchaser to bid up to something approaching
to the value of the separate lots could scarcely have
proved more abortive.
STATE OF KERRY.—A circumstance highly illustrative
of the condition of this county took place during the pro-
gress of tb e present assizes :—Four men, against whom
indictments for larcenies were found at the spring assizes,
were called up. They had been ordered to enter into re-
cognizances to appear when called upon to abide their
trial, and they would have been discharged from custody
upon doing so, there not being sufficient evidence against
them to have their trial proceeded with. But so great
was their anxiety to remain in gaol that they actually re-
fused to give their own recognizance, and insisted upon
remaining in custody, and they were in consequence
necessarily detained until these present assizes, for not
complying with the rule of bail. It was now found neces-
sary to have them formally acquitted, in order that they
might be turned out of gaol, and cease to burden the
county with their support. Judge Ball remarked that
their acquittal was to them a punishment.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—THE ROYAL VISIT.-A sup-
plement to the Gazette is expected to be issued this even-
ing, which will contain the announcement of the days on
which her Majesty will hold the levee and drawing-room,
and thus tend to allay in some measure the ferment which
these coining events have created in the Irish world of
fashion.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO BELFAST.—The Lord Bishop
of Down and Connor has invited his clergy to meet him
in Belfast on Wednesday next, with the object of uniting
in address of congratulation to her Majesty and the Prince
Consort upon their arrival in the north.
A CHRISTIAN PRELATE—A CHARITABLE HOPE:.
Archbishop Mac Hale, while acknowledging the receipt
of £26 Is. 9d. for the relief of his poor neighbourhood,
in the Freeman's Journal, has not forgotten his usual
avocation, and endeavours to promote harmony and good-
will among all classes of the people by denouncing the
county of Galway landlords, " those monsters in human
shape, whose iniquitous career," he regrets, has not been
arrested. He then winds up with the following charitable
wish :—" With the blessings of the coming harvest the
people will, I trust, resume their wonted vigour, and enter
on a fresh career of virtuous and constitutional resistance
to this religious tyranny which now aims at the total de-
struction of our religion, by this unheard-of wholesale
oppression of the poor Catholic people." This, when
fairly interpreted, means, " At them, boys, as soon as
you shall recover your ordinary strength and spirits ; the
deed will be a virtuous one !" Is not " John Tuam" the
paragon of prelates ?—_OuLiin Evening Packet.
MORE CONVICTS FOR MURDER.—Already public atten-
tion has been attracted to the extraordinary trials and
convictions for murder which have taken place at the
present Summer Assizes—the heavier calendars being
still unopened. The reports on Saturday give no:fewer
than seven additional convictions for wilfnl murder. The
case of John Fogarty, which was tried at Limerick on
Thursday, is peculiarly horrrible. Think of the wife of a
comfortable farmer deliberately conspiring with five men
to murder him. Their meeting and discussing the mat-
ter, which appeared to be known to a great number of
persons in the neighbourhood. One of the murderers
details the whole crime. He denies that he helped to kill
the man—he did not strike a blow—he only held him
round the waist, while his accomplices battered out the
brains of the victim with stones.—Charles Monaghan was
sentenced to be hanged on the 15th of August, for the
wilful murder of his child, a boy five years old, whom
he destroyed by drowning in a quarry-hole at Kilmore.—
Ann Forbes was, at the same place, sentenced to death
for the murder of her infant child. The punishment will
be mitigated to transportation.—John Brien, convicted at
Waterford of the murder of his wife on Thursday, was
sentenced to be executed on the 7th of September next.—
At the assizes for the county Fermanagh, Thomas Wil-
son, Thomas Kerr, and Robert Cathcart, were put on
their trial for the murder of John Wilson, at Glen gunny,
on the morning of Sunday, the 10th of December last.—
After lengthened trial, the jury found a verdict of guilty
against all the prisoners, who were sentenced to be hanged
on the 9th of August.
THE PROTESTANT THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF IRE-
LAND.—I had a letter not long ago from the Dean of
Ardagh, who has written most able works on the sub-
ect ; he said, " that it most lamentable to see the igno-
rance in which many people in England are, regarding
the antiquity and true position of the Irish church." If
St. Patrick be claimed by both sides, they have the right
to him who chiefly hold his views. There is nothing of
Popery in his writings, especially in his confession. The
Church of England, for its antiquity and purity, goes back
to the apostles, the grandfathers, and not to the fathers
of the church ; to the Word of God, and not to tradition,
the word of man. The clergy of the established church
in Ireland are of the church founded by Christ, based on
the Bible, and planted in Ireland by St. Patrick ; they
are the real priests of the parishes ; the Popish clergy are
the intruders, in fact, the dissenters ; and the Protestant
clergy should be aided in their endeavours to bring back
their flocks to the folds from which they and their fathers
wandered, decoyed by Popish emissaries, in and after the
twelfth century,—for in Ireland, Popery had no real foot-
ing, till King John, at the instigation of the Pope, sent
Popish emissaries to convert her; and in England, our
Reformers, as has been well said, " saw in the Romish
church the framework of a church, but they saw also that
into this had been woven many and gross errors, calcu-
lated to destroy the souls of its members." They re-
moved whatever had not the sanction of Scripture and
antiquity, and retained what had • and there sprang from.
their labours not a new, but a reformed church,—the old,
the original, stripped of those incrustations which had
fastened on it during a long night of ignorance. They
removed the coating from the beautiful pillars which men
had daubed with " untempered mortar" ' • they took down
the buttresses which disfigured and did not sustain the
building ; and they opened the windows which ignorance
or superstition had blocked up, and then the rich light of
heaven came streaming down the aisles, and men began
to worship the one God through the one Mediator. The
reformed religion is no novelty ; if it can be proved a day
younger than Christ and his apostles, away with it from
the earth as a pernicious delusion. We claim to be the
ancient church : we fasten on the Roman Catholic as
being the modern, not in constitution—for therein we
both have the same date,—but the modern in a thousand
innovations on genuine Christianity as preached by Christ
and St. Paul, as exhibited by the writers of the first four
centuries of the church.—From a pamphlet just published
by the Rev. W. W. Carus Wilson, jun.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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THE NEW JUDGE.—STAFFORD, JULY 24.—Mr. Ser-
jeant Talfourd this morning received the official announce-
ment from the Lord Chancellor of his elevation to the
judicial bench, in the place of the late Mr. Justice Colt-
man, at which much satisfaction was evinced by the Bar-
risters of the Oxford Circuit, who congratulated their
eloquent and amiable leader on his new dignity. The
judge-elect (imitating Sir Thomas Wylde) returned his
briefs and fees in several cases, in one of, which now try-
ing, he led the plaintiff's case, and at ten o'clock the
author of " Ion" took formal leave of his circuit, and
proceeded to town, to be at once sworn in, that he may
attend chambers, Lord Chief Justice Denman being ill.

COURT AND FASHION.
On Saturday week, a rural fete was given by her Majesty
to the workmen and also to the labourers employed at
Osborne, the whole of whom assembled at a place marked
out in the grounds, and commenced a variety of old Eng-
lish sports and pastimes. Her Majesty and his 14d,oyal
Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, and also
by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred,
and the Princess Alice, honoured the proceedings with their
presence, together with the ladies and gentlemen of the
royal suite,

TASt5t inbtes.

404 tons bit]

To sail on the, 811. August.
For DEMERARA,
The Bar LEONO It A,
nomsoN, Master
• en.—For terms of freight or passage
SANDBACH, TINNE, and CO.

apply to

Imtti Sptates.

Takes no steerage passengers.—To sail on the 10th August.
tl4^ For BOSTO,
•
the fine first-cla erican Ship
CA AURAN,
W NCEVI LLE, Master;
burthen 5 ns ; coppered and .copper-fastened ;
only one year old; very fast sailer, and a superior conveyance
for goods or passengers.
For terms apply to Captain FRANCEVILLE, on board, Victoria
Dock, or to • BARING BROTHERS and CO.

PHILADELPHIA AND LIVERPOOL
LINE OF PACKETS.
4 -.:101ti Sal/blgfrOM LIVERPOOL on the Ist of each Month.
_ :41. And from PHILADELPHIA On the 10th.

MARY PLEASANTS. J Q. BOWNE .. 800
SHENANDOAH. NV. H. NVEsT
ROBERT BURTON, DECA N
EUROPE, H. F. MiERc

rns.:lst August.
tons.. Ist September.
700 tons.. Ist October.
.650 tons.. Ist November.

The Ships of Line are built of the best and most costly
materials, co pered and copper-fastened, and commanded by
men of acknowledged talent. To ensure strict punctuality in
sailing. goods cannot be received after midnight of the second
day previous to sailing.
These Ships will take steam up the Delaware.
Apply to JAMES WHENRY, 5. Temple-place, or
A. TAYLOR and Co., 8, Lancelot's-bey.
Or in Philadelphia to SAMUEL PLKASANTS.
Freight payable at 4 dollars 80 cents per pound sterling.

NOTICE.

PHILADELPHIA LINE OF PACKETS.

g The well-known favourite fast-sailing Packet-ship
Ate

MARY PLEASANTS,

J. Q. BOVINE, Commander :
LOADING E DE PRINCE'S DOCK;
will he clocrot,lted o, lot of Auguot, her regular day.—
For particulars of. eight or cabin passage apply to
JAMES M`FIENRY, or
A. TAYLOR and CO.
LETTER BAGS will go on board To-Moan..

SAINT GEORGE'S LINE OF PACKETS.

LIVERPOOL TO NEW YORK.

REDUCED RATES OF FREIGHT.
.17s. 6d. per ton measurement
. 12s. 6d. „ f,

Fine Goods.
Coarse Goods and Hardware.

Loading berth, east side Per

ST PACKET.

rafirst-class American Packet-slip

ST. PATRICK,

G. B. WATERMAN, Commander ;

REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF FREIGHT ON GOODS
V THE OLD LINE OF PACKETS
4:10."c4 For NEW YORK.
4ui....a Sailing on the let and 16th of every Month.
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CAMBRIDGE. G. S. PEABODY 900 tons.. Ist August.
FIDELIA. S. YEATONT lOOO tons.. 16th August.
ISAAC WRIGHT.A.C.MAasHALL 1200 tons.. Ist September.
MONTEZUMA. A. B. LownE it._ 1000 tons.. 16th September.
YORKSHIRE.W. G. HAcasTAFF 1100 tons.. -Ist October.
COLUMBIA. E. G. FURBER 110 7is..l6th October.
VEW YORK. T. B. CROPPER .. tons.. Ist November.
OXFORD, J. P. GooDMANSO 750 tons.. 16th November.
Goods by t e Packets hitherto paying
305.. will in future charged only 20s. per ton measurement.
255. and 20s. ditto 15s.
These ships re all of the first class, commanded by men
of character and experience. The Passage-money is established
at TWENTY GUINEAS, for which ample stores of every
description will be provided, with the exception of wines and
liquors, which will be furnished by the Steward, if required.
BARING BROTHERS and Co.
Freight by these packets will be collected at the rate of four
dollars and eighty cents to the pound sterling.

To sail in a few days.
For VALPARAISO and ISLAY,
The PARAMAITA.
For ARICA and ISLAY,
The PICKWICK.

Warranted first vessel, or forfeit freight.
For LIMA,
The BEE pain DUNLEY,
(Who is wel qua:Wed with the trade;)
A 1 ; 233 tons ; well kn for invariably delivering her car-
goes without the lea ossible damage and her quick passages,
having made o • 84 days to Arica, and not averaging more
than 25.—F0 erms, &c. apply to
W. and J. TYRES.
(One interest.) ASHLEY BROTHERS.