The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Banner of Ulster hints that Mr. Moore is the inti-
mate friend and associate of tha Right Hon. Benjamin
Disraeli.

It is said that there is to be a petition against the return
of Mr. Alexander for Carlow. It is stated that £5,000 did
not cover the expense.

IRISH LINEN.—The quantity of linen exported from
Newry during the past week has exceeded that of any
similar period for some time, having amounted to no fewer
than 376 packages.

MINERS are already at work on iron mines recently
discovered in the county of Waterford, between Curragh-
more and Carrickbeg. Baron Rothschild is at the head
of the mining company, which is English.
IMPROVEMENT.—An order has been received in Lime-
rick from a Belfast manufacturer, to engage 5000 muslin
sewers and tambour workers, with a promise of constant
employment at the highest market rate of wages.

COAL IN IRELAND.—The coal lately discovered at Car-
rickfergus is found to be similar in quality to the Walls-
end coal. The miners are working night and day, to
complete the shaft, in order that the valuable mineral
may be made serviceable.

THE GARDHNER of Charles J. Adams, Esq., of Shin-
rone-house, had coals brought into his bed-room a few
evenings ago, although there was no fire-place in the
room ; the consequence was, that he and one of the
children were suffocated.

THE CONVICT KIRWAN.-Mr. John Wynne, the late
Under-Secretary, states that Lord Eglintoun was induced
to commute the capital sentence pronounced upon this
wretched criminal at the suggestion of the two judges who
tried him, the late Lord Chancellor concurring in the
recommendation. No other person or party had anything
to say in the affair.

LONGEVITY.—Last week, a farmer named Nicholas
Dill, residing at Ballyvolane, in the north liberties, died
at the age of 102 years. His brother, Jeremiah Dill, aged
105, still lives in the same farm. They were bachelors,
and resided together during their lives in the house in
which they were born. Their father lived to be 86, and
their mother to 112 years of age. The father, mother,
and son, were buried at Caherlogga.
AT Aclin, last week, a Protestant convert died after an
illness in which he was attended by the Rev. Joseph
Barker, the rector. According to his last request he was
about to be buried in a Protestant burial-ground, when his
relations carried his remains by force to the Roman Catho-
lic burial- place,and would not permit the rector to read the
burial service over the body. The scene was most melan-
choly, and the magistrates and police found themselves
quite inadequate to keep order.

THE ROMISH BRIGADE.—A meeting of Romanist lay-
men has been held in Tuam to re-echo the sentiments of
their priests on what they describe as " the desertion of
the popular cause" by some of the Irish representatives.
They hail the result of the Carlow election as " a great
popular victory, vindicating the popular honour, and
avenging a betrayed people !" and call on the electors of
Athlone " to consummate this great act of national
justice" by returning another Tory for that borough in
opposition to Mr. Keogh.

CONVICT RIOT.—A mutiny took place on Saturday
week among the convicts in the Maryborough depot. The
cause of the mutiny, the convicts alleged, was inferiority
of diet, and a wish to be sent out of the country. They
confined themselves to grumblings and threats on Wed-
nesday, Thursday, and Friday ; but on Saturday, after
breakfast, they became exceedingly mutinous and disor-
derly, broke the window and furniture of the day-room,
and nine armed themselves with the broken furniture,
brickbats, and stones, and threatened the life of any
person who would attempt to enter the room unless their
conditions were agreed to. To reduce them at once to
submission would involve personal strife and violence,
and it was thought more prudent to let their rage exhaust
itself, and that want of food would soon force them into
capitulation. Eighteen convicts are non separate cells,
on bread and water diet, ten of them being placed in irons.
Amongst them are some of the worst characters of the
COUntry.