The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dr. Curran, whose statistics respecting fever in Dublin
caused much discussion a few months since, fell a victim
to that malady last Sunday.
On Wednesday the annual exhibition of the Ballinasloe
Agricultural Society was held on the fair green. The
articles of farm produce exhibited was very fine. The spe-
cimens of linen and frieze were excellent, and proved suf-
ficiently that if proper encouragement were extended to
the poor people an important and useful branch of trade
might be introduced throughout this part of the country,

THE NEW IRISH PARLIAMENT.—ANOTHER MEETING
OF FIVE M.P.'s.---There was another assemblage of the
new Liberator's tail in the smoking-room at Radley's
Tavern on Thursday, and they resolved to do that which
they resolved upon at the previous meeting, and nothing
more, viz., adjourn. There were present, John O'Con-
nell, Henry Grattan, James Fegan, John Reynolds, and
Daniel O'Connell, Esqrs.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting on Monday was
well attended. A Mr. Edward Murphy occupied the
chair. The principal speakers were Mr. John Reynolds
and Mr. John O'Connell, the latter of whom designated
the landlords as " murderers of the Irish people," and
demanded of the government at once to call parliament
together, otherwise they would be participators in their
guilt. The rent was £35 Bs. 4d.
The majority of the Hon. Edward Stanley—Lord Stan-
ley's eldest son—was celebrated at Ballykisteen, his lord-
ship's Tipperary residence, on a scale and in a manner to
which the inhabitants of Ireland have been too little ac-
customed. For three successive days the tenants and
labourers shared the hospitality of their noble landlord,
and nearly six hundred persons testified, by their joyous
countenances and happy demeanour, their enjoyment of
the scene.

HERRING FISHERY—IRELAND.—Off the Irish coasts
the herrings have appeared in enormous shoals, although
peculiar in their range, for the Penzance and St. Ives
boats failed for more than ten days in meeting them in
the usual tracks. Last week incredible quantities have
been taken in Dungarvan bay, and several large vessels
are there saving them en masse on board, and taking them
to Liverpool. Herrings never were finer nor in such num-
bers as this season in Greatman's and Costello bays,
Galway.
AGRIC ULTURAL IMPROVEMENT. —A correspondence
has taken place between the Lord Lieutenant and the
Duke of Leinster, relative to the proposal of his Excel-
lency to send out experienced agricultural lecturers to in-
struct the peasantry in the best and most approved systems
of husbandry. In furtherance of that admirable project,
the Lord-Lieutenant and the Duke of Leinster have each
contributed £5O, and a special meeting of the Council of
the Agricultural Society of Ireland has been held to com-
plete the arrangements.
A MODEL laISH M.P.—Mr. Guinness, member for
Kinsale, has taken an extensive dock and stores, with the
intention of building a patent slip and dry dock for vessels
frequenting that port, or passing the harbour and requiring
repairs. Mr. Guinness also contemplates building a num-
ber of substantial dwellings for the use of workmen who
will be employed. He has assured his constituents that
the profits of these undertakings shall be expended exclu-
sively for the benefit of the working population of the
borough.
BREACH OF THE SABBATH.—At the Ardglass petty
sessions, held on Wednesday, the miller of Sheepland was
fined in the mitigated penalty of half-a-crown, for work-
ing his mill on the Sabbath day. This should serve as a
caution to others not to transgress in a similar way. But
is it not a sad and humbling thought that we are obliged
to go back to the reign of William the Third for a statute
to enforce the decent external observance of the Lord's
day ! Such is the fact, and all we can boast of is, that
the law under which the above desecration of the Sabbath
was punished has, as yet, escaped the repealing process of
these enlightened times.—Downpatrick Recorder.
OPPOSITION TO THE PAYMENT OF RENTS.—The com-
bination against the payment of rents, already mentioned,
is spreading rapidly in Ireland. Now that the corn is in
the haggards the landlords solicit something on account of
the two or three years' rent due, to enable them to meet
the increased poor-rates and their own liabilities ; but no,
the word has gone forth that the tenant must be fortified
against all risks of scarcity before he part with a bushel of
wheat or a pound note to any creditor. In the mean
time, the landlord is harassed by claimants who are as
heartless as the writers in the government newspapers or
the Irish poor-law commissioners. Let him serve an
ejectment—and then prepare his coffin or fly from the
country, if he value his life. Let him remain at home,
and trust to the honour of his tenantry and the mercy of
the commissioners, and the poor-house must become his
residence.
THE CORN MARKETS.—It is rather a curious circum-
stance in the price of breadstuffs that, while native grown
wheat has fallen fully ss. per Quarter from the 20th to
Monday the 26th, Indian corn should have advanced 3s.
per qr. It is not easy to explain this difference, unless it
may be attributed to the arrivals of foreign wheat into the
English markets. Yet stranger still, large cargoes of
I Indian corn continue to arrive in our port. Last week
there could not be fewer than 60 cargoes heavily laden
maize, arrived in our harbour from foreign ports. The
price of wheat in the Cork market has fallen ls. 6d. per
barrel. Good oats were purchased yesterday at 10s. per
barrel. The Ocean steamer, for the greater part laden
with corn, leaves Cork this day for Liverpool. While the
price of wheat continues at from 255. to 265. per barrel, it
will be a remunerating one to the farmer, that being the
price of any good wheat offering for sale.—Cork Consti-
tution.

AN INCORRUPTIBLE REPEALER.—Mr. Chisholm Ansty,
the repeal member for Youghal, having been solicited by
one of his constituents to obtain a situation for his son,
writes a reply which would have astonished Daniel O'Con-
nell. He says in the course of it—" When I asked for
Your vote it was not for myself, but fLr the cause which
you and I professed to serve. If you ' voted for me against
your interest' I sacrificed mine by becoming your candi-
date. lam more odious to the Minister and to Lord
Ponsonby, and to the Duke of Devonshire, than you can
be. And yet, if I consulted my interest, I should try to
stand on good terms with all these ; for I am a poor man