The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

COUNTY CARLOW.—On Monday, Captain Banbury
(Conservative) was elected without opposition.
BEET-ROOT SUGAR.—The success of the Irish beet-
root sugar factory at Mountmelick has induced the Direc-
tors of the Company to decide upon opening another fac-
tory at Waterford when the season for working shall have
arrived.

THE HOPE OF THE HARVEST.—It has been remarked
that for many years the rivers and streams were not so low
as they have been this spring. Some of the ancients'
regard this as an excellent sign of the coming harvest,
and they refer to past years in which a similar event proved
a prognostic of plenty.—Limerick Examiner.
LIBEL.—On Monday, the Court of Queen's Bench,
Dublin, granted a conditional order for a criminal infor-
mation against the proprietors of the Nation newspaper,
at the suit of the guardians of the Mitchelstown Union,
for an article charging them with cruelty and inhumanity
towards the paupers. The article complained of was
contained in a letter from a correspondent, to which was
appended certain editorial remarks.
THE CONVICT KIRWAN.—A letter from Cork states
that William Burke Kirwan, the anatomical draftsman,
who had been found guilty of the murder of his wife at
Ireland's Eye, but whose sentence had been commuted
to transportation for life, is to be forwarded to the Swan
River settlement, in the Robert Small, transport vessel,
which has reached Queenstown, to take out convicts for
that colony.
A CELESTIAL CHRISTIAN.-It was not without reason
that her Majesty's Solicitor-General boasted last week at
Athlone of the world-wide renown of the name of Keogh.
It seems that its branches extend to China. Galignani
says :—" A Chinese child, named Keo, who had been
brought to Europe by M. Pallegoix, apostolic vicar of
Siam, was christened on Thursday in the church of St.
Sulpice." Monsieur Pallegoix is not the first who, in
taking a boy of that name in hands, found that he had
caught a Tartar.—Dublin Evening Mail.
WRECK OF THE BARQUE HERCULES.—BeIfast, April
28.—Intelligence has been received this evening by Messrs.
Corry and Son, of the total loss of their barque Hercules,
551 tons register. It appears that on the 6th ult., in lat.
35 N, long. 72 30 W, she was fallen in with in a sinking
condition, by the Perote, from Rio Grande, and by the
Montauk, from Galveston for Antwerp, and having taken
off the crew, 18 in number, the Hercules shortly after-
wards foundered. The Montauk arrived at Deal on the
26th instant, and landed the captain, Mr. Louden, and
eight of his crew ; and the Perote, with the chief officer
and eight others, arrived at Baltimore on the 12th in-
stant. The Hercules was bound from Liverpool for
Charleston, and sailed from the former port about the 6th
November, but having got about 360 miles off Cape
Clear, she experienced very severe weather, which
carried away her starboard bulwarks from stein to stern,
besides doing other damage. She was towed back to this
port on the 29th of November, and having got the neces-
sary repairs, sailed again on the 13th of December ; but
on the 27th of the same month, when off the Calf of Man,
she encountered another severe gale, in which she lost her
fore and mainmast, &c. the mizen only left standing.
She then put back a second time, and was towed into
Fleetwood on the 2nd of January, and there got new
masts, &c.
DEFINITION OF AN IRISHMAN.—A species of " Bull"
incarnate, that never prospers till he is ruined outright,
and only has real success in life when all the odds are
against him.—The Dodd Family Abroad.