The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION,—The number of visitors on
Friday exceeded 10,000. The host of strangers is daily
becoming larger. The hotels of Dublin cre crowded to
suffocation. At one popular café dinners for 600 guests
are prepared every day.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT.—Her Majesty, it is under-
stood was to leave Osborne on Monday or Tuesday, pro-
ceeding by rail to Holyhead, thence to Dublin. As at
present arranged. the Queen is to review the Channel fleet
on Monday, the 15th instant.
EXPORTATION OF CORN.—As an instance of the vast
extent of the transactions in corn by merchants of Lime-
rick, a local paper mentions that one commercial house
in that city has contracted for the supply of breadstuffs to
the French government to the amount of £250,000, the
commission upon which was £2,000.
ADVANCE IN WAGES.—Upwards of 200 labourers from
the neighbourhood of Portarlington, who were offered em-
ployment on the branch line of railway that has just been
opened to Tullamore, refused to work on Thursday for
less than 10s. a week. They were offered Bs.
REPRESENTATION OF CORK.—Colonel ChatterlOD has
issued a circular, in which he announces his intention of
again offering himself for the representation of the city of
Cork, in the event of a vacancy. The Cork Constitution
states that Mr. F. B. Beamish has been solicited to offer
himself as a Radical candidate, but as yet no decision has
been come to in the matter.
A GENTLEMAN SHOPLIFTER.—WiIIiam Thorn, a
young man of gentlemanlike appearance, and very
respectably connected, was tried at Cork assizes for
stealing two pistols, six powder-horns, and several other
articles, from a shopkeeper in that city. There were five
other indictments against him for thefts in shops, and it
is stated that 100 cases of shoplifting might be sustained.
He was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years'
transportation.
THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION.—Strangers are pouring in
from all directions to visit the exhibition, and at no time
have the Dublin hotels been so crowded. One of the last
steamers from Holyhead brought over 300 visitors, and
all the boats arriving at Kingstown are crowded with
passengers. It is said that some thousands of French
people purpose availing themselves of an excursion trip
on a large scale during the time of her Majesty's visit to
Ireland.

CRIME AND OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.—There was re-
cently printed a return to the House of Commons of the
baronies in each of the several counties in Ireland in which
proclamations are now in force under the provisions of the
Crime and Outrage Act, and also the number of licenses
to keep arms that have been withdrawn by the lord-lieu-
tenant under that act since the Ist of January, 1850.
There are 34 places—sometimes whole counties—where
proclamations are now in force. The lord-lieutenant has,
since the Ist of January, 1850, withdrawn 792 licenses to
keep arms.
WANTED A MIRACLE.—A heart-rending affliction has
befallen the Pope of Rome. Two crowns destined for
two images have been stolen ! All Christendom will
grieve for such a calamity. The graceless thief must
have been a thief without compunction ; but if his Holi-
ness's priests had discovered the knack of making images
speak, as well as wink and weep, he would soon have
reason to repent him of his temerity. We commend
this suggestion to the jugglers of Rimini.—Cork Con-
stitution.

GOLD IN BUNDORAN.—At the mines lately discovered
near Bundoran, a piece of solid gold, weighing three and
a half ounces, was dug up this week. It has been sent off
to the mining company in London. If this continues, we
will have a Bundoran California, and, instead of the Fer-
managh, Tyrone, Cavan, and Leitrim folk coming to
" drink the sea," they will come " to the diggings." The
Ballyshannon mines are doing well; we have not heard
of any gold being found yet, but there is no question that
plenty of silver has been raised. The copper, lead, and
zinc are of the richest description, and in great abundance.
—Ballyshannon Herald.
THE IRISH EDUCATION BOARD.—The Dublin Evening
Mail of Wednesday announces that the Archbishop of
Dublin, ex-Chancellor Blackburne, and Mr. Baron Greene,
have resigned their seats at the Education Board, which
is now composed of Romanists and pro-Romanists. Upon
this John Bull remarks :—" The control of £140,000 of
the public money for educational purposes has thus fallen
into the hands of Dr. Cullen, the Pope's alter ego in
Ireland. And what, thereupon, does the Government do?
Does it put a stop to a system of Popish usurpation which
even that " Liberal" Divine, the Archbishop of Dublin,
found he could not stand any longer ? Nothing of the
kind. The Government tamely submits to the decrees of
the Popish Synod, and supplies the vacant places at the
Popish Board by two Protestant dummies, Dr. Knox, the
Bishop of Down, and Mr. Brewster, the Irish Attorney-
General ! "

PROSECUTION OF A CLARE PRIEST.—The Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland has instructed the crown proctor of
Clare to proceed against Father Comyn, a Romish priest
of Kilkee, for instigating the mob to violence, and for an
assault upon Mr. Studdart, justice of the peace, during
the late election in Clare. His excellency must believe
the conduct of Father Comyn to have been bad indeed
when he has directed him to be prosecuted. Father
Comyn has a cross-charge against Mr. Studdart for as-
sault, and another more serious still—for that he the said
Studdart did most unconstitutionally interpose his ma.
gisterial authority at the close of the aforesaid Clare
election, to prevent—and actually did prevent—the sup.
porters and sympathisers of the successful candidates
from lighting bonfires and firing a feu-de•joie on the
happy occasion. Such innocent recreations, even though
they were denied in the neighbourhood of Six-mile-bridge,
should not, according to Father Comyn, have been in-
terfered with by Studdart And his constables.

was carried b

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TUESDAY, JULY 2G.
Hug of the Parish Vestrie

a majority of 21 to 2,

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(Scotland) Bill and the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill were
read a third time and passed.—The Courts of Common
Law (Ireland) Bill was read a second time on the motion
of Lord BROUGHAM, and ordered to be committed.—The
Customs Duties Bill was read a second time on the
motion of Lord STANLEY, of Alderley.—The Missionary
Bishops Bill passed through committee.
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock.

THURSDAY, JULY 28

COUNTY COURTS.—Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table
a bill for the further extension of the jurisdiction of
County Courts. He stated that it was not his intention
to proceed with the other stages of the bill until next
session, when he should he prepared with another mea-
sure for improving and amending the law of arbitration.

SUCCESSION DUTY.—The Earl of ABERDEEN moved
the third reading of the Succession Duty Bill.—Lord ST.
LEONARDS entered his protest against the passing of the
bill, and moved certain amendments.—Lord BEAUMONT
expressed his satisfaction at finding that hereafter there
would be no distinction drawn between real and personal
property, but he thought that it would have been better
to have abolished the legacy duty and place successions of
all sorts on the same footing.—Lord BERNERS said this
bill would be unjust, because the land had to bear burdens
from which personal property was entirely exempt.—Earl
GRANVILLE defended the measure, and insisted that there
was nothing in the position of the landed interest to
justify its claim to exemption in this case.—After some
further discussion, the bill was read a third time and
passed.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—SeveraI bills were forwarded
a stage, after which Lord CLANcAaTy called attention to
the fact that certain returns connected with national edu-
cation in Ireland, which had been ordered to be laid
before the house in April last, had not yet been pro-
duced.—The E of ABERDEEN promised that inquiry
should be made into the matter, and maintained, in
contradiction to Lords Wicklow and Donoughmore, that
the national system of education was the greatest blessing
ever conferred upon Ireland.
The Bishop of SALISBURY moved for returns connected
with the revenue of his see, and made a statement to meet
the charges that had been made against him of receiving
a larger income than the legislature bad intended.
In reply to Lord Waldegrave, Lord CLARENDON stated
that the fleet on the coast of Africa had been maintained
in full efficiency, and that no exertions would be spared
to suppress the slave trade.
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter before ten o'clock.