The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

IRELAND,

At a small house in Dublin may be seen the following
announcement :—"Asses' milk every morning hot from
the cow."

The Earl of Clarendon, who has been appointed to
succeed the late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, arrived in
Kingston harbour on Wednesday.

11.1-r. James Watson, of whose recovery there was never
a shade of hope has sunk under his wounds, thus adding
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As an instance of the high price of beef in Dublin,'two
bullocks were purchased by Mr. Robert Heffernan, vic-
tualler, of Great Britain-street, at the enormous price of
£ll2. They were fed by Wilson Slater, Esq., of Bally-
mall on.

The inquest on the remains of Mr. Paxton, recently
murdered in the county of Down, terminated on Satur-
day, and the verdict returned was, " Found murdered by

some person or persons unknown.'
deuce to warrant a different finding.
Count D'Orsay has presented his statuette of -Mr.
O'Connell to the committee of the Central Relief Society
in Dublin, with the moulds and necessary apparatus for

as no evi-

taking casts, in the hope that their sale will realise some-
thing towards the relief of the poor.
THE CROPS IN IRELAND.—The weather throughout
Ireland is splendid, and the crops are most encouraging :
the potato, too, holds out promise of abundance. Grass
has at length become plentiful, owing to which butter has
fallen 2d. per pound, and butchers' meat has sensibly de-
clined in some_of the country markets.

It was stated at thegenerai l meeting of the proprietors
of the National Bank of Ireland, held in London on Wed-
nesday last, that the late governor, Mr. D. O'Connell,
owed the bank the sum of £4,000 at the time of his death,
against which the bank held life policies to the extent of
£5,700, besides other securities.

MORE VICTIMS TO THE FEVER AMONGST THE CLERGY
AND GENTRY.—The following gentlemen have died of
fever :—The Rev. John Reardon, P.P. of Castlemoyne
the Rev. Robert Potter, curate of Louisburg, Mayo ;
Stepney St. George, Esq., of Headtord Castle, Galway ;
Mr. Robert Davison, merchant, Armagh ; and the Rev.
Mr. Duanne, C. C. Michaelstown.
PUBLIC PRAYERS FOR MR. O'CONNELL.-The follow-
ing notice is affixed to the doors of the metropolitan
church, Marlborough-street, Dublin :—" R. I. P.—Pray
for the repose of the soul of the late lamented Liberator of
our altar, for whom the masses of to-day and the two next
days will be offered in this church.—Wednesday in Pente-
cost week."

EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY. - There is living at
present in Baronscourt, within seven miles of Omagh, a
man named Taggart, who has arrived at the patriarchal
age of 121 years ; he is able zo walk into Omagh and
transact business, and, what is equally astonishing, his
son, who resides in Oagh, has been a commercial traveller
for 70 years, and is now in his 99th year of his age. He
retains all his faculties, and has not a grey hair in his
head. He visits this town on business once a month.—
Erne Packet.

FRIGHTFUL OUTRAGES.-At Glenfin, in the county
of Derry, a man named Doherty, an agent of the Board
of Works, and the agriculturist of the estate, had made
arrangements for expending about £-100 or £6OO on the
property, in works. When in his own house, a few
days since, he was attacked by upwards of 100 armed
men, headed by a man dressed in woman's clothes ;
they persuaded the poor man to come out of his house,
and having taken him a few hundred yards off, and forced
him to put out his tongue, they cut away about an inch
of it. 'ln addition to the foregoing, we may add that a
conspiracy to shoot a magistrate in one of the southern
counties, has just been providentially discovered, the
particulars of which, we hear, are fully known. There
are, also, some outrages in the county of Limerick,
committed by " lawfully" armed peasants ; but these
usual trifles are scarce worthy of notice.

STATE OF CORK.—There'is One thing that must strike
the most thoughtless saunterer through our streets—the
number of familiar faces he will miss. Day by day we
read of the removal of neighbour and of friend. The
rich and the poor, the old and the young, are gathered to-
gether to the grave, and the heart is appalled by the chasm
in circles till lately uninvaded and complete. We have
this week to announce the death of Mr. Lane ; and by a
private letter we learn that a gentleman who left this
lately for London has been seized with fever and carried
off. We allude to Capt. Saunders, an old and respectable
citizen, whom his relatives little supposed they saw for
the last time when parting with him about, we believe, a
fortnight since. Another citizen (at least a gentleman
resident long enough to be so considered) is suffering in
the same place from the same cause, but we do not name
him, as we hope for his restoration. Again, there is
Doctor W. Murphy, of the South Mall, one of our most
eminent physicians—a man of large'practice, of high prin-
ciple, of extensive acquirements, an ardent but unobtru-
sive upholder of the honour of his profession, and a liberal
contributor, not alone to charitable institutions, but to
the relief of that (if we may so call it) private poverty
which shrinks from the disclosure of its wants—he too, is
taken, but not by fever, and will be lamented by many
who appreciated his kindness, his humanity and skill.
We could prolong the list without going beyond the week,
but we have no pleasure in the melancholy task.—Cork
Constitution.

IRELAND.—We ought not to despair of Ireland when
we see the marvellous change which half a century can
effect in its character. The man who has just closed his
famous career, and who, beginning from the disastrous
epoch of 1798, may be said to have governed the whole
soul of his country, found the Irish a nation of rebels and
left them a nation of paupers. Of the two, there is more
hope in a ,weak servility than in a fierce independence.
Both are painful, both are disgraceful, and both are costly.
But from time immemorial, among races as amongst indi-
vidual men, humility has been the step to promotion ; and
they whose lot is cast the lowest in the political scale, and
who have either lagged or been thrust to the rear of civi-
lization, must make up for lost centuries by accepting the
help and guidance of their more fortunate neighbours. If
it be asked why it should be so, and why duty should im-
pose so great a sacrifice on that amour pro re, and that
keen sense of dignity which Heaven himself has implanted
in the inheritors of an ancient name and a peculiar tongue,
it can only be answered that thus it must le. Such is
the order of the world. There is no one nation under the
sun which has not gone to school and been a pupil in its
day. The mightiest commonwealth that the world ever
saw, notwithstanding its heroic origin, its adorned annals,
its prophetic destinies, and its boast of inviolated inde-
pendence, had learned every title of its religion, its laws,
its customs, and its arts, from its Tuscan schoolmaster,
whatever the relation of pupil and teacher may have been.
England itself, the most dominant race in modern times,
adapted by nature for all climes, and by genius for all in-
stitutions,—a race of which every one is born with a soul
of mastery—glories in a perpetual union of the conqueror
and the conquered, which has made the " true Briton "
the descendant of a hundred tribes, and the pupil of a
hundred codes.— Times.
LAST MOMENTS OF MR. O'CONNELL.—The Rev. J.
Miley, Mr. O'Connell's chaplain, gives the following ac-
count of the last hours of the deceased. " At no stage,
especially for the last two days, was there anything like
pain. At this time the Vicar-general, who is a prelate,
with the clergy, were round his bed ; his breathing be-
came gradually more weak ; as the prayers were recited,
his hands were firmly clasped upon his noble breast, his
countenance perfectly serene ; and as I suggested to him
all that my
sacred office required and my grief permitted,
he responded by word and sign so as to express perfectly
and fervently the glowing sentiments of his heart. Daniel
and me, and his faithful Duggan, he recognised to the
last. Our supplications, in the sublime and consoling
language of the Church, were mingled with our tears, as
we knelt round his bed. When at last his mighty voice
was hushed, his countenance—his hands—responded to
the prayers. At thirty-seven minutes past nine, the

hand of the priest ofGed, privileged to bind.nd loose
on earth, even as it is done in heaven,".was extended
over him. Shere was .no struggle—no change visible upon
the features, except that as we gazed it Ives plain that a
dread mystery had cast its shadow over him. 'The spirit
which had moved the-world took its. flight so peacefully,
that all who were there, except the angels who were in wait-
ing for it, were in doubt if it had departed. He died as
an infant sinks upon its mother's breast to sleep. It was
by the soft and beautiful transition of the prayers that we
were reminded that we had before us only the noble body
of O'Connell, as if listning, hushed in attention, for the
summons to a glorious immortality. We are thrown upon
our own counsels with nothing to guide ~us. .but what we
inherit from his conversations and casually expressed
wishes. Acting on this, we are determined to hare the
heart embalmed, placed in, a silver urn, and transported
to Rome, as of old the heart of Robert Bruce was carried
to Jerusalem, when it was.net permitted him 'l3y,Provi-
dence to perform, in his own. person, that pilgrimage to
the holy sepulchre which .he had vowed, as O'Connell
had vowed, his pilgrimage to-the tombs of the apostles.
His body, also, is to be embalmed and deposited in a chapel
of the church of our blessed lady, Delle Vigne, 'where it
is to repose until, on our return-from leaving the heart in
Rome , we convey it to Ireland."
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. —A special meeting ,of
this body was held on Thursday in Conciliation-hall,
" for the purpose of adopting an. address to the people of
Ireland, upon the melancholy occasion of Mr. O'ConnelPs
death." The deepest sorrow was depicted in the feature&
of all present. The proceedings were gone through in
silence. The chairman, Cornelius M`Loughlin, Esq.,
pronounced a high eulogium on the deceased, and trusted
the people whom he loved and liberated, and to whom he
had devoted his whole life, would obey sod carry out the
solemn principles which he never ceased to inculcate.
The loss of such a man would be, he felt.assured, shown
by a national and general mourning.—Many of those pre-
sent wept.—Mr. O'Hea, with.reference to the dead said
" His chair was vacant, and was to be for ever vacant.
O'Connell was no more. The pride of their hearts and
the glory of their nation, the teacher of mankind, the
instructor of the world had departed from amongst them.
Who could speak their sorrow ?—who give expression to
their mourning ? He concluded by calling on the people
never to disturb the public peace, order, and tranquility,
which he had laid down for their guidance, and read an
address of the Loyal National Repeal • Association, to
their countrymen, commencing—" O'Connell is no more !
The animating spirit of Ireland has passed away. The
light of the nation is extinguished. Weep and wail, and
let your grief be without limit, 0 children of Ireland, for
the-cup of your affliction is full, and the extent of your

suffering without measure. The pride of your hearts has
been stricken down—the bright one of grin is removed—
the Liberator of our country has departed. With a sea-
son of sorrow, it has pleased the Almighty to afflict us to
the:uttermost—pestilence and famine blight our people—
in a foreign country, far away from his own loved native
land, low lies the champion of Ireland's liberties. Oh,
well may -we mourn him, for the whole human race de-
plore his loss, and the gloom of our bereavement afflicts
the world." The address proceeded to urge that they
should best prove that they loved him while living and
mourn for him when dead, by reverencing his principles,
obeying his dictates, and pursuing the same noble objects
in the peaceful steps he trod. " What nation, what peo-
ple has not lost a benefactor ? Our country has lost its
guide and leader. Oh, let that country still be directed
by his wisdom, and be marshalled beneath his standard."
The last sentence was—" By his long and faithful services
—by the noble example of his life—by the glory of his
immortal name—•we beseech, we implore you, fellow-
countrymen, swerve not from the principles, desert not
the objects, nor abandon the doctrines of O'Connell.
The address was adopted, and the meeting adjourned to
Monday the 7th instant.