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 ire crowded to
suffocation. At one popular cafe dinners for 600 guests
are prepared every day.

HER MAJESTY'S Vlstr.—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
commissio❑ 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 Chatterton 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 gent'emanlike appearance, and very
respectably connected, was tried at Cork assizes for
stealing two pistols, sic 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.—TIsere 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 I\TIRACLE.-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.
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THE IRISH EDUCATION BOARD.—The Dublin Evening
Mail of 'Wednesday announces that the Archbishop of
Dublin, ex-Chancellor Blackburne,andMr. 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.—TLe 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 moat 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 Coniyn, have been in-
terfered with by Studdart and his constables.