The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

IRELAND

A special commission has been issued for Westmeath
for the trial of the prisoners in Mullinzar gaol.
The Dubin Mail states that there w.ll be an explana-
tion on the subject of the late ministerial difficulties on
the part of either Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell.
A child, three years old, named Farrell, residing near
Maryborough, Ireland, was, last week, torn to pieces by
a pig, in the temporary absence of the father.
The Drogheda and Londonderry coach was upset on
Thursday and the driver was killed. One or two pas-
sengers were hurt.
The Irish Colleges are to be styled respectively the
Queen's Colleges, for Belfast, Cork, and Galway. Dr.
John Ryall has received the appointment of Vice-Principal
of the " Queen's College for Cork."
Whilst Mr. John M'Curdy, of Magi Ili gan , near Cole-
raine, was out sporting on the 25th ult., he was acciden-
tally shot dead by his servant, to whom he had previously
given a gun, and directions that he should fire at the fowl
immediately after him.

On Christmas night, at 'Corbally, near Waterford, a
quarrel took place at a public house between two men
named Hacket and Power. They were separated by the
landlord, when the farmer assembled his three brothers,
and, concealing themselves behind a hedge, they waylaid
poor Power, and he died of the injuries received.
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS BY DROWNlNG.—Melan-
choly to relate, a boat from Gaily Cove, with six men to
the west of Crookhaven, on Tuesday went out to fish,
and she was struck by a heavy sea, and all hands lost.
Five men were drowned in the harbour of Sneem, county
Kerry, last week, while returning to the shore ; the boat
sunk from being overloaded with herrings.
DISTRESSING CASE OF BIGAMY.—A few days ago the
daughter of a highly respectable citizen, wh2 is connected
with a public establishment in this city, wa married to a
gentleman, a native of Galway, and after the ceremony
proceeded with him to France; but the previous marriage
of the gentleman with a lady by whom he has children,
transpired after their departure, and the unhappy parents
of the deluded girl have been obliged to resort to the laws
to punish the offender. For this purpose a warrant has
been issued for his apprehension.—Dublin paper,
POTATO ROT AND PRIESTCRAFT.—BV a letter from
Anacnoe, in the county of Wicklow, we learn the gratifying
fact, that in that neighbourhood the disease has made
little progress, and that the loss is but trifling. This*.
formation is accompanied with a further account of the use
to which priestcraft has turned the disease in that quarter,
and which lamentably elucidates the intellectual state of
our poor popish peasantry in these enlightened days. We
learn that from the adjoining county of Wexford holy
water is brought a distance of twenty or thirty miles, and
that the priests of Wicklow, not willing to leave all the
profits to the Wexford worthies, who have the holy water,
take care to sell, at a very high price, some blessed salt,
which, being m'xed with the water, the charm is complete,
and to this cause the cessation of the disease is attributed
by the deluded Romish peasantry. It seems, moreover,
that they are persuaded the benefit in this case of the
charm cannot be extended to the potatoes of heretics, but
that it would lose its purifying virtue if sold to, or touched
by Protestants. What a hopeful task it is to ameliorate
the condition of a country by multiplying, at the public
expense, priests of fraud and superstition, who trade in
practices like these.—Dublin Statesman.

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The chair at the meet-
ing on Monday was taken by the head pacificator, whose
appearance in the hall, after his protracted absence, was
the signal for most uproarious cheering. The Chairman
returned thanks for " the high honour" conferred on
him, in his peculiar style of pomposity and magnilo-
quence, and congratulated them on the progress of their
peaceable agitation—that " sublime " and " tremendous
engine." whose mighty influence had induced the adher-
ents of Joseph Sturge and the Anti-Corn-Law-League
in England to adopt it as the model for their system of
political agitation. The minutes of the last day's pro-
ceedings were read by the secretary, and a letter from
•• that most useful " Irishman, Vim. Smith O'Brien, re-
peating his call for no compromise, and regretting the
necessity which obliged them to eject from parliament
so many otherwise excellent non-Repeal representatives,
in order to procure the election of the required seventy
members of Conciliation Hall. The Liberator then in a
speech of an hour and a half's length, proceeded to no-
tice the last letter of the Times' Commissioner. He en-
tered into a wearisome recapitulation of the statements
respecting his property, charging the " two gutter Com-
missioners " with the suppression in their reports of
many important facts which tended to vindicate his cha-
racter as a landlord, and in some instances with having
wilfully asserted the most " arrant falsehoods." The
two commissioners were held up to the ridicule of the au-
ditory, and the most vituperative terms heaped upon
them with characteristic liberality. Mr. Russell, whom
he denominated " liar the second," was visited with espe-
cially indignant denunciations, for having sustained the
allegations of " liar the first," Foster went down de-
termined to view everything with an eye of malignant en-
mity; and Russell worked in harness with him—" an ug-
lier pair of beagles never hunted game "—(laughter).. He
asserted that the letters of Messrs. Fitzgerald and Butler,
and the testimony of Mr. Hamilton, approving of his
conduct as a landlord, had not been the least invalidated,
while his own statements, made on a previous oscasion,
remained all uncoutradicted. The amount of rent col-
lected during the past week was declared to be £2,371
3s. Od.