The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Limerick Chronicle states that—" In one tract of
the county Clare, where 20,000 acres were sown with
wheat this time three years, not more than 300 are now
laid down for seed."

The monster address to Lord Roden was presented on
Friday. It had attached to it nearly 9,000 signatures,
amongst whom were upwards of 50 peers, 70 M.P.'s and
baronets, nearly 200 deputy-lieutenants, and 800 magis-
trates. . .

An elderly lady, named Harwood, while at dinner with
her husband at Dublin, a few days since, had the misfor-
tune to fail in swallowing a piece of meat, which stuck in
the passage, and caused her death in a few minutes, al-
though the obstruction was removed by surgical aid be-
fore she expired.
The police-office at Cork was last week thronged with
wretched vagabonds, who, disliking the workhouse, had
committed depredations merely to insure quarters in the
gaol. Four gas-lamps were broken for this purpose by as
many boys, in the presence of the police, and many of
the prisoners had been turned out of gaol on the previous
day. - - - - - - -

NEWS FOR THE FARMER.—On Friday. eight foreign
vessels arrived heavily laden with breadstuffs ; Saturday,
eleven vessels with a similar cargo ; and on Sunday these
arrivals were followed by six others ! Total for three days :
25 cargoes, comprising 9 wheat, 12 maize, 3 beans, and 1
oats. With such arrivals, notwithstanding that the navi-
gation is impeded by ice, an advance in corn is not very
likely.—Cork Constitutzon.

POPISH INTERFERENCE IN CHURCH MATTERS.—It
appears from the late Order in Council in Ireland, requir-
ing a form of prayer to be prepared on account of the vi-
sitation of cholera, that the Popish Attorney-General,
Monahan, is one of the parties requiring a Protestant
Prelate to prepare the form of prayer, and the same to be
used in all Protestant Churches in Ireland. Mr. Monahan's
name was appended to the order.
ANOTHER ASSASSINATION IN LIMERICK. 011 the
night of Tuesday, the 15th instant, ,Edward Hurley, of
Ballynahinch, near Knocklong, was murdered in his own
house, in the presence of his wife and five children.
Hurley, after rising from prayers, directed his son to look
after the cattle before they retired to rest. The boy pro-
ceeded to the door, and, upon opening it, observed an
armed man outside. The fellow told Hurley's son to go
back, and with the muzzle of the gun forced him to the
centre of the dwelling, when his father, mother, brothers,
and sister, promptly assailed the intruder, who was re-
pulsed ; but, alas ! the melancholy catastrophe remains to
be told. As Hurley, the head of this brave family, was
locking the door, the atrocious ruffian fired from without;
the ball entered his left eye, carried away the upper part
of the skull, and the innocent victim fell dead on the spot !

POPERY, 'SLAVERY, AND " DOMESTIC NOMINATION."
—Day by day Popery is drawing her serpentine cords more
closely round the neck of Protestant liberty, and taking to
her embraces the congenial forces of anti-Saxon hostility.
Doctor Kirby, a first-class Irish bigot, has been appointed
to succeed Dr. Cullen in the presidency of the Irish Col-
lege at Rome; and our own smooth-faced and silver-
tongued Dr. Miley—the "prophet and the guide" of late
demagogue O'Connell, is put forward for the same influ-
ential post in the Irish College at Paris. A fine provision,
truly, for the future principles of the Irish students to be
reared for the Popish priesthood in Ireland. Theaupoint-
ment of Dr. Cullen to the see of Armagh is a pregnant
type of the policy of Rome, and the 14Iachiavelism of Tuam.
Doctor Cullen is well known to be the gloomiest and most
determined bigot perhaps in Europe; he was the friend—
we may say, the bedfellow, of Doctor Mac Hale, who, in
his late memorable visit to Rome, was domiciled in his
mansion. Hence is manifest the servility and submission
of that haughty and jealous hierarch, who, in the person
of this Doctor Cullen, suffered the Pope to set aside the
arrangements and the liberties of the Romish Church in
Ireland, which it had been the labour of his own more
youthful days to establish. Led by Hibernicus himself
(that is to say by John of Maronia, now soi doisant Arch-
bishop of Tuam), the Popish clergy claimed and established
a right of Domestic Nomination, whereby it became their
privilege to put three persons in nomination for any vacant
see in Ireland, as Dignus, Dignior, Dignissimus, and the
Pope's jurisdiction in the final appointment was limited
to a preference among the three.—Dublin Mail.

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal children,
remain at Windsor, in the enjoyment of good health.
Amongst the visitors to the Queen, during the week,
have been the Duke and Duchess of Nemours.
The Count and Countess de Neuilly, the Duke and
Duchess de Nemours, and the Prince de Joinville, visited
her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert on
Friday morning, and partook of luncheon with the Queen
and Prince.

Her Majesty, it has been announced, will not open
Parliament in person, and the reason has been further
assigned, that we are likely to have another addition to
the Royal Family of England in April.
The Duke of Rutland is surrounded by a family circle
at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. The Count and Coun-
tess Rossi (Madame Sontag) were among the visitors of
the noble duke.
The Earl and Countess of Stamford have arrived at
Enville Hall, from their town residence, Hill-street ; and
the Earl intends to celebrate his arrival with his new bride
by giving a ball to his tenants and tradesmen. The gay
Weir is fixed to come off on Wednesday, and will be fol-
lowed by a similar entertainment for the servanto of his
lgdollip, on po following Friday.