The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. Walshe, the man who stood out for Meagher's
acquittal, had, it seems, no right to be on the jury at all,
but did duty for his father, deceased.
REPEAL Goons.—Among the wares which the Dublin
tradesmen have prepared for the especial use of ardent
repeaters, besides pikes and rifles, are " repeal shirt studs,"
" repeal letter paper," and " repeal wafers."
An unfortunate lunatic at Cove, named Grannell, for
many years a respectable tradesman, has murdered his
wife, who has been frequently recommended to have her
husband taken to an asylum, which she always declined.
Mrs. Mitchel, the wife of the Wild Irishman, has told
the Dr. Doyle Club, in answer to an address, that they
ought not, by any means, to allow John, if found guilty,
to be sent away in a convict-ship, and the Doyleites, of
course, promise that they won't.

MORE ARRESTS.—A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of C. G. Duffy, and informations charging T. D.
Reilly with having committed felony under the new act,
have been sworn to. On Tuesday, Mr. Reilly was brought
up at the police-office, and after a great deal of discussion
was admitted to bail, to appear at the next commission, a
couple of months hence. _ _ _

THE BEGGING-BOX AGAIN.—A meeting of the Con-
ciliation Hall repealers was held on Monday, when the
individual who acted as foreman of the jury in the late
case of Smith O'Brien was installed as chairman. Mr.
John O'Connell stated that the Association was now
destitute of funds, and he called on " the young blood of
Ireland—the children now growing up," to become col-
lectors, and if they could not contribute a penny a-month,
to give at least a halfpenny.
True bills were found on Wednesday against Patrick
Fogarty, Andrew English, Patrick Kelly, J. O'Brien, J.
Brenman, Michael Murphy, C. Macnamara, Frederick
Bridgman, Wm. Bell, Peter Devey, Bernard O'Sullivan,
Patrick Farrell, and Wm. Maclogher, for having been en-
gaged in drilling and training in Ship-street, in the city of
Dublin, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the
castle. The parties charged are connected with the con-
federate clubs.

THE CROPS IN IRELAND.—With respect to potatoes, it
is gratifying to know that a considerable width of them
has been got down in the district, and that the early
planted ones ace doing well ; exhibiting, where they have
been examined, proofs of a luxuriant and healthy germin-
ation. Wheat is most luxuriant in appearance, and bids
fair, so far, to vie with the crop of last season. Oats, in
rich, well pulverized land, are looking remarkably healthy.
Early sown barley has a very healthy hue. Grass lands
and young clover beds are remarkably promising.—Drog-
heda Argus.
On Tuesday week, a man named Harty, living near
Limerick, died of fever, and before life was extinct, his
brother went with a party of ruffians, and entered his
house and pillaged it of everything, and then drove the
cattle off the land, without leaving his wife as much as
would bury her husband. The unday after they again
visited the house, took the corpse of the (had man, flung
it on to the dunghill, and beat the unfortunate widow and
her friends. The police afterwards obtained possession of
the cattle, which they gave to the widow, and eight of the
ringleaders in the barbarous act have been committed for
trial.
There is no limit to the ferociousness and fanaticism o f
the Irish Confederates. At a meeting held in Dublin on
Sunday, a Mr. R. O'Gorman. jun., hazarded the bold
idea that Mitchel's advocacy of murder by vitriol squirts
and ginger beer bottle grenades was a direct act of
Divine inspiration. "Perhaps" said the brilliant orator
" that glorious enthusiasm which has swept him so far
ahead of us may have come from God, and as yet we do
not perceive its light." The idea was greeted with tre-
mendous cheers ; and fired Mr. Mitchel's colleague in
guilt, Mr. T. F. Meagher with still more brilliant con-
ceptions.
THE " UNITED IRISHMAN." —The renowned priest
of Templederry, the Rev. Father Kenyon, has arrived in
Dublin, for the purpose, it is said, of superintending the
editorial department of the United Irishman, in the event
of that journal being deprived of the services of its pre-
sent staff. Mr. Kenyon has been relieved of his ecclesi-
astical duties, and as it is added that he has no intention
of taking any steps to induce Bishop Kennedy to with-
draw the sentence of suspension, the rev. gentleman will
have ample time to devote to the pursuit of newspaper
literature. He is possessed of property in the county of
Limerick sufficiently ample to render him independent of
the income derivable from the parish of Templederry.