The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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IRELAND.

The Cork Constiteion says that the prospect of an
abundant harvest is everywhere presented. Potatoes are
plentiful.
At a meeting ofone of the Cork "clubs " on Thursday
evening, vehement cheers were given for the Parisian lady
who boasted that she had cut off the heads of three of the
Garde Mobile.
Mr. Justice r

crampton, whilst entering the Court:house,

at Cavan, last week; to preside at the assizes, fell clown in
a fit. Medical assistance being at hand, his lordship
slowly recovered; and is now considered out of danger.
On Thursday, two men, named AP Gee, and Hollywood,
were arrested in Dublin, on a charge of sedition. Bail was
ie parties make nine that the .A.ttornev-
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General for Ireland is now prosecuting.
On Friday, a few of Mr. John O'Connell's friends met
" in committee," and resolved that the half dead Repeal
Association has still the confidence of the public, and it
would be, therefore, inexpedient to break it up.
A woman near Cork, being shown some potatoes in
which the disease was apparent, crossed herself vigorously
and exclaimed, " Jesus preserve us ! we must be quiet
now !"

SLlGO.—Owing to the interest of Lord Palmerston,
Mr. Somers (repealer) was, on Friday, returned for Sligo,
by a small majority, but we have not learned the exact
numbers. At half-past three, Mr. Hartley was below Mr.
Ball, who was also below Mr. Somers.

It is said that Dr. Murray, has forwarded to the seve-
ral deaneries of his diocese a pastoral address, earnestly
exhorting the clergy to avoid all connection with the clubs,

eventing their flocks

from joining such confederacies.
At the county of Clare assizes, Michael Healy was con-
victed of the murder and robbery of Michael M`Namara,
on the 11th of May last, at Ennistimon, and sentenced to
be hanged on the sth of August next. The murder was
discovered by the accidental finding of the murdered

,es On his murderer

THE TB.

Dublin on Tuesday, and was merely remarkable because
the company was almost wholly composed of persons un-
connected with the Irish confederation or the repeal asso-
ciation. The repealers are becoming dissatisfied with
talkers and letter writers, and want words not deed."
The opening of the league caused no excitement out of
doors.

MORE ARRESTS.—On Wednesday, Mr. Meigher was
arrested at Waterford, and brought up at the Police-office,
Dublin. He was afterwards admitted to bail, the charge
being for a misdemeanor only, and not under the Felon
Act. On the same day Mr. Michael Doheny was arres-

rescue was made, but it was unsuccessful.
OPPRESSED.-Why don't embarrassed gentry go to
Ireland to economize ? A writer in the New Monthly
Magazine says,—" There are no assessed taxes in Ireland
whatever ; no tax on lands and tenements ; no tax on
soap, bricks, hops, post-horse duties, &c. ; no window
tax, or taxes on servants, horses, carriages, &c.; no pro-
perty or income tax."—John Bull cannot be such a bad
fellow, or he would grumble vastly at this one-sidedness.
A curious circumstance lately occurred in one of the
carriages of the Cashel Railway. A Romish clergyman,
the Rev. Mr. Vaughan, travelled with a gentleman whose
insurrectionary language induced him to believe that he

was in company with a detective. On reaching
he handed over the simulated incendiary to the
But great was his astonishment to find that the offend

Ipperary
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was a welt-known attorney, who I
legal proceedings for the false imprisonment
was offered in Limerick and accepted.
MORE MISTAKES.—Two of the Irish repealers
and Holywood, whose arrest by the Government we have
already announced, were charged with an offence on July

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2d, wliilst the information against them was not filed un.:
til the 12th. They were then sent post haste to Wicklow,
where the assizes were being held, and on their arrival
they found that the grand jury had been dismissed the
previous day. They are therefore at liberty until the
spring of 1849. If this is not child's play, it is something
very nearly akin to it.

The Times announces, apparently on official authority,
that the rumoured visit of the Queen to Ireland will not

take place this year. It is stated, however, that a royal
visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, was in serious contem-
plation, but that the intention has been abandoned till a
more favourable opportunity. The Times contends that
however much the delay may be lamented, it is impossible
for any sound-minded and sound-hearted Englishman
not to be sensible of its prudence on account of the incon-
venience and annoyance to which it is feared the Queen
and her ministers might be subjected by a small portion
of an excitable people.
AGRARIAN OUTRAGES.—We regret to find that agra-
rian disturbances are again becoming prevalent in Ireland.

On the sth inst. a fariner named Comerford Swing, at
Cabra near Thurles, was killed by a shot fired through
the window of his house as he lay on the bed.—On the

same day a man named Sadleir, near Cashel, was so bru-
tally kicked and beaten by some ruffians, that he died the
next morning. Threatening notices are once more be-
coming frequent. On the 30th ult., some fellows entered
the house of John Murphy, gamekeeper, to Lord Dunalley,
near Nenagh, and after beating him most cruelly, they
obtained possession of above £7O, and decamped. Two
of them have fortunately been arrested.

SOIREE TO Mr. O'BRIEN.—The soire at Cork, given
in honour of Mr. O'Brien, came off on Monday night
last, at which 500 persons were assembled. The utmost
enthusiasm prevailed. Nothing daunted by the recent
arrests, the speeches were highly seditious, and will afford
much food for a state prosecution. Mr. Smith O'Brien
said : -" I am ready, if necessary, to offer myself as a
sacrifice, but I am not prepared to offer myself as a sacri-
fice to an abortive attempt. lam ready to avow that at
present, and until the first blood be shed, I am for a con-
tinuance of queen, lords, and commons. I avow that I am
of opinion that the Irish people would be fully justified in
an appeal to arms, if they were fully prepared. I say, if
they were confident of success, and I say if on every mo-
ral ground, a case for resistance has been established. I
appeal to Plunket, to Saurin, and the men who took part
in the union discussions, and I say a case has been made
out by the manner in which the union was carried."
On Monday forenoon the Irish Felon and the Irish
Tribune published extra editions, containing accounts of
the new arrests under the Treason Felony Act. In con-
sequence of this renewed attempt at publication, crowds
collected in Trinity-street, in front of the offices of those
journals. The newsvenders were selling the papers very
rapidly amongst the crowd, when the police interposed,
and deprived some of the venders of the papers they car-
ried. In some instances, it is stated, persons who had
purchased copies of the Tribune or Felon were compelled
to give them up, the police writing the names of the
owners on the margin of the papers. Loud remonstran-
ces were made against the proceedings of the police, who
endeavoured to clear the footways of the streets. Sub-
sequently a large number of copies of the Tribune were
distributed gratuitously amongst the crowd. The police
again interposed, but many of the crowd succeeded in
running off with the papers.
THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.—The Times
of yesterday, has a biting article on the present position
of the felon party in Ireland. In the course of it, our
contemporary says,—" A tone of impotent scurrility has
been substituted for that of dignified defiance. The re-
bellion. in fact, has flashed in the pan, and pikes, rifles,
and vitriol are for the present- laid aside. So now, of
course, the Roman Catholic clergy begin to make their
appearance, like policemen when a row is all over. In
come fifty-seven clergy of the diocese of Killaloe, " as
ministers of the gospel, and men, however unworthy of
the exalted function, discharging an embassy for Christ,"
declaring that they cannot deliver, or silently suffer to be
delivered, any other message than that which they have
been commissioned to deliver, viz., " Divine message of
Peace, Patience, and Charity." This is all very good,
but rather late in the day. These spiritual halcyons do
not appear till the storm is passed and the calm is set in."
IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND.—A number of the clergy
of Killaloe have just issued a manifesto in which they
affirm that during near half a century of Imperial legisla-
tion their "ill-fated country has been continually sinking
into deeper and still deeper misery." This is the very
contrary of the truth. Ireland is wretched enough, and
we are the last to disguise her condition. But we cannot
on the other hand, disguise the evident fact that she has
continually improved under the Imperial Legislature.
Misery is comparative, and Ireland is much less miserable
than she was fifty years since. There is not one test of
prosperity that can be mentioned which will not prove
Ireland to have risen considerably since the year 1800.
In the year 1845 she consumed four times the quantity of
tea, twice the quantity of sugar, six or seven times the
quantity of coffee, two or three times the quantity of
foreign spirits, and eleven times the quantity of foreign
timber, that she did annually at the time of the union.
The registered tonnage of Irish shipping has increased six-
fold since the same date. The quantity of land under cul-
tivation, the rental, the amount of agricultural produce
and live stock, the roads, the bridges, the canals,
the river navigations, the railways, the public and
private conveyances, the funded property in the pos-
session of Irish residents, the new churches, chapels,
schools, and charitable institutions, the actual con-
dition of the people at the two periods according to
the evidence of trustworthy informants,—all establish
beyond a shadow of doubt that, instead of Ireland having
continually sunk into deeper and still deeper misery since
the union, she has continually risen, in spite of the way-
ward and intractable character of the people, and the
terrible visitations of Heaven.

COURT AND FASHION.

The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty's
Theatre on Saturday night.

- Her Majesty will visit Covent-garden Theatre in state
on Thursday next.

On Monday morning, the Queen and Prince, with the
young Princes and Princesses, paid a visit to the Zoologi-
cal Gardens in Regent's Park. Prince Albert afterwards
inspected Foley's marble group of Ino and the Infant
Bacchus, at Mr. Dickenson's, in Bond-street. In the
evening her Majesty went in state to Drury Lane Theatre,
on occasion of Mr. Macready's benefit. The Times re-
porter records a most enthusiastic reception.
On Wednesday, Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave recep-
tion to a brilliant circle of distinguished foreigners, the
principal members of the diplomatic corps, and of the
leading aristocracy, at the family residence, in Whitehall-
gardens. The invitations expressed that it was "to view
the pictares," and the hours appointed for the reception
were from three to six o'clock. The illustrious visitors,
on their arrival, were at once conducted to the gallery,
where Sir Robert and Lady Peel welcomed the numerous
guests, assisted in the honours of the reception by their
youthful daughter and lir. Arthur Peel, fifth eon of the
right hon. baronet. !In !the dining-room on theground-
floor, a table was yrovided w,ith a display of the ,choicest
fruit.