The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

It is calculated that the O'Connell tribute this year will
reach £30,000.
TtErEAt. ASSOCIATION.—The proceedings at the Con-
ciliation Hall, on Monday, were totally devoid of all in-
terest, save the amount of the rent, which was X 2,135.-

.On the 24th ult. two soldiers and a girl of bcd charac-
ter were drowned in the Shannon by the upsetting of a
boat. •

Loin DE GRE Y . —The Earl and Countess De Grey
will.leave the Viceregal Lodge this (Tuesday) morning,
and go by railway to Kingstown, and embark at half-past
eleven for Liverpool. Lord Heytesbury is expected to
enter on the duties about the 21st instant.

"On Saturday morning," says a writer in the Warder,
"Mr. O'Connell commenced his great literary labour—
his Life and Times,' or by what other style and title his
projected autobiography is to be distinguished, employing
Mr. O'Neill Daunt as his amanuensis."

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.--The Claddah men, as a race of
fishermen, in Galway, are called, brutally attacked a rev.
gentleman and others, last week, for attempting to fish in
the bay, the monopoly of which they claim. They cut
away the sails, &c., and sent them adrift. Fortunately,
the rev. gentleman and his companions were picked up by
a vessel passing.
Discovartv or PIK/M—On the 25th ult. a girl named
Murphy went into Kildavin Grove, Carlow, to gather
broken sticks, and while walking on a ditch in the grove,
she saw secreted among the briars some iron bound up
with hay ropes. On unfolding the parcel, she discovered,
to her astonishment, two, newly-made and completely-
finished pikes, such as those so much in requisition in
1798.

POTATOE RIOTS.—On Thursday a very serious riot
took place at the Quay. Mr. Thomas Dobbin was ship-
ping potatoes for Liverpool on board a vessel, and the
quay-porters and townsmen gathered, andTrevented the
shipment. The police were sent' for, and directed the
Owners of the potatoes to proceed with them to the ves-
sel, and that they would be protected. They refused to
do so, being afraid of the Moly. Had they
go on with the shipment the consequences would have
been serious.—Sligo Journal. attempted to
13AnnEntsfso PAtteens.—We often said—God help
the poor ! Anil who is there that will not reepond Amen,
-wl:ett we tell him of the prison discipline of the Dorman-
way giardians of the poor ? It was resolved last Satur-
day by those humane, Christian Ezentlerren, that all the
women were to be
" cropped," their lair cut close—thus

uniting degradation ar d poverty. •shaved poles and por-
ridge ! It was further resolvt d. that if the mast- r's wife
had not (lopped every ferna'e bead in the house by the
Bth (this day), she w,s to Meet' .Cl. Cork Examiner.
GALLANT RESISTANCE.-On Sunday Fist, doting the
hour. of Divine st rv'er, a ',Li* y of four melt, one aimed
with a hlunde.busa. ,he it he,s with pistols, went to the
dwelling-house it Mr: GI, y, of Sopwell, a respechible
Prole•tant, and atter' pted to force an entra• ce for the
ose rrhhing the house of at ma ; but were bravely
resisted by Mr. Grey's two ors. one aged a! out twenty
ears, tf.e other a tine little lad of about thirteen. and in
tie contlct that ensued received store severe wounds—
the forintr received a woi,n6 in the left hand, Dom the
discharge of some of their fire-atrus. and a poor old
woman, a servant in the house, ret eived a violent blow of
a stone on the herd from ore of the party. infiit ting a
severe wound. Alt, r the party possessing themselves of
a pistol, the brave young fellows coo.ti.med the struggle—
re-took the pistol, and fi reed the miscreants to d-camp
without eff, et Mg their I lino se, end sou ethitig the wot se
of the attack.—Nerragh Guardian.