The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

11 on the Chancellor of

whether he would
v deposits.

shaieholders of the

Eastern Co.unties Company, held on lhursday, it was
agreed to carry out the project of a York line, in con-
nexion with the Northern and Eastern, the. Eastern
Counties, and the CambridKe and Lincoln undertakings;
and a capital id to be raised for that purpose. Mr. (;eorge
Hudson, in the course of the proceedings, alluded in
flattering terms to the benefit likely to accrue to the pub-

rse taken by The Times, and the reaction
in the share-market.

—On Friday

RAILWAY

week two commissari
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IRELAND.

The oat crop in Ireland is this Year next to the potato in
abundance. One farmer near Mitchelstown, Limerick,
threshed 400 stone to the Irish acre. _

A fire broke out last week iu the house of a farmer, at
Bogside, near Nenagh, which destroyed the house, and
the two youngest children were unfortunately burnt to
death. _ _ . .

•a •
A letter from Munster of the 21st informs us, that, by
a Royal order, sent by the Prussian Minister of Public
Worship to the principal tribunal of Breslau, a criminal
prosecution has been instituted against the Abbe Rouge,
for offensive observations upon the Catholic religion in a
little work, recently published by him, entitled Narchruf
(epilogue).
ATTEMPT TO MIIRDER.—A man named Martin Mor-
ris, overseer of the Ballinastick colliery, in the county of
Tipperary, was on Monday last waylaid by three assassins,
who fired two shots at him from behind a ditch. Tome
bullets were lodged in his back. The unfortunate man
has a wife and eight children, and his life was in imminent
danger on Thursday when the last accounts lett. No
cause has been assigned for this shocking outrage,.
Lord Farnham, last week, selected forty of the children
of his tenants and set them to work on some of the most

diseased potatoes. They reduced to pulp, on common tin
graters, 212 stones of potntoe, yielding a very large quan-
tity of starch, making, when mixed with flower, very
wholesome bread. The Earl of Roden is attaching a
large potato-mill to his powerful saw-mill in Tollymore-

park.
A. meeting of the Dublin Town Council was held on
Tuesday, at which Mr. O'Connell proposed that a deputa-
tion should be appointed to wait upon the Lo-d Lieute-
nant for the purpose of pressing upon the attention of

government the propriety of taking measures to prevent
the export of provisions of all kinds to any country except
England, of stopping distillation from grain, and of hying
a tax of 50 per cent. upon the income of absentees, and of
10 per cent. upon all other incomes. The proposition
was unanimously adopted
The 21b loaf was raised in Dublin a halfpenny last week,
and 44,i. is now the price of the 21b loaf which could be

per cen

,o risen

hin two mon

sere prop(

cers' price on Tuesday was 6d. per stone, whilst- six
weeks since it did not exceed 3d. The prices of tneat,
fresh and cured, have risen very seriously, and prices of
all commodities tend upwards.
SUMPTUOUS DINNER.—At the entertainment given
by the Marquis f Hertford, in the Castle Gardens at
Lisburn, to his Irish tenantry, the bill of fare was as fol-

tifty.fiv

ditto mutton ; ninety-seven joints boiled beef; ninety-
six tongues; one-hundred and ninety-two meat pies ;

sventy turkeys; seventy-two geese; total number of
dishes, 746 ; 36001b5. of bread ; 3200 pints of strong ale ;
thirty barrels beer, thirty-two gallons in ea:•h barrel; one
hhd. and six half-barrels ale and porter (a different sort);
3200 bottles of punch (cold), and a cask of cider.
ROME'S IDOL.—Rome is never at a loss for " the
making of a peony." Her sons are so skilled in the art

of conversion that even the diseased potato. they are turn-
ing into gold. The following is an extract from a private
letter, dates the 23d ultimo, from the county of Wex-
ford :—" I am sorry to find that you ire a sufferer in your
potato crop. It is the o.dy thing spoken of hese ; people
arc justly filled with alarm, but as far as our neighbour-
hood is concerned, I hoar of no remedial measures being
adopted except by a lot of Friars here, who ore selling
blessed salt, which unfortunate dupes purchase greedily
to sprinkle over their fields 11" Farmers are charged
ss. for a handful, and are promised to have the disease
driven away from their potatoes; and wretched cottiers
are charged 2s for the same service. In one day last
week a priest received fifty pounds for this blessed salt,
and the traffic in it is spreading rapidly.
O'CONNELL'S BLASPHEMY AND BLACKGUARDISM.—
At the Repeal Association last week, O'Connell alluded
to the statues for the Parliament Houses, and having be-

stowed a few passing compliments on Oliver Cromwell,
be ran a very vigorous tilt against Lord Bacon. He was
not surprised that they were about to erect a statue for
him. Who was he ? A judge who took bribes. Was it
to encourage other judges to follow in his steps ? Pope
had well described him as " the mightiest, wisest, meanest
of mankind." Well. then came Wycliffe, John Knox,
and John Wesley. Wycliffe was the first man who intro-
duced the doctrine denying the real presence in England,
and he asserted that the Sovereign forfeited his authority

for the monarchs of the present age. He possessed non
of the dignity which belonged to the English character

for he apostatized a second time, and returned to his cu-
racy. What was his end ? He fell dead as

mass just at the elevation. False to himself—false to his
country—fake to his God. Then came John Knox. be
whom Dr. Johnson had called "the ruffian of the Refor-

[nation ;" and certainly
existed. One of his principal works was
He denounced that as the n

more u

thing in the wo,

e hoped his statue would hold that