The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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I 'Lord Ffrench has given in his adhesion to the Irish re-
-peal league.
Mr. Steele's remains will be removed to Ireland, with
the view of his being buried near his great leader,
O'Connell.

The last meeting of the Repeal Association was ex
petted to be held yesterday (Monday). John O'Connell
is laid on the shelf, and the physical force repealers are
now resolved not to halt in their course.
The Queen has sanctioned a pension of £2OO a-year to
Mr. William Carleton, the Irish novelist, and another of
£lOO a-year to the sisters of the late lamented Professor
M'Cullagh, of Dublin University.
THE REPEAL ALLIANCE.—The Bishop of Dromore has
given in his unconditional adhesion to the Irish League.
A rumour strongly prevails in repeal circles that Mr. John
O'Connell will decline joining the League.
Nearly 400 emigrants sailed in two days from Limerick
last week. The emigrants who have left the Shannon
since the season commenced, carried on an average £l5
each, which would cause a drain from the district of
£60,000 in specie within three months.
ON DlT—that the worthy Member for Limerick, find-
ing himself " too childish-foolish for this world," is about
to retire into a monastery for married gentlemen, among
the Trap formations of Dalkey Island. The private
letter of the Sainted BLAKE may have hastened this wise
resolution.
A Dublin jury have returned a verdict, with damages of
£5OO and 6d. costs, against the proprietor of a Waterford
newspaper, for libellous remarks upon Mr. Usher, a
Waterford landlord, who it will be remembered, was fired
at by an assassin last year, and whose conduct to his
tenants the newspaper represented as cruel and vindictive.
OUR LEASE OF IRELAND.—The Tribune, one of the
treason papers of Dublin, gives, in its number of Satur-
day, the rules for the new Confederate clubs. The article
concludes as follows :—" With five hundred clubs, of five
hundred men each, founded upon such a basis. and ani-
mated by such a faith, we will give the British govern-
ment just three months' lease of this island from the date
of their formation."
PROTESTANT REPEAL ASSOClATlON.—Postponements
seem to be the order of the day. The Protestant repealers
have deferred their third sitting, with a view, no doubt, of
catching a few presentable recruits capable of taking part
in the next evening's performances. Lord Cloncurry,
they say, is to take the chair ; and for the twentieth time
it is asserted that Mr. Butt, Queen's Counsel, is to attend
and avow himself a repealer.
MR. JOHN O'CONNELL'S EXIT.—The deposed leader
has addressed a ponderous and stupid missive " to the
people of Ireland," conveying his ultimatum with respect
to the union of repealers. He has no stomach for the
thing—let his bishops and clergy say what they may. For
the life of him he cannot digest the " clubs," with their
pikes and rifles, and threats of physical force, with the
distant view of a colonial settlement floating before his
distracted vision. The postscript—like that of a lady's
letter—contains the whole marrow of the two mortal
columns of the Freeman's Journal.. Here it is :—" P.S.
By way of postscript I add, that I should perhaps not have
used the word ' retirement,' but rather that of ' refusal to
join the new league.' I trust to labour still for Ireland as a
member of parliament, and as home by writing—where I
am precluded from speaking."
PREPARATIONS FOR REBELLION.—The Dublin Mail
of Monday, after condemning the apa'hy of the Govern-
ment since the conviction of Mitchel, closes with the
statement that there are organised in Dublin alone 40
clubs, each counting on the average 400 men, and com-
prising in the whole 12,000 fighting men well armed—
that the progress of the new club was rapidly extending—
that there existed in Ireland, at present, 100 such batta-
lions, with daily and weekly additions to their numbers—
that when 600 of such foci of rebellion, or 108,000 fighting
and armed men, shall have been organised, then will be
the time for the National Convention of 300 to be called
into action—and then will the signal be given for the ge-
neral insurrection by a declaration of independence, to be
carried on by that body as the Provisional Government of
Ireland. It is also expected that all these preliminary
steps will be taken before the middle of autumn.
A CRUEL HOAX.—A few days since some Brazilians
arrived at the Victoria Hotel, Cork, and by some means
got noised through the town that Ledru Rollin and La-
martine had reached the island. This spread like wild
fire, and in the evening simultaneous meetings of the
Confederate Clubs of Blarney Lane, Ballinthamause,
Blackpool, and other " fashionable" localities assembled,
and addresses and duputations as the order of the day
were resolved on, and a numerous deputation from these
clubs waited on Mr. M'Cormack, requesting him to intro-
duce them to Ledru Rollin and Lamartine. " I don't
know them," said the worthy host : "they are not in my
hotel !" And pray are they not of the party of French-
men that arrived here yesterday ?" " No, gentlemen,"
was the reply, " you have been shamefully hoaxed. Those
gentlemen are not Frenchmen but Brazilians, residents of
Bahia, and they have just left in a coach and four for
Dublin, on their way to London." The astonished De-
putation looked petrified, but of course withdrew.—Cork
Constitution

FIGHTING PRIESTS.—Father Kenyon, of Templederry.
has addressed a letter to the Limerick Reporter, denying
a statement in that paper to the effect that he had retired
from political strife. He thinks that no honest Irishman
ought to retire until the country is delivered from her two
plagues or calamities, namely, Her subjection to a cruel
and greedy government of foreigners, and the prevalence
within her own borders of a system of trickery and trea-
chery, of tyranny and tergiversation,_ unexampled in all
past history, and known at present throughout the world
as balmy O'Connellism." He adds, that he will continue
to combat these twin monsters for eight months, but if
after that time, the people of Ireland have not " Decent
habitations and national freedom," and the dignitaries of
the church do not cease to blow hot and cold ;" and
that, "If John O'Connell be still encouraged by a weekly
stipend and letters from the highest quarters, to rattle his
father's bones for our amusement; if we go on renewing
his bills upon our gullibility, and lend him our ears as
often and as long as he may need them ; then I, for my
part, will abandon politics, and occupy my future leisure
in cynical writings and amassing coins." In the Limerick
Examiner, a priest named Vaughan, uses equally violent
language. He thus concludes :—" A great occasion,
based on the union of Repealers, is now offering itself.
The country should rise with and assume again the colossal
attitude of '43. The moment the first field in Ireland
ripens into fertility, then up with the million host of Mul.
laghmast, and the daring of Mallow ; and shame eternal
on the recreant who will not be for Erin and Repeal."
The writer of this epistle is one of Dr. Kennedy's clergy,
and will that bishop suspend priest Vaughan ? and if not,
why not ?

EXTRAORDINARY BALLOON ASCENT.—On Wednesday
Mr. Hampton made one of his most successful ascents
from the Rotunda Gardens, in Dublin. It was announced
that he would cross the Irish Channel, but this did not
prove a great attraction, and from the haze the object
could not be accomplished. The aeronaut was accompa-
nied by Sandham Symes, Esq., of Dominick-street, and
Mr. Bateman, of the " Shades." It continued to ascend
to a great altitude until the great body became almost be-
yond the range of observation, at which point it appeared
stationary for a considerable time. In fact no instance is
on record of so great an altitude having been attained in
Ireland. The balloon descended in the vicinage of the
Ashbourne road. The aeronauts landed in perfect safety
and with great ease. They first touched earth in a corn
field, but afterwards trailed into a meadow, where they
were immediately surrounded by a joyous and astonished
crowd of haymakers. The country people behaved with
the greatest civility, and used every exertion to aid in se-
curing the balloon. By some accident or mistake, in
those engaged in holding the prodigious bubble, it escaped
from the netting, and rose to such a height that it was
soon lost in the clouds. The voyagers returned to Dub-
lin. Mr. Hampton has written an interesting account of
the voyage, from which it appears that a gust of wind hav-
ing thrown over the balloon on one side, the men holding
on the netting got alarmed, and let go. Mr. Hampton
and Mr. Bateman were left hanging on to the netting ;
but at length the balloon slipped out of it, and having no-
thing but the silk to carry, it ascended very rapidly. It
was afterwards recovered in a field at Athearne, eighteen
miles from the town. It was safely folded up, and taken
to Athearne Castle.