The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. Harris, a master butcher, of York-place, Limerick,
was gored to death on Saturday by a bull.
The Warder states of its own knowledge that a solici-
tor and twenty other persons have abandoned Popery
within the last month or two in Dublin.

Mr. Antony Norris, Cardinal Wiseman's solicitor, will,
it is understood, be a candidate for the borough of Cashel,
to oust Sir Timothy O'Brien.
Upwards of 300 respectable persons have joined the Ma-
sonic body in Ireland, since the denouncement of the
order by Priest Cullen.
PROCLAMATION OF THE COUNTY ARMAGH.—At the
Privy Council, held on Monday, at the Castle, Dublin,
the parishes of Derrynoose and Keady, in the baronies of
Tiranny and Armagh, county of Armagh, were proclaimed.
Arrangements are being made for a great gathering of
the Protestants of Ireland, to take place in Dublin on the
12th January, to adopt measures to secure the repeal of all
the acts relating to the endowment of Maynooth College.
From the Ist of January, 1851, to the 6th December,
1851, there sailed from the port of Limerick, for Canada,
New Brunswick, and the United States, seventy-nine
passenger vessels, with 11,241 emigrants, of which multi-
tude 6,C27 were for Canada, and 5,214 for the States.
FIRE AT BELFAST.—A fire took place on Tuesday last,
at the paper mill of Messrs. Archer and Sons, Belfast,
and did considerable damage before it was suppressed. A
man, named David Baird, lost his life—not by the fire,
but by falling into the river, where water was drawn for
the engines.
During the excavations of Lough Corrib drainage, near
Menlo, a considerable number of ancient stone hatchets,
used by the earliest Irish colonists, were found several
feet below the bed of the river. Specimens of these wea-
pons have been sent to the Queen's College, Galway, by
Sir Thomas Blake. _ _

The Board of Trinity College have elected his Grace
the Lord Primate Chancellor of the University of Dublin,
in succession to the late King of Hanover. The office of
Vice-Chancellor is vacant by the elevation of the Primate.
It, appears that the Lord Primate was elected by a majo-
rity of one only, there having been three votes for the
Earl of Derby, one for Lord Bosse, and four for his Grace.
Great excitement is said to prevail in the town of Tuam
at present, an invasion of scripture readers having been
made there on the territory of the " Lion of the fold ;"
and their appearance being quite a novelty in that region,
some of the new visitors have met with rather rough treat-
ment from the townspeople, and have had to enlist the
aid of the police for their protection in their crusade of
conversion.

THE " NEW ORANGE ORGANIZATION."—The Banner
of Ulster says,—" In one of our late numbers we called
attention to the new Orange organization which has been
established in the Belfast district, and which, we have no
doubt, will, ere long, be rapidly extended throughout the
country, wherever the Orange system prevails. There is
no denying of the fact that, hitherto, the great body of
the men composing this powerful association have been
used as conveniences by lords, squires, and agents, and
other class gentry, for the accomplishment of policies in
which the men themselves not only had no interest, but
which were frequently in opposition to every interest to
which, as rational beings, their attachment might have
been presupposed. In this respect, the Orange societies
have been made to do everything for the advantage of a
set of aristocratic leaders and their auxiliaries, and no-
thing whatever for themselves or their families, or for the
country in whose prosperity they he as deep a stake as
any other class of their fellow-citizens. In many cases
Orangemen have been actually treated with less in-
dulgence than others, on the ground that their ' liege
lords' could depend on them in any emergency, and
hence their fraternal. relation itself became an excuse for
their feudal depression. The new institution will ac-
cordingly be allied with the cause of industrial justice,
and the temporal welfare-of its members and of their
families will be superadded to its other social objects.
We understand also that a widows' fund. and a fund
for educational purposes, will be established on the gene-
ral principles already recognized in other friendly asso-
ciations, while every constitutional aid will be afforded
to the efforts of country members in obtaining from Par-
liament such a land system as will enable them to live in
the country of their birth."