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

IRELAND.

Lord Cloncurry has sent £lOO towards the fund raising
for Mrs. Mitchel.

The final destination of Mr. Mitchel in now said to be
Bermuda.

The benchers of Ireland have postponed the considera-
tion of the admission, of Dr. Gray and Mr. J. H. Dunne,
both repeaters, as members of the Irish bar.
The United Irishman is declared extinct, and Messrs.
Devin, Reilly, and John Martin, have announced a suc-
,co.o,-, to bo ocalocl tho IrealL Pcloray to appear oa, cowl as
possible.
Mr. John O'Connell has advised that if the Irish Attor-
ney General dares to speak to any Roman catholic, the
latter should spit in his face. He (Mr. O'Connell) would
know him no longer, and would feel degraded to be seen
in conversation w►th such a man.
An Irish declaration against the repeal agitation, which
is now going its round, has already received the signa-
tures of upwards of seventy peers, including the names
of the Duke of Leinster, the Marquises of Downshire,
Londonderry, Waterford, Donegal, Drogheda ; Earls
Roden Donoughmore, Glengall, &c., &c.
The Sheriff of the city of Dublin is about to publish an
explanatory statement, showing the groundlessness of
representation made in regard to the panel. He will show
that there were fifty-eight Roman Catholics on the panel,
and not twenty-eight, as asserted at the trial of Mr.
Mitchel.

The Protestant Repeal Association held a meeting on
Tuesday in the Music Hall, Abbey-street, which was
crowded in all parts. Eight hundred new members were
admitted. The speeches and Resolutions were strong,
on condemning the prosecution of Mr. Mitchel. The
meeting separated in the most peaceable manner.
Mr. Mitchel, since his arrival at the convict depot on
Spike Island, has laboured under the deepest mental de-
pression. He does not regret the line of conduct he so
deliberately adopted, or its consequences to himself perso-
nally, but that his extreme dejection solely arises from the
irretrievable ruin of his domestic happiness.
MR. MITCHEL'S POPULARITY.—HaIf-a-crown has been
refused for a copy of the last number of Mr. -Mitchel's
paper. An admirable likeness of this gentleman, from a
daguerreotype taken by Gluckman, has had a prodigious
sale since Saturday week. One printseller sold upwards of
1,000 copies, and the demand is still exceedingly brisk.
RETRIBUTION.—A singular instance of retribution over-
taking the guilty is related in the Kilkenny Moderator.
A man named Long was arrested, last week, near Avoca,
county Wicklow, for a murder committed 27 years ago on
a female whom he had seduced. The body was discovered
in a sewer by the sagacity of 'a dog, and the accused, who
absconded after the murder, was not heard of until the day
of his arrest.
THE REPEAL RENT.—The last week's collection for
this fund, as announced at the meeting in Conciliation-
hall on Monday last, amounted to the enormous suns of
TWELVE POUNDS ! The O'Connells are said to get
the lion's share of the subscription ; if, therefore, the lion
is allowed to have his proportion this week, we would not
give much for that which would ,fall to the lot of the
jackals.
At a meeting (private of course) held on Monday of
the council of the Confederation, a motion, by Father
Kenyon, was put and carried, to the effect that the com-
mittee of the Confederation, hitherto composed of 150
members, be reduced to 21, to be chosen by ballot. An
address, bearing the signature of William Smith O'Brien,
and advocating a direct resort to arms, was submitted to
the new directory, and unanimously approved of. This
document is to be laid, for final adoption, before the open
meeting of the Confederates.
The assassinlike intimidation which preceded Mr. Mit-
chel's trial has been appropriately followed up. Mr.
Whitty, the foreman of the jury, has received no less than
five threatening letters of the most atrocious kind. One
of them was addressed to Mrs. Whitty, and menaced her
and her children, as well as Mr. Whitty, with certain
death. We are informed, upon excellent authority, that
others of the jury have certainly received similar commu-
nications, and it is stated that no one of the twelve have
escaped similar murderous notices.
THREATENED OUTBREAK.—It is boldly stated—and it
seems with perfect truth—that on Saturday week there
were thousands of misguided men ready to deluge with
blood the streets of the Irish metropolis in a reckless and
hopeless attempt, from which they were only dissuaded by
the assurance that the time was not ripe for open and ge-
neral insurrection. This, to say the least, is the infer-
rence to be drawn from the meaning of Mr. Smith
O'Brien, whose name as sponsor to the late insurrection-
ary appeal is a sufficient guarantee that its statements are
founded upon facts.
Is it prudent of Romanist writers to be complaining so
angrily of the composition of Mitchel's jury ? What if
they were Protestants? Was not the prisoner a Protes-
tant ? Oh, but he was a Repealer ! And have not the
complaining Journalists been averring for the ?ast three
months that " the Protestants of Ireland" were Repealers
too ? Have they not been averring it especially of the
Protestants of Dublin ? and if they did not know in their
hearts that the averment was false, why do they make
the Protestantism of the Jury a pretext of complaint and
discontent ?
An Irish paper has published a letter from the Earl of
Shrewsbury to Dr. Winter, avowing hiniself a convert to
repeal, us a preferable alternative to civil war, and calling
on the clergy to unite in obtaining it. He thinks the
display of an organised body would compel the Govern-
ment to resign, and Peel would then come in, and proba-
bly settle the church question, and so avoid the necessity
of repeal. It seems, however, from a subsequent letter of
the Earl, that the first was never intended for, publication,
.and that as it was—" Written in the utmost privacy and
confidence, immediately after the successful'
.popular re-
volts at Milan, Berlin, and Vienna, and at a period of ex-
traordinary excitcmealt and alarm at home, much of it
can only be regarded as the floating idea of the moment,
thrown out merely with a view of provoking an opinion
from those to whom it 'was 'thus privately and' confiden-
addrtesed."