The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.
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The agent for Sir R. O'Donnell has written to say that
the negociations of Mr. Nangle for the purchase of Achill
island, are broken off.
A young gentleman, the only son of a member of the
Society of Friends, received confirmation on-Sunday,- at
the Cathedral, Limerick, from the bishop of the diocese.
At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on
Monday, the rent amounted to £2O 14s. 6d., including. 3
from America.

One of the most destructive fires which has taken place
in Dublin (the Custom-house excepted) during the last
20 years, broke out about midnight on Saturday, on the
extensive premises of the Messrs. Hutton, the eminent
eoach-builders, of Summer-hill, by which, in the course
of a few hours, property to the extent, it is feared, of
£15,000 has been destroyed, and 150 industrious artisans
thrown out, temporarily at least, of lucrative employ-
ment.

THE DISMISSED BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—A public
meeting of the ratepayers of the Ennistymon union presi-
ded over by Sir Lucius 0' Brien, M.P., was held on fri-
day for the purpose of "considering the very dispotic and
and alarming step taken by the commissioners of the Poor
Laws in the dismissal of the board of guardians of that
union." After a fair share of indignant eloquence had
been poured on the heads of the Commissioners a series
of resolutions were agreed to expressive of indignation at
this unconstitutional exercise of power. _ _

A " CUT" FOR MR. JOHN O'CONNELL.-MT. John
O'Connell has received a severe cut from Mr. Moore,
the2Romish member for Mayo, who, in declining an invi-
tation to attend the proposed meeting of Roman Catholic
members, thus disposes of a charge of having assailed the
memory of Mr. O'Connell's father :—" Take my advice,
my dear sir, and leave your father's memory alone—it
can take care of itself. It is far too great to he affected
by a sneer of mine, were I capable of uttering such.
Have better faith in your father's glory, and less confi-
dence in the virtue of such assistance as your own petulant
advocacy can supply. As for the expressions which you
have thought proper to apply to me—such as ' Orange,'
paltry,' unworthy,' contemptible,' &c., it would be
inappropriate to call them ' unworthy,' or even ' con-
temptible'—they are simply stupid; and I should be as
great a blunderer as yourself, if I noticed them further."

IRISH MANUFACTURE.-Mr. H. Applevard, of Bal-
briggan, has produced an article of Irish manufacture
which, we may safely say, cannot be surpassed in any
part of the world. He has brought cotton to rival, in
texture and softness, the finest silk, insomuch that his
stockings of that fabric might be worn in full dress, even
at the Queen's court. A dozen pair of ladies' stockings,
of full size, and weighing only nine ounces, which he has
in readiness to be forwarded to the Hyde Park Exhibi-
tion, are pre-eminent in the beauty and perfection of their
workmanship. They will, certainly, bear the bell at that
gorgeous fair, and inspire many a belle with a desire to
wear them. That, by the bye, would be the way to set
them off to the utmost advantage. If Mr. Appleyard
would really take the shine of their glassy palace, let him
present his specimens of handicraft, encircling a dozen
pairs of ancles, and all of equally genuine Irish manufac-
ture with his stockings. The Balbriggan table will, how-
ever, display stouter proofs of Irish skill and industry than
such fairy works. In every description of cotton and silk
hosiery, it ,can challenge a comparison with Nottingham
itself. Such, indeed, is its reputation, that fraudulent
substitutions, the products of the Scotch and English
looms, are offered in some monster establishments of our
city for Balbriggan wear ;" and it is necessary for those
who desire at once to encourage native enterprise, and to
secure the best value for their money, to be-ware of coun-
terfeits.—Dublin Mail.

IMPROVED PROSPECTS FOR IRELAND.—If we anticipate
anything for the next year, it is that steady industry will
go forward ; that men will learn to depend more and
more upon themselves and less upon Governments; that
our trade and commerce will advance, under an average
season ; and that the slow but effective pressure of the
nation on behalf of free education will be felt, and will
advance the cause of enlightenment. Our country has
been loag enough the victim of sects and factions, of
political impostors and sectarian schemers ; and it now
exhibits some satisfactory symptoms of a determination
to act a little for itself. The railway and the steam-ship,
the flax-gower and the flax-steeper, the spinner and the
bleacher, are all in activity, labouring, each of course for
his own separate advantage, but all nevertheless strug-
gling to advance the nation, and give it a real rank among
the nations of the world, than if they had, or pretended
to have, that object in view, and were straining their
lungs like so many enthusiastic patriots. We therefore
entertain strong hope and take high courage; and much
as Ireland is advanced now, compared with what she was
at the beginning of the century, that advance is little in
compariso❑ with what may be anticipated from the career
which seems to be opening for her as she glides into the
second half of this great centenary cycle of our race.—
Belfast Whig.—[Protestant Ulster may thus progress,
but the poor victims of the Papacy in Connaught and
Munster will continue as degraded and indolent as ever.]