The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Earl of Roden will sell his Dundalk property, and
be the first to act on the Encumbered Estates Sale Bill.
Lord George Bentinck is about to visit Ireland to " ob-
serve" its wants.

A clergyman in the county of Down, says—" The po-
tatoes are recovering, and putting on a healthy green as-
pect."
Forty young females, from the ages of 14 to 18, were
removed from the Sligo Union Workhouse last week, to
proceed immediately on their voyage to Australia, where
they are sent out as emigrants, at Government expense.
The Mallow Savings Bank has stopped payment. This
is the third bank in the south of Ireland which has broken
within a short space of time. The liabilities are not
mentioned. _ _ _

The Special Commission for the trial of the leaders and
other parties implicated in the late insurrection is fixed
to be held at Nenagh on Thursday, the 19th instant. The
presiding Judges are to be the Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench and Chief Justice Doherty.

THE ORANGE INSTITUTION.—The application for ad-
mission into this " loyal association" still continues un-
abated, and, when we consider that it is the only society
in which all orthodox Protestants can meet as brethren,
we cannot wonder at the increase in its members.

THE FUGITIVE LEADFn s —The Eitneriek Examiner
states that a gent►eman residing on the contment nas
written to a party in Limerick to state that he met
Messrs. O'Gorman, O'Donnell. and Doyle, i-• Brussels,
and that the first-named was about to set out for Paris.

The ship William Penn, of St. John's, New Brunswick,
and bound thence to Greenock, with a cargo of timber,
was lost on Friday night, at Dunlough Bay, on the coast
of Cork. The night was foggy, and the vessel struck on
shore, and immediately went to pieces. The crew, 27 in
number, were saved.

MORE ARRESTS.—The Tralee Chronicle announces
on Friday the arrest of Mr. John Supple, a respectable
solicitor, and one of the coroners for the county of
Kerry. He had been, it seems, a member of the " Exile
Club." Rumour has it that these proceedings on the
part of the authorities have been based on a letter of Mr.

Supple's, found among Mr. Smith O'Brien's papers

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QUEEN'S PLATES RUN FOR IN IRELAND.--The im-
perial Government is by no means niggardly in its allow-
ance to assist the breed of horses in Ireland, the sum
granted to be run for in Queen's plates being no less than
£1574 each year. A vote was taken for this amount on
Wednesday evening, and it received the unexpected vote
of Friend John Bright ! Wonders never cease.
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EMIGRATION To AUSTRALIA.—On Monday week 191
young women, lately the inmates of poor-houses, left
Dublin in the Shannon steamer for Portsmouth, from
whence they will be shipped for Australia. They were re-
joiced at the prospects before them. Each was provided
with a fair supply of clothing for the voyage. Their ex-
penses out will be borne by the several unions from which
they have come. Other unions are to follow the example
of those that have sent out this cargo of emigrants.
From all parts of Ireland, the accounts assure us that
permanently settled weather has set in, and harvest
operations are in rapid progress in every direction. From
Enniskillen we learn that the corn is, or rather has been
in, some dar.ger, for though it is said that wheat and oats
are damaged, yet we are told that since the weather has
taken up things look much better, and no serious deficiency
in the harvest is apprehended. The potato crop is much
injured, hut even of this some hopes are held that it will
yield better than was anticipated. From the south we
hear better reports of the potato.
ARREST OE M'MANus.—On Friday Head-constable
Crowley succeeded in arresting M'Manus, of Liverpool, on
a charge of treason. He also arrested a young man named
Daniel Corcoran, whohad been a clerk in the establishment
of Messrs. Lyons, of Cork, on a charge of aiding the escape
of T. B. M'Manus. M'Manus is the person who a fort-
night since was arrested by Constable Baine, in Monks-
town, and who escaped from the two policemen who had
him in charge at Mrs. Barry's hotel. On Saturday last
the American ship N. Chase, cleared out from the custom-
house for New York. and subsequently Daniel Corcoran
engaged a berth f3r himself, and another for " his brother
Patrick Corcoran." On Monday a gentleman went aboard
the vessel then riding in the man-of-war roads waiting a
wind, who represented himself as the Patrick Corcoran.

About two O'clock on Friday Head-constable Crowley
went on board the ship and recognized 111'iManus, whom
he had previously known in Liverpool, though he was dis-
guised, and arrested him. He also arrested Corcoran, and
brought both prisoners to Cork last night. On examina-
tion, before Mr.;4. F. Rnrhp, J P.. who was personally
acquainted with the prisoners, M'Manus said that he un-
derstood a charge was preferred against him, and very na-
turally he sought to avoid arrest. Corcoran, when asked
why he represented M'Manus to be his brother, replied
that though not his brother in blood, he certainly was in
mind and sentiment. Both prisoners were committed to
bridewell for the night. —Cork Constitution.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.—An act of Parliament
affecting joint-stock companies, including railways, has
just come into force, entitled, "An act to amend the acts
for facilitating the winding up the affairs of joint-stock
companies unable to meet their engagements, and also to
facilitate the dissolution and winding up of joint-stock
companies and other partnerships." The acts referred to
by this statute (11th and 12th Victoria, cap. 45) are the
-7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 111 ; the Bth and 9th Victoria,
cap. 98 ; and the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap 28. The act
is to apply to the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110, and to
mining companies, and to certain building societies. On
a creditor obtaining a judgment or order for payment, an
application can be made by petition to the Lord Chan-
cellor in a summary manner, where no fiat in bankruptcy
has issued, and the court can order a dissolution of the
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company,affairs, with full
ndappointan" official manager" to wind up
the powers to act for the benefit of the
parties; the same result to follow a declaration by a com-
pany of its insolvency. The act contains 128 sections,
with a schedule of forms, and many of the clauses have
reference to the power of the Court of Chancery, and to
the duties of the " official managers," whose appointments
are vested in that court, By the 123rd section district
commissioners of bankruptcy and judges of the county
courts are constituted masters-extraordinary in Chancery,
and matters may be referred to them, and they are to
have the same powers as masters in Chancery, to whom
petitions under this act are to be referred, and they are to
appoint, after hearing the parties, the " official managers."
In all proceedings the new law is to be termed " The
Joint-Stock Companies Winding-up Act, 1848."
A very singular effect of lightning occurred at Moulton,
in Suffolk, on the afiernoOn of Wednesday. A flash
struck a shock of oats in a field belonging to Mr, Woods,
consumed one sheaf, completely thrashed another, and
moved a third to a great distance. On examining the
place afterwards it was found that the electric fluid jiad.
V4teß,d the cal th in threg distinnt places.