The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

It is calculated that the O'Connell tribute this }ear will
reach £30,000.
REPEAL AssoctATios.--The proceedings at the Con-

On the 24th ult, two soldiers and a girl of bad charac-
ter were drowned iu the Shannon by the upsetting of a
boat.

LORD Du GuEy.---The Earl and Countess De Grey
will leave the Viceregal Lodge this (Tuesday) morning,
and go by railway to Kingstown, and embark at half•past
eleven for Liverpool. Lord Heytesbury is expected to
enter on the duties about the 21st instant.

"On Saturday morning," says a writer in the Warder,
"Mr. O'Connell commenced his great literary labour—
his Life and Times,' or by what other style and title his
projected autobiography is to be distinguished, employing
Mr. O'Neill Daunt as his amanuensis."

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—The Claddah men, as a race of
fishermen, in Galway, are called, brutally attacked a rev.
gentleman and others, last week, for attempting to fish in
the bay, the monopoly of which they claim. They cut
away the sails, &c., and sent them adrift. Fortunately,
the rev. gentleman and his companions were picked up by
a vessel passing.
DISCOVERY OF PIKES.—On the 23th ult. a girl named
Murphy went into Kildavin Grove, Carlow, to gather
broken sticks, and while walking on a ditch in the grove,
she saw secreted among the briars some iron bound. up
with hay.ropes. On unfolding the parcel, she discovered,
to her astonishment, two newly-made and completely-
finished pikes, such as those so much in requisition in
1798.

POTAI'GR Rtors.—On Thursday a very serious riot
took place at the Quay. Mr. Thomas Dobbin was ship-
ping potatoes for Liverpool on board a• vessel, and the
quay-porters and townsmen gathered, and prevented the
shipment. The police were sent for, and directed the
owners of the potatoes to proceed with them to the ves-
sel, and that they would be protected. They refuted to
do so, being afraid of the mob. Had they attempted to
go ou with the shipment the consequences would have
been serious.—Sligo Journal.
BARBERISING PAUPERS.—We often said—God help
the poor ! And who is there that will not respond Amen,
wheu we tell him of the prison discipline of the Dunman-
way guardians of the poor: It was resolved last Satur-
day by those humane, Christian gentlemen, that all the
women were to be " cropped," their Mir cut close—thus

uniting degradation and poverty. Sha'ved poles and por-
ridge ! It was further resolved. that if the master's wife
had not cropped every female head irk the house by the
Bth (this day), she was to forfeit £l.—Cork Examiner.
GALLANT RESISTANCE.—On Sunday last, during the
hours of Divine service, a [wry of four men, one armed
with a hluncleibuss, the whets with pistols, went to the
dwelling-home of Mr. Grey, of SoPwell, a respectable
Pro'e,tanr, and attempted to force an entrance for the
uurpose of ribbing the house of arms; but were bravely
resisted by Mr. Grey's two eons, one aged about twenty
nears, the other a fine little ladof about thirteen. and in
the conflict that ensued received some severe wounds--
the former received a wound in the left hand, from the
discharge of some of their fire-arms, and a poor old
woman, a servant in the house, received a violent blow of
a stone on the head from one of the party, inflicting-a
severe wound. After the party posSessing themselves of
a pistol, the brave young ferlows continued the straggle—
re-took the pistol, and fk.rced the miscreants to decamp
without effecting their purpose, and something the worse
of the attack.—Nenayh Guardian.