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 year will
reach £30,000.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The proceedings at the Con-
ciliation Hall, on Monday, were totally devoid of all in-
terest, save the amount of the rent, which was £2,135.
On the 24th nit. two soldiers and a girl of bad charac-
ter were drowned in the Shannon by the upsetting of a
boat.

LORD Da GRAY.—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.
BRDTAL OUTRAGE.77-The Clsddah MD, as a race of
fishermen, in Galway, are called,. brutally attzeked a rev.
gentleman and ethers, last week, for attempting to fish in
the bay, the monopoly of which .they claims.. They cut
away the sails, Scc.,, and sent them adrift. Fortunately,
the rev. gentleman and his companions were picked up by
a vessel.passing, _
DISCOVERY OF Pigrs.—On the Lath 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.

YoTATOIt RIOTS.—On Thursday a very serious riot
took.plade at the Quay. Mr. Thomas • Dobbin was ship.
ping potatoes for LiVerpool on •board a vessel, and the
quay-porters and townsmen gathered, and iwevented 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 refused to
do so, being afraid of the mob. Had they attempted to
go on with the shipment the consequences would have
been serious.--Sligo Journal.
BARBEIIISING PAUPEUS.—We often said—God help
the poor l And who is thare that will not respond Amen,
when 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 hair cut close—thus

uniting degradation and poverty. shaved poles and por-
ridge It was further resolvt d. that if the master's wife
had not cropped every ferna'e' head in the house by the
Sth (this day), she was to forfeit .£l. Col k Examiner.
GALLANT RESISTANCE.—On Sunday last, doting the
hours of Divint service, a nix y of four men. one armed
with a hlundeibuss. the tohtos with pit,tol-, went to dr!
dwelling-house of Mr. Gil y, of Sopwell. a. respectable
Protestant, and attempted to force an entrance for the
vurpose of robbing the house of aims; but were bravely
resisted by Mr. Grey's two ors, one aged al out twenty
years, the other a fine little lad of about thirteen. and in
the conflict that ensued receivt d some severe wounds—
the former received a wound in the lett hand, from the
discharge of some of their fite-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. Atter the party possessing themselves of
.a pistol, the brave young fellows cot.tinued the stroggld—
re-took the pistol. and forced the miscreant. to decamp
without effecting their purpose, and something the worse
of the attack.—Nenuh Guardian.