The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

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solicit from the Treasury a loan of £50,000 for the Cork
and 13,ndon Railway Company, who have 800 men em-
ployed on the line.

ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT.—The Cork Reporter
says that an announcement was made to the Ala:l,,w and
Donneraile deputation, by the private secretary of the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, that parliament wa, to he
assembled in November, in order to remedy the defects
in the Labour Rate Bill, and to provide other tffectual
measures for the relief of distress in Ireland.

The Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Belfast, his lady and two
daughters had a narrow escape of their lives last week
near Whitehaven. They were travelling in a one horse
phaeton when the horse ran away. The Doctor leaped
out and escaped unhurt, and the infuriated animal could
not be stopped until he arrived at a gate which was for-
tunately closed, and into which the shafts of the carriage
entered and were so,fastened, thstAtus anitual. could not
move. '

The officials at the Dublin Castle, says the corre-
spondent of the Times, are literally borne down by the
weight of business, occasioned by the vast number of
communications pouring in from all parts of the kingdom
relative to the growing pressure of distress, and soliciting
government aid and advice. The Lord-Lieutenant has ap-
pointed two days in each week for coming into town, for
the purpose of examining into the correspondence, and
directing such necessary measures of relief as may seem
suitable to meet each emergency.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The attendance at the meeting
on Monday is described as "miserable." The chair was
occupied by Mr. Edward Clements, barrister-at-law.
Letters were read from several individuals, desiring their
names to be struck off the roll of repealers. Amongst
them was one from Mr. James Naughton, who considered
the conduct of the committee of management, with refer-
ence to the Young Ireland party, as unjust and in
opposition to the principle of the association. The
speakers were Mr. John O'Connell,Mr. J. M. M'Donnell,
and Capt. Broderick. The proceedings were very unin-
teresting. The rent of the week was announced to be
£lO2 2s. Id.

THE YOUNG IRELAND SCHISM.—The moral force
repealers of Belfast met on Monday night for the pur-
pose of passing a vote of unlimited confidence in Mr.
Daniel O'Connell ; but the admirers of Mr. Smith
O'Brien having mustered in considerable numbers, the
place of in eting was soon turned into a regular bear-
garden ; and recrimination, retort, and several set rows
gave a plea.itlg variety to the evening's performances.
The proceedings terminated in a bottle of smoke, the
chairman having left the room in the possession of the
physical force men, and without venturing to put the ori-
ginal resolution. Although a drawn battle, it must be
conftssed that Old Ireland came off second best.

MOST SINGULAR CASE OF LONG LIFE IN A FATHER
AND SON.—Mr. James Taggart, farmer, of Baronscourt,
has now arrived at the wonderful age of one hundred and
twenty-one, which, according to Keating's History of
Ireland, is within one year of the age of St. Patrick when
he died. More extraordinary still, in the month of August
last he built his own turf-stack; and on the 10th instant
his eldest son, Mr. Michael Taggart, who resides at
Omagh, was in this town as a commercial traveller, in
which capacity he has acted for seventy years. and is now
in the 99th year of his age. He has a beautiful head of
hair, and not a white one appearing, and his sight is so
strong that he can read the smallest print with as much
ease as when he was twenty-five.—Fermanagh Reporter.
MR. O'CONNEI.L.—In his progress to Derrynane, the
Liberator has been everywhere received with demonstra-
tion of popular enthusiasm. On his arrival at Nenagh,
on Thur,day, he was met some distance from the town by
a numerous and respectable procession, headed by the
Town Commissioners in a carriage and four horses, and a
large body of the Romish clergy. His entry into the
town is described as a perfect triumph. He arrived at
Limerick on Thursday evening, and on the following
morning an address, previously agreed upon at a public
meet ng of the inhabitants, was presented to him. In
his reply to the address he said,—" My time here is short
—my accounting day cannot be far distant, but the inter-
val between the present period and that shall be employed
by my utmost endeavour to restore freedom and liberty to
my native land (cheers) and to obtain that restoration by
peaceable and moral means only, for by these alone can
freedom be obtained and rendered secure." Mr. O'Con-
nell arrived at Darrynane Abbey on Saturday week, ac-
companied by several members of his family.