The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived in Dublin from
this port on Thursday morning. His Excellency disem-
barked under a salute of 21 guns.
At Nenagh, on Saturday week, one Walsh was hanged
for the murder of a man named Barachree. The culprit

had previously seduced the wife of his victim.
The marine condemned to •death at Cork has received
a free pardon, in consequence of an irregulari'y in the
proceedings having rendered the sentence of the court-
martial illegal. The man baa been sent back to his com-
pany, the authorities expressing a hope that his recent pe-
ri

may have a reformatory cEect.
A NOVEL BEEOIVE.—Some time since a swarm of
bees altghted on the head of one of the ornamented lions
lit front of Viscount O'Neill's residence, Shane's Castle.
They proceeded down his throat, and are at present
strong and healthy, and seem " secure from every harm."
—Dublin Freeman.

STRANGE INVESTIGATION.---011 Monday, the magis-
trates of the city of Cork were engaged in investigating a
charge of murder preferred by the police there against cer-
tain parties, who, they alleged, had murdered a sailor
named Kennedy. While the justices were in full con-
clave in this inquiry, Kennedy-himself appeared to as-
sist them.

IRELAND.—Paddy Bull, it appears, is to go to his set-
tlement as a pauper on John Bull. Nothing is said of
the poor English labourer—the little farmer and trades-
man—he cannot, a-la-Whig, raise ti,e serfs of Popish
rule to our level ; so we are to eiui to theirs. We want
-a strong government, that-will .make every man do his
duty, and we want nothing el.e.
WRECK OF THE " RAMBLER" STEAMER.—It will be
recollected that, a considerable time ago, the Rambler
steamer was wrecked upon the Maiden Rocks, and that
the wreck was abandoned as irrecoverable by advice of se-
veral eminent engineers belonging to Glasgow. Captain
Coppin, of this city, purchased the wreck, for a very small
sum, and has, lately, by astonishing; perseverance. as well
as by superior engineering skill, succeeded in raising both
of the engines, and is is confidently expected that he will
also recover the two boilers.—Derry_paper.
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On Wednesday, a meeting of the ieneral assembly of
the Preshy'erian Church, in Ireland, was held in Dr.
Cooke's church, Belfast. After a long and somewhat
angry discussion, the assembly affirmed the principle of
attaching itself to the government educational institution,
for the present, so far as the reception of the expected
endowments for the peculiar education required, the ap-
plcation for bursaries to excite emulation among the stu-
dents, together with the admissiAt that the assembly is
willing to place its youth under the Professors of the
Queen's College, should they be orthodox, can be properly
described as an affirmation of the principle.
Tti.. IRISH COLLEGES AND THE POPE.—The following
appeared in the Dublin Evening Freeman of Tuesday :
" We stop the press to announce to the country the most
important intelligence we have for some time had to lay
before our readers,—it is no less than the decisive con-
demnation of the godless Colleges Bill by the court of
Rome. The lateness of the hour at which we received
this intelligence precludes the possibility of our entering
into details. We can state, however, upon the best au-
thority, that the College of Cardinals, having all the do.
cuments before them, unhesitatingly, unanimously, and
deci.ively pronounced their condemnation of the govern-
ment measure."

THE REPEAL MAGTSTRATES.—AII the repeal magis-
trates have now received, and duly replied to the " preli-
minary" letters of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Fitzgerald,
of Murkridge House, gives the model sentence, suggested
by M r. O'Connell's letters, a somewhat new turn, thus:—
" In reply, sir. I beg to state that I should be sorry to in-
terfere in the slightest degree with the desire of the Lord
Chancellor to perform an act of justice towards those ma-
gistrates who were so unconstitutionally and unjustly de-
prived of their commissions by the late government. As
one of them, theref re, I can have no objection to resume
the duties of the office and be restored to the same position
which I held previous to the 25th of May, 1843." Mr. R.
A Fitzgerald does not give the slightest thanks for the
restoratio❑ of his commission.

Although all the Irish repeal magistrates have been re-,
stored to the commis ion of the peace, none of the Orange
magistrates, with the exception of Colonel, now Sir Wil-
liam Verner, have been so dealt with, and much dissatis-
faction exists in consequence. The Dublin Mail says—
" the only solution of the disparity which suggests itself
to us—and, indeed, it is the only reasonable one—is this,
that the measure of condonation is Mr. O'Connell's : that
it is his privilege to wield it as he will : that he desires to
show his power to reward or punish ; and that in the ex-
ercise of his good pleasure, he points outs the Repealers
for honour—the Orangemen for insult: the Repealers to
be restored by an unmerited act of grace, and the Orange-
men to be punished by wanton exercise o; prejudice."
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Lord John—not Russell—but Mac Hal- has again
taken to the pen, and again selects a Prime Minister as a
correspondent. As ministers have something to do, they
must marvel at the pertinacity with which all sorts of
scribblers persist in pestering them with prescriptions,
and with dull reiterations of facts of which they have been
informed a thou.and titres before. Only that the Free-
man is a devout admirer of the Doctor, we should sus-
pect him of a quiz when he says, that "his Grace the
Archbishop," " with an ability peculiarly his own, pllices
the grant for Ireland in comparison with the grants of
government in other cases." In truth, the ability is pe-
culiarly " his Grace's," for it consists simply in an ex-
ceedingly
verbose "comparison" of the aforesaid grants,
and a genuine NlacHalian vituperation of men and things
which have not had the good fortune to obtain the ap.
proval of his intolerance.
THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—In the House of
Lords, on Friday, Lord Roden called the attention of the
house to this subject, and said that he had traversed a
great part of the province of Munster, and he was not
guilty of any exaggeration when be stated that during the
whole progress of that journey he did not see one field
that was not either decaying or had not actually decayed,
from the disease. This calamity was accompanied by an-
other evil, the great deficiency of the oat crop in that part
of the country. But oats formed a great article of food
to the Irish people, and if that crop failed to the extent
he was afraid it would in some districts, the calamity
would indeed, be awfully increased. On the western
coast of Ireland there was an abundance of food of a par-
ticular species, but facilities of carriage were required to
make it uvailable to other parts of the country—he alluded
to the fisheries. The people regard this calamity as a vi-
sitation from heaven ; but they murmured not; and in
whatever direction any person travelled in Ireland, he
could not but be strut.k with the manner in which they
bore their distress. Only that morning had he received a
letter confirming had he received a letter confirming, as
to the north of Ireland, the statement which the noble
lord opposite (Lord Monteagle) had made a few days ago
as to the south; and he mentioned these things to induce
their lordships to be more anxious, and more zealous, if
p .ssible, to remedy these evils ;. and with the hope, also,
that it would call forth the sympathies of those who
might be able to assist the people of Ireland. At the
same time, if his voice could reach the ears of those indi-
viduals who possessed any property in Ireland, and it
could have any effect to speak to them from that place
upon so solemn a subject, he would implore them, under
every circumstance, to go home to their country and peo-
ple, to live amongst them, and encourage them in their
present difficulties (hear, hear), and to show them that
they themselves were willing, under these great trials, to
share with them the evils they were forced to bear.
AN ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—During the past week
an incident occurred in the military circles of the city,
which has afforded much amusement to the public, and
caused no small annoyance and vexation to the parties
concerned. An officer belonging to a cavalry regiment,
stationed near this city, became acquainted, on a voyage
from Bristol to Cork, with a young nobleman of agreeable
manners and fascinating conver,ational powers, travelling
under the name of Lord Clifton. The officer invited his
lordship to the mess of the regiment, which the young no-
bleman, who said he was merely travelling for amusement,
gladly accepted. The officers of the regiment were much
pleased with their new acquaintance, shewed him every
respect. and gave some expensive entertainments for his
special honour. At one of these an officer of infantry had
scarcely entered the room, when perceiving his lordship
the centre of a throng of officers, he went up to him, and
recognising him as an acquaintance, saluted him as " Mr.
expressing surprise at seeing him in the neigh.
bourhood. It would be hard to tell whether his lordship or
the officers felt most astonished and disconcerted. The
soi-disand hob'eman blushed, stammered, and endeavoured
to explain. He said it was true he was not Lord Clifton,
but his lordship was his particular friend, with whom he
had laid a wager that he would personate his lordship for
some time without being discovered, and in carrying out
this spree he had introduced himself to the officer who had
invited him to the mess. This explanation not being
deemed satisfaCtory, his lordship was ejected from the
room, turned down stairs, and kicked through the bar-
rack yard, the officer who had been the first dupe being
most remarkable for the punishment he applied to his
lordship's person. On the ensuing day a message was
conveyed to the officers of the regiment, that Mr. --.
was willing to give gentlemanly satisfaction for the decep-
tion he had practised, but on inciting being made at his
address, it was found that he had debamped.—Cork Con-
s litut ion. _ .

A COACH SUBMERGED.—The Dublin mail to this
town was on Tuesday delayed three hours in consequence
of the heavy rains of the previous night, which involved not
only the delay of the arrival of the mail, but also its pro-
bable loss and that of the lives of eight passengers. The
mail left Longford at the usual hour, and proceeded in
safety to Tarmon bog, about six miles on the route from
that town. When the car arrived at this spot the road was
found to be considerably flooded, with a very rapid current
vassing over it, also large heaps of earth carried down
from the mountains were lying on the road. There was
an immense collection of country people at the place, and
fortunately a large body of constabulary ; and on the pas-
sengers paying the country people, they were induced to
remove the heaps of earth, The car was then driven for-
ward, the leader (it was a three-horse car), having pre-
viously been unyoked, but scarcely had it proceeded a few
yards when the horses were turned round by the impetuo-
sity of the stream, and car, horses, and passengers carried
away with its current. The passengers immediately on
perceiving the horses being turned off the road, threw
themselves into the waves, and most miraculously and
providentially, and by mutually assisting one another,
were saved from a watery grave. The car, horses, and
driver were brought up by the wheels of the car coming
against some obsiruction, the water washing over the car
and carrying away all loose luggage, and the heads of the
horses scarcely above the surface. The country people,
on seeing the lives of the passengers in danger, made every
exertion to save them ; but they would not stir hand or
foot towards extricating the car, horses, and driver from
their perilous position, until they extracted a promise of
payment from the passengers, when six or seven of them
went into the water, and with the assistance of ropes, at
length succeeded in brining all safe to land. The con-
duct of the police was very different. Without any soli-
citation, afteeatsi3ting to save the lives of the passengers,

they followed clown the course of the torrent, and fear-
lessly entered it to save the various articles of luggage
which were floating on the surface. Subsequently they
supplied the passengers with clothing (their own clothes
and Ipigghge being wholly saturated with wet), so as to
permit of their proceeding on their journey.—Tyrawley
Herald.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The members of this body
assembled on Monday. in the Conciliation Hall. Mr.
O'Connell, in his speech of the day, said there was one
magic in politics, and that was by putting yourself in the
right, and placing your enemies in the wrong,—that magic
would not have been carried out, if the association in 1843,
or even since, had lent itself to the doctrine of physical
fcrce.—Why, even look to the state prosecutions, and,
reflecting upon them, see what a conciliatory game the
present government were playing. Men talked very much
about physical force, and of vindicating the rights of their
country by .the sword—men who were afraid to look at a
ntiker. (" Hear," and laughter.) He cared not for the
Young Irelanders, but he regretted the loss of Smith
O'Brien ; bur even for him they could not break through
their rules ; for if they did they would peril their safety,
and destroy for ever the great cause •in which they were
engaged. The fact was this, that, during the perio lof
the monster meetings, they intended that if moral force
faired they would have recourse to physical force. They
were working for high treason; but the basis upon which
the association was originally framed, and would always
be guided by, was of a different character. He (Mr.
O'Connell) was ready to do anything rather than consent
to any other than peaceable means; he was even ready to
sacrifice ,he cause and abandon it for ever, rather than be
a party to any disturbance in the social state, or the
breaking up of the happiness of individuals. In fact—
he would eTpress himself shortly—no man should belong
to the association if he suggested anything like physical
force. (Cheers ) The hon. and learned gentleman then
mentioned -that his son Maurice had been reinstated in
the commission of the peace. They never stood in so
good a position for Ireland, for every party was then ready
to afford her relief ; not alone because of her position as
regarded the potatoe disease, but on the ground of her
general state of poverty, set out on the face of the report
o' I ord Devon's commission. Sir Robert Peel bad
stated that justice should be done to Ireland, and already
the government had brought in and passed two good bills
to remedy the condition of the tenant, which enabled him
to have justice from his landlord. The bill might be
fairly considered as a legislative declaration and sanction
of the principle so often contended for, " that the power
of the landlords of Ireland required to be revised, con-
trolled, and lessened." This was a Whig question ; and
why should he net support the men who passed it, and
the men who voted £50,000 to relieve the distress of the
Irish people? No doubt £50,000 was but a small sum to
do so much with ; but it would also be remembered that,
with that grant, a bill was passed in order to give employ-
ment and enable the people to pay for their own support.
He would support any government that would pass good
measures for Ireland ; but still, no matter how much
he got, he would still rally to the last for Ireland's own
parliament, and its restoration. The week's rent
amounted to £l3B 16s. Bd.

W HERE IS TUE MONEY ?—Mr. J. V. Porter, who was
considered a Meat prize by the Repeal Association, until
he would insist upon looking into the ledger of Concilia-
tion Hall, has addressed a letter to the Nation, in which
occurs the following paragraph :
" The Freeman implies, and would wish its readers to
understand, that the committee has full control over the
money. It wishes to throw the whole onus upon them ;
whereas, in fact, the money is not paid into their hand
nor lodged to their credit, neither of the General Com-
mittee, nor of any Special Committee, but into the hands
of Mr. O'Connell alone, and in a way and in a manner
so dark and so irregular, that even members of the com-
mittee, after years of attendance, do not yet know the
process."

O'Connell may denounce the Nation, and erase it from
the list of papers supplied by the Association to his
dupes ; but he will find it a formidable instrument in
unmasking him. He knows, however, that exposure now
is too late to do him much harm. It cannot make him
disgorge; the money is in his pocket; and as to the
future supplies, it has long been evident that they will
barely suffice to pay the weekly expenses of Conciliation
Hall.