The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

IRE LAND

The crop of potatoes in Ireland is stated to be prodigious.
REPEAL AssociATioN.--The meeting of this body last
week was unusually flat. We cannot find an incident
worth recording, excepting that the rent was again com-
paratively small, amounting only to £475.
The Nenagh Guardian gives the particulars of a brutal
murder committed at Borrisoleigh, on a man named Sha-
nahan, a process server, who was literally beaten to death
with stones.

DISTURBANCES IN GALWAY. —The steam frigate
Cyclops has gone round from Tarbert to Gshcay Bay to
assist in quelling disturbances arising out of disputed
rights of fisheries.

A Dublin attorney has been convicted fur destroying
documents relating to a cause in Chancery, in which he
was solicitor The penalty is transportation for seven
years, or sue!' imprisonment as the Court may award;
but a point was reserved, on an objection taken by the
prisoner's counsel—namely, that the documents proved
to have been destroyed, being "receipts" and other
" exhibits" in the Chancery cause, were not "original
documents," The Court reserved the point for the con-
sideration of the twelve judges.
Mr. O'CONNELL ON CONCILIATION.—The Pilot con-
tains a long epistle from Derrynane. It is more remark-
able for what it does not contain, than for anything which
inquisitive people could discover therein. Not a word
about the new movement,: " federalism," or about his
own " simple repeal." As to conciliating Protestants,
that was never considered a difficult task ; but whether
he will succeed in coaxing any considerable number to
Burghquay is quite another affair. The rumour of this
letter being in town got wind towards evening, and every
one came to the conclusion that it contained further
reasons in support of his own altered views, giving the
preference to federalism over repeal.
FATHER MATHEW IN TROUBLE.—The Cork Exa-
miner says :—" What will you think, Irishmen, when we
tell you that Father Mathew, the benefacto: of your
country, the admiration of the world, has been publicly
arrested in Dublin for the balance of a debt due to a
maker of temperance medals, and that while in the very
act of administering the temperance pledge? The bai-
liff, like a second Judas, came up to Father Mathew,
saying, "Father Mathew, your Ness/fly?" and while
the good man called down a blessing upon the head of the
wretch, he took a writ from his pocket, and, thrusting
it into the hand of Father Mathew, told him he arrested
him, and then asked for his forgiveness !"
THE LATE COMMANDER OF THE PRESIDENT.—A mo-
nument has just been erected to the memory of Captain
Roberts in Passage churchyard, Cork. The cenotaph is
a large square building of Itch cut stone, with a fine base
and cap moulding, and having a bold pediment on either
side. On the angles of the monument are represented in
strong relief the sterns of the vessels which Captain
Roberts commanded, viz.—the Black Joke, the Sirius,
the British Queen, and the President. The following is
part of the inscription which the monument bears :
" This stone commemorates, in the churchyard of his
native parish, the merits and premature death of the first
officer under whose command a steam-vessel ever Crossed
the Atlantic Ocean—uncLunted bravery exhibited in the
suppression of the slave traffic in the Afri an seas, enter-
prise and consummate skill in the details of his profes-
sion, recommended him for that arduous service. Lieu-
tenant Richard Roberts, R.N., in accomplishing it, not
only surpassed the wildest visions of former days, but
even the warmest anticipations of the present."

MR. O'CONNELL'S ANNUAL INVENUE.—Last year,
we are informed by The Monitor, the begging collection
amounted to 4:28,000—n0t bad payment for frothy words
and cowardly acts ; and in the same year the sums ex-
torted, under the name of repeal rent. were-4:47,614
17s. 10d. sterling, making a total of £75,614 17s. 10d.,
dragged from the poorest peasantry in the' world. The
weekly collections made during the present year, under
the pretence of seeking repeal, amount in round numbers
to about £39,000, an account of the expenditure of not
one farthing of which bas been given ! Now that the
delusion is over, and repeal flung by, some statement of
the manner in which these thousands late been disposed
of, might have reasonably been expected, but instead of
an explanation, a new bill is furnished, a fr,sh exhotta-
tion attempted. Low, ignorant, and &based as Mr.
O'Connell's dupes have hitherto been, we think this is
too much even for them to swallow, and anticipate that
the "national collection " for 1844 will be a signal failure.
—Evening Packet.