The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Romish Primate of Ireland, Dr. Cullen, has writ-
ten, warmly approving of the Tenant League in Ireland.
The clerks of the peace in Ireland have been called
upon by government to make a return of all Jesuits and
monks registered since Ist of January, 1850.
Mr. John O'Connell called " E. solemn league of the
Irish members" on Tuesday last, but the only persons
who attended were himself, his clerk, an attorney, and
two lesser limbs of the law engaged in a professional
cruise after some defaulting member of society whose
presence was expected at the meeting.
On Wednesday the Llrd Lieutenant of Ireland held
his first levee for the season. The desertion of the Pre-
sence Chamber is more marked and melancholy than
ever. If those who are officially constrained to attend,
appointees of the Government and officers of the army,
be subtracted, the remainder is, in point or numbers and
_influence, absolutely beggarly.—Dvb/iiz Herald.
MISERY IN IRELAND.—Notwithstanding the thousands
every week shipped from our shores, there are tens of
. thousands in almost every County who cannot find food
and raiment except in the workhouse or-from the ill be-
stowed charity of the streets. Whatever be the cause,
-population has stripped, if not the means of employment,
the power of rendering those means applicable to its sus-
tentation.—Cork Constitution.

IMPORTANT TO GROCERS.—At the Belfast petty ses-
sions court, on Saturday last, fourteen of the most respect-
able grocers of that town appeared at the suit of the
Board of Inland Revenue, charged with having in their
possession large quantities of an article known by grocers
as " P. D.," which means pepper dust, and is kept by
them for the purpose of mixing with pepper, contrary to
the act 59 Geo. 3, cap. 53, sec. 22. The defendants all
pleaded guilty, and the bench fined them in the mitigated
penalty of X 25 each.
A. public meeting, convened and presided over by the
Lord Mayor of Dublin, took place on Monday, at the
Rotunda, for the purpose of adopting measures to give
all practicable opposition to the contemplated abolition of
the Viceroyalty of Ireland. The immense room was
crowded in every part. Amongst those who took part in
the proceedings were the Marquis of Westmeath, the Earl
of Mayo, Lord Talbot de Malahide, James IL Hamilton,
X.P. Colonel Donne. M.P., Henry Grattan, M.P., John
molds, M.P., Sir T. O'Brien, M.P., Hyacinth Talbot,
~ Mir Edward Borough, Bart.. Joseph Napier, M.P..
the High Sheriff of the City of Dublin, the High Sheriff
Of the County of Wicklow, James Whiteside, Q.C., and
a long lis3 btsides of the aldermen and other members of

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Wilton, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, and Sir John
Romillv, arrived at Windsor Castle on Friday, on a visit
to the Queen and the Prince.

The Duke of Rutland has been entertaining a large
party of friends at Belvoir Castle during the past month.
The guests have ineluded the Earl and Countess of Jersey

Wilton and Lady Elizabeth Grey Egerton, the Earl
Jermyn and Lady Elizabeth Hervey, Viscount and Vis-
countess Newport, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lady Freder-
ick Bentinck, Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard, The Marquis
of Granby, Lord Foster, Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane
and Miss Cochrane, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond,
Sir Henry Halford, 31. P., Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P.,
Mr. Baillie Cochrane, and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane,
Sir. R. Inglis, &c.