The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ItO 'present payments for the Irish Colleges condemned
by the Pope amount to £11,700.
There are fourteen military and naval officers of the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, major, and captain, employed as
poor-law inspectors in Ireland.
The Cork Reporter asserts that it has been discovered
that the fishing banks of Newfoundland extend across the
Atlantic to within 100 miles of Ireland. _ .

The library of the Repeal Association, at Conciliation
Hall, which contained some valuable works on Irish his-
tory, realised £5OO. _ _ .

Queen's College, under the Bishop's Palace, Cork, is
nearly completed—a most superb bu►lding ; but if the
dictum of the Pope is accepted it must be converted either
into a workhouse or a military barrack.
Smith O'Brien does not lose his seat for Limerick
county in consequence of his conviction for high treason.
He may resign, or be expelled by a vote of the House.
He will probably choose the latter alternative.
The Dublin Evening Mail says that the second lieu-
tenant-colonel of a regiment in India lately tendered
£9,500 to a commanding officer of a Lancer regiment ,on
home service for exchange, but the offer was rejected.
According to the same journal, an officer commanding a
cavalry regiment seeks .C 20,000 for the sale of his com-
mission ; while the last sum given for similar promotion
in that corps wad £14,000.
Within the last four months six vessels, containing
00 emigrants, sailed from Dublin for the United
The emigrants, with scarcely an exception, be-
I to the class of comfortable farmers. Many of them
)m the counties Limerick and Tipperary, and each

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family carried with them sums of money varying from £2O
to £2OO. Every steamer that leaves the quay of Dublin
for Liverpool is crowded with emigrants on their way to
the United States.
MR. O'BRIEN'S ERROR CASE.—On Tuesday the argu-
ment on the writ of error sued out by Mr. W. S. O'Brien
was commenced in the Queen's Bench, in presence of the
prisoner and a crowded court. Notwithstanding the

weight of the argument pro and con., the public -Mani-
fested a desire to witness the proceedings, not surpassed
at any period of the celebrated state trials of 1843-44.

Mr. O'Brien was an object of general sympathy through-
out the day. lie looked, and we believe with too much
reason, very ill and desponding. It is said that he is
suffering from lumbago, and another affection consequent
d. On Wed-

upon c

confinement and ann

rd on tt

rt of each pri-
iced that judg-

ment would not be given until next term ; so Messrs.
O'Brien and Co. will " spend their Christmas" where
better men will spend it—in prison.
How RENT IS PAID IN TIPPERARY..--On the night of
the 9th instant, a party of men, consisting of about 20,

some of whom were armed, assembled on the lands of
Knockinglass, the property of Henry Cole Bowen, Esq.,
and held by Rody Slattery, and carried away 29 bags of

hands and feet, put him into a bag, Carried him in that
state to Slattery's dwelling-house, and threatened to knock
his brains out should he stir or make any effort to escape,
which, was he willing, he would be unable to effect. When
the corn had been carried away, and the party dispersed,
Kelly was set free.—Nenagh Guardian.

WORKING OP

RISK POOR-LAW

support upon the rates of t

nion of Ennis, w

Len it is

paupers, is now crammed to suffocation with double the
number ' • and that even thus, unable to receive the mul-
titude of claimants, three large stores, a brewery, and a
barrack, are also filled with human beings. The rate de-
clared on the 11th October last, for the relief of this mass
of dependants on the public doll, amounts to £16,000:
and should it be all collected, is calculated to meet the
outgoings of the union until the Ist of January :—being at
the rate of £48.000 until next harvest. The whole of the
labouring population clamorously beset the doors of the
workhouse for admission, as the test and qualification of
out-door relief. The fact is, that occupiers of the land,
unable to pay both wages and rates, are universally dis-

charging their labourerS. The union is already in debt to
the amount of £5,000.

made a speech, in returning thanks for Lady Napier,
whose health was proposed by the president, which will
amuse our fair readers. Sir Charles said—" My Lords
and Gentlemen,—l return you my very sincere thanks for
drinking the health of my wife. (Hear, hear.) She is
not an Irishwoman, but she is as good a wife as if she was
one. C" 119- ' And - ke

(utieers atm Aughter.) _ now, having thankea
you for having drank my wife's health, allow me to make
a little complaint. (Hear, hear.) I think this habit of

drinking ladies'healths and making their husbands respond
for them, has existed much too long, particularly when
we recollect that the ladies are themselves such excellent

applause.) And I really think that whenever the health
of a lady is proposed, it should be the universal rule that
she should answer for herself. (Laughter.) I do not
wish to throw any burden upon the married ladies, but I
am strongly of opinion that they ought to return thanks
for themselves, because I believe they could do it much
more eloquently and gracefully than we could. (Re-
newed laughter and cheers )