The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.
On Wednesday and Thursday no fewer than sixteen
vessels with foreign bread stuffs arrived in Queenstown.
Several eminent firms in Belfast are about to engage in
iron shipbuilding at that port, and have lodged requests
for yards with the Harbour Board.

The potato blight, which generally made its appearance
in forced potatoes, in Ireland, so early .as the present
period of this season, during the past four or five years,
has not at all appeared this year.
MLSMERISM.—Sir Philip Crampton, some time since,
offered to enclose a bank-note for £lOO in a sealed enve-
lope, which should become the property of any individual
who could, while blindfolded, and in the mesmeric sleep,
tell its date and number. The challenge has been ac-
cepted by Mr. Hill H. Hardy.—Dublin paper.
NEW PHASE IN IRISH FARMING.—The Duke of Lein-
ster has recently let several large farms in Kildare to
Scotch farmers, and upwards of fifty are located between
Athy and Castledermot. Near Roscommon there are
three Cheshire farmers located : their farms adjoin, and
are about one hundred Irish acres each. Several Scotch
capitalists have taken extensive farms of land on the pro-
perty of the Marquis of Sligo, in the Westport Union.
A POLITICAL PRlEST.—During the first service in the
Roman Catholic chapel on Sunday week, the priest made
certain observations on the conduct of government in re-
ference to the ecclesiastical titles bill, a petition againFt
which he was recommending his hearers to sign. Captain
Herbert, who had command of the soldiers present, and
to whom he thought allusion was made, immediately
ordered his men out, and marched them to barracks.—
Armagh Guardian.

Dr. M`Hale, who signs himself " John, Archbishop of
Tuam," hai addressed to the secretaries of the contem-
plated " Catholic Defence Association" a letter in which
he warmly expresses his approval of the project. He de-
clares that the " Catholic people" now " find themselves,
to their utter amazement, almost in the same situation
from which they were freed, more than twenty years ago,
by the powerful confederation which O'Connell had or-
ganised and sustained.
In the case of Martin Burke versus the Earl of Claren-
don, the plaintiff's declaration was filed on Tuesday. It
contains five counts, one 6f which charges the noble de-
fendant with having written the letter containing the libel
complained of by the plaintiff to the Earl of Shrewsbury ;
another count charges the defendant with the publication
of the letter in the Tablet newspaper; and a third with
the publication generally. The declaration is signed by
Mr. Butt, Q.C. ; and Sir Colman O'Loghlen. The de-
fendant must plead to the declaration within eight days.
Emigration is still going on at a rapid rate. The
brother and sister go out this spring ; and ntxt spring
they send home passage money for the rest of the family.
Mr. Lamb, who has just returned'from a business journey,
says that in some districts of the south and west more
than half his payments were in American drafts on Liver-
pool, sent home by emigrants. A Galway shopkeeper had
recently remitted to a house in Manchester £2BO of these
bills of exchange, from £1 to £lO each. The crops of
every kind look remarkably well, and promise an abun-
dant harvest. Except in Donegal, the potato crop is as
extensive as ever.: Flax is very little sown in the south,
but there is a great breadth of it in Cavan, Monaghan,
and some other northern districts. Mr. Lamb mentions
a new kind of potato called the " Protestant," which has
escaped the blight, and is very productive. A friend o
his cleared £6O by two acres of them last year. Success,
then, to the "Protestant potato," and "No Surrender!"
' —Derry Standardf
AFFRAY AT A PICNIC.—On Thursday last a party of
ladies and gentlemen assembled at a picnic in the demesne
Coolmore on Cork harbour, anti towards the close of the
day they were intruded upon by some military officers,
whose demeanour suggested a request that they should
apologise and retire. The recommendation was repu-
diated, epithets were bandied, and blows were given.
Subsequently interviews took place, and the whole pro-
ceeding was reviewed, but the result was not arrived at
until yesterday, when a written apology was tendered by
one of the officers, and apologetic explanations were given
by others. The officers whose conduct was the subject of
complaint are attached to the 40th and 90th Regiments,
now stationed in the garrison, and one to the Royal Ar-
tillery. It may be right to mention that an officer who,
in consequence of his having given a marked contradic-
tion, received a blow which felled him to the ground dur-
ing the rencontre, sent a hostile message is the course of
Tuesday to the gentleman who gave the blow ; but that
gentleman, after the lapse of so many days has, acting
under the advice of. his friends, placed the matter in the
hands of his law.adiiser.— Cork Constitution.
The Mayo Constitution gives the following :—" We un-
derstand that Sir Richard A. O'Donnell, Bart., has sold
his Ballycroy estate to an Englishman for £36,000, being
sixteen years' purchase on the Ordnance valuation. He
Lad previously sold a large portion of the island of Achill
to the Rev. Mr. Nangle, and a sale of the remainder has
been concluded with some Liverpool merchants. Even
the far-famed Curraun, the M`Loughlin property, so
often repudiated in the Encumbered Estates Court, turns
out to be another El Dorado, the fortunate proprietor,
"Mr. M`Cormack, having discovered a magnificent vein of
copper ore on it. We are hardly correct in saying disco-
vered, as we learn that the ore is to be seen in the ravines,
and will scarcely require any mining operations to get it
out. It is said he would not take £lO,OOO for his pur-
chase. This lot was thrown on the hands o. the court, we
believe, three times. Farther again to the west the hills
on Lord Sligo's 'property are whitening with Cheviot
sheeji, and at the rate_that matters progress we will soon
be an English colony. There is, however, we regret to
say, room still, and to spare. We were told recently the
case of a gentleman who, taking a fancy to a waste lot of
land, purchased it for £3OO. On his return to London,
expatiating On the beauties of the scenery and fertility of
the soil, he sold it for £6OO. This induced him to come
back and buy another lot, which he also sold at a profit,
and a third shared the same fate. The result is that this
gentleman has netted £2,800."