The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

MORE FREEDOM OF ELECTION.

The catalogue of persecution does not terminate with Mr.
O'Connell's enumeration. To Kerry, Cork, Youghal, Tralee,
Clonmel, the Queen's County, and Carlow, we have to add
Longford, where the most frightening system of intimidation
and terror has been established. The two following notices
pisted on the chapel doors of Clonbronev, in the latter county,
have been just transmitted to us; and tbey show pretty clearly
with what degree of security the people of Ireland may venture
to exercise that high trust with which the legislature has in-
vested them.

The universality of this system displays the nature of the con-
spiracy from which it emanates. It is a conspiracy which per-
vades every part of Ireland, awl is worked by one consistent
intelligence.
Mr. M'Glin, the person allotted to In the notices, is a Roman
catholic, and voted Tor Lord Forbes and Mr. Lefroy.
" NOTICES ON THE CHAPEL OF CLONBEONEY, COUNTY OF
LONGFORD.—Take notice, that no person will be allowed to
M'Gliu's conservative mill ; or, also, no persons will be allowed
to work or correspond with the tories, 11,14Glin and Hart, Le-
froy's agents.—Tories! Tories ! 1 down with the Tories and the
Tithes."

" I do hereby request that no person or persons will work or
correspond with those treaters that sold their country for lucre;
if any person attempts to do so let them provide their coffins
first. You are all aware it is Hart and M`Glinn, Lefroy's
castle hacks."—Dublin Evening Mail.

MUNIFICSNT GIFT OF HIS MAJESTY.—IiiI Majesty the
King has been pleased to grant the suni of £:3,000 sterling from
his privy purse towards the erection of an additional wing to
the University of Gottingen.

A PERSIAN PENSIONER.—I remember, says Tavernier, to
have seen one of the King of Persia's porters, whose musta-
chios were so long that he could tie them behind his neck; for
which reason he had a double pension.

NUTRITIOUS Fooo.—Onions can never be sufficiently recom-
mended. T hey possess more nourishment than any other
vegetable. It is a well-known fact that a Highlander, with a
few raw onions in his pocket, and a crust of bread or a bit of
cake, can work or travel to an almost incredible extent, for two
or three days together, without any other food. The French
are aware of this; the soup de 1' onion is now universally in use
after all violent exertions as the best of all restoratives.

THb: QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.—By the arrival at Falmouth of
the steam-Vessel Monarch, we have received letters and papers
from Lisbon to the 7th instant. The Queen's marriage with
the Duke De Leuchtenberg was celebrated on the 30th ult.,
when the usual rejoicings took place on the occasions. The
Duke, who is henceforward to go by the title and name of Prince
Augustus of Portugal, appears to have met with a cordial re
caption among the Portuguese, and is likely to become popular-
-Times.

GLOVES.-It used to be the custom in the south-west of Ire-
land to slaughter many cows while in calf. The skins of these
unborn calves were of extraordinary fineness and delicacy, and
from such was prepared the leather of which the celebrated
Limerick gloves were made. This practice, however is now
almost discontinued, and whatever merit the Limerick gloves
may still possess is owing to the skill of the .manufacturer and
not to the superiority of his raw material.—More than a mil-
lion eggs are imported weekly into London from France and
Flanders for domestic use. And for the manufactures in which
they are employed. They are absolutely indispensable in the
preparation of white lamb and kid leather; and one reason why
the English leather of this description is at present fully equal to
the French, is the abundant and consequent cheapness of an
article, the demand fur which can never be adequately supplied
from our own sources.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF DA RNLEY.—We are concerned to
state that the Earl of Darnley, who, it will be remembered,
some days since was reported to have met with an accident by
a blow from an axe which separated two of his lordship's toes,
departed this life on Wednesday, at three o'clock, at his seat,
Cobham Hall. It appears that tetanus was induced from the
effect of the wound, and it was found necessary to call in Sir
Benjamin Brodie, who, accompanied by Dlr. Buckley Bolton,
consulting surgeon to his lordship, proceeded to Cobham Hall
on Tuesday last, and on their arrival sent off for Dr. Farr; but'
the symptoms increased rapidly, and, in defiance of every re-
Inedv that could be suggested, ultimately proved fatal. His
lordship expired in the 40th year of his age, leaving his coun-
tess, with five children, the eldest of whom, now in his eighth
year, succeeds to the title and estates.
PUBLIC DINNER TO LORD RAMSAY AND MR. LEA [MOUT H
—On Wednesday last a dinner was given to these gentlemen.
Speaking of the party which assembled on that occasion, the
Edinburgh Evening Post says, "For numbers and respectabi-
lity, the company exceeded any similar display of public feel-
ing which was ever witnessed in this city. Upwards of 600
gentlemen were present, who came forward spontaneously
without the slightest canvassing, and all, with few exceptions,
most intimately identified with the prosperity and trade of
the city. On this point, however, we need not dilate. We be-.
hey; that even our opponents now admit that the great pro-
portion of. the wealth, rank, and the educated classes of gdin-
burgh, are supporters of conservative principles; and where
these lead, we need hardly say that, in the long run, numbers
will follow. The conservative cause is daily receiving acces-
sions of strength; and here it is evident that on every occa-
sion when the calm voice of the public is not drowned 6y fac-
tious
clamour, it is decidedly favourable to conservative princi-
ples."

AN IRISH WRDDING.—A wedding took place this week in
the County Tipperary, on a scale of profusion worthy of our
hospitable ancestors. The guests assembled on the joyous oc-
casion amounted to over two hundred, all of whom (except three)
rejoiced in the names of Ryan and Foley. That the feast was
spread out with no unsparing hand may be inferred from the
fact that the table groaned under 1181bs. of beef, 1181bs. of mut-
ton, with the usual relays of geese, turkeys, ducks, chickens,
hams. &c. In order to afford the most plentiful potations,
,the
punch was served up iu cans, and the sugar for the tea iitha.-
:sins. Music, which is said "to be the food of' love," lent its
invigorating influence to the scene, there being eight pipers and
five fiddlers attuning their harmony to the agile evolutions of.
those who figured away on the light fantastic toe. Dancing
was kept up to an early hour in the morning.—Limerick Star.
A _SCOTCH WEDDING.—At a Highland wedding lately, in
the Glen of Urquhart, about 400 persons assembled to witness
-the celebration of the nuptials, and make merry. All the
maidens displayed their snoods and plaids, and about ninety
of the young men were dressed in the full Highland garb. To
grace the festival, there were 200 Scotch pints of whiskey, 60
English gallons of home brewed ale, 2 cows, 18 Highland wed-
ders, 12 salmon, 36 hens, 10 ducks, 6 turkeys, 30 brace of muir-
fowl, and C.) black cocks, 50 stones of cheese, 7 stones of butter,
6 bolls of meal baked into cakes, 50 cogs of crowdy, with milk
in all its varieties of preparation, and eggs "thick as leaves in
Valloinbrosa ;" and, what was best of all, the guests kept up
the festivities from Tuesday till Saturday night.
SHOWER OF METEORIC STONES.—PALERMO, DEC. 29.—We
have received a private letter, giving an accqunt of a dreadful
and extraordinary hurricane, which caused terror and destruc-
tion in the town of Marsala and its environs, in the night of the
10th inst. During,the whole of the day the air had been per-
fectly tranquil. The night which followed had the same flat-
tering appearance. The stars and the moon shoue in un-
clouded splendour. At the approach of the eighth hour before
noon, at the time of the lunar eclipse, which took place on the
night,.a black spot appeared in the northern horizon, and,
rapidly enlarging, let loose, in an instant, a most impetuous
tempest. The fury and roaring of the wind, the rolling of the
thunder, the rattling of the rain and the hail, accompanied by
the incessant glare of the lightning, soon xoused.the inhabitants
from their sleep, and filled with consternation those who were
unfortunately out of doors. Bat these ordinary phenomena
would have produced only the effect usual in such cases, had
not the people in their houses thought themselves in danger
even therefrom the inconceivable voilence with which the build-
ings were shaken, and the fall of an immense shower as it were
of projectiles which rained from heaven, threatening with des-
truction the roofs, windows, and doors, even of the most solid
houses. Foranore than a whole hour this scene of terror con-
tinued, the hurricane having three times abated, and again re-
newed its fury. At day break the inhabitants found the roofs
and the streets covered, not with common hail, but with stones
of ihe size of a common walnut of a spherical or spheroidal form,
of a-yellowish colour and extraordinary solidity. In the town
the roofs and windows suffered severely. Almost every pane
of glass was broken towards the east and the north. The sea
was in dreadful commotion, and in the country the broken
trees, the quantity of birds found dead on the ground, the
injuries sustained by the cattle which were exposed. indicated
the consequences of that fatal hour. On the following day the
scene was changed. The hurricane was succeeded by excessive
cold, which obliged the inhabitants to use the utmost diligence
in repairing the damaged one to their houses.—Giurnal della
Due Sicilie, :lan. 14.