The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

IRELAND

There was a fall of 3s. in the price of butter on Tuesday
at Cork weighhouse.
The statement that some of the Orange Lodges in Ire-
land have burned their books, emblems, &c., turns out
to be nothing more than a hoax.
The Rev. It. B. Townsend, of Skibbereen, who was so
active in allaying the sufferings caused by the late famine
in Ireland, died a few days since from fever caught during
his visits to his afflicted flock.
Three inquests are reported from Kilrush. They were
held respectively on the bodies of a woman aged 23 years,
'a man of 52, and a man of 31 years of age ; and the ver,
diet, in each case was `• Died of Starvation."

The Freeman states that the quantity of whisky stored
in Dublin is enormous—probably 30,000 puncheons.
The tremendous profits reaped of late years has much in:-
creased the speculation in whisky.

DIABOLICAL RIBBON OUTRAGE.—TheDerry Standard
says, that some miscreants, one night recently, seized as
unfortunate man in Glenfin, within about four miles of
Stranorlar, and actually, with savage barbarity, cut the
ears out of his head, an infliction of " Ribbon vengeance."
On Saturday morning, about one o'clock, the schooner
Perseverance, of Westport from Cork to Glasgow, took
fire abOut five miles east of Carlingford, anq was burned
down to the water's edge. The wreck is now on shore at
Kilkeel Bay. The crew took to the boat, and were all
saved.

A demonstration in favour of tenant right took place at
Strabane, on Monday last, when a large and orderly as-
semblage of people, among whom were a great many dEf
the tenantry of the Marquis of Abercon and Lord Erne,
pronounced in support of the Ulster usage. In the south,
meetings for the same purpose are organising at Kanturk,
in the county of Cork, at Clonmel, in Tipperary ; and in
the county of Wexford.

Extract from a letter of a county Kildare farmer, dated
May 12 :—" I saw, on Saturday week, 1000 barrels of
wheat sold-for 16s. a barrel (about 275. 6d. the quarter);
it was foreign wheat, and was 4s. a barrel before any
wheat I ever grew. I can buy at Rathangan the best
beef at 3d. per lb., or 275. the cwt. Every day I live I
see manifest signs of my prophesy relative to the effects of
free trade coming to pass. The Duke of Leinster has
upwards of 10,000 acres unlet, and cannot get a solvent
tenant to bid him one shilling for them."

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THE IRISH REFUGEES.—An account appears in the
Cork Examiner of the manner in which O'Gorman,
Doyle, and O'Donnell escaped from Ireland. They were
taken on board a small vessel, commanded by a person
named Taylor, at Carrigaholt-roads, near Limerick, and
which was bound for Malta. They got on board, on the
4th September, without being suspected by the police,
who were close at band. One of her Majesty's cruizers
steamed close to them, but no search was instituted.
They were taken to Malta, and thence to Constantinople,
where they lived close to the house of the British ambas-
sador, Sir Stratford Canning, who (generously) did not
send parties to arrest them until two days after they had
left the town. Captain TaylOr, in consequence of aiding
their escape from Ireland, lost the command of his vessel.
FREE TRADE.—Monday a remarkably handsome foreio
brig; pierced for 18 guns, came up the river. She an-
nounced her arrival by discharges of cannon, which were
so loud as to produce a concussion of air to that degree
as to smash about 60 panes of glass in the Custom-house.
This vessel is German built, and is said to be intended for
a gun-brig of war if necessary. She is called the Barron
Vay, and it is stated that the reason of her being coppered
in this city is, that it could be done cheaper and more
substantially than where she was built. The arrival of
the Barron Vay affords a specimen of the working of the
navigation and repeal of the corn laws. She has brought
from Odessa no fewer than 3000 qrs. of wheat, and after
pouring that supply into this country to the injury of the
unfortunate farmer, she is now offering to take emigrants
to New York. at the lowest rate compatible with a supply
of the best provisions.--Cork Constitution.

Row IN A NATIONAL SCHOOL.—On Sunday, the 14th
ultimo, being the day appointed to open a Sunday School,
in the Ballymaconly National School-house, in the parish
of Rasharkin, Londonderry, which is under the patronage
of the Rev. Wm. Wallace, Presbyterian Minister, the
Roman Catholic party began romping, till at length the
Protestant teachers were under the necessity of closing
the door against the former, which was soon broken in
with great force, and one of the Catholic party took off
his coat and challenged Master Maberry to fight him,
using most insulting language and reproaches against
Orangemen ; but the Protestant party evinced the utmost
forbearance, through respect to the Sabbath, and the
laudable occasion that brought teachers and children to-
gether. The following Sunday the teacher of the day
school had the key withheld, and hindered the Sunday
School, much to the satisfaction of the Roman Catholic
party, who have been triumphing over their disappointed
Protestant neighbours. This is but a small sample of the
fruits of the Popish infidel system, and that, too, in a
school patronised by a minister of the gospel, but wherein
the sacred volume has been from time to time dishonoured.
On the school being visited by the inspector, the Bibles
and Testaments have been huddled together, and the
children's muffling thrown over them.
ADDRESS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND.—The
Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland at the annual meeting
held in Londonderry, on Wednesday, issued an excellent
address. It appears that out of 1900 lodges but 18 have,
wavered in their fidelity, and that of these seven have re-
pented of their lapse, and desire to be again incorporated
with the body. The stigma of insubordination was at-
tempted to be fixed on the brethren by an individual, not
a member of the order, and who was and is wholly unable
to influence the members of a single lodge in the district
to which he once belonged. The address, which is signed
by Sir W. Verner, Bart, chairman, then goes on to say :
If a change has passed over the spirit or the temper
of persons or parties in Ireland, such as encourages us to
believe that life, property, and religion are sure of pro-
tection from the law, and safe from the adverse assaults
of open and secret enemies, a time has come when we
may deliberate on the wisdom of dissevering those bonds
of association which have been found of no great power
and efficacy. But if we believe that there is still dark
conspiracy which aims at subverting the established order
of things—if there are systems of outrage which threaten
the peace and comfort of individual life—if governments
and legislatures, instead of resisting evils and upholding
law, are so influenced that they regard atrocities of dis-
affected, men not as evil deeds which are to be punished,
but as arguments to which the law must yield deference—
if the state perseveres in the course of concession which
strengthens, while it does not conciliate, enemies, and
which endangers most Aeriously the permanent security
of loyal men, then surely it would ill befit us, who have
derived.benefit in former dints cit mil from our close