The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The crop of potatoes in Ireland is stated to be prodigious.
REPEAL AssoctamoN.—The meeting of this body last
week was unusually flat. We cannot find an incident
worth recording, excepting that the rent was again com-
paratively small, amounting only to £475.
The Nenayh Go irdian gives the particulars of a brutal
murder committed at Borrisoleigh, on a man named Sba-
nahan, a process server, who was literally beaten to death
with stones.

DISTURBANCES IN GALWAY. —The steam frigate
Cyclops has gone round from Tarbert to Galway Bay to
assist in quelling disturbances arising out of disputed
rights of fisheries.
A Dublin attorney has been convicted for destroying
documents relating to a cause in Cbancery, in which he
was solicitor The. penalty is transportation for seven
years,' or such imprisonment as the Court may award ;
but a point wag reserved, on an objection taken by the
prisoner's counsel—namely, that the documents proved
to have been destroyed, being " receipts" and other
exhibits" in the Chancery cause, were not "original
d icuntents," The Court reserved the point for the con-
sideration of the twelve judges.
Mr. 0 CONNELL ON CONCILIATION.—The Pilot con-
tains a long epistle from Derrynane. It is more remark-
able for what it does not contain, than for anything which
inquisitive people could discover therein. Not a word
about the new movement, " federalism," or shout his
own " simple repeal." As to conciliating Protestants,
that was never considered a difficult task ; but whether
he will succeed in coaxing any considerable number to
Burgle:may is quite another affair. The rumour of this
letter being in town got wind towards evening, and every
one came to the conclusion that it contained further
reasons in support of his own altered views, giving the
preference to terlerelistri over repeal.
FATHER MATHEW IN TROUBLE.—The Cork .Exa-
miner says :—" What will you think, Irishmen, when we
tell you that Father Mathew, the benefactor of your
comers?, the admiration of the world, has been publicly
errested in Dublin for the balance of a debt due to a
taker of temperance medals, and that while in the very
act of administering the temperance pledge? The bai-
liff, Ike a second Judas, came up to Father Mathew,
saying. "Father Mt,thew, your blessing ?" and while
the good man called down a blessing upon the head of the
wretch, he took a writ from his pocket, and, thrustin,,
it into the hand of Father Mathew, told him he arrested
him, and then asked for his forgiveness!"
THE I,ATE COMMANDER OF THE PRESIDENT.—A MO-
nutrient has just-been erected to the memory of Captain
lltiberts in Passage churchyard, Cork. The cenotaph is
'a large square building of rich cut stone, with a fine base
arid c•rp moulding, and. having a bold pediment on either
side. On the angles of the monument are represented in
strong relief the sterns of the vessels which Captain
Roberts contrnanded, viz.—the Black Joke, the Sirius,
the British Queen, and the President. The following is
part of the_ inscription which the monument bears:—
" This stone commemorates, in the churchyard of his
native parish, the merits and premature death of the first
officer under whose command a steam-vessel ever crossed
ihn Atlantic Ocean—and-unted bravery exhibited in the
suppression of the slave traffic in the Afri an seas, enter-
prise and consummate skill in the details of his profes-
sion, recommended him for that arduous service. Lieu-
tenant Richard lit bfrts, R.N., in accomplishing it, not
my surpassed the wildest visions of former days, but
even the warmest anticipations of the present."
MR O'CONNELL'S ANNUAL lIEVENUE.—Last year,
we are informed by The Monilor, the begging collection
amounted to .1.28,000—n0t had payment for frothy words
and cowardly acts ; and in the same year the sums ex-
torted, under the name of reoeal rent, were—X47,6l4
I7a. 10d. sterling, making a total of £75,61.1 17s. 10d.,.
dquged from the poorest peasantry in the world. The
eeekly collections made duting the present year, under
the pretence of se king repeal, amount in round numbers
to about £39,000, an account of the expenditure of not
one farthibg of which has been given ! Now that the
delusion is over, and repeal flung by, some statement of
'he manner in which these thousands have been disposed
of, mieht have reasonably been expected, but instead of
an explanation, a new bill is furnished, a fr, sh exhorta-
tion attempted. Low, ignorant, and debased as Mr.
O'Corp•ell's dupes have hitherto been, we think this is
too much even for them to swallow, and anticipate that
•he ' national collection " for 1844 will be a signal failure.
—Evening Packet.