The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Butter has fallen ss. per cwt. at Limerick since Wed-
nesday last. The price of the first quality is only 765.
Not long since the same article was IOOs.
According to the unanimous opinion of the Irish press,
the crops of every description of produce iii the sister
country are most luxuriant. The recent rains have been
of essential service.

CARLOW.—Mr. Bunbury, late member for County
Carlow, is likely to be succeeded in the representation by
Captain M`Chintock, to whom Mr. Bunbury has left
£60,000. Mr. Bunbury has left £30,000 to the gallant
captain's brother. They are Mr. Bunbury's nephews.
Mr. French, the stipendiary magistrate, whose conduct
in the affair of Sir Francis Hopkins and the convicted
Seery has formed the subject of the recent government
inquiry, has been reprimanded by the Lord Lieutenant,
and removed to another station.

The political supporters of Mr. Smith O'Brien met him
within a short distance of Limerick, on Thursday-, when
he ascended a chair, splendidly decorated, drawn by six
horses, and proceeded through the principal streets of
that city. The corporation, in their robes of office, formed
part of the procession. In the evening the honourable
gentleman was entertained at a soiree, which was at-
tended by upwards of a thousand persons.

The Queen's Benai of Dublin has made absolute the
rule for a criminal information against Mr. Jackson, an
attorney, for writing a letter to Mr. Butt, the barrister,
calculated to lead to a breach of the peace; but the court
intimated an opinion that Mr. Butt ought not to take any
further proceedings in the matter, as that gentleman had
made observations calculated to injure Mr. Jackson's
character, against which no imputation could justly be
laid.

FAC'CION FIGHT.—We have to add a serious complaint
of the disgraceful interruption to business which took
place at Ballinrobe last fair day. Two factions, the Mal-
lays and Jenningses, renewed a former quarrel on this
day, and continued, with some intervals and in different
places, fighting from three o'clock until nine. The po-
lice were assaulted with stones, the shops closed, and two
companies of the 88th had to be called out to quell the
riot. Tile police succeeded in making 27 prisoners, who
are to he tried at the petty sesssions.--Mayo Paper.
MURDER IN TIPPERARY.— On Tuesday week, a man
named Grady, while returning from the fair of Cartick,
handed some money to two men, named \Valshe and
Whelan, to procure whiskey for the use of all. They
could not get any, whereupon Grady demanded the re-
storation of his money. A fight ensued, and Walshe and
Whelan beat him so severely that he died on Saturday.
A verdict of wilful murder was returned against these
men, who have absconded.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting on
Monday, the rent amounted to £l3 3s. from Liverpool.
The most important feoture of the day's proceedings ap-
peared to be the ejection of Mr. George Archdeacon, of
this town, for having, in a recent speech at Liverpool,
counselled physical force. Mr. Archdeacon denied that
he had done so, but a letter from Mr. O'Connell ad.
dressed to the secretary, Mr. Ray, insisted on his being
expelled from the association, and accordingly he was '
expelled.
MURDER OF FOUR PERSONS BY POISON.—On Satur-
day, an inquest was held at Kyle, county Wexford, on
the bodies of John, James, and Michael Cullen, who
died on Friday from the effects of arsenic administered in
stir/about, by their sister, Mary Cullen, who has con-
fessed her guilt. A poor travelling woman and her son
who happened to call at the cottage of the Cullens while
they were at breakfast were hospitably invited to partake
of the fatal repast, and she, poor creature, has also fallen
i a victim. Her son (a lad), after suffering great torture, is
pronounced out of danger. At the inquest no suspicion
rested on Mary Cullen, who, according to the evidence,
eat of the poisoned stirabout herself, and suffered con-
siderably from it.
DOWNHILL BLAST.—On Saturday, Downhill, in the
neighbourhood of Coleraine, presented a very animated
scene. A rock, which obstructed the passage of the Lon.
donderry and Coleraine Railway, was to be removed by
the force of gunpowder. The rock was charged in two
different places with no less than 35 cwt. of powder. To
witness the explosion, seven steamers brought their crews,
passengers, and bands, from Londonderry, Portrush,
Belfast, and Liverpool. Crowds from the adjoining
country, covered the surrounding grounds and cliffs.
When the last of the signal guns was fired, and the last
signal flag lowered, Dr. M'Caldin, from his voltaic bat-
tery, stationed at the distance of 150 feet from the lodg-
ments of gunpowder, sent on the communicating wires
which joined the powder and the battery, the igniting
electrive spark, end quick as thought all was over.
SMITH O'BRIEN.--At the repeal association last week,
the secretary read two letters from W. S. O'Brien ; the
first accenting the invitation to a triumphal entry into
Dublin, and to a rational banquet, but suggesting a post-
ponement till after a return of the Irish members from
London; the second, graciously consenting to allow the
association "to refund the fees paid by him" on his
" release from the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms," and
intimating, that if " the payment of those fees could have
been interpreted as an acknowledgment of the power of
the House of Commons to imprison him, he would never
have said them, had he not found that they would be dis-
charged by others over who,e conduct he had no control."
The following passage exhibits the martyr's characteristic
modesty :—" Indeed, I doubt whether, under any circum-
' stances, I should have been justified in depriving my con-
stituents of my services, whilst enabled to purchase my
liberty by the mere payment of a pecuniary ransom."—
The onooont of the fees to be refunded. is X4] GE. Bcl.