The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Only five Protestants of Limerick attended the repeal
banquet to Mr. O'Connell, in a company of about seven
hundred !

The Irish Prelates in the next session of Parliament
will be, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of
Aleath, Kildare. and Cashel.
The stipeniary magistrates of Ireland; are GO in num-
ber, of whom 17 have been promoted from being sub-
inspectors or county
.aspectors f constabulary.

The Carlow Sentinel of Saturday says that not one far-
thing was collected for the O'Connell tribute on Sunday
week throughout that enti e county.
INSPECTORS OF THE NATIONAL BOARD.—We under..
stand that two vacant inspectorships in the Board' have
been filled up this week—mie by a Papist, and one by a
Socinian. We are informed that of the 32 inspectorships
riovr extant, 17 are' Papists, two Sociniana, three Presby.
terinns; and 10 Protestants of the Church of Ireland.
Sic ilur ad astra.—Dublin Paper.

Cool.—The house of Hugh Kennedy, Esq., of Gor-
rane, a respectable Roman Catholic gentleman, was en-
tered on Sunday last, whilst the family were at prayers,
by a party of nine men, who, atter having secured a very
fine double-barrelled gun, a blunderbuss, and a case of
pistols, made the servants put on the kettle and make tea
for them. After partaking of this refreshment, they took
themselves away, the fire-arms, and the silver spoons
which were on the table.—Nenaph Guardian.
DUBLIN TOWN COUNCIL.—The Repeaters have now
extinguished all the lights of Conservatism in the Dubli❑
town council. Excepting in two wards, every man re-
turned has pledged himself to " Repeal." They had a
clear gain of two on Monday ; first in putting in a
Repealer for Merrion ward, Mr. Pearson, in opposition
to Mr. Bolton; and in the Post-office ward in removing
Alderman Put cell, and putting Mr. Staunton in his room:
two of the newspaper martyrs, Dr. Gray and Mr. Duffy,
are for the first time introduced to the council.
DARING OUTRAGE IN TAKING OF ARMS.—On Mon-
day evening, so early as six o'clock, four men knocked at
the ball door of Mr. John Watson, in the centre of the
village of Castltconnell, county Limerick, which having
been opened, they rushed up the stairs, demanding fire-
arms, and threatening to shoot any of the inmates that
would attempt to look at thew. They succeeded in carry-
ing off two guns, a blunderbuss, and a pistol. Castle-
connell is a police station, and the residence of a police
magistrate.
IMPORT DUTIES.—There are commercial letters in
town from highly respectable houses, stating. that the
belief is strongly entertained in London, that Sir Robert
Peel, in the ensuing session. core emplates making exten-
sive alterations in the duties on the importation to the
United Kingdom of .he principal articles of consumption.
It is confidently asserted that a further reduction of the
sugar duties will take place—that 50 percent., that is 103.
per cwt., will be taken off foreign butter, and that re-
laxations in the corn duties will be made in favour of
those corn-growing countries who will reciprocally reduce
their import duties on British manufactured goods.—Cork
Reporter.
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—We have reason to believe that
an active correspondence between the Home-office and the
Castle of Dublin, touching the projected re-construction
of the Irish University. is daily surrounding Lord Heytes-
bury with more embarrassments than he was aware would
fall to his lot on accepting the Lord Lieutenancy of Ire-
land. Maynooth, wa understand, and its claims to in-
corporation in whAever university system is to be adopted,
constitute the perplexing difficul y. The most mysterious
silence is observed in the diplomatic circle—a circumstance
which augurs badly for the justice and honesty of the
design—and great doubts are said to be entertained of the
willingness of the Irish Executive either to recommend or
adopt the proposed innovation. The Earl de Grey re-
fused to be a party to it—and it is by no means likely that
a project which requires for its perfection so much secrecy,
as to preclude any intimation of its provisions to the heads
of Trinity College, will meet the concurrence of that
learned body. Hitherto no official communication has
been made to the board. All is mystery, all is menace ;
and the sense of impending danger unrevealed may be
purposely kept up to paralyse exertion. We cannot tell
where the blow will be struck ; but for that reason we
recommend the greater vigilance, in watching the move-
ment of the enemy ; and the greater determination to
defeat his machinations. Forewarned is forearmed.--
Dublin Mail.

REPEAT. ASSOCIATION. —The weekly meeting was held
last week. Mr. O'Connell attended, and denounced Sir
R Peel as a consummate liar, and Louis Philippe as the
prince of swindlers. With refer,- nce to the threatened im-
peachment of the judges, the Liberator was compelled to
withdraw his previous threats and to sing very sma'•l. He
said—" I saw in a speech of a right reverend friend of
mine (quoth the dutiful disciple) the Catholic Bishop of
Dromore, that he had a decided preference to an inquiry
before impeachment. He is right—we may get an inquiry
—we cannot get an impeachment except as the result of
the inquiry. I therefore adopt the suggestion, and will
move that it be referred to the committee to report on the
best means of getting an inquiry into the proceedings of,
and consequent upon the trial." This withdrawal of the
impeachment is followed up by another postponement of
justice for Ireland on motives equally cogent. The" Pre-
servative Assembly" (such is the new name) is to be held
in abeyance until such time as a successful evasion of the
law can he devised. " I with to s'at. (quoth Mr. O'Con-
nell) that I am obliged to postpone still further my motion
for the appointment of the council of 300, or the Preser-
vative Assembly. lam obliged to do so, as 1 find mare
legal difficulties in the way than I was at first aware of;
and I will not bring it forward until I can produce it in
such a shape that it can b laid before two or three of the
crow❑ counsel for thefr opinion as to its legality." And
so ends that farce for the season. After denouncing Fe-
deralism, as a thing unintelligible, and a name to be hated,
the orator announced the ten propositions with which he is
to " bother" the English till they have them by rote as
glibly as the Irish have them ourselves. It is well to break
new ground with exhausted matter.