The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRA LAND.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived in Dublin from
this port on Thursday morning. His Excellency disem-
barked under a salute of 21 guns.

At Nrnagh, on Saturday week, one Walsh was -fringed
for the murder of a man named Barachree. Tile culprit
had previously seduced the wife of his
The marine condemned to death at Cork has received
a free pardon, in cons:quenee of an irregularity in tie

prJceedings hiving rendered the sentence of the court-
martial illegal. The man has been sent back to his com-
pany, the authorities expressing a hope that his recent pe..

ril may have a reformatory c if:Ct.
A Nover, BEEHIVE.—Some time since a swarm of
bees al.ghted on the head of nne of the ornamented liOns
in front of Viscount o',Neili's residence. Shane's Castle.

itronst and healthy, and seem " secure from every harm

—Dublin Freeman

STRANGE IsvEsTIGATIoN.—On Monday, the. magis-
trates of the city of Cork were engaged in investigating a
charge of murder preferred by the police there against cer-
tain parties, who, they alleged, had murdered a sailor
named Kennedy. 'While the justices were in full con-
clave in this inquiry, Kennedy himself appealed 'to as-
sist them.

IRELAND.--Paddy Bull, it appears, is to go to his set-
tlement as a pauper on John Bull. Nothing is said of
the poor English labourer—the li,tle farmer .and trades-
man—be cannot, a-la-Whig, raise the serfs of Popish
rule to our level ; so we are to sink to theirs. We want
a strong government, that will make every man -do his
duty, end -we want nothing el: e.
WRECK OF-THE " RAMBLER" STEAMER—It be
recollected -that, a considerable time ago, the Rambler
steamer-was wrecked upon the Maiden Rocks,•and-that
the wreck was abandoned as irrecoverable by advice of se-
veral eminent 'engineers belonging to Glasgow: ('aptain
Coppice, nf this city, purchased the wrr ck, for a very small
sum, and has, lately, by astonishing perseverance, es well
as by superior engineering skill, succeeded in raising both
of the engines, and i. is confidently expected that he will
also recover the two boilers.—Derry paper•. .

.
On Wednesday, a meeting of the general assembly of
the Presby:erian Church, in Ireland, was held -in Dr.
Cooke's Church, Beltast. Alter a long and somewhat
angry discussion, the assembly affirmed the principle of
' attaching itself to the government educational institutiso,
for the present. so far as .the reception of the expected
endowments for the peculiar education required, the ap-
plication for bursaries to exete emulation among the stu-
dents, together with the admissi.in that the assembly is
willing to place its youth under the Professors of the
Queen's College, should they be orthodox, can be properly
described as an affirmation of the principle.
TH IRISH COLLEGES AND THE POPE.—The following
appeared in the Dublin Evening Freeman.of Tuesday:—
" We stop the press to announce to the country the most
important intelligence we have for some time had to lay
before our readers,—it is no less than the decisive con-
demnation of the godle,,s Colleges Bill by the court of
Rome. The lateness of the hour at which we received
this intelligence precludes the posibility of our f t-4e ring
into details. We can state, however, upon the -beet au-
thority, that the College of Cardinals, having all the do-
cuments before them, tr+liesitatingly, unanimously, and
dechively pronounced their condemnation of the govern-•
ment measure."

THE REPEAL MAGISTRATES.—AII the repeal magis-
trates have now received, and duly replied to the " preli-
minary" letters of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Fitzgerald,
of Muckridge Flonse, gives the model sentence, suggested
by Mr. O'Connell's letters, a somewhat new turn, thus:—
" In reply, sir. 1 beg to state that I should be sorry to in-
terfere in the slightest degree with the desire of the Lord
Chancellor to perform an act of justice towards those ma.
gistrates who were so unconstitutionally and unjustly de-
prived of their commissions by the late government. As
one of their', theref re, I can have no objection to resume
the duties of the office and be restored to the same position
which I held previous to the 25th of May, 1843." Mr. R.
A Fitzgerald does not give the slightest thanks for the
restoration of his commission.
_ _

Although all the Irish repeal magistrates have been re-
stored to the commis-inn of the pelee, none of the Orange
magistrates, with the exception of Colonel, now Sir Wil.
liam Verner, have been so dealt with, and much dissatis-
faction exists in consequence. The Dublin Mail SIVS-
" the only solution of the disparity which suggests itself
to us—and, indeed, it is the only reasonable one—is this,
that the measure of condonation is Mr. O'Con.•ell's : that
it is his privilege to wield it as he wi:l : that he desires to
show his power to reward or punish ; and that in the ex-
ercise of his good pleasure, he points outs the Repealers
for honour—the OrAngemen for insult: the Repealers to
be restored by an unmerited act of grace, and the Orange-
men to be pun,shed by wan►en cxere;;e o. prejudice."

Lord John—not Russell—but Mac Hale—has again
taken to the pen, and again selects a Prime Minister as a
correspondent. As ministers have something to do, they
must marvel at the prrtinacity with v Itich all' sorts a
scribblers persist in pestering them with prescript;ons,
and with dull reiterations of facts of which they have been
informed a thousand titres before. Only that the Free-
man is a devout admirer of the Doctor, we should sus-
pect him of a quiz when he says, that "his Grace the
Archbishop," "with an ability peculiarly his own, places
the grant for Ireland in comparison with the grants of
government in other eases." In truth, the ability is pe-
culiarly " his Grace's," for it consists simply in an ex-
ceedingly verbose "comparison" of the aforesaid grants,
and a genuine Mantl alian vituperation of men and things
uno lAJtattaa ~lac
proval of his intolerance. _

THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—In the House of
Lords, on Friday. Lord Roden called the attention of the
house to this subject, and said that he bad traversed a
great part of the province of Munster, and be was not

guilty of (thy exaegeration when be stated that during the,
whole progress of that journey he did not see one field
that was not either decaying or had not actually decayed,
from the disease. This calamity was accompanied by an-
other evil, the great deficiency of the oat crop in that part
of the country. But oats formed a great article of food
to the Irish people, and if that crop failed to the extent
he was afraid it would in some districts, the calamity
would indeed, be awfully increased. On the western
coast of Ireland there was an abundance of food of a par-
ticular species. but facilities of carriage were required to
make it Lvailable to other parts of the country—he alluded
to the fisheries. The people regard this calamity as a vi.
sitat,on from heaven ; but they mum ured not; and in
whatever direction any person travelled in Ireland, he
could not but be struck with the manner in which they
bore their distress. Only that morning had he received a
letter confirming had he received a letter confirming, as
to the north of Ireland, the statement which the noble
lord opposite (Lord Monteagle) had made a few days ago
as to the south; and he mentioned these things to induce
their lord..hips to be more anxious, and more zealous, if
p ssible. to remedy these evils ; and w'th the hope, al-I:),
that it would call forth the sympath'es of those who
might be able to assist the people of Ireland. At the
same time, if his voice could r. ach the ears of those indi-
viduals who possessed any property in Ireland, and it
could have any effect to speak to them from that place
upon so solemn a subject, he would implore them, under
every circumstance, to go home to their country and peo-
ple, to live amongst them, and encourage them in their
present difficulties (hear, hear), and to show them that
they themselves were willing, under these great trials, to
share with then the evils they were forced to bear.

AN ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—During the past week
an incident occurred in the military circles of the city,
which has afforded much amusement to the public, and
caused no snrill annoyance and vexation to the parties
concerned. An officer belonging t,) a cavalry regiment,
stationed near this city, became acquainted, on a voyage
from Bristol to Cork, with a young nobleman of agreeable
manners and fascinating corm r ath-n el powers, travelling
under the name of Lord Clifton. The officer invited his
lordship to the mess of the regiment, which tbe young no-
bleman, who said he was merely travelling for amusement.
gladly accepted. The officers of the regiment were much
pleased with their new acquaintance. skewed him every
respect, and gave some expensive entertainments for his
special honour. At one of these an officer of infantry had
scarcely entered the room, when perceiving his lordship
the centre of a throng of cfficers, he went up to him. and
recognising him as an argnr.intance, saluted him as N 1 r.
express'ng surprise at seeing him in the neigh-
bourhood. Jr would be hard to tell whether his lot dshin or
the officers felt most astonished and disconcerted. The
soi • disonl nobleman blushed,stammered, and endeavoured
to explain. He said it was true he was not Lord Clifton,
hut his lordship was his particular friend, with a hom he
bad laid a wager that he would personate his lordship for
some time without being discovered, and in carrying out
this spree he had introJaced himself to the officer who nad
invited him to the mess. This explanation not being
deemed satisfactory, his lordship was ejected from the
room, turned down stairs, arid kicked through the bar-
rack yard. the r ffict r who had been the fist dupe being
most remarkable for the punishment he appl.ed to his
lordship's person. On the ensuing day a message was
conveyed to the officers of the regiment. that Mr.
was willing to give gentlemanly satisfaction for the decep-
tion he had practised, bur on inqui,tv being made at his
address, it was found that be had decamped.—Cork Con.

1 A COACH SUBMERGFD.—The Dublin mai to this
• town was on Tuesday delayed three hours in consequence
of.the heavy rains of the previous night, which involved not
only the delay of the arrival of the mail, but also its pro-
bable less and that of the lives of eight passengers. The
mail Jett Longford at the usual hour. and proceeded in
safety
.to Tarmon bog, about six miles on the route from
that town. When the car arrived at this spot the road was
found :to:be considerably flooded, with a very rapid current
tassine .over it, also large heaps of earth carried down
from the mountains were lying on the road. There was
an immense collecticn of country people at the place, and
fortunately s large body of constabulary ; and on the pas-
sengers paying the country people, they were induced to
remove the heaps of earth, The car was then driven for.
ward, the leader (it was a thiee-horee ear), having pre-
viously been unvoiced, but scarcely bad ft proceeded a few
',Ards when the horses were turned round by the impetuo.
sity of the stream, and car, horses, and passengers carried
away with its current. The passenger. immediately on
perceiving the horses being turned r ff the road, threw
themselves into the wav-s, arid most miraculously and
providentially, and by mutually aasi.ting one anothrr,
were saved Ircrn a watery grave. The ear. horses, and
driver were brought up by the wheels of the ear corning
against some obs:ron;ion, the watt,* sva-king over the c .I.
and carrying away all 100-e luggage, and the heads of the
horses scarcely above the surface. The country people,
on seeing the lives 01 the paqs,'.ogers in danger, made every
exertion to save them ; hut they would not stir band or
foot towards extricating the car,
taenddriver from
the'r perilous position, until thev"e;,P'e rasC'd a promise of
payment trom the passeng rs, when aiX
or set en of them
went into the water. and with the assistan...,e of ropes, at
length succeeded in brinLing all safe to land. Toe con-
duct of the police was very d‘fferent. Without pny soli-
pitation, Ole: aesi.tiug to save the lives of the poesepprs,

thef fa owed down the course of the torrent, and fear-
lessly entered it to save the various articles of luggage
vrliclt were floating on the surtace. Subsequently they
supplied the passengers with clothing (their own clothes
and biggage being wholly saturated with wet). so as to
permit of their proceeding on theirjourney.—Tyruuley
Berald.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The_ members of this 1-ody

a.aembled on Monday, in the Conciliation Ulan. Mr.
O'Connell, ir. his speech of the-day, said there was one

your enemies in the wrone,—that magic

abundance of coal and coke, which enables her to produce
the locomotive power much cheaper than her neighbours.
Thecost of earthwork is much the same in England and
France. The rails and chairs on the Southampton line
were laid down at £2,790 per mile, while those on the
Paris and Rouen line cost £4,635; the working of the
former line costs le. a mile, of the latter, is. 4d. ; the
locomotive power and the carriages of the former 14i per
cent., of the latter, 16 1-3. On the South Western Rail-
way the general expenses are about 12 per cent., whilst
on the Paris and Rouen they are 16. On some other

tourlq, the report states the balar.ce is still n.ore in favour

of England. There is, however, one item of expenditure,
in which the English companies far cu'strip their neigh-
bours of the continent. We allude to the urelim►nary
charges incurred before the permanent works are even
commenced. The Eastern Counties Railway. which is
51 miles long, expended £ll,OOO in pas-ing their bill, be-
sides other charges, amounting to £48,000. The Parlia-
mentary expenses of the London and Birmingham were
£650; and of the Great Western, £l,OOO, per mile. In
the case of the Rouen and Havre line, the expenses in-
einred.in the inquiry before the board, and up to the time
the act was obtained, did not exceed £7OO.