The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Potatoes are so plentiful in Ireland, that they may be
had in many places at one penny per stone.
The Government appointment of Mr. Howley, not
only a Roman Catholic, but a distinguished member of
the old Roman Catholic Association, to the sergeantcy,
vacant by Mr. Keatinge's promotion to be judge of the
Prerogative Court, has created much anger among the
Dublin Protestants. Mr. Howley retains the appoint-
ment he already held as assistant barrister for Tipperary.
Fr' OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY MEATH.—Several Out-
rages have recently occurred in the barony of Ratoadt.
The tails of three cows, the property of Mr. Kennedy,
II untstown, have been cut off, and a similar atrocious
outrage perpetrated on three cows belonging to Mr. Fitz-
simons, of Donnyrnoor. The ears were cut off a mare
belonging to Miss Keoghan, of Ballybreen, in the same
neighbourhood.
Mr. Green, the aeronaut, made a successful ascent from
the Botanic Gardens, at Belfast, on Saturday afternoon,
in the presence of 4,000 persons. He attained an altitude
of above two miles (12,911 feet), and intended to have
crossed the channel to Cumberland, but finding that he
could not get over the water before nightfall, he descen-
ded in a field at Craigavad, not far from the sea-coast.
An address has been presented to Mr. O'Connell from
the ladies of Mountmellick, beginning " May it please
your moral and irresistable greatness ;" stating that they
" the daughters, sisters, matrons, and wives of countless
thousands," " prostrate themselves before his irresistable
greatness ;" with more of the same kind, to which the
Dublin Evening Mail alludes as very equivocal and very
funny.

EXECUTION.—On Tuesday last, James Downey and
Michael Mullins underwent the extreme penalty of the
law for the murder of Laurence Hoyne, at Rathcubbin.
Downey, from the time of his entering the press-room,
appeared in a very weak and exhausted state, but Mullins,
on the contrary, seemed to have suffered little since the
passing of his sentence. The former continued silent all
through, but Mullins prayed fervently and audibly, both
in the press-room and when on the drop. He said, " I
die in expectation that my Saviour will have mercy on me,
and the death I am about to suffer is nothing in compari-
son to what my Saviour suffered for all sinners." When
on the drop he earnestly called on the assembled multi-
tude to pray for his soul. They were turned off at half-
past two o'clock, (and after hanging the usual time they
were cut down. Neither appeared to suffer much. No
public confession of guilt was made by either of the
culprits.—Kilkenny Moderator.

Ittrstr EXPORTS.—lreland never could be styled a
manufacturing country ; but her exports of linen alone—
her staple manufacture—are estimated to amount to about
£4,000,000 sterling yearly ; and the annual value of the
agricultural produce imported into Liverpool only, as
shown by a return furnished to the House of Commons,
was £4,500,000 sterling ten years since. In 1837, the
cattle, sheep, and pigs imported from Ireland into the
same port were valued at £3,397,70. Add to this large
sum the value of the grain and meal, and the value of both
grain and cattle imported into Bristol and other ports.
The total value of the exports from Ireland to Great
Britain amounted in 1825, as the official tables show they
did, to £8,531,355, and the imports from Great Britain
into Ireland to £7,018,936, whilst, in 1801, the first year
of the union, her imports were only £3,270,330, and her
exports £3,537,725. The yearly importation of feathers
from Ireland into England reaches the amount ot#:500,000,
whilst the value of the eggs imported into Liverpool and
Bristol amounts to £lOO,OOO a-year.
AN HONEST ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST is, indeed, a
rara axis in terris. But honest priests there are, and we
are happy, whenever the occasion offers, to do justice to
their singular merits. It is probable that Mr. O'Connell
may not believe but that they are all as corrupt as he
would fain make the Irish soldiery; but we have proof
positive of one, at least, resident not one hundred miles
from a place popularly called the Smuggler's Nest, who
has not tasted the " insane root," and who has the courage
to maintain his loyalty aild right of free opinion, uncor-
rupt by blandishment and undeterred by intimidation.
The following letter is addressed to the editor of a Kerry
paper:—

_
I was not a little surprised to find in your last my
name affixed to the requisition inviting O'Connell to a
Repeal meeting in Kerry, as I did not sign it myself, nor
have I authorised any person to do so. Humble as I am,
I have formed my own opinion on the merits of the Repeal
movement. The hollow patriot who has taken such un-
warrantable liberty with my name has my cordial forgive-
ness, but my most unbounded contempt.—Sir, your
obedient servant,
"JOHN SHANNON, R.C.C. Ardfert."
Bravo ! Father Shannon ! Be assured your spirited ex-
ample will bring out others. You will not long be left to
stand alone.

ROBBERY OF ARMS AND GALLANT CAPTURE BY THE
PEASANTRY.—On Sunday last a party office armed men,
with their faces blackened, entered the house of John
Cormack, of Cureeny, an aged and respectable farmer,
whose residence is in the very heart of the mountains,
about seven miles from Nenagh. They took away two
guns and one pistol which were dully registered. There
was only a servant boy in the house at the time named
Patrick M`Loughney, whom they threatened with death if
he offered any resistance. After they departed M'Lough-
ney gave the alarm, when the neighbours assembled and
gave chase after the robbers. After a long and harassing
pursuit, they closed in upon the party endeavouring to es-
cape. One of the ruffians presented a pistol but he was
too closely pressed, and three of the five fellows were sur-
rounded and captured. When taken there were found in
their possession two pistols and one of the stolen guns.
They had thrown away the other gun, but went back and
showed where it was. The two who escaped had taken
with them the pistol belonging to Cormock ; the two pis-
tols found on the others were their own. About this time
Thomas Cormock, one of John's sons, who resided with
his father, came up, and identified the two guns as his
property. They then hound the prisoner's arms, strapped
the stolen guns on the backs of two of them, and marched
them, with an escort of about 200 of the country people,
who had come out of the chapel and who followed in the
pursuit, and having called at the police station on their
way, lodged their prisoners safely in the bridewell of New-
port. They have been fully committed for trial at the as-
sizes.—Nenagh Guardian.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION. —At the weekly meeting
of the Repealers on Monday, Mr. O'Connell praised
the appointment of Mr. Howley, who he asserts
is a relation of his own. He also praised the
Orangemen of Ulster for not holding their meeting.
Whether these indorsements add to the value of the re-
spective commodities, or the contrary, we doubt. In
old-fashioned times, and in the days of iEsop's fables,
&c., they would rather have led the other way. The
rent of the week was announced at £1097 6s. Bd. On
the first of October the entire province of Leinster we
learn is to " pronounce" on a great scale, officially
assisted by several corporations. Other meetings are in
progress and Mr. O'Connell promises the organisation
speedily of the great three hundred delegates of the Pre-
servative Society which he pledges himself shall not in-
fringe the convention act or any law. He has also es-
sayed to rehaptise the absurd phrase of " fixity of tenure,"
which he now calls " equity of tenure." There is a dou-
ble advantage in the change ; it substitutes a phrase of
some meaning for a phrase of none, and it cloaks plain
robbery with a convenient and fair-sounding pretence.
As to the sedative effects of the Queen's speech upon
Repeal, these foregoing facts might suffice ; but lest they
should not, the following morsel from Mr. O'Connell's
speech will supply the deficiency :—" And, (continued the

honourable gentleman,) when they tell me that the
Queen's speech is to satisfy me for all that, and when
they tell me their deep concern that agitation should pre-
vail in Ireland, I say to them there is agitation in Ireland,
and there will be agitation in Ireland (cheers)—and there
shall be agitation in Ireland (cheers)—and there must be
agitation in Ireland" (cheers.) A Voice : " We will
never give it up."—Mr. O'Connell : " Yes, the moment
our grievances are redressed, and that the parliament is in
College-green."

NEW STEAMER.—We are enabled to state that a
steamer to supply the place of the Columbia, lately
wrecked between Boston and Halifax, has just been con-
tracted for. The new vessel is to he built by Messrs.
Robert Steele, and Co., of Greenock, and she is to be
of the same size and power as the Hibernia, which was
constructed by the same able builders. Her engines and
other machinery are to be furnished by Mr. Robert Napier,
of Glasgow, who constructed the engines of the other
steamers on the line.—Glasgow Citizen.

FRAUDS ON THE CUSTOMS.—The examination of the
books of Dean and Candy by the crown officers, has led
to the implication of three more officers of her Majesty's
customs, two of whom (landing surveyors) have been dis-
missed ; the third retains his appointment in the long
room for the present; but it is understood he will shortly
he removed to a lower class. A landing waiter named
Thorpe has also been dismissed the service for returning
a cargo of eggs in chests as half chests, and dividing the
amount, of which the revenue was defrauded, with the
agent employed by the importer to clear the goods.—
Observer.