The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There were 4,000 transport convicts in the gaols of
Ireland, immediately before the present assizes, and last
year 138 convicts were pardoned.
Writs have been issued for the election of an Irish re-
presentative peer, in the room of the Earl of Charleville,
deceased.

Mr. Philip Scott, of Queenstown, has been selected by
the Greek government as consul for that country in the
port of Cork. This is the first instance of a consul for
Greece being appointed for that port.
TIPPERARY, PAST AND PRESENT.—The assizes for
the north riding of Tipperary—but a few brief years ago
the Irish Aceldama—closed on Tuesday evening, having
only lasted a day and a half.
The Hon. Charles Hardinge, eldest son of Viscount
Hardinge, has been elected without opposition for
the borough of Downpatrick. His principles, like those
of his predecessor, who, nevertheless, has received a
diplomatic appointment, are opposed to the present
government.
THE POPE ON IRISH MANUFACTURES.—The nuns of
the Ursuline convent in Cork, who have established a
school for the instruction of children in crochet and needle
work generally, recently forwarded to the Pope a" beauti-
ful rochet," the handiwork of a little girl of ten years old,
which his Holiness was pleased to accept.
FREE-TRADE IN IRELAND'.—The farms abandoned in
Ireland between 1841 and 1851 are given, they are in all
ninety-eight thousand two hundred and eighteen. hut as
we have seen, the farms abandoned in 1848, 1849, and
1850, amount to more than one hundred and seventeen
thousand—nineteen thousand more than the farms aban-
doned in the whole of the nine years.
THE HARVEST.—Agricultural reports from nearly
every county in the four provinces have come to hand,
and they are, generally speaking, favourable as regards all
kinds of crops, with the exception, in several instances, of
potatoes and turnips. There are some further complaints
of the reappearance of the blight in the former, and the
latter has suffered severely from the ravages of the grub
or maggot, but not beyond recovery.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.—It is asserted on
" good authority" that 23 of the 27 Roman Catholic pre-
lates are about to sign a public document, drawn up in
such a manner as to violate the spirit and terms of the
new act, for the purpose of provoking a prosecution by
the Attorney General. Dr. Murray, Dr. Ryan, and two
other Roman Catholic bishops refused to sign the paper,
which, we are informed, will be forthwith published.
Then comes the tug of war, if the law be in safe keeping.
An address from the Archishops, Bishops; clergy, and
others composing the committee appointed by the Synod
of Thurles for founding a Romish University in Ireland,
to the Romish clergy and laity of England, has just been
published, calling for the aid of the faithful in that country
towards the establishment of this national institution..
The hierarchical members of the committee have attached
their titles as well as their names to the address, "-T4e
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill" to the contrary
notwithstanding.
We have been informed, on what we deem trustworthy
authority, that an association of English capitalists, com-
prising the heads of the firms of Messrs. Baring and
Messrs. Rothschild, with several of the largest English
railway contractors, has been formed, for the purpose of
purchasing land in Ireland, and re-selling or letting it in
farms, thoroughly drained, fenced, and otherwise fitted
for cultivation on the English model. We have been in-
formed that a sum of £600,008 was subscribed and paid
into the Bank of England at a meeting of gentlemen, who
originated this association, held a very few days since..
The undertaking, we are further told, is essentially com-
mercial in its objects, the subscribers having embarked
their capital in the confident expectation that the specu-
lation will yield a large profit. The project, in a word,
differs as widely from the late Sir Robert Peel's absurd
Connaught plantation scheme as do the well considered
plans of men of business from the visionary projects of the
political quack.—Dublin Herald.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.