The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The doubt thrown on the loyalty of Professor Butt has
been completely dispelled.
A man named Coogan, in the county of Meath, has
made a tender for a contract to supply ash saplings, each
eleven feet long, for 100,000 men.
A HINT TO GOVERNMENT.—On Saturday, the unprece-
dented sum of £6OOO was withdrawn from the Savings'
Bank of this town. The lower and middle orders must be
aware of some threatened danger, else they would not thus
run on an institution which they considered heretofore so
secure.—Drogheda Conservative.
The repealers of Derry held a meeting-on Sunday week
in the Chapel-yard, in lieu of the demonstration which
they were prevented from making on St. Patrick's Day.
The Sabbath is the great day of business with the Roman
Catholic politicians. They seem to expunge the 4th as
well as the 2d commandment from their decalogue.
FIRE ARMS.—AII the gunmakers of Cork are actively
engaged making "rifles to order." In several directions,
within the suberbs of Limerick, Confederate groups were
engaged on Sunday, on the Canal, at Newcastle race-
course, at \fount.kennet, and the King's Island at ball
practice to a late hour.
As an illustration of the avidity to possess arms which
1101 V Prevails among the rabble, we may mention the fact
that an ironmonger in the neighbourhood of Chancery.
lane, Dublin, sold, in a few hours, no less than sixty
dozen of old bayonets which had remained for years upon
his hands.

The Repeal Association met as usual on Monday, but
nothing occurred worth reporting, except, perhaps, the
farce of producing a boy five years old, who made a " pa-
triotic" speech, and was admitted a member of the asso-
ciation upon paying a subscription of £l. The rent was
announced to be £B7 18s.

NAVAL FORCES ON THE COAST OF IRELAND.-At the
present moment our naval forces at Cork and the coast
of Ireland amounts to 18 ships, of all classes—viz., 3 line-
of-battle ships, a corvette, 3 store-ships, and 2 teders ; 2
steam-frigates, 1 steam-sloop, and 6 steam-vessels, mount-
ing 378 guns, and above 2700 men. This force acts in co-
operation with the army.

HORRIBLE CASE.—At the recent Galway assizes a man
named John Conolly pleaded guilty to a charge of sheep
stealing. The judge said an end should be put to such
practices, or that no man's property could be safe. He
sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment,
with hard labour. Mr. Dopping, R.M., stood up, and
addressing the court, said that he felt bound to explain
to the court what he knew of this case. He had been
told that the prisoner and his family were starving when
this offence had been committed. One of his children
had died, and he had been credibly informed that the
mother eat part of its legs and feet after its death. He
had the body exhumed, and found that nothing but the
hones remained of its legs and feet. The prisoner was
instantly discharged.—Galway Vindicator.

IS THE PURCHASE OF PIKES LEGAL ?—A man named
Thomas Kirwan was brought up at the Dublin Police
Court, on Saturday, charged by Thomas Arkins, a special
constable, with having bought six pike heads of David
Hyland, blacksmith. The prisoner had ordered six pikes
to be made, and when he came for three of them, Hyland
suspecting that he was a spy, followed him. and saw him
go to the Castle. He was accordingly apprehended by
Mr. Arkins (apparently one of the young Ireland party),
who appeared against him. The case was adjourned till
Monday, when Col. Brown, (commissioner of police)
stated that the prisoner had been employed by him to get
the pikes, as he (Col. Browne) was doing all in his power
to obtain information on the subject of the manufacture
and sale of pikes. He thought he should not be doing his
duty if he did not put the government in possession of all
that was passing in Dublin. As the law now stood, there
was nothing to prevent any individual from making pikes,
and therefore he had not interfered with those who made
them. The prisoner was discharged.