The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-11-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  All the flax spinning mills at Belfast, amounting to twenty-seven, have been put on " three quarter time." A boat was upset a few days since at Waterford, and five persons drowned. Upwards of £70,000 was remitted by the Irish Board of Works to the country for the payment of labourers in the course of last week.  On Saturday week, three carts of flour on their way to Ballinasloe were attacked by a mob and seven sacks stolen. More would have been taken but the police came up. The Marquis of Conyngham has made a reduction of twenty-five per cent in some instances, and of fifteen in  Nation, the Rev. John Kenyon, a , talks of " the desperate infamy over the close" of O'Connell's career, and conhat it is time for Ireland to seek another leader. ,e Irish markets in grain and other kinds are going nd this is general in every quarter. In Scotland, same results are experienced ; the farmers who held back being satisfied that they played a foolish card. Messrs. Hayes and Co., coach proprietors of Downpatrick have had nine horses poisoned within the last few months. On the death of the ninth horse, a veterinary surgeon was sent for, and detested a large quantity of  In a let  Roman Catholic priest.  poison in the stomach  The Irish Court of Queen's Bench has grantedto Lord Lucan a conditional order for a criminal information against the proprietor of the Mayo Telegraph, for a libel on his lordship. The articles complained of reflected on his lordship's character as a landlord.  have resolved to petition for such alterations in the Be  "as will render it acceptable to the bishops, the clergy, and tire people of Ireland." Their reverences must be clever hands if they can effect a settlement of such a question to please every body. In a letter to the Freeman's Journal, Sir Robt. Knae denies the statement that the potatoe commission cost the country £18,400, and doubts whether it cost the odd £4OO. He; himself, gave his services gratuitously, and his colleagues, Professor Lindley and Piayfair, had three guineas a day and their travelling expenses. A man named Cornelius Crowley has been committed near Cork, to the charge of the wilful murder of his wife. When the poor woman was found, her skull was broken to atoms. The husband said he was starving, having not eaten anything but an onion for twenty-Jour hours, and that his wife had plenty of money. On searching her 3 lOs 6(.1. was found in her pocket.  Numbers of perbons well able to pay have refused to I,quidaie their parish roars in the county of Mayo. but they are to be proceeded against. The ,sorkhouse at Cas tlrbar wr,uid have been closed, and 200 wretc, es lett to starve, but the Earl of Lucan has advanced from his private purse money for the last six weeks to sustain  the paupers  Tne papers received from the King's County, the counties of Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, and Cork  contain lists of outrages perpetrated within their boundaries during the previous few days. With the exception of a few, there is no variety in the general character of the offences from that which is so common—namely, the plunder of provisions and fire-arms, assaults, and the posting of threatening notices, &c.