The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  The Tullamore Board of Guardians have lately adopted a petition in favour of Repeal. An Irish paper mentions the case of a sick man at Thornend-gate, who, in a fit of delirium, got up and ate several bank-notes by way of disappointment to his expectant heirs. _  At Coolmen, in the county Clare, a few days ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, a man nailed his feet and his left hand to the post of his bed, in imitation of the crucifixion of our Saviour.  A bar of gold, weighipg 30 ounces avordupois, and worth £ll5 108. Od. was found a few days ago in a field near Blackwatertown, Armagh, about eight feet below the surface. About a thousand silver coins have been found at Borrisokane, Tipperary. They consist of groats of Henry IV. and silver pennies of Henry 11. The Cork Constitution states, that a house in that town nets £17,000 by the recent decision, noticed i❑ our last, relative to the return of the duties on corn released the day before the measure of 1842 came into operation. The proprietor of a baking establishment in Cork will, it is said, have £2OOO returned to him.  AGRARIAN MURDER,—On Friday night a party of men invested several houses on the lands of Dangan, and in one house occupied by a widow woman and her son named Leary, they beat the young man in such a dreadful manner that be died before morning. The cowardly ruffians also beat the old woman, breaking her collar bone, and otherwise dreadfully abusing her.—Clare Journal.  The precautionary measure of quartering a troop of Light Dragoons in the town of Galway, where serious disturbances were, and are still apprehended, has excited great indignation among some of the lower classes. On Tuesday morning a fellow was engaged placarding the town with an " address from the Claddagh people to the men of Galway," calling upon them, as Government had sent them troops in place ,1 food, to unite to a man, and drive the military out of the town. The placard was in manuscript, and is stated to have been of a most seditious nature.  THE POTATOES IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND —The following is from the Evening Mail:—" A gentleman, who has more knowledge of Ireland, and more experience in potato crops than all the commissioners and all the cabinet ministers put together, writes thus in a letter received this morning :  " Warrenpoint, Feb. 10. " ' There is a great quantity of potatoes exported from this port every week for Liverpool, and no sign of famine here yet. I came from Bangor yesterday, 42 miles across the country, and it is a curious sight to see, at this time of year, such stack-yards, and hundreds of acres of potatoes undug, in which way they are keeping well—i. e., the good keeping good—the bad not worse.' "  . REPEAL ASSOCIATION —The prospect of the Hall was rather blue on Monday, owing probably to the combined influence of the weather and the absence of any novelty to stimulate the patriotic interest of the greasy idlers who usually attend. The chair, on the motion of W. S. O'Brien, Agitator pro tern., was taken by Mr. R. A. Fitzgerald, who, deriving proportionate eloquence from a miserable scrap of paper which he held in his hand, proceeded to congratulate the association on the numerous and respectable (!) attendance which they exhibit every week, and to declare his readiness as a landed proprietor to forego his private interests for the public weal, and support the abolition of the corn laws. Mr. O'Neil Daunt called on the landlords to join the " national" ranks, now that the only barrier which he stated hitherto to have prevented them—that of private interest—was about to be destroyed by the removal of the monopoly in the English market, which they apparently possess. The Head Pacificator, Mr. J. A. O'Neill, Alderman O'Brie❑ (the new " naimber" for Cashel), and Mr. H. Grattan, M.P., also addressed the meeting. The rent for the week was de.. dared to be £268.