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 sor.et 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 labouters in the course of last week.  On Saturday week, three carts of flour on their way to Ballinasloe were attacked by a mob ano 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 others, to his numerous tenantry in the County Clare. In a letter to the Nation, the Rev. John Kenyon, a Roman Catholic priest, talks of " the desperate infamy lowering over the close" of O'Connell's career, and contends that it is time for Ireland to seek another leader. All the Irish markets in grain and other kinds are going down; and this is general in every quarter. In Scotland, the 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 poison in the stomach. The Irish Court of Queen's Bench has grantedto Lord Lncan a conditional order for a criminal information against the proprietor of the Mayo Telegraph, tor a libel on his lordship. The articles complained of reflected on his lordship's character as a landlord.  The Dublin Post says that the Irish Romish prelates have resolved to petition for such alterations in the Bequests Act, "as will render it acceptable to the bishops, the clergy, and the people of Ireland." Their reverences must be clever bands 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 Playfair, had three guineas a day and their travelliog expenses. A man named Cornelius Crowley has been committed near Cork, on 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 nut eaten anything but an onion for twenty-four hours, and that his wife had plenty of money. On searching her £3 10s. Gd. was found in her in,cket.  Numbers of persons well able to pay have refused to liquidate their parish ran-s in the county of Mayo, but they are to be proceeded agait sr. The workhouse at Cas. tlebar would have been closed, and 200 wretci es left to starve, but the Earl of Luca'. has advanced from his private purse money for the last six weeks to sustain the paupers. The papers received from the King's County, the counties of Limerick, Tipperari , P.attrford, end Cork contain lists of outrages perortr,tted siiihin their boundaries during the previous tew dais. With the exception of a few, there is no variety in he 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.  .