The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-18 00:00:00

Stn,—From the various reports in circulation, I feel myself tolled upon respectfully to contradict the account published in yesterday's Standard, and this day's Courier, relative to the late calamitous fire; the former stating, "it commenced, we understand, in the paint store of Messrs. Croston, New Quay;" the latter, " it is generally believed that the flames first made their appearance in a paint shop in Bath-street." Being the Party alluded to, (and unfortunately a sufferer to a considerable amount, not being insured,) I beg to inform you that the fire tommenoed in an office (as stated in the Times) separated fr om my store by a brick wall, and that the rooms immediately ove r the one occupied by me, were seen, by numerous bystan ders, enveloped in flames some time before the devouring ele- ZOent extended to mine. Relying upon your impartiality for the insertion of the above in the next Standard, I am, sir, yours, &c. Burlington-street, Jan. 16, 1833. T. CROSTON, Jun. FIRE POLICE. TO THE WORSHIPFUL. THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL. GENTLEMEN,—The annexed letter of the 7th December, 1831, Was submitted to several members of the Common Council about that period and subsequently, but for reasons which it is here unnecessary to explain, I was requested to postpone the ()facial delivery of it tq the Mayor, although the Gentlemen to Whom the copy was shewn were pleased to sanction the sugges tions with their approbation, and to promise their co-operation Whenever there was a probability that the Plan would be earned into effect. The alarming fire in Fenwick-street shortly after occurred, on the 22d December, 1831; and on the night of zhe 14th and 15th January, 1833, the still more destructive con flagration in Bath-street and Lancelot's Hey, has caused losses that will probably render the constituted bodies of the Town and the Public at large alive to their future safety.. Under this iinpression I have taken the liberty of transmitting the present enclosure for your consideration, in the hope that ere long an ample supply of water may be always available when the Town Is visited with au alarm of Fire. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your very obedient servant, 12, Roscommon Street,Evertonq THOMAS MOOR E. 16th Jan. 1833. " TO THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR AND COM.,IION COUXCIL OF LIVERPOOL. GENTLEMEN,—I beg leave, respectfully, to submit to you, that from past experience it is notorious to what great danger and hazard the Exchange Buildings are exposed, from fire, as Fell as the surrounding premises, from the inattention or in advertency of the numerous individuals employed in them, fre quently at late hours; also, from spontaneous ignition, arising trona various causes, the origin of which it is not now important 14 ) explain. To obviate these dangers, and to diminish their dire effects, s hould they again occur, also to point out several other im- Portant advantages to the town, is the purport of the present later. It is well known, although we have two highly respectable Water companies, who are competent and willing to furnish wa ter on any emergency, when application is made to them, that 't requires, especially in the night, so much time to supply the wins, and to set the fire-engines to work, that a conflagration 4 Often at its height before a sufficient supply of water can be Procured, and the premises are burnt down in spite of the quantity subsequently thrown upon them. On looking around for a remedy for this evil, the superfluous ° raters under the controul of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company present themselves as an almost inexhaustible supply, 41 Ways ready, without expense, supported by a pool extending f rom the end of Oldhall-street, (about 450 yards from the north ° f the Exchange-buildings,) to Apply lock, upwards of twenty t;itle miles in length, and filled by the water brought from the Lancaster Canal, at Kirkless, and the River Douglas, which, i ll 1830, by an accurate calculation, amounted to 11,485,935 , t4l4 s, (or 15,253,567 cubic yards,) equal to 31 , 468 tons per day , ',all per hour, or 21 tons per minute. This valuable surplus of water now runs waste over the weirs 4t Apply, Parbold, Leathom, Hallsal, Lydiate, Aintree, Ne therton, Bootle, and opposite the Leeds and Liverpool Canal ( : ) ffice. To divert the overflows would be a work of little trouble or sapence, a previous arrangement having been made with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Committee, whose permission, there le little doubt, might be obtained on reasonable terms by a pro per application to them at either of their general meetings held 1 1 April and September in each year. From the elevation of the top water of the canal, which is ap parent by the annexed list of levels, (taken bythe most compe 'eat engineers,) the overflowings might be conveyed in pipes B yer a considerable portion, probably two-thirds of the town, 11 )(1 along the whole of the dock quays. These pipes might be constantly kept full of water, and im mediately available in event of fire. ,ty plugs ju kennels for the cleansing of them, or watering the t e r ecta as high as 40 yards up Richmond-row. 100 yards up Shaw's-brow. 4 0 yards below the top of Ranelagh-street, Duke-street, opposite Suffolk-street, &c., And all the lower levels to low water-mark. Also, to scour the large sewers now under construction, which bl ight be most eligibly done at low water, when a fall of sixty -54e feet takes place from the top water of the Leeds and Liver -1)()01 Canal to the level of the lowest low water of neap tides. rs It is s t a t e d by th e C omm i ss ion ers o f Hi g hway s , th a t it will t uire an expenditure of £BOO per annum to water the streets, l l 141 that only in a partial manner. , I f the Leeds and Liverpool Canal waters were conveyed ; u rcatgli them, considerable labour might be saved in the pump htbg of water from the docks into the tun carts used for this ' ll dose. the a rea of th e Exchange•buildiugs might be watered as fre 011tly in the day as will be found requisite , the level of the u pper surface of it being several feet below the top water. 1, 1 4 Would contribute essentially to the beauty and health of the i *ll , if fountains were placed in suitable situations, [as is done i t Paris, w hi c h is ornamented with sixty, chiefly supplied from tt : canal o f the Ourcq,) where the levelswould answer; for in ilee, there might be one in front of the new Custom-house, niu x, g the west, or any of the quays in the vicinity of the docks, 4t 7eh are all more than twenty mine feet below the le v eL These . ‘, l.ll)l lnded by reservoirs, similar to that of the fountain, street c Martin, (Boulevard St. Martin, Paris,) would be worth at -444011 in LiverpooL The form is circular, the ornaments (1118 , materials granite and bronze. These would answer for i i e watering of horses employed on the quays, or cattle just 4 1 , 4 ( 1 , and waiting to be driven to the various markets. 1 , 11 b 0 threatened invasion of cholera suggests another very im Tl tt ard purpose which may be served by this abundant supply W4 ter• It is well known how much filth of every description p t eases the ravages of this terrible scourge, as well as of every palter epidemic disease ; and on that principle' the water cora 14ties of London have, on the recommendation of the Central ; i 11 of Health, most liberally supplied water from their mains y t t the purpose of washing the most crowded streets and lanes we metropolis, as one of the best means of preventing the A Paradise-street, and the Quays, in the event of such an epidemic appearing among us. _ _ 1 he abominable and noisome stench arising from the slaugh ter-houses in Harrington-street, &c., might be much abated, if not entirely removed, by a constant current of fresh water pass ing through them ; or in case new abattoirs were erected, it would be Well worth the attention of the corporation to avail themselves of this supply, as is effectually done in the large es tablishment of a similar description at the end of Rue Roche chouart Montmartre, Paris, which is 1074 feet long, by 384 in depth, and is watered by sluices from the Canal de I'Ourcq, so efficaciously, that on entering it the stranger perceives no dis agreeable smell; he witnesses no disgusting sight; and often he would not suspect the purpose to which the building is de voted. The foregoing hints and observations are referred, with all deference, to the mature consideration of the common council, and to the public at large : if, by a combination cif their efforts, the risk of fire may be diminished, and the salubrity of the town permanently benefitted, it will be a pleasing reflection and gratification to him who has the honour to subscribe himself, Gentlemen, your very obedient servant, 12, Roscommon-street, Everton, THOS. MOORE. Dec. 7, 1831. LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL DATUM. Top water of the said Canal, 40 Yards up Richmond-row. 100 Yards up Shaw's-brow. 40 Yards below the Top of Ranelagh-street. Duke-street, opposite Suffolk-street. St. James-srreet, by Bridgwater-street. The first Pool of the Canal extends from the Ba sin at Liverpool, to the Loch at Apply, 29 miles 75 chains. Ft. Ins. , ~.- 0 =',o" a) 0 ; . s . r— L,) s c c i _0 • c ft2 . l r 7 0 Castle-street south, front of the Exchange. 13 0 Scotland-rd, opposite the Porter Brewery. 22 5 Bottom of Shaw's-brow. 29 03 Coping Stone of the Princes Dock. 29 74 Pavement in Bath-street. 35 0 Bottom of Duke-street. 37 0 Bottom of Mersey-street and Park-lane. 56 7 Sill of the Old Dock-gates. 61 1 03 Level of the lowest Low Water Mark of Neap Tides in the Years 1819, 1820, 1821. 65 4 03 Level of the average Low Water Mark of Spring Tides in 1819, 1820, and 1821." FOREIGN AND BRITISH SLAVE LABOUR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,—lt is at present the fashion to attack and calumniate our West India Planters, because the commercial interests and policy of this country first invited, protected, and induced them to become slave-proprietors, for the purpose of cultivating such produce in these colonies as the wants of Great Britain required, that could net, indeed I fearlessly assert cannot, be obtained in anything like sufficient quantity from any other quarter. This disposition assumes various garbs, and is influenced by mixed motives :—some who are desirous to be thought better and more humane than their neighbours, yet, who do not hesitate to sacrifice their moral obligations by denying the just claims of the Planters, cry out loudly for the immediate emancipation of the Negroes, although without personal experience, ignorant of the complicated nature of the subject, the difficulties with which it is surrounded, and reckless of the mass of evil and de struction it would inevitably draw down alike on the Planters and their people ! Another portion whe wish to be considered still more pre-eminently good and conscientious, abstain from the use of sugar made in these colonies, and profess to submit to privation, by using as a substitute au inferior, weak, soft de scription, more like a compound of sugar and rice -flour, than the pure juice of the cane, imported from Bengal, because they are told it is produced by free labour, made by the feeble Ilin doos, slaves in all but the name, worked to the limit of their strength under ruthless task-masters, who reward them with wages only sufficient to sustain life for the purposes of returning labour ! In comparison with which the West India Negro, though a slave in name, lives in ease, comfort, and abundance! But my present object is to draw the attention of your readers to a fact, which I rather think it will require all the art and address of these slave emancipators, to reconcile with their doctrines, so as to justify their conduct and claims. Whilst they repudiate slavery in our colonies, and a portion of them abstain from using their produce, yet, at the same time they give the most decided and direct encouragement to slavery in the United States and the Brazils, by their universal use and consumption of the cottons of these countries, which are alto gether the fruits of slave labour :—let them account for and ex plain this fact; let them reconcile it and be consistent if they can, whilst I do not hesitate to assert that it is impossible to do so. It will not be an answer for them to tell me that these are foreign countries, where we have no power or means to inter fere with their governments, or influence them to abandon or extinguish slavery, whilst their conduct, voluntary and unsolicited, is giving the most direct and decided encouragement to that state of slavery, by their unhesitating use and general con sumption of clothes of every description the fruits of its labour! If then they abstain from the use of sugar, influenced by pure and laudable motives, why should not the same feeling extend itself equally to cotton dresses ? But the truth is, to do so would prove troublesome and inconvenient; the substitutes, whether of silk, woollen, or linen fabrics, would draw too hea vily upon their purses, which causes the conscience to be more pliable ! It is well known that the great capital and interests of this country, are deeply involved in the manufacture of cotton, which affords employment for many hundred thousands of indi viduals; whilst cotton was produced in quantity in,our own colonies, not a word was heard in these districts - hostile to slave labour, but now that this is no longer the case, their anathemas are poured out against the growers of the sugar-cane and coffee tree ! It would be rather curious to see a meeting called and held in Manchester, fur the purpose of taking measures to effect the general abolition of slavery, and a motion made to begin by striking at its root, with a resolution that they should abandon the use and manufacture of cotton, because it gives the most direct and unqualified encouragement to slavery, and at present actually affords employment, mach of it under severe and harsh treatment, to near three millions of slaves in the United States and the Brazils, many of them lately imported into the latter country from Africa, and where (Brazils) the trade is still illicitly carried on. I much fear that, as numbe r one, self-interest, would be rather too deeply and seriously im plicated in such a proposition and result, that the attendance would be mighty small! Yet we all know that if there were no receivers of stolen goods, there would be no thieves—if there were no spinners, weavers, and wearers of cotton, there would be no slave-growers; let those then who crowd meetings where the object is to destroy the British interests and slave population of our own colonies, in which they have no property or direct interest to rafter by it, ponder and lay it to heart ; let them remove the mote from their own eyes before they attempt to look for the beam in their neighbour's.—Yours, &c. 15th Jan. 1833. MERCATOR. LORD BLAYNEY.—We rejoice to find that not only is there uo truth in the report published in some a the Dublin papers of the death of the above nobleman, but that his Lordship is now better in health than he has been flit some time past—, Newry Telegraph. they ought in kindness and justice to consider how far they contribute to its imputed faults themselves. When they talk of the inequalities of its revenues, for instance, and the extreme poverty of its lower benefices, they ought to consider that that poverty is in great measure owing to the lay impro priators. The lay owner of Birkenhead holds the tithes, and pays the officiating Minister £lB a year. The lay impropriator of Upton, in Wirral, pays the officiating Minister £4 a year. These individuals cannot, of course, be legally called upon to augment the benefices which they thus impoverish, but still less can they, in justice, call upon the eccleciastical incumbents of other benefices to do so. By what law of equity is the incum bent of Winwick to be called upon to contribute to the support of a Minister, whose duty it is to preach the gospel to the tenants of the owner of Birkenhead, whose spiritual wants were provided for by that endowment which now goes to swell the rent roll of a non-resident layman ? The same mode of reasoning will, to a limited extent, apply to the complaints which are made as to the conduct of the clergy. A corrupt patronage, says Dr. Chalmers, has caused the evil eye with which the Clergy are viewed. Had all the Clergy been men of conscience, their rights would have been more respected. Who then, in his estimation, are to blame, that the Clergy are not men of conscience ? The corrupt patrons. And who are the corrupt patrons ? Out of 11,342 benefices, 7'2,68 are in the gift bf private lay patrons, and the remaining 4074 which are in the patronage of the Crown, Bishops, Deans, Chapters, Colleges, Sce., are all, except the Colleges and charitable establishments, virtually in lay patronage, because the Bishopricks and Dean eries are in the gift of the Crown, and the livings in episcopal patronage may therefore be said, in some measure, to depend upon the Crown also. At any rate, however, 7268 livings are in direct lay patronage, 900 livings in the gift of the Chancellor, some one or two hundred in the gift of the Premier, and all the Bishopricks and Deaneries are in his gift ! If, then, the Clergy are incompetent, who are the prime causers of the in competency ? Surely the patrons. If the Prime Minister, for reasons of state, prefers incompetent Bishops and Deans; if the lay patrons present their benefices to incompetent clergy men, no reform can mend the Church. "The efficiency of the church," says the Bishop of Chester, in the appendix to his last charge, " depends much less upon the perfection of the system, than the character of its Ministers. The commutation of tithes, the improvement of small livings, the abolition of pluralities, however desirable, would not in so great a degree advance the interests of religion, as those inte rests would be injured by the admission of a very few individuals into the ministry, who might be unfaithful to their trust, or in competent to discharge it. To the usefulness of a faithful minis ter little could be added by legislative measures! No legislative measures can confer usefulness on a different character, or make instrumental to the edification of the people, one who is indo lent in his habits, impracticable in his temper, unscriptural in his doctrine, or whose life. contradicts the principles of his reli gion." How the abuses of a corrupt patronage may be remedied it is difficult to devise. Popular elections would augment the evil; the increasing force of public opinion may diminish it: and if a system of discipline were established to prevent the possibility of gross scandal, the just influence of the church might be restored to its legitimate purpose, the religious instruc tion of the nation. Rational church reform may be confined to the following heads :—the restriction of pluralities—the relief of the poorer clergy—the enforcement of residence—the restoration of disci pline—the adequate supply of ministers to promote the religious education of the poor in' pOpulous parishes—the adjustment of tithes, and all such alterations in the' liturgy and ceremonies of the church, as the altered manners and habits of the people may require; and if these points are temperately handled, the just expectations of moderate . men may be fulfilled, and the unrea sbnable clamours of disaffection silenced and subdued. The people of England will do well to demand such an eccle'siastical system, as will provide them with an efficient ministry for their religious education; but they will be miserably blind to their own interests, if they give up their state establishment of reli gion, however much that establishment may be sneered at and abused ; or sacrifice the venerable church, under which supersti tion has withered and toleration flourished, for the delusive the ories of a vain and sordid political economy ; or at the bidding of men who can have no possible interest in the amendment of the church, and whose object must be destruction, not reform. Yours &c. PRESBYTER. PRINCIPLES OF AN IRISH REPEALER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—SO little is known in this country of the real state of things in Ireland, of the means by which the returns to parlia ment of many dangerous characters have been effected, and of the claims of the patriots that have been forced upon the Bri tish senate, that 1 think you will not consider your columns ill employed in giving a place to the following genuine specimen of a repealer's principles. Mr, Ruthven, (son of the M. P. for Dublin,) was defeated, to the everlasting shame (?) of the elec tors of Kildare. He then posted down to Waterford, and was there returned for the . county, defeating Mr. Power, to whom he had previously pledged his support ! I think I have now proved Mr. R. to be a gentleman,—the proof of his being a profound statesman I leave to the sub joined address.—Your admirer, AN ENGLISHMAN. " TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF KILDARE. • "An election is at hand—a reformed Parliament is about tobe choien, I have been called on by the Democratic party in this county to come forward ; I am told I can render a service to my country by doing so—with that view alone I offer myself to your notice, and seek your support, avowing myself the ad vocate of Radical Reform and Cheap Government, on pure de mocratic principles. " If returned, in Parliament I pledge myself to support a RE PEAL OF THE UNIOW, a total and unqualified Abolition of Tithes and Churh Cess—Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, an Ex tension of the Elective Franchise, an Abolition of the Vestry Laws, of the Subletting Act, a Revision and alteration of the Grand Jury Laws, securing to the people the management and expen diture of County Cess. An enemy to Tyranny and Oppression, I w ill use my strenuous exertions to get rid of the Police Esta blishment, disgraceful and unwarrantable in a free country. The appointment of Magistrates to make the administration of Justice perfect, should be in the people. I will advocate suclia Jury Bill only as will ensure to the accused a fair trial, and take from the Crown the power of and a Jury. I will sup port the Freedom of the Press, and make such a reduction of Stamp Duty as will make newspapers cheap. I will support every measure likely to render the Laws simple, cheap, and equally within the reach of the poor man and the rich. I will advocate an entire reduction of the Yeonzanry—a rational re. duction of the Standing Army—a complete abolition of Slavery —the appropriation of the enormous Church Lands and Reve nues to the support of the poor—and lastly, though not least, I will never forget lam sent to Parliament by the People, to sup port their Rights and to advocate their Cause, to use my utmost endeavours to procure for the poor man—what all Governments profess to . give—Protection of the Laws, in the Land of his Birth. - - - " On these Democratic principles alone do I call on.the peo ple of Kildare to support me. born an Irishman, I have the Soul of a Freeman, and feel no sacrce too great to ameliorate the condition of my Fellow Countrymen, or to promote the pros perity of Ireland. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your obedient servant, " E. ItunivEN." " Ballyfair-House, November, 1832." The following extracts 'Contain the latest intelligence given in the London papers of Wednesday evening:— A report is in circulation at the west end of the town, that Ministers have determined, to arrest Mr. O'Connell.' We ive this as a mere rumour, upon the probable truth or falsehood of which we pronounce no opinion.—Standard. We have a Lisbon mail to-day which sailed on the 2nd, and another from Oporfo on the 9th, one day later than the last arrivals. They do not bring any news of importance. No operations had taken place on the part of Don Pedro, who, it is said, was waiting for the arrival of his Admiral,• Sartorius. The bombardment was continued, and the garrison was kept perpetually on the alert, an attack from Don Miguel being hourly expected. Much discontent prevails in the Pedroite fleet,—one of the captains, an officer of the name of Rose, was brought to a court-martial for disrespect to Sartorins, and ac 9uitted by his brother officers. Provisions are running short in Oporto.—Standard. No further information relative to the Dutch question has come to hand since our last publication. There does not, how ever, appear to be the least ground for supposing but that his Netherlands Majesty is unshaken in his firmness not to accept of the propositions lately made to him by the united courts of England and France.—Standard. We have a file of Calcutta papers to the 22d of Sept.—They mention that for some time past his Majesty's 4th regiment had displayed very mutinous conduct. General Carpenter had assembled them on parade, and every man had presented him a petition.--These papers announce the death of the Nftwab of Chitpoor.—We find by the commercial advices from Calcutta, that there was a: considerable 'demand for piece goods.— Standard. Zeal a THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 133 C RESP ONDENC . whole community from the attacks of that destructive pestilence. THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT. LONDON LATEST NEWS. It is 'scarcely necessary to point out what advantage the town THE LATE FIRE. of Liverpool would derive from the frequent ablution of the TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The Letter of our Private Correspondent, through some mischance which we are at present unable to explain, did TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. dirty streets and alleys, between Scotland-road, Byrom-street, Szu,—When the laity find fault with the Church of England, no t come t o h an d b y l ast n i g h t ' s post. Paradise-street. and the Quays. in the event of such an epidemic they ought in kindness and justice to consider how far they The following extracts contain the latest intelligence given t thr e° T i M i. by Mr' m akivf! ely ev t e ' the neis,7 ceded , Uralic!: e d froP• IRELAND. DUBLIN, Friday, Jan. 11. Up to the present day 28 members of Parliament have sent in their adhesion to the National-Council scheme, and promised to attend it here on the 18th instant. One more, David. Roche, of Limerick, approves, and will attend if he can. .A few more Repealers yet remain, whose answers have not arrives'. James Grattan, one of the seven who met at the National Council of last year, writes from London that circumstances will not permit him to be present at this. In the mean time the system of in. timidation is each day becoming more and more prevalent amongst both Repealers and Conservatives. The Evening Mail and the Conservative Society threaten to hold up to odium and nonintercourse all Protestants who did not tote for Sir George Rich and West in the metropolis; on the other side, the Brabazonites in the county Mayo have posted through the county, and published.in th 6 Castlebar Telegraph, the names of all who.voted for and against the Repeal candidate, accompanied by an address two columns long to alLthe inhabitants from the County Independent Club, exhorting them by all that is dear to them to adopt the system of exclusive dealing against the Brownites, or Anti-repealers.— Times Correspondent. DUBLIN, SUNpAY, Jan. 13.—As the proceedings of the new Volunteer Society. appear to be regarded with some interest at your side of the water, I think it well to give you the earliest notice of them. A meeting of this Society was held yesterday, at the Corn Exchange, when Mr. O'Connell described at great length his views and objects as regards this political confe deracy. From the epitome of his speech which I subjoin, you will perceive that every individual who pays a shilling subscrip tion is thereby created "a Volunteer" in his own.parish, and that one of the duties he has to discharge is to aid in the sup pression of Whiteboyism and other lawless .systems of outrage. —ln pursuance of a notice which he had given upon a former day, Mr. O'Connell moved for the general organization of the Volunteers throughout Ireland, to superintend the collection of the national rent. The rent was required as the means of giving to the people the hope of obtaining legal redress.— Correspondent bf the Globe. .BELTURBET, Jan. 7.—We regret to say that cholera has at length made its appearance here. The first case which Pro vidence pleased to visit was that of Dr. Reilly, a very skilful and experienced practitioner, but whose constitution was im paired by infirmity, and who, it is supposed, contracted the_ disease in one of the islands of Lough Erne the day preceding, while in the discharge of his professional duties. Since then there have been several other cases, all of which have proved fatal. The cholera has again visited Monaghan; there were eight or ten deaths last week. We learn with regret the re-appearance in Tralee of that dire -pestilence, cholera, three cases of which have occurred since Alonday, and all terminated fatally. The board of health are on the alert, and no new case has been reported since. Cholera is raging in the town of Donegal. Cholera partially exists in the city of Waterford, where four deaths occurred this week. Cholera report -at Newcastle,_ in this county, yesterday—new cases 2, one recovery, 2 deaths, cases under treatment 7;—total cases from beginning, 46 ; total deaths, 30; total recoveries, 9. Cholera has totally disappeared from Tarbert. In Listowel it is on the decline • but there was a case or two in Shanagolden. Cho:era is on the' decline in Tipperary ; bere are only seven or eight patients in hospital, and a case or two daily. Up to yes terday there were • eight cases and seven deaths of cholera at Shanagolden.—Limerick Chronicle. • RATHANGAN, Jan. 10.—Last night a decent industrious young man, named Brohil, who had taken ground from the Duke, or some other way violated the institutions of Captain Rock, was shot dead, and his brother nearly beaten to death, by one of those -hordes of ruffians who have been taking up arms in the neighbourhood of Kildare. Brohil lived on the lands of Youghal, near Kildare. I can tell you that, to a certainty, there are numerous and extensive manufactories of gunpowder through the ZOuntry. On Tuesday morning an unfortunate man, having law papers from the sheriff of the county of Waterford, was found mur dered outside Newcastle ; _two% stones smeared with blood were found quite close to the poor man, whose head was greatly shattered.—Clonmel Herald. On Monday an altercation took place between three brothers, of the name of Russel, respecting a boundary ditch of a farm on the lands or Kilross, county Tipperary, when two of them barbarously murdered their own brother with stones, at the same time inflicting dreadful wounds on him with a pitchfork. Wm. Russel, the name of the man who was so inhumanly murdered, was in very comfortable circumstances, and has left a wife and young family to mourn his loss. His brothers have since absconded:—Limerick Chronicle. CRIME IN IRELAND.-It is a lamentable fact that in many districts of Ireland the peasantry commit the horrible crime of murder upon very slight provocation. Those , assassinations crowd the columns of the Journals and convey to the inhabi tants of other countries a terrible idea of the state of our society. Unfortunately for the Irish character, this state of things is not new. But it can with truth be asserted, that crimes of this sort have not grown more numerous. Their apparent increase arises,from their being reported now, which hitherto was not the case. Newspapers have multiplied, miraculously, and thus every district faithfully records those, calamitous occurrences. The ordinary law in many cases has been set aside, and the Insurrection act introduced into a locality to crush those offences. This experiment has failed. When the pressure was taken away the old system was resorted to. Law, in most cases, overtakes the guilty, and at almost every assizes the murderer falls beneath the axe of Justice ; but yet the midnight torch is at work, 'and the dagger is active. The !only mode of diminishing such crimes is to increase the police in those districts, and offer rewards, in the shape of money a p nd rdon, to the discoverer of his guilty associates. This plan is a pursued by the Executive. Tiine and education must do the rest. —Dublin Times. MARRIED. On Wednesday, the 9th instant, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Mr. James Hopwood, shipwright, to Mrs. Anderton, late of Richmond-row. On Tuesday, at St. David's Church, by the Rev. R. Davies, Mr. John Hawkes, bookseller, to Miss Elizabeth Leaver, both of London. Same day, at St. George's Church, by the Rev. William Blundell, A. B. San Rae, EN., of Leghorn, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John Richardson, Esq. Same day, at Mahon, Yorkshire, James Proctor, Esq., of this town, to Sarah Ann, only daughter of the late John Snowball, Esq., of the former place. DIED. On Friday last, at Admarsh, in Bleasdale, most highly resPected and sincerely regretted, the Rev. Osborne Littledale, minister of that parish. Same day, after a lingering and painful illness, which she endured with exemplary patience, aged 50 years, Catherine, the wife of Mr. Martin Rowland, of this town. Same day, aged 49, Fanny, wife of James Brackenridge, marble.. mason, London-road. On Monday last, aged 48 years, Mr. Thomas Rawsthorne, jun. Same day, Mr. William Capper, bricklayer, Grenville-street North, Scotland-road, much respected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He has left a widow and three young children to de-. plore their loss. On Tuesday, the Bth instant, aged 28, Jane Willett, third daughter of the late Mr. James Thompson, of this town. On the 14th instant, aged 48, after a protracted illness, the Rev. John Lingard, B. D., Curate of St. Michael's Church in this town, .ir -al ng ell ng Ay ies