The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

found out, he coolly makes the act an error, if error, of
judgment, and not a violation of confidence :
" On calm reflection Gays his Reverence) I shall ad-
mit that I received a few shillings from the labourers who
I thought were able to pay me, for the purpose of paying
a debt which they and I had incurred in relieving the
poor List summer— and with the same calm reflection, I
also deny that I sold, or withheld, or demanded money
for any labour ticket :ssued by the inspecting officer. All
tickets issued by me were given in the presence of six res-
pectable witnesses. I challenge inquiry before any dis-
passionate, honourable, and impartial tribunal, and I defy
you to prove that I have acted curruptly, avariciously, or
unfaithfully, even in one single instance."
At an early stage of the relief system, a modest applica-
tion was made to the Irish, executive, to sanction the erec-
tion and repairing of Roman Catholic places of worship as
a very desirable and very productive description of labour,
to be paid for out of the sums advanced by Government.
The application was refused, on the ground that no reli-
gious edifices, to whatever sect belonging, had received, or
would receive, money for repairing or building them. His
reverence, therefere, thought it a capital plan to accom-
plish this object in his way ; for he says his object in sell-
ing the labour tickets was to remove them (i. e- his own
flock) from the miserable muddy cabin in which they adore
God at present, to a splendid church, where they may
adore with comparative ease, and also have an opportunity
of hearing instruction in their religious duties."

A DUAL FAMINE.
(From the Cork Constitution.)

The following is from the Wexford Independent :

FEARFUL FACTS.— H UNGER COLD DISEASE—
DEATH.—Our accounts from the northern parts of this
country are most deplorable. What the poor people earn
on the public works is barely sufficient to support them,
Al their earnings go for food ; and the consequence is,
that they have nothing left to procure clothing. Since
the extreme cold set in, sickness and death have accord-
ingly followed in its train. Inflammatio❑ of the lungs,
fevers, and other maladies, resulting from excessive priva-
tion, have been bearing away their victims. Many died
in the course of last week ; and the illness in every case
was traceable to the want of clothing and firing, if not of
sufficient food.

These are indeed "fearful facts." " Hunger—cold—?is-
ease—death"—what can be more fearful, or more potently
appeal to all that is humane in man? And who would
think that in the paper which contains them, we should
read the following?--

O'CONNELL NATIONAL DEBT.—The men of Wexford,
true to 'their noble nature. have resolved, as will be seen
by our advertising columns, on collecting their contingent
of this imperishable debt of a grateful nation to their in-
comparable leader.

What! many dying in the course of a single week, and
" the illness in every case traceable to the want of clothing
and firing, it not of sufficient food," yet, instead of apply-
ing their money to the buying of bread and coals and coats
and blankets, the O'Connellites of the county in which
these things happen have resolved on sending it away to
Dublin or Derrynane as a premium to imposture. And
for this they are lauded as " true to their noble nature"!
The Constitution was the first journal which announced
the suspension of the tribute. In doing so we intimated
the likelihood that means would be found of setting it
afloat without allowing the odium to fall on the receiver
—that, for instance, s, me kind friends in Cork or else-
where would " resolve" that their leader should not suffer
for his seeming self-denial, and that a calculation of this
kind was probably passing through the mind of " Moses"
when he determined on the " sacrifice." Does it not look
as if our conjecture was about to be verified? and as if,
too, Lord Shrewsbury's letter, as we remarked when co-
pying it, was slily designed as an incentive?
There is no end to the scheming of these " Liberals."
Yet had " the men of Wexford" an example before their
eves which it would better have behoved them to follow.
We quote still from the Independent :
" We feel true pleasure in stating that Mr. Boyse, of
Bannow, has expended £l,OOO in the purchase of corn to
guard aga list the alarming contingency before us."

the train, which comprised fifteen passengers in all, in:
eluding the two that had already departed, but none
thought proper to imitate her example. Five gentlemen
escorted the bride and bridegroom, leaving behind them in
the train, three ladirs and three gentlemen, who remained
there till noon on Wednesday, when they also repaired to
Washington, under the guidance of the engine drivers,
leaving Donaldson, the guard of the train, alone. Alt
parties reached Washington in safety, and found comfort-
able accommodation at the inn near the station, and at the
village in its vicinity. This is perhaps the first instance on
record of a railway train having been buried in the snow.
—[The Newcastle Journal gives the names of the passen-
gers, amongst whom we perceive that of Mr. Cram, of
this town.]