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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

1817 ; but power would be given to the Lord Lieutenant
to suspend its operation at any time in those districts in
which the fever would be reported to have ceased.
Mr. WAKLEY reminded the house that Ireland was in
want of food rather than of physic, and that a timely
supply of the one might obviate any necessity for the
other.
Mr. W. SMITH O'BRIEN suggested the propriety of
taxing the absentee landed proprietors of Ireland, and
said that Ireland only asked for a proper application of
her own resources. If she obtained that she would scorn
the generosity of England.
Sir R. PEEL regretted that those hon. members from
Ireland who had only appeared in the house within the
last few evenings, and during whose absence several mea-
sures had been adopted with the sole view of conferring
benefits on their country, should now, when they did at
length make their appearance, taunt them as if they had
been negligent, and declare that the generosit y of England
was scorned by the people of Ireland.
A desultory debate ensued, in the course of which Mr.
J. O'CONNELL and other Irish gentlemen bore testimony
to the feelings of sympathy apparent in the measures
hitherto adopted towards Ireland during the present
session.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN took occasion to qualify his ob-
servations, and to say that his meaning was that Ireland
was drained of four or five millions annually by absentee
proprietors, and they could not view a sum of £lOO,OOO
voted for their relief as any equivalent to this.
Ultimately leave was given to bring in the bill.
Sir J. GRAHAM then obtained leave to bring in a bill
to amend the law of settlement in England.
On the motion for bringing up the report on the Cus-
toms resolutions,
Mr. SPOONER moved as an amendment that the report
be received that day six months. The hon. gentleman
strongly advocated the principle of protection, and attri-
buted the greater portion of the evils of the country to the
Currency Bill of 1819.
Sir G. CLERK was surprised that in the present uncer-
tain state of the commercial and mercantile feeling of the
country, which was occasioning so much mischief, the
hon. member should seek to prolong that uncertainty by
moving its continuance for at least six months longer.
After some observations from Mr. Newdegate,
Mr. SPOONER withdrew his amendment.
The consideration of the duties in Cie various articles
in the tariff was then proceeded with. On the proposition
for the reduction of the duty on butter,
Mr. GROGAN proposed as an emendirent, that the ar-
ticle be excluded altogether from the tariff.
This was opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Sir G. Clerk, and supported by Lord George Ben-
tinck and other hon. members. On a division, however,
the amendment was defeated by a majority of 213 to 111.
The article of cotton hosiery also led to considerable dis-
cussion ; and
Sir HENRY HALFORD moved, as an amendment, its
omission from the tariff. A division ensued, and the
amendment was defeated by a majority of 190 to 102.
Mr. BANKES then moved the adjournment, and was
supported in so doing by Mr. MILLS and other hon.
gentlemen.
Mr. LABOUCHERE suggested that they might go on
with the articles unobjected to, in order that there might
be no derangement in the commercial concerns of the
country by the delay of this measure.
A discussion ensued, which was terminated by
Sir R. PEEL declining to press the further progress of
the tariff that night. Ile also suggested that he should
propose that the tariff should be proceeded with on Mon-
day, provided that the corn bill, as contradistinguished
from the tariff, could be taken on Tuesday, if honourable
gentlemen who had motions for that day would give it
precedence.

The Paris papers of Monday are almost exclusively oc-
cupied with the insurrection in Poland. Their contents,
corroborated by private letters, show that this movement
of despair was virtually at an end. The insurgents could
not stand against the combined troops sent to oppose
them ; and we fear these unfortunate men will ere long
fall victims to their patriotic enthusiasm. Letters reach-
ing Paris from Warsaw on Monday state that the most
perfect tranquility reigned there, and that the Russian
authorities had no fear of an outbreak in that city.
CHARITAALE BEQUESTS.—Feb. I.—Among other cha-
ritable bequests made by the town council, Jonas Frankel,
a Jewish philanthropist, who died on the 27th ultimo, and
left upwards of a million and a half dols. cabout £230,000),
are 15,000 dollars to the Jewish Hospital and Orphan As-
ylum erected by the Brothers Frankel, 25,000 dollars to
be applied by the authorities to the erection of a chari-
table institution for his Christian brethren, 150 dollars to
every charity existing in the town, besides many legacies
of 10,000 dollars each to the Jewish and Christian friends
of the deceased —Allegemeine Zeitung des Judenthums.
NEW ZEALAND.—Letters from Wellington, in New
Zealand, to the 12th September last, mention the warlike
condition of that colony, but with strong hopes that the
demonstrations of military force on the part of the settlers
will prove an effectual check upon the natives. The in-
habitants of Wellington are anxious to live on amicable
terms with the New Zealanders, but find it necessary to
stand prepared for hostilities if provoked. They have
formed a body of militia, horse and foot, and have re-
views weekly. Governor Fitzroy appears to be very un-
popular, and is charged with great want of tact in the ex-
ercise of his functions.

The dissatisfaction felt by the Duke of Wellington and
the other heads of the army at Sir John Littler's report
of the retreat of the 62d Regiment in front of the bat-
teries of Ferozeshah, is likely to accelerate the long-ru-
moured amalgamation of the British and East Indian ar-
mies. It is thought that the jealousy between the two
services is injurious, and would be diminished by placing
the officers both of the Queen's troops and the Company's
entirely under the same control. The intervention of the
Company, although nearly nominal, is still considered
calculated to separate the two services more than is de-
sirable.
SHIPWRECK.—On the 28th ult., a dreadful shipwreck
occurred at the Bugio lighthouse, on the bar of Lisbon. A
French brig, laden with salt, sailed out of the river, in
defiance, we are assured, of the advice of the pilot, in the
teeth of a stiff westerly breeze, and of a heavy surf lashing
the bar. The captain is said to have been too daring, and
notwithstanding all the exertions of the pilot and crew,
the brig struck on the sandbank under the lighthouse,
and was dashed to pieces. Unfortunately the very nature
of her cargo immediately waterlogged her. The pilot and
six of the crew were lost ; the captain, a seaman, and two
boys saved.

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THE AMERICAN ARMY.—The standing army of the
United States consists of one regiment of dragoons, one
regiment of riflemen, four companies of artillery, and
eight regiments of infantry. The whole number of troops
now in the service is 9,847, exclusive of 781 commissioned
officers. An act of Congress of 1842 reduced the rank
and file of the army to 3,920 men ; this reduction is now
proceeding. and when it is completed the standing army
will consist of 7,590 non-commissioned officers, musicians,
artificers, and privates. if the standing army, however,
is not overwhelming, the deficiency is made up by the
militia. The Army Register for 1843 contains the appal-
ling announcement, that this multitudinous host is com-
manded by 627 generals, 2,670 gen:ral staff officers,
13,813 field officers, 44,938 company officers, being in all
C 2,205 officers; noreare these numbers at all excessive,
when we learn that the forces under their command con-
sist of 1,385,645 men !
PRIESTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES.—A trial took place
at the last assizes of the Herault which created great sen-
sation. The following are the circumstances of the case,
as stated in the indictment. Emilie Vidal, the daughter
of a man of large property at St. Pons, was married to
Corbiere, a physician, and in due time had a child, of
which she became so fond as to neglect all her other duties.
To divert her mind into the right channel, she was placed
particularly under the direction of M. Dousset, the cure
of the village of Felines d'Hantpool, near St. Pons, in
which the Col bieres lived, with the hope of exciting in
her the religious sentiments in which she was deficient.
Soon afterwards the child died, and the priest took the
opportunity for turning the affections, or rather the pas-
sions, of the mother towards himself, and ultimately suc-
ceeded in seducing her. Availing himself of the influence
he had thus acquired over her, he got her to sign notes of
hand in his favour, and at last to make a will, leaving him
a large part of her fortune, over which she had the con-
trol, under the pretence of saying perpetual masses for her
soul. The husband was at last made acquainted with
these infamous proceedings, and went to the house of the
priest to reproach him with them. Daring the altercation
which ensued, Dousset made an attempt to stab M. Cor-
bierre with a knife, but he escaped utihurt out of the
house. As be was going away, the enraged priest took up
a gun and fired at him. Again he escaped, the charge
having only touched his coat. Another violent scene
took place between them some short time after, and the
paramour struck the husband a violent blow on the breast
with an iron bar. M. Corbiere was immediately seized
with pbthisis, which he attributed to this injury, and soon
after died. Dousset then conceived the following strata-
gem for securing to himself the whole of Madame Cor-
biere's fortune. He prevailed on ber to consent to marry
his own father, a very aged man, to whom her property
was to be made over, and which he, the priest,. would in-
herit on his father's death. But this plan could not be
carried into execution until the legal term of ber widow-
hood was expired. To overcome this difficulty, and the
consequences which delay might produce, he made the
two parties sign a mutual contract of marriage, under
very heavy penalties. This was on the sth of March in
last year, only a month after the death of M.,Corbiere.
He at the same time made each of them sign a bond for a
sum, left in blank, to be paid to him in case the marriage
should not be solerrnized. This he afterwards filled up
himself with a very large penalty. These transactions, on
being made known, excited suspicion that M. Corbiere,
thy husband, had been poisoned, and the magistrates or-
dered an exhumation and an autopsy of his body. No
traces of poison could be discovered ; but Dousset was
indicted for an attempt to murder the deceased by the
blow with the iron bar, and also for endeavouring by frau-
dulent means to deprive M. Vidal, the brother and heir
of Madame Corbiere, of the property to which be would
succeed on her death. After a long hearing, in which all
the facts stated were fully investigated, the jury delivered
a verdict declaring the prisoner guilty of fraud, but ac-
quitting him of the charge of attempting murder. The
Court condemned him to close confinement, with labour,
for eight years, and to be exposed on the pillory in the
market-place of Montpellier. When this judgment was
pronounced, Dousset spoke not a word, nor did he show
the slightest emotion.—Galignani's Messenger.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

UNITED STATES.

The news which came to hand on Thursday by the Ro-
chester, Captain Britton, which sailed from New 'York en
the 21st, is more pacific than the previous accounts. Sir
Robert Peel's financial scheme had arrived out by the
Cambria. The commercial classes were highly elated by
it, and it had gone far to allay the war fever about Oregon.
Most of the papers express their gratification at its " li-
beral and comprehensive features."
In the Senate the chairman of the committee on foreign
relations had introduced the joint resolution from the
House of Representatives, abrogating the convention of
1827, but it was very doubtful, even before the arrival of
the Cambria, whether these resolutions would pass, On
the 19th ult. the question was further adjourned to the
23d.

A dreadful snow storm and gale had swept along the
American coast, which destroyed a great number of ves-
sels, and upwards of sixty lives. The amount of property
sacrificed was likely to exceed a million of dollars.

We have the following rich scene in the reports of the
senatorial proceedings of the state of New York. It is
truly characteristic. It is a correct report :
" Mr. Clark.—You dodged on the Convention Bill.

" Mr. Young.—You lie, sir.
" Mr. Clark.—You owned stock in thirteen banks.
"Mr. Young.—You lie, sir.
"Mr. Clark.—You have a princely fortune from the
country.
" Mr. Young (with his foot on the desk).—You lie—
you lie—you lie, you old hypocrite.
" All the Senators.—Hooray l bit him again, Buck, he
hain't got no friends."
By the Cambria steam-ship, which arrived here on Sa-
turday, we have received New York papers to the Ist
instant, and the news, though unimportant, is of a more
peaceful nature.
The discussion in the senate on the question of notice
as to the Oregon territory, was resumed on the 24th nit.,
and carried on for several days. Two resolutions had
been brought forward by Mr. Colquitt, and it is said they
met the views of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Crittenden, and
others of both parties. They were to the effect, " that the
notice be given at the close of the present session of con-
gress, unless the president, in his discretion, consider it
expedient to defer it ; and that it was earnestly desired
that the long standing controversy be speedily settled by
negociation and compromise, in order to preserve the
friendly relations of the two countries." After several dis-
cussions, the senate adjourns(' to the 2d March, without
coming to any decision, but the speeches, generally speak-
ing, are of a pacific character. The New York Herald,
of the 28th February, states, upon the authority of its
Washington correspondent, that, on the 25th, Mr. Pa-
kenham bad submitted the ultimatum of our Govern-
ment, in reference to Oregon, to Mr. Buchanan, and that
the Cabinet at Washington met the same evening and
rejected it. Considerable doubt, however, is expressed
in Liverpool as to the correctness of the Herald's cor-
respondent. The Washington correspondent of the
New York Advertiser says that a rumour was cur-
rent at the former town, that " Mr. Crampton
brought out instructions to Mr. Parkenham to re-open
negociations by an offer of the 49th parallel, the whole of
Vancouver's Island, and the navigation of the Columbia
for twenty years. It is said that Mr. Polk will not take
the responsibility of accepting the offer, but will submit it
to the senate for advice."
The news of the Government commercial scheme had
been received out at Canada, and had caused a great sen-
sation, "mingled with no little consternation and alarm."
The Board of Montreal had determined to memorialize
the home Government to admit Canadian corn and flour
duty free, without a certificate of origin, and other ad-
vantages.

ALLEGED PERSECUTION OF ROMAN CATHO-
LICS IN RUSSIA.
M. de Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador at Rome.
has presented a note to the Pope relative to the alleged
depositions of the Abbess Mieczislawska, lately published
by the Univers. He first gives an outline of the story :
" According to this journal, the nuns in question, to
the number of forty-seven, were seized in the night-time,
by cossacks, forced to walk to Vitebsk (a town which it is
pretended is twenty miles from Kowno), shut up in an or-
thodox convent, reduced to act as servants to the Russian
nuns, who every Friday administered to each fifty blows
of a cane. It is next declared that the Archbishop threw
them into irons, condemning them to such hard labour as
is assigned to felons ; they were made to suffer hunger and
thirst; and to render the privation of drink more severe,
they were fed on salt herrings. It is added that some
wore obliged to take part in the construction of the Epis-
copal palace, often remaining in the water up to their
neck ; that others were employed in the mines ; that:eight
had their eyes forced out ; that thirty fell victims to this
odious persecution, and that only three had succeeded in
effecting their escape into Austria ; as to the superior, she
bad arrived in Paris. In the recitals of this woman, the
number of nuns is no longer confined to forty-seven ; they
are at once quintupled, reaching the number of two hun-
dred and forty, of whom one hundred and twenty are
stated to have been exiled to Siberia ; out of that num-
ber, upwards of one-half are alleged to have miserably pe-
rished on the road, and the rest are represented as about,
in all probability, to speedily share the same fate. The
names of Wawrzecha, Konarska, and Pomawnocka are
those by which the three nuns who took refuge in Austria
are designated.
" Now," continues the Ambassador—
" No convent of Basilian nuns ever existed in the town
of Kowno, nor in the whole extent of the province of that
name. The present Bishop of Lithuania, Joseph Siemas-
zko, has never been confessor of any convent of Basilian
nuns. No prelate in Russia, whatever may be his grade
in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, has cossacks at his orders
or disposal. Kowno happens to be not twenty miles
from Vitebsk, but double that distance, about three hun-
dred versts. No Basilian nun has been transferred to a
Russian monastery ; they have all remained in their own '
convents, except such as, having a desire to go and live
with their relations of the Roman Catholic religion, ob-
tained permission from the Archbishop alluded to above.
The means of existence of the Basilian nuns have not been
reduced, but, on the contrary, have been augmented by
new grants, which convents of this order have of late years
been accorded in Russia. The Archbishop of Lithuania
has never exercised any authority over the converts in Vi-
tebsk and Polotzk, inasmuch as they belong to another
diocese. Throughout the whole extent of the empire of
Russia, the criminal jurisdiction and the infliction of cor-
poreal punishment fall to the lot, not of the ecclesiastical
authorities, but exclusively of the secular power. Never
are women employed in Russia in works relating to build-
ing, and never has the Archbishop, Joseph Siernaszko,
erected a palace. He, for the most part, lives at St. Pe-
tersburg, and possesses no house of his own. The archi-
episcopal palace at Wilna, destined to his use, was pur-
chased by the Crown in 1843 from Count Mostowski,
Marshal of the nobility of that government. No person,
in modern times, has heard of any criminal whatever, and
still less of any poor women, being forced to undergo the
torture of hunger and thirst; of their being wetted with
iced water, cr plunged into it; or of having their eyes put
out. There are no mines in Russia, except in Siberia and
in the government of Olodetz. No Basilian nun could
have been employed in the mines, inasmuch as none were
transported from the western provinces of the empire,
where there are no mines. Previously to 1839 there were
in Russia nine convents of Basilian nuns, inhabited not
by two hundred and forty women, but by only fifty-five,
of whom thirty-five belonged to the diocese of Lithuania.
No one of these ever fled from the cloister, and no men-
tion has been as yet made in any report of any of those
who went to live with their relations having fled to a fo-
reign country. It is an indisputable fact that in Russia
there have never been Basilian nuns known by the names
of Mieczislawska, Wawrzecha, Konarska, and Pomaw-
nocka, attributed by the periodical press to these pre-
tended martyrs. As to the pretended Abbess Mieczis-
lawska, the Russian Government.is completely ignorant of
who she is."

There are -18,981 dogs in Paris.
Earl Cathcart has been gazetted as Governor-general
of Canada.
The regiments selected for Indian service are the 10th
Hussars, and the Bth, 24th, and 32nd Foot. The 18th
and 28th Regiments are also under orders to move from
China to Bengal.
A tremendous fire has taken place at Philippopoli
(Syria), and besides the destruction of about 2500 houses,
numerous stores filled with rice, produced there in large
quantities, were consumed.
The French Government has established a school at
Athens, for the purpose of enabling a certain number of
young Frenchmen to stady the monuments which still
render that capital so interesting. A professor will be
sent from Paris to preside over this establishment.
Attempts have been made to take advantage of the pe-
culiar wording of the firrnan for the election of the Eng-
lish Church at Jerusalem for rendering it unavailing.
These difficulties, however, have been overcome by the
vigour and decision with which they have been met by Sir
Stratford Canning.
MOODKEE.—Moodkee is a large village, sixteen miles
from Bhooga Poorana, belonging to the Lahore Raj, con-
tains about COO houses (many of brick) and 4,000 inhabi-
tants, Sikhs, Mahomedans, and Hindoos. There are 30
shops in the village, and 100 Lahore sepoys are on duty
at the place.
The French Government has at last come to the deter-
mination of reducing the exorbitant charge upon the
postage of letters, which has so long been complained of
by the public at large. The Minister has presented his
projet de loi sur la reforms postale to the Chamber of
Deputies, and will, no doubt, be carried by a large majority.
We hear from Italy that a tumult took place at Pia-
cenza on the 25th February, owing to the raised price of
corn, and that the pop'ilace went to such excesses, that
the Austrian troops found themselves at the necessity of
using their arms. Four persons are said to have been
killed, and twelve or fifteen wounded.
A RICII JOKE.—We arc informed by the Paris papers
that two works on galvanism were seized the other day
by the blind and bigoted Pontifical Government at Rome.
The Government actually imagined, in its besotted igno-
rance, that the works had something to do, not with gal-
vanic electricity, but—credat Judcrus I—with Calvinism.
This beats the seizure of Plato's works in Russia.
On the 29th ult., the damming of the Sig, 12 leagues
from Oran, was completed in the presence of General
Lamoriciere, his staff, and a numerous assemblage of the
natives. At six o'clock the flood-gates were let down,
and a salute of ten cannons was fired. By means of this
work more than 15,000 acres of land may be irrigated, and
rendered fertile.
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN RUSSIA.—The Journal
des Daats publishes a letter from St. Petersburgh of the
22d ult., which states that the Emperor had commanded
that all foreign Jews, even those of Poland, who are at
present in Russia, should quit the Russian territory within
three months, should they even be established and pos-
sess landed property in the country. In future no foreign
Israelite is to be permitted to reside in Russia without a
.. special permission from the Government.
PRESIDENT POLK " PRISONER OF WAR" TO ENG-
LAND.—It is a curious fact that the President of the
United States, the warlike and pugnacious Polk, was a
prisoner of w.r in the year 1812 to the " Britishers." Mr.
Polk was then a subaltern in the United States' army,
and was captured on the ice near Detroit, by a party of
the 41st Regiment of Foot, under the command cf Capt.
Bultock. Gen. Cass, the bellicose military orator in the
American legislature, also fell by the fortune of war into
the hands of the English forces in the same year.

IRELAND.

DREADFUL. MURDERS.—James Cane, a farmer, hold-

ing twenty-four acres of land at GortrnOre, was beset on

The Trish Society of London proposes to allow the ifa way home by three ruffians, and so dreadfully beaten
Mayor of Derry £2OO, and the Regorder £l5O annuities. that he died on Saturday. The deceased has left a widow
Two hundred additional police are to be stationed in the and six children.—On Sunday night a party of men, con-
county of Clare. sisting of six in number, one armed with a pistol, entered
There were 678 car loads of potatoes at market last the house of a man named Meara, near Cloghjordan.
week, of which 40 were diseased. The price—white, at They first knocked Meara down with a stone, inflicting a
3.1 d. ; cups, eid. to sd. per stone.—Limerick Chronicle. deadly wound ; they then, with savage ferocity, beat him
No less than 111 houses were inundated by the flood at on the head until his brains were dashed out. This foul
Cork. The furniture in nearly the whole of them was deed was committed between the hours of seven and eight
destroyed. o'clock, and within a few yards of another house; but,
The bill for protecting life and property in Ireland, was though the shrieks of the inmates were heard, no one came
read a third time in the House of Lords, on Friday, and to their assistance. Meara's family consisted of his wife,
passed two sons, (one of them a grown man, the other a boy,)
Sir Robert Peel says that Government has already ex- and two daughters, who were in the kitchen the time the
pended £lOO,OOO in the purchase of maize and rice, for the party were beating the father. The son attempted to get
relief of the people of Ireland. to the father's assistance, but was held by the mother.
The High Sheriff and seventeen of the Grand Jurors of Meara is father to the man that killed Kennedy on last
Tipperary have sent petitions to both houses of parliament Patrick's Day, on his return from the fair of Burrisokane.
against the proposed reductions of the duties on corn, on Seven men have been arrested for this murder.—Nenagh
the grounds that vast quantities of land will be thrown Guardian.
out of tillage, and that consequently an annual want of THE TRIAL OF THE ORANGEMEN.—The trial of the
potato land will be felt by the population, producing most Orangemen charged with the riots at Armagh, on the
calamitous results. 12th of July last, has just concluded in the conviction of
At a meeting of the Repeal Association, last Monday, three persons of " aiding and abetting at a manslaughter."
Mr. Grattan, M.P. stated his belief that the Irish Coercion There are two or three circumstances in the trial worthy
Bill would never become law and if it aid, the people of of remark. First, no person of the Roman Catholic mob
Ireland—the eight millions of people—had only to remain was put to the bar. As far as appears from the measures
out all together, on the same night, and no police force taken to vindicate the law, the riot was peculiarly national,
could arrest them at all; and, even if arrested, the prisons there being but one party to the quarrel. Yet it seems
would not hold them. from reading the report, that even the witnesses called
Mr. Justice Torrens, in opening the commission at for the prosecution, all Romanists, admitted that the
Omagh Assizes last week, said that, "in passing through Orangemen, being engaged in a procession legally and
the country he had not been struck with any appearance peaceably, made no hostile movement whatsoever until
of starvation or misery. He had observed the potato fields they were assailed by their opponents. They had been
and the haggards of the farmers, and felt extremely happy marching in procession to some distance from Armagh,
in being able to say, that there was not more than the arid in the evening found the Roman Catholics posted in
usual, if so much, appearance of misery or destitution large numbers in a certain portion of the city which they
throughout the country." principally inhabited. The latter attacked the Orange-
THE IRtsu FAMINE.—The following pithy letter was men, putting, according to the old Romish and Celtic
addressed to the editor of The Times on Saturday last : custom, women and " lumps of boys" (as a witness de-
Sir,—ln your Parliamentary report of to-day. I read, under scribed them) in front. The assault was made with stones
the head of •• Famine in Ireland," some observations of Mr. —one man's head laid open, and others injured. The
cocueneit's. He concludes by saying—" For the Irishman was Orangemen, being there in the exercise of a constitutional
always ready to share his last potato with his poor destitute rightnow did what the police and military have been
: neighbour."
Is Mr. O'Connell an Irishman ?if so, has he no potatoes. F. J applauded by the Government for doing under similar
Another correspondent in a subsequent paper says that circumstances—defended themselves. The result was
it is the la,t potato that an Irishman is ready to share, the death of one individual. The police in attendance,
and that the agitator has not reached the last in his stock, and all others whose information the Government was
A Rock notice, written and signed by " Captain Moon- likely to take upon the subject, could as easily have seen
light," was sent to Miss Maria Peacocke, of Dooneen, the aggression of the Romanists as the defence of the
commanding the young lady never to be seen with her sis- Orangemen. Indeed the witnesses all admitted the ag-
ter Eliza, as his company intend "to shoot her as they gression, yet for the riot the Orangemen alone were
would a mad dog," and that they will watch her both day placed upon their trial and convicted,—Britannia.
and night with that design. These miscreants conceive
that the benevolent Mr. Peacocke would remit the entire
rent of his potato ground, after considerable reductions
heretofore, but for one of his daughters, and the notice
concludes—" Peel is now at our side—lfurra for Repeal
and Old Ireland."—Limerick Chronicle.
Neither O'Connell nor his clique—no, nor his press—
can check the desire on the part of the more honest re-
peelers to know what has been done with their m ,ney
subscribed to the " rent." The Pilot (Mr. O'Connell's
organ) openly avows that " the people of Ireland have
never paid one shilling to the repeal fund for any other
purpose but that the Liberator may have it to apply to
any purpose, or to every purpose, which to him may ap-
pear most conducive to the ends of the association."
Such brazen assurance as this is anything but satisfactory
to a large body of subscribers, and hence the continued
bickerings amongst them, which are daily increasing.
MURDER AND THE MURDERER RECONCILED.—We
are no alarmists ; but if ever the gentry of all religious
denominations (especially of our own communion) had
reason to be alarmed for their lives and properties, they
have good cause to be so now, by the awful and horrify-
ing disclosures in the letter of the Rev. Roderick Ryder,
in our columns this day. Mr. Ryder was lately a priest
of the church of Rome, and he has brought home the
crime of murder to the priests of that church. It appears
that that horrible crime may be committed with impunity
by the members of that church, when the perpetration of
it (according to the theology and morality of Maynooth)
is likely to advance the interests of popery. Mr. Ryder's
testimony and proofs are unanswerable. Every doubt
respecting Seery's criminality is removed by this letter ;
it shows how the murderer and murder are reconciled at
the gallows, and how the former is duped to believe that
he is about to die a martyr for his holy (?) religion, and
to atone for the sins of his whole life ! Oh ! popery, in
the very gibbet even, you make merchandise of men's
souls !—Dublin Statesman.
REPEAL LOYALTY.—At the repeal meeting on Mon-
day, Mr. 0. Mahony (a barrister) made a speech, in the
course of which he said, that it was a most disgraceful po-
sition for her Majesty to have placed herself in, to have
met the bloated tyrant of France, Louis Philippe, in a
bathing box at Treport. Mr. Steele (a head pacificator)
—I protest against any gentleman saying that her Majesty
was ever, under any circumstances, placed in a disgrace-
ful position ; and I call for a retraction of the word " dis-
graceful." (Cheers.) Mr. 0. Mahony explained, and said
his observation was only intended to apply to her Ma-
jesty's Ministers. Mr. Steele, again interrupting, said—
Sir, you must withdraw the word " disgraceful " as ap-
plying to the Queen in any way, directly or indirectly.
(Cheers.) Mr. 0. Mahony did so, and was rather preci-
pitate in winding up his speech and resuming his seat.
Mr. Grattan having then made a speech, in which he gave
it as his opinion that the association would mske very lit-
tle of itself to give any account of their expenditure, the
rent for the week was announced to be £283.
THE CASE OF BRIAN SEERY.—A. letter from a cor-
respondent, which appeared in the London Times of Sa-
turday, gives what we greatly suspect to be the correct
version of the case of this man, concerning whosetexecu-
tion so much hypocritical and priestly sympathy has been
paraded before the public. The writer remarks that,—
"The statement respecting Seery's tenancyand subsequent
settlement with Sir Francis Hopkins is true, and the
treatment of the latter produced in Seery's mind respect
and gratitude, but Seery was a ribandman. The members
of that society take an oath of implicit obedience to the
committee or superiors ; and by reason of its being volun-
tary, and invested, as they suppose, with a religious hue,
they esteem it more sacred than any other obligation.
Sir Francis Hopkins was tried, found guilty, and sentenced
to death for some subsequent eviction of cottiers • and
lots were drawn among the parties supposed to be ag-
grieved at a meeting of the society—the lot fell on Seery.
His companion, the second man at the offence, was ap-
pointed to see that he did not flinch from his duty; his
own death and violation of his oath, which he more ab-
horred, would be the consequence of refusal ; Seery, there-
fore, resolved to undertake the supposed duty, but, true to
the lax morality and jesuitical teaching of his pastors, re-
solved likewise to fire wide of the mark, which he accord-
ingly did. This fact will account for the declaration, oft
repeated, of his innocence of the crime of which he was
accused, namely. firing with intent to kill." Were the
priesthood, who held up this man before the people of
Ireland as an innocent martyr, aware of the miserable
evasion of the truth, amounting to a falsehood, the utter-
ance of which was his last act before he left the world ?
THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the
landed proprietors and other inhabitants of the union
electoral divisions of Cloyne and Aghada was held, in
the Court-house at Cloyne, on Tuesday last, for the pur-
pose of taking measures to meet the approaching famine,
by procuring employment for the people, either by the
establishment of public works under the Government, or
in any way that might be suggested. A great number of
gentlemen were present, and the chair was taken by Mr.
Roche, M.P., who, after stating the lamentable condition
of the people with respect to food, noticed the several
bills now before parliament proposing grants of money for
safety harbours, piers, &c.. which would tend to give em-
ployment to the people to a certain extent. The staple
food of the country was rotted almost every where, and it
behoved them to do all they could to alleviate the threat-
ened sufferings of their fellow countrymen. He recom-
mended that the grand juries should make presentments
of works necessary to be done. Resolutions were carried
to the effect:—That the attention of the Government be
called to the necessity of giving relief to able-bodied per-
sons, by carrying on public works ; that presentments
should be made ; that the Board of Works be memoria-
lized on the necessity of building piers, safety harbours,
&c., along part of the coast ; that the same board be re-
quested to send a competent person to meet the gentle-
men of the country, to decide on the lines of road and
other works now deemed necessary, and to which those
gentlemen were ready to subscribe; that another meeting
be called of the Union of Middleton, to carry out the pro-
visions of the relief act, &c. A committee was appointed
to carry out the objects of the meeting, which then
separated.
OUTRAGES.—On Sunday, (alas! that this day is so
often chosen for such deeds,) two men well armed, named
James Flynn, uncle and nephew, with their faces black-
ened, entered the house of a farmer named William Bro-
derick, residing at Kiltane, near Freemount, in this
county, and ordered him to give up possession of the land
he had lately taken. One of them shot the house dog,
and threatened Broderick to serve him in the same way
if their commands were not immediately attended to.
They then went to the house of a man named John Sul-
livan, a caretaker on the same lands, and threatened to
shoot him if he did not quit the place the following day.
On leaving Broderick and Sullivan, the fellows said that
they were " Captain Kilfoyle's men" (the leader of the
gang tbat lately attached the police at Kilfinnan, county
Limerick). The police were soon apprised of the outrage,
and succeeded in capturing the miscreants, and they have
bean committed for trial. On the same evening, ( Sun-
day,) about the hour of six o'clock, two men with their
faces blackened and well armed. one of them having four
pistols strapped round his body and a gun in his hand,
the other with a pair of pistols and a blunderbuss, called
at the house of John Dobbins, of Elm-mount, a work-
man of Patrick Galvin, between Newtown and Free-
mount. After calling out, Dobbins they desired him to go
on his knees, which he at first refused, but afterwards
complied, when one of the ruffians discharged a pistol at
him ; the powder burned his hair and whiskers. They
were shown the way to Galvin's house, which is but a
short distance from Dobbins', but, fortunately for Gal-
vin he was at the time in the cow-house, at the rere of
the dwelling, tying up the cows, or in all probability his
life would have been taken. Galvin's daughter told her
father that those persons were in the house, when the
poor man, frightened as he must have been almost to
death, laid under a large quantity of straw until they left
the house, which was near an hour. They could get no
light to search the house, or else they would have got
Galvin's gun, which was laid on a table is the room.
When Dobbins thought they were gone from Galvin's he
went to see was he shot, but on the way the two fellows
met him and gave him a most unmerciful beating, inflict-
ing, with their guns, four deep cuts on his head and a
severe contusion on the eye, together with several bruises
on the body. After leaving him for dead, they went on
their way towards Freemount, calling at one house to
smoke and rest- themselves, as if not in the least dread of
being apprehended. They were, however, captured soon
after.—Cork Constitution.

THE REORGANISED ORANGE SYSTEM IN

IRELAND.

The Hon. Somers-t Maxwell, brother. to Lord Farn-
ham, has accepted the Grand Mastership of the Orange-
men of Cavan. In responding to the invitation to accept
that high dignity, Mr. Maxwell enters at great length into
his reasons, amongst which are the following, which do
him the greatest honour :
" In order to induce me to this step, I had no need to
decide on the propriety or desirableness of the continuance
of Orangeism. A stubborn fact I had to deal with, which
supplied the premises which have led to the conclusion to
which I have come, namely—that a legal, loyal confedera-
tion, of a defensive character, animated by the principles
of the Reformation and of the Revolution of 1688, would
continue, under the name of ORANGE, (and under none
other,) to unite the Protestant yeomanry of Ulster, whe-
ther the gentry of its counties joined themselves to it or
not, a determination which my extensive experience ena-
bles me to pronounce unalterable; and which is strength-
ened by late acts, both of the legislature and the executive,
to which (as my object is rather to allay than to irritate
your feelings) I shall not further allude.

" Having thus presented to me, engraved on the mind
of the Protestant North, in characters not to be erased, a
deep sense of the necessity of PROTESTANT organization
in days, on the one hand, of national abandonment of the
principles of the Reformation and Revolution, and on the
other, of increasing peril to Protestant life and property,
growing out of a widely-spread and deep-rooted conspira-
cy, so organized and so encouraged by the disaffected, as
to baffle the ingenuity of those who would apply a legisla-
tive remedy to it; having, I say, these data presented to
me, while the delicacy of my health, and my disrelish of
a contact with the stormy scenes of political life would
have caused me to retreat into a cherished privacy, my
conscience could suggest nothing to me, either as a Chris-
tian or a patriot, why I should shrink from my position
under the standard of loyalty and Protestantism which
they who revere the memory of William of Orange, have
planted in that province which was the theatre of so many
of his victories. Under such peculiar circumstances, to
draw back would land me not only in a retirement which
I love, but in an act of cowardice, and an abandonment
of duty which would ill accord with the character which
your kindness has conceded to me.

" I have said that your organization is defensive. For
physical purposes it is purely so in the theory of your
system, and I now assume your leadership on the faith of
its being really so in practice. To the executive govern-
ment, and to those who, like myself, are entrusted with
the commission of the peace, and not to any self-formed
body, however loyal or legal, belongs the institution and
prosecution of aggressive proceedings against those who
would individually assail, or collectively combine against
the lives or properties of others. The least intrusion,
therefore, into the province of the constituted authorities,
on the part of the Orange Institution, would meet with
my unqualified condemnation, and, if persevered in, my
separation from it. Bat her Majesty's government need
fear no such movement by the Orangemen of Ireland.
However they may differ from, and protest against mu, h
of their legislative proceedings, they know and reverence
the authority of that blessed book, which declares, that in
their executive character, the government of a country
are the ministers of God,' and bear tot the sword in
vain;' revengers to execute wrath upon him who doeth
evil.'—Rom. xiii. 4. I have no hesitation, therefore, in
tendering to the government, in the name of the Orange-
men of Cavan, our institution, (with all the esprit de
corps imparted by the talismanic name of ORANGE,) as
ancillary to the present or any future efforts of the legis-
lature to remove the stain of human blood from, and re-
store a sense of security to, our wretched land.
" But we tell our legislators and the government, that
the utmost which they can do, will still leave a work
for Orangeism to effect. The extreirities, the hands and
the feet, as it were, of MOLLY M AG.unut, may be within
their reach ; but I know of nothing so calculated to strike
at the heart of this mother of murder, as the known exis-
tence of Orange organization in and around the different
localities where she has established her bloody code. My
own experience (and it has not been small) enables me to
testify my firm conviction that, under God, to your insti-
tution, and to the wholesome dread of its " bone and
sinew," is mainly attributable the fact, that peace is in
any measure restored to our once troubled border—that
Ribbonism is not now desolating our country, and priest!y
agitation (as at Killeshandra last autumn) insulting and
maddening the Protestant peasantry by its monster arrays.
" So much for the physical purposes of our organiza-
tion—defensive, purely so, except when required to tender
our co-operation to those who have authority to demand
it. But as regards great political, or rather religio-poli-
tical ends, we are an aggressive organization ; and it is no
small item in the amount of satisfaction which I have in
joining you, that there is not, as I believe, one member of
your body who is not prepared, on all fitting occasions, to
record with myself, his solemn protest against that minis-
terial policy which systematically deals out " hard blows
and sore discouragement" against our loved and common
Protestantism, " starving scriptural education that it may
gorge Maynooth," and rearing superstition and error on
the ruins of the truth of God. My friends, viewing our
Government in two such totally different aspects—bound
by the solemn sanction of God's word to tender all sub-
mission to, and co-operation with them, as " bearing the
executive sword," and yet bound, as we conceive, by an
equally solemn sanction, to offer the most firm though
temperate resistance to them, when, as is too often the
case, we behold them in their legislative policy rejecting
the standard of God's revealed will in great questions le-
gitimately capable of reference thereto—under such cir-
cumstances, need I say, that as Protestants, and at
the same time loyal subjects, your situation is one of great
difficulty ; you feel it to be so. and therefore you ask for
guidance, or, to use your own words, " government and
control." If a spirit thoroughly imbued with the doctrines
which I have laid down, and a firm resolve that, with
God's blessing, it shall be the spirit of the Orangeism of
Cavan, be a sufficient qualification for assuming the hon-
orable post which you have assigned to me, you have not
mistaken your man in your selection of me. It is as a
religious man I accept your invitation, and conscious of
the purity of my motives, and the singleness of my aim at
the peace and well-being of my native county, I can com-
fortably feel that I carry the presence and blessing of God
with me, and I can look to Him to make His weak un-
worthy servant an instrument of good."
Mr. Maxwell, at the conclusion of his letter, says
that he has every reason to hope that the other grand
offices of the institution will be filled by gentlemen
of the highest character and standing, and addresses
1 the Orangemen in an affectionate and solemn man-

ner on their responsibilities and privileges, and urges
on them the practice of patience, forbearance, and the
other Christian graces advocated in their laws and
ordinances.

THE CjURT FASHIONABL.F; WORLD.

The Queen and Prince Albert and the royal children
left Osborne House on Friday morning, and reached
Buckingham Palace about noon.

The Queen has presented a pair of milk-white Cach-
mere goats, part of a flock sent to her Majesty by the
Shah of Persia, to the 23d Welsh Fusileers, to replace the
venerable Cambrian goat which accompanied that gallant
regiment, and which lately died at Barbadoes.
A large meeting took place on Monday at Lord Foley's,
Grosvenor-square, to enter into arrangements for the for-
mation of a new club, of which the Duke of Wellington
is to be one of the patrons.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and
family are not expected at Grosvenor-house, from Eaton-
hall, until the first week in April. The dowager marchio-
ness is expected to leave Grosvenor-square at the end of
the month, to pass the Easter recess at Moor-park, near
Rickmansworth.
ARRIVAL OP SIR T. G. HESKETH AND HIS BRIDE,—
On Tuesday, this highly-esteemed young gentleman was
united to Lady Arabella Fermor, daughter of the late Earl
Pomfret, and on the same evening the worthy couple pro-
ceeded to Rufford-hall in a magnificent chariot, drawn by
four bigh-mettled steeds, and were met at Sollam, two
miles from the ball, by a numerous body of the tenantry,
many of whom were mounted on horseback. At this
point of the road the horses were taken from the carriage,
and ropes attached, by which it was intended to draw the
happy couple the whole remainder of the journey. A nu-