The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

The progress of cultivation in Ireland, under present
is exceedingly consoling. In one large

circumstances

aistriet in Vv . spring business wilt
completed by Saturday next. In Carlow there never was
so large a breadth of land in cultivation ; and even Galway

have been

such is the progress made, that the Galway Vindicator
states the cultivation of the land is much farther advanced
in the country than near the towns.

SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP.—About 1500 pauper labourers
entered the town of Gort, County Galway, on Monday,
and paraded the streets, exclaiming, occasionally, they

should have " blood or bread," to flue great terror.of the
inhabitants. They eventually retired without any outrage
on person or property ; but their threa

were not

meant, for during the night 154 sheep, the property Of
William Lahiff, Esq., of Gort, at pasture, near the lands

of Bunnahow, were killed, and carried away. Seven of
the suspected principals, in this daring onslaught, have
been arrested.

POISONING OF DR. GRATTAN'S FAMILY.-At the
Wicklow assizes, on Thursday week, three servants. for-
merly in the service of Dr. Grattan, were indicted for an
attempt to poison the family of that gentleman, by mix-
ing arsenic in the stirabout prepared for their use. Mr.
Richard Grattan died from the effects of poison mixed in
some flummery made by one of the prisoners. The de-
fence set up was that the arsenic fell by accident into both
the stirabout and the flummery, although made on differ.
Verdict—" Not guilty."
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

ent da

e wee&iy meeting of this
The afendance was

,ssociation was held on Monday

•va.a.cui-"6ucatiLuLv Vl nuvunance.
Mr. John O'Connell addressed the meeting at consider-
able length, and repeated the overtures to " Young
Ireland," which he enunciated on the last Monday for a

reconciliation. To effect that object, he would not hesi-
tate to resort to any alternative, even to his retirement
from the association, if he were personally considered
offensive. At the conclusion of the proceedings the rent
was announced to be £24.

The Conciliation Hall madness is becoming rapidly
more and more extinct ;—and little as we sympathise with
• • • .

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gentry against the re-

lief of their own poor, which calls itself "the rish party,"
we yet cannot but feel that the exchange of the Repeal
"patriots" for this motley extract of all parties is at least
no loss. This last union of men of all parties, by the
has propounded a scheme for Irish emigration,-
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.ated. at great leng _ in much de and apparent
considered with some care. It is signed by the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, Lords Ormonde, Ely, Devon, Desart,
Farnham, and Jocelyn, Sir A. J. Foster, Bart., about
thirty Irish members of the lower House of Parliament,
and J. R. Godley, Esq.
IRISH FALSE STATEMENTS.—There has been much
systematic misrepresentation, in the Irish writers, about
the landowners in. England having Irish estates, in order
to excite compassion for one party, and prejudice against
another. A writer in the Morning Post, of Friday-week,
having addressed something to the editor, to the effect
that Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P. for the northern division of
Shropshire, had received £BOOO for a certain section of

his estate in 'one barony, the honourable member, in con-
tradiction, has asserted, in the same paper, that he re-
ceived £lOOO for half a year's rent at tiae end of 1845, for
the land in question, in the county of Sligo, and that at
the end of the year 1846, "he received nothing, and that

. ,
nothing had been demanded."
POTATOES.—One of the most extraordinary features of
the recent markets in Ireland is the resurrection (if it
may be so called) of the destroyed potato crop. Here

and there the native Patlanders are peeping out of cover,
and, daily acquiring more of their Hibernian confidence,
threaten in a short time to crowd the fairs and markets.
At Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Newry, Nenagh, &c., pota-
toes are reported to be coining forward in quantities.
The report for the latter town says—" Our markets are
well supplied with oats and potatoes. Indeed, we have
not seen a greater quantity of both articles for sale in
Nenagh, even when scarcity did not exist." And; to
crown all, potatoes are actually being exported from Ire-
land to Scotland, two vessels within the last few days
having arrived at Glasgow from Londonderry with an
aggregate quantity of 150 sacks of excellent quality.
DREADFUL MURDERS—A HOUSE BURNED.—On Sa-
turday night, two murders were perpetrated at Kiltankin,
Tipperary, within eleven miles of Caher at the Mitchels-
town side. The facts are these—a man named Michael
Brien went to Clogheen to sell oats, and having disposed
of them, he returned home in the evening. Two ac-
quaintances of his, named William and Lawrence Cull
came to his house, and after remaining some time they
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e time after, the Cull's re-
entered the house, and took their seats by the fire. The
daughter who had gone to bed, meanwhile fell asleep, but
was soon aroused by the crackling of fire. She immedi •
ately got up, and found her sister burned to death. She
then called her father, but he made no reply, and being
almost suffocated with the smoke, she left the house. In
a short time it was ascertained that the father was also
dead. The money of the oats was taken off. Both the
Cull's have been committed.
FEVER SIGHTS.—The Rev. W. B. Townsend, in com-
pany with Sir Arnold Knight, of this town, has recently
gone through the workhouse' at Skibbereen, and gives
the following as specimens of what he saw :—" On entering
the boys' school-room were presented to us the emaciated
forms of about 40 or 50 children, the very pictures of
starvation, seated on two forms placed at length on both
sides of the grate, perishing with cold near the embers of
an expiring apology for fire ! a cold north breeze was
blowing in upon them to help their . speedy departure to
another sphere! I give them a great respite in bespeaking
a week for. their departuro from their present state of
wretchedness!—We found the sick of fever and diarrlima
brought down into the house with the healthy to the
number of (deducting 225, the number in the Hospitals,
from those reported diseased altogether, about 600!) 375!
—We went from this to'the Hospital and Infirmary, and

in a bed, 'some at the head and some at the foot, the lat-
ter without bolsters, or straw to make them, or anything
to lift the hanging heads of the wretched patients ! From
this we went to the dead house, and such a sight I never
saw before !-18 or 20—(the latter the porter said)—naked,
emaciated skeletons of men women, and children—the
skin as if drawn tight over the empty exhausted frames !
All lying about three days in a confused mass, thrown
together without any ceremony just as they died, eyes,
mouths and limbs ! saving one little ewe lamb, upon whom
some affectionate hand had bestowed as much care as
circumstances would allow—dressed in its infant clothing
—a little cap and so forth, smiling in death and upon a
short plank! The very contrast made the sight more
piteous ! Yes I remember where one old female frame
had a piece of an old quilt thrown over hcr abdomen,"

1 SERMONS IN BEHALF OF THE ST.
DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS,

JVDE'S

The Annual Sermons in support of the Charity Schools

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