The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

at different banks, to the credit of the " Central." WAn
active spirit of benevolence among the gentry is nowhere

and liberality not very conspicuous.
one remarkable exception. Mr. • Waite,
view, has offered £lOOO to the relief of Galway. By the
last official return we find that the number of labour,
employed on public works, in the - •
_- /0Q 911

There is, however

Joyce, of Mer.'•

)ur province,
it Is. per di

close of December, was
£120,000 per week must be disbursed from the public
treasury,,to afford relief to Irish labour. Yet this em.
ployment, though afforded on so vast a scale, seems to

DESTITUTION IN FERMANAGH.—The effects of famine
and destitution in Fermanagh arc becoming more appa-
rent every day. The poor-house is literally crammed,
containing at present 1,200 inmates, and the renewed and

are mac

Le every wee

it impossible that such numbers as are crammed' into it,
can be located there Without producing ultimately the
most disastrous consequences, which must result, (if
additional accommodation be not provided), eventually in
the outbreak of fever; and other cos
Ma

families, who not long since lived comfortable and

where th

may receive temporary

assistance

streets are daily crowded with the begging poor, and the
strong athletic youth, whose squalid and famished looks
show that the ravages of famine and distress are making
inroads in every part of the country. True, many means
of employment have been devised, and numbers are ob-
taining work, but whose wages are barely able to afford
one meal in the day to their families. But, independently
of all this, robbery, on an extensive scale, is going on,
and in man
some of the

Detrator

AN " IRISIi PARTY."—An Irish party, for the protec-
tion of Irish interests, has been virtually constituted. We
refer to the declaration of Irish peers and representatives,
subscribed by seventy-eight of the highest names in the
land, including those of no fewer than forty-six peers, by
whom the preliminary step in this matter has been taken.
The list comprises the names of noblemen and gentlemen
of all parties. To borrow the words of the Freeman,
" Itatltdown; and Farnham, and Waterford, and O'Neill,
and Caledon, • move in glorious harness with Sligo, and
Arran, Shannon, Headfort, and Cremorne.'.' These no-
blemen and gentlemen have pledged themselves to united
action. in rPferPTICP to nil Triat mpg:moron not ovolneivc.lo

political, Which may be produced during the coming ses-
sion. It is not, of course, to be supposed, that any of
them will forego their political opinions on any question ;
but that they will, all, make their politics a secondary
consideration to the peculiar interests of their common
country, and keep them in the back ground until the
grand object of bringing all classes in Ireland safely over
the present crisis, is achieved. " To this extent, no more,"
does the present union. go. We cannot deny our sym-
pathy and praise to such a procedure. We should suspect
and dread a union of Irishmen for the obtainment of any
boon for Ireland, inconsistent with the general prosperity
and coherence of the empire;. but we sincerely believe
such design is
,entertained by the niXiority of the
now constitute the "Irish purty.". We say the ma,
for we find in the list the names of the O'Counclls
O'Brien, Maher, and one or two more, who will doubt-
less, if permitted, insinuate the poison of their politics
into the porches of such cars as may he unguarded
enough to imbibe it. • There must ,be a vigilant watch
dgainst any surprise of this sort, and, so, we have no
fear of the issue."--BeVait New*. Leiter.