The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The long-expected Prussian " Constitution" (as we
have learnt to call it) was actually published last Wednes-
day, at Berlin. The electoral body acquire thereby a
direct control over the creation of loans and the imposi-
tion of taxes (subject to certain very material exceptions),
together with the privilege of making representations by
way of petition on matters relating to the whole realm or
to more than one province. These powers are to be
vested in a General Diet, composed of all the members of
the provincial diets, and divided into two houses, the
whole, however, voting together on financial questions ;
the said Diet to be convoked whenever a new tax is le-
vied, or loan raised, and to exercise its functions at other
times through the medium of a Committee sitting at fixed
intervals. The Diet has no power to originate measures
except by petition, or to interfere in the appropriation of
the revenue. Considered as an instalment of representa-
tive Government, this can hardly be called a very liberal
one ; but taking into account the diversity of habits and
interests among the Prussian people, their extensive and
elastic municipal system, and the amount of indirect in-
fluence which the great machinery of the Executive
throws into the hands of the middle classes, we think it
adequate to the demand.

DON MiGuEL.—A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles
of the 7th announces that Don Miguel has secretly left
Rome. He went down to the port of Ostia, entered a
boat waiting for him, which put him on board a vessel
cruising off the port, which immediately set sail. It is
believed that he intends to return to Portugal, where,
however, he will probably arrive too late to finkany of his
adherents in arms.

STOCKS AT ODESSA.—According to a statement com-
piled by the Dutch consul at Odessa, it appears that the
shipments from that port in the month of December,
comprising grain, wool, &c., were to the amount of
27,000,000 roubles banco, sent over in 1,382 ships. There
were 130 vessels in port early in January, but it would re-
quire 1,000 ships to bring away the produce already avail-
able, so large were the supplies from the interior in con-
sequence of the fine weather.

IRELAND.

A parcel, containing £1521, was abstracted from the
Nenagh and Limerick coach on Saturday last.
Mr. William Grace, late High Sheriff of Limerick, has
been found guilty of the charge of forgery.
The Marquis of Sligo has sacrificed his park of six
hundred deer, at Westport, to support a poor-relief kit-
chen in that impoverished district.
A correspondent of the Tralee Chronicle states that
several " donkeys " have been sacrificed in that country
by the starving peasants, and used as food.
A lady in Ireland has offered to give £lOO for the
suffering Irish, if, by the end of March next, nine other
ladies shall have contributed a similar sum each.

The chairmanship of the Primitive Wesleyan Methodist
Society of Ireland is vacant by the lamented death of the
venerable Adam Averill, contemporary of the celebrated
John Wesley, at the Patriarchal age of ninety-three years.
CHARGES ON THE LAND IN IRELAND.--In a letter to
the Dublin Mail Lord Mountcashel calculates the charges
on the landlords of Ireland for poors' rates, county rates,
and proportion of tithe rent charge at £1,500,000.
No fewer than fifteen inquests, at which verdicts of
" died of starvation " were returned, were held at Bantry
on Wednesday week. On the conclusion of the first case
the jury wished to bring in a verdict of wilful murder
against Lord John Russell, but werb at last persuaded to
the contrary.
TRALEE.—Dysentery is most fatal in this town. Death
is rife in every alley and lane in Tralec. Six deaths are
reported to us as having occurred yesterday in the Old
Quarry. On Wednesday five persons died of dysentery
in the Rock. In two days since our last publication, the
mother and father of a family, who had been in health
last week, fell victims to this disease.—Kerry Post.
DEATHS IN CORK WORKHOUSE.—From Monday week
to Sunday, both days inclusive, there were 124 deaths in
the Cork Workhouse. During the first seven days of
1846 there were,but 13, and during the same days in 1845,
there were 17. During the month of January last, there
were 299 deaths in the Workhouse. Dori ng the month
of January 1846 there were but 37, and in January 1845
there were 48 deaths. The number in the house in Janu-
ary 1846 was about 1900, and in the same month in 1845,
over 2000. There are now upwards of 5000 in the house.
—Cork paper.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The skeleton depot mustered
on Monday in the usual meagre force, the Head Pacifica-
tor discharging the duties of chairman. A letter from
Mr. O'Connell was read, enclosing £5 108., being the
month's subscription of himself, his four sons, and thirty
grandchildren, towards the insolvent exchequer of Con-
ciliation Hall. In the course of his missive Mr. O'Connell
gives various classes of the English population credit for
their sympathy and ready assistance to suffering Ireland,
but avowing his despair of substantial and comprehensive
relief from parliament, recommending, also, Mr. O'Fla-
herty as the man for Galway. The rent amounted to
precisely £2B 9s. 6d.—of which the following is an analy-
sis :--From John O'Brien, London, came £lO. ; from the
O'Connell's, a contribution of £5 10s. ; from Glasgow,
£ll. ; anonymously, from London, 19s. ; leaving as the
gross amount contributed by all Ireland—£lo 19s. 6d.
As ten pounds, therefore, are to two thousand, so is
Repeal In "'47 "to Repeal in "'43." Why will O'Con-
hell persist in drawing this miserable pittance from a
disappointed and starving people ? In the name of de-
cency he ought to terminate, or at least to drop a curtain
over. the horrid spectacle.

The Rev. Dr. Trail, Rector of Schull, in a letter to the
editor of Saunders', relates the following piteous incident :
—A female was observed directing her way to the grave-
yard, unattended, save by two children which she bore in
hat arms. One of theM, it seems, was a corpse, and for
it she scratched a hole, and having consigned it to its cold
dwelling, she took, up the other and placed it in her lap,
and was seen in that position waiting till it also should
expire, that she might lay her two dead infants in one
common grave. The Rev. Mr. Townsend, writing from
Skibbereen, under date of the 2nd February, mentions
one Eet which shows the dreadful state of that unfortu-
nate town. He says :—The situation of the workhouse as
a pesthouse may be gathered, from this fact, that there
were 16 deaths in eight hours there last Sunday !
Mumma OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE.—A double mur-
der, which could not be exceeded in atrocity in the most
savage country, was perpetrated" in the town of Askeaton
upon Saturday night. The unhappy victims were David
Fitzgerald and his wife, an industrious couple. The
murders were committed with Fitzgerald's own hatchet,
which was found covered with. blood, and we learn from
one who visited 'the awful scene upon Sunday morning,
that the spectacle was most revolting and hideous,—the
gashes upon the faces of the unfortunate victims, their
brains Frotruding, and the flOor of the house literally
deluged with blood. The fatal blows must have been
rapidly inflicted, and with deadly force, as no alarm was
heard, although the house was in the centre of several
others, and within ten yards of the police barrack, and at
a very early hour of the night, as Fitzgerald and his wife
had not undressed or retired to bed. Robbery is supposed,
to be the object that led to this horrifying crime, as Fitz-
gerald's boxes were found unlocked, and apparently rifled.
A man named John M'Carthy, who worked as a journey-
man weaver with Fitzgerald, andierho was at Fitzgerald's
house on Saturday night, was suspected, and surrendered.
himself to the police.—ltimeriek Chronicle.