The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

instant

been received in N

Janeiro to the 31st August had

The American Cot-

the following summary of the Commercial intelli
e from the NMI, York Sun
ton M

t conti

New
one quarter of

confirmed, and the market a

closes firm.
"Wheat,

pt of Liverpool advic

flour, and Indian corn being in active demand,

the demand in Euro;

in consequence of

the supply in maaket being much larger than
t the same season in any former year. We quote best
Western Canal fl.:ur B's 50 to $5 62 1-2 per bar-
rel. The New York Canll returns up to the 4th
week in September, report 1,851,088 barrels of flour de-
livered at tide water, being an increase of 510,235 barrels
over the same period of last year. Of wheat, to the same
period, 1,368 916 bushels, being an increase of 891,38.5
bushels. Of barley, the receipts are 347,812 bushels, an
increase of 106,743 bushels. Of Indian corn, the receipts

Flour does not sustair

proporti

are 1,155,654 bushels, being an increase over last

1,126,718 bushels
"The U

sited States government having exhausted their
funds in the Mexican war, Mr. Walker, the secretary of
the treasury, repaired to the city of New York, Octcber

3d, to borrow five trillions of dollars. He offered five
per cent. interest, but the barks demanded six, so he
passed to the private banking-house of Brown, Brothers
and Co.', who took the loan, mostly on English account.
Money in New York is worth 7 per cent. on the best

commercial paper, having six months to run. Three
months' paper is done at six per cent. Apprehensions of
a scarcity of money begin to be entertained, as peace
with Mexico becomes more distant."

SPAlN.—Accounts from Madrid are of the 17th instant.
The royal hull .fight, which took place on the preceding
day, was described as truly magnificent. Upwards of
30,000 persons were present at it. Eleven hulls, and the
usual proportion of horses, were killed. The departure
of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier stood fixed for
the 22d. The decree of amnesty had been signed by the
Queen, but bad not yet appeared in the Gazelle. The
royal pardon was to be extended to all the military from
the rank of colonel inclusive, and to civilians from that
of political chief. Persons invested with commands by
insurrectionary juntas were alone to be excluded. but her
Majesty is to exercise her clemency towards them when
circumstances shall permit. The Heraldo, in noticing
the declaration of the British minister against the succes-
sion of the Infanta's children, adopts the opinions set
forth in the Britannia:—" The moment England recog-
nised at Eu the propriety of the marriage of the Infanta
with the Duke, after the birth of a son with the Queen,
of an heir who may not live, she has lost all right to pro-
test against that union and its consequences. England
and Europe may require that the letter and spirit of the
treaty of Utrecht be observed, and that the crowns of
France and Spain be not united on the same head ; but
they cannot prevent the son of a princess of Castile, who
holds his right from nature and the will of the Spanish
nation, from ascencing the throne of his ancestors."
On the 10th of October Mr. Cobden dined with the
British Ambassador at Madrid, and on the 11th went
with Mr. Bulwer to the Queen of Spain's drawing-rcom.
On the 14th Inst., a grand banquet was given in honor
of Mr. Cobden, at Madrid by the " Spanish Commercial
Association."

THE KAFIR \VAR —lntelligence from the Cape of
Good Elope, to the 19th August inclusive, has been re-
ceived. From the scenes of hostilitiet. in Kafirland, there
is not much news of importance. The events are, how-
ever, distressing, though the general aspect of affairs is
not greatly altered. A day or two more were expected to
bring all the divisions upon the Buffalo Poort, where it
was confidently believed that the main body of the Kafirs
would be assailed and brought to action. His Excel-
lency the Governor was on the Bth of August at Pieree,
ready to move either upon the Amatalo, or upon the up-
per spruits of the Buffalo. There had been a good deal
of skirmishing with the Kafirs, but no general engage-
ment. The results do not appear to have been very im-
portant. The accounts mention seventy of the enemy as
killed by Colonel Hare's division, and fifty-seven by Sir
A. Stockenstrom's ; while the loss on our side is said not
to amount to more than ten or twelve killed, and a few
wounded. A Graham's Town paper, of the 25th August,
contains accounts from Sir Andreas Stockenstrom to the
4th or sth. In conjunction with the division of the co-
lonial forces under the command of Colonel Hare, he had
driven the Kaffirs from their strongholds in the Acuatola
mountains. No general action had taken place, the
Kaffirs having been unable to concentrate their forces ;
but they were driven from all their positions with consi-
&Table loss, and they were left in full retreat upon the
Kei River. Sir Andreas only waited supplies of ammu-
nition and provisions to follow them to the Keeshema
district.

Sir Henry Pottinger has been appointed, in addition to
the office of Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, her
Majesty's High Commissioner for settling and adjusting
the affairs of the eastern and north-eastern frontier of the
colony.

The mountains in the eastern frontier of France were
covered with snow at the end of September. This is con-
sidered an indication of an early winter.
The news from Switzerland is considered of a most
ominous character—a civil war is all but inevitable. Yet
a word from Rome, withdrawing the Jesuits, would pre-
vent the fearful danger.

THE SCINDE PRIZE MONEY.—A correspondent of the
Times complains that, although three years and a half have
elapsed since the plunder of El ydrabad, no public intima-
tion is given of the amount of shares of different ranks,
except the account that £70,000, or 1-16th, will be the
probable share of the gallant Governor of Scinde.
The King of Bavaria has suppressed all the newspapers
in his dominions. From the Ist of January next he pro-
mises to issue a daily State Gazette of his own for the
edification of his people. if he prove as poor an editor as
he has a poet, the State Gazette will be a wretched thing
indeed.

DUELLING IN PRUSSIA.—The Gazette des Tribunaux
calls the attention of its readers to the state of the law
with respect to duelling in Prussia, by which officers in
the army are placed in a singular dilemma. The penal
code punishes them with imprisonment in a fortress if
they accept a challenge, and the Court of Honour deprives
them of their commission if they refuse. An example
lately occurred when a lieutenant of artillery was con-
demned, by 27 votes to 3, to lose his commission for hav-
ing refused to accept a challenge.
A packet vessel which left Monte Video on the 27th of
August, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning.
She brings despatches for the government, the purport of
which is not yet known ; but letters received by mer-
chants, affirm that Mr. Hood, (the envoy extraordinary
despatched by the English government to mediate between
the contending republics on t e River Plate,)had succeeded
in the object of his mission, having "arranged everything
satisfactorily both with the Buenos Ayres Government,
and with General Oribe." We trust this may prove to be
the case, and that nothing will occur to obstruct the final
settlement of a war which has been so injurious to com-
mercial interests.
TAPPING AN AQUEDUCT.—A novel case of fraud has
been lately discovered near Boston, in America. An
aqueduct company which supplies the city of Salem with
soft water, were at a loss to account for the failure of the
supply for some time past, and went to great expense of
examination of logs and pipes to discover the supposed
leak. A labourer in a tannery revealed the secret—that
his roster, a proprietor of a very large establishment, had
secretly tapped one of the logs, and had been for a consi-
derable time drawing from it with a pipe whose capacity
was ten gallons a minute. He had thus not only supplied
his own.tan-yard, but bad let out a right to one of his
neighhours, wi•o was ignorant whence the water came.
lie was lutested and held to large

Dr. Arnoldi, the Archbishop of -Treves, so famous for
his part in the " holy coat" affair, has addressed a circu-
lar to all the ecclesiastics of his diocese, recommending
them, in the most pressing terms, to employ all their in-
fluence to discourage the faithful from further pKgrimages
to Treves, and stating that such demonstrations., far from
being acts of piety, were rather prompted bywanity, sa-
vouring of superstition.
INUNDATIONS ON TUE CoNnwmx.r.—:The Loire has
risen to a fearful height, and it is feared will cause great
ravages. Oa the 19th the waters were, already two me-
tres higher than at the time of the terrible inundation of
1840. Roanne is completely inundated,,antla great many
houses are said to have been-washed-awayin the neigh-
bourhood. At Andrezieuz, the whole valley of Forey is
under water. o.le of the faubourgs at'Nevers has greatly
_ _

suffered ; at Angers the Loire rose/ five metres (about 16
feet) in one night, driving back the waters of the Maine.
A letter from Orleans, of the 21st,says.:—" Yesterday,
at 11 at night, a sudden rise of the waters of the Loire
carried away part of the viaduct owthe Orleans and Vier-
zon railway. A house near •the bridge was carried away
by the waters,but the workmen -who were inside escaped
by means of a boat. The opening of the Orleans and
Vierzon line is again retarded by this new disaster."
The level of the Seine, which on the.2oth was not more
than 70 centim. above the low-water mark, marked on
the 21st 2 m. 70 centim., having thus risen two metres in
one night.

'DREADFUL GALE AT NEWFOUNDLAND.—One of the
most terrific hnd destructive storms of wind and rain by
which Newfoundland has ever been visited occurred on
September 20th. Houses have been blown from their
foundations and torn in fragments, in two lamentable in-
stances .crushed beneath the ruins some of their unfor-
trees, in almost every direction, have
seen uprzoted from their beds or broken in pieces by the
fury of the gale. Many bridges, fences, and other erec-
tions have also been carried away or much injured by the
great and rapid rise of the rivers, which, in some instances,
rose fully ten feet above their ordinary levels, deluging the
low lands near their courses, and strewing their margins
. with immense quantities of wrecked materials. Among
the most distressing results of the gale in the town, we
may particularize the total destruction of that spacious
but unfinished building, the Natives' Hall, which, since
the late fire, has afforded shelter to several families. At
about five p.m. it fell with an awful crash. and by its fall,
melancholy to relate, a brother and sister of the name of
Duggan, of the respective ages of about five and twenty
years, were killed, and their mother so severely injured,
that hopes were scarcely entertained of her recovery.—

tunate tenant

more or less hurt. The new church
ars to have been lifted from its foun-
f the gale, as it has been removed

A. great portion

ises in course of erection for
I rapidly approaching completion

lv, was
say unf

kbout twenty other build-
e been levelled to the ground,
many others injured. Every bridge crossing the
, from Quidi Vidi to Long Pond, has been either
t away by the flood or much damaged. The arch of
ne erection, the King's Bridge, is entirely
iver-head bridges have also suffered, although
ntre part of the long bridge
ite the Hon. R. Job's cot-
several smaller bridges in

nt. The c

Very serious injury has also been sus-
Mill-works. From ports 10 !be south-
NC Petty Harbour,

s is very distres

done to the fishing.boatsf stages, &c.,
id One man, named Patrick Kelly, a cooper, was killed
by the fall of a stage. At Bay Bulls, about forty boats

,‘f a store, two brotl
rushed to death, a❑

s, young men named Brien, were
heir father had his limbs fractured.
to Newfoudland, three of which had run
sheiter, barely escaped shipwreck by
cutting away their masts. The schooner Dartford, of this
part, belonging to Mr. W. Dillon, loading with fish at
Petty-harbour, was lost. A vessel was wrecked at liar-
Grace, and another at Carbonear. From Renews we have
also a lamentable account ; seven men are stated to have
been drowned, about twenty boats lost, and many sages
destroyed. Four of the dead bodies have been picked up.

lUNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury last week consecrated
two new churches in his diocese—at Me!plash and West
Fordingtnn. _

The -Rev. Gilbert Eliott has been appointed to the living
of Trinity, Nlarylebone, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Dr. Pentuld.

It is said that Mr. Newman hesitates about becoming a
priest of the Church of Rome, and may, like the Rev. W.
Sibthorpe, retrace his steps.
On Wednesday, the foundation stone of a new church
to be built in Elizabeth-street, Preston, was laid by the
M ay or.

The clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin, at a meeting
on Wednesday, came to the unanimous resolution of peti-
tioning the sovereign for the restoration of the now vacant

see of Kildare

The body of the Rev. Mr Stagg, who lost his way and
his life while ascending Snowdon, has been found in a bog
about half way up the mountain. It appears he refused to
take a guide, as he had been there several times before,
and hence the melancholy result.
The Bishop of London, in his charge delivered to the
clergy on Monday, said, with reference to the Evangelical
it.diance, that it was " an association which contains
within itself the elements of disunion, and must soon,
crumble into pieces, if it be not turned into a mere in-
strument of aggression against the Established Church."

A correspondent of the Record, alluding to the recent
finding of many carvings of winged lions at Nineveh,
calls to observation the very remarkable and interesting
conformity brought to light between those ancient re-
mains and the words of Scripture (Dan. vii. 4), in re-
ference to the Assyrian empire, "'!'he first was like a
lion, and had eagle's wings."
CHRIST CHURCH, HEATON NORRIS.—The consecra-
tion of this beautiful edifice, opposite the Heaton Norris
Railway Station, took place on Wednesday, by the Bishop
of Chester. On the 29th July, 1844, the foundation
stone was laid by Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton
Park, who not only gave the land, but endowed the
church with £l,OOO, and presented the committee with a
donation of £2OO towards the cost of the spire.
TRACTARIAN COMFORT DRAWN FROM THE BISHOP
OF LONDON'S CHARGE.—Acnong other blunders of the
journalists, we were especially amused with the naivete of
a Tractarian weekly paper. It endeavours to evade the
censure of the charge in the following fallacious manner:
—" Any how, if WE gain but little, we moat certainly
lose nothing. If the bishop be as far offrom Rome as
evor, most certainly he is no nearer to Geneva." Now,
who expected, or imagined, that the bishop should be
drawing " nearer to Geneva?" Who asked, who desired,
any movement that way ? No one. But observe the
other limb of the proposition :—" WE—i. e., the Trac-
tarians—gain but little by the present charge," because
the bishop is as far off Rome as ever." It is true, this
little slip of the tongue tells us nothing that we did not
know before, but it is well to catch these gentlemen some-
times in the confession that their real and sole object is
to draw people over to Rome.-111orning Herald 1
CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Bishop of Ripon, at the
meeting of the Ripon Diocesan Church Building Society,
narrated the following instance of the effects of church
extension :—" In an out-township of the manufacturing
parish of Calverley, a church was built through the aid of
this society, five or six years ago. So averse were the
population to the erection of a church, so indifferent to
the ministrations of religion, that only £l6 was raised
throughout the whole district towards the building of a
church which probably cost about £l5OO. A clergy man
has been ministering there for three years ; and now
between £lOO and £2OO has been raised to provide him
witb'a parsonage." But the Bishop of London, in his
charge delivered last week, narrates a more striking fact.
He says :—" The average aggregate number of persons
forming the congregations of the seven new churches
lately erected in Bethnal-green had been 1500 in the
morning, and 2000 in the evening. There were in those
churches 460 communicants ; and 3254 children attended
the National and Sunday schools. As the number of
attendants at the parish church and the parochial school
had not diminished, they were justified in regarding the
numbers he had mentioned as a gain to the church. In
the single parish of Bethnal-green, which was now divided
into 12 districts or parishes, there were employed, at this
time, 20 additional clergymen, having under their imme-
diate direction 15 schoolmasters and mistresses, 100 Sun-
day school teachers, SO Scripture readers, and 101 district
visitors, all engaged in making known the truths and
duties of their holy religion in that long neglected neigh-
bourhood."
THE CONVERTS TO ROME.—The efforts which have for
some time past been systematically made to revive
amongst the members of our own communion opinions
and practices which have been usually regarded as pecu-
liar to the Church of Rome necessarily tend, as 1 have
before observed, to perplex and unsettle sensitive and
imperfectly constituted consciences, and to prepare them
for an acknowlQgment of the paramount authority of
that church, which as it concedes nothing, nor admits the
possibility of its erring, even in the minutest feature of
that complicated system, which was stamped with the
character of unchangeableness by the decrees of the
Council of Trent, has manifestly a great advantage in
dealing with unstable and doubtful minds, when even one
step has been taken in advance towards that system. This
is especially the case with females, the natural constitu-
tion of whose minds disposes them to rest upon the au-
thority of others ; while their livelier sensibilities are
more easily excited and satisfied by an aesthetic and cere-
monial form of religion. Indeed, it is in minds of this
class—even in our own sex also, with some exceptions—
that a Romanisin tendency is most perceptible. Some
few there are who seem to have Leen caught in the meshes
of their own subtilty others appear to be perplexed by
erudition ill-digested and misapplied; but a great number
of those persons who have been, unhappily, perverted
(and, after all, how inconsiderable Is that number in com-
parison with those who hold fast the truth without waver-
ing) seem to have been misled by the treacherous light of
a practical mysticism, following the guidance, not of their
reason, but of imagination, or to have fallen a prey to
Romish sophistry for want of sound and well-digested
theological learning. 'We must, I fear, look for more
instances of perversion occasioned by these causes, and
it behoves the clergy to be prepared with a competent
store of reasons wherewith to combat the delusive argu-
ments of Romish emissaries, and to establish and settle
the faith of the weak-hearted members of their Sleeks.
The present is too plainly a time at which it is most need-
ful for those who stand on the watch-towers of the church
to observe the approaches of the adversary, and to cry
aloud to every soul that Is given to them in charge,
" Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ bath made
us tree, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bon-
dage.—Bishop of London's Charge.

IRELAND.

Prince George of Cambridge was at Clonmel on Friday,
inspecting the troops. .

The Limerick Chronicle says, the navy promotion will
come out with the army brevet on the 9th of November.
The Cushmans are about to play a few nights at Belfast,
previously to their leaving this country for New York.
The Limerick Examiner states on the authority of a
medical gentleman, that four persons have died.of starva-
tion in that neighbourhood. .

At the two bOtels of Ballinasloe, the week before last,
during the great fair, two thousand four hundred turkeys
were slaughtered for the guests.
At a recent meeting, Dr. Daly, Bishop of Cashel,
stated that nine out of the twelve prelates, and 1.100 out
of 2000 of the clergy of Ireland, had entered their pro-
tests against the national scheme of education. _ _

The yacht "Wandering Spirit," the property of Lord
Kilworth, son of Lord Mountcashel, was wrecked off
Kinsale, on Saturday week, and has gone to pieces.
Lady Mountcashel and two of her daughters were saved
in one of the boats.

Official returns announce an increase of 50,000 inmates
in the Irish workhouses, as compared with the month of
October, 1845. And, as a set off to this distressing evi-
dence of the progress of destitution, it is notified that
52,500 people are now receiving daily employment
through the medium of public works.
The Times' Dublin correspondent says—" It is, I be-
lieve, quite true that Mr. O'Connell has resolved to waive
his claim this year, ar►d that consequently there will be no
tribute Sunday for 1846 ; at least so it is stated by the
managers of the national debt,' as the secretary faceti-
ously styles this annual impost."
On Thursday morning, the body of a man, named
Maurice Hartnett, was discovered in Clonmel Gaol, sus-
pended by a web, to which was attached a portion of his
blanket, which had been torn off and twisted into a noose.
The unfortunate deceased was confined on a charge of
stealing an ass.
THE ULSTER LANHLORDS.—Lord Lurgan has pre-
sented £2OO to the town commissioners of Lurgan to-
wards the expenses of Lighting the town, and he has
announced his intention of reducing the rents of his
humbler tenantry, in consequence of their losses by the
failure of the potato crop.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—NearIy all the clerks in
the repeal association have been dismi,sed, and parties
connected with the establishment state that an adjourn-
ment of the meetings for six months is about to take

place—the association to commence its labours on the
Eve of St. Ms. The liberator has done it all to oblige
the "base, brutal, and bloody Whigs."
CLONMEL.—The gunsmiths in Clonmel cannot procure

arms fast enough for the demand, the peasantry are pur-
chasing them so rapidly. The flour carts going from
Clogheen to Clonmel were robbed of their cargo, near
Knocklofty, by a body of men. We fear that all the
merchants' corn must be escorted by cavalry or police
throughout this great corn district.—Dublin Mail.
SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP.—A multitude of rustic la-
bourers crowded the town of Mallow, county Cork, on
Tuesday morning, at an early hour, and, disappointed in
work on the railway, made a simultaneous onslaught upon
the farm of Richard Barrett, Esq , a mrgistrate, in the
vicinity, where they seized upwards of fifty sheep, and
proceeded to slaughter them, despite of the police.
On Wednesday, the neighbourhood of Limerick and
Cork were visited by a furious storm. Considerable da-
mage was done to the shops, houses, and fields, by the
winds and floods. Waterford was also on the same day

visited by the storm. A lighter belonging to Messrs.
Malcomson of Clonmel, laden with 350 bags of flour,
was upset, and several vessels were driven from their

)orings

INTIMIDATION IN TIPPERARY.—RENTS.-011 Friday
evening, about eight o'clock, a man armed with a blun-
derbuss, entered the dwelling of John Cormack, of Bally-
hogan, within two miles of Nenagh, and ordered Cur-
rnack not to attempt to pay any rent whatsoever, and
also desired him to tell all the tenants on the property to
act similarly, and swore he would give the contents of his
blunderbuss to Cormack, or any one else who paid rent.
—Nenagh Guardian. _ _ _ _

DUBLIN.—At the repeal meeting, on Monday, in
Conciliation Hall, a letter was read from Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, in which he expresses his unwillingness to
give up the plan for a national committee of landed pro-
prietors in Dublin. The Hon. Cecil Lawles, (now 11I.P.
for Clonmel,) and Mr. O'Neil, (who thought he had
been unfairly passed by,) came to an explanation. Mr.
J. O'Connell, Captain Brodrick, Mr. Steele, Mr. Reilly,
and others, addressed the association. The rent was
short of £7O.

DAY OF HUMILIATION.—The Primate of Ireland has
addressed a circular to the clergy of his diocese (Armagh),
enjoining the observance of Friday, the 30th insthnt, as a
day "on which public prayer should be offered up, in
acknowledgment of the divine hand which has sent this
calamity." In consequence of an earnest hope from the
Lord Lieutenant, that one and the same day may, by ap-
pointment of the several diocesans, be observed as a day
of humiliation throughout Ireland, the Lord Primate has
since postponed the day until Friday, the 20th November.
O'C ONNELL AND THE RENT.—The Nation, in stating
the conditions on which only the party it represents will
return to Conciliation Hall, gives the following intelligible
hint on the present disposal of the funds :—" The funds
of the association should be accounted for in a regular
and satisfactory manner. No more false, plausible de-
fences for the public, while the actual fact remains as now
—that no committee, body. or individual whatever, has
the smallest knowledge of, or the slightest power of
obtaining any insight into, their condition—with the
single exception of Mr. O'Connell."
Two MEN DuowNED.—A yawl laden with fresh fish
came up the river to Cork, on Saturday, in which were
four men rowing. When they neared the Custom-house,
a hawser, which had been attached to the Nimrod steamer,
then on point of starting for Liverpool, from the Blarney
screw propeller, for the purpose of swinging the latter
round to be taken in tow by the Nimrod, came in contact
with the boat, and threw three of the men into the river,
two of whom were drowned, but the third was picked
up, having been severely hurt by a blow from the hawser
which had struck the boat, and was by the force of the
pressure snapped in two,—Cork paper.

. .
ATTACK ON A FLOURCART—ROBBERY OF THE FLOUR.
—On Monday morning, as a man named John Prender-
gast was proceeding to Clonmel, in charge of a cart-load
of flour, the property of Samuel Grubb, Esq., of Castle
Grace Mills, he was attacked near Knocklofty by about
twenty persons who came out of a house. Several of them
laid hold of Prendergast and they then dragged the horse
and cart down a narrow road. They opened one of the
sacks of flour and divided it into empty bags which they
carried. They then took three more sacks which they
also divided. Prendergast states that he thinks he will be
able to identify some of the party.
WRECK.—The Rose, from Belise, which arrived in
Cove on 15th October, reported that she fell in with the
barque Ellen Jane, of Liverpool, from Belise, in lat. 39.
40, long. 58. 30 ~ waterlogged, foremast only standing,
decks broken-up, and hull entirely under water; two
men alive in the foretop, took them off with much diffi-
culty, the sea was running so high. They had been in
that situation nine days, with three others who died from
exhaustion. The master and six men left the ship in the
lorg boat on the 19th of September, but it is supposed
they perished, as no boat could live in the sea which was
running. The two survivors lived on the remains of their
comrades, who died on the wreck.— Cork Reporter.
IRISH PRESENTMEETS.—SOme time ago we asked
whence was the money to come which was voted away so
readily, or where would the collectors find it when they
went to look for it. Perhaps few even of those who took
such an active part in disposing of the public property are
aware of the sum with which, were the Board of Works
as insane as " the Sovereign People," the country would
be saddled, and saddled for purposes for the greater part
worse than unprofitable. The items are worth reprint-
ing. Although they amount to £608,015 13a. 7d., inde-
pendently of presentments for drainage, and if to this we
were to add the customary charges under the head of
Grand Jury presentments, many of those who have to
pay them would, we doubt not, be a little startled.—
Cork Constitution.

SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—On Friday, between the hours
of one and two o'clock, as C. W, Harvey, Esq., agent to
the Earl of Donoughmore, was proceeding to this town
on an outside ear, he was attacked near Mr. Bagwell's
ice-house, at the Waterford side of the river, by four
men, with crape covering their faces and otherwise dis-
guised. One was armed with a blunderbuss, another
with a long gun, and the other two wiih pistols, all of
which they presented at Mr. Harvey's head, at the same
time telling him to deliver up his money, or that they
would shoot him. He remonstrated with them, but all
was to no purpose ; they would have put their bloody
threat into execution, had he not delivered up his pocket-
book to them, containing cheques, letters of credit, and
notes, to the amount of about £9OO. One of the party
called out to the other " to shoot the horse ;" but Mr.
Harvey and the man who drove the car interfered, and
they did not shoot the horse, but backed him, car and all,
over a precipice at the road side; they then made off
through Mr. Bagwell's wood. Mr. Harvey was collect-
ing rents at Knocklofty, and was on his way to lodge the
money he had received in the bank.—Clonmel paper.