The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

I R B 1, A N P.

INCENDIARY FIRE.—On the morning of Wednesday
week, a dreadful conflagration took place at Springfield
Castle, in Limerick, the seat of Lord Nluskerry, where a
vast quantity of prime hay, wheat, and oats, value over
£5OO, was maliciously consumed.
The mills in the Royal William Victualling Yard, at
Plymouth, are immediately to commence grinding, night
and day, Indian corn, for the supply of the distressed
Irish. It is expected they will perform about eighty
quarters, or 38,1031bs of meal per day.
Very recently, at Dungarnon, in the county of Cork,
where the average rate of wages is from Gd to Bd. a.day,
the people were quite indignant, in fact, riotous, at learn-
they were only to have 10d. a day on the public works,
and they modestly demanded 2a.

On Wednesday, Co!orael Westenra and Mr. Palmer
Doolin. of Shinuw, and a magistrate of King's county,
were out shooting, when, by some accident, the Colonel's
gun exploded, sending its contents through the lungs of
Mr. Doolin, who only survived an hour,
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the usual weekly meeting
of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the rent amounted
only to .£6l. A letter was read from Mr. O,Connell re-
lative to the existing distress in the country, and the mea-
sures to be adopted for its relief. One of the sth Dra-
goon Guards was proposed as a member, but his admission
was suspended until legal advice could be taken.

TRADE OF DROGITEDA.—The Drogheda Argus of
last week says :—During the week ending yesterday, no
less than nine steam-ships left our port, besides several
sailing vessels. We du not recollect any week in which
so large a number of live stock was shipped hen"e. There
were of horned cattle, 2,670 ; sheep, 2,065 ; pigs, 2,342 ;
horses, 46.

THE RENTAL. OF TRELAND.—Lord Mountcashel, in
a letter to the Cork Constitution, says that the income
arising from Ireland is £13,000,000. This sum, when
compared with £85,800,000, which is the annual rental of
property in England and Wales, will show how limited
the resources of Ireland are, independent of the capital,
commerce, trade, and manufactures possessed by the
sister country ; independent also of the charges and lia-
bilities affecting Irish estates.

On Thursday, a number of men, women, and boys en-
tered the village of Castlemartyr, Cork, and after match-
ing through it, entered the baker's and huxter's shops,
and seized on all the bread 'hey could lav their hands on.
They then went to the residence of the Earl of Shannon,
and threatened to pull the castle down, but a troop of the
Ist Dragoons coming up, they were prevented. the agent
of his lordship had been sent that very morning to Cork,
to buy £lOO worth of meal for gratuitous distribution
among the poor of the village. Such is Romish gratitude.
Jam! DlSTRESS—Government have resolved upon
employing all the available steam vessels in her Majesty's
service in carrying food tom the English and Scotch
poits to tho,e districts of Ireland in which the people are
most distressed. The price of food will, it is expected,
be much lower in a few months than it s at present, from
the numerous heavy orders sent out to America for Indian
meal and flour. On the arrival of those provisions in this
country or in Scotland, they will immediately be tran-
shipped in the government steamers to the different ports
of Ireland to which we have referred.
Tun POTATO CROP—GRATIFYING PE AT trass.--Sorne
curious facts respecting the condition of the potatocrop in
Ireland have been elicited within the last few days. It is
ascertained that in consequence of the continued run of
fine weather a sanitary process had set in, and that those
which were sickly (wet and soapy) have recovered. A
gentleman residing in the county of Wicklow, for instance,
has two acres of potatoes planted on mountain land, which
a month age he gave up as totally and irretrievably lost;
on trying them again last week, be found but few rotten,
and the rest rostored to health, forming an abundant crop,
though still small in size. He reports the same of all his
neighbours' farms; in short, in that district it is asserted
there will be no want, if an artificial cne is not created.
It bas been also discovered that where a single stalk has
not survived on the ridge, and that the whole field ap-
peared blighted, the tubers are yet to be found healthy,
with a comparatively small per centage of loss. In one
case the actually rotten did not exceed 10 per cent. upon
the whole. This is not an isolated case ; subsequent trials
have led to similar discoveries in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the metropolis.
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RIOTS.—On the 24th instant. the extraordinary ses-
sions took place at Clashmore, Tipperary. Lords Hun-
tingdon, Stuart, and several magistrates attended. An
immense concourse of people collected, some of the crowd
asked would they be put to work next morning? They
were answered that every arrangement was making to give
them employment as soon as possible. This exasperated
them and they got furious. They abused Lord Stuart
when he came out of the court, and it was with difficulty
he was enabled to get on his car, and escape. Several
called out "to kill him." They followed his lordship
along the road, but the horses in the carriage were kept at
the fullest speed, and thus his lordship esciped. Sir R.
Musgrave had to take shelter in a house. The dragoons
were pelted with stones from all directions. There are a
number of high walls in the neighbourhood, which af-
forded great facilities to the mob of attacking the military
with impunity. The dragoons bad to retreat for the pur-
pose of loading, one man was knocked off his horse, and
several were severely cut. Lord Huntingdon, used every
exertion to pacify and calm the mob which his lordship
ultimately succeeded in doing. Such conduct must be
put down, or there is no knowing where it will end. W e
understand that a very fine Durham cow, value £3O, was
taken by the mob from the demesne of Muckridge, and
roasted in the town of Youghal, where it was speedily
devoured.

THREATENED RIOT AT KILWORTIL—It is with regret
we have to state that a disposition to riot and intimidation,
in parts of this county hitherto peaceable and orderly, is
every day more visible. On Monday night fires blazed,
and horns sounded throughout the districts of Fermoy,
Kilworth, and Araglin. Meetings of the relief committees
had previously to be held in Fermoy and Kilworth on the
Tuesday. Early in the morning a threatening notice was

round thrust under the hall door of the Earlof Mount-
cashell ; at the hour of twelve, his lordship walked from
his mansion to the town to attend the committee, where
he found thousands pouring in in bodies from the adjacent
lens and mountains. Fearing a serious breach of the
2e, he lost no time in sending a requisition to the
officer in command of the 77th regiment stationed at Fer-
moy, and took other precautions for the maintenance of
public order. Dense masses of the people with imple-
ments of husbandry in their hands, soon collocted in
front of the Police-barrack, where the Relief Committee
had met, filling up every space in the broad street ;
at first they appeared to be peaceably inclined, but
when their numbers increased to some thousands, their
riotous intentions became more apparent ; shouts, yells,
and threats were loudly uttered, and when the Rev.
Air. Daly, the parish priest, interposed, his advice was
unheeded, and on one occasion he was insulted. The
mob now, determined to attack the shops : they first went
to a baker, named Barrett, who, to protect himself from
violence, delivered up what bread he had in his premises.
Putting a loaf of bread on the top of a long pole, they
then paraded the town, bodies of labourers following in
procession with their spades shouldered like firelocks.
Next they proceeded to the house of a publican, named
O'Brien, whose windows they broke, and from whom
they extorted food : a violent woman, named Nancy
Hyde, on this occasion took a leading part, and made
herself very conspicuous in heading the rioters. After
this they proceeded in great force to Lord Mountcashel's
demesne gate, which the porter refused to open for them,
and which they, with vociferations, attempted, but vainly,
to break. At this critical moment a body of the police
made their appearance, inside his lordship's grounds, and
the rioters immediately retired. Almost at the same time
a strong body of the 77th Regiment marched into the
town, and having taken up a position in front of the
Police Barracks, the rioting ceased. Soon after the
rioters began to retire to their homes, and the magistrates,
military, and police, having remained until all was quiet,
some time after returned to their quarters.—Cork paper.

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were ordered out, and endeavoured to persuade them to
leave the town, which they did at tr,'ght fall'. In the
night, the portcullis of the bridge, connect:lg the counties
of Cork and Waterford, was raised and tak,:m possession
of, On Tuesday, a quantity of Indian meal, in'tended for