The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. I R E L A N D.
PORTUGAL. Lord Clarendon has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of
The Nautilus, screw steamer packet-ship, Capt. Gor- Ireland.
don, arrived at Liverpool on Friday, from Lisbon, bring- A grocer of Dublin announces in the papers of that
ing papers and letters to the 15th inst. and having ac- city that he has whisky on sale, which was drunk by his
complished the passage in five days. Great uncertainty Majesty when he was in Ireland.
and alarm continued to prevail. The return of Colonel On Tuesday the Bank of Ireland further advanced the
Wylde from Oporto was anxiously expected every hour, rate of discount. The rates now are 7 per cent. on Irish
and H. M. steam-ship Bulldog had been waiting in rea- bills, having more than 64 days to run, on the other bills
diners to convey despatches for several days. About an 6i per cent.
hour before the Nautilus sailed, orders had been received The accounts from the provinces of Ireland, respecting
from the admiral for the Bulldog's immediate departure ; the growing crops, are very cheering. The corn looks
and ere this she will probably have arrived at Southamp- well and healthy ; potatoes looking promising, and the
ton. H. M. ship Canopus, Captain Moresby, had on green crops are zealously cultivated, and to an extent
board eight political prisoners of distinction, who had es- which indicates that the peasantry are becoming fully im-
caped from the prison, and placed themselves under Bri- pressed with their value.
tish protection. Nothing further had transpired on the The death of the Earl of Besborough furnished a pre-
subject of Col. Wylde's mission, and no dependence can be text for the postponement of the usual weekly meeting of
placed on the rumours published in the Lisbon journals. the half defunct Repeal Association. Some few, however,

On Tuesday the Bank of Ireland further advanced the
rate of discount. The rates now are 7 per cent. on Irish
bills, having more than 64 days to run, on the other bills
6i per cent.
The accounts from the provinces of Ireland, respecting
the growing crops, are very cheering. The corn looks
well and healthy ; potatoes looking promising, and the
green crops are zealously cultivated, and to an extent
which indicates that the peasantry are becoming fully im-
pressed with their value.
The death of the Earl of Besborough furnished a pre-
text for the postponement of the usual weekly meeting of
the half defunct Repeal Association. Some few, however,
met on Tuesday, when the rent was £49. John O'Con-
nell, in noticing a report that they were in a state of
bankruptcy, said it was not true, for they had reduced
their weekly expenses from £3OO to £3O.
Mr. Renny Sheehan, for many years proprietor and edi-
tor of the Dublin Evening Mail, lately died in England.
He was a man of taste and accomplishments, and in the
furious party warfare in which he was engaged he never
forgot the gentleman. 'With the members of his profes-
sion he was always exceedingly popular, and in promoting
its interests equally liberal.
RUMOURED DEATH Or MR. O'CONNELL.—The Moni-
teur Parisien of Thursday evening contained a paragraph
stating, on the authority of a letter from Nice, that Mr.
O'Connell died upon his arrival at Genoa. The intelli-
gence, though far from improbable, needs confirmation,

RIVER PLATE.-By the arrival off Falmouth of the
Danish brig, Ernest Lorenz, Captain Rohrs, we have had
a mail from Monte Video, to so late a date as March 21.
The chief news relates to the assassination of Don Manuel
Rodriguez, the Bolivian minister to the Argentine republic,
which diabolical deed was done in the streets at Buenos
Ayres at noon-day, it was stated at the instigation of
Rosas. Oribe maintained his 5,000 men at Cerito. The
British and French had landed a larger number of marines
than they were wont to have at Monte Video.

WEST INDIES.—The accounts brought by the Clyde
from the West Indies still report favourably of the pro-
gress of the crops. From Jamaica it is stated that "the
prospects of the sugar planter are as favourable as the
most sanguine West Indian could desire. From all parts
of the island we hear that the crops are abundant, and

that the seasons are most propitious for their manufacture.
This cheering intelligence, however, is not without its
alloy. In many districts we find serious complaints of
want of labour. From St. Mary's, especially, these com-
plaints are loud. On one estate the labourers are said to
have shown so much unwillingness to work that canes cut
for manufacture have been perilled, if not wholly lost, by
an actual deficiency of hands to put the mill about."
By a decree of the Ladrath of the canton of Glaris, in
Switzerland, all the young men are interdicted from mar-
riage before they are twenty.
AVSTRIA.—the little town of Rohrau, near the Hun-
garian frontier, has been entirely destroyed by fire. It
was the birth-place of Joseph Haydn and his, brother
Michael.

however. The last acco"nts from Genoa merely mention
that he had been indisposed in a way which would compel
him to prosecute his journey to Rome by land.

COMPLIMENTARY LANGUAGE.—Upon a recent occa-
sion in Dublin, a Mr. Thomas Reynolds said, "There
was one wooden-headed fellow named Collett, of Athlone,
as mutton-headed a fellow as any that could be found,
even in the House of Commons. Well, I asked Mr. Col-
lett to go down to the house and vote for the Dublin Im-
provement Bill ; and what do you think was his excuse ?
`I can't, says he, for I am going to hear Jenny Lind.'
And this fellow who does not actually know a note of
music, assigns this as his reason for neglecting his solemn
duty. I hope the electors of Athlone will give him ample
time to see Jenny Lind as often as he pleases."
On Monday as Mr. James Watson, of Millbrook, near
Killaloe, brother to the editor of the Limerick Cnronicle,
and agent to Mr. Purdon, of Tinnerana, and Mr. Arthur,
of Glenomera, was proceeding to the latter place. about

An article in the Austrian Observer states, in the ports
of South Russia in the Black Sea, and the sea of Azoph,
that they will be able to supply from the Ist of April to
the Ist of July 3,630,000 chetwerts of corn.
DUTCH POTATOES.—The Commerce states that there
has been so great a quantity of potatoes planted in Hol-
land this year, that if the crop prove a moderate average,
one-fourth will be sufficient for the consumption of the
country, and the remainder may be exported.
A letter from Hanover, of the Bth instant, states that

ten o'clock, to hold an office there, when he was fired at,
not many perches from his gate, by two villains ; but
they missed him: his horse, it is supposed (for no infor-
mation that can be depended on will any one give who
saw the transaction), started at the shots, an,l threw him,
when the assassins beat him about the head and body in
a frightful manner, and broke their guns on his hep '
which " ' -41 V - he to tl,'

toes hi the distillation of brandy, and also their exporta-
tion to Prussia and' the grand Duchy of Hesse Cassel,
those countries having by law prevented those articles be-
ing exported to Hanover, have just been published
The

is badly fractured, ann .uis moment is still
insensible ; but little hopes of his recovery are entertanined
by his medical attendants.

DEATHS FROM DROWNING.—On Wednesday H. Lipsett,
Esq., of Ballyshannon, and Captain Drake, of the 92d
Highlanders, stationed there, went to have a sail down

largest naval force whi-eh the United States have

This three comprises 46 ships, 24 barques, 56 brigs, and
11 steamers, which have been hired as transports, and the
regular ships of war added to these make a total of 164
ships. _ _

the channel, in the captain's pleasure-boat. They had
with them one boatman, and a police serjeant. After
having gone near the bar, and put the serjeant ashore,
they were making homewards, when a sudden gust of
wind upset the craft, and all had to make the struggle for
the shore. Mr. Lipsett and Captain Drake could make
but little exertion, as they were encumbered with great
coats; but the boatman in his jacket, succeeded in reach-
ing the land. At the time no boats were near, and the
only person who witnessed the awful scene was a little
boy, angling, at some distance. A particular search was
made all night, but the boat and two hats only were to
be seen.

SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF SIXTY LIVES.—On the 9th
of April, at eight o'clock in the evening, the French brig
La Clarisse, of Granville, having on board 69 passengers,
and a crew of 14, was lost in the Philibert rocks, in one
of the entrances to the harbour of St. Pierre, Newfound-
land. The brig had missed the South-east passage into
the harbour, having been driven to windward. The vio-
lence of the waves was such as to preclude the possibility
of any assistance from the colonists. The number of vic-
tims amounts to sixty.

RIOTS.—A turbulent spirit has broken out into overt
acts in several parts of Clare, Limerick, and Cork coun-
ties. On Monday, the police-station at Ardnacrusha, on
the Clare s'de of the Shannon, was besieged by a mob of
600 men ; who had demolished the soup-kitchen ! The
police fired, and so drove off the mob ; which threatened
to return. Two companies of Infantry, a troop of the Bth
Hussars, and a troop of H.trse Artillery, were sent from
Limerick. Troops had been sent to Kildysart, lower down
the Shannon. At Mealick, within two miles of Limerick,
assembled 10,000 men, " all armed with knives," (!) and
they threatened to kill all the cattle, declaring that they
would never accept out-door relief. At Castlemartyr, in
Cork county, the residence of the Earl of Shannon, the
people began to demolish a bridge, but were driven away
by troops. At Cloyne, the military were needed to sup-
press a tumult. Preference for public works in lieu of
" relief " appears to be the motive to these rebellious
crimes. In Galway, Kerry, and Tipperary, there have
been outbreaks among the labourers recently discharged
from the public works.
THE FEVER.--The following letter, from a corres-
pondent of the Dublin Packet, gives a picture not to be
excelled by any horrid scene in De Foe's ' History of the
Plague in London :"—" It is my duty to communicate the
deaths of two excellent gentlemen, Dr. Soden, of the
Mohill workhouse, and the Rev. James Flyn, curate of
the adjoining p Irish. The lives of the clergy and medical
men are hourly perilled in the discharge of their onerous
duties. The pestilential disease which you have so fre-
quently described, and raised your warning voice against,
is making giant strides in this and the adjoining barony.
Human corpses are commonly passing through this po-
pulous town tied on the backs of asses, the head hanging
at one side and the feet at the opposite side qf the quad-
ruped, attended not unfrequently by one poor emaciated
individual carrying a spade, who places the dead a little
below the surface. Women are often seen covering their
dead infants with earth gathered with their hands.
What will become of us when the warm weather shall set
in God only knows." This frightful record is from the
fertile county of Leitrim, from whence so little complaint
of scarcity was heard till an advanced period of the famine
in other counties. The estate of Skibbereen, Bantry, and
other districts in the south of Cork, appears to be lament-
able in the extreme.
MORTALITY IN THE WORKHOUSES.—The Dublin
Journal of Friday publishes the report of the Poor
Law Commissioners, relative to the operation of the poor
law in Ireland, which contains some fearfully interesting
particulars respecting the progress of disease and mortality
in Ireland. It appears on reference to the report, that
while the total nnmber of deaths which occurred in the
union workhouses in Ireland, for the week ending the 4th
of April 1846, amounted to 159; the total number who
died in the week ending the 3d April in the present year
amounted to 2,706. A more fearful fact still is the large in-
crease of sickness, and the large proportion of fever. The
number of inmates had a little more than doubled, the
numbers being on the 4th of April, 1846-50,861; and on
the 3d April, 1847-106,888; but the numbers in the hospi-
tals increased from 8,121 to 28,239, while the numbers in
the fever hospitals increased from 864 to the fearful num-
ber of 8,9311 the most alarming fact disclosed by these re-
turns is the rate of mortality which now exists, and its
rapid increase since last November. In April. 1846,
the weekly rate of mortality was 3 in every 1,000 inmates.
In November it showed a decided tendency to rise.
During the four weeks of December it ran up from 7-4 to
8-6, then to 10-3, and then to 11. In January, 1847, it
was 12-2 the first week, 13-3 the last. In March it
ranged from 22 to 20, and in April it rose to 25—twenty-
- died in the last week for which

A LIE CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
During a speech in Congress do the Wilmot proviso, Mr.
Brinkeroff, of Ohio, paused and drew a half-dollar piece
from his pocket, and holding it up so that every member
of the house could see what it was, said—" Sir, look at
this, sir,—look at it, and see its inscription, ' Liberty' is
stamped upon it. Shall we strike it out and insert
' Slavery,' or shall we hereafter, in the face of the world,
continue to use it as a circulating lie ? Yes for a circu-
lating lie—or shall we make it tell the truth, sir ?"

PORT WINE.—We are informed that the Junta of
Oporto have resolved that wines of the Upper Douro of
the vintage of 1846 may be brought into Oporto until the
20th June next. Upon wine of the first quality a duty
of 7,200 reis (about £1 14s. 24.) a pipe is to be paid,
and the owner of the wine is to bind himself to export the
same to ports in Europe. Upon wine of the second
quality the duty is to be 600 reis (about 2s. 10i.,) and on
wine for home consumption 6,800 reis (about £1 12s 0d)
a pipe. The entrance duty paid on wine of the first
quality is to be deducted from the export duty.

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THE SOUTH-EASTERN PORTS OF ENGLAND

Ramsgate, the easternmost of the south ports of
England, neighbourth
resort
of, haspleasure-seekers been,
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shfma favourite
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steam navigation ; but in a commercial point of view it is
much more important than Margate, principally on
account of its fine harbour.
Before the establishment of any railways in Kent,
Ramsgate kept up a communication with Ostend and
other ports, for the conveyance of passengers ; but when
the South-Eastern Railway reached Dover, steam-packets
were placed upon an efficient footing to run from Dover
to Ostend, to the detriment of Ramsgate. When, how-
ever, the railway company extended their Canterbury
branch to Ramsgate, a new phase in the traffic presented
itself; the steam-boat company, in connexion with the
railway company, removed their Ostend steamers from
Dover, and placed them on the Ramsgate station ; and
now a well conducted competition is maintained from

Dover, and from Ramsgate to Ostend, in which every
effort is made to bring steaming up to its highest pitch of

efficiency

Dover and Folkestone both exhibit the remarkable in-
fluence of railways upon steamers, which Ramsgate ex-
emplifies in a smaller degree. Dover enjoys the advan-
tage of being the great port for continental embarkation,
on account of its vicinity to the coast of France ; and cir-
cumstances seemed to place the town above all reach of
competition. But the inhabitants have had to open their
eyes to a fact which railways have disclosed to them—the
rise of Folkestone from an humble fishing village to an
important steam-boat station. When the South-Eastern
Company found some years back, that there was likely to
be some difficulty in placing an efficient steam-transit in
connexion with a railway at Dover; they bought up
Folkestone harbour, cleared it out, built a pier, made a
first-class station and refreshment room, procured steam-
ers, and astonished the Dover people by establishing a
daily steam-conveyance from Folkestone to Boulogne
and back. It would be difficult to estimate the impor-
tance of this step. It made the Railway Company to a
certain degree independent of Dover ; while it gave the
inhabitants of that town a strong inducement to do their
best to retain their own trade, by accelerating the boats,
lowering the fees of embarkation, and removing a few of
those annoyances which no one experiences so largely as
a traveller.
We may run rapidly along the coast from Folkestone to
Portsmouth, without stopping along at its several ports :
for they are not connected much with passenger-voyaging.
Rye, poor old Rye, has become so much choked up with
sea-sand, that the harbour hardly knows itself. Hastings,
though a fine watering-place, has not much sea-traffic,
except for goods and fish : its steaming days have yet to

to ask her sister Shoreham to aid in establishing a steam-
transit to Dieppe.—The Land we live in. [One of the
beautiful and fast sailing steamers, built for the South
Eastern Company, by our townsman, John Laird, Esq.,
sails now each tide (or twice a-day) to' and from Folke-

hour-and-three-quarters. The South Eastern Company
have lately purchased the harbour at Whitstable, on the
North-east coast of Kent ; are completely re-building it,
and it is fast becoming an important sea-port. Vessels
can get into the harbour frequently and discharge their
- off again to sea, while others cannot get
and South Foreland. Very shortly
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