The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

Dec. 15, IS4B.

DREADFUL DESTITUTION AT TENIPLE-

CRONE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

DEAR SlR,—Your insertion of the accompanying
statement will greatly oblige me. It comes to me with a
priva'e letter from the Rev. Mr. Griffith, curate of the
distressed parish, whose name is attached to it along with
others. lle is known to me, and I feel safe i❑ vouching
for the truth of the painful record. He entreats me to
send them even a trifle to relieve their misery. lam
most anxious to do something to aid them ; and perhaps
some of the Christian, public will sympathise with me in
this wish, and practically evidence their pify. Any sum
received shall be carefully forwarded, and duly acknow-
ledged in your paper

Yours very truly,
W. M. FALLOON

December 14th, 1346.
The following i 3 the substance of the statement referred
to by Mr. Falloon

A circular, dated Dongloe, County Donegal, signed by
the Rector of Templecrone, by the Protestant officiating
Minister, by the Roman Catholic Priest, by a rnag:strate,
by the Inspecting. Officer of Coast Guard, and the Medi-
cal Superintendent has been sent, appealing to the benevo-
lent in behalf of the famishing population of Templecrone,
tha details of which are truly appalling. It appears that
the locality and remoteness of the parish is such, hemmed
in on one side by bleak mountains, with road:: scarcely
passable, and on the other by a dangerous coast, subject
to all the vicissitudes of the Atlantic, that from these
circumstances, the prevalent distress has almost remained
unknown. The government have overlooked the district,
which renders this appeal the more urgent. The follow-
ing are sotne of the details of the distress, and the gloomy
prospects in view :—The parish contains 53,0110 acres,
none of which has ever been ploughed, being divided into
small holdings, and the population is 10,000. dispersed
through wild mountains and thickly inhabited islands.
The people have been obliged to consume their oats, ex-
cept that portion required for seed, and if they are com-
pelled to go to the latter, they cannot crop the land at all
next year, even if they be spared to survive the famine
that threatens them. The people, too, have ever been
peaceable, orderly and patient. :Vluttril charity so pre-
vails amongst them, that neighbours allow each other to
dig and partake of the blighted and even " ro'ten" crop of
potatoes, by which hunger [is but slightly mitigated, and
some are turning over the land a second time in keen
search for a chance root, that might have been left on the
first digging. The government have announced that sup-
plies need not be calculated upon until the new year; and
unless aid is derived from other sources in the meantime,
life cannot be preserved. Disease, the effect of destitu-
tion, is -Ist) prevalent.
The Rev. W. M. Falloon, of 1, Newsham-street, Low-
hill, will, we are happy to hear, receive and forward sub-
scriptions, and we sincerely hope his benevolent effort will
be liberally responded to.

[Any contributions which the benevolent of Liverpool
may make towards their relief, we shall gladly, if paid to
us, acknowledge, and forward, through the Bev. Wm.
Falloon, to Sir James Dorobrain, Custom-house, Dub-
lin, who will remit the same to the rector of the afll cted
parish.—Edit. Standard.]

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DISTRESSED PROTESTANTS IN IRELAND.
Tyruhe, Dec. 9.
MY DEAR M. GROVES,—I have received J.:5 each
from the Bishop and Chancellor of Chester, and with
God's blessing, hope to prosper. I have now, between
men, women and children, twentv-nine persons at work—
some of them 'Rotnanists—whom I took in, having re-
ceived an humble letter of request from the Priest. At
a quarter to nine every morning, my own men and house
servants are wont to come to prayers in my study. Of
course the invitation was extended to all, and now the
room is crowded—two rows of forms all round, filled—
and quite a little chapel. Almost all the Romenists at-
tend, as also their wives, who bring their breakfast, which
they take at a fire in my harness room. At one o'cl,ck
they are supplied by us with a liberal feed each of strong
good soup, full of meat and vegetables, which does ;hem
till they go home at dusk. They take all their money on
Saturdays in meal, which I give them at about three-
fourths of what it costs me. lam getting, to-day, a load
of Indian meal, at their own desire. I have expended a
few pounds *n clothing. How thankfal we feel to you
and your friends, I cannot express. Within the last
week, I found two families all but in starvation—
the father of one being unwilling to break his engagement
with a farmer with whom he was hired until May, and
all his receipts being his own food, while his family were
starving, all but literally. I was here enabled to step in
and take into my employment a grown girl and a little
boy, and by giving them meal at an extra reduced price,
I afford food to five young children and a mother. I
have also clothed the father, and got Lim to church the
first time last Sunday since I came. The other case is a
widow with two little boys, both of whom I have given
employment to. You may imagine my case a petty one
compared with Connaught, and no doubt it is as far as
numbers go; but I am certain that hundreds here are as
destitute as any people could be ; and as to my own im-
mediate neighbourhood, when I applied to you the people
were sustaining life on one meal a day, and that turnips
perhaps, or cabbage, or bad potatoes gathered over the
country, and not fit for pigs. Had I not taken the step
I did, and you and your friends not so warmly responded,
I know not what would have been their present state.
You have now the comfort of feeling that your exertions
are now affording sustenance to snore than a hundred
PROTESTANTS, besides a few Roman Catholics ; and that
where sorrow and want prevailed, joy is now diffused.—
I shall (D.V.) soon again report progress.

[Mr. Groves. of Rumford-place, we are informed, will
be happy to receive subscriptions.]

RECEIPT STAMPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Stn,—A great boon was conferred on the public, parti-
cularly the mercantile or trading portion, by the equali-
zation and reduction of the rate of postage. A much
greater relief would be experienced if en uniform receipt
stamp duty of Id. or 2d. was levied on all commercial
transactions, instead of an increasing scale (according to
the amount received) now in operation. I have scarcely
a doubt that this mode would eventually be more produc-
tive, and that the revenue would be a gainer from the
chap to ; for in numerous instances an evasion of the law
is effected, to the detriment of government, by dispensing
with stamps altogether. The annoyance so frequently ex-
perienced, by the dread of an information and consequent
penalty, would thus be removed.
If I am correctly informed, I am given to understand
that this tax is unproductive, and leaves little or ❑o sur-
plus after the expense of collecting.
To ensure the use of stamps, at the reduced cost, it
might be provided that no other receipt should be bind..
ing in a legal point of view, and that parties not furnished
with the same should have no protection from a suit for
the recovery of any sum or sums not acknowledged in the
form or manner aforesaid.—Your obedient servant,
GULIELNIUS.
Liverpool, 7th December, 1846.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Allow me to call the attention of your numerous
readers to the destitute state of their fellow-countrymen
in the Highlands of Scotland. According to a statement
in the Inverness Courier, fully 50,000 people are nearly
at the point of starvation ; and if help be not soon sent
to them, great must be the misery that will befall them.
Surely an urgent appeal [Lade to the people of Liverpool,
for sympathy and pecuniary aid, will not be made in vain.
" Blessed is he that considereth the poor ; the Lord will
deliver him in time of trouble."

It would be highly important to call a meeting, to lay
the case of the poor Highlanders before the public; but,
in the meantime, the benevolence of charitably-disposed
persons need not be restrained, as I observe that Archi-
bald Bonar, Esq., Banker, Edinburgh, is Treasurer of
the Fund in connection with the Free Church raising in
Scotland, on behalf of their suffering Highland brethren.
To show how the distress prevailing in the northern
parts of Scotland is viewed, and the kindly feelings of
Christian people responded to, in Scotland, I may state
that the Edinburgh Witness of the 9th inst. gives a list
of contributions by the friends of the Free Church to the
amount of £3,253 6s. 61d. ! of which sum £452 15s. Bd.
was a Sunday collection in the Rev. Dr. Candlish's
Church, Edinburgh.
I understand that collections are to be made, for the
same commendable object, in several of the Presbyterian
Churches in this town, next Sabbath.

The call is an urgent one, and deserves immediate
attention.

Yours respectfully,
A FRIEND TO THE HIGHLANDERS.
December 14th, 1846.

POLICE DISTURBERS.
To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,-1. have the misfortune to reside within a short
distance of the domicile o f several policemen, who, I an,
sorry to observe, have no regard whatever for the unbro-
ken slumbers of their neighbours.

I am generally awoke about five o'clock in the morning,
and in case of fire, at all hours of the night, by a tremen-
dous knocking at the door, and bawling, at the highest
pitch of the lungs or voice, to awaken the dormant polies-
man to attend his duty.
This, Mr. Editor, you must acknowledge to be a griev-
ance of no ordinary description, particularly to an invalid.
I should think some other method might be adopted ;
what I would suggest is, that the man in attendance for
this purpose be furnished with a snap key to obviate the
noise and disturbance alluded to. THETA.
December 10th, 1846.

LIGHT GOLD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—The annoyance, to say nothing of the actual loss
sustained by the public from the continued cir culatian of
light sovereigns and half sovereigns, is almost beyond en-
durance. It seems to operate as a perpetual blister on the
trading portion of the community, and is a constant
source of irritation and vexation. I cannot divine how it
occurs, so long after the government proclamation calling
in the light gold coin, that it should still be tendered as a
legal payment. Is the proclamation to remain a dead
letter ?

Bankers and tax collectors are particularly scrupulous
in rejecting any deficient in weight, or obliging their cus-
tomers to allow for the deterioration in value. Query,
I Are they equally so in giving them out again ? 1 main-
tain it to be their duty not to reissue them, but forward
the same direct to the mint, and get an exchange for a
supply of the present coinage.
There is vlso great necessity for a fresh noinsge of six-
penny and shilling silver pieces, it being very deficient
and defective, from the wear and tear consequent on long
usage, the mint stamp being nearly obliterated.
I ate, sir, &c. LEOPOLD KRAUSS.
111 h December, 1846.