The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There are sixty-two persona now in Tipperary jail
charged with being concerned in the recent riots and acts
of plunder. _ _

Forty persons were most severely injured by the falling
of the Town-hall, Cashel. on Monday evening; 200 were
present ; no lives lost. They were receiving wages trona
from the relief committee.
Such was the reckless loss and waste of flour at the
plunder of Mr. O'Neill's store at Carrick.on-Suir, last
week, that the pillagers were trampling it under foot, and
many of them walked more than uncle deep in it over the
wide area where it was scattered.
POTATOES.—The following are the latest quoted prices
at the following places .—Wexford, 34d.t0 sd. ; Ennis-
cote hy, 4d. to 5d.; Clonmel, 54d. to 6d. ; At hletie, 4,1 d.
to 51d. ; Boyle, ntl. to 41a1 ; Mohitl, 31,1. to 4d. ; Stra-
bane, 31d. to 4d.; Tralee, 6.1. to 7d.; Killarney, 4d. to
51d.; Galway, sd, to 6Ad.
IRISH FAMINE AND FEVER.—The Dublin Mail says, "the
fever report has been vir ually,it not formelly,abandoned ;
the apprehensions of famine are giving way before the evi-
dence of abundance; aid the starving insurgents of Tip.
perary turn out to be nothing but a gang of plunderers. In
tact, the supposed famine in Ireland is a Polatoe- Peel
panic; and the hunger-insurrection a political Bobb-ery,
or Sir Robber-y."
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, two men met
their death at Mr. Jameson's distillery, Dublin, in a
very unusual way. One of the wttneeses at the inquest
stated that. the deceased were in the spir t vat washing it
out, and one of then. had a candle, when a yr ry loud ex-
plosion was suddenly heard, and the men were found
dead. In his opinion, the candle came in contact with
the side of the vat. The surgeon sled that in his opinion
the explosion killed them, and that it was caused tis the
candle coming in contact with the spit it with which the
wood was impregnated.
All appears quirt in Tipperary. One day last week nu-
merous boats left Clonmel. laden with flour and other
provisions, and guarded by a large party of military. An
outbreak was ex[rec,ed, and the fear was wall founded, for
at one point the laree; stoees on the top of the bridge
were found loosened, as it with a crow-bar, and several of
them were very properly removed the day previous. I is
scarcely necessary to rennark that this loosening of the
stories was rot the purpose of hurling them on the boats
as they passed underneath, and by this means disabling
those who had charge of them.
CONCILIA:ION HALL.—On Monday the "rump" of
the Repeal Association met, but tie "stars" being just
now shining in another sphere, the attendance was mise-
rable in the extreme. A barrister (Mr ( angley) was the
chairman ; and the week's rent was declared to be
£194 Ils. 7.1.—a sum not half sufficient to pay the weekly
salaries of the officials and other contingent expenses—but
still nor altogether discouieging when it is borne in mind
that the great hulk of the coetributora are at present in a
state of actual starvation and partial revolt, at least in the
southern provinces—the quarter of all others the most
promet hitherto to respond to the calls of the repeal
treasury.
WRECK OF THE BRIG ALEXANDER, AND RESCUE OF
THE PASSENGERS AND CREW.-011 MOllday. the 13 11
inst., the brig Alex,:nder,ot Newcastle-neon-Tyne, sailed
from our port with MI passengers for St. John's, N. 8.,
and when not far from Tory I-land, encountered gales so
severs as to carry away her masts and rigg;ng (1n Fri-
day last, the 17th inet., the brig was observed by the
Coast Guard station at Innishofiti, to be in a precarious
state our, at sea, and under the able direction of Mr.
James M'Clurg, who acted as chief pilot, the men imme-
didtely put to sea in a gig, and, atter encountering heavy
seas, and overcoming numerous difficulties, they at last
succeeded in reaching the vessel. The mainmast had
been near-carried away entirely, together with the square
sails and rig g!ne, and the vessel altogether was in a very
crippled condition.—The master, who was unacquainted
with the roast, gladly resigned the charge of the brig to
Mr. M'Clurg and his men, who, after incredible labour,
brought her ashore by dint of determined perseverance, to
the great jay both of the passengers and the crew, who
had begun almost to despair of reaching the coast in safety.
On Wednesday morning last the Alexander arrited at
our quay, being towed by a steamer.—Londonderry Pa-
per.
ALLEGED BREACH OF TRUST.—At the Commission
Court, Dublin, on Tuesday, Abel leabertouche was in-
dieted for applying to his own use the sum of £6OO, in-
trus'ed to him for the purpose of being invested in go-
vernmeet -took. The narrow facts of the rase are : that
on the 15th November, 1840, the sum of £6OO was handed
into the firm of Lahertouche and Stafford, stock and share
brokers, with written instructions to purchase government
stock for tl,e an.cuirt for Miss Maria Hill, of Dublin.
On the following day, she rt c eyed a contract note, to the
effect, that the purchase had been made, and up to the
time of the hanktuptcy of the firm in September. 1845,
the interest had bean regularly paid by them as if it came
to them from tee hank. On the declaration of the batik -
ruptcy, it was discovered 'hat the firm had never pur•
clased the stock, hut appleed it to their private use. Mr.
Nelson, for the defend:mt. admitted the leading facts, but
he called upon the Court to diri.ct the jury to acquit•the
prisoner, because the money had been in his hands for a
e cneiderable time previous to the formal instructs to
lurches:: s ock with it ; and, having regularly paid the
interest thereon, it should be regarded iii the nature of a
trust lung_, and the prosecuior should come in as a credi-
tor under the tankrupicy. Mr. Labertouche having
proved the statement of Mr. Naeon, the prosecution was
withdrawn.