The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

In six days, according to the Cork Examiner, from
Monday to Saturday last, the deaths. amounted to 102.
All the flax mills at Belfast have commenced working
full time. -

At the weekly repeal meeting, in Dublin, on Monday,
the attendance was wretched, and the proceedings unin-
teresting. The " rent " was £27 7s. Ild.
The grass-corn around Limerick looks vigorous, and is
fully six inches over ground. The sowing of wheat is,
however, one-third short of last season.
A new Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner for Ireland
has been appointed—namely, Mr. Charles Sharman Craw-
ford, son of Mr. William S. Crawford, M.P.
THE IRISH FAMINE.—The starved dogs are being
killed like vermin in several parts of this county, as these
animals have attacker the bark of trees, bereft of their
usual sustenance.—Lfterick Chronicle.

At a late Repeal meeting, the chairman, Mr. Somers,
M. P., expressed a hope that "the prophecy which had
been addressed by the great poet Dryden to the ancestor
of the nobleman who presided at the meeting on the pre-
vious Thursday would be fulfilled. He forgot the pro-
phecy, but they all remembered it as well as he did !"
A storm on Sunday week raged with great violence at
Ballyshannon. It was so violent during divine service in
the town that the officiating clergyman, the Rev. Mr.
Clemenger, had to conclude the service, and dismiss the
congregation, as his voice could not be heard.
The guardians of Tuam workhOuse have had to call on
Captain Seton's company, 41st, to protect them from the
violence of the clamorous crowd collected for admission
and relief'. Mr. Gannon, one of the guardians, sent a
hostile message to Mr. Blake, another of the board,
which the latter refused to accept.
GALWAY GRATITUDE.—Mr. Comyn, in announcing his
resignation to the Galway electors, says :—" I retire, not
because I despair of your support, but because dissension
in the repeal party might open the way for the Whig, and
the Whigs must he beaten at every sacrifice and at all
hazards.'

DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN GALWAY.-FrOM every
quarter of the country, we are literally besieged with the
heart-rending particulars of the progress of famine. A.
respectable correspondent in the neighbourhood of Kil-
conly; has communicated to us the loss of no less than
eighteen lives from want and destitution ! And this is
occurring in a few short days.—Tuarn Herald.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POOR-RATE COLLECTOR.—A
letter from Moate, in Westmeath, states, that on Thurs-
day evening week, Mr. Patrick Balfe, poor-rate collecter,
was fired at, near Moate, but, providentially, without
fatal effect : the ball, passing through his hat, slightly
wounded him on the hack of the head. Mr. Balfe was re-.
turning home in his car, accompanied by his son and
daughter.
AWFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, Edward Farrell,
aged 50, Joseph Farrell, his son, aged 16, Christopher
Flynn, 26, and Michael Hill, aged 23, went out in a boat
from Malahide to fish, and when crossing the bar the boat
was upset, and the unfortunate men drowned. They have
all left families in a state of the utmost destitution, and it
is said they were forced out by hunger to look for some
fish.—Dublin Mail.
LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—Lord Clanricarde's
name is the one most freely mentioned in connection with
the successorship to the Viceroyalty ; but occasionally
also we hear that of the Earl of Dalhousie, who seems
destined, according to general gossip, to be a candidate for
all the eligible gifts in the bestowal of the Russell Cabinet
since the offer was made him of continuing at the Board
of Trade. _ _ _

DEATHS FROM STARVATION.—Three children of the
name of Crowley died within the last few days of starva-
tion. Inquests were held on the bodies of two of them,
on Monday, before H. E. Jones, Esq., coroner, when the
jury founfl that they died " from the want of the common
necessaries of life." A third died on Thursday from
exhaustion arising from want of food during the previous
week. The father, with the mother and four children,
came from near Mallow into Cork about three months
ago, to seek for work. Since then they had not sufficient
food nor a bed to lie on until Sunday morning, when
they were discovered by the police in a garret off Mallow-
lane, two of the children being then dead.—Cork Consti-
tution.

BURGLARY AND BARBAROUS MURDER.—Wednesday,
the 20th ult., a party of lawless ruffians, supposed to be
about twelve in number' surrounded the dwelling of an
industrious farmer .named Duffy, on the lands of
Drum-
shampo, in the parish of Cloone. Duffy and his family
were in the act of repeating the rosary, according to the
rites of the Roman Catholic church, when the degraded
villains arrived to perpetrate their nefarious purposes,
and (as given in the evidence) remained quietly outside
until the religious ceremony terminated. Three of the
wicked gang immediately broke into Duffy's house, one
of whom carried a gun, demanded arms, and struck him
violently. A severe and unequal contest ensued, in which
Brian- Duffy, son of the farmer, eighteen years of age,
received so violent a blow of a loaded cudgel on the side
of the head, that a few hours put an end to his life and
sufferings.—Dublin Packet.
DEATHS BY STARVATION.—The intelligence from You-
ghal is thus referred to by the Cork Examiner :—lnquests
have been held, and the verdict in each of three melan-
choly cases was " Death by starvation." A family of the
Crowns, consisting of father, mother, and son, lived at a
place called the Windmill, about a mile from the town of
Youghal. On the night of Tuesday last, the mother,
Margaret, and her son, Patrick, died in the same bed with
the father, Michael, whom hunger had rendered so help-
less that he could give them no assistance in their last
struggle, nor even make their case known to the neigh-
bours. Another case was of a still more horrible nature.
A person named Thomas Millar from Ring, a place on the
extreme coast, opposite Cable Island, came with his wife
to Youghal, where they both offered for sale, at an apo-
thecary's shop, the dead body of a male child, aged seven
years. The authorities were informed of the 'circumstance,
and the parties were arrested. Upon being interrogated,
they coolly acknowledged that this child was a nephew of
theirs, who had died in their.house, and that they brought
him to the doctors to get something for the body that
would keep the life in themselves and their children. The
description they gave of their suffering was frightful in
the extreme. On more than one occasion they bad deter-
mined to-kill and eat the cat, only they feared it would
poison them.
RIOT BY LABOURERS.—During the .past three or four
days, vast bodies of labourers, carrying spades and shovels,
have been in the habit of assembling near the Cork Work-
house, and on one morning they carried off the bread
taking to the temporary Workhouse for the inmates, in
consequence of which an order was made by the magis-
trates that a police force should attend the future transits.
Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, a report was
made that the Union House was attacked by a mob over
600 labourers, armed with spades and shovels, and that
they threatened to level the entire building. Immedi-
ately a large Party of police was despatched, but on
arriving at the Workhouse, it appeared the mob had left
for the city, after breaking in the outer gate. After leav-
ing the Workhouse, the mob went along by the South
Infirmary, where ' they met a van loaded with bread.
They immediately upset the van, and distributed the bread
amongst them. They then moved on to George's-quay,
where they broke into the bread shops and appropriated
their stocks. They next got into Prince'sAiret, and
were attacking the bread shop of Mr. Thonifflbn, when
Head-constable Condon, Constables Burchill and Porter,
and six Sub-constables, the only then available force in
the city, came up with them. On seeing the police the
rioters turned into Patrick-street, and thence into Castle-
street. Here they ran until they turned into the North-
main-sfreet, when they rushed at a bread shop, the
windows of which they smashed, and some of them got
into the shop at the moment the police arrived. Here for
a moment there was a frightful affray between the few
policemen and the numerous rioters, spades and shovels
were flourishing, and some stones were thrown, until the
rioters finding that two of their ringleaders had been made
prisoners, and perceiving others stretched on the street
they moved off, followed by the police, who charged them
with fixed bayonets, until they were dispersed in the
wildest confusion. It is supposed that the determination
shown by the Head-constable and his small band, in op-
position to so large a number of armed rioters, will deter
these people from being again encouraged to enter the
city for similar purposes.—Cork Ape?:
.of !Saturday.