The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

" In freights a very material advance has been esta
blished, and although many parties have as yet refraine
from operating at the rates current, we must say, that
taking all circumstances into consideration, we think there
is every prospect of their continuing to rule high for some
time to come, except in the event .of accounts being re-
ceived of a very considerable reaction in the home mar-
kets, which does net seem probable."
There was a disposition to a rise in the market for cot-
ton piece goods. In metals less was doing. The-follow-
ing were the latest rates of freight :

To London anal Liverpool.
Saltpetre :. £6 6 oto £6 10 0 per ton of 20 cwt.
Sugar .
Rice
Hides
Rum
Molasses 7lO oto 0 0 0
Oilseeds, kites, and lace Nominal.
Indigo, silk piece goods, and silk, £6 15s. to £7 for
London, and £6 103. to £6 15s. for Liverpool.

IRE LAND,

The new Provincia', College of Belfast has bean con-
tracted for at a cost rif £34,000.
A number of veAsels, among which is the fine ship
Dromahair, belonging to Messrs. Kernahagan, are to sail
next week with'emigrants.—Sligo Journal.
The British Association's repart states that £240,090
has been reerzived for the relief of Irish distress, including
1,59,000, pest of the proceeds' resulting from the Queen's
letter.

The Castlebar Telegraph states that Lord Kilmaine has
ordered to be supplied to his tenantry sufficient potato and
white Holland oats and barley to crop all the lands capable
of tillage on his extensive property. -
LIBERALITY OF THE MARCHIONESS OF WATERFORD.
—We have been informed that the above lady is making
the most strenuous exertions to mitigate the condition of
the distressed in her neighbourhood.—Waterford Free-
man. . . - -

The assizes have just clo3ed at Nenagh, and have re-
sulted in 52 sentences of transportation passed on different
convicts. There were 26 such sentences passed at the late
sessions in the same place, making in all 78 transports in
the northern division of that county within a few months.

EMIGRATION.—The quays are crowded every day with
the peasantry from all quarters of the country, who are
emigrating to Amerioa, both direct from this port; "Cross
channel" to Liverpool, as the agents here cannot procure
enough of ships to convey the people fiom this unhappy
country.

SPItiNG WORK.-Mr. Bradley's report to the Board of
Works for the week ending the 27th of March, states that
the farmers were generally very busy, and much of that
apathy which heretofore existed was removed, and that
potatoes were in many instances planted, and that fond
of all kinds had fallen in price fully 20 per cent. This is
cheering news indeed,—Kilkenny Moderator.
_ _

The weather in Ireland continues extremely ungenial ;
indeed, the first two days of April more resembled De-
cember or January than the opening of the last month
of spring. The ground yesterday and to-day was in some
places covered with snow to the depth of two or three
inches, with a bitter wind blowing from the north-east.
Vegetation all about the city is completely checked, and
spring work materially retarded by the inclemency of the
late change.—Times' Correspondent.

The returns of the Irish relief fund collected in the
United States are as follows :—New York, 78,414 dollars;
New Jersey, 5,222 ; Rhode Island, 7,550; Virginia, 8,267;
I. North Car, 1,350; Alabama, 750, District of Col, 500;
Maine, 429; Pennsylvania, 29,483; Massachusetts, 31,574;
Maryland; 7,500; Ohio, 12,000 ; Georgia, 2,400 ' • Mis-
souri, 1,750; Louisiana, 13,000; Connecticut, 1,050. In.

all about 196,239 clollai
war have been appointed by act of Congress to convey the
provisions purchased by the fund.

Two Ul

OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK.—A mon-
strously audicious attempt was made to assassinate Darby
O'Grady, Esq., D.L., on Monday last, in the town of
Rathkeale, shortly after the assistant barrister had opened
his court, and while the streets were full of people. Pro-
videntially the weapon missed fire. The ruffian immedi-
ately withdrew, and thus escaped detection. His object

, .
eviiently was to murder the above gentleman, because he
tired to seek by legal process for the recovery of rents cn
the Guillamore estate.—On Saturday last, while in the
execution of his duty, serving civil bills on tenants at,

Kilderrue, near Fedamere, for non-payment of rent, Wm.
Heederman, process-server was attacked by an armed
party of men, who discharged four shots at him, but for-

nitely without effect

Limerick Chronicle,

ANOTHER SAVAGE MURDER IN IRELAND.—Another
horrible murder has been committed near Shanagolden,
in the county of Limerick. The victim was a farmer, in
respectable circumstances, named O'Donovan ; a man
farming between 400 and 500 acres of land, and working
two flour-mills ; the produce of which he sold, the local
journal states, "under the market prices, in the smallest
quantities, and upon credit." Mr. O'Donovan was at-
tacked, as he was returning from the Roman Catholic
ch'apel at Shanagolden to his own house, by four men,
who• dragged him off his horse, and having placed him on
his knees, pointed more than one firearm against him.
These having missed fire, they beat him on the head.with
their guns, beating in his skull. He lingered until Mon-
day, whe.'i he died. The murderers have escaped.

SYMPAT.gir OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TOWARDS SUF-
FERING IR.NLAND.—The Cork Constitution states, in
proof of the sympathy felt by the English towards their
suffering Irish brethren, that he is at liberty to publish
the following pauliculars :—" A lady in Cheshire and her
two daughters—w,c; trust they will pardon our giving their
names—Mrs. Robert Cook, of Liscard, and the Misses
Sarah Anne and Jan.' Cook, having accidentally heard of
the destitute state of the poor in the neighbourhood of
Moate, and especially o'f their miserable condition on the
estates of Ballinahown and Kilgarvin, resolved to try
what they could do for th:tt locality by soliciting contri-
butions from a small circle of their own immediate neigh-
bours. They had at first lit tle expectation of obtaining
any considerable sum, as the -ore wealthy individuals
had already subscribedm
largely t'o the general fund for the
relief of Irish distress. t, to their surprise and gratifi-
cation, they found that so universe I was the knowledge of
,t I the calamitous state of the poor of i'yeland, and so general

was the sympathy evinced for their' sufferings, that not
even the poorest cottager refused their mite, and in very
many instances 'the amount of the dokiation was much
greater than the external appearance of the mansion or
-f its

.ne circumstances o. inmates could have led those
kind-hearted ladies to anticipate. The result was a col-
lection, in two or three days, of £2O, one half of which
was laid out in the purchase of Guernsey frocks for the
laboUrers on the public works in the barony of Clonlonan,
and the remaining £lO were handed over to the relief
committee for gratuitous distribution, in wholesome food,
to the famishing wretches at Ballinahown."

RETURN OF PLFNTI

The accounts, both domestic and foreign, which we
are enabled to lay before our readers this day, in re-
lation to_the grain markets, are cheering in the extreme,

we Geld out in our last amber.
The arrivals of bread stuffs of all kinds from America
continue to be.most extensive; promising supplies in even

iintouched.the resources of a harvest, perhaps the most
plenteous with which Providence has ever blessed our
transatlantic neighbours, being adequate, in the.wordsof

the President, to supply tile wants of tne wnoie worm.
And while materials of plenty are thus provided by the
gracious Disposer of all thißgs, we rejoice to learn, on high
authority, that no difficulty or obstruction is likely to arise

in the of transpoiting the food to our own shores
and homesteads. In a word, we feel, now that the game

ger is at an end

haps, even a fearful recoil preparing for them.
We shall now allude briefly to the facts which justify us
in our foregoing observations. In our Own Corn Exchange,

yesterday, the prices were decidedly lower. w neat ren
about ls. per 2821b5., and the highest quotation of Indian
corn was 525., being 4s less than was obtained on the pre-
ceding market day.
In Newry, the price of Indian meal has fallen within the
last few weeks fully £6 per ton, and is now quoted at £l2

per ton, while prompt payment in cash will procure the
article,cnnsiderablY under that sum. • A similar decline Im
taken place in Londonderry and Galway. _

same happy anticipations. The alarm created by the
Debals, on the food question, has subsided, and given
place to more agreeable anticipations ; and a depression in

the prices of foOd has followed, and still continues.
With all these facts staring them in the face, the bakers
in Dublin have the unblushing dishonesty to hold up the

starvation price of the loaf, though then* Lennon oretoreu
are, with a better feeling, giving way in proportion to the
fall of the raw material.--Dublin Evening Mail.

--....4.--.

FALL IN THE POTATO MARKET.

The Dublin Evening Mail says that a new and agreeable
addition to the bill of fare is daily presenting itself with
more and more abundance, and, we must add, unblush-
• ,

ing effrontery—the mealy potato : inc J
Market, which has been formally closed f
months, is re-opened, and presents every ch
sunnlies of natives, sound and well-Jim-cm

st two

_ a reduction of from- six
pence to eight pence per stone. The Inverness Journal
sates that, on Tuesday week, a good supply of potatoes
appeared in the market :—" There was considerable de-
mand for them for the table, at ten pence per stone ; and
all, or nearly all, were sold. On Friday there was about the
same number of carts, but the potatoes did not sell so
readily, The people are generally. impressed v
idea that there are considerably greater quantities ot po-
tatoes saved than the farmers admit, and they, therefore,
! anticipate a considerable fall in price, and a fair supply,

ith the

. ,
as soon as the seed season is over." The Kerry Evening
Post says, " We had a very• large market of potatoes in
Tralee this day, (Saturday,) with a. brisk buying for the
purposes of 'seed. Lumpers were sold at from seven
. .

pence
p to nine pence p(
ably higher. .We cal
is much more general than was anticipated

minions proportion-
., .1..44.n of vsll+Sl+ll.l

A- corres-

pondent informs us that there were upwards of one nun
dred loads of potatoes at Kilkenny market yesteirday
which were offering at six pence per stone ; and at Bag

nalstowu, county of Carlow, on Saturday, there wo.s-a,
good supply of potatoes ; the price asked was thirteen
sbillings per barrel. The Carlow Sentinel says, that

the Market was filled on Thursday last with antic' po-
tatoes, a large quantity fit for table and the. remainder for
seed. Bless their " patriotic faces !" we thought they

on the glittering gold, nso are thole who held over their
stock to realize famine prices now opening their treasures,
and with the prospect of a falling market before them, we
have little doubt potatoes will continue to pour in more
abundantly. From 30s. a barrel they fell, on Thursday,
to 245., and even to 225. The Drogheda Argus says,

there were upwards of one huudredbarrels of excelh;nt
potatoes at our market this day, (Saturday,) which sold

barrel. We are happy to state that the farmers in Louth
and Meath are planting a great breath of potatoes. The
recent fall in the Liverpool corn market has struck • con-
sternation into the hearts of the holders of corn here, oat
having, at this day's market, receded fully one
-ings per barrel in value." It appears II
_in has taken place in the price of potatoes
ford.. 'On Saturday week the dealers asked, in the morn-

hilling to
at a great

at—Ox-

the market was gosed they were glad to Sell them for
eleven shillings per sack. A similar reduction has taken
place at Whitney, Abingdon, and several other places in
the neighbourhood, and it is quite expected that another
reduction will immediately follow. The contract for
meat for the Oxford workhouse (commencing on the lit
April,) is 3d, per 11), less than the

preceding quarter.