The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

A HOPEFUL PEOPLE.

Amongst the most important of the means by which the
peasantry of Ireland were to be regenerated, and enabled
to add to their resources and to the wealth of their country,
was the encouraging and development of her sea fisheries.
We ourselves pointed, along with others, frequently to the
fact that, whilst Scotland derived a large revenue from
the industry of her peasantry in gathering in for human
use the food which the ocean bore in such abundance to
her shore, Ireland, blest with equal if not greater abun-
dance of such available food, contained a peasantry who
never stretched forth a hand, or worked an oar, to help
themselves to such food or to the wealth derivable from
its capture.

It was urged, as an excuse for the indolence, or want of
enterprise, that the peasantry of the latter country were
unprovided with the necessary means ; that their boats,
their nets and lines were of miserable quality ; and that
money was not in their possession to repair or renew them.
An effort was made by Government, and by private sub-
scriptions, to furnish the aid required. Yet what was the
result ? The following remarks of the Lord Lientenankof
Ireland, in reply to a memorial, in which further assistance
was prayed for, gives a tolerably sufficient explanation :
" His Excellency observed, that allusion had been made
in the memorial to the subject of the fisheries ; that, as
regarded this question he was greatly disheartened ; that
he had come to Ireland with the hope and expectation of
being able to promote this branch of industry, but that he
was completely disappointed ; that, in the present year,
when the boats and gear of the fishermen were redeemed
from the pawn-offices, in many instances the parties
would not go to sea unless they were fed, and when sup-
plied with food they took no fish. He then instanced the
example of Scotland, which not only supplied many parts
of the continent to the amount of £150,000, but received
from Ireland each year £170,000 for fish alone, and the
people in this country allowing such a store of wealth to
pass by this coast untaken. One million was expended on
the Irish fisheries with no advantage or return to the
nation, though there were several curing stations estab-
lished."

We may cite another witness—a correspondent of the
London Times—which goes to prove that the peasantry of
Ireland cannot be brought to work in their own country,
however good the prospect of remuneration, if they can be
supplied in idleness Upon the merest competency. The
writer says :

" Again, at Dingle, which is the principal fishing town
on that coast, there are about fifty small boats of one sort
and another, with from six to eight men depending for
subsistence on the working of each boat. In the first week
of September I spent three days at Dingle—the two first
days were stormy, and the boats did not go out ; the third
was as fine a day for fishing as any in the year, and the
mackarel and pilchards were reported, by vessels that had
seen the shoals in and about the bay, to be very abundant.
" To my great surprise I observed that no more than
twelve boats had gone out that morning, and on investi-
gating. the cause I found it to be strictly and solely the
following :—Being Saturday, a double allowance of soup
was to be distributed ; there was also an expectation of a
gratuitous distribution of meal; and it being a regulation
that the application for the soup and meal should be made
in person, the day's fishing was thus sacrificed."
Of course, " the day's fishing was sacrificed." It is
infinitely more to the taste of the Irish peasant to sit by
his wretched hut, or to 101 l upon a gate or a rail, smoking
his dudeen, or discussing the question of repeal with an
equally lazy neighbour, whilst waiting for the eleemosy-
nary dole of soup or meal, than to work in any shape. It
is infinitely less laborious to plant a rood of land with
potatoes, and to watch them grow until they are fit to be
dug up for the day's meal, than to plough and drain for
the purpose of raising a better kind of crop. Attempt to
encourage him in habits of increased exertion, and your
reward is disappointment and disgust at the ingratitude
with which your effort is met. Coerce him, and your re-
ward is probably a bullet from behind a hedge. Yet, in
all probability, as soon as parliament meets, the ears of
the industrious people of Great Britain will be stunned
with clamourous appeals for this very people, who, thus
resolutely refuse to be made self-dependent and happy.
The reply ought to a resolute and stern " No."

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, a man who
was employed in one of the Albert Dock warehouses,
accidentally fell through one of the hatchways through
the floors in the interior of the building, and was killed
on the spot.
DEATH BY BURNING. —On Saturday evening last,
Catharine Yates, a child four years-and-a-half old, re-
siding with her parents in Eden-street, was left in the
house with two young children. One of the latter lighted
a piece of paper, which ignited the clothes of the deceased,
and she ran in a burning state to a neighbours house.
The flames were extinguished, but deceased died on the
following day.
A FEMALE DROWNED.—On Saturday night a young
woman named Elizabeth Barton, wife of William Barton,
toy-maker, St. Andrew-street, fell into George's Dock
Gut, and was drowned. She had left home the same night
to go to Woodside, and was not heard of until she was
taken out of the water. Deceased, we learn, was a fine
looking person, and her body presented the appearance of
wax-work.
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conducted by that gentleman. After 334 numbers had
been thrown, the lucky prize came up, answering to the
number 514 C, held by James Pickles, Esq., of Manches-
ter. The picture is valued at £lOOO.
POLICE COURT.—There were yesterday from 173 to
174 prisoners brought up at this court on charges, in-
cluding drunkenness ; but the cases were nearly all of
minor importance, with the exception of one noticed
elsewhere. A young man, whose name we did not learn,
was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Church-
street and its neighbourhood, on Saturday night, by
officers 88 and 660. He, however, showed by himself
and a witness, that he had been ordered home by officer
88, who had called him'a " prig," &c., and that being in-
dignant, and found again in Whitechapel by the same
officer, and No. 660, he was taken by the latter to the
head constable's office, the officer expecting that he would
be recognized as a bad character. This not being proved,
he was taken to the main bridewell on the other charge.
Mr. Rushton said there had been evidently something
wrong in the language used by the officers, and discharged
the prisoner. A man, named William Mitchell, keeper
of a boarding-house, was charged, yesterday, at the
Police-court, with uttering four base halfcrowns to a fe-
male, named Jane Mack, next door to his premises, to
whom he sent them to be changed. He stated that se-
veral men came in wanting refreshment, that each as they
went on, getting a shilling's worth at a time, paid him
half-a-crown, and that he was not aware they were bad..
The evidence being unsatisfactory, as against him, he
was remanded.

THE ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES, &C., FROM A LADY
OF CHRSHIRE.—The case of the robbery, or supposed
robbeiT, of Mrs. Mary Mathison, of Capenhurst Hall,
which is near the Sutton railway station, on the Birken-
head and Cheshire railway, having been handed over by
the Birkenhead magistrates to the jurisdiction of the
Liverpool magistrates, the prisoners, John Burgess and
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after the fact, by counselling and comforting the other.
He should therefore commit them both for trial,. unless
Mr. Fosbrook could show good cause to the contrary in
Burgess's case.—Mr. Fosbrook said under the circum-
stances he was inclined to leave the case as it stood for
the present.—Mr. Rushton then committed Mitchell for
stealing the money (upwards £150), and Burgess for being
an accessary after the fact, both to be tried at the quarter
sessions. He remarked that it was rather hard that this
county should be put to the cost and trouble of the pro-
secution ; but as part of the transaction occurred in Liver-
pool, he presumed the magistrates were bound in law to
take cognizance of the case. It remains to be remarked
that the. prosecutrix could not swear at what time of the
day, or in what locality—here or in Cheshire—she was
despoiled of, or lost the money. There was no evidence
of the actual theft, but it remains for the prisoners, and
especially Mitchell, to shew whence it was got, otherwise
the inference against them will be obvious,

Nov. 16,1847.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(By EXPRESS.)

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

Much of the English Wheat being in poor condition, our
millers took it slowly at a decline of 2s. per quarter on the cur-
rency of last Monday for the best samples, and about 3s. per
quarter for inferior, whilst for foreign only a retail demand ex-
isted at Is to 2s. per quarter lower rates.
Flour was unaltered in value.

Choice malting barley brought nearly as mach money, but
notwithstanding the small quantity on.sale, trade on the whole
was dull, and for middling and inferior qualities Is. to 2s. per
quarterreduction was submitted to; but grinding samples and
foreign brought former terms.
Malt was dull, and generally offered ls. to 2s. per qr. below
•the currency of last week.

Beans were sold without any material variation in value.
Peas were Is. to 2s. per qr. cheaper, owing to the mild open
weather, and more pressing sellers of foreign.
There was a good steady demand for all fine Oats, at the
quotations of this day se'nnight ; other sorts were dull, and
the turn cheaper.