The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

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STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Our columns this evening
present a sad and afflicting picture of the state to which
The Dublin Post states confidently, that at least thirty this ill-fated country is reduced. Crimes of almost every
persons perish daily from hunger in Ireland. hue are there recorded. The soil of Kilcoran is reeking
several carts, laden with meal; barley, &c., Were, last with the lifeblood of the murdered Mulcahy, at-the same
week, attacked, near Clonmel, by gangs of robbers, who moment that the flames burst from the burning home-
had carts ready and took off the booty. stead of Walshe, at Bansha. In the latter case, by the
One of the largest rewards since the death. of the late merciful intervention of Providence, the inmates of the
- - were saved, and the fiendish designs of the

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and conviction of the persons who attacked Mr. Ingworth. concoctors or this savage outrage were so tar frustrated.
The Government offers £2OO ; Mr. Ingworth himself, The meal of Guiry, and the butter of Cormack, are, in
£2OO ; and the magistrates, clergy, and farmers, £614. the mid-day, plundered by armed rnobs
thenls Keating's
Mr. John Augustus O'Neill has offered himself as a flour meets with a similar fate in an district of the
candidate for the representation of Mallow, as a Repealer, country. From the mountain of Slievenamon sheep are
ee of the Repeal Asso- stolen by wholesale ; from the plains beneath "lire stock
This is a fear-

ing been

every deseri.

ption is nightl

abstracter

fill state of society. Something must be done, and done
passed over in previous election Something
WHAT'S BECOME OF THE REPEAL ?—At the inaugu- speedily, to protect the lives and properties of the well
ration of the new mayor on Friday, during four speeches disposed from the tender mercies of a lawless peasantry.—
made by Repeal members of a Repeal corporation in our Tipperary Constitution.
far-famed Repeal city, the repeal of the union was never REPEAL ASSObIATION.—A letter' from America, re-
once mentioned !—Kilkenny Moderator. - commending the purchase of waste lands in that country
FEARFUL MORTALITY.—In the Skibbcreen poorhouse, for emigrants from Ireland having been read, Mr. O'Con-
during the months of November and December, 1845, nell said it would be a most afflicting thing to him to ad-
the number of deaths was Only seven, whilst during the vise the people to leave. Ireland. Live or 'die, he would
softie months of last year, the deaths amounted to two never give that advice. It was the whole study of his
hundred and eighteen P life to have Ireland for the Irish ; and, as to the present
One of the embankments of the Irish Grand Canal was distress, the British Government was sufficiently indebted
breached by some persons unknown on the 29th Decem- to Ireland to be obliged to give food to the people.
ber, between Tullainore and Shannon Harbour. Had the Speaking of the Young Irelanders, he said they had
attempt succeeded, the means of conveying food ta the made "reconciliation utterly impossible." Recommend-
West of Ireland would have been entirely cut off. ing a particular tradesman, he said he wished " there was
PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND.—A return, published by nothing sold in Dublin but native manufactures." Mr.
the Morning Chronicle, shews that the daily number of Q'Connell said his own daily, hourly, and nightly thought
persons employed on public Works in Ireland, during the was, how to relieve the people, of whom, he said, not
- 26th ult., was 398,231. The counties thirty, as calculated by the newspapers, but three hun-
dred, were perishing daily of hunger. " Something must
be done on a great scale." It is the duty of the British
Government to feed four millions of the Irish people. I
will give notice of what I mean to bring forward. I mean
to bring forward a proposition that there be a loan of
forty millions raised to relieve the Irish people ; a loan to
be raised on the resources of the country ; a loan to be
raised as the loan was raised for the purchase of the
negroes. It is absolutely necessary to go to that length,
and less will not relieve the people from the necessities
they are in. The rent for the week, which included £5
from Liverpool, was announced to be £7l 6s. 3d.
Awrui..—There is an appalling communication in the
Dublin Mail of Monday. The writer, the Ret.. Charles
Caulfield, dates his communication from Creagh Rectory,

where the -greatest numbers are employed are, Clare,
Cork, Cavan, Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo,
Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, and Wexford.
The Marquis of Downshire for the last fortnight, has,
with princely benevolence, been administering to the ne-

amongst a vast throng of applicants, each applicant re-
ceiving with the allowance of beef, a shilling to puichase
bread. Upwards of 1,300 lbs. of beef were then dis-
pensed to 300 poor families. _

A. RECONCII,LATION.-At the inauguration dinner of
the Lord Mayor of Dublin, on Tuesday, a somewhat re-
markable incident took place, which seemed to tickle the
fancies of the spectators of the scene. Just as the Master
of the P (NI- T. B. S--- • ',) 1 - Mr. O'Con-

tons .r. i omith) was leaving,
nen walked up to his quondam friend (the "vinegar-cruet
Attorney-General) and warmly shook the hand of that
once-dreaded functionary, who, apparently nothing loth,
returned the friendly shake with equal cordiality.

with two children, was lying in fever, in a wretched hovel ;
five wretches came to the house, and notwithstanding the
entreaties of the wife, robbed the family of all they pos-
sessed, taking away the blankets off the people in fever,
and eventhe vinegar, and a small portion of meat. -The

Jan. '2. We make a few extracts. The Skibbereen -dis-
trict is referred to :—" The mortality is very great among
the poor, and the aspect of the burial-grounds assuming
a new form : in many cases the dead are buried without
coffins, and instances are known where they are not even
brought to a burial-ground, but interred in the fields.
In Skibbereen) on the Windmill, the body of a- man lay

tor several days besides his child, sick of fever, there being
no one to reinove it until the dispensary doctor had it
buried, when it was becoming putrid ; this has occurred
more than. once. This day in a glen, in a wild part of
this parish, I was told that a family was ill with fever. I
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at Woodford, and such is the fearful state of society
that the miserable wife declined to identify even the pro-
Limerick Chronicle.

house ; five lying on some dirty straw in one corner, men
and women, and five in another room in a kind of bed.
Two children were up recovering, and one girl, the only
person to hand them a drink of water. They had no

been held at Muff, in the county of Donegal, to_coasider

food, not even a drop of milk, nor even an individual to

3est means of provit

iey were dying

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any. They would all have died as well as the father,
but for a shilling given them by a neighbouring gentle-
man." •

This is in a Christian country, and where Christian men
are exerting then serves with Christian charity and Chris-
tian energy, yet' are they not able to avert tEe direful
scenes the witnesses have described.

Nearer Cork—in Traeton—deaths, it appears, are oc-
curring, too. Mr. Corkoran, P.P., in a letter to Mr.
Redington, (in the Examiner) says:—
" Over 16 deaths occurred in my parishes for the last
ten-days. I am morally certain that each and every one
of them was occasioned and accelerated by want of food
and fire. Buckley, of Ballyvorane, and Sullivan, of
Oysterhavert, died suddenly. Buckley dropped dead on
the works, after a journey of three miles before day. His
wife will make affidavit, that he had not sufficient food
the night before he died, and that she and the rest of her
family lived 36 hours on wild weeds to spare a bit of the
cake for him.' (In this case a coroner's inquest was
given without sight of the body.) This horrifying eco-
nomy is practised by scores of families in this district. Si-
milar eff I fear

rects must be expected from similar causes.
we must bury the dead COFFINLESS in future. My God ! !
what a revolting idea. Without food when alive, without
a coffin when dead."

UNIVERSITY

AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Bishop of Newfoundland, during his stay in this
town, prior to embarking on Tuesday, was the. guest of
the Rev. Cecil Wray.
The Rev. E. B. Chanter, who recently received three
tokens from Great Crosby, has had presented to him by
his parishioners at Sheffield, as a new year's gift, a very
elegant pocket communion service.

The amount already subscribed to the Liverpool Church
Building Society exceeds £12,600, having been recently
augmented by a donation of £5OO from the Society for
B.C:P.,
,per J. 8., 'treasurer.

On the 4th instant, the parishioners and friends of the
Rev. William Wood, incumbent of Altham, near NA-
_
ham, presented to that gentleman a purse, containing up-
wards of one hundred guineas.
The Rev. R. W. Kyle, whose license was recently with-
drawn by the Archbishop of Dublin for his adherence to
the Evangelical Alliance, has been appointed to a living
in Guernsey.

John Wakefield, Esq., of Kendal, has offered to contri-
bute £5OO towards the erection of a vicarage-house in that
town, provided Trinity College will add another £5OO for
the saine'purpe ose.

The tail of Verulam has.given the munificent donation
of 4:1,500 tc -
posed new (

noble earl has also given a piece Of land as the site for the

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ary, three new churches will consecrated in the metro-
polis, viz., St. Jude's, Whitechapel ; St. Andrew's, Ox-
ford-street; and the Mariners' Church, near the north
entrance to the London Docks, all of them having been
erected within the last twelve months.
Lord Ashley, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, the Rev. A. R.

Dallas, and others, have raised a special fund in connex-
ion with the Irish society, amounting.to nearly £20,000,
for a new body of 700 scripture readers in Ireland, the

:OLONIES

sole of this mission

nE under the care of one missionary,
Since his return from England, him-

the Rev