The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

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lit liay

us noise, which m 4

ccompanied by a sub
seen mistaken for an approaching hurricane, has created
, Mountain (of fragments it is true) of from 180 to 200
eet in heiEht. There exists on the spot referred to a

stone, used fc

mg the road,

pa.- ,n the
..a wood. A large plaice extends between the Rhine
rnd the quarry, which is traversed by the high road ; this

can be more terrific than the appearance of this
nountain ; it is a chaos, which represents marvellously
he confusion produced by an immense mine which has
)een exploded. On the north of the quarry there exists a
ofty mountain, which was cleft from top to bottom at the
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A MISTAKE.—CHERBOURG, DEC. 24.—Last Monday
morning, the 22d instant, orders were given here to all the
authorities, civil and military, to prepare for the reception
of his Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville, accompa-
nied by Baron de Mackan_

or Marine, the mo-
ment the guard-ship fired three guns, which were to be
repeated by two of the batteries on shore. At about five
p.m. a signal was made by the Alm

...- ...--- , ~.. ',Lim watcning toe otner
.
side of the breakwater that the steamer was in sight ; the
guns were fired as ordered, the Garde Nationale beat to
muster, every one was on the qui vine, when the Prince
of Wales steamer, bringing a newly married couple from Guernsey. came into har1,,,,,.. TL.....i_... A-A

uaruour. Trey landed amongst a
crowd of people come to see the Prince, and no doubt were
not a little astonished at the bustle created by their arri-
val. Had they remained in the roads a salute of 21 guns
would, in all probability have been fired. The parties
were Mr. Miles, M.P., just married to the daughter of

Finisterre, fiom Havre to Morlaix, put in here
from stress of weather, when the same mistake was math
but as it was later the troops were not mustered. Wt
now expect his Royal Highness hourly ; he comes here to
witness the trials of a new steamer, the Pomone.

st night

THE COURT AND FASHIONABLE.WORLD

The Court leaves Windsor for Claremont on Thursday,
returns to Windsor about the 16th, proceeds to London
on the following Monday, and next day, Tuesday, the
19th, her Majesty will open Parliament in person; The
mufti

circutar nas neen issued by Lord John
Russell. It announces that " business of great import..
ance will be proceded with on the opening of the. session."
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Charles Phipps,
brother of the Marquis of Normanby, is to succeed Mr
inson as private secretary to Prince Albert.
The Queen has appointed Colonel the Hon

ward
Cust, K. C. H., to be her Majesty's Master of It
heEd Cere
~ re-
monies, in the room. of Sir Robert Chester, Knt

Zarl of Harrowt

with Viscount and Viscountesl

The Irish ldridlords, then, ar

nature ; stern►,
They

tmost they can

's vast es

S LIBERALITI

made towa

ting, w

roperty has

8 duties as

in Dub-

re this large coiitribt

s to any reply being Made ; but he

naively remarks that the hod. Mem'
h !!' Of course

Forth of c

is talk was as t

held or

itap,

:end ance

9.1 weekly mee

ken by the Hon. Cecil I
the meeting,
If ti

country

sent wer

its would be opened, and they ivould not be
Irish should starve, lest the English might
Mr. O'Connell then addressed the
that he

h, observing, at its

them' to desist from attackin

—to resign all resort to violence, to give up all

. _
fotce, and to endeavour to assist each other in the terril
crisis which was upon them. Some sums of money w
then handed in ; the rent for the week v

;renounced t

von, a body of police proceeded to the iiiaCe to arrest a
man of the name of Michael Coghlan, on a charge of
Murder. On entering the house, the candles were put
out, and a •man named Michael Mooney cried-.out that
" Coghlan should not surrender," which, it is stated, he
offered to do. The police were then assaulted with the

smashed on their Ileac'
their b

[s, their carbines were broken, and

mets lost or taken in the melee. In sc

the: ppl

41 •to fire

when CC

vonets

Lind them. Moray after, a patrol of two then' Sub.
constables Donohoe and Lane, hearing the shots am

noise, proceeded to the house, when Lane, seeing a po-
liceman's carbine in the hands of one of the peasantry,
immediately took possession of it. The crowd, having
cried out for revenge, would, in all probability, have put
their threats into execution, had not the police presented
_ .

We firmly believe
by the- culpable

their carbines and threatened to fire
TIIE ENTIRE PEASANTRY ARMED
that this ill-fated country is doom,
apathy of the Government, to become the scene of riot
disorder, .and bloodshed, at the bare contemplation of

peasantry evince to furnish themselves with weapons of
destruction—the - avidity with which they expend\ large
sums of money in purchasing them, is matter of astonish-
ment to all. It is an anomaly which could happen in no
other country in the world, save Ireland, whilst the vic-
tims of famine and destitution are dying in hundreds ;
numberless others, scarce removed from a similar fate,

Society will

arm themsekes. And for what purpose.
be dearticulated, if a stop be not forthwith put in, the
propensity of these misguided people, who-coneulcate all
the recognised laWs of society. Not ater than Saturday

y of military frc

Caher, were on-pa.