The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

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Large Consumers supplied upon

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;
ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE .SQUARE OF WARE-
HOUSES, OFFICES, 4.N0 SHOPS.
IN the last great Fire in C.ebrge-street, Manchester,
nine large Houses had theft: Books burned in Iron Safes,
Closets with Iron Doors )Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) Safes,
&c. &c. &c. ; and again.6n the above recent occasion, a great
number of parties hale suffered the same calamity. The only
Safe which broughvits contents uninjured out of the burning
mass being the otfe alluded to below.
" Manchester, August 13th, 1847. '
" GENTLEMEN In the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted the entire block of buildings of which my Ware-
house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in informing you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
" I am your obedient servant
" THOMAS HAIGH, 'Woollen Merchant,
" New Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner and Son." •

The outside of this Safe was partially melted: the contents
inside unsinged, being steamed (boiled instead of burned) by
the evaporating principle of the Safe. Near to it a large
Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) chambered Safe, full of valuable
Books and Documents before the Fire, was found to contain
nothing but tinder and ashes after it I
In the numerous accidental Fires and experimental tests
which Milners' Safes have been exposed to—every description
of Safe in 'lse—Fireproof (so called) or otherwise have beets
burnt out beside them, confirming the recommendation of the
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exposure to accidental fire have occurred, from which Thomas
Milner and Son select the following as instances, in which they
are of opinion that no other Safe than their own would have
preserved its contents unburnt.
Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong and fierce Fire; Safe most
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Birkenhead ; buildings entirely gutted, everything burnt in
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standing besides Milners'; the contents of Milners' uninjured,
and in use now.
Fire at Messrs. Garniss and Co.'s, Park-lane; a very strong
fire; again the contents of Milners' Safe the only thing saved
on the premises.
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth; a very extensive
and destructive fire; a large Iron Safe covered with brickwork
with double Iron doors burnt out; Milners' entirely preserving
its contents.

Fire in Queen-street, Glasgow; a great number of Safes and
Closets burnt out; no books saved throughout the buildings
excepting Messrs. S. R. and Thomas Browns', in Millers'
Safe.

Milners' Fire-resisting Safes, Chests, and Boxes, suitable for
all classes of Buildings, impregnable Locks and Cash Boxes,
at the Works, 50A, Lord-street and Cable-street, and show.:
Oom, 15, South John-street, Liverpool.

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FOREIGN .5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA.

The Overland Mail arrived in London on Thursday,
with dates from Bombay to the 30th, Madras to. the 29th
and Calcutta to the 16th of September.
The utmost tranquility prevailed throughout India. -
-Mr. Pringle, of the civil service, has replaced Sir Chas.
Napier in Scinde with the rank of Commissioner. Bri-
gadier Dundas had command of the troops.
The Governor-General was to leave the hills early in
October, intending, it was said, to proceed, in the first
instance, to Cawnpoor, where he would have an interview
with the King of Oude, who would pass to the left bank
of the Ganges for that purpose; and it was believed that
Lord Hardinge intended on that occasion to come to an
arrangement with the King to induce him to make over
his regal authority, in order that efficient steps might be
taken to arrest the increasing disorganization and suffering
in those territories.

The measures said to be contemplated by the Governor-
General to induce his Majesty of Lucknow to make this
concession, were the offer of a handsome pension, secured
on a portion of the revenue of Oude upon condition that
he should cede all political authority into our hands, or
the alternative, on our part, of the withdrawal by pro-
clamation, of the support we had hitherto afforded him,
thus leaving his fate to be decided by his subjects.
No doubt whatever was entertained es to the sufficiency
of this -latter measure, should it be resorted to. But no
such contingency was expected. It was not doubted but
that the king would accept the liberal terms of regal
wealth and pageantry which would be offered, since, ad-
dicted to luxury, he ill supports the cares of a distracted
and impoverished state, where the revenue has to be col-
lected by 50,000 bayonets.
It is affirmed also that arrangements are likewise in
contemplation with respect to the government of the
Nizam. It is, however, considered probable that the
measures likely to be enforced by Hyderabad would not
be of so decided a nature as in the case of Oude, from the
somewhat better character of the prince; and it was
thought That he would be permitted to retain his authority
upon certain liberal concessions to be made to his sub-
jects. But we are also told that no doubt our interven-
tion would leave the prince with a still more circumscribed
territory, the cession of a further portion of which might
ba.expected in liquidation of a debt to our government of
thirty lacs, and which it appears is likely to be consider-
ably increased before a settlement by payments of arrears
to his Arab mercinaries, whose disorderly proceedings
have compelled him twice during the last few months to
solicit our interference.

The news from the Punjaub continues, as before, to be
most satisfactory. Besides the imprisonment of the dis-
solute Ranoe, or Queen-mother, the instigator of the late
war, and who was still, it is said, engaged in every species
of intrigue against our authority, the Durbar have re-
cently issued two proclamations, one abolishing infanti-
cide and suttee, and the other announcing the suppression
of forced labour. The imprisonment of the Queen, who
formerly went by the title of " The Sikh Mother," had
not produced the slightest,popular commotion.
The eldest son of the Maharajah of Cashmere was on
leis Way to visit the Governor-General of Simla, to take
leave of his lordship in his father's name, preparatory to
Lord Hardinge's departure from India.
The Dacoit chief, Doongur Singh, had been captured in
Rajpootana, but not until a force of 6,000 men had taken
the field in various directions against him.
Trade had somewhat improved, both at Calcutta and
Boinbay.

Lord Minto left Florence for Rome on the 29th ult.
The typhus fever has appeared in the English fleet in
the Tagus, and several men have already died.
The King of Sweden has ordered all Russian and Irish
ships to be examined on their arrival, lest they should
have cholera or fever patients on board.
Jenny Lind has sung thrice at the Berlin Opera, where
she- made her reputation. The King sent for her to his
box, and made her a very handsome present.
Tyssowski, the ex-dictator of Cracow, is now giving
lessons at New York in the German, French, Italian,
and Latin tongues.

By an Imperial ordonnance recently issued, the use of
the Polish language is suppressed at the University of
' Cracow, where henceforth German only is to be used.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.—Private letters
have been received from Fort York, Hudson's Bay, an-
nouncing the safe arrival of the detachment of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, who left England on the Ist ot June
last, to be engaged as a boat party in search of Sir John
Franklin and his gallant company. The party will winter
near Fort York, and in the spring of the year pursue their
search after the missing voyagers, should no intelligence
of the Erebus and Terror reach any of the settlements of
the Company before that time.
THE AFFAIRS OF SWITZERLAND.—The Journal des
.Daats, in its leading article, states that, although war
has not yet broken out in Switzerland, it must not be
'concluded that events are favourable peace. " Such a
hope," says the De'bats, "is not permitted to us. The
letters we have received this morning from Berne would
have destroyed our last illusions, had we preserved any. The
resolutions adopted by the Diet in the sitting of the 24th,
the placing 50,000 troops under arms, the terms of the mis-
sion given to Gen. Dufour,—all these facts amount to a
real declaration of war, and in the present excitement of
the public mind a war declared is equivalent to a war
commenced. That military operations have not already
commenced, is the result of a prepared plan. The radical
army is not ready to enter the field ; and, if it were, it
would not commence, as its interest demands a delay of a
few days.

IMPORTANT. FROM SWITZERLAND.—The deputies of
the Sonderbund have quitted the Diet and Berne. This
event bvs now become notoriously public. Thus the last
thread which held back a catastrophe long foreseen, and
ready to burst forth at any moment, is broken, and, pro-
bably, blood has already been shed. The circumstances
which immediately preceded the last attempts made by
the deputies of the Sonderbond to avert this disaster and
save Switzerland from its effects, show their endeavours
to bring about a reconciliation consistent with honour
and security, the disdain with which the Radicals re-
ceived these advances, their manifest witfulness to decide
by force of arms a quarrel which themselves have pro-
voked. It was understood that General Defour had fixed
the'4th of November for the commencement of hostili-
ties. 'lt was apprehended that a collision between the
Vaudois and Valaisians was imminent, as the parties were
merely divided by a bridge. The Austrians still occupy
Ferrara, and show no disposition to leave it. An armed
interference in the affairs of Switzerland by Austria and
France is looked upon as being now inevitable by most of
the journals. •
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE REPUDIATING
STATES.—It has been repeatedly urged that the Govern-
ment of America representing the Union is not the Go.
vernment representing the indebted parties, and that,
consequently, any applications on this subject to the
Cabinet of Washington must assume the aspect of im-
pertinent demands upon a party whose own integrity
should have raised it above all liability to such annoyances.
The Federal. Government, which alone enters into any
relations with foreign states, has, it is said, always dis-
charged its obligations with fidelity and punctuality, and
thus preserved what alone can be termed the national
credit of the country. Now. this is not the case. The
very. debt which the United States of America in their
confederate or corporate capacity should have paid with
the;inost religious care still remains undischarged. There
is lying before us at this moment a dollar note, issued ac-
cording to a resolution of Congress, and bearing date the
14th of January, 1779 !—a period when Cornwallis was
still supposed invincible by Washington himself, and when
that great commander was writing to Congress that a
handful of British in York town were still "an over-
match for the main army of these States," and that
" under the existing circumstances it would be vain to
expect from the troops another campaign !" The money
whibh was raised upon these promissory notes, super-
scribed as those of the `• United States of orth America,"
which kept toether the famishing and half-clad voltt:-
teers of Washington, and enabled America to secure its
independence, by outliving the desire of England to pro-
lorig the war, has never been repaid. Many thousands of
these notes are still in English hands, as valueless as the
scrip of a Mississippi railroad. The question has been
repeatedly brought before Congress, and as repeatedly
eluded by some delicate adroitness, implying very clearly
that, in the opinion of the audience, too little could not
be,said upon the subject.—Times.

SOUTH. SEA ISLANDERS AS FREE LABOURERS IN
AUSTRALIA.—The last papers from New South Wales
give the details of an attempt to procure immigrants from
the South-sea Islands for the supply of labour in that
colony, by Mr. Boyd, a Sydney. The experiment is an
interesting one, and appears to have been successful, so
far- as it was tried. Mr. Boyd despatched a vessel to the
South Sea, with instructions to the captain to call at as
many islands as possible, so that he might satisfy
hiniself not only as to the people most fitted for the
wants of the colonists,but also as to the number likely to
be procured. In due time the vessel returned with 65 of
the natives of the New Hebrides group (distant about
three weeks' sail from Sidney), of various ages, from 14
to '25, while the general accounts given of the cruise were
such as to warrant an expectation of satisfactory and ex-
tensive results. Mr. Boyd's wish was, that in the first
instance only 50 should be engaged, but so eager were
these people to be taken on board, that it was only
through the authority of their Chiefs that their number
could he limited, the explanation of this desire for removal
being that the inhabitants of the Coral Islands are in a
condition during upwards of eight months of the year,
little short of starvation. With respect to the habits of
the people, and their fitness for the occupations of civilized
life, it is stated, that although cannibalism and infanticide
prevail amongst them to a fearful extent, they manifest
in their intercouse with stranffers a very great degree of
tractability and intelligence ;'and hence it is considered
that their vices may he attributed rather to the influence
of the sufferings to which they are periodically exposed
than Loin an
them is y inerfid
about £8 ble peculiarity. The expense of
introducgper man, and Mr. Boyd's
intention is to employ them as shepherds. At the same
time, from the description given of them, it would seem
that they might easily be instructel for other services.

IRELAND.
The simultaneous collection for the national tribute to
the memory of O'Connell will be made in all the parishes
of Ireland on Sunday-next, the 14th instant.
'On Saturday, a man of the name of William Flinn was
slain by a dagger wound inflicted in a faction fight at
Newtownhamilton.
Mr. John Mason, who lately held a situation of ac-
countant at the Board of Works, in Ireland, at a salary of
£3OO per annum, has been brought up at the Dublin
Police-office, charged with embezzling £B,OOO.
The Skibbereen workhouse, built for 800, is shut—
holding 1,340 paupers within its walls, and incapable of
holding any more. The beggary of that vast and deplo-
rable district must look elsewhere. It will increase four-
fold in a few months.

TAPPING A STATUE.—The statue of George 11., at
Cork, was tapped last week, the leaden horse having
become completely full of water, and top-heavy. We
have not heard the result of the operation.
Mr. Michael Walsh, steward to Mr. C. O'Callaghan,
of Ballynahinch, county Clare, was shot *lead by an assas-
sin from behind a wall, on Saturday week; in broad day-
light, in the high road, leading from Scariff to Tulla.
The library of the Dublin University contains a rare and
valuable manuscript, the gospels of St. Patrick, in the old
Irish tongue, which was presented to the university by the
late Professor M'Cullagh, who- purchased it for 300 gui-
neas, and thus forestalled the British Museum, for which
it was intended.

On Tuesday, an alarming assemblage of 2,000 men be-
sieged the workhouse of the Kanturk union, and would
have forced the gates but for the intervention of a mili-
tary force. The Cork Examiner notices a strange fact in
connection with the not, that " more powder was pur-
chased by those out-door relief folk on that day than was
sold in the previous year in the town of Kanturk.

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DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—In reply to an address of the
Roman Catholic bishops, to Lord Clarendon, his Excel-
lency thus concedes a proposition which has excited a good
deal of argument pro and con :—" I am painfully alive to
the fact, that in many districts there exists dreadful
misery, which no amount of local taxation can relieve;
and there the sacred and paramount duty of government
—the preservation of human life—will be performed."
An Irish jury, in the Queen's County, a few days since,
acquitted a man tried for robbing his employer of £l2 in
the face of the most conclusive evidence, and notwith-
standing that the prisoner made no defence. It has
transpired that one of the jury considered that as the
prosecutor was reputed to be a wealthy man, he could
well afford to lose a few pounds ! Such is the security of
property in 'this unhappy country.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday,
Captain Greene, M.P. for Kilkenny, was in the chair.
The principal topic of discussion was the landlord and
tenant law, to which were attributed the outrages and
bloodshed which disgrace and distract the country. A
touching letter was read from a Roman Catholic chaplain
of the gaol of Tipperary, detailing the statements of an
unhappy convict on this subject. The rent of the week
was £37.

DREADFUL CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.-11l the neigh-
bourhood of Omagh, a melancholy case of hydrophobia
occurred last week. About six weeks ago, a man named
Gormley was bitten by a rabid cat; but he paid no
attention to the matter, and pursued his business as
usual until Tuesday week, when the dreadful malady
appeared, and, progressed to Friday, on which day
he died in a raging paroxysm of madness.—Armagh
Guardian.

Faction fighting has set in. There was a furious battle
at Bannagher, in which the opponents were King's County
and Connaught men. They fought with desperation, and
among the wounded was one whose right hand, from the
wrist downwards, was cut off with a sword blow. The
women, as usual on such occasions, appeared in large
numbers, armed with the usual weapon,—a stocking with
a lump of brown stone in the heel. The military appeared,
and dispersed the rioters.

CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—A very interesting cere-
mony took place on Sunday last in the parish church of
Castlewellan. Two persons made a solemn renunciation
of the errors of Popery before the Rev. Mr. Thomas, and
in the presence of the entire congregation. Their decla-
rations were in the usual form. Our correspondent states
that there are others who will soon take the same way of
declaring the errors of the church in which they have
been educated.—Newry paper.
The name of Major Mahon, who was shot dead last
week, was put at the top of a list of absentees, in the
Dublin Freeman's Journal, as an absentee landlord, four
days before the unfortunate gentleman was shot. The
second day after his murder the following palliation—as
false as it is cruel—of the diabolical deed was offered
by the same paper :—" The people were said to he dis-
pleased with him for two reasons. The first was his re-
fusal to continue the conacre system, acid the second was
the clearing away what he deemed the surplus population."
ANOTHER MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—The widow Der-
mody has been brutally murdered by some person or per-
sons unknown. She had a small farm of a few acres on
the property of Mr. Fogarty, near Borrisolegh, county of
Tipperary, on the Ballinlouty road, which enabled her to
live comfortably. She had been married twice, and had
emigrated to America with her second husband; but not
succeeding there, had returned and occupied the farm till
his death. Since then she has lived quietly and respecta-
bly, but she was about getting married a third time : and
it is supposed that she had been murdered in order to pre-
vent the farm, and whatever other property she enjoyed,
going to a stranger.—Dublin paper.
A special meeting of the Repeal Association was held
on Thursday, "to address his Holiness the Pope." The
marrow of the address consists in an appeal to the Pope
in his " capacity as spiritual father of the faithful in every
clime," to interfere in " the temporal and political sub-
ject" (we copy the words of the address) of the repeal of
the union. Just so ; the greater includes the lesser ; spi-
ritual supremacy consequently is held by Romanists to
include temporal supremacy also, and therefore his holi-
ness's " faithful spiritual subjects of Ireland" implore
him to step in and settle the " temporal and political"
question of the legislative union. Whether his holiness
will exert his authority in this matter remains to be seen.
IRISH STATISTICS.—In the parish of Aughrim, says
Mr. King, a Roman Catholic clergyman, there perished,
from want and disease, 610 persons, and 107 emigrated ;
yet there remains a population of 2,500, out of a sum of
2,127, which the census- of 1841 shows to be the gross
total of the inhabitants of that classic locality. In Augh-
rim, famine and pestilence were remarkably reproductive
in their character, under the management of Father King.
In Athleague, however, matters took a different turn, ac-
cording to the report of. the Rev. B. Hestor, P.P. There,
out of a population, per census, of 5,017, " there died (says
Mr. Hester) about 200, and there remain only 3,000."
Captain Pobadil could not have more effectually "killed
by computation " than does the parish priest of Ath-
league.—.Dublin Mail.
EARL FITZWILLIAM AND THE CONDITION OF IRE-
LAND.—The Noble Lord of Wentworth has made the
occasion of writing to the Rev. John Sargeant, Rector of
Stanwick, the pretext for emitting a long letter to the
public, in justification of his remarks made in Sheffield,
about two months ago. His lordship, it will be recol-
lected, surprised his fellow-guests at the Cutlers'-hall,
,nota little, by the broad assertion that after all that had
been done, England was greatly the debtor of Ireland,
and that much more money ought to be spent out of the
Imperial Treasury for the benefit of the Sister Kingdom.
In the letter before us be thus puts the case :--z" England
is the landlord of Ireland, the Irish are the tenants.
When Stanwick field was enclosed, who made the outlay ?
The landlords, or the tenants ? The landlords to be sure ;
and if not, Stanwick and Higham would be still open fields.
So it is here, and so it will be with Ireland ; if our states-
men expect that Ireland can be improved by Irish means
alone, they will be grievously disappointed." This is a
most Irish illustration--all on one side. Earl Fitzwilliam
appears to lay all the responsibility upon the laridlords.
We wish he had told ns what would have been the condi-
tion of things at Stanwick and Higham, if Irish cupidity
on the one hand, had taken almost every potato for the
rent, and Irish indolence and improvidence on the other,
had never chine more than just meet the current demands
of the landlord, the district alluded to might not have
"still been open fields," but it might have been some-
thing worse—the grave of hopeless labour.—Sheifield
Mercury.
IRISH COUNCIL.—The Irish Council met on Thursday.
The members of the National Council were nearly all pre-
sent, and, in addition to them, Lord Cloncurry, Lord
Milton, Sir Lucius O'Brien, and a few others. Sir Col-
man O'Brien read the report of the Irish Council to the
peers, &c. It recommends that, in addition to a poor-
rate, there should be, for the same purpose, an income
and a property-tax. A sub-report was also read relative
to the tenant right. Major Blackhull moved a resolution
to the effect, that they were perfectly justified in calling
on government for further assistance. The Irish mem-
bers had been accused of not acting in concert ; that they
were disunited ; and that, in fact, whatever other parties
might exist, there was no such thing as an Irish party
-(cheering.) They would see if the ministry would bring
forward measures for the relief of Ireland ; and if they
(the ministry) would not, the Irish members would take
the business out of their hands, and propose such mea-
sures themselves as might be deemed advisable (cheering).
—Mr. Fagan seconded the motion.—Mr. Smith proposed
the second resolution, and, in doing so, dwelt on the in-
justice of throwing the entire burden of supporting the
poor on the agricultural interest. It was impossible, he
contended, to carry on the system of out-door relief under
the existing law.—Mr. John O'Connell seconded the reso-
lution.—An animated discussion then took place as to
whether it would be advisable to adopt the latter portion
of the second resolution, wnich recommended the imposi-
tion of an income-tax. Several amendments were pro-
posed, but eventually, on a division, the original motion
was carried.

DREADFUL MURDER.—On Monday, as Major Mahon,
the proprietor of large property in Roscommon was re,
turning home, he was shot dead in his carriage by an
assassin. He had lately succeeded to a property so over-
peopled, that, if left unaided, the population must have
starved. He, therefore, laid out £6,000 last year in assisting
a large number to emigrate ; many more inclined to be so
favoured, but in one year nothing more could be done.
On Tuesday, he had driven into Strokestown, and called
at his agent's office, to lay out plans for the employment
of men upon-a large scale. He proceeded to Roscommon,
where, for want of funds, the poorhouse was in danger
of being closed, and his wish was to keep open every-
thing that could benefit the poor. Returning from this
charitable duty, he was marked by two assassins, who
fired at him at a little after six o'clock in the evening, at
about four miles from Strokestown. One piece missed
fire, but the other took effect, lodging a heavily loaded
discharge in the breast ; the victim exclaimed—' 0 God,'
and spoke no more. The unfortunate gentleman was of
high family, and connected by intermarriages with the
Duke of Wellington ; he succeeded about three years
ago to an estate of £lO,OOO or £12,000 a year, which had
belonged to Lord Hartland, a lunatic. As the property
was under the tender care of the Irish Court of Chancery,
it had been very badly managed, with an immense pauper
population, and it is said £30,000 arrear of rent. The
manager had for some time been threatened. The tenants
refused either to pay the rent, to till the land, or to give
it up. It was the plain duty of a proprietor to check a
state of things fraught with misery and death to the still
increasing, still impoverished mass.
DREADFUL, ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Thursday
Mr. D. Fitzpatrick, tailor, proceeded to the house of Dr.
Baldwin, whose son was indebted to him for clothes.
Repeated application had been made for the amount, and
at length legal proceedings were taken ; and, on the above
day, the writ was attempted to be served. On reaching
the house, Mr. Fitzpatrick was told that the young gen-
tleman could not be seen—he was shooting. The writ,
however, was served on one of the-servants, and Mr. F.
left and was returning to Macroom. In a few minutes
after he had left the residence, a shot was tired from it.

He had not proceeded much further on the outside car,
on which he was returning, when three men overtook
him : one had a flail, the second a loaded whip, and the
third a heavy stick, and they quickly evinced their object
by a combined and furious attack on Mr. Fitzpatrick,
characterised by that murderous and unrelenting cruelty,
which too often distinguishes the peasantry of this coun-
try. The car was stopped, Mr. Fitzpatrick was forcibly
dragged off, and beaten to that degree that he was left for
dead on the road. The driver of the car had made off.
Having wreaked their vengeance on Mr. Fitzpatrick, they
left him lying on the road in a pool of blood ; but one of
the miscreants, imagining that he had not been suffi-
ciently punished, returned and beat him over the body
with the flail. Having remained motionless for some
time on the road, his senses returned, and with difficulty
he was able to crawl to the car, the horse of which fortu-
nately remained on the spot, and thus got into Macroom,
where Dr. M'Sweenv's assistant kindly proceeded to dress
the wound. While thus endeavouring to reach Macroom
on the car, a fourth man struck him on the back with a
heavy stone. Mr. Fitzpatrick was subsequently brought
to his father's residence in this city, where he now lies in
a perilous condition.—Cork Constitution.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.