The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL 'STANDARD.

IRELAND.

Lord Clarendon has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of
'lreland.
A grocer of Dublin announces in the papers of that
city that he has whisky on sale, which was drunk by his
Majesty when he was in Ireland.

On Tuesday the Bank of Ireland further advanced the
rate of discount. The rates now are 7 per cent. on Irish
bills, having more than 64 days to run, on the other bills

6k per cent:.
The accounts from the provinces of Ireland, respecting
the growing crops, are very cheering. The corn looks
well and healthy ; potatoes looking promising, and the
green crops are zealously cultivated, and to an extent
which indicates that the peasantry are becoming fully im-
pressed with their value.
The death of the Earl of Besborough furnished a pre-
text for the postponement of the usual weekly meeting of
the half defunct Repeal Association. Some few, however,
met on Tuesday, when the rent was £49. John O'Con-
nell, in noticing a report that they were in a state of
bankruptcy, said it was not true, for they had reduced
their weekly expenses from £3OO to £3O.
Mr. Renny Sheehan, for many years proprietor and edi-
tor of the Dublin Evening Mail, lately died in England.
He was a man of taste and accomplishments, and in the
furious party warfare in which he was engaged he never
forgot the gentleman. With the members of his profes-
sion he was always exceedingly popular, and in promoting
its interests equally liberal.
RUMOURED DEATH OF MR. O'CONNELL.—The Moni-
teur Parisien of Thursday evening contained a paragraph
stating, on the authority of a letter from Nice., that Mr.
O'Connell died upon his arrival at Genoa. The intelli-
gence, though far from improbable, needs confirmation,
however. The last accounts from Genoa merely mention
that he had been indisposed in a way which would compel
him to prosecute his journey to Rome by land.
COMPLIMENTARY LANGUAGE.—UpOR a recent occa-
sion in Dublin, a Mr. Thomas Reynolds said, " There
was one wooden-headed fellow named Collett, of Athlone,
as mutton-headed a fellow as any that could be found,
even in the House of Commons. Well, I asked Mr. Col-
lett
to go down to the house and vote for the Dublin Im-
provement Bill ; and what do you think was his excuse ?
can't, says he, for I am going to hear Jenny Lind.'
And this fellow who does not actually know a note of
music, assigns this as his reason for neglecting his solemn
duty. I hope the electors of Athlone will give him ample
time to see Jenny Lind as often as he pleases."
On Monday as Mr. James Watson, of Millbrook, near
Killaloe, brother to the editor of the Limerick Cnronicle,
and agent to Mr. Purdon, of Tinnerana, and Mr. Arthur,
of Glenomera, was proceeding to the latter place, about
ten o'clock, to hold an office there, when he was fired at,
not many perches from his gate, by two villains ; but
they missed him: his horse, it is supposed (for no infor-
mation that can be depended on will any one give who
saw the transaction), started at the shots, and threw him,
when the assassins beat him about the head and body in
a frightful manner, and broke their guns on his head,
which is badly fractured, and he to this moment is still
insensible ; but little hopes of his recovery are entertanined
by his medical attendants.

DEATHS FROM DROW NINE.—On Wednesday H. Lipsett,
Esq., of Ballyshannon, and Captain Drake, of the 92d
Highlanders, stationed there, went to have a sail down
the channel, in the captain's pleasure-boat. They had
with them one boatman, and a police serjeant. After
having gone near the bar, and put the serjeant ashore,
they were making homewards, when a sudden gust of
wind upset the craft, and all had to make the struggle for
the shore. Mr. Lipsett and Captain Drake could make
but little exertion, as they were encumbered with great
coats; but the boatman in his jacket, succeeded in reach-
ing the land. At the time no boats were near, and the
only person who witnessed the awful scene was a little
boy, angling, at some distance. A particular search was
made all night, but the boat and two hats only were to
be seen.

—A turbulent spirit has broken out into overt
acts in several parts of Clare, Limerick, and Cork coun-
ties. On Monday, the police-station at Ardnacrusha, on
the Clare side of the Shannon, was besieged by a mob of
600 men ; who bad demolished the soup-kitchen ! The
police fired, and so drove off the mob ; which threatened
to return. Two companies of Infantry, a troop of the Bth
Hussars, and a troop of Horse Artillery, were sent from
Limerick. Troops had been sent to Kildysart, lower down
the Shannon. At Mealick, within two miles of Limerick,
assembled 10,000 men, " ail armed with knives," (!) and
they threatened to kill all the cattle, declaring that they
would never accept out-door relief. At Castlemartyr, in
Cork county, the residence of the Earl of Shannon, the
people began to demolish a bridge, but were driven away
by troops. At Cloyne, the military were needed to sup-
press a tumult. Preference for public works in lieu of
" relief " appears to be the motive to these rebellious
crimes. In Galway, Kerry, and Tipperary, there have
been outbreaks among the labourers recently discharged
from the public works.
THE FEVER.—The following letter, from a corres-
pondent of the Dublin Packet, gives a picture not to be
excelled by any horrid scene in De Foe's History of the
Plague in London :"—" It is my duty to communicate the
deaths of two excellent gentlemen, Dr. Soden, of the
Mohill workhouse, and the Rev. James Flyn, curate of
the adjoining parish. The lives of the clergy and medical
men are hourly perilled in the discharge of their onerous
duties. The pestilential disease which you have so fre-
quently described, and raised your warning voice against,
is making giant strides in this and the adjoining barony.
Human corpses are commonly passing through this po-
pulous town tied on the backs of asses, the head hanging
at one side and thefeet at the opposite side of the quad-
ruped, attended not unfrequently by one poor emaciated
individual carrying a spade, who places the dead a little
below the surface. Women are often seen covering their
dead infants with earth gathered with their hands.
What will become of us when the warm weather shall set
in God only knows." This frightful record is from the
fertile county of Leitrim, from whence so little complaint
of scarcity was heard till an advanced period of the famine
in other counties. The estate of Skibbereen, Bantry, and
other districts in the south of Cork, appears to be lament-
able in the extreme.
MORTALITY IN THE WORKHOUSES.—The Dublin
Journal of Friday publishes the report of the Poor
Law Commissioners, relative to the operation of the poor
law in Ireland, which contains some fearfully interesting
particulars respecting the progress of disease and mortality
in Ireland. It appears on reference to the report, that
while the total nnmber of deuths which occurred in the
union workhouses in Ireland, for the week ending the 4th
of April 1846, amounted to 159; the total number who
died in the week ending the 3d April in the present year
amounted to 2,706. A more fearful fact still is the large in-
crease of sickness, and the large proportion of fever. The
number of inmates had a little more than doubled, the
numbers being on the 4th of April, 1846-50,861; and on
the 3d April, 1847-106,888 ; but the numbers in the hospi-
tals increased from 8,121 to 28,239, while the numbers in
the fever hospitals increased from 864 to the fearful num-
ber of 8,931 ! the most alarming fact disclosed by these re-
turns is the rate of mortality which now exists, and its
rapid increase since last November. In April, 1846,
the weekly rate of mortality was 3 in every 1,000 inmates.
In November it showed a decided tendency to rise.
During the four weeks of December it ran up from 7-4 to
8-6, then to 10-3, and then to 11. In January, 1847, it
was 12-2 the first week, 13-3 the last. In March it
ranged from 22 to 20, and in April it rose to 25—twenty-
five out of every thousand died in the last week for which
there is a return.

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