The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

of peace

IRELAND.

Unless out-door relief be speedily administered by men
-4 for the people, Ireland must become one great
grave-yard for famine's victims.—Newry Examiner.
The Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends
received, by the Cambria, the handsome sum of £7,000,
contributed by the Society in America, for the relief o
the distressed in Ireland.
MURDER IN THE -COUNTY KILKENN‘'
ceived in this town this morning stet_
•_:lerk, together with one of the constabulary, were
nurdered yesterday morning at Kells, county Kilkenr-
-Dublin Evening Herald of Tuesday:
ARRIVAL OF GRAIN AT CORK.—The arrivals es'
laden vessels—maize being.the principal impoi„
port during the last few days, have been as follows :
the 11th, 7 vessels ; 12th, 8 ditto ; 13th, 9 ditto ; 14th
5 ditto. In addition to these, our Cove correspond
announces at least twenty others.—Cork Exami-
The Cork Examiner says :—" There are
prisoners in the county gaol ; and of *'
tenths are in fever—the ' famine fever.-
dinary number of prisoners is principally owing to the
ss, the charges being generally for larceny
ealing."

who fee

A letter re

s that Mr. Prim

existing distre

,nd sheep
The Tip

rary Vindicator says :—" The chapel gates
ishes are posted each Sunday with notices
i persons desirous of disposing of their small farms, and
of quitting them on any terms that may be offered.
Whilst this is the case, the land is idle ; no effort is made
to prepare it for the spring crops ; the landlords, in the
majority of cases, either Will not or cannot interfere."
GOOD EXAMPLE.—We understand that the Messrs.
Keating, of Sylvanpark and Cabra, have raised the rate
of wages to their labourers from 10d to 13d per day. The
peasantry, to mark their gratitude for this act of season-
able thoughtfulness on the part of the Messrs. Keating,
lit bonfires on Sunday night last, at Fordstown, where
Mr. J. Keating holds a farm.—Meath Herald.

in many pa
f

- .
RENTAL OF'ARELAND.—A return of the aggregate net
ntal of all Ireland as assessed to the poor-rate of the

several unions, has been made by the Irish poox-law com-
missioners, in obedience to an order of the House of
Commons. According to this return, the aggregate net

he poor-rate,

is £13,187,421 6s. 8d

ARRIVALS OF CORN AT Cortx.—There have been fur-
ther very extensive arrivals of bread-stuffs at Cork, chiefly
Indian corn, from New York, Vienna, Lisbon, Oporto,
Genoa, and Leghorn. The Cove Shipping List announces
the arrival of upwards of twenty vessels, with bread-stuffs,

including two cargoes of wheat from Marseilles. Indian
corn declined £1 per ton in the Cork market on Satur-

dred persons, including men, women, and children, will
take their departure from Sligo upon Monday next, per
the Rover steamer. They are all emigrants, who, in
despair of obtaining a living in this wretched land, are
about trying their fortunes, with little means—many of
them without any—in a distant country beyond the seas.
—Sligo Champion.

MULLINGAR, MARCH 18.—I am sorry to say the corn
market here to-day was beyond the market price in Dub-
lin, on Tuesday, according to your quotations—Oats, 965.
per barrel ; oatmeal, 28s. to 295. per cwt. ; this is owing
to the great demand for seed, as I am happy to say the
sowing is getting on far better than was expected, but it
raises provisions feaxfully.—Correspondent of the Dublin
Evening Mail.

EMIGRATION FROM WATERFORD.—We are informed,
on the authority of a highly respectable gentleman from
the county of Waterford, that upwards of two hundred
tenants of the Duke of Devonshire, in that county, have

spring to America. They are solvent and snbstantial
farmers, and, therefore, of the class which .Ireland can
least afford to lose, and furnish, we fear, an index to those
from-among whose ranks emigration is likely to prevail.—

Cork Reporter

JUST ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ssizes for the

county of Donegal, just terminated at Lifford, the grand
jury entered the following resolution in their order book :
Resolved,—That the grand jury of the county of Do-
negal, assembled at the Spring Assizes, 1847, cannot se-
parate without expressing their grateful sense of the sym-
pathy so liberally displayed by the people of England
towards the distressed state of this country, and stating
their conviction, that without reference to country, dis-
tres,. land did not

was never proved to exist that Eng
hasten to its relief."

PRIESTLY TYRANNY

:1
_correspondent of t

Kerry Post says—" The man (Mahon'y), who Was—sC
violently used by the Rev. George O'Sullivan, P.P., a
described in your paper of Saturday last has carried hip
complaint before Bishop Hegan. He has served three
processes on his reverence for the amount of 1
and has summoned him and his assistants for
and forcible entry. If the priest does not sue(

As loan

1 in hav-

ing the matter compromised, there will be a nice expose
of his violent and tyrannical conduct ; not to say a word
about the worst, the money part of the transaction."

tWFUL STATE OF DESTITUTION IN CASTLEREA

correspondent in Castlerea states—" That the number of
deaths not only i❑ the town, but for miles around, and

also in the workhouse, is truly appalling. The deaths in
the house, for the last week, exceed 50 ! The poor people
are nearly dead before they obtain, or probably seek, ad-
mission. Their principal object appears to he that of ob-
taining coffins. There are upwards of 1,100 in the house,
830 of whom are ill of dysentery or fever ! ! The medi-
cal officer, Dr. M'Tucker, has resigned—the matron, wife
.of the•cleceased. manter, .continues -ill,- and-her-death is
hourly expected.—Boyle Gazette.

TH-E EARLY WHEAT.-We regret to say that a portion
of the early wheat crop has been destroyed by the grub,
and that in several instances in Louth and Meath farmers
are ploughing their land again for the reception of another
crop. This news will tend to stimulate the American
farmers to sow more largely still. We hope that the in-
jury is not of an extensive nature, as we have seen some
beautiful and luxuriant fields in the neighbourhood. To

the farmer and cottier we say, sow as great breadth of
turnips as you possibly can. Several fields about this
town are already let in conacre for that purpose. If this
advice be followed. it will be a preventative against the
future scarcity.—Drogheda Conservative.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—There was the usual miserable
gathering at Conciliation-hall on Monday. The promised
letter of Mr. Daniel O'Connell was not forthcoming, and
in its stead was read another interminable epistle from the
hon. member for Kilkenny, who, in reference to the state
of his father's health, assures Mr. Ray that the accounts
have for the last four days been of a character greatly to
strengthen the hope that a change of climate for a few
months will re-invigorate and enable him once more to
labour for the country he so dearly loves. his medical
attendants counsel his immediate departure for the south

of Europe, and cheer his family with the hope of his re-
turn in renewed health before autumn. The rent for the
week amounted to £27 4s. 9d.

CATTLE EXPORTS.—A most remarkable falling off has
taken place in the export of cattle, pigs, &c., from this
country to England, within a short time back. During
the last two months the number of pigs shipped in the
'Cork Steam Ship Company's vessels from this port, was
exactly ten thousand less than for the corresponding
period last year. There has been also a great falling off
in the exports of horned cattle and sheep. One of the
most extensive firms in this city, engaged in the export

cattle trade, has recently given up altogetL
its attention to the import grain and :provision trade,
for which purpose one of the firm has proceeded to New
York, as its representative in that market.—Cork Re-

her, anc

poser.
A man named Donoghue died of starvation some ten or
twelve days back at Corran, in the county of Cork, leaving
a widow and three children. The poor widow had in a
box a small piece of bread, and not more than half a stone
of flour for them. On Thursday, the mother and eldest
child left the house, and the two other children in charge

of it ; one seven, the other four years old. She went to
seek a basket of turf, and the child took a vessel to bring
home soup. In their absence some person came to the

are au worx, and not only took the small piece of bread
and trifle of flour he found there, hut, horrid to relate
(probably being known to the children, and fearing they
might denounce him), he not only cut their throats, but
nearly severed their heads from their bodies.

TILE WHEAT CROP IN 141EATit.—A correspondent of
the Drogheda Argus of Saturday writes as follows :
" I regret to learn that several farmers in this district have
a necessity of ploughing up fields of wheat ; indeed I
Haw some fields. which after the late frost and snow had

March 23, 1847.

A " CROCK" OF GoLn.—This interesting object of the
search of all road-makers, foundation-diggers, old IDen
and old women—haunters of ruins and dreamers 0'
dreams—has been actually realised near Monivea, in file
county of Galway, as we are informed on the authority °t.
the Rev. Lowry M'Clintock, secretary of the relief coin'
mittee. of that distr

Whilst some people were em".
I"yed in making a new road in the neighbourhood under
f act, a crock, containing a considerable number
_
;"—was turned up by
'f to the gold, dividing

the rel
of coir

Le of the !Tien, w

are guineas of the reign of George 111., beari

I the number is

twenty

the public-wor
with the utmo

have amounted from
y, perhaps, to add, that
district are

PUBLIC WORE

year, two lay

)ini on

-A baronet, the

this week to be placer
Works. Captain Farren, government officer, is in poi
session of the fact that the Board of Works have been
charged wages for " horses and carts" in Mayo, that never
were engaged on the public "works. An investigation i 5
ordered into the conduct of the check clerks, In one
neighbourhood a check clerk told a man "to drive his
horse and cart up and down the road, and he would enter
him on the pay sheet as working on the road !"—Linter'
ick Chronicle. A gangsman has been dismissed off the
public works in the parish of Kinard, near Kilrush, for
sending some of the workmen employed by the board,
into the garden of a farmer and member of the commit-
tee, and allowing them to be checked for that day's work
and paid by the board, as though they lied been working
the entire day under his charge.—Clare Journal.

ice, have Mad

-pplication
I inspecting officers by the Board of

IMPORTATION OF FOOD INTO CORK.—OR Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, we had the satisfaction of an-
nouncing the arrival into one harbour of no less than 45
vessels, laden with grain and every description of bread--
stuffs. We have to-day to point attention to the e.xtree
ordinary large imports since our last importation, men-
tioned in our Cove note. Among them are four cargoes
of wheat, two do. of corn, and one of nuts, from Mar'
seilles. Three cargoes of flour, meal, and Indian corn
from New York; one do. from Philadelphia; two do.
wheat from Odessa; one of barley, and one of Indian
corn, from Trieste ; one do. beans from Alexandria - four do.lndian corn from Viana ; two do. do. from email;
two do. do. from Vigo ; three do. do. from Canimbo ; and
one do. do. each from Oporto, San Sebastians Lehor°'
Cephalonia, Corfu, Venice, Constantinople, Valerie's'
Gilboa, and Corunna—making in all thirty-eight cargoe3
fromV__ 1 •

:ove correS-

w AlOnday inclusive.
pondent adds that "several foreign vessels have also ar-
rived, but from the severity of the gale could not be
boarded."—Southern Reporter.
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE COUNTRY AND THE POrtk
LATION OF MAYO.—A correspondent of the Manchester
Express, thus describes the scenery and the people of
the above unfortunate county :—What muse what
ration shall I invoke in writing of Mayo ? I question
even fable has yet imagined a muse, or patron saint, Or
pen-and-ink spirit, able to gather into a writer's brain all
the matter of Mayo from which ideas may be drawn old
at the writer's finger ends._ It is at once the most wag'

nificent and most mean of Irish shires. Its mountains
and islands rise out of lakes and bays to the sublimation
of altitude ; the wall-like rocks, founded deeper in the
ocean than fathom line can reach, rise a thousand feet io
upright majesty, with mountains one thousand and three
hundred feet enthroned above them. In caves beneath
those mountains, and in passages open from the top, and
so deep that the spiritual daylight hardly finds its way
down, the tides of the ocean, as if lost and imprisoneof
roll and roar in their prisons, and ceaselessly work at,
gnaw at, and knock upon the rocks until they waste theal
away, and again make passages to the open sea. 110;
narrow m tin t blue ocean from hence to the wester!,
horizon, where the great ships of America and of Ea'
gland are as small as lairds-I;ke small birds on the edges
of their nest the setting sun, it is but a narrow border o',
blue. But heavens, what a depth to look down into that
sea, a thousand feet below us ! And to be able to leap
into it ! " You cannot gaze a minute, without an awfui
wish to plunge within it." Look at this pointed rock,
long narrow stone abutting out and over the gulf, We!e
the tides hold tumult so far down that you can hardly se:
them ; a creature of flesh and blood, body and soul, wit!'
hands and feet creeping out on the narrow rock on pe
tent knees, to bend his head over the rock, round i
kiss its farthest point for grace and fo-o-iv.t.noo

• ••
.erve ! you have done it ;
Your brother and aister, with
ether, with less sin mayhap,
down—are down. The ocean 111'
more spirits, and the priest To°ll,
mixture of the savage and the subliT,
a fearful interest to more rocks
nan One on the west coast of Mayo. But there is a a"'
which is no legend that we must submit to ; a rluitiej
which we must make from the montains of Mayo, with.
high
all their grandeur of ocean, of islands, deep bays,
headlands, lakes, waterfalls, fertile meadows, and green'
ness which knows no withering ; we must plunge frool
the grand and the beautiful in the inanimate works
to the most degraded and farthest lost of Pre-
-the men made after God's own image. There
they are; all that remains of them in Mayo, living wiliw.
the worms live, in holes of the earth; crawling as
worms crp-

iron in them, or le

inore wreck, eternity

in this legend, which gi'

v 1; but dying of shere hunger and helplessil.t;
in their clay holes, where even a worm would do somethN,
to preserve its own life and pwirdrgritfic4rvith 1101.
They-move* not- band In. foot
_de

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—Tit ÜBAD
AY
The business transacted yesterday was on a halite('
scale, barely sufficient indeed, to warrant a quotatil
The only horses in any demand were Halo and the Euch,
colt for the Northampton Handicap, and the Liberator it
the Derby. The prices agreed with those laid on Wes,;,
nesday at Warwick, where Pavilion is also stated to ha
been in force. _ Closing quotations :

NORTH:IAiPTON HANDICAP.

6 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Euclid colt (taken).
6 1 The Duke of Richmond's Halo (taken'
7 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Dolefull.
12 1 Mr. Mostyn's Queen Mary.
15 1 Mr. Moore's Watchdog.
20 1 Mr. O'Brien's Lord Saltoun.

2,000 GUINEAS STARES.
7 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator (taken)
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
Mr. J Day's Bourton.
Mr. Ramsbottom's Pineapple.
CHESTER CUP.
18 to 1 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Antler (taken).
30 1 Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free.
1000 —ls Mr. Payne's Queen Mab.

20 to 1 agst
25 1

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote (taken).
'5 1 —Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham (taken).
1 —Mr, O'Brien's Liberator (taken). ko
-20-- Mr. Stephenson's Black Dwarf (ta
4 or 5 times).
50 1 Mr. Holmes's Pavilion (take 1000 to 15)
1404) —2s—Mr. Fuller's Oxonian (taken).
_f
Colonel Peel has named his b. f. by Touchstone, out u
Malibran, 2 yrs, " Jenny Lind," and his b. f. by
out of Hester, 2 yrs " Lola Mo t
His Grace the Dike of Richm noenzd and Mr. Gratwicke
are declared to be confederates on the turf.
BF'"

BETTING IN MANCHESTER ON FRlDitin of
The Trial Stakes at Warwick occupied the atten.,::igs
good muster " below stairs" on Wednesday. Tileu-iler
lance. The reported " nO"'"
inner-8 to 1 was laid agatn,,st,,dish

are now of little import
horse seems to be the wi

—.czuay there was a guu-ire
attendance, but little done. Sting for the Nevin:lBl's
Handicap rose to 100 to 8 (taken), closing with 40 to.o
(taken) ; Pavilion for the Derby was backed at 50 to 1 Ito
•

room ; The Magnet (late Mr. Hesseitme's
was the " star' of the morning for the run of 11fon01
next ; 2000 to 12 was at first laid out, subsequently 10 tu
pl
ewa takenraasueeof being
t o 0
orhigher£6o a
insothers onebandafawlliothw "followed
everysug,r
Closing prices—

THE NORTHAMPTON TRT/ STAKES.
6 to 4 agst King Morven (token and offered)
2 1 Muter Downes (ditto)
5 2 -- Infringe (taken)