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

March 23, 1847.

A "CROCK" OF GOLD.—This interesting object of the
search of all road-makers, foundation-diggers, old men
and old women—haunters of ruins and dreamers o',
dreams—has been actually realised near Monivea, in the
county of Galway, as we are informed on the,authority e
the Rev. Lowry M'Clintock, secretary of the relief corn-
mittee of that district. Whilst some people were era'
ployed in making a new road in the neighbourhood under
the relief act, a crock, containing a considerable number. •
of coins—" gold, silver, and brass"—was turned up 131
one of the men, who helped himself to the gold, dividing
the meaner coins amongst his friends. The gold coins
are guineas of the reign of George 111., bearing the date
1791, and the number is said to have amounted from
fifteen to twenty. It is unnecessary, perhaps, to add, that
the public works in that particular district are going 00
with the utmost briskness and alacrity !—Mail.
JOBBING ON THE PUBLIC WORKS.—A baronet, the
heir apparent of £6.000 a year, two lawyers, and three
doctors, in considerable practice, have made application
this week to be placed inspecting officers by the Board of
Works. Captain Fairen, government officer, is in pos..
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 is
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 !" Limer-
ick Chronicle. A gangsman has been dismissed off the
public works in the parish of Killard, near Kiktish, 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 hed been working
the entire day under his charge.—Clare Journal.
IMPORTATION OF FOOD INTO CORK.—On 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 extra-
ordinary large imports since our la't 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. Indian corn from Viana ; two do. do. from Carril;
two do. do. from Vigo ; three do. do. from Canimbo • and
one do. do. each from Oporto' San Sebastians Leghorn,
Cephalonia, Corfu, 'Venice, Constantinople, Valencia,
Bilboa, and Corunna—making in all thirty-eight cargoes
from Saturday to Monday inclusive. Our Cove corres-
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 POPU-
LATION OF MAYO.—A correspondent of the Manchester
Express, thus describes the scenery and the people of
the above unfortunate county :—What muse, what inspi-
ration shall I invoke in writing of Mayo ?I question if
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 out
at the writer's finger ends. It is at once the most mag-
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 thanfathom line can reach. rise a thousand feet in
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 imprisoned,
roll and roar in their prisons, and ceaselessly work at,
gnaw at, and kncck upon the rocks until they waste theta
away, and again make passages, to the open sea. How
narrow aic the t blue ocean from hence to the western
horizon, where the great ships of America and of En-
gland are as small as birds-I:ke smail birds on the edges
of their nest the setting sun, it is but a narrow border of
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 awful
wish to plunge within it." Look at this pointed rock, n
long narrow stone abutting out and over the gulf, were
the tides hold tumult so far down that you can -hardly see
them ; a creature of flesh and blood, body and soul, with
hands and feet creeping out on the narrow rock on peni-
tent knees, to bend his head over the rock, round it,- and
kiss its farthest point for grace and forgiveness ! Well
done, sinner of the strong,nerve ! you have done it ; you
may return and sin again. Your brother and aister, with
less iron in them, or less ether, with less sin mayhap, are
giddy—going—gone—down—are down. The ocean; has
more wreck, eternity has more spirits, and the priest more
pence. There is a mixture of the savage and the sublime
in this legend, which gives a fearful interest to more rocks
than one on the west coast of Mayo. But there is a fall
which is no legend that we must submit to ; a plunge
which we must make from the montains of Mayo, with all
all their grandeur of ocean, Of islands, deep bays, high
headlands, lakes, waterfalls, fertile meadows, and green
ness which knows no withering ; we must plunge front .
the grand and the beautiful in the inanimate works otl
nature, to the most degraded and farthest lost of her
works—the men made after God's own image. The__.T'
they are; all that remains of them in Mayo, living whery,
the worms live, in holes of the earth ; crawling as. tljo,
worms crawl ; but dying of shere hunger and helplessn...,
in their clay holes, where even a worm would do somen
to preserve its own life and provide its hold wifTi hei
They move not hand or foot for that purpose.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S—THuRsi)kv

The business transacted yesterday was on a limited
scale, barely sufficient indeed, to warrant a quotation.
The only horses in any demand were Halo and the Euclid.
colt for the Northampton Handicap, and the Liberator for
the Derby. The prices agreed with those laid on Wed-
nesday at Warwick, where Pavilion is also stated to 100
been in force. Closing quotations :

NORTHAMPTON HANDICAP.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Euclid colt (taken)

The Duke of Richmond's Iralo (taken
Mr. Gratwicke's Dolefull.
Mr. Mostyn's Queen Mary.
Mr. Moore's Watchdog.
Mr. O'Brien's Lord Saltoun.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberatof (taken).
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 agst Mr. J Day's Bourton.
25 1 Mr. Ramsbottom's Pineapple.

6 -
7 -
12 -
15 -

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.