The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

RESIGNATION OF MR. SA.DLIER.—The Dublin Even-
ing Mail, of Friday, says, " We are enabled to state that
Mr. John Sadlier has seat in his resignation to Lord
Aberdeen as a Lord of the Treasury.
AN ACCIDENT occurred on the Waterford and Limerick
Railway, near Clonmel, on Saturday. The carriages ran
off the lines, the engine driver was killed, the stoker's
arm broken, and the guard and some passengers slightly
bruised.

DEATH FROM WHISKEY DBINKING.—A large farmer
named Crothers, living near Poyntzpass, expired, after a
week's drinking, on Thursday last ; and a half-witted man
named Hunt, who followed a wedding party to Magherry,
got so much whiskey to drink from them that he expired
on his way home.

CoNvICr DEPOTS.-Sir John Young, Chief Secretary,
Major Larcom, Captain Kingle, and Mr. C. Connell= are
at present engaged at Dublin Castle, in an investigation
into the working of the convict department in Ireland.
The commissioners have already visited Spike Island,
Philipstown, and Mountjoy Prisons ; and it is said to be
proposed that Clare Island, off the coast off Mayo, shall be
taken as a general depot for convicts in Ireland.
CULTIVATION OF WHEAT.—Accounts from Tipperary
state that all the lands in the south riding of that county
which were under potatoes last year are now sown with
wheat, and that scarcely any land remains unfilled, ex-
cept that which is lying under the late turnips. The
farmers, it would seem from this, are at length tired of
the repeated failures of the potato, and hence the prepara-
tion for the wheat crop as the most profitable substitute
for the old and favourite esculent.
How TO SAVE £2,000 a YEAR.—It is stated that Lord
Waterford has increased his income £2,000 a year under
the following circumstances :—A gentleman possessed of
large funded property, finding the funds decreasing so
rapidly, became alarmed, and applied to Lord Waterford
to know if he would take all his capital at three and a
half per cent. This Lord Waterford has done, and
cleared off his old incumbrances, which were at a higher
rate of interest. The negociations were closed on Friday.
We understand that Lord Waterford will clear £2,000 a
year by the alteration.—Clare Journal.

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DEATH I 1 THE OVEN.—The town and neighbourhood
of Roscrea were thrown into consternation, on Christmas-
day, during Divine service, by intelligence that several
families had been poisoned by whole-meal bread at break-
fast. Medical assistance was immediately rendered the
sufferers, when it was ascertained that they laboured to
an intense degree under the violent symptoms produced
by the seeds (flour) of the bearded darnel rye-grass, com-
monly called ryley, which was mixed with the whole-meal.
Over thirty persons received medical aid, and presented
symptoms as if from intoxication. Remedies having been
applied, on the following morning all the sufferers were
found convalescent, but much debilitated.—Leinster
Express. _

MARITIME PROGRESS OF BELFAST.—The maritime
history of Ulster's capital is quite as illustrative of pro-
gress as that of its manufactures. Little more than sixty
years have passed away since the chief mercantile marine
of Belfast consisted of four brigs, averaging 160 tons each,
and as many sloops of 80 tons each, with some smaller
craft. At the end of 1803 the number of vessels was 67,
and the registered tonnage was about 6,000. Fifty years
afterwards, that is, 1853, we have 453 vessels, with a ton-
nage of 78,231 registered at the port of Belfast; and 25
steamers, trading with sixteen ports. According to the
last returns, the value of the exports from Belfast was
nearly £8,000,000; and that of the imports upwards of
£7,000,000. Revenue collected, £387,200. In 1851 our
exports amounted to £5,000,000, and the imports to
£8,000,000. Revenue collected, £369,ooo.—Belfast
Mercury.
SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—We have
seen an " Occasional Paper," lately published by this
old and valuable institution, and we are glad to perceive
by it that the work of scriptural instruction and the sab-
bath cause continue to make decided progress amongst
the masses of the Irish population, and that new and im-
portant openings are now being afforded for emancipating
them from the spiritual gloom and darkness in which for
centuries they have been involved. We hope that the
friends of the Bible in England will support with increased
liberality a cause involving such important consequences
to the social, intellectual, and spiritual condition of Ire-
land. The paper to which we have referred states that
there are upon the list of this society 3008 schools, con-
taining 224,501 children and adults, who are instructed
by 19,817 gratuitous teachers. In asking for aid the
committee say :—" They would appeal to the friends of
Scriptural instruction for their co-operation and support,
principally upon the following grounds : —Although the
society's influence is spreading widely amongst the Pro-
testant population, yet it is estimated that one-half of
the Protestants between the ages of six and fifteen do
not attend Sunday Schools, the greater portion of whom
are of the humbler classes. The enlarging demands upon
this society in consequence of the spread of Divine truth
amongst the Roman Catholic population. The peculiarly
important position which this society occupies, in con-
tributing its aid to the Scriptural instruction of upwards
of 100,000 children and adults, who do not attend week-
day Schools." This excellent society is presided over by
the Right Hon. the Earl of Roden, and the Rev. Fielding
Ould, of this town, is the recipient of contributions to its
funds.

LIE MEDEA, whose narrow escape from total loss, on
the Lincolnshire coast, was lately reported, was, at the
time of her running aground, in charge of the pilot, who
will be brought to a court-martial. The Medea is ordered
round to Portsmouth to be docked.

AN EXTENSIVE WET DOCK, of 23 acres, in connexion
with the various railways converging at Newcastle, is pro-
posed to be constructed on the north bank of the Tyne,
with a deep water entrance of 23 feet. A similar wet dock
is also proposed to be established in connexion with the
railways of Maryport.
THE CHILENA, a new barque, was launched from the
building-yard of Mr. Thomas Royden,Queen's Dock, Liver-
pool, on Saturday week. She is owned by Messrs. Boyden
and James Tyrer, is intended for the west coast trade, and
will be commanded by Captain Thomas Wakeham, late of
the Geraldine.

THE MURDER AT GIIEBNSEL—The trial of John Chas.
Tapner, a clerk in the Ordnance Office, for the murder of
Mrs. Sanjon and for the subsequent attempt to burn the
body by setting fire to the house, which came on before
the Royal Court at Guernsey, on the 20th ult., has, at
length, been brought to a conclusion, after lasting thirteen
days. The jurats were some time in consultation, and
then unanimously returned a verdict of guilty. The bailiff
then, in a most impressive address, passed sentence of
death on the prisoner in the usual form.
MR SARAH SANDS, as the pioneer of the Portland line
of steamers, was received with the heartiest welcome at
Portland, on the 17th ult. She quitted the Birkenhead
Dock, on Monday, November the 28th, and made the pas-
sage in eighteen days ten hours. She encountered very
rough weather, but under the able management of Captain
Illsley, she did her duty well. The inhabitants hailed her
arrival by the ringing of bells and the firing of guns,
while Captain IlLsley was entertained in brilliant style by
his fellow-townsmen on landing,

MUTINY ON BOARD A. MAN OF WAR IN CHINA...-.
The Overland China Mail of the 11th November, con-
tains the following paragraph :—" We hear there has been
a mutiny on board the flag-ship. It seems that on Tues-
day last the men, who have not had liberty for eighteen
months, sent in a petition on the subject to Admiral Pel-
lew, who immediately ordered the ship to be got ready
for sea. In the evening there was a noise below, when
the drum was beat to quarters, and some of the men re-
fused to come on deck, upon which the officers were
ordered to compel them at the point of the sword, and
in doing so several of the men were severely wounded."

EXTRAORDINARY PUNISHMENT OF A CAPTAIN.—We
have published some and received several other letters on
the subject of the treatment the passengers on board
Messrs. Hall's ship Asia received during their passage
from England to this colony. That the complaints on this
subject are but too well founded there can be but little
doubt, and we should have given full vent to our corre-
spondent's indignation thereupon, but that all that can be
done, and a good deal more than ought to be done, in the
way of punishing the captain, has already been done.
Captain Howes, being convicted of divers breaches of the
Passenger Act, at the Williamstown Police-court, was
fined for them in the aggregate amount of £l,BOO. In
default of payment of the enormous fine imposed upon him,
Captain Howes has been condemned to a series of terms
of imprisonment, amounting altogether to nearly thirty
years. This tremendous sentence has begun to take effect.
We shall certainly take care that Captain Howes is not so
lost sight of; but now that the council is sitting we would
urge upon some philanthropic member publicly to question
the government as to what has been done and what is to
be done with regard to this very extraordinary case.—
Melbourne Morning Herald, Sept. 10.
AN Excirrue Scarts.—On Saturday evening, Mr.
Driesbach, the Lion King, while exhibiting his feats in a
den which contained several wild animals, at the Broad-
way Menagerie, was attacked by one of them (a large
Brazilian tiger), which sprang upon him, knocked hint
down, and fastened his teeth in his breast. A lioness
sprang to the assistance of her master, but, unfortu-
nately, struck him a powerful blow in the chest which
she intended for the tiger, and thus made the matter
worse. One of the keepers then opened the door of the
cage and dragged Mr. Driesbach out. He was imme-
diately attended by a physician, who found that only
flesh wounds had been inflicted, and those not of a dan-
gerous character. The audience were highly excited
during the time the scene was enacting. This is the first
time in two months that the tiger has been exhibited,
and it is probable that the glare of the gaslights rendered
him confused and excited. He was always looked upon
by Mr. Driesbach as one of his pet animals, and as ex-
tremely tame and docile.—New York Paper.
THE COURT AND CABINET.—A great outcry has
been raised within the last few days, by several of our
contemporaries, especially those of the Radical school,
against an alleged unconstitutional influence over the
foreign policy of this country, which is, in terms not to
be misunderstood, attributed to the illustrious Prin,:ewig
stands nearest to the throne. Whether the insinuations
question have their origin,'n the instinctive desire ot. the
Radicals to damage the Monarchy, or whether they are
a Ithrnsry for
t
designed to divert public indignation from
turally anxious,
the maintenance of which Radicals arem
Tre favourable to
because they are not likely to get one
I either case we doubt
Radical views, it is difficult to sa3'. bring odium upon the
not that the mischievous attemptt .0 .
Prince Consort, and indirectlY to impairthe confidence of the
people in Queen Victoria herself, will be appreciated by the
good sense of theEnglish people as it deserves to be.
take upon interfere
That Prince Albert should himself to B
Hey of the ri ish Empire, and to
with the foreign Po
invade at once the pretive of the Sovereign, and the
!vga
re' )onsible advisers, province of the Queens siStill less is the a suppo-
sition not to be tolera insinuation to
be endured, that his Royal Highness is acting the part so
attributed
to him, under the influence, and in the interest,
of foreign Courts, and specifically of the Russian Court,
and that he proceeds even to the length of betraying the
secrets of the British Cabinet to the Courts of the Conti-
nent. Conduct so palpably unconstitutional—nay, so trea-
sonable—is not thus lightly to be imputed to a Prince
who, ever since he has been amongst us, has given ample
proof of his being attached, heart and soul, to the inte-
rests of his adopted country ; and if we have summed up
the charges against his Royal Highness, as we find them
variously set forth in the columns of our contemporaries.
we have done so for the purpose of denouncing them as
deperYing of utter reprobativu.---John Bull.