The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Saturday night, a gentleman, named 111`Donnell,
fell from the top of the Rock Ferry and Belfast mail coach,
and was killed.

Sir David Roche, whilst returning on Tuesday, from
Limerick Assizes, where he had been a grand juror, was
fired at, but not injured. The assassin escaped.
Archbishop M'Hale has published a pastoral address,
which appears in the Freeman's Journal. Its object is to
represent the potato pestilence as a punishment inflicted
by Providence for the national sin committed in estab-
lishing liberal colleges.
CONVERSIONS PROM ROMANISNI.—Gn Sunday week,
the Rev. William Davock. a Romish Priest, and ten
ether respectable persons, formally abjured the errors of
Popery, in St. Audoen's Church Dublin. The first Sun-
day in May is fixed for receiving another company of
converts.

SAVAGE ATTACK.—On Monday night, John Westley,
steward to George Fosbery, Esq., was walking the avenua
of Curragh Bridge, when a party of seven ruffians fired a
shot at him, after which they apologised, and said that it
was intended for his young master, whom they thought
they would have met near the gate. The shot passed
close to his head, but the poor man gladly admitted their
exc use.

POVERTY AND ILLEGITIMACY IN IRELAND. The to-
tal number of unions in Ireland is 130, in 11 of which the
workhouses were not open in the half year ended Sept.
29, 1845. In the other unions there are 119 workhouses
which were open in the period mentioned. It seems that
in the six months ending Sept. 1845, as many as 2,091
women, having illegitimate children, were relieved, and
the number of illegitimate children relieved was 3,688.

THE POOR.—The accounts from the Work House are
worse and worse. Every week adds to the number of
applicants to the board and of patients in the hospital.
Two thousand five hundred paupers in a house not in-
tended for 2,000 ! Of these only 717 in hospital, 57 in the
Fever Hospital, with 28 lunatics ; Where is it to end ?
And with the price of potatoes rising and the quantity di-
minishing, how are those poor who have heretofore con-
tinued to maintain themselves outside, to command food
sufficient for the support of life?—Cork Constitution,
The repeaters are still demanding an account of the
expenditure of the " rent." Their organ, the Nation,
now openly avows that the account ought no longer to be
withheld. These repeated calls are making an impression
on the public mind, and are creating alarm in the repeal
camp. A " Roman Catholic Priest" unequivocally,
though not very wisely, claims for O'Connell, personally,
the exclusive and unquestioned right of disposing, to his
own purposes. or to any other which he may please, the
whole sum of £127,869, subscribed to the repeal fund
within the last five years.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM.—In Limerick and the King's
County there was a perfect hurricane on Wednesday morn-
ing, equal to that on the memorable 6th of January, 1839.
Several houses were injured. The inhabitants fled in ter-
ror from their abodes. The Dublin mail coach was de-
layed two hours by the obstruction of prostrate trees. A
Scotch brig was driven on store at Kilrush ; and the
Leader, of Bristol, was supposed to be lost off Sloop-head,
with all hands. At Corli, in consequence of the heavy
rains, the water was so deep that the inhabitants went
about in boats, at Mallow, the river Blackwater, rose
eighteen feet above its level. The water in the streets was
four feet deep, and the roofs of several houses fell in.
FATAL RIOT.—On Tuesday, the election of a member
of parliament for the county of Mayo commenced, and
several awful riots took place, owing to the outrageous
conduct of the repeal party. A party of freeholders—
supposed to be in favour of the anti-repeal candidate—
were approaching the county town node/ the escort of a
party of the 30th regiment. That the protection of this
escort was absolutely necessary to the freedom of election,
is obvious from the fact, that ere the freeholders reached
the hustings, they were attacked by a waylaying party
from behind a wall, and violently assailed with stones and
other missiles, with the intent of keeping them away from
the poll. This attack was of such violance and continu-
ance that the stipendiary magistrate at last found both
the necessity and the time for reading the Riot Act; and
—the assailants not desisting during the lengthened period
which must elapse between reading the act and the forcible
dispersion of the mob—the military escort, as a measure
of self-defence, and with the sanction of the stipendiary
magistrate, was obliged to fire upon the assailants. The
immediate consequence was that a woman (for, by the in-
structions of Mr. O'Connell, women are always present
up ,n such occasions to spit upon the opponents) was shot
dead, as was also a boy, twelve years old. One of the
ringleaders was dangerously wounded in the thigh, and
several others were much hurt.

THE POTATO.—The Morning Chronicle, now that the
majority has been obtained, candidly, but we think not
wisely, admits that tine factious cry of famine raised in
Ireland, and the casufil, though partial, disease in the po-
tato crop, have been powerful auxiliaries in effecting the
Repeal of the Corn-laws. Our contemporary does not
express himself in these precise words—on the contrary,
as in duty bound, he fondly ascribes the triumph to the
League; but. truth like murder " will out ;" and we think
the real conviction on the writer's mind may be gathered
from the following sentence.—" The potato famine in
Ireland would never have brought us (England) Repeal
of the Corn-law, but for Mr. Cobden, and the mighty
League he had organized to take advantage of every grow-
ing circumstance." Just so. Here is a solution of the
whole case and cry. This journal was the first to detect
and expose the motive of those who devised and got up the
uproar. It was got up as a means towards an end—that
end being to bring back the Whigs into power :—one of
" those growing circumstances of which Mr. Cobden and
the League might take advantage." Peel saw this; and
being a greater schemer that any of them, counter-plotted
the party and check mated the'Leaguers. He appropria-
ted the " growing circumstances" to his own purposes ;
and robbed the Whigs even of the " thunder" they had
set rolling for the attainment of their own objects : and
he is still—Prime Minister.—Dublin Mail.

MORE " MARTYRS."—On Wednesday four men were
arraigned at the Longford Assizes, for the wilful murder
of Henry Bergin, at a place called Gowlan, on the night
of the Ist of November. Two of the prisoners only, John
Buchanan and Bernard M'Goey, were put upon their
trial, and after a long and patient investigation, the jury
brought in a verdict of " guilty against both prisoners.
On the day following the two convicts were again put to
the bar, for the purpose of receiving sentence, when the
following frightful scene ensued :—" The Clerk of the
Crown, in the usual manner, asked the prisoners what
they bad to say why sentence of death and execution
should not be passed on them. Both of them knelt down
in the front of the dock, and Buchanan, who appeared to
speak for both of them, said, ' In the sight of God, this
Court, and the Jury, I protest I had not hand, act, nor
part in the murder of Henry Bergin, and may I never see
God, or his angels in heaven, if I murdered him. I for-
give my prosecutors, judge, and jury.' He then entered
into an explanation of how he was occupied in Longford
the day of the murder, and closed with an imprecation
which shocked and made the hair of every person in court
stand on end, that ' Hell may be my doom, and the devil
my angel, if 1 murdered you, Henry Bergin.' After this
he rose, and the Judge in a most feeling manner, in which
he said that no person that bad beard the evidence could
doubt the justness of the verdict, called on them both to
repent, and said he could bold out no hope of clemency to
them, and sentenced them to be hanged. The day named
is Saturday, the 21st of March.'. Such is the horrifying
narrative furnished by the local paper. It will hereafter
excite no surprise if it should turn out that this same Mr.
John Buchanan had been awarded a niche in the temple of
" saints " and "martyrs."

FAMINE-FEVER!
POTATO DISEASE!
STARVATION-MISERY-WANT!

These are alternatetly the texts, says the Dublin Mail,
upon which Mr. O'Connell speaks—these the themes up-
on which his necNspapers write.
Mark the sympathy evinced !
Mark the manner in which the alleged (falsely, we ad-
mit) allegations are met!
"C UNDAY, MARCH THE 15T11,
HAS 'BEEN ADOPTED FOR THE
COLLECTION OF 7'11.E
O'CONNELL TRIBUTE

in all the parishes of the Kingdom, whose contributions
for the year 1845 have not yet been made up.
" It is respectfully hoped that the Friends of Ireland in
every outstanding District will avail themselves of that
appropriate day for liquidating the National Debt for the
past year.
" The several Parochial Contributions acquire an addi-
tional value by being sent in at an early period, and this
will, no doubt, be held in active recollection on the pre-
sent occasion by the patriotic supporters of the Compen-
sation Fund.
" Office. 35, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin."