The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Cork papers still report large arrivals of bread stuffs
at that port.
Several of the guardians of the Tipperary Union have
caught the prevailing fever, and one is dead.
Captain Drury, who was employed in Ireland assisting
the Board of Works, has fallen a victim to the famine
fever in the district of Kinsale.

The Rev. Dr. Traill, with whose exertions on behalf of
the starving population of Skibbereen the public is now
well acquainted, died on Wednesday of disease caught in
visiting the wretched people.
THE IRISH FAMINE.—The coroners of Cork have de-
clared their determination not to hold inquests on the
bodies of persons dying in the streets from want and fever,
in order to avoid the great expense of such innumerable
inquests.
MURDER. BY A BOY.—A lad about fifteen years of age
has been committed to Dundalk gaol, for the wiiful mur-
der of a boy aged twelve, by fracturing his skull with a
bill-hook. The boys worked together, and the only rea-
son alleged for the offence is that the offender was afraid
the other boy would tell of his stealing his employers eggs.
The condition of Cork, which physically continues to
be as depressed as ever, promises, I am happy to perceive
by late accounts, a better future. The crops are in
a most flourishing condition, and in the neighbourhood of
Cork rye was already reaping upon Saturday week... Added
to this, on the same day, new potatoes, of excellent quality
and fair size, wore on sale in the market.
The recent arrivals of grain to Limerick are immense.
During the last week there were entered from foreign
ports not less than 4,500 barrels of flour and 10,000 qrs.
of Indian corn and meal, and since Saturday last no fewer
than thirty-three vessels had arrived, with either whole
or part cargoes of food. Several of those vessels were
from home-ports, and of these latter the arrivals from
London and Scotland brought large quantities of seeds.

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FATAL. ROCKITE AFFRAY.—On Wednesday night a
party of four armed Rockites attacked the house of a far-
mer named Crowe, residing near Doon, on the estate of
Lord Stanley. They knocked at the door and demanded
fire-arms, when Crowe rose from his bed, desired the
fellows to wait awhile, and having aroused and armed his
servant-boy, appeared at the windows, and each fired
into the . group. One of the Rockites fell dead on the
spot—a second was severely wounded, and the two others
instantly made off.
A MONSTER GRAVE.—Some idea of the dreadful mor-
tality now prevalent throughout our city may be formed
from the fact that; yesterday there were no fewer than
thirty-six bodies interred in one grave, or pit, in the
pauper department of the cemetery. These deaths are
entirely independent of the numbers occurring in the
workhouse. It has been ascertained that in the last
fortnight there were disposed of no less than 300 coffins
in Barrack-street, the greater number of which were
required for the parish of St. Nicholas.—Cork Examiner.

FEVER DESOLATION.—As an instance of the wholesale
destruction of human life, we may state that a man, com-
ing to his work in Patrick-street at five o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning, saw
,five dead bodies lying in, we think,
Barrack-street, the victims of the previous night! A short
time since a family came into town from the country.
They were six in number—a father, wife, and four children.
The children and the wife are dead, and the husband is
dying. This, we believe, is the history of many an un-
fortunate family as well as the one we write of.—Cork
paper.
MURDER OF Two AGED WOMEN !—On the night of
the Bth instant, two maiden sisters, named Anne and
Catherine Callan, residing in the townland of Mullacrogh-
ery, county Louth, were most barbour4y murdered in
their dwelling-house. Catherine was fou! id lying across
her bed, naked, and her skull frightfully broken in ; the
other sister, Anne, lay stretched on the floor near the en-
trance, bearing on her person the marks of several stabs,
and having a gash extending from the ear half across the
throat. No reason can be assigned for this inhuman act.
The women were poor, aged, and inoffensive ; their only
means of support that of selling a few cakes of bread, and
retailing occasionally small quantities of tobacco.
FAMINE RlOT.—Friday last was the day appointed for
the auction of the cargo of the Zulette, which was wrecked
on Doaghmore Strand,
.in Mulroy Bay. The damaged
Indian corn, flour, and meal, forming part of the cargo,
was brought on Shoie, and the auction was being proceeded
with. In the meantime the country people collected in
very great numbers, and became so violent that the auc-
tion was suspended, and, in defiance of constabulary and
coastguards, they forcibly took upwards of 100 bags of
Indian corn, and even compelled one of the purchasers,
who had his grain in boats for Milford, to deliver up the
food, they declaring " That Providence had sent them the
supply, and that when in great distress a wreck with pro-
visions was sure to happen on their shores." The military
froth Letterkenny were sent for to restore order.—. Derry
Paper,
MORTALITY IN KILKENNY.—The medical profession
estimate the number of weekly deaths in the electoral
divisions uf Kilkenny, being the ancient city and liberties,
at one hundred and sixty. Now, supposing the continu-
ance of this mortality, let us see how soon would the pre-
sent population of Kilkenny be entirely cleared away by
the great destroyer. The•population of Kilkenny elec-
toral division, according to the census of 1841, was 23,000.
Upon this calculation, the period which it would take to
do the work of extermination would be exactly two years,
-nine months, three weeks, and five days ! But then al-
lowance should be made for the number of births which
recruit the population. On the same data, the medical
men of Kilkenny calculate the average number of births
in Kilkenny electoral division to be twenty weekly. With
this auxiliary to the strength of the inhabitants, Kilkenny
would yet be left entirely depopulated, at the same amount
of mortality, in the space of three years, two mouths, and
one day !—Kilkenny Moderator.
A WIFE AND FORTUNE PUT UP TO AUCTION
incident took place on the Custom-house Quay, on Tues-

-A little

day, which in these dull work-a-day times deserves to be
noticed. A strapping young country girl, along with her
sweetheart, embarked on board one of the emigrant ships
then lying at the quay, with the intention of sailing for
America, and being there married. The fair emigrant
was possessed, moreover, of a dot of £2OO, which she dis-
creetly placed in the hands of the captain of the vessel,
and had hardly done so when her companion and intended
applied to her for a portion of it. This she refused ;
whereupon he coolly bid her good morning and disem-
barked. The deserted damsel, however, advanced to the
gunwale, there harangued a large mob, who speedily col-
lected to hear her, and ended, not by throwing herself
into the river, but by assuring the crowd that if any young
fellow who heard her was willing to take the'place of the
faithless swain, she was quite ready to accept his services
upon the same terms. A handsome young mason, who
happened to be among the standers-by, immediately of-
fered himself, and was accepted on the spot. The captain
very properly sent to make inquiries about him, and found
that he was as he represented himself, a single man; and
the parties to this extempore match sailed with that very
tide for the shores of America.—Dublin Herald.