The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

FeREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICA.-ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA

On Wednesday morning the royal mail steam-ship
Acadia, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey, bring-
ing New York papers to tne 30th ultimo.
The news by this arrival is important. The city of
Tampico had surrendered to the Am, ricans, on condition
that thrir laws, institutions, and property should be re-
spected. Preparations were being made to send a garri-
son of 500 or GOO men, to occupy the city with all possible
speed. The expedition against it was commanded by
Commodore Connor. It contains about 4,000 inhabi-
tants. _ . .

'rid, New Orleans papers contain details of the capture.
They state that " on the 14th Commodore Perry crossed
the bar with the Spitfire, Vixen, Petrel, Bonita, and
Reefer, - reintorced from the Cumberland, Nlississippi,
Princeton, and St. Mary's. There was no opposition
made to toe American arms. The town was surrendered
unconditionally. Commodore Connor threw into Tam.
pico a force of 150 sailors and marines, and stationed a
small flotilla at the entrance of the harbour to guard any
approach to the town by sea. .

Captain Hetzel, of the Quartermaster's department,
has been despatched to Baton Rouge for ordnance and
munitions ; and Captain Barnet d, of the Engineers, will
repair directly to Tampico to superintend the erecting
and arming of the necessary defences."
The Acadia brings intelligence of the loss of the steam
boat Atlantic, bound from New London to New York,
upon a ledge of rocks jutting out from Fisher's Island,
during a heavy gale. Nearly forty lives are stated to
have been sacrificed. There were six females, four
children, and two infants among the passengers, All
the females were drowned or crushed to death. Only
one of the children, a boy of twelve years old, was
saved, and he was the only one of the family of which he
was a member. His father, mother, married sister, a
younger sister, and two young brothers, were on board.
The two infants were drowned, frozen or crushed to death.
Amongst those who were lost o❑ this melancholy occasion
was the lies. Dr. Armstrong, of New lork. Mr. James
Stetson, second captain of the Atlantic, just before the
'vessel struck, was ordered by Capt. Dunstan to go for-
ward, and at the proper moment let go the chains. At
that time the captain stood upon the after promenade
deck, giving his orders as calmly and with as little appa-
rent emotion as if upon shore. All his efforts seemed to
be for the preservation of his passengers—his own f.te
was joined with that of the vessel he commanded. From
that time nothing is known of Captain Dunstan till the
recovery of his dead body.
The brig Lincoln was lost in the gale, and several of
the hands either died or were drowned.
It was feared that the Zenobia, tom New York to
Liverpool, laden with flour and grain had also been lost.

A Kerry paper says, in the aggregate Kerry may be said
to have literally ceased all agricultural pursuits.
In consequence of the number of victims of starvation,
the Belfast Vindicator suggests that the Irish newspapers
should appear in mourning sheets.
At the repeal meeting on Monday, the rent was an-
nouced to be £lOl. Mr. O'Connell has written a whining
letter about the peace conference. Mr. Smith O'Brien
has indignantly refused all compromise.
A fine boy, aged seven years, son of Capt. Kennedy, of
Newc4stle, Limerick, died a tew days since of hydropho-
bia, having been bitten five weeks previously by a stray

cur dog. -
The accounts of the Cork workhouse are in such a con-
fused and complicated state that the guardians have ap-
plied to the commissioners to send down an accountant to
investigate the whole interior economy of the house,
which now contains -1,900 paupers ! One of the hoard as-
serts there is a defalcation of £€,ooo.
SIGN OF POVERTY.—When an Irishman brings his
pig to market, it is generally a last resource. From the
Ist September last, to the 30th ult., no fewer than 31.014
pigs were sold in Cork market, whilst during the same
period last year only 5,781 were disposed of. These
animals would not be brought to market in such numbers
if their owners had any food for them.
A correspondent of the Dublin Packet, writing from
the county Leitrim, gives an account of a pitched battle
fought on Sunday night week, between the police and a
body of armed men, who went to attack the house of a
man named Connor, near Cloone. Both parties fired
shots at first, and then the police charged, and inflicted
several bayonet wounds. They captured two of the ban-
diiti.

Indian corn sellers are making a whacking profit at the
expense of the poor. Indian corn was selling at £l6 and
£l7 a ton on Friday and Saturday, although a carer) had
been just received ex ship at £lO 15s. a ton. To the for-
tunate buyer the market price would leave £7 per ton, or
75 per cent. This is " the legitimate course of trade" so
lauded and protected by the Whig premier!—Cork Ex-
aminer.
On Sunday night, the gamekeeper of Sir Hugh Stewart,
Bart., on going his rounds in the demesne of Ballygowley
House, county of Tyrone, saw a man armed, who, on
being challenged by the keeper and being closed on by
him, discharged the contents of his gun with fatal pre-
cision into the body of the keeper, who died on the spot.
Every exertion was being made by the police in the
morning to arrest the murderer.
ANOTHER FIELD DAY.—On Sunday last, the fowlers
" had a field day at Newcastle. A company paraded
after prayers, and immediately had a cabbage leaf placed
up as a target, at which aim was taken from behind a
bush. The firing was very creditable, no less than six
balls out of seven having penetrate d the leaf. The go-
vernment which provides arms ought surely provide
targets, and not have vegetables wasted in these times
of distress.—Tipperary Constitution.
DREADFUL MURDER.—On Monday week Mr. William
Lloyd was shot at his own hall door, in the midst of the
populous town of Birr. The murderer stealthily ap-
proached him, fired the contents of a pistol at his heart ;
the ball penetrated that vital organ, and he fell a lifeless
corpse immediately. It was not dark at the time. The
assassin, in making off, stumbled against Mr. Lloyd's son,
a lad of about seventeen years of age, who was returning
from the street to his house, unconscious of the murder
of his father, and that his father's murderer had just
passed him. The tenant, who was after paying the rent
has been arrested on suspicion ; several other tenants have
also been arrested. Mr. Lloyd was a Roman Catholic,
and a liberal in politics.
The Morning Chronicle states, on the authority of
official documents, that there are now 300,C00 labourers
employed on the public works in Ireland ; that the total
expenditure in October and November was £442,150
2s. Id. ; that it will probably reach half a million for the
present month ; and then observes, " Concurrently with
this large and increasing expenditure, we still hear of
loud complaints of destitution from many parts of Ire-
land, and a still greater extension of the system of public
works is demanded, to avert the horrors of famine. Yet
we are only at the beginning of winter. Another harvest
is still a distant event. And even when the time for
another harvest arrives, what are we to look for? We
hear on all hands loud and growing complaints that the
ordinary operations of agriculture are neglected. La-
bourers prefer the public works, and numbers of the
smaller occupiers think it more profitable to earn six or
seven shillings a week on the roads than to till their own
ground."
THE ANNIVaLSARY OF THE SHUTTING OF THE
GATES.—Friday, the 18th, being the anniversary of the
" Shutting of the Gates" against the tyrant James—an
anniversary ever to be welcomed by every citizen within
our walls, capable of appreciating the blessings which the
event commemorated secured—the morning was ushered
in by the usual discharges of cannon from the ramparts,
accompanied by the inspiriting peal of the merry joy-bells,
while the effigy of the traitor " Lundy," suspended from
the top of Walker's Pillar, dangled in mid-air, awaiting
the ignominious fate which, before evening, it was sub-
jected to. At half-past ten o'clock the Apprentice Boys
NEW YORK MARKET, Nov. 30.—Flour : There is and citizens met at the linenhall, to proceed to the cath-
some activity this morning; various sales have been made, edral, where a sermon was preached by the Very Rev.
amounting to 5000 barrels in all, at 5 dols. 25c. afloat, the Dean of Derry, after which (as considerately suggested
and 5 dols. 371 c. in store with privileges, chiefly for ex- by the Apprentice Boys) a collection was made in aid of
portation. Cotton : Sales 500 bales, with a somewhat the destitute poor of this city. The proceedings of the
firmer market. Sterling is closing for the packet of the day were characterized by the usual orderly as well as
Ist at 51 to 61 prem.; francs 540 to 411. Cotton has loyal conduct of the Apprentice Boys, and while the joy-
been in steady demand during the week, and a moderate ousness which the occasion warranted was freely indulged
business has been bone from day to day. Prices drooped in, nothing occurred to give offence even to the most
le. per lb. on the first day, and afterwards remained feao i'llouao—Derry Standard.
steady. The imports of the week N.crc aria '""-- -C
the sales 5,000 bales Upland and Florida, and 2,800 Nlo- the poor, in is,,d about Cork, met this day week. Some
bile and New Orleans, at the following rates :
conversation took place on the erection of small mills to
Upland and Fl. Mobile &N. 0. be worked be hand, to grind Indian corn, and several
Inferior
Ordinary to good ordiny
Middling to good middlg. 84 to 9* c.
Middling fair to 94 to 94 c. el to IQ c. corn should be purchased in Liverpool. It was re-
Fully fair to good fair.... 94 to 101 c. lOl to 11 c. marked that wheat was still advanc.ng, and that it was
Fine. nominal. nominal. ' that day at 72s per quarter. One gentleman said he was
CORN EXCEANGE.—The receipts of flour down the really alarmed at the want of food that existed and its
Hudson were 130,607 brls. The market was heavy i rising price, and recommended a memorial to Govern-
throughout, and a large portion of the receipts were talent to stop the distilleries which consumed so much
stored. Prices drooped to 5 dols. to 5 dols. 121 c. for barley, and also to open the ports for the admission of
Western of all sorts, but recovered on the cold weather, corn, duty free. At present it paid a duty of 20s. a ton.
and closed just as on the previous week. The stock of It was urged that the public, who could spare cast off
flour on hand is estimated at 300,000 to 400,000 barrels— clothing, should now give it to he poor. A member said
half of it, perhaps. sold, and to be shipped as fast as that in the north district they were supplying 2000 rations
freights can be obtained. In the present condition of daily. Next week he expected that one of these soup-
the corn-markets of the world, any stock will be disposed i houses would, in addition to soup, be in a position to give
of, and what we have will be rapidly reduced after the bread. The soup was good, and the people were
receipts Terminate. Corn meal is heavy at 4 dols. 88c, thankful for it. He would tell them that with beef soup
and rye flour at 3 do's. 75c. Wheat was less in demand, double the number could be provided for at the same ex-
and the prices receded 6or 8 cents; a very fair parcel of pense as with corn. The Archdeacon of Cork said that
Ohio white sold at 110 cents, and on Saturday another j he had returned to the meeting to state that good news
parcel of 2000 bushels, somewhat mixed, at 106 cents. had arrived by the Great Western steamer from New
Rye sold at 77, 78, and on Friday the last transaction York. Thirty-one square-rigged vessels were being
was at 80 cents, delivered to a distiller. The common loaded with cern and Indian meal for Liverpool. Prices
qualities of corn declined 7to 8 cents ; good old Western of bread stuffs had declined, and were still falling at New
mixed closed at 65 cents per bushel with sales, though York. This, it was remarked, was cheering intelligence.
Jersey yellow brought 75 cents on one of the last days. DREADFUL DESTITUTION IN SKIBBEREEN.— The
There was no pressing demand for exportation. The Cork Examiner of Wednesday last, published the follow-
last sale of barley was at 59 cents for two rowed. Oats ing harrowing account of the effects of famine and disease
were up to 38 to 39 cents per bushel. at Skibbereen, on the authority of its own special re-
Money and Exchanges were quite in a drooping state, porter, and the Dublin Evening Herald, which quotes it,
though francs were firm at the close, and considerable sees no reason to doubt of its truth or accuracy :"
sales were made. Money stands much as it has for some "In a private note, our reporter called our most earnest
weeks, and stocks rather droop. attention to the horrifying facts which he said his corre-
Freights advanced on the first days, and the following spondence truthfully detailed, and summed up the con-
very high rates were paid :—To Liverpool, flour 5s brl, dition of the poor in the ill-fated town from which he
corn 154 d bushel, square cotton 1c1; London, flour ss, wrote, by saying that ' they were dying off like rotten
naval stores 5s 6d 1011, oats 14d measure, refused ; Havre, sheep.' Struck by the earnestness of the private note,
flour 1121 to 125 cents, grain 30 cents bushel, cotton 14 we took up the correspondence, and went through its
to 11 cents lb ; Marseilles, flour 100 cents ; Antwerp, for agonising details, line by line ; and our readers who
grain 35 cents bushel of 561 b was refused, and 1371 cents will peruse it through will say that before we had come to
bri paid for flour. Towards the close there was less the close we had supped full of horrors. There is disease,
pressure of produce, and the rates softened a little. famine, death, in every paragraph. A terrible apathy,
Business generally was quite prosperous and healthy. like that which oppresses a plague-stricken people, seems
to hang over the poor of Skibbereen. No sight of
horror, no tale that in other times would make the warm
blood chill in the veins, can now excite even a passing ob-
servation. Starvation has destroyed every generous sym-
pathy—despair has made them hardened and insensible.
They sullenly await their doom, to which they look for-
ward with indifference, and without fear. Death is in
every wretched hovel. Disease and famine, its dread
precursors, have fastened on the young and old, the strong
man and the female child, the mother in the prime of
life, and the infant on the breast. Whole families lie
down together on the damp floor, or on a scanty sop of
rotten straw, devoured by fever, without a human being
near to wet their burning lips, or raise their languid
heads. The husband dies by the side of his wife, and the
wife knows not that her husband is beyond the reach of
earthly suffering. The same rag covers the festering re-
mains of mortality and the skeleton forms of the living,
who are unconscious of the horrible contiguity. Rats
devour the corpse, and there is living no energy to scare
them from their horrid banquet. Fathers bury their
children without a sigh, and cover them in shallow graves
round which no weeping mother, no sympathising friends
are grouped. One scanty funeral is fast followed by ano-
ther, and that by another. When work on the public
roads is offered, it in many instances cannot be availed
of ; the strong man is wasted to a pithless skeleton, and
i he drops dead on his way to the scene of labour. The
labourer has pawned his last rag, and when his turn is
come, and he has a chance of employment, he must re-
main in his hovel to famish, not having clothes to cover
his wasted limbs. Without food or fuel, bed or bedding,
whole families are shut up in naked hovels, dropping one
by one into the arms of death—death, more merciful than
this world or its rulers."

Advices from Havana to the-13th ultimo, received at
New Orleans, state that nothing has yet been done under
the ler•ers of marque and naturalisation wLich Mexico
has s.nt there for sale.

" We have," says the New Orleans paper of the 20th
ult. "received eight days later news from Havana, and it
is if,teresting and not without importance.

" The tone of the Mexican papers is as embittered
against ns as ever." _ .

-The Mexican account of the casualties at Tobacco
say, :—" The loss in killed is calculated at some eighty
unfortunate citizens, and the loss of the enemy at one
officer, two marines, and six sailors."
A telegraphic despatch communicated the face that an
incipient revolution had taken place in the city of Mexico ;
that Almonte was about going to England ; and that Mr.
Bank head, the Brit sh minister in Mexico, had made so
much nois- abont Santa Anra's robbery of the two mil-
lions of dollars from a conducta, which proves to have
belonged to English merchan s, that he was obliged to
disgorge the i'l-gotten booty. It may be that Almonte's
trip to England has reference to this transaction. Highly
important news from the Gulf of Mexico was hourly ex-
pected.
Some speculations were being indulged in at 'Washing-
ton as to the principal features in the forthcorn,ng Presi-
dent's message. One of the speculators says :—" The prin-
cipal feature in the President's message will be the expli•
cation of the past and future policy of the government in
relation to Mexico. The positions taken in his last mes-
sage will be reiterated, and the message will contain a vin-
dication of the general course of the government towards
Mexico, and of the course of the President in applying at
the close of last session for the two millions appropriation
bill. The President will advise that peace be conquered
as speedily and as effectually as poss.ble. It is for the
more speedy accomplishment of this end that General
Scott is ordered to active service. The General has by
this time suffered 'sufficiently for his ill-advised letters,
and the President determined to give him an opportunity
to retrieve his lost ground. There is no doubt he will
now do so, as he will now be in his proper element. He
will not in anywise interfere with General Taylor's com-
mand, although he will, doubtless, command at the battle
of San L-mis Potosi, because of his seniority in rank."
The Rev. Dr. Cox, one of the deputation from Ame-
rica to the Evangelical Alliance reached New York on the
22nd ultimo.

SPAIN

The Paris papers of Wednesday did not arrive in London
until Friday afternoon. The De-bats of 'Wednesday pub-
lishes news from Spain of the date of the 11th instant, re-
ceived, of course, by telegraphic dispatch, the roads being
blocked up by snow. The opposition had been most suc-
cessful in the capital, having returned Senors Mendizabel,
Salamanca, and San Miguel, and run Senor Pidal so close
that a new ballot had been appointed to take place the fol-
lowing day, the 9th, to decide whether he or his competi-
tor, Del Socorro, had the majority. Senor Mon and the
Marquis de Povar bad been elected, thus giving the capi-
tal three out of the six seats to the opposition. The return
of Mendizabel is in itself an event. Ten elections had
taken place in the northern provinces; seven were in fa-
vour of ministers, and three for the opposition.

By a fire in Salonichi, in Macedonia, 1,500 families have
been rendered houseless and destitute.
GERMANY.—Prince Metternich is seriously ill ; indeed,
it was rumoured that he was dead, but later accounts give
hopes of his recovery.
The iron mines of Gelliware, in the province of Norland,
the property of the late King of Sweden, were sold last
month by auction to an English company, for a sum equal
iu English money to £65,000 sterling.
The Pope has just proclaimed " an universal jubilee to
implore the divine assistance in these perilous times." In
the apostolical letter making the proclamation, he pro-
mises to all who shall perform with devotion -the works
therein enumerated, " plenary indulgence and remission
of all their sins."
FATAL DITEL.—Two students of the University of Ko-
nigsberb, M. Maclean, son of the director of the bank of
teat town, and M. Knoneisen, son of a banker of that
name, fought a duel with sabres on the 26th of Nov. PAPAL LIBERALITY TO THE STARVING
M. Macleaa had his nose cut off and died within twenty- IRISH.
four hours in dreadful torture. His adversary has fled. One of those exceedingly exemplary persona. the Irish
The cause of the hostile encounter was a foolish quarrel Priests, O'Connell's best workmen, has been detected in
at a game of billiards. " selling the " labour tickets" issued by relief Committees,
The forebodings of important changes in the constitu- to pay a debt which he said had been incurred last sum-
tion of Europe. which the recent annihilation of the lode- mer in relieving the poor. The following letter, it is
pendence of Cracow instantly excited in this country and truly remarked, " tells its own tale."
in France, have already been corroborated, and are on the " Cavan, Nov. 14, 1816.
Point of being realised. It is understood that the Cabinet "MY LORD,—The recent lamentable occurrence of a
of St. Petersburg has now avowed its intention of corn- Clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, who bad the
pleting the incorporation of the kingdom of Poland with distribution of labour tickets, violating the confidence
the Russian empire, and the cession of the small territory reposed in him, and perverting the relief extended by her
of Cracow to Austria was only the prelude to an event Majesty's Government to the sufferers by famine into a
calculated much more seriously to disturb the balance of means of raising money for his own parochial purposes,
power and the peace of Europe. induces me to respectfully submit to your Lordship the
HORRIBLE MASSACRES.—Advices from Kurdistan of expediency of the tickets issued for the relief of the suf-
the sth of November, give detailed accounts of the mas- ferers in the Cavan relief district not being distributed by
sacre of the fifth remaining independent tribe of the Nea- any other person than the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or
torian Christians. On the 27th of October, Bedr Khan, Secretary.
at the head of about 12,000 men, penetrated into the dis- " I have the honour to be, my Lord,
trict of the Jelu tribe, and fell like birds of prey upon the " Your obedient humble servant,
Nestorian villages ; carried fire, sword, desolation every- " G. TOWNSEND.
where ; murdered indiscriminately old men, women, and " The Right Hon. Lord Farnham, K.P.
children ; burnt their huts and cottages, and continued The person whose conduct is here arraigned makes no
the butchery for several days, till not a spark of anima- bones of confessing the fact, because he considers himself
tion remained. to have been justified in doing what he did—that is, being

found out, he coolly makes the act an error, if error, of
judgment, and not a violation of cot fidence :
" On calm reflection (says his Reverence) I shall ad-
mit that I received a few shillings from the labourers who
I thought were able to pay me, for the purpose of paying
a debt which they and I had incurred in relieving the
poor last summer—and with the same calm IA -ction, I
also deny that I sold, or withheld, or dernamteit money
for any labour ticket issued by the inspecting officer. All
tickers issued by me were given in the pres• nce of six res-
pectable witnesses. I challenge inquiry before any dis-
passionate, honourable, and impartial tribunal, and I defy
you to prove that I have acted corruptly, avariciously, or
unfaithfully, even in one single instance." •
At an early stage of ihe relief system, a modest applica-
tion was made to the executive, to sanction the erec-
tion and repairing of Roman Catholic places of worship as
a very desirable and very p-nductive description of labour,
to be paid for out of the sums advanced by Government.
The application was refused, on the ground that no reli-
gious edifices, to whatever sect belonging, had received, or
would receive, money fur repairing or building them. His
reverence, therefere, thought it a capital plan to accom-
plish this object in his way ; for he says his obj.-ct in sell-
ing the labour tickets was to remove them (i e his own
flock) from the miserable muddy cabin in which they adore
God at present, to a splendid church, %here they may
adore with comparative east., and also have an opportunity
of hearing instruction in their religious duties."

A DUAL FAMINE.
(From the Cork Constitution )

The following is from the Wexford Independent :

FEARFUL FACTS.— HUNGER COLD DISEASE—
DEATH.-Our accounts from the northern pat ts of this
country are most deplorable. What the poor people earn
on the public works is barely sufficient to support them.
All their earnings go for food ; and the consequence is,
that they have nothing left to wocur, clothing. Since
the extreme cold set in, sickness and death have accord-
ingly followed in its train. Inflammation of the lungs,
fevers, and other maladies, resulting from excessive priva-
tion, have been bearing away their victims. Many died
in the course of last week ; and the illness in every case
was traceable to the want of clothing and firing, if not of
sufficient food.

These are indeed " fearful facts." " Hunger—cold—?is-
ease—death"—what can be more fearful, or more potently
appeal to all that is humane in man? And who would
think that in the paper which contains them, we should
read the following?—•
O'CONNELL NATIONAL DEBT--The men of Wexford,
true to their noble nature. have resolved, as will be seen
by our advertising columns, on collecting their contingent
of this imperishable debt of a grateful nation to their in-
comparable leader.

What ! many dying in the course of a single week, and
" the illness in every case traceable to the want of clothing
and firing, if not of sufficient food," yet, instead of apply-
ing their money to the buying of bread and coals and coats
and blankets, the O'Connellites of the county in which
these things happen have resolved on senoing it away to
Dublin or Derrynane as a premium to imposture. And
for this they are lauded as "true to their noble nature"!
The Constitution was the first journal which announced
the suspension of the tribute. In doing so we intimated
the likelihood that means would be found of setting it
afloat without allowing the odium to fall on the receiver
—that, for instance, s' kind friends in Cork or else-
where would " resolve" that their leader should hot suffer
for his seeming self-denial, d that a calculation of this
kind was probably passing through the mind of "Moses"
when he determined on the " sacrifice." Does it not look
as if our conjecture was about to be verified ? and as if,
too, Lord Shrewsbury's letter, as we remarked when co-
pying it, was slily designed as an incentive?
There is no end to the scheming of these " Liberals."
'Yet had "the men of Wea.rd" an example before their
eyes which it would better have behoved them to follow.
We quote sill from the Independent:—
" We feel true pleasure in stating that Mr. Boyse, of
Bannow, has expended £l,OOO in the purchase o+ corn to
guard aga list the alarming contingency before us."