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

IRELAND.

FVREIGN- AND CO:I._OA►I4L.,k I

AMERICA.-ARRIVAL OF THE ACNDIA

On Wednesday morning the royal mail steam-ship
Acadia, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey, bring-
ing New York papers to toe 30th ultimo.
The news by this arrival is important. The city of
Tampico had surrendered to the Am-ricans, on condition
that their laws, institutio❑s, and property should be re-
spected. Preparations were being made to send a garri-
son of 500 or 600 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.
The 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, reinforced from the Cumberland, Mississippi,
Princeton, and St. Mary's. There was no opposition
spade to tne American arms. The town was surrendered
unconditionally. Commodore Connor threw into Tam-
pico a toree of 150 sailors and marines, and stationed a
small fl .tills 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 Barnard, of the Engineers, will
repair directly to Tampico to superintend the erecting
and am ing 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 memher. 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 on this melancholy occasion
was the Rev. Dr. Armstrong, of New York. 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 fate
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, from New York to
Liverpool, laden with flour and grain had also been lost.
Advice from Havana to the 13th ultimo, received at
New 0 leans, state that nothing has yet been done under
the letters of marque and naturalisation which Mexico
has sent there for sale. _ .

" re
is irit.rel

We h,ve," says the New Orleans paper of the 20th
,ceived eight days later news from Havana, and it
sting and not without importance. _

•
"The tone of the Mexican papers is as embittered

against as ever."
The lex'can account of the casualties at Tobasco
says:—•• The loss in killed is calculated at some eighty
unfortunate citizens, and the loss of the enemy at one
officrr, two marines, and six sailors." _ _

A telegraphic despatch communicated the face that an
incipient revolu►ion had taken place in the city of Mexico ;
that Almonte was about going to England ; and that Mr.
Bankhead, the Brit sh minister in Mexico, had made so
much nois- shoot Santa Anna's robbery of the two mil-
lions of dollars from a conducts, 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 torthcoming 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 tl.e 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. 'Fiie President will advise that peace be conquered
as speedily and as effectually as prigs 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 ret-ieve 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 ant wise interfere with General Taylor's com-
mand, although he will, doubtless, command at the battle
of San L iuis Potosi, because of his seniority in rank."

A Kerry paper says, in the aggregate Kerry may be said
to have literally ceased all agricultural pursuits.
In cons-qnence 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
Newcastle, Limerick, died a few 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 4,900 paupers ! One of the hoard as-
serts there is a defalcation of £6,000.
SIGN OF POVERTY.—When en Irishman brings Ills
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 bad 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 ir:flicted
several bayonet wounds. They captured two of the ban-
ditti.

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 cargo 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 pral era, 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 penetrated the leaf. The go-
vernment which provides arms ought surely provide
larycts, 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. be 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 te:,ant, 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 300,00 labourers
employed on the public works in Ireland ; that the total
expenditure in October and November was £442,150
2t. Id. ; that it will probably reach half a million for the
pres-nt month ; and then obterves, " 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
ar 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 ANNIVERSARY 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,
hile 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
and citizens met at the linenhall, to proceed to the cath-
edral, where a sermon was preached by the Very Rev.
the Dean of Derry, after which (as considerately suggested
by the Apprentice Boys) a collection was made in aid of
the destitute poor of this city. The proceedings of the
day were characterized by the usual orderly as well as
loyal conduct of the Apprentice Boys, and while the joy-
ousness which the occasion warranted was freely indulged
in, nothing occurred to give offence even to the most
fastidious.—Derry Standard.
THE Poott OF CORK.—The committee for the relief of
the poor, in and about Cork, met this day week. Some
conversation took place on the erection of small mills to
be worked be hand, to grind Indian corn, and several
contracts were entered into for supplies of wheaten meal,
at from £l6 to £l7 per ton. The committee had £lOBB
in band, and it was recommended that - worth of
corn should be purchased in Liverpool. It was re-
marked that wheat was still advanc ng, and that it was
that day at 72s per quarter. One gentleman said he was
really alarmed at the want of food that existed and its
rising price, and recommended a memorial to Govern-
ment to stop the distilleries which consumed so much
barley, and also to open the ports for the admission of
corn, duty free. At present it paid a duty of 20s. a ton.
It was urged that the public, who could spare cast off
clothing, should now give it to the poor. A member said
that in the north district they were supplying 2000 rations
daily. Next week be expected that one of these soup-
houses would, in addition to soup, be in a position to give
bread. The soup was good, and the people were
thankful for it. He would tell them that with beef soup
double the number could be provided for at the same ex-
pense as with corn. The Archdeacon of Cork said that
he had returned to the meeting to state that good news
had arrived by the Great Western steamer from New
York. Thirty-one I, quare-rigged vessels were being
loaded with corn and Indian meal for Liverpool. Prices
of bread stuffs had declined, and were still falling at New
York. This, it was remarked, was cheering intelligence.
DREADFUL DESTITUTION IN SKIBDEREEN. —The
Cork Examiner of Wednesday last, published the follow-
ing harrowing account of the effects of famine and disease
at Skibbereen, on the authority of its own special re-
porter, and the Dublin Evening Herald, which quotes it,
" sees no reason to doubt of its truth or accuracy :"
" In a private note, our reporter called our most earnest
attention to the horrifying facts which he said his corre-
spondence truthfully detailed, and summed up the con-
dition of the poor in the ill-fated town from which he
wrote, by saying that ' they were dying off like rotten
sheep.' Struck by the earnestness of the private note,
we took up the correspondence, and went through its
agonising details, line by line ; and our readers who
will peruse it through will say that before we had come to
the close we had supped full of horrors. There is disease,
famine, death, in every paragraph. A terrible apathy,
like that which oppresses a plague-stricken people, seems
to hang over the poor of Skibbereen. No sight of
SPAIN. horror, no tale that in other times would make the warm
The Paris papers of Wednesday did not arrive in London
blood chill in the veins, can now excite even a passing ob-
until Friday afternoon. The Dlbats of Wednesday pub- servation. Starvation has destroyed every generous sym-
Babes news from Spain of the date of the 11th instant, re- hp—despair has made them hardened and insensible.
ceived, of course, by telegraphic dispatch. the roads being They sullenly await their doom, to which they look for-
blocked up by snow. The opposition had been most sue- ward with indifference, and without fear. Death is in
every wretchedve hovel. Disease and famine, its dread
easeful in the capital, having returned Senora Mendizabel,
Salamanca, and San Miguel, and run Senor Fidel so close precursors,
the female
fastened on thebe young and otether.smtreongf
man and m
that a new ballot had been appointed to take place the fol-
hfe, and the infant on the breast.m
Whole familiespl lie
lowing day, the 9th, to decide whether he or his competi-
down together on the damp floor, or on a scanty sop of
tor, Del Socorro, had the majority. Senor Mon and the
„; rotten straw, devoured by fever, without a human being
Marquis de Foyer had been elected, thus giving the ear.- near to wet their burning lips, or raise their languid
tal tr.ree out of the six seats to the opposition. The return
heads. The husband dies by the side of his wife, and the
of Mendizabel is in itself an event. Ten elections had
wife knows not that her husband is beyond the reach of
taken place in the northern provinces; seven were in fa-
earthly suffering. The same rag covers the festering re-
your of ministers, and three for the opposition.
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
tnem 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
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."

The R,v. Dr. Cox, one of the deputation from Ame-
rica to the Evangelical Alliance reached New York on the
22nd ultimo.

NEW YORK MARKET, Nov. 30.—Flour: There is
some activity this morning ; various sates have been made,
amounting to 5000 barrels in all, at 5 dols. 25c. afloat,
and 5 &As. 371 c. in store with privileges, chiefly for ex-
portation. Cotton : Saks 500 bales, with a somewhat
firmer market. Sterling is closing for the packet of the
lAt at 51 to 6/ prem.; francs 540 to 411. Cotton has
been in steady demand during the week, and a moderate
business has been done from day to day. Prices drooped
per lb. on the first day, and afterwards remained
steady. The imports of the week were 9,824 bales, and
the sales 5,000 bales Upland and Florida, and 2,800 Mo-
bile and New Orleans, at the following rates

Upland and Fl. Mobile &N. O.
Inferior none. none.
Ordinary to good ordiny. 8 to 84 c.. . 8 to 8 c.
Middling to good middlg. 81 to v* c. - 9 to 94 c.
Middling fair to ..... 9K to 9/ c.
Fully fair to good fair.... 94 to 10/ c 104 to 11 c.
Fine.. nominal. nominal.
CORN Excintisoz.—The receipts of flour down the
Hudson were 130,607 brls. The market was heavy
throughout, and a large portion of the receipts were
stored. Prices drooped to 5 dols. to 5 dols. 121 c. for
Western of all sorts, but recovered on the cold weather,
and clo., d just as on the previous week. The stock of
flour on hand is estimated at 300,000 to 400,000 barrels—
half of it, perhaps, sold, and to be shipped as fast as
freights can be obta'ned. In the present condition of
the corn-markets of the world, any stock will be disposed
of, and what we have will be rapidly reduced after the
receipts terminate. Corn meal is heavy at 4 dols. 88c,
and rye flour at 3 dohs. 75c. Wheat was less in demand,
and the prices receded 6 or 8 cents; a very fair parcel of
Ohio white sold at 110 cents, and on Saturday another
parcel of 2000 bushels, somewhat mixed, at 106 cents.
Rye sold at 77, 78, and on Friday the last transaction
was at 80 cents, delivered to a distiller. The common
qualities of corn declined 7 to 8 cents; good old Western
mixed closed at 65 cents per bushel with sales, though
Jersey yellow brought 75 cents on one of the last days.
There was no pressing demand for exportation. The
last sale of barley was at 59 cents for two rowed. Oats
were up to 38 to 39 cents per bushel.
Money and Exchanges were quite in a drooping state,
though francs were firm at the close, and considerable
sales were made. Money stands much as it has for some
weeks, and stocks rather droop.
Freights advanced on the first days, and the following
very hith rates were paid :—To Liverpool, flour 5s brl,
corn 1511 bushel, square cotton 4d ; London, flour ss,
naval stores 5., 6d brl, oats 14d measure, refused ; Havre,
flour 1123 to 125 cents, grain 30 cents bushel, cotton 14
to 11 cents lb ; Marseilh s. flour 100 cents ; Ant:ve7p, for
grain 35 cents blishel of 561 b was refused, and 137 i cents
brl pain for flour. Towards the close there was less
pressure of produce, and the rates softened a little.
Business generally was quite prosperous and healthy.

By a fire in Silonichi, in ,Macedonia, 1,500 families have
been r,ndered houseless and destiiute.
GERM ANY.—Prinre 'Metternich is seriously ill ; indeed,
it was ruitioured 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 a, English company, for a sum equal
in Enel;sh 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 letrer 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 DUEL.—Two students of the University of Ko-
nigsbrrb. 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.
M. Maclea.r had his nose cut off and died within twenty-
four hours in dreadful torture. His adversary has fled.
The cause of the hostile encounter was a foolish quarrel
at a game of billiards.
The forebodings of important changes in the constitu-
tion of Europe. which the recent annihilation of the inde-
pendence of Cracow instantly excited in this country and
in France, have already been corroborated, and are on the
point of being realised. It is understood that the Cabinet
of St. Petersburg has now avowed its intention of com-
pleting the incorporation of the kingdom of Poland with
the Russian empire, and the cession of he small territory
of Cracow to Austria was only the prelude to an event
calculated much more seriously to disturb the balance of
power and the peace of Europe.
HORRIBLE MASSACRES.—Advices from Kurdistan of
the sth if November, give derailed accounts of the mas-
sacre of the filth remaining independent tribe of the Nes-
torian Christians. On the 27th of October, Bedr Khan,
at the head if about 12,000 men, penetrated into the dis-
trict of tar Jelu tribe, and fell like birds of prey upon the
Nestorian villages ; carried fire, sword, desolation every-
where ; murdered indiscriminately old men, women, and
children; burnt their huts and cottages, arid continued
the hu.chery for several days, till not a spark of anima-
tio.o remained.

PAPAL LIBERALITY TO THE STARVING
IRISH.

One of those exceedingly exemplary persons. the Irish
Priests, O'Connell's best workmen, has been detected in
selling the " labour tickets" issued by relief Committees,
to pay a debt which he said had been incurred last sum-
mer in relieving the poor. The following letter, it is
truly remarked, " tells its own tale."
" Cavan, Nov. 14, 1846.
" My T.ORD,—The recent lamentable occurrence of a
Clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, who had the
distribution of labour tickets, violating the confidence
reposed in him, and perverting the relief extended by her
Majesty's Government to the sufferers by famine into a
means of raising money for his own parochial purposes,
induces me to respectfully submit to your Lordship the
expediency of the tickets issued for the relief of the suf-
ferers in the Cavan relief district not being distributed by

any other person than the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or
Secretary.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your obedient humble oervant,
"G. TOWNSEND.

"The Right Hon. Lord Farnham, K.P."
The person whose conduct is here arraigned makes no
bones of con'essine the fact, because he considers himself
to have been justified in doing what he did—that is, being