The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

IRELAND

The average deaths per day in Cork Workhouse.are 22.
The Limerick Examiner of Saturday put itself into
Ftuourning on account of the rumoured death of O'Connell.
The physician of the Cahir dispensary died last week of
fever caught while attending his patients.

Vast crowds of the more comfortable class of farmers
are emigrating from Cork, Galway, Dublin, Derry, and
other Irish ports.
Out of a population of 472 in the fishing hamlet of.
CarrWlihi, County Cork, not less than 87 have been
carried off by starvation since Ist January, 1847.
The treasurers for the fund raising by the Wesleyan
Methodists for the relief of the Irish have already received
.Z 12,500.
Increased accommodation is being sought for fever
patients in aid of the hospital at Cork, which is full.
Fever and dysentery are spreading widely.

A fire broke out On Friday week, at the extensive bacon
concerns of Mr. G. Courtenay, William-street, Water-
ford, whidi destroyed property to the extent of £7,000.
Mr. O'Connell is daily expected to return to Ireland
for the remainder of the session, on account of the deli-
cate state of his health.
KILLARNY.-Some idea may be formed of the state of
this district—proverbial as it is for its charities,—from
the fact that no less than thirteen funerals passed through
the town on Sunday week.

In Leitrim, the governor of the workhouse has died of
fever ; and from: Monday, the Bth, to Wednesday, the
10th instant, fourteen of the inmates died—two of fever,
and twelve of dysentery.

Twenty persons have died in the small village of Bailin-
thea, 'entry, within the last six weeks. The body of a
young woman, five days dead, was interred in the church-
yard of the village, on Friday, by two women only.

On Tuesday -a
'return was Ordered by the House of
Commons of the number of persons who have died of
starvation in 'lreland each week since the Ist of Novem-
ber, 1846. _ _ _ _ _

It is affirmed that M. Soyer, the eke' de cuisine at the
Reform Club, has been instructed by the Government to
proceed to Ireland for the purpose of submitting to the
Irish authorities his plan of a kitchen for the preparation
of soup on a large scale. _ _ _ . .

DARING OUTRAGE.—On Sunday week within the in-
terval of half-an-hour three shots were fired into the
dwelling of the Rev. Robert Carey, Donoughmore. At
the second discharge two bullets entered one of the upper
windows, a third striking the window sash.
A man named James Maloun has been fully committed
for trial, for the wilful murder of Patrick Breman, at
Mayo fair, thirty-six years back. He escaped at the
time to America, but returned to Ireland eighteen years
afterwards, and has since been residing at Meath, till
arrested about a fortnight back. He is now seventy
years of age.
THE POTATO.—The Dublin Mail, in quoting the sub-
joined paragraph from the Belfast Mercantile Register,
says, that there is no doubt of its truth. "It is our opi-
nion, from what information we have received, from the
quantity of home produce with that of foreign at present
on hand and to arrive, that prices will be lower. We have
learned of late that there is a far greater quantity of pota-
toes in the country than we expected, and after seed time,
we shall have the residue in the market at a moderate price ;
foreigi

a potatoes are not so much inquired for, and sales
are generally effected at 10. to 12s. per cwt. as in quality.
Irish are more plentiful, and may be quoted at Ss. to 10s.
per cwt."
DARING ROBBERY.—On the morning of the 17th
ultimo, a party of about twenty men, some of them armed
with guns and bayonets,. attacked the dwelling-house of
Mr. Win. Adams, residing at Brackagh, near Tandragee,
Arniagh ; they forced open the door, rushed into the
house, and demanded £2O. Mr. Adams gave them £3
out of a pocket-book ; they snatched the pocket-book out
of his hand, it having three or four pounds more in it,
they then ransacked the house, and carried off with them
about nine cwt. of meal, some bacon and beef, Mr.
Adam's watch, some house linen, half-a-dozen silver
spoons, and other articles ; in all value for about £3O or
£3O.
REPEAL AssoctArtorT.—Mr. Themas Steele took oc-
casion at Monday's gathering of shreds and patches to
announce that all the reports respecting the indisposition
of Mr. O'Connell were utterly false, and that, although
not as young and healthy as his sons, the " beloved
leader " was extremely well indeed. Of' cowse, the
learned gentleman would be unworthy the title of father
of his country if he did not suffer in mind at the gross
conduct of the government in not taking active measures
to relieve the distress of his beloved father-land. This
announcement must, of course, be regarded as demi-offi-
cial, but as the Head Pacificator omitted to state any rea-
son for the non-receipt of Mr. O'Connells ordinary weekly
missive to Mr. Secretary Ray, the feeling of uneasiness,
either in -or out of doors, was not altogether allayed.
After some frothy declamation touching the signal defeat o f
the combined Repeal forces at Galway, the rent was an-
nounced to be £43 2s. 2d.

Sweetman, the physician at Skull, writes
to the Cork Constitution as follows,—" This parish is at
this moment a charnel-house : our mortality is fearful,
averaging daily from forty to forty-five at least. I could.
not—east, west, north, or south, point' to a poor man's
house where there is not fever, dysentery, or death. Our
grave-yards are crowded- to excess—so much so, that the
dogs have rooted, up and devoured some Vies. To the
west of Skull, at Reenahaning, the creatures are so weak
they are unable to dig graves sufficiently deep. To Ob--
viate this, the Rev. Dr. Trail has added half an acre to the
church-yard at Skull, and has a number of deep graves
daily dug, which are as soon occupied. * * *
I solemnly declare, in my very humble opinion, that the
majority of those poor people, who are crawling about the
streets and trying to work on the roads, are dying uncon-
sciously, literally walking in death: they are now beyond
the reach of food and medicine, save the Great Physician.
To give you an idea of our state, for it is not at all known,
nor can words convey it,. what n change a few months have
made—l was informed by the -lational Schoolmaster here,
that this time twelve months he had one hundred and
forty school children : -this-day he has not one. Half, he
said, are dead, and the remainder are unable to attend for
:want of sufficient food and 'raiment, and he is himself
obliged to get some situation on the roads to support a
large family."