The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANOIRi

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SELF-RIL.LiANer.We learn,b Belfasty the Belfast that
Mtricn- is the only county in I ieelan d whith has not touched
itfarthing_or the Go` ernment money.. On the contrary,
besides.meeting their own Wants by their own exertions,
the inhabitants have contributed largely in aid of the suf-
ferers elsewhere, from funds collected by subscriptions, by
ladies' committees, bazaars; and through other charitable
devices.

MORTALITY Vol IRELAND.—At Coachford, the-mortality
is so great that forty adults died in one day. During the'
week ending on Monday; the Ist inst,_lDUlersong ilia
in Corkiferkholre.—FioniCliine-4,- in Fermanagh, there
are very alarminpaccounts..- Lwt week, ,-the-,.-tiumber:'of
deaths in the workhouse was not, on any day, less than
twenty ; and there are, it is iaid,scarcely as many healthy
persons in iti§ are sufficient to attend the sick.

SOWING. OF THE SPRING CROPS.-0111' selections pre-
sent the same gloomy aspect. Famine is still at work,
and many more deaths from starvation are reported in
Mayo, Clare, Cork, and other counties in the south and
west. We believe that great progress has been made, in
various counties, in sowing of the spring crops; but we
deeply regret to find, in Mayo, in parts of Tipperary, and
other counties, that the cultivation of the land is, even
yet, almost wholly neglected.—Dublin Post.

A Joint-stock -Bakery commenced operations at Cork
on Wednesday, and in the course of the morning sold
9,6001b5. of bread, at the rate of Std. the 41b. loaf. The
price of bread at the private bakeries of Cork was. upon
the same day, 10d., 91d., and 91d. the 41b. loaf, of the
same description. Thus, the people of Cork, by a little
exertion of private enterprise, have accomplished a daily
saving of £56 or thereabouts, while the enterprising are
sure to realise a handsome dividend on their specula-
tion.. -

At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday,
a letter from Mr. John O'Connell to " my dear Ray,"was
read as a substitUte for the ordinary epistle of " the Li-
berator" himself, winding up with the time-honoured
hurrah for the " repeal of the accursed Union." The
rent for the week sunk to the lowest figure ever quoted
since the formation of the association, namely, £6, being
£2 less than the weekly salary allotted to the secretary.
The dismal announcement, oddly enough, was received
with laughter. The bubble has clean burst.
THE GUN TRADE AGAIN !—Wednesday being fair-day
the market was brisk Ten new establishments have been
opened, and the blunderbus sign has superseded several
others. There was an auction of all descriptions of fire
arms in the Main-street, and another at the corner of
Duckett-street, and,.in fact, the usual business of the fair
lost all its interest, when compared with the anxiety
evinced by the country people to possess themselves of
arms. In a civilised country such a state of things is, to
say the least of it, frightful.—Tipperary Constitution.

CONVERSIONS FROM ROMANISM. —MORE PRIESTS
FROM ROME.-It will be gratifying to the friends of truth
to learn that another class of converts were received into
the communion of the United Church of England and Ire-
land in Soint Audeon's, Dublin, on Sunday last. Two of
the class are priests ; one of them is a D.D., and was edu-
cated at Rome for eight years, where he received his or-
dination at the hands of his holiness the pope, the late
Gregory the Sixteenth ; the other was educated in May-
nooth, and ordained by the most Rev. Doctor Murray,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.
WINDOW BREAKING.---On Wednesday evening, four
young ruffians broke two panes of glass in the window of
Miss Kerner, in Patrick-street. Miss K., who was in the
shop at the time, immediately ran, and asked why, they
did it. ' They replied, "To be taken." There was no po-
liceman present, but a gentleman went for one, by whom
they were "taken," and lodged in bridewell. In the
morning, however, they were discharged, and when
Thursday evening came, they again presented themselves
to Miss Kerner, who was at her door, and told her that if
she did not give them 2d. they would break two more.
Terrified at the threat, Miss Kerner turned in to get the
shutters put up, but, just as she turned, she heard a crash,
and, on looking round, two other paneswere gone. Is it
not intolerable that respectable ladies are to be annoyed

and alarmed in this way ?—Cork Constitution.
At "the Cavan Assizes, on Tuesday, Rose M`Garry, aged
twenty-five years, was found guilty of causing the death
of her illegitimate child, John M`Garry, five years old, by
starvation. Sentence was not passed on the day of the
trial. The policeman who was examined at the trial said
that on the 29th January last he saw the unnatural mo-
ther setting plants in the garden near the house, and in-
quired from her when she had planted the gooseberry
bushes which he had pointed out to her, and she replied
that they had been planted there for some years previously
and he then turned them up and found the dead body of
the deceased buried under them at full length, covered
with a shirt and some cloth on its head, but without a
coffinil found the other prisoners in the house, and on
making further search found milk; butter, and some meal
seeds steeped to make flummery; the prisoner, Rose,
admitted that the deceased child was her illegitimate off-
spring, and stated that it had died a natural death—of a
decline.

REPEAL PROSPECTS.—It is currently reported that the
days of the Repeal Association are (wilfully and for a pur-
pose) numbered ; and that the whole fabric, which has
been tottering to its foundation since the accession of the
present ministry to office, will shortly only be remem-
bered as among the things that were. Many circum-
sances have of late combined to hasten this consumma-
tion,. but the grand pretext for dissolution will be, of
course, the want of the funds necessary to conduct the
machinery of the association, the absence of which has
-now reduced the working staff to a mere skeleton. The
general distress, too, and the impropriety of further draw-
ing on the resources of the starving millions, will he urged
as strong reasons for the break-up of this once formula-
ble.confederacy. As an instance of the decline of its in-
fluence, owing to the empty state of the exchequer, it may
be observed that the metropolitan registry has been all
but abandoned by the Repealeri, and their opponents left
in undisputed possession of the field. At the sessions
now sitting the Conservatives have obtained a majority
of over 250, and it is calculated that before the close the
.number will considerably exceed 300. The reation is partly
attributable to the apathy and distrust created by the
memorable schism of July last.

GRIEVOUS SIGHT.—Lord Dufferin and the lion. Mr.
Boyle have visited Skibbereen for the purpose of taking a
collection made in Oxford for the distressed, and also to
see if the accounts of the destitution were correct. The
following is one scene which they, witnessed in company
with the Rev. Mr. Townsend. We give it in the reverend
gentleman's own words :—" In the church-yard they saw
the mode of sepulture now common, of throwing the bo-
dies out of the shell into a pit, and covering them so
slightly that a few scrapes of a shovel soon laid bare the
abdomen of one that was the uppermost ! You may be
sure this sufficed for so far. We passed from these to the
place occupied by their more fortunate fellow-sufferers
from the workhouse. These had coffins. They were,
however, scarcely covered! and the ends of one or two of
one tier,of coffins (for there are three placed one over ano-
ther in a grave about two feet deep, and the upper one
comes level with the surface !) were exposed. There was
a pit being in progress of being filled by bodies from the
same house at the feet of these, and I asked why it was
left in that uncovered, unmade state ? The men employed.
digging a lengthened pit, said that the persons employed
by the workhouse authorities had brought four bodies as
yet, and as they expected six more that evening, they
left the pit unfinished . His Lordship never saw such a
sight before ;' and after some other equally melancholy
scenes, his Lordship left, convinced that the destitution
was greater-than even was represented."
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SUPPLIES OF PROVlSlONS.—Notwithstantling the large
arrivals of graM and other bread stuffs at the various sea-
ports, there is as yet no corresponding reduction in prices
of provisions, the speculators appearing still to have it all
their own way. The Mayo Cotstitation says :—" We
daily perceive a frightful rise in our markets. On last
Saturday oats rose to 15s. 6d. per cwt., and barley rated
at from 21s. to 255. 6d. per cwt, for seed. The scarcity
of seed threatens a further increase in prices, owing to

the demand which is made for grain. We believe there
were but half a dozen pigs offered for sale, and, what is
more extraordinary, that each market presents the ap-
pearance of a fair, the poor farmers

being most anxious

to. dispose of their cattle, either to avoid paying rents or
to support themselves." The Limerick Chronicle and
the_ Derry Journal announced extensive importations at

says the first-named journal, '

since our

fication,

with provision, notwit

arrived in this harbour

of the number

lstanding the loca

retain a famishing fixity. Bread, meat, and other articles
of domestic use, such as butter and milk, are becoming
unapproachable by. the middle classes. -In the last week,

of Indian corn, were landed, ex-ship, free of
_duty'.

,
The arrivals at Derry consisting of 1,066 barrels of Indian
corn from Liverpool, besides two vessels laden with pro-

-viflions

he use a

he poor on t

Iletatt SAVINGS BANKS.-Leinster, excluding the City
of Dublin itself, exhibits a total increase •in the deposits
on January 1, 1847, as compared with that day the previ-
ous year, of not less than £36,000. This would excite no
remark in ordinary years. The total deposits in the pro-
vince on the latest of those dates' are £965,315; and
1.36,000 is not much more than proportionate-to the usual
increase of population. The only remark to be made now
is that famine has not affected the saings of the people.
In Ulster the increase is greater, the total deposits under

the two above-nientioned dates be!
and £668,787. Even in Carman

verally £621,338

l►t the deposits ha

melancholy notoriety-as...
in it. - In - Munster the deposits have improved from
£1,045,584 to £1,107,280, and even at the focus of desti-
tutiOn,-Castle Townsbead; for the special relief of which
every parish in the empire has been privately, as well as
pubbely solicited, there" line been s most unaccountable
rise fr0m..41,571 t0,42.5m 51. It it wdrthy of remark, that
• the poitt exhibit theinoSt striking improvement. Drag.
hede, Thittdalk, Weiford, Belfast, Newry, Sligo, Cork.
and 'Waterford are among the chief examples of
mented deposits. Limerick, however, stands
head. Thera the totals at the two dates are .£l,
and 4189,37$ ' • the difference in favour of the later a..
being nearly £23,000.* Undonbtedly" the thought that
would first cross the -simple English mind, at the mentioir
Hof the savitiga'banks,is that they would exhibit, - in di
proportion, the drain on the general resources. A fain;-
people one expects to be poor. • A population -
millions, ourof whom three fir f""'

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largo por

!,ciatally dying, or dead, in (lit(

I As for taxes:they have ,lon
!:trarice. What vat) they pon,

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run away p;

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t.t -estimate -of the 113;11 eharacier

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