The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

TacENniARY FIRE. On the morning of Wednesday
week, a dreadful conflagration took place at Springfield
Castle, in Limerick, the seat of Lord lluhkerry, where a
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£5OO, was maliciously consumed.
The mills in the Royal William Victualling Yard, at
Plymouth, are immediately to commence grinding, night
and day. Indian corn, for the supply of the distressed
It is expected they will perform about eighty
luarters, or 38,4031b5. of meal per day.
Very recently, at Dungartion, in the county of Cork,
',ere the average rate of wages is from 6d to Bd. a-day,
,ple were quite indignant, in fact, riotous, at learn-
were only to have Iod. a day on the public works,
and they modestly demanded 2s.
On Wedresdiy, Colonel Westenra and Mr. Palmer
Doolin, of Sbinow, and a magistrate of King's county,
were out shooting, when, by some accident, the Colonel's
gun exploded, sending its contents through the lungs of
Mr. Doolin, who only survived an hour.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Ar the usual weekly meeting
of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the rent amounted
only to £6l. A. letter was read from Mr. O,Connell re-
lative to the existing distress in the country, and the mea-
sures to be adopted for its relief. One of the sth Dra-
goon Guards was proposed as a member, but his admission
was suspended until legal advice could be taken.
TRADE OF DROGHEDA.—The Drogheda Argus of
last week says:—During the week ending yesterday, no
less than nine steam-ships left our port, besides several
sailing vessels. We do not recollect any week in which
so large a number of live stock was shipped hence. There
were of horned cattle, 2,670 ; sheep, 2,065 ; pigs, 2,342 ;

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horses, 46
Tun RENTAL OF TRiLAND.—LORI Mountcashel, in
a letter to the Cork Constitution, says that the income
arising from Ireland is £13,000,000. This sum, when
compared with £85,800,000, which is the annual rental of
property in England and Wales, will show how limited
the resources of Ireland are, independent of the capital,
commerce, trade, and manufactures possessed by the
sister country ; independent also of the charges and lia-
bilities affecting Irish estates.
On Thursday, a number of men, women, and boys en-
tered the village of Castlemartyr, Cork, and after march-
ing through it, entered the baker's and huxter's shops,
and seized on all the bread 'hey could lay their hands on.
They then went to the residence of the Earl of Shannon,
and threatened to pull the castle down, but a troop of the
Ist Dragoons coming up, they were prevented. The agent
of his lordship had been sent that very morning to Cork,
to buy £lOO worth of meal for gratuitous distribution
among the poor of the village. Such is Romish gratitude.
Disranss—Government have resolved upon
employing all the available steam vessels in her Majesty's
service in carrying food from the English and Scotch
ports to those districts of Ireland in which the people are
most distressed. The price of food will, it is expected,
be much lower in a few months than it is at present, from
the numerous heavy orders sent out to America for Indian
meal and flour. On the arrival of those provisions in this
country or in Scotland, they wiil immediately be tran-
shipped in the government steamers to the different ports
of Ireland to which we have referred.
TrtE POTATO CROP—GRATIFYING FICATIIRES.—SOIDD
euxicm,facta-............werng-iekwerammetrcton art-tlmpotEtto -Crap btu
Ireland have been elicited within the last few days. It is
ascertained that in consequence of the continued run of
fine weather a sanitary process had set in, and that those
which were sickly (wet and soapy) have recovered. A
gentleman residing in the county of Wicklow, for instance,
has two acres of potatoes planted on mountain land, which
a month age he gave up as totally and irretrievably lost;
on trying them again last week, be found but few rotten,
and the rest rostored to health, forming an abundant crop,
though still small in size. He reports the same of all his
neighbours' farms ; in short, in that district it is asserted
there will be no want, if an artificial one is not created.
It has been also discovered that where a single stalk has
not survived on the ridge, and that the whole field ap-
peared blighted, the tubers are yet to be found healthy,
with a comparatively small per centage of loss. In one
case the actually rotten did not exceed 10 per cent. upon
the whole. This is not an isolated case; subsequent trials
have led to similar discoveries in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the metropolis.
RIOTS.—On the 24th instant, the extraordinary ses-
sions took place at Clashmore, Tipperary. Lords Hun-
tingdon, Stuart, and several magistrates attended. An
immense concourse of people collected, some of the crowd
asked would they be put to work next morning? They
were answered that every arrangement was making to give
them employment as soon as possible. This exasperated
them and they got furious. They abused Lord Stuart
when he came out of the court, and it was with difficulty
he was enabled to get on his car, and escape. Several
called out "to kill him." They followed his lordship
along the road, but the horses in the carriage were kept at
the fullest speed, and thus his lordship esc iped. Sir R.
Musgrave had to take shelter in a house. The dragoons
were pelted with stones from all directions. There are a
number of high walls in the neighbourhood, which af-
forded great facilities to the mob of attacking the military
with impunity. The dragoons had to retreat for the pur-
pose of loading, one man was knocked off his horse, and
several were severely cut. Lord Huntingdon, used every
exertion to pacify and calm the mob which his lordship
ultimately succeeded in doing. Such conduct must be
put down, or there is no knowing where it will end. %Ve
understand that a very fine Durham cow, value £3O, was
taken by the mob from the demesne of Muckridge, and
roasted in the town of Youghal, where it was speedily
THE RIVER PLATE. devoured.
Intelligence has been received via Falmouth, from THREATENED RIOT AT KILWORTH.—It is with regret
Monte Video, to so recent a date as the 28th of July. we have to state that a disposition to riot and intimidation,
Matters continued in the same unsettled state, and there in parts of this county hitherto peaceable and orderly, is
was little prospect of a speedy adjustment of differences every day more visible. On Monday night fires blazed,
between the opposing factions, will remained in the field and horns sounded throughout the districts of Fermoy,
without making any decisive movement. Mr. Hood, the Kilworth, and Arnim. Meetings of the relief committees
British Commissioner, had gone to Buenos Ayres, but had previously to be held in Fermoy and Kilworth on the
whether Ile had been able to accomplish anything had not Tuesday. Early in the morning a threatening notice was
transpired, though it was supposed something had been found thrust under the hall door of the Earl of Mount-
done, as an improvement bad taken place in Buenos Ayres cashell ; at the hour of twelve, his lordship walked from
paper currency. The general opinion was, that there his mansion to the town to attend the committee, where
would be no peace with Rosas. On the 18th of July, he found thousands pouring in in bodies from the adjacent
the grand anniversary of the country, the government glens and mountains. Fearing a serious breach of the
sent a flag of truce. to Oribe's camp, to propose an ex- peace, he lost no time in sending a requisition to the
change of prisoners, but the humane appeal being consi- 'officer in command of the 77th regiment stationed at Fer-
dered deficient in respect to Rosas' Lieutenant was not moy, and took other precautions for the maintenance of
admitted. The enemy has evacuated the department of public order. Dense masses of the people with imple-
Maldonado, and marched towards the lines. Rivera is talents of husbandry in their bands, soon co:locted in
still at Las Vacas. front of the Police•barrack, where the Relief Committee
had met, filling up every space in the broad street :
Tbirty-three thousand copies of the sacred Scriptures at first they appeared to be peaceably inclined, but
have been sold by the colporteurs of France during the when their numbers increased to some thousands, their
last three months. riotous intentions became more apparent ; shouts, yells,
SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—This eminent diplomatist, and threats were loudly uttered, and when the Rev.
has been gazetted Governor of the Cape of Good Hope Mr. Daly, the parish priest, interposed, his advice was
and the adjacent territory belonging to Great Britain. unheeded, and on one occasion he was insulted. The
A druggist and his pupil have recently been brought up mob now determined to attack the shops : they first went
before the tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris, on a to a baker, named Barrett, who, to protect himself from
charge of manslaughter for having sold syrup of poppies violence, delivered up what bread he had in his premises.
to'a woman for administration to her infant. The child Putting a loaf of bread on the top of a long pole, they
died, and the accused have been remanded. then paraded the town, bodies of labourers following in
Count Sternberg, the celebrated German geologist, has procession with their spades shouldered like firelocks.
ordered in his last will, that his body shall be inclosed in Next they proceeded to the house of a publican, named
the hollowed-out trunk of one of those gigantic antedilu- O'Brien, whose windows they broke, and from whom
vian palm-trees, which have assumed the hardness of the they extorted food : a violent woman, named Nancy
most compact sandstone. We are not aware whether his Hyde, on this occasion took a leading part, and made
desire has been already carried into effect. herself very conspicuous in heading the rioters. After
Mr. Newman is on his way to Rome, where he will re- this they proceeded in great force to Lord Mountcashel's
main some months. The Univerg contains an account of demesne gate, which the porter refused to open for them,
his reception at Paris, which was most cordial on the part and which they, with vociferations, attempted, but vainly,
of the ecclesiastical authorities. The Archbishop of Paris to break. At this critical moment a body of the police
and the Nuncio of the Pope paid great attention to this made their appearance, inside his lordship's grounds, and
distinguished theologian. the rioters immediately retire'l. Almost at the same time
It is rumoured that the ticklish question of Tahiti is a strong body of the 77th Regiment marched into the
entirely settled between Lord Palmerston and M.Guizot ; town, and having taken up a position in front of the
that the French protectorate is to remain as at present Police Birracks, the rioting ceased. Soon after the
established, and a line of demarcation to be agreed on rioters began to retire to their homes, and the magistrates,
between the two governments. Queen Pomare is to be military, and police, having remained until all was quiet,
reinstated in part of her dominions. I some time after returned to their quarters.—Cork paper.
COLONIAL GOVERNORS.—Friday's Gazette contains ; RIOTS AT YOUGHAL.—Afier a public meeting, held
the appointment of Sir Charles E. Grey to be Governor
of Jamaica ; Lieut.-Col. Reid to be Governor of the
island of Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago, and
St. Lucia; and Captain Elliott to be Governor of the
Bermudas

SPAIN.
The Times of Tuesday says, that praparations for the
marriage of the Duke de Montpensier were nearly com-
plete, and it was still deemed that government had gone
too far to recede. Nevertheless, a misgiving about the af-
fair was entertained somewhat genera'•ly, because of the
silence of the British cabinet, and of the probability of an
insurrectionary war in Spain. The funds continued to
fall, under this impression, on Sunday, and attempts were
of course made to check that tendency. Among the
means resorted to with that object was a report that the
King of the French had announced to the British govern-
ment his readiness to renounce all claim of the descend-
ants of his son to the Spanish crown. This, if true, would
put an end to the question ; but it was not credited. Our
correspondent states, however, on what he deemed excel-
lent authority, that King Louis Philippe wrote from La
Ferte Vidame, on Friday last, to her Majesty Queen Vic-
toria, a deprecatory letter of 12 pages, in which he detailed
the progress of the Montpensier marriage. and described
it as a matter long resolved or. He, of course, prayed his
august ally to acquiesce in the match, and concluded by
expressing his intense anxiety to learn the views and the
resolve of the British cabinet. " Tbis letter," says our
correspondent, " left Paris for London yesterday by a
Cabinet courier, after having produced, I am assured,
very serious disapprobation among his Majesty's advisers.
The King, who was to have remained longer at La Ferte
Vidame, returned to St. Cloud last night. lam assured
that it was intended that, instead of the 24th instant, the
Duke de Montrensier should have left Paris for Spain
this day, and that his departure had been postponed in
consequence of the arrival of a messenger from Madrid
with a copy of the instructions sent Mr. Bulwer by Lord
Palmerston, a report of what passed between our minister
and Senor Itturiz on communicating those instructions,
and despatches from M. Bessan, Queen_ Christina, and
M. Isturiz." _

The Infante Don Enrique had addressed to the Presi-
dents of both Chambers of the Legislature a protest
against the marriage of the Infanta Luisa with the Duke
de Montpensier. He had done so as a member of the Royal
Family of Spain, and as such interested in the question of
the eventual succession to the throne, decreed to his
family by the Constitution, in case of the failure of direct
issue from the daughters of Ferdinand the Seventh.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Madrid, 18th instant,
announces that the Cortes adopted on that day, unani-
mously, with the exception of one vote (159 to 1,) the
address in reply to the message from the Queen.
It was believed in Paris that the Duke de Broglie was
about to leave for London on a mission from the French
government.
The departure of the Duke de Montpensier was said to
be fixed for Saturday.

The Paris correspondent of the Herald, in a postscript
to his letter of Thursday evening, says :—" It is asserted
positively, by persons generally well informed, that the
French Government received last night a telegraphic
despatch, announcing that Mr. Bulwer had, in conformity
with instructions from his Government, protested form-
ally against the marriage of the Infanta with the Duc de
Montpensier. To this rumour may unquestionably be
attributed the heavy fall that took place to-day in all
public securities on the Bourse."

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listrer•sed populaticn, a 1
pally labourers fritn the rural districts
meditating mischief. In the after-

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bled in the town,

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noon, they began to carry their intentions into execution.
They pro'►ibited the further shipping of grain at the
quay; and grain to be delivered at the corn merch-►nts
stcres was driven out of the town by force. Every
baker's shop in the town that was not closed was rifled,
and all business suspended. The military and constables

SWITZERLAND.--DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF
LIFT.—Un thenight of the 15th September a conflagra-
tion burst out in the hotel of the Crown, at Tavannes, in
"-orland, not far from Berne. There were thirty-
-ors staying at the hotel, six of whom perished
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in the flames. M. iimmertengin!er, in:chief of the Can-
ton of Thun, was on the point of jumping from a window,
when the floor fell in with a loud crash, and he perished.
Two more persons have since died from their wounds.
Moat of the travellers were Englishmen. • -

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were ordered out, anct enueavouiu to imibudne coeni to
Leave the town, which they did at night (alit. In the
night, the portcullis of the bridge, connecting the counties
of Cork and Waterford, was raised.and taken possession
of. On Tuesday, a quantity of Indian heal, intended for