The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. C. G. Duffy has been declared a bankrupt.
A number of converts renounced the errors of .Roraan-
ism in St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, onSunday.
Mr. T. F. Meagher, who has lately undergone his trial
and been sentenced to death for high treason, was edu-
cated at Stonyhurst College.
Lord Roden took the chair at a very numerous Protes-
tant meeting in Belfast last week. Sir V. Verner, Col.
Blacker, John M'Neile, Esq., a.c., were present.
The belief that the writ of error raised by the Irish
state convicts will be successful is gaining ground in
Dublin.
The spy, Dobbin, left Clonmel on Tuesday. He was
accompanied about a mile outside town, on the Cashel
road, by a brace of policemen.
Immense numbers.of persons, principally belonging to
the class of small farmers, are daily leaving Ireland for
America. Late as the-season is, the tide of emigration is
considerably greater than in the spring and summer.
It is said that Smith O'Brien is filling up his leisure
time;by framing articles of impeachment against his pro-
secutors—ministerial and judicial—which he expects to
submit to the assembled Coronons before the next session
is many weeks old.
Cork was never so crowded at any period with country
beggars as at present. It is pitiable to see the groups in
families that throng the streets, some selling matches,
others singing Irish songs, and a third class clamouring for
money. They are wretchedly clad, and very filthy.
Conciliation Hall, Dublin, with the library, is advertised
for sale, in the middle of November. The debts are about
£l,OOO ; but the building may probably realise £7OO ; and
it has been examined in order to see if it would answer as
a Roman Catholic chapel.
It is said to be a fact, though it did not transpire in
evidence on the Irish state trials, that O'Gorman had on
one night 15,000 men under his command, fully armed,
together with about 2,000, who were but partially fur-
nished with the weapons of war ; but in the morning his
force was diminished to about 300.
On Thursday, as Major Phibbs was riding in a gig, near
Roscrea, with his servant, they were stopped by six
ruffians, who demanded their money. The servant hesi-
tating, was immediately shot. The major then delivered
his cash-box, containing £lBO, to the miscreants, who
decamped.
Itatsa SANITY.—The .Cork Reparler states that " It is
a curious fact, and most creditable to the officers of our
lunatic asylum, that out of nearly four hundred patients
there was, on Saturday last, not one person under re-
straint." From this it would appear that Paddy only
ceases to require restraint when lie becomes lunatic.
LIBERAL LANDLORDISM.—LOWI Rossmore has, in an
address to his tenantry in the county Monaghan, stated
that he had given instructions to his agent, not only to
remit 15 per cent. on the rents now.in course of payment,
but also to supply the tenantry with the best seed, for the
next year's crop, at cast price.
Mr. Thomas Darcy M'Gee, a leader of some notoriety
in therecent rebel organisation, has.sueceeded in effecting
his escape to the United States, where, it would appear,
he discovered that the American sympathisers with Irish
treason had formed a very contemptuous estimate of the
capacity and courage of the doughty revolutionary heroes.
A priest horsewhipped a comfortable.looking farmer in
a town in this county on Thursday. All we can say is,
that the farmer deserved it, as every one deserves it who
is servile enough to submit to it. He muttered audibly,
and twice or thrice turned threateningly round, while
smarting under the blows ; but beyond that he dared not
shew his discontent—Cork Constitution.
INSOLVENCY AMONGST FARMERS.—The Dublin Ga-
zette of Wednesday contains the names .of 98 insolvents
in the Queen's county, county of Clr re, county of Tippe-
rary, county of Limerick. county of Kerry, and county of
Cork ; of this number, 68 are set down as " farmers and
yeomen." On the previous Tuesday there were 132 insol-
vents, the majority of whom were farmers.
MURDER OF ANOTHER BAILIFF.—Dennis Cosgrave,
driver to Mr. Browne, agent and magistrate, of O'Brien's
Bridge, Limerick, was found dead near a ditch convenient
to his house, on Tuesday. His head was dreadfully shat-
tered. He was put into possession some time since of a
farm, from which a man named Dennis O'Brien was
evicted by Mr. Browne. Dennis O'Brien and his two
sons were arrested on suspicion oy Constable Morgan. of
the O'Brien's Bridge Station. A coroner's inquest has
been held, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" returned.
STATE PROVISION FOR THE ROMISH CLERGY.—A Ro-
man Catholic " Priest of the Archdiocese of Thane" fa-
vourable to the principle of a state provision for the
clergy, eeals somewhat hardly, if not irreverently, with
the resolutions relating to the question adopted by the
prelates at their recent meeting in Dublin. The T-uam
priest seems to think that the bishops have commenced
at the wrong end ; that before they ventured ro speak for
the clergy, who, he says, are at present suffering severe
privations, they ought to have furnished to the world
some proof of episcopal disinterestedness, and, as a rea-
sonable justification of this view of the matter, he lets the
public into a secret or two of the prison-house.
Mr. ODoherty was on Wednesday found guilty of
treason. He had been tried twice before. On Fri-
day the prisoner was brought to the bar to re-
ceive sentence. Judge Crampton addressed the prisoner
at some length, and concluded by saying, that the portion
of the press with which the prisoner had connected him-
self was the chief instrument in the creation of the dan-
gerous agitation that had prevailed. " I must add," said
his lordship, •• that t have never read soy publications
more dangerously wicked, and clearly designed to excite
rebellion and revolution than those publications which
have emanated from you, and of which you have been as-
certained by the verdict of your jury to have been the
guilty publisher. Under these circumstances, the court is
called upon to pronounce upon you the sentence of trans-
port akin for ten years."
TRIAL OF WILLIAMS.—Mr. Richard Dalton Williams,
the partner of Mr. O'Doherty in the ownership of the
Tribune, was brought to trial on Thursday. The case dif-
fered from that of O'Doherty in the point that no evidence
whatever was offered that Mr. Williams had written either
of the articles charged as treasonable. The Attorney-
General contended that the guilt lay in the publication,
and that it was immaterial who wrote or printed the arti-
cles. He threw the onus on the prisoner of proving that
he was ignorant of the treasonable nature of what he lied
published. The proofs were confined to the formal evi-
dences of ownership and publication. On Friday the Jury
returned a verdict of " Not guilty," as, though they found
that the prisoner was the publisher of the newspaper in
question, they did not believe he entertained the inten-
tions alleged. After sentence had been passed on O'Do-
herty, Williams was liberated.
THE WHIGS AND THE PRIESTS.—Monday night's
Dublin Herald contains the following statement :—" A
correspondent, the same whose accurate information ena-
bled us to anticipate Inspector Trant's disclosures respect-
ing priest Fitzgerald, has put us in possession of the
following startling narrative :—He states that a head-con-
stable, in the neighbourhood of Clonmel, told two gentle-
men, one of them a Protestant clergyman, in the Clonmel
court-house, on Thursday week last, ` that he had given
most important information as bearing upon Mr. Meagher's
case—namely, that he had seen him at the head of several
thousand men in arms, and two of the Carrick-on-Suir
priests with him, two days before the outbreak at Bailin-
garry.' This man happens to be a decided Protestant,
and gave information of what lie had seen. He was taken
up to Duldin, and when it was found that his informations
could not be made available against Meagher, without im-
plicating equally two Romish priests, he was not ca'led
upon to appear as a witness at all."
ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.—EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.
—The Jubilee Meeting of the Church Missionary Society,
held at the Rotunda, in Dublin, on Thursday last, was
the occasion of a most extraordinary scene. The Arch-
bishop of Dublin was presiding over the meeting ; and on
one of the speakers making a complimentary allusion to
the " venerated Prelate" who occupied the chair, hssses
and other marks of disapprobation proceeded from some
of the parties present, alleged to have been members of
the late Protestant Operative Association, and friends of
the Rev. T. D. Gregg. Order having been restored, the
business of the meeting proceeded, till the Archbishop,
haVing business to attend to elsewhere, rose to vacate the
chair, when he was assailed with fresh hisses, shouts of
" Maynooth ! Maynooth !" and other exclamations. The
Dean of St. Patrick's having been called to the chair in
the place of the Archbishop, and a vote of thanks to his
Grace having been proposed, the uproar was renewed.
The vote of thanks was declared to be carried, amidst
cries of " No, no !" and hisses. The chairman having
dissolved the meeting; Mr. T. H. Thompson, of Leeson-
street, who had previously asked leave to address the
meeting, but was refused, ascended the platform, and, in
a speech of considerable violence, justified the opposition
which had been manifested against the Archbishop. He
was proceeding to read an extract from the Archbishop's
" Christian Duty of Educating the Poor," when his voice
was drowned in cries of " Shame, shame," from the friends
of the Archbishop, he was knocked down from the plat-
form, and ultimately given in charge to the police. As it
appeared, however, that he had not used or threatened
any violence, but that the whole fracas was a mere " matter
of discussion," as the magistrates termed it, the complaint
against him was dismissed, and he left the office, threat-
ening to bring an action for false arrest against the rev.
gentleman, Dr. Fletcher, who had given him in charge.
CHARACTER OF DR. WHALE.—Dr. M`Hale practises
the profession (of beggary) on a much larger scale than is
known in St. Giles, or Clerkenwell, or the Borough, for
in fact he has a much larger field. Throughout his whole
career he has been sedulously employed in binding the
Celtic population of Ireland in the trammels of beggary,
and burying it under the squalor of barbarism. He is
always re-opening the sores of his country, administering
fresh goads to its morbid sensitiveness, deluding it into a
certain idea of the dignity of idleness, protracting its
quarrel with civilization, and instilling that sentiment of
class which produces honour among thieves, recognized
walks among beggars, and many other corruptions of
fraternity. Does heaven send a blight on the land and
warn a wretched race against the habits of savages and
the food of swine, Dr. M`Hale is ready to assure his poor
dupes that the act of Omnipotence is the fruit of Saxon
oppression. Does Government undertake the most im-
possible task of carrying seven millions of people through
a winter of famine and lavish its treasures with an unheard-
of profusion, Dr. M`Hale is ready to arraign, to misre-
present, to vilify, to denounce, the whole agency and
means necessary for that purpose. If half a day's work
is required, he calls it cruelty ; if half an hour's walk to
the meal-store, he calls it wilful murder. If clerks are
employed to pay wages and surveyors to measure work,
be calls it embezzlement and proclaims that all the money
has been squandered in jobs. If the English public in a
season of great straitness makes a voluntary subscription
for the Irish, larger than any voluntary subscription for
any purpose anywhere since the beginning of the world,
Dr. M`Hale suppresses the fact altogether, or, when it is
thrust on him, calls it an heretical device. If a perma-
nent system of public charity is founded on the principle
of making property do its duty to the poor, Dr. M`Hale
gives his prompt encouragement to the selfishness and
perverseness of those who, possessing the land and re-

ceiving its fruits, resist the payment of a moderate quota
to the poor. His only pritrc•ple is to denounce with equal
rage every work of a national, judicious, and effective
character.—Times.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

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INDIA.
The arrival of the overland mail has brought most im-
portant and rather unsatisfactory intelligence. Since the
time of the Cabool massacre, or of the Sikh invasion,
news of deeper interest has seldom left Bombay. There
can be no doubt that the Sikhs are in full rebellio n
only at Moultan and in the Hazareh country, but also at
Peshawur, Pathan, Rote, Nonpere, and other places,
there have been risings or .plottings ; several of the Sikh
Sirdars at Lahore have been arrested for holding treache-
rous correspondence with our enemies, while the fidelity
of whole Durbar is something more than suspected ; and
the clearest proof is said to exist of the complicity of Go-
laub Singh, the Maharajah of Cashmere, as well in the
conspiracy which has led to the present outbreak, as in all
the intrigues iu which our dear friends and allies have in-
dulged since Lord Hardinge placed little Dhuleep Singh
on the throne, anti " settled" the country. To add to
our mortification and to the inconveniences—not to say
perils—of our position, Rajoh Shore Singh, when the Bri-
tish authorities were weak enough to look upon as an ally
and supporter, has gone over to Dewan Moolraj, and we
have been compelled, in conseqtfence, after seven days'
operations before Moultan, to raise the siege of that for-
tress, and raise from its walls to a considerable distance—
the last accounts say "eighteen miles in the direction of
Bhawnlpore." During the siege many important advan•
tages were gained, at a large sacrifice of life, both amongst
officers and men ; but the defection of Shere Singh, who
had five thousand Sikhs under his command, totally al-
tered the complexion of affairs, and on the assembly of a
council of war it was decided that Moultan could not be
taken without a large addition to the British force, and
that the wisest course to pursue would be to withdraw the
troops, and wait until reinforcements could be supplied.
Accordingly, expresses were sent off to Lahore, Scind,
and Bombay, and every exertion is now being uked to send
an army promptly into the field. Twenly thousand men
will, it is said, be supplied from the north, while a force of
nine thousand, chiefly composed of Bombay troops, will
move up through.Scinde. Many of the corps are already
on their way to the scene of action. Subjoined is a list
of the killed during the operations against Moultan :
Lieutenant-Colonel R. T. R, Pattoun, and Quartermaster
L. Taylor, her Majesty's 32d Foot; Major G. S. Monti-
zambert, 14th Foot; Ensign C. 0. Lloyd, Bth Native In-
fantry ; and Lieutenant T. Cubitt, 49th Native Infantry.
Second only in importance to the rebellion at Mooltan is
the rising which has taken place in the Hazareh districts :
—" At the head of the insurrection there is Sirdar Chutter
Singh, father of Shere Singh, the new ally of Dewan
Moolraj. He is a chief of influence and eminence, and is
one of those who signed the" Hardinge Treaty." Being
at the head of a considerable force, he attacked our politi-
cal agents, Captain Abbott and Lieutenant Nicolson, who
had only some 1,500 country people under them, and
compelled them to tall back on Hussan Abdall. These
officers were now in danger of being driven into the fort
of Attock, and there besieged at great disadvantage; and
troops for their aid were consequently called for from the
Jullender, while Major Lawrence, at Peshawur, sent five
hundred men to their assistance.

AUSTRIA.-SIEGE OF VIENNA.

The intelligence received on Saturday relative to the '
siege of Vienna comes down to the 29th ult., at three
o'clock, p.m. The Preussische Staats-Anzeiger has the
following accounts :
On the 28th the fighting chiefly took place on the south
and east of the city, whilst on the west the barricades were
only heard by fits and starts. Towards evening the Ban's
troops had completely taken the suburbs Landstrasse and
Erdberg, and at that time occupied a position near the
Frausensbriicke and Meiergasse. at the entrance of the
Leopoldsstadt, which was commanded by the batteries.
The Glogenittz railway terminus had been defended with
great energy, but had been taken by the troops in the
course of the 28th, as well as the outer lines of the south
and east side, and of the faubonrg Wieden, which is stated
to be one of the principal seats of the resistance. The
Chasseurs were reported to hare taken in the Landstrasse
thirty barricades within three hours; the regiment of Nas-
sau (some companies of which had shown mutinous dispo-
sitions on the 6th of October,) is said to have especially
distinguished itself. In the suburbs, Landstrasse and
Lerchenfeld, the troops were favourably received by the
inhabitants, and flowers were thrown to them by the
ladies. It was also stated that a great number of the
National Guards had thrown away their arms, and that a
large quantity of weapons was found in the canal. The
operatives, on the other hand showed great prowess. No
students were to be seen, and it was therefore supposed by
some that they had laid aside the distinguishing parts of
their dress in order that they might not be recognised.
Only a very few shells had, according to all appearance,
been thrown into the town. Some houses, however, es-
pecially in the suburb of Weiden, had been set on fire by
rockets ; among others, a large manufactory near the
Gloggnitzz railway station. In the night of the 29th,
during which there was but little firing, the Belvedere,
the Schwarzenbergische Garten, the whole of the Tager-
zeile, and the Leopold-Vorstadt were occupied by the
troops, apparently without much resistance, so that the
Vionnese were on the acme,: and east side atmo3t confined
to the inner city. The officers declared in the suburbs
that the Prirce had occupied them chiefly in order to
spare them, in case a bombardment should become neces-
sary, and in order to be enabled to assign a place of refuge
to those citizens who would not take part in the combat
for the city itself. On the morning of the 29th a deputa-
tion had been seen coming from the city to head-quarters
and it was asserted that they had continued their way in
search of Prince Windischgr atz, who had set out on horse-
back to reconnoitre the Hungarians. Nothing yet was
known as to the result. It was stated that General Bern
and the students had declared they would resist to the
last. The Hungarians continued perfectly quiet. During
the engagement they had advanced nearer to the city, but
again fell back upon Briick. They had certainly not made
any attack, although a large column of smoke which rose
in the city was considered to be a signal of distress. At
half-past two o'clock, when the last intelligence was
despatched, the report of cannon was again heard.

The Turin parliament decided on the 24th inst. by a
large majority, against a resumption of the war.
The King of Denmark has just granted a liberal con-
stitution to his people.
At the present time only seventeen prisoners for debt
are confined in all the various prisons of Belgium.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler has applied for a mainte-
nance out of her husband's estate which has been condi-

tionally granted.
In Hungary, all Bishops appointed by the Sovereign
immediately perform every part of their functions which
relates to jurisdiction, before they have been confirmed
by the Pope.
RESTORED CONFIDENCE.—The Earl of Pembroke, who
had broken up his princely establishment in Paris on the
breaking out of the revolution of February, has just re-
turned to the French capital.
Prussia is suffering severely from the red republican
propagandists, who are striving to abolish all the royalties
of Gel many, and substitute one united republic in their
stead.
Advices from Constantinople of the 15th ultimo acquaint
us with another terrific fire at Pera, which occurred on
the 12th. The museum, mosque, hospital, medical
academy, and a number of other public and private build-
ings tin all about 280) were utterly destroyed. The loss
of property was immense.
An idea may be formed of the ruin which has over-
whelmed the shopkeepers of Paris since the revolution of
February, from the fact that there are at present twelve
shops unoccupied in the Passage des Panoramas, in which
one has never been known to be vacant since its foundation
until the present year.
M. Thalberg has arrived in London for the winter; he
quitted Vienna just before the outbreak. A gentleman
who has recently come from the " imperial city" states
that it is impossible to describe the dreadful condition of
the peaceable inhabitants ; and as regards music, not a
note is heard, even at the public places.
PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOUR.—The daughter of Fre-
derick Douglass, an amiable and gifted little girl of nine
years of age, has been expelled from Seward Seminary,
Rochester, State of New York, on account of her colour.
Happily, in five hours' time the doors of another highly-
respectable school were opened to receive her.
THE DEATH PENALTY BY WHOLESALE.—A negro
man, named Sam Humphrey, the property of Miss Her-
berts, was tried before the County Court of Alexandria,
on Tuesday, for burglary, and, being convicted, was sen-
tenced to be hung. There are only seventy offences for
which the penalty is death, if committed by a slave in
Virginia.—New York Post.
Accounts from Spain speak of the taking of the village
of Borja, in Bayonne, by a body of one hundred Carlists.
The greater part of Aragon is up in arms, and the refu-
gees are all gone to the frontiers. A decisive movement
is spoken of, an alliance having been entered into be-
tween the Carlists and the Progresistas, the basis of which
is, that the Conde de Montemolin shall be King, giving
the Progresistas a liberal constitution—an union much
like that of Protectionists and Chartists would be in
England, one of no inherent strength.
NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.—We have seen the first
number of " The Anglo-Maori Warder," published at
Auckland, on Tuesday, April 25, 1848. It contains lead-
ing articles, both in English and Maori, and has adopted
for its editorial motto, " Right is better than might,"
which, in Maori, is "I.a to tika i toa ai." The Warder
comments strongly on the disgrace which the colonial
newspapers have brought on the press by their personali-
ties, and records with approbation a sentence of two
months' imprisonment passed on the editor of the Albion,
for a libel on one of the colonial magistrates.
A VICTIM TO A THEORY.—The Boston Transcript, in
noticing the death of Lieutenant G. F. Ruxton, of the
British army, recently deceased at St. Louis, says,—" A
friend, who crossed the Atlantic with him in one of the
late steamers, informs us that he was a most intelligent
and agreeable companion, and that his object in revisiting
America was to verify a theory which he had confidently
formed, that the Moqui Indians of New Mexico are the
descendants of Prince Madoc of Wales and his followers.
While at Fort Leavenworth, Ruxton happened to enter
the log hut of an old negro woman. He had on a Moqui
blanket, and the old dame, atter examining it carefully,
exclaimed, That's a Welsh blanket ; I know it by the
wool.' She had lived with a Welsh family in her youth,
and had been teught their mode of weaving. From this
and other circumstances, Ruxton was possessed with the
idea that the Moquis were genuine Welshmen, and he
avowed his determination of investigating the question or
perishing in the attempt. Our friend tells us that the
gallant adventurer, at the same time, seemed to have a
presentiment of an early death. He has fallen a victim to
an epidemic which, both here and at the west, has been
unusually virulent the present season."