The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-17 00:00:00

We extract the following from the Waterford Chronicle

" GAULTIER.- DESPERATE RESISTANCE TO POOR-RATES

" The poor-law campaign has terminated here for
ethsepepiries,-
sweint
naon
odcci
ansaion
onf ngeur
arwrehlicahb
ofuutrnt
hi seh edsivtihsieoni novfadt ng army
as the novel mode of providing relief for the destitute
by a baronialsignal cattle lifting,' has proved a fail re poor
nu:nerous meeting of magistrates was held at the poor-house.A
on Saturday, on the requisition of Robert Fleming, Esq.,
poor-rate collector. The names of the gentlemen in atten-
dance we know not, any further than those of the Right
Worshipful Thomas Meagher, Esq., the Mayor, who acted
as chairman, and Lord Huntingdon—as the meeting was
strictly private. The question for debate was, whether the
military were to be' or ' not to be ' employed in this dis-
graceful and inglorious warfare ; and for the honour and
glory of the British arms we rejoice to find that they are
spared the degradation of being reduced to the level of com-
mon bailiffs, and, in all probability, the horrible necessity of
shooting down an unarmed population. The authorities
decided that the military should not be called out—a most
wise, and just, and humane decision, inasmuch as the people
in this vicinity had come to the firm determination of part-
ing with their lives rather than submit to the wholesale
mode of distraint sought to be enforced against them in this
instance. The people would rise, young and old, to the rescue,
ere they would submit to have their cattle forcibly taken—
even in the name of charity. The poor rate could not be
levied through the means proposed, except at the price of
blood. An impression had gone abroad that the cattle seized
would be exported for sale, in order to obviate the difficulty
of procuring purchasers at a poor-rate auction in this coun-
try. The knowledge of this fact added tenfold determina-
tion to the spirit of resistance by which the people were
animated. Were we to leap upon the tops of the bayonetsheard
we will die before we let our cattle go,' was a saying we
amongst a party of Gaultier men. At the very fiercest.stage
of the anti-tithe warefare we never witnessed such a spirit of
deadly hate to the law, and fixed resolve to resist, through
tire, and smoke, and steel-115 actual thirst for war even to
the death, rather than submit to the system of legislation
adopted by the collected wisdom of poor law authorities upon
this occasion. The very first seizure effected would have
been the signal for a popular outbreak. Nor would it have
ended in a mere temporary riot. The first shot fired, we
have no doubt, would be a signal for a general rising—an
insurrection' throughout a great portion of the county of
Waterford. Notices were posted extensively throughout the
county on Sunday morning, calling upon the people to mleys eet
at the scene of action on Monday, and to bring their hnr
with them. Mounted men were posting e ress to distant
xp
quarters at all hours for the last two or three eventful days.
Plans of attack and defence were discussed and deliberated
upon, with a seriousness that bespoke a deadly resolve 7
men, women, and children were resolved to die upon their
tresholds rather than surrender.
" There is one very unusual feature connected with this
revolt, that the landlords in Gaultier are principally of the
conservative class—we do not mean to say that Oils circum-
stance is at all connected 'with the recent occurrences, and
we merely point it out as the first instance that bas ever oc-
curred within our recollection, where the 'population and
landlords eken of different creeds and politics were alike hos-
tile to the operation of Saxon law. The evacuation of Gaul-
tier by the constabulary, and consequent cessation of
hostilities, will prove a death-blow to the system.
" FOUR o'CLocx.—An immense body of men, amounting
to some thousands, armed with sticks and clubs, haue just
paraded the city, rending the air with their shouts. They
are principally Gaultier men, reicforced by numbers from the
adjoining counties of Wexford and Kilkenny. Up to this
date they have conducted themselves
peeaceably—ruour has
it that they are about proceeding to take possessiomn of the
poorhouse and turn out the inmates. The mayor and autho-
rities are on the alert, but as yet we see no grounds for ap-
prehension that any outrage will be perpetrated. The mili-
tary,
rjeuasdt
niensfso rt
orn er
repel
e lh
tahvee t
hg
roeta t e directions
ned a t
attack
kto o
nh
the
ed
themselveswe in are
poor-house."

EARTHQUAKE IN LANCASHIRE.—We learn that a slight
shock of earthquake was experienced about twenty m
antes
past eight o'clock on Friday Morning last, through
siderable part of the district to the north-eastward of Man
chester. The convulsion was indicated by a rumbling sound
an.d a rather sudden shock, which induced many persons to
think that some very heavy body had been suddenly thrown
down in their houses. Its centre appears to have been in
the chain of hills that separate yorkshire
e and Lancashand inithere ;
and it was more particularly felt abouthdale,
Todmorden valley, where in some cases it caused
able alarm. alarm. We have not heard tit was
having been perceived
in the town of Blanchester; but it was felt by several families
living in the immediate neighbourhood, and more particularly
at Cheetham Hill. This shock forms the thirdly that has been
experienced during a few years past, apparent having about
the same
range
but the two former (one of which tooklace
on tb 20th ofAugust, 1835, and the other on the lltb June,
1839), were considerably lucre violent than the one on Friday
morning.—Manchester Guardian

SUBSCRIPTION.—In No. 90 of the Tracts for the Tunts,
the solemn subscription to the articles is thus got rid of :
" We have professed, in the words of the Canon, ' that the
Book of Prayer, &c., containeth in it nothing,pntrary to
the word of God. ' Now, a position like this [that it is
" against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time
in more places than one ;19 " may not be, and is not ' con-
trary to the word of God,' and yet need not be true ; e. g.,
we may accept St. Clement's Epistle to the Corinthians, as
nothing contrary to Scripture, nay,
containing as altogether
most scriptural, and yet this would not hinder us from re-
jecting the account of the Plicenix—as contrary, not to God's
word, but to matter of fact. Is it not lamentable, that the
man who could write, and deliberately publish, and re-
publish, such a sentence as this, should be officially held up
to the young men of Oxford as a safe guide and mentor ?
been
vaeepnielir.ws:citerhenitenleyr,, the last week, we have seen the candidates for a
vacant Scholarship in that University, desired, by public
notice,e to leave their names with ' Mr; Newman be having
appointed
received,
oEuxnatmci,
of
ear . ' ' '
wt7i:ErLecAurcrce taNtvT.--raWy.e
ifitnadpipneatrhse United States
dreadful accident
that a portion of
the hill (Mount Ida) gave way and fell, burying beneath the
ruins eight or ten buildings occupied by poor families. It is
snc?sed that from thirty to forty persons were in these
buildings at the ti me, only ten or twelve of whom have
escaped. Within one hour of the occurrence, nine bodies
were dug out of the rubbish, five of which were without life,
one partially injured, and three not beyond recovery. Had
the accident occurred in the night, the loss of life would have
been greater. The land-slide was from the same portion of
the hill which fell on the Ist of January, 1837, so deplorable
in its consequences. A farmer passing at the
time of the
accident saved his life by leaping from his sleigh ;
his horse,
were killed and his load buried beneath the earth.
ion. The
The scene
describedm ttohehbativieldbineesn and a corps . one of horrid des
efficient men
olat
people collected in thousands, of
were engaged in penetrating the earth and clearing away the
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KILKENNY ASSIZES-- g
SATITRDAY, MARCH 11.—At four
o'clock this day the Hon. Baron Lefroy proceeded to the
city court to open the commission. As soon as the grand
jury had been re-sworn by the deputy clerk of the crown.
His Lordship said—Mr. FOren3an and gent of
of the
should be wanting in my diti.tymi:
grand jury, as the bearer of her Majesty's commission I
wladeitd
enfotretsapkeeetthaehfidrstmo-
:client to observe on the paiP---- 'in atten-
tion with which commission has been received the city of
Kilkenny. Not one of the civil authorities, of either city
mission. I was obliged to depend on the intelligence of the
poorscto.buonytyftotuhnodugohuttprtohpeerpto meet the bearer of that corn-
and on the county sheriff in
lace at which I.
ewas to stop. I
will have an opportunity of showing—and
sttthrealsnlueicmxhtp. ousnTepahaerfiydneee
icilhnl
et the city
neglect,
e riffs ni tl4 fa rs t insta n ce ,
,d.otletrwwistse-dla
I hope they will be enabled to do so
pact .want of res.
ya7evdeer-y
ptneeerce
emt
siansraeordsye thattf rhoa from h
eos onfimeteehsi es
sx,
hcaaul sl al
si 13:leg
ee i
sra:—tsantry in Achil,
peculiarly
piubliemar_kea
betwteeen the revenue police
d to her majesty's com-
mission.
proper respect should have been
FATAL AFFRAY WITH TOR REVENUE POLICE.—The
nrc;aigcstee
hMaavyeetoCeOtaitatieittahiairiCoo nentaial" We regret to
of illicit and also took four
stationed at Newport and
one of the latter lost his life. It
some
s 1 followingeemh on the Ist inst.
the police, under the command .of
spirits,Lieutenant Newcomer,
made seizure of a quantitY
nooaga, after which th
prisoners into custody, at A, . --e party were
attacked by a number of the pe.asantry with stones.
this some of the police fired, and one of the islanders Upon
named
Thomas Masterson, was shot dead. Next da ' -
y an inquest
was held. It appeared that only two of the poli fired -
ce red after
the stones had be thrown. The. amount of provocation was
witnesses, but it seems
not stated by the . the deceased was
prominent among .
those who attacked the police.
t .--' That e. The jury
returned the following verdict .
firedbythe deceased came to
his death by a gun-shot wound . . a
.revenue policeman
and we find that he was not justified in doing so from the evi:
he •
deuce produced.' None oft
shot.witnesses examined could
identify the m who fired the. _ One of the peasantry
named Dever, bad been committed for having on that occa-
sion
obstructed the police in the execution of their
the prisoners from duty, and
encouraged others to rescue them.

.finI•TAN ABDUL
'l.:,ifs present from Ali
iultan, has been
Norfolk-street,
-gslitnr
cees
ts,
Palace.Tatmt
MAGNIFICENT PRESENT TO THE SULTAN
present, which
MED.tin.—A most superb and elaborately
iPsrliinn Prince
shed specimen
of English manufacture, intended as a
Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador, to the
inspected by her Majesty and his Royal
Taunton,
ton, London, at a cost of 500 guineas, is
more than the ordinary size, coveredawnin,
wAalbsemaa,nautfal3citsuerkeidngblyialllllr.
umbrella, of little
crimson satin, manufactured in Spitalfields'h rich brocaded
purpose. The whole of the:metal of w' • expressly for the
of pure gold. The handle, which open which it is composed is
contains a gold chronometer, the dials with a secret spring,
inch and a half in diameter. The of which is about an
noreeter unscrews, and beneath ispaart containing the chro-
(the plate of gold), set with a sun-dial and compass
valuable
water; and upon this portion of the handleebrilliant of the first
the following articles are beautifully being unscrewed,
ments.....A thermometer, a pe - •
arranged, in six compart-
knife with two blades, tbe t ncil-case •ind watchkey, a
- s ar and e
side of the handle, a comb, a
tooth rescent engraved on either
circular case, containing, in thre pick A
, anu an ornamented
gold pencil-holder. In the e divisions, 25 leads for the
next compartment
is a mirror, set in a bordering of the handle
which is of gold, highly e of chased gold. The tube,
work and flowers (when d' ngraven, with a design of scroll-
latter of which contains
aivested of the handle and ferule, the
tnented and carved in oldrwetful microscope, richly orna-
form a telescope, with ga
, is so ingeniously contrived as to
tube to adapt it to var. twenty miles' range, having a sliding
is enclosed in a red various sights and distances. The whole
white satin, with morocco case lined with green velvet and
thestar and crescent emblazoned at the
four corners and in
the centre. The two massive handles;
old.
and the locks, keys, and hinges are of solid g
fortnight a new
STEAM NAvIGATIoN. D '
uring the last
steam-vessel has made several trips up and down the river,
and her speed has created very great astonishment. She has
been built for the Waternieri's Stearn Packet Company, by
Messrs. Napier, the engineers of Millwall, whose two fast
boats, the Eclipse and Isle of Thanet, excited great attention
onats,
the Rarrisgate and Margate station last year. The hull
of the new vessel is formed of iron, and the immense speed
has been obtained by an improvement of a very peculiar de-
scription. There is a false bottom, which forms a condenser ;
and, by condensing the steam in the vacuum thus formed,
the whole power of the engine (for there is only one, and of
no more than 30-horse power) is applied to the driving of
the boat, instead of being wasted in pumping water into the
ordinary condensers. The steam is drawn into the conden-
ser by an air-pump, and the cold water passes under and
over it. The machinery occupies a very small space, and the
consumption of fuel does not exceed a ton and a half per day.
With these N ery small means, Messrs. Napier have succeeded
in obtaining a speed unequalled in the annals of steam navi_
gation. Her ordinary speed with the tide is 18 wiles an hour;
but she has actually proceeded down the river with the ebb-
tide at the rate of 19 or 20 miles an hour. In one of her
recent trips, she performed the distance from London Bridge
to Greenwich Hospital, exactly five miles, in 16 minutes,
and on the following afternoon the same distance was effected
in one minute less. The Father Thames, a very fast Graves-
end steamer, with two engines and machinery of 35-horse
power each, was passed by the new steamer, and there '
nothing on the river which can at all compete with her. Sheis
is to be called 'Waterman No. 9, and is intended toply
tween the Adelphi pier and the watermen's floating-pier be-
at
Greenwich. The new steamer in appearance •
but a handsome one; but for strength andis anything
never been surpassed.—Dirmes. speed she IHHI