The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

lout much opposit

declaring that—

'As South Carolina cannot sub-

mit to the wrongs and aggressions which have been
perpetrated by the Federal Government and the Northern
States without dishonour and ruin, it is necessary to
relieve herself therefrom, whether with or without the co-
operation of other Southern States." " Concert of
action with the neighbouring States of the South," was
also resolved upon, as being " worth many sacrifices,
but not the sacrifice involved in submission."
From the Southern ports a vast number of rumours

continue to be received touching the piratical expedition
against Cuba ; the expedition on the one hand, being de-
scribed as postponed, and on the other as merely aban-

ARRIVAL OF SALDANHA AT LISBON

The Duke of Saldanha and about 3.000 of his " rege-
nerating" army arrived at Lisbon on the 15th instant, in
six steam transports. Their reception was enthusiastic in
the extreme, nor did any disturbance worth recording oc-
cur to diminish his Grace's gratification upon the occa-
sion. The day was not a regular holiday, but the inhabi-
tants of Lisbon made it one, and kept up their vivav until
past midnight. The Queen and King came in for a very
small share of attention ; in fact, a single viva was not
given to them during the day, except by the Duke of Sal-
danha himself after he had landed and formed his troops
in the great square, and by a few soldiers at the theatre,
where their Majesties appeared at night in their private
box for the first time since the fall of Count Thomar's
Cabinet. No kind of notice was taken of their arrival be-
yond the strict demands of customary etiquette, i. e., the
gentlemen in the pit took off their hats and sat down to
allow the opera to commence, which it usually does upon
their Majesties' appearance in their box. A minute had
barely elapsed, however, when the Duke and part of his
staff entered the box usually occupied by the Ministry,
and the whole house rose with hearty and prolonged ac-
clamations of ' Hurrah for the Duke of Saldanha !—` for
the charter reformed !'—' and for the regenerating army !'

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As before stated, these were the generarrivas of the day,
that in favour of the Duke being by far the most prevalent;
in fact, little else was heard during the day.

Orders have been issued from the Treasury Department
of the United States permitting merchandise to be here-
after withdrawn from warehouse and exported to the Bri-
tish provinces of Canada, &c. without the payment of
duties; a measure which, it was expected, would render
New York the great seaport of Canada and immensely in-
crease the business of the canals, &c.

MANNERS IN ALABAMA.—The Greenboro' Beacon
gives the following, under the head Heart-rending
Tragedy :"—A most heart-rending tragedy was enacted
in our village yesterday. The parties engaged in it were
Mr. Elisha W. Harris, Dr. Platt Crown, and Mr. Plea-
sant May. Mr. Harris was killed. Dr. Crootn was shot.
we learn, in both arms and one shoulder: his wounds,
however, are not dangerous. Mr. May was also badly
wounded. Some six or eight pistol shots were fired, and
the wonder is, that all three of the parties were. not

_....,gating commenced near the Postoffice door,
and was continued across the street to the old Mansion-
house, where Mr. Harris received a bowie-knife wound,
inflicted- by Dr —bieh caused his death almost
urbulent. instantaneousl-

I that the
hands.

went between

F. The quarrel had its origin in a disagree-
Mr. Harris and Dr. Croom, in regard to a

fence boundar

IRELAND.
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Sheep are so scarce in Ireland, that large droves are
being imported from Scotland and England.
Several mills in the county of Gaiway have been con-
verted into workhouses.

The Dowdstown national school, in the county. of
Louth, was maliciously set on fire and destroyed on Sun-
day.

mon Journal states, that in one day hist
„is nua.her of 1,563 paupers applied for
ossion into one of the union workhouses in that

The Rosc

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Last week

Lord Ularendon was served with a writ in
libel at the suit of Mr. Martin Burke, who
famous letter alleged to

was charged with perjury in the
have been written by his lordship

Typhus fever, similar to that which usually results from
bad and insufficient food, is becoming very, prevalent in
Cork. A hundred patients are at present in the fever
hospital there.

Mr. James Brown, a linen merchant, of Lurgan, died
last week, and bequeathed £2OOO for the home mission of
the Presbyterian Church, and another sum of the same
amount for the Presbyterian schools in Connau,ht.
A Sligo paper states, that of 1,200 emigrants from that
t a third were of the middle class, and that a
'istrate of the county had lately broken up his esta-
mt with the intention of following.
' inquests have been held at the hospital,
,merick, and another at Nenagh, Tipperary, on the bo-
dies of three men who were found dead in outhouses. The
juries returned the oft-repeated verdict—" Died of star-
vation and destitution."

,ort, at leas:

o coroners

ACCELERATION OF THE MAILS FROM IRELAND.--
The Postmaster General purposes carrying into effect, in
conjunction with the authorities of the London and North-
Western and Chester and Holyhead Railway, an arrange-.
ment by which passengers, letters, and newspapers, leav-
ing Dublin at seven p.m. each evening, will reach London
at half-past ten a.m. the following day, instead of at one
p.m., as at present. This will save a day for the course
of post between London and the whole of Ireland.
POPISH VIOLENCE.—Last week we noticed the wanton
attack made on the Rev. Dr. Dill, and a party of Pro-
testants returning from public worship on the Sabbath
evening, by the Popish mob of. Milltown. We have this
evening to record a renewal of that savage and intolerant
conduct towards the same unoffending people, on last Sab-
bath, when returning, asbefore, from evening service. Dr.
Dill has felt himself coerced, by this second attack, to issue
summonses against the leaders in this unmanly system of
outrage.—Kerry Post.

TICF; POPUL;TION OF IRELAND.—The recent census
returns show to what an alarming extent the Irish popu-
lation has diminished. The population of Limerick, in
1841, was 48,391; according to the present returns, it is
in round numbers, 44,000 ; showing a decrease of 4,000 :
but this return, it is stated, does not include the union
workhouses. In one of the baronies of the Queen's
county, Slievemargue, as we recently mentioned, the
population has diminished from 17,014 to 11,500, a falling
off to the extent of more than thirty per cent. In
Carlingford. County of Louth, the number of inhabitants
has decreased from 1,110 to 887, or in the proportion of
twenty per cent., and we learn that nearly one hundred
have emigrated since the enumeration. The only return
we have yet seen from Connaught is given in the Galway
Vindicator, respecting the parish of Annadown. In
1841, the population of that rural parish was 7,108; in
1851, it is reduced to 3,663, showing a diminution of
3,445, or very nearly one-half ! Ten years since, there
were 864 families in Annadown, now there are but
454. This, certainly, is a startling disclosure. Where
Protestantism however prevails, a very different result
appears. In Belfast, for instance, the population has
trebled in the last thirty years. The addition to the
population since 1841 has been 37,000, or exactly equal
to the whole population in 1821.

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CONDITION OF IRELAND.—Every post brings its con-
tribution to the stock of emigrants from the sister isle.
The Westmeath Guardian says, " The emigrants are as
numerous as ever; all the public conveyances are daily
loaded with them, all of whom seem to have been of the
more comfortable class of small farmers. Hundreds of
less means arrive on drays and on foot." The King's
County Chronicle informs us that, " not a day passes
without several people leaving Roscrea far abroad." The
Mayo Constitution states that " the emigrant crowd is
daily increasing. Every day whole families are on the
move. At the fairs, the chief vendors of cattle are in-
tended emigrants, and our streets on market days are
turned into marts for the sale of every description of
furniture." The Waterford Mail, Limerick Chronicle,
Kerry Post, and other papers, announce the departure
of a number of vessels crammed with emigrants, and
many others are to follow. Pauperism is fearfully on the
increase. In the Carlow Union the number of paupers
on the books is 2,737. At Kilkenny the number is
4.317, being 532 more than there is accommodation for,
and additional houses arc to be taken. In Waterford
vagrancy is terribly on the increase, and the guardians
have issued a notice to the inhabitants requesting them to
refuse all relief to beggars, who are to be imprisoned, (if
found soliciting alms) with hard labour, and short diet.
THE CONVENTUAL SYSTEM.—A few years since, a
circumftance came to light which seemed to involve a nun
in one of the convents of the wect of Ireland in a swindling
transaction, at least so far as being a party to a fraudulent
attempt to obtain roods from a tradesman. It was soon
ascertained that she was thus implicated, in connection
with a priest, for whom she had conceived an attachment.
The scandal which the exposure of this, if once made
public, was calculated to bring upon the convent, led to
the following device. The nun, unconscious of what was
intended, was induced to go on hoard a merchant vessel
about to sail for Spain. To induce her to this, and to
disarm her against all suspicion she was accompanied by
the priest to whom she was attached. And wholly uncon-
scious of the intrigue of which she was the unhappy
victim, she sailed to Spain—was left in a Spanish nunnery
—and her family never heard of her again ! Another fact
may be added. Another circumstance of the same kind
occurred in a nunnery in the neighbourhood of Dublin.
One of the nuns formed an attachment for a remarkably
handsome priest, who had frequent access to the establish-
ment, as there was connected with it a school for girls
who were taught by the nuns. The moral character of
the priest was not high in public estimation. And, to
prevent a public exposure, the nun must be removed.
She was quite unconscious of the intrigue of which she
was the destined victim. She was induced to pay a visit.
to France, to visit another establishment of the same order
there. And she had the less reluctance to undertake the
journey as it was to be performed under the guardianship
and in the company of the very priest, her attachment to
whom was thus leading to her exile ! She was imme-
diatel y placed in a continental nunnery, where her destiny
is unknown.—M. Hobart Seymour.