The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

All the flax spinning mills at Belfast, amounting to
twenty-seven, have been put on " three quarter time."
A boat was sor.et a few days since at Waterford, and
five persons drowned.
Upwards of £70,000 was remitted by the Irish Board of
Works to the country for the payment of labouters in the
course of last week.

On Saturday week, three carts of flour on their way to
Ballinasloe were attacked by a mob ano seven sacks stolen.
More would have been taken but the police came up.
The Marquis of Conyngham has made a reduction of
twenty-five per cent in some instances, and of fifteen in
others, to his numerous tenantry in the County Clare.
In a letter to the Nation, the Rev. John Kenyon, a
Roman Catholic priest, talks of " the desperate infamy
lowering over the close" of O'Connell's career, and con-
tends that it is time for Ireland to seek another leader.
All the Irish markets in grain and other kinds are going
down; and this is general in every quarter. In Scotland,
the same results are experienced ; the farmers who held
back being satisfied that they played a foolish card.
Messrs. Hayes and Co., coach proprietors of Down-
patrick have had nine horses poisoned within the last few
months. On the death of the ninth horse, a veterinary
surgeon was sent for, and detested a large quantity of
poison in the stomach.
The Irish Court of Queen's Bench has grantedto Lord
Lncan a conditional order for a criminal information
against the proprietor of the Mayo Telegraph, tor a libel
on his lordship. The articles complained of reflected on
his lordship's character as a landlord.

The Dublin Post says that the Irish Romish prelates
have resolved to petition for such alterations in the Be-
quests Act, "as will render it acceptable to the bishops,
the clergy, and the people of Ireland." Their reverences
must be clever bands if they can effect a settlement of
such a question to please every body.
In a letter to the Freeman's Journal, Sir Robt. Knae
denies the statement that the potatoe commission cost
the country £18,400, and doubts whether it cost the odd
£4OO. He, himself, gave his services gratuitously, and
his colleagues, Professor Lindley and Playfair, had three
guineas a day and their travelliog expenses.
A man named Cornelius Crowley has been committed
near Cork, on the charge of the wilful murder of his wife.
When the poor woman was found, her skull was broken
to atoms. The husband said he was starving, having nut
eaten anything but an onion for twenty-four hours, and
that his wife had plenty of money. On searching her
£3 10s. Gd. was found in her in,cket.

Numbers of persons well able to pay have refused to
liquidate their parish ran-s in the county of Mayo, but
they are to be proceeded agait sr. The workhouse at Cas.
tlebar would have been closed, and 200 wretci es left to
starve, but the Earl of Luca'. has advanced from his
private purse money for the last six weeks to sustain
the paupers.
The papers received from the King's County, the
counties of Limerick, Tipperari , P.attrford, end Cork
contain lists of outrages perortr,tted siiihin their bound-
aries during the previous tew dais. With the exception
of a few, there is no variety in he general character of
the offences from that which is so common—namely, the
plunder of provisions and fire-arms, assaults, and the
posting of threatening notices, &c.

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THE GUN TRADE FLOURISHING.—" Of all trades
a-going" the gun trade in Tipperary is the best. The
market is brisk, and prices moderate. Every man is li-
censed to shoot, and human game appears to get the pre-
ference. From all quarters we learn that " the fowlers"
are out early and late, and every man has either a handy
detonator, or one of the old stock in good order. How
long will such a state of things be permitted to exist ?
Tipperary Constitution.
BARBAROUS MURDER.—On the 2d inst., a barbarous
murder took place at Clogbeen. Mayo, of a man named
Michael Burke, by his wife. They had been married but
a few months, the woman having been the widow of a
former husband. It seems to have been managed to
make the unfortunate man drunk, and then, when got to
his bed, he was murdered in his helplessness by a blow on
the left side of the head, above the ear, which frightfully
broke in the greater portion of the skull, the brain awfully
protruding. Burke had been a man of great physical
strength, and a very harmless and inoffensive person.
LORD JOEN AT A DISCOUNT. —The priests of the
diocese of St. Jarlath's have unanimously pronounced
Loid John Russell incompetent to the duties of his situa-
tion—that his conduct towards Ireland is "a base delu-
sion"—that he has " agg. avated the sufferings of the
people by specious and hollow promises, which he had no
intention of fulfilling." In their speeches and letters to
the local newspapers, the Mayo priests boldly advocate
the return of Sir Robert Peel to power, and the priests
of Limerick, Clare, and other districts are nearly as ex-
plicit as their brethren In the county of Mayo.
The Limerick Reporter publishes four affidavits made
on the Ist of Nov. mber instant before Carbery Scully,
Esq., J.P., at Newport. in the county Tipperary, which
disclose a fearful sate of destitution. In the first a
labourer swears he has a wile and two children to sup-
port, is able and willing to work, but cannot obtain em-
ployment, and that the previous day they had but one
meal, which consisted solely of cabbage and salt ! The
second man deposes that he has a wife, mother, sister,
and child to support, can obtain no employment, and that
they have subsisted on cabbage and an occasional turnip.
The third man has a wife and five children, and the fourth
a wife and four children.

PUBLIC ti UMILIATION.—Dr. Whateley, the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, has fixed Friday next, the 20th day of
November, to be observed throughout Ireland as a day of
pub is humiliation and prayer, in reference to the scarcity
in Ireland. His Grace considers it most important that
the sacrament of the Lord's Supper should be adminis-
tered, and that in the sermon the congregation should be
shown how to view and meet the calamity, and in parti-
..t.- 4 • procsoonaZlng to r-ouounce
that those of their neighbours who are special sufferers are
necessarily objects of Divine displeasure." He wishes
the congregation to he warned against desponding. and
such of them as are not likely to he personal sufferers
against regarding the exemption as any sign of being special
favourites of heaven.

Tim O'CoNNELL TENANTRY.—On Weenesday last,
about three hundred labourers, chiefly resident in the
neighbourhood of Cahirciveen, met at a bridge about a
mile east from that town, and marched in military order
to the house of a magistrate, Mr. J. Primrose, who has
been distinguished for his exet tions in procuring work for
the distressed peasantry. When arrived there, the gen-
tleman in question was not at home; and they returned
to Cahirciveen to endeavour to persuade the engineers to
set them to some work which would enable them to pro-
cure food. The whole are said to have exhibited signs of
horrible destitution, tottering as they went along, from
weakness and exhaustion. Where is their middleman
landlord, Daniel O'Connell, in such an emergency of his
tenantry ? One would imagine that to him, instead of to
a Protestant neighbour, they would have applied to pro-
cure employment and food.

IRISH POVERTY AND WILLINGNESS TO LABOUR.—
It appears, by a semi-official statement that the number of
persons receiving employment through the Board of
Works, was 110,251. But even these are not permitted
to work unmolested. At Mallow, the magistrates have
determined to call in the military to protect such of the
people as are willing to work. 250 labourers, earnine
some Is. Gd. a-day, others Is. 8d , were actually driven off
the road by a band of miscreants acting under some mis•
chievous delusion. The readiness to combine for any
mischievous or irrationally selfish purpose, is strikingly
illustrated in the Irish correspondence of The Times. A
person in Mallow took a contract for 1000 wheelbarrows.
No sooner was this known, than the carpenters advanced
their price for working up the materials from 2s. Gd. to
4s. Gd. ; the smiths in like manner raised their charges ;
so that the contractor, if he had not been able to call in
some country carpenters, would have been compelled to
pay Its. for what was worth 10s. This, too, in a period
of great privation, and when the object for which the con-
tract was given was purely a charitable one.
THE "FINE PEASANTRY."—A short while ago, the
Swallow steamer, whilst on her passage from Limerick to
Tralee, with a cargo of meal to relieve the wants of the
destitute people, was driven on shore by a strong gale.
An officer of the Shannon squadron thus describes the
conduct of the peasantry of the neighbourhood where she
is beached :—" At the time of writing this, the Swallow is
still on shore, although the Pluto, Alban, and a party
from the Madagascar are getting all ready to set her afloat.
The copper has been stripped and carried off by the very
honest peasantry, and the marines and sailors have been
plundered in a most shameful way. As a sign of the times,
the Lieutenant who has the direction of getting the Swal-
low off, employed thirty men at Is. per diem—fourpence
more than the standing wages. He required on Friday
two hundred more to get the vessel off ; the magistrate
kindly got the men : they were only required for half an
hour and were to be paid the Is. per diem for their half-
hour's work, when just as they had manned the purchase-
fall a miserable, half-starved fellow stepped out and said,
' Captain, what will you give us ?' When he was told
they were to receive the Is., he gave a regular Irish howl,
dropped the fall, and rushed off, exclaiming, Bad cess to
the soul of the man that would work for that ; they can-
not do without us, boys, let us off," and off they went,
leaving the thirty that were there before. The tide had
fallen, and there remained the Swallow. This is a sample
of the starving people."
REPEAL.—Mr. O'Connell addressed the repealers at
Conciliation Hall on Monday. He complained that they
were likely to have a Tory Lord Mayor at Cork, through
the handiwork of Young Ireland, and then went on to
say—" Now, the Nation, of Saturday, had stated that he
(Mr. O'Connell) had called that party a phalanx ;' but
he begged pardon of the Nation, and wished to say that
it had originated the name itself, and he had only adoped
it, and M. O'Brien had confirmed it. He did not care
what the young gentlemen ceded themselves; whether a
young phalanx, or an old phalanx, or a noble phalanx ;
they might adopt the latter name if they pleased ; and
they themselves were still satisfied with being called Old
Ireland. There was then a noble phalanx on one side,
and the Repeal Association on the other. Mr. O'Brien,
the head of this noble phalanx, said he (Mr. O'Connell)
was ugly, but, unfortunately, he could not help it, and he
thought it was rather harsh to abuse him for what he
could not help; however he was satisfied with the reflec-
tion, that some of the Young Irelanders were no great
beauties themselves, and he wondered would any of them
ever live to stand before an Irish audience to ask if they
had struggled for their country for half a century. This
noble ' physical force phalanx' were employed in doing
nothing for Ireland. Why, he would ask, did they not
form an association for themselves? Ile would tell the
reason why. It was because they were afraid, with all
their professions, and thought it safer to tight with types
and printers' devils, than to resort to the sword, which
they lauded so much ; they were, as they said, a literary
phalanx, with no brigadier-general ; at least, who was to
fill that post he did not know. It was to be a literary
violence they were to employ ; they were to use their
quills as pikes, and their pencils as bayonets; such was
the Young Irelanders' courage." The rent for the. week
was £BB, including £7 2a. Gd. from Liverpool.