The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

occurred yes'erday about midday in Royses Bay, u. ar the
Quarry (whence stones are conveyed in flat-bottomed
boats for the embankment cf the Foyle,) by which six

Into met with a watery grave. The particu
following :—One flat had been laden with her complement
of ten tons, and she requited to be removed from the
jetty into deep water to make room for others. Four men
were ordered to do this, but being anxious to commence
their half day's work, eleven men went on her deck to re-
move her by poles quickly. When in the act of doing so

farther out, the water rose and ente-ed a hole in her bot-
tom, and she began to sink at a distance scarcely the
length of herself from the jetty. Ten of the men jumped
overboard into a small punt, which immediately swamped,
nd one remained on dt ck. Three swam to the shore;
he one who remained on deck got safely to land by means
d a fifth was saved by the fireman of the

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sma►l tug steamer who swam to his assistance, and laid
hold of him when he was sinking. The remaining six,
atter unavailing efforts, sunk to rise no more. What
makes the case more tragical is, that when precipitated
into the water the men were within an oar's length of the
je'ty and of safety.- Derry Sentinel,
TIIE POTATO DISKASE.—The fact of potatoes which
were left undug being the safest, and the many instances

of tubers which were slightly a tacked remaining so, with-
out the disease making to Cher progress during the winter,
and lastly, the abundant supplies which continue to be
sent to all our provincial markets, up to the month of
May, afford strong grounds for the conclusions that the
disease was not progressive, after a certain period last
year. There can be no doubt that where the crop was
partially diseased, and stored in the usual manner, many
of the potatoes rotted, because the circumstances under
which they were placed were precisely such as were calcu-
lated to increase decay, where disease existed, and espe-
cially where the tissue of the tuber was not sufficiently
matured ; but where the potatoes were not put together
in too large heaps, the disease d d not increase. As a fur-
ther proof of this, we may refer to the fact that several
lots of slightly diseased potatoes, of various kinds, were
put among sand, turf mould, and charcoal, in the Royal
Dublin Society's Botanic Garden, and placed in a cellar,
where the air was cool and uniform, with a view of ascer-
taining how lone they would keep. They were thus placed
on the 17th of October last year, where they remained
till Thursday, the 17th September, when they were taken
out, and found to be as sound as when stored, having
produced strong shoats about two inches long, free from
disease. It will be important to ascertain what their future
fate may be, in the conservatory where they haye been
placed.
LATEST FROM DUNGARVON

—lt appears that the

report that one of the soldiers of the 67th Regiment was
shot by a policeman, in the riots of Itlonday, is not cor-
rect. Several of the dragoons were, however, seriously
it jured. The country all round is still in the greatest
state of excitement. The officer of the board of works
cannot by the treasury minute pay the labourers more
than 10d. a. day, and at this sum they cannot buy provi-
sions. Indian meal in the market is now worth double
that sum per fourteen pounds; nor is this feeling of dis-
satisfaction confined to the labourers and small farmers.
The gentry and magistrates are most loud in the outcry
against government for the length they have permitted
matters to arrive at without throwing in food, paralyzing
enterprise amongst the merchants, by the declaration
from the Lord Lieutenant that food shall not exceed a
given price, and at another time declaring that trade
will not be interfered with. A meeting of the county
magistrates it is thought will be brought together imme-
diately, as many are determined to throw up the com-
mission of the peace sooner than be the instruments of
keeping down by bloodshed excitement caused by want of
energy and foresight at bead-quarters. This is not con-
fined to the county of Waterford. The adjacent parts of
the county of Cork are similarly circumstanced. A de-
tachment of the 67th arrived on Friday, and sixteen more
of the rioters were apprehended. The Duke of Cam-
bridge steamer arrived on Friday, at Youghal, with the
right wing of the 47th Regiment, and they were all
immediately marched to Dungarvon.
AWFUL DESTITUTION, IF TRUE.—At the meeting of
the poor law union at Cork, last week, the master's re-
port was read, stating that on the previous Tuesday 217
persons had been relieved ; Wednesday, 301 ; Thursday.
579; Friday, 724: Saturday, 1000; Sunday, 1400; and
that day 1428 ! All had been fed in the yard of the work-
house, in addition to the 2868 inmates. The guardians
heard the report read with amazement, but they appeared
perfectly unable to suggest measures to check the crowds
that were pressing for food. On looking into the yard in
front of the house, it had every appearance of a fair green.
Hundreds of men, women, and children were to be seen
in all directions, with a dense crowd around the door,
through which egress. or ingress was with difficulty
attained. Some few of the women were at work, sewing
with their needles, but the overwhelming majority were
listlessly gazing about them, sitting down, lying in the
sun, or walking about. It was evident that all those
persons could not be in distress, and the guardians seemed
to think so too ; but the difficulty was, to check a
system of out door relief to the really destitute, which was
evidently abused. On this fearful number of names hav-
ing been read out by the clerk, one of the guardians
stated that he had been met that day coming to the work-
house, and parties had asked him—" How could he, a
Cork guardian, tolerate such a fraud as that, for numbers
of women and children were being fad at the workhouse
whose husbands were known to be in good employment ?"
Another guardian said the vast number of these were
from the country : some from Skibbereen, Bandon,
Macroom, &e. In this state the guardians seemed to
consider that the less they said about it the better, but
adopt some mode that, while they fed the really destitute,
the ratepayers should be protected, and that no imposition
should be practised. The most advisable course which
suggested itself was to give the persons applying a break-
fast daily, provided they arrived before ten o'clock in the
morning, and that the door should be closed for that
purpose at that hour.
ALARMING PROCEEDINGS.—On Friday last about 2000
persons assembled near the chapel of Grange, in this
county, beaded by a man on a white horse, who said his
name was Power, from the county Tipperary, and made
the following regulations :—That the farmers were not to
thresh or send out any corn to market. That no milk
should be given by the farmers to their pigs, but kept,
and given to the labourers, without any charge for the
same. That no bailiffs were to be allowed to distrain
for rent. That the farmers should at once refund all
money paid for con-acre land, and also the value of the
seed and labour ; and all able-bodied labourers should get
two shillings a day, and the old men and boys tenpence,
provided meal was one shilling a stone, and, if higher,
the wages to increase accordingly; and every person to
be employed, or paid if allowed to remain idle. That no
• process should be served for any debt, on pain of the
plaintiff's ears being cut off. They then proceeded in
large parties to the principal farmers to enforce their rules,
and give notice that any persons disobeying should prepare
their coffins. Darby Bryan and Robert Keating, two re-
spectable farmers, were so terrified that they at once paid
, back the money for the con-acre on their lands ; the
other farmers promised to do so in less then a week.
They said that their leader was to go from parish to
parish. They have also stopped farmers going to Dro-
p mane with rent ; and by all accounts, it does not require
much force to prevent their paying. Similar mobs went
through the parish of Ardmore on Saturday last ; most
of them had fire-arms, and stated there was no law now
I to prevent their having pistols in each hand instead of
sticks; and they stopped all corn going to market, cut
; the bags, and spilled the corn on the roads, and would
not allow the owners to take it up. They cautioned the
tenants of Sir Henry Winston Barrow not to pay or ye-
new bills passed by them for rent. The object in stopping
the corn and not allowing farmers to thrash is, that each
labourer is to have one stack. James Maher, of Kil-
cannon, a respectable farmer, and tenant to Pierce
Hely. Esq., Esq., had his horse stabbed for paying rent;
and John Whelan, tenant to the same gentleman. and for
the same reason, bad another horse stabbed. The ma-
gistrates are completely powerless.— Waltrford Mail.