The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There are eight vessels receiving passengers at Galway
for New York.
A pauper died in Kilrush workhouse last week, whose
life was insured for £3OO.
In taking the census at Limerick, the police found
dwelling in one house, in Old Francis-street, parish of.
St. John, two hundred and seventy persons.
Some of the pauper girls who were sent from the Ath-
lone workhouse to Australia eighteen months ago have
sent home to their friends sums of money varying from
£lO to £l5. . _ . _ -

A man at Belfast has been sent to gaol for trial charged
with eloping with a girl only 'twelve years old, and in-
ducing her to take £lO of her .father's money. The pri-
soner had promised the girl ,marriage.
Nearly a dozen farmers- from the county of Durham
contemplate proceeding, or have already proceeded, to
Ireland, for the purpose of renting or purchasing the
farms now being sold under the Encumbered Estates Bill,
and so soon as the experiment has been fairly tested.there
are others ready to follow.
ATTEMPT AT MURDER. BY A MAN• JUST ESCAPED
FROM I CHARGE Or MIIRDER.—The Nenagh Gut-to-dip:4
says.—" After the trial of Ringrose on a charge of having
murdered Morgan Donoghue7--o. charge which only,re,,
quired one link in the chain of circumstantial evidence to
be sustained, ho was acquitted by-the jury, and the fol,
lowing day discharged from the'gaol. On Monday night
he,-through pity, received hospitable shelter in the house
of-a farmer named Hayes. In the -morning he utade,a
savage attempt to-murder the farmer and his wife, and,
leaving them 'for dead, robbed the house. Fortunately:
they recovered, and the villain was next day apprehended:
ATROCIOUS CASE-OF CHILD MURDER.—The assiges of
Cork were concluded on Saturday before Judge' Ball.
Catherine Conolly was found guilty of child murdergnder
circumstances of singular atrocity. His lordship pro-
ceeded to pass. sentence of. death. He said the prisoner
had been found guilty of one of the most barbatoua acts
recorded in-the annals of crime—the murder of an infeqt,
child for its -fewlrtrtielea ofslothing and 2s. in Morey.'
She had met the two children on the road, when she
seized one of them and continued to beat it until it lay,
detuf at herffeet. :She then seized' the other', whieh,she,
beat in a similar manner, and left it, as she thought, dealt
toO • The‘ Oriaciner then probeeded
.tO constimm4e her
crime by pluoderink both children, of '".tbeir articles of
-wearing apparel, and serried off, the plunder. It was,
however, the providencenf God thatooe of those children
should recover, through whose instrumentality the pri-
soner was brought to justice.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Irish Vicervialty Bill is abandoned for this session.
It is stated that Mr. William Brown is to:betiades
baronet

Tlie radiCas .nrf R4chdale, at a public, ineetlig
WeilnesdayTtiatiagreed :upon a requisition to Mr.: john
Bright, asking lo allow himself to be put in nomina-
tion for the representation of that borough at the nett
election, when Mr. W. S. Crawford will retire.
On Thursday, Sir John Romilly, the new Master-of the
Rolls, wha has been re-elected for Devonport, again took
his seat. The Master of the Rolls is the only judicial.per-
sonage who is alloWed by the constitution a seat in liar-
liament, and that probably, becauie originally, he was
nothing more than the Ctistodier of the rolls.
EFFECTS OF Fa ,E TRADE AND NO RECIPRQCLTY.—A
Dutch vessel has arrived in the docks with an entire cargo
of stores for a ship now loading in the same docks for
Batavia. This is a very remarkable instance of a vessel
loading here for foreign ports being supplied with her
complement of stores from abroad instead of being
furnished therewith here in the usual manner.

AYLESBURY ELECTION.—The Aylesbury election t am-
tnittee have reported that F. Calvert, Esq., was not duly
elected for Aylesbury ; that the last election was void ;
that F. Calvert, E=q., was guilty, through his agents, of
treating ; that he knew nothing of the same ; and that
the practice of treating by means of ss. tickets prevailed in
that borough, and should be suppressed. A new writ was
accordingly moved for the borough of Aylesbury.
BLESSED FREE TRADE.—The small shopkeepers in the
villages around Lincoln are breaking up in every direction,
and the best of the agricultural labourers are emigrating
as fast as they can dispose of their household fnrniture.
The farmers are lowering wages, and the shopkeepers in
Lincoln feel severely the deep depression of the agricultu-
ral interest. When are the people to enjoy the blessings
consequent upon the " big loaf !"7-Lincolnshire Chron.

GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF CONFIDENCE IN THE
PROTECTIONIST LEADERS.—On Friday a very crowded
and enthusiastic meeting of the members of the Su sex
Society for the Protection of Agriculture, and British
Industry was held in the Corn Exchange, Lewes, for the
purpose of adopting resolutions expressive of confidence
in Lord Stanley, and also to express their thanks for the
statesmanlike conduct of Mr. Disraeli. His Grace the
Duke of Richmond filled the chair, and upwards of a
thousand persons were present, the vast majority of whom
were tenant-farmers. The remainder consist, d princi-
pally of inhabitants and tradesmen of the town, to many
of whom experience of the bitter fruits of free trade has
brought the conviction of the necessity for effecting a
change in our commercial policy ere the road to ruin has
been so far trodden as to render ever. the return to pro-
tection unavailing. _ _

THE REVENUE.—The quarterly return of the revenue
of Great Britain, made up to a late hour on Saturday
evening, is of a very satisfactory description. The actual
increase in the year, as compared with the year ended the
5.h of April, 1850, is ".£116.119. The actual increase on
the quarter, after allowing for all deductions, as compared
with the corresponding quarter of last year. amounts to
£283,051. The Customs have increased £195 299 on the
year, and £115,682 on the quarter. The increase on the
Excise for the year is no less than £302,311, and on the
quarter £121.063. The Stamps show a decrease on the
year of £248,905, but an actual improvement of £9.883
on the quarter over the April quarter of 1850. The head
of taxes exhibits a slight increase on the year. and a small
decrease on the quarter, whilst the Property-tax reverses
this position, and shows a decrease on the whole year,
which is made up on the last quarter to some extent. The
Postoffice gives an increase on the year of £58,000. and
on the quarter of £41,000. The Crown lands are the
same as before, and the more general head of Miscella-
neous shows a small decrease both on the quarter and on
the year
THE "PROSPERITY" CRY.—We do not believe that
the country it large is by any means in so prosperous a
condition as is generally supposed. To say nothing of
the agricultural and shipping interests, there is scarcely
one article of import which gives a profit to the importer.
and even amongst the different classes of manufacturers,
complaints are very general ;—the silk men cannot get
rid of their stock ;—in the woollen districts short time is
being partially resorted to. At Manchester the home
trade continues dull, and though the export of calicoes
and yarns shows a great excess over 1850—as Messrs. Du
Fay and Co. jus ly observe, quantity alone is not an in-
fallible test of the prosperity of our export trade, as many
a pound of yarn and many a yard of cloth exported this
year has not left any profit either to the maker or sender,
while our printers, dyers, and finishers have been loud in
their complaints about want of employment. The iron
trade has long been in a most depressed state. With all
these adverse features, how can the country be said to be
prosperous, and how can it be otherwise than that our
produce markets should feel the effect ?—Messrs. Little-
dale's Circular.

THE RUIN OF AGRICULTURE.—Are we, then, to pro-
ceed in this insensate career of folly. spoliation, and
crime ? Even if we could isolate the one interest from the
others, and suppose that agriculture might be allowed to
fall wi bout inflicting the slightest injury upon other
branches of our internal industry, what an awful respon-
sibility should we not incur by allowing ruin and desola-
tion to overflow, like a deluge, the face of agricultural
England ! How is it possible to expert resignation and
obedience frlin the men whom the laws are retlu ing, to,
beggary ? How can we consistently tell them of national
obligations and national faith, when the principle of na-
tionality is abandoned, and the power of redeeming those•
obligations taken from the British arm ? Talk to us of
endangering our institutions ! is it possible that our
statesmen do not see in what direction the real danger
lies, if the experiment is declared to be final ? Well,
then, we shall tell them, for, as Sir James Graham re-
marked not long ago, " The time has arrived when the
truth fully must be spoken"—THE NATIONAL REVENUE
IS IN DANGER, AND THEY ARE THE MkN WHO ARE
ENDANGERING IT.—Blackwood's Magazine.