The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

MOBILE MARKETS, Nov.

COTTON.—In the second edition of our last price cur-
rent, dated Wednesday evening, we mentioned that the
accounts per Great Western, which came to hand on
Tuesday, had considerably depres,,ed the market, and
that a few sales had been made at 4- cent decline. Since
then the market has s:iffened somewhat, owing to the
low stage of the rivers and the light stock on hand.
Buyers, however, have been compelled to come forward
to some extent, owing to freight engagements, and to a
few orders to northern markets. The sales on Thursday
amounted to GOO bales, and yesterday to 12,000 or 13,000
bales. Though the market may be said to be a little
stiffer, we do not feel authorised to advance quotations.

Fieights.—Within the last two days there has been
some little movement in freights; but, in order to effect
engagements, rather lower terms have ben accepted than
were demanded early in the week. Ships Fredonia and
Sh tnnon have been taken up for Liverpool, at id. Ship
IVlithigan, for Glasgow. at 13-32 d., the Hanover, for
Havre, at 11-16 c., and the Hermitage, for Baltimore, id.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston: Miss Francis
Jason, Mr. and Mrs. Deligrave, Messrs. Mac. Lachlan,
William Lowry, R. Gillispie, W. H. Brehant, T. Kelly,
Baldrock, Edward Maitland, Patton, J. Marchant, T.
L. Brown, A. Ritchie, N. S. Osgood, Nelson and ser-
vant, Wilson, Seckie, A. Smith, 'F. G. Grotgan, Dhomas
Burton, John Howarth, and T. Dubois. From Halifax:
Messr,,. Paul, Dirk, and Edwards; Miss Fanning, Cap-
tain Cumberland ' • Messrs. Shannon, Clementscn, W.
H. Davis. Geo. Watt, and P. Murphy.

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FACTION FIGFIT.—A fearful faction fight took place an
the evening of the 19th instant, at a place called Cloon-
dora, between the Caseys and Carraghroes ; there was a
large party assembled, armed with boys, swords, pitch-
forks, &c., and three men have been left for dead, one
with his skull fractured. The police have arrested seve-
NEW ZEALAND.—Everything has at length been fi-
ral of the principal assailants.—Longford Journal.
pally settled between Lord Stanley and the committee MR. O'CONNELL AS A LANDLORD.—At the meeting
acting in England for the New Zealand Company. The
of the Repeal Association, on Monday last, Mr. O'Con-
nell took up the statements of the Times' Commissioner,
main demand of the Company was to be allowed the full
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property of 1,200,000 acres; Lord Stanley has assented to respecting his property, seriatim; and asserted that they
this claim, and orders were to be sent out to the governor were false every one. The demagogue appears to have
to permit the company to make such further purchases of had the best of the argument so far ; and it is plain that
the Commissioner allowed feelings of personal animosity
the n dives as, together with the lands which the company
to warp his judgment,. and to lead him to misrepresent
already possesses, may make up this quantity. But the
. the actual condition of Mr. O'Connell's property.
government retains for itself the full and exclusive power is
It is stated, upon what is called " competent authority,"
of nominating all the offices of the colony from the gover- that
the amount of tribute money received by O'Connell
nor downwards; in a word, the same extent of authority
last year was £25,000, minus a per tentage of five per
which the government possesses and exercises over our
cent , for collecting, &c.. ; and that this year it will be
West Indian and other colonies. two or three thousand beyond that sum. Add to this
ATROCITIES.—During the attack by the British troops
nearly £llB,OOO for Repeal rent, from Sept. 1841 to Nov.
on the fortification of the chief Heki, in New Zealand, the
gallant leader of the brave Grenadiers of the 58th Regi- 1845, and we haves total of about £200,000, assuming the
ment, Captain Grant, was killed, and afterwards roasted " Tribute" during that period to have averaged the collec-
alive, his cries being distinctly heard in the camp. [This tions for 1844 and 1845, of which Daniel has the fingering.
horrible story is not confirmed in the original account, and THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE.—This movement among
is entirely at variance with the humane character Heki the Irish Protestants is progressing most satisfactorily.
has hitherto manifested.] Lieut. Philpotts, of the Hazard, A highly influential and numerously attended meeting of
was killed in endeavouring to force the inner works of the the committee took place last week, when the funda-
pall, and scalped by the natives ; his body was, however, mental principles of the institution were agreed on.
obtained afterwards by Archdeacon Williams, an eye-glass These principles are just what can alone combine Irish
and a small portion of his hair were the only relics that Protestants for united action in the present alarming crisis
could be found of him. Lieut. Beattie, who led the for- of their interests. There is no intention of superseding
lorn hope, had died of the wounds he had received. The or discouraging existing associations of Protestants.
chief N opera, or Noble, of the Rarauwa tribe, who had The Hon. Somerset Maxwell has been appointed hon.
joined the stanch ally of the British, Waka, had had his secretary. A general meeting will be held in a few days,
when wl
wife surprised and taken prisoner by some of Heki's party,
of the ae eha l be able to report the further development
lliance
and then most barbarously murdered by them, and her
body cut in pieces. The repeal rent last week was £l5B. Mr. O'Connell,
Previous to the late fatal affray Lieut. Phillpotts, R.N., at the meeting of the Repeal Association, was the trum-
of the Hazard, at New Zealand, exchanged two shuts peter of his own munificence, and proclaimed that he had
with the editor of the Auckland Times, for some public given orders for the purchase of two tons of rice and one
animadversions on the former, and perforated the gentle. ton of meal, to he " stored " until the time of scarcity
man's coat skirt.—Cork Paper. should arrive. There is a story extant which records an
affecting anecdote of the generosity of some liberal old
The Queen of Spain and her mother took part in a con- gentleman. who " killed a ram at Christmas, and gave
cert at the Royal Palace of Madrid, on the 16th instant. the horns to the poor." We have not time at this mo-
Single plants of the common daisy frequently fetch one ment to consult the authorities, so as to be able to refer
shilling each in New South Wales. our readers to the precise page of the book in which it is
There are 620,000 girls at this moment receiving their set forth—we think it is in the Percy Relics; but the case
education in French convents. is what the lawyers call—one in "pint."
We hear from the Cape of Good Hope that the guano NOBLE INTREPIDITY.—About the middle of October
trade had caused 215 ships, of 60,583 tons in the aggre- last, the bark Helen, Captain Clayton, of this port, left
gate, to enter the port. Quebec on her homeward voyage, with a cargo of timber.
A new and splendid theatre was opened at Lisbon, on Early on the 31st, a violent gale arose, but the vessel,
the 29th October. It occupies the whole of one side of under double-reefed topsails, rode gallantly on. About
the handsome square of the Rocio, and is built on the half-past 8 o'clock, while off the east end of one of the
site of the former inquisition. Newfoundland banks, they discovered a vessel less for-
RELIGION BY RAILWAY.—The projectors of railways tunately situated; and Captain Clayton hailed the vessel,
in India, depend for a great share of their anticipated and asked whether they had any boat which might bear
profits upon the native pilgrims, who it is expected, will them on board the Helen. The answer returned was
adopt the new mode of travelling to reach their shrines. in the negative, accompanied with an earnest prayer that he
SCARCITY IN PRUSSIA.—The dearness of all sorts of would do his best to save them. Captain Clayton hesitated
provisions in Prussia has already provoked numerous pe- for a little what to do. The vessel was waterlogged,
titions to the government. The bakers of Breslau have without a rudder, and her mizenmast and foremast car-
entreated the president of the province to prohibit, or at ned away, and if he abandoned her to her fate she must
all events to restrict, the exportation of corn. soon be buried with her crew beneath the billows• ' on
The thirty-sixth anniversary of the King and Queen of the other band, if he ordered some of his own men to
the French, which was solemnized at Naples on the 25th push off in a boat and attempt their rescue, they might
Novrmber, 1809, was celebrated on Tuesday last, at St. perish, and his own vessel would be left with too few
Cloud, as a day of rejoicing to the royal family and the hands to work her with efficiency. In this dilemma he
household. placed a boat at the disposal of any of his crew who
In consequence of the opening of the Belgian ports, the would volunteer as a forlorn hope to the ill-fated vessel.
number of vessels bringing corn, grain, potatoes, and other Three men, without hesitation, offered themselves,
articles of food, which arrived at Antwerp from the Ist Daniel Mearns, second mate, James M'Kenna, the ear-
October to the 17th November, was 212.—Radicalpaper. penter, and John Martin. Without much loss of time
(Nothing is said here about the number of arrivals during they entered a small two-oared boat, the only one they
any corresponding period. Neither is there a whisper of could command, and rowed on to the wreck, which they
any comparison in latices. Why not ?] reached after encountering a host of dangers. " The
The Emperor of Russia, according to the latest accounts ship hung heaving on the verge of death," and the crew,
from Palermo, was to quit that city on the 21st ult., to in number twenty-two, were standing on the poop, their
pass four days with the King and Royal Family at Naples, voices rising loud above the roar of the tempest, entreat-
from whence his Imperial Majesty intended to proceed to ing deliverance. Seven of them were got without acci-
Rome. The Pope, in order to testify the utmost mark of dent into the boat, and the captain of the vessel, which
di- tinction on the occasion of the Emperor's visit to the proved to be the Harrison, o London, told the boatmen
Holy City, has ordered the cupola of St. Peter's to be to return fir the others and he would reward them. But
illuminated. they did not require pecuniary inducement to stimulate
The Jamaica Times, as the power of the atmospheric them in their mission of mercy. Again and again they
railway in traversing acclivities is HOW put beyond a doubt, returned to the Harrison, and at length every individualhhhad
calls on the West India Interests and the Directors of the was placed in comparative safety on board the Helen. A
Royal Mail Steam Company to consider the expediency poor cat, too, it is well worth mentioning, which
of running a railway constructed on that principle across shared the fate of the crew, also participated in the
the Isthmus of Darien, thus connecting the two oceans, deliverance. The storm raged with increasing violence
the transit between which may, be made, it says, in an all the day and during the following night, and there was
hour! no doubt in the minds of any that the Harrison must
CHILD LABOUR IN FACTORIES.—The Journal des have sunk very soon after her crew ha.l been rescued.
Dtbats pubh,he, a private letter from Moscow, which The Harrison had been in a disabled state for neatly a
states that the Emperor of Russia had lately issued an week previous to the 31st, and the storm of that day made
order forbidding the masters of establishments in which the wreck complete. The crew had been on short al-
work is carried on night and day from employing children lowance for some time. Their joy at being saved was,
under the age of twelve years between midnight and six it may be conceived, extreme. The Helen reached Bel-
o'clock A.M., seeing that it is too severe a trial for that fast on Monday, when the captain of the lost vessel pre-
tender age. Any infringement of this order is to be visit- rented each of the three brave men with a handsome
ed with severe punishment. gift.—Banner of Ulster.

MYSTERIES OF AN IRISH POTATO PANIC..--The panic
on account of this valuable esculent was cried up for
special purposes. Mr. O'Connell's tribute was, as a
matter of course, to be collected before the landlord's
rent ; and the Christian preachings of many of the Roman
Catholic clergymen were more directed against the pay-
ment of the landlord's rent than to the practice of either
religious or moral duties.—Nenagh Guardian.
IRISH ZEAL DESTRUCTIVE.—SO ignorant were the
people employed, that in working a copper mine some
years ago large quantities of cobalt were found near Kil-
larney and they actually mended the roads with it, till an
English miner saw it, and knowing its value, procured a
vessel-load of it, under some pretence, which be sold for
£6,000. As soon as the people found out its value, as
they manage everything in this country, they became so
stupidly greedy after it, that they worked the mine,
though repeatedly warned of the consequences, into one
of the lakes of Killarney, and of course drowned it.—
Times.

THE POTATOE DISEASE IN IRELAND.—The follow-
ing is an extract from the circular of Messrs. James
O'Hea and Sons, merchants, Cork, dated November
22nd, addressed to a firm in Hull :—" The great excite-
ment concerning the potato disease appears to be gradu-
ally subsiding, and from our advices from the interior of
the country—which we should say come much more
cheering—and all the information we have been able to
collect on the subject, we have no hesitation in stating
that we are strengthened in our opinion, as put forward
in our previous circular, that they are not only not worse,
but that the injury sustained will prove to be much less
extensive than was generally anticipated, and the outcry
raised and so industriously circulated, considerably exag-
gerated."
IRISH APATHY Runcous.—The sea around the coast
teems with fish. lam assured that in Scull-bay and
Crookhaven the mackerel are often seen over the whole
surface jostling one another, and absolutely running on
shore to escape the porpoises, which follow them into the
bays, and prey upon them. The people often knock them
on the head with the oars of their boats, and yet will not
exert themselves to net them. Tell the men, " Why
don't you get out your nets, and exert yourselves to take
the fish, or you deserve to starve ?"—and you get an an-
swer, " Och, the nets want mending;" or '` Sure we
haven't got the nets ready ;" or, as one man thus occu-
pied answered a gentleman who asked this question,
" Och, musha, by dad, Sir, berme we could get the nets
out, they would be off;" and these poor exertionless,
goodnatured, apathetic men, do in reality almost starve,
whilst the men of St. Ives, and from the coast of Corn-
wall, cross the Channel, live and labour in their boats,
realise large sums, and obtain employment and comforts
for themselves and families, by catching the fish which
swarm on the very shores of these bays—those who dwell
on the shores meantime starving.—Times.