The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN.

The Lady Mary Wood steamer brings advices from
Gibralter to the 9th, from Cadiz to the 10th, and from
Lisbon to the 12th instant: At Lisbon the absence of the
Queen and her leading ministers had been seized by the
Septembrists to set on foot a new revolution. Attempts
have been made to corrupt the army, and some officers
detected in tampering with the soldiers had been placed
under arrest in the Castle. The merchants of Lisbon
were hopeless of a favoura' le result to the tariff negocia-
tions, and the clearing of goods at the Custom-house,
which had been in a great degree suspended for a month,
was now resumed. At Cadiz and Seville the gteatest
agitation and excitement continued.. Both places were
under the operation of martial law, fresh arrests continued
to be made daily, all the troops were constantly under
arms, day and night, and numerous patrols went through
the principal streets, dispersing the smallest groups. The
hostile feelings of the Andalusians to the provisional Go-
vernment were apparent, from the fact that there is not
an important point throughout the entire province in
which there have not been strenuous effeorts made to pro-
claim the Central Junta. There have been attempts of
this discription in some instances for a time successfui at
Seville, at Cadiz, at Cordova, in Granada, Malaga, and
Carthagena.

The King of Holland delivered the opening speech to
the States General on Monday.

The young Queen of Spain attained her thirteenth year
on Tuesday last.
The Bombay Gentlemen': Gazelle, announces that
there is a rumour that Lord Granville Somerset is likely
to succeed Eord Ellenborough as Governor-General of
India.

It is stated in the New York Herald, that the Britan-
nia steamer, for her late voyage home, took on board at
New York thirty-two passengers, 15,000 letters, and
seventy -five bushels of newspapers.
An English magazine, published every two months, has
made its appearance in Frankfort. It is principally made
up of the serial works of Ainsworth, Dickens, 1.4-ver, and
Mrs. Trollope.

THE CHINESE PRIZE-MONEY.—We have heard on
authority that the batta money (or prize-money) arising
from the ransom of Canton will be paid in the course of
the ensuing month, orders having been already issued to
the treasury to make the necessary arrangements for its
distribution. This gratuity has already been paid to the
forces in India who were employed in the expedition.
Disappointment is naturally felt at the limited amount
which falls to the share of the gallant captors, as it hardly
exceeds a tithe of that which has been received by the ci-
tizens of Canton, who, headed by Ilowqua, came forward
voluntarily and offered 6,000,000 dollars for the preserva-
tion of their city. The course taken by Capt. Elliott, the
late Plenipotentiary, in converting the ransom into a con-
vention, has diverted the money from the channel into
which, according to all precedent in such matters, it
would otherwise have flowed.—Standard.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE POPE.—A letter from
Rome, of the 27th ult., in the Gazelle de France, says—
" A report has probably reached you of an attempt to
assassinate the Pope. The fact is, that a physician, who
is a great revolutionist, but driven to desperation by
want of money, went one day to the palace; and, although
be has a wooden leg, entered as nimbly as if it was his
dawn house. Being met, and asked whom he wanted, he
replied that he wished to speak to his Holiness on very
urgent affairs. With much difficulty he was induced to
withdraw. On reaching the court he fired a pistol, with-
out its being perceived that it was he who caused the ex-
plosion. The next day be returned agaih, and went on
until he met Cagetanino, the Pontiff's valet, to whom he
insisted on being immediately allowed to see the Pope on
matters of high interest. His entrance was, however,
again refused, and he went away, but he was arrested on
leaving the palace. A loaded pistol was found upon
him."

Fax-MINTING AT GIBRALTAR.—This noble sport. it
appears, will be followed with great spirit by the officers
of the garrison at the " Rock" during the ensuing sea-
son. The Gibraltar Chronicle publishes an account of a
meeting of the Calpe hunt, held at the quarters of Major
Lacy Walter Yea, for the purpose of taking into consi-
deration the most efficient measures to be adopted for
maintaining the hunt in all the style and spirit which has
distinguished it for the last 26 years. The meeting was
numerously attended by officers, who represented the se-
veral corps of the garrison (with the exception of the
Royals,) including the Artillery and Engineers. the 7th,
38th, 48th, and 79th Regiments. Major Yea was called
to the chair. A. lengthened discussion ensued, from which
it appeared that the meeting, after inspecting the books,
&c., were of opinion that the average expenditure for sup-
porting the hunt might b: taken at 1,400 dollars per
annum. A resolution was passed, " That as the garri-
son contained five regiments of the line, Engineers. Artil-
lery, Staff, the expense of maintaiaing the hounds
should be fairly divided into seven different divisions, one
for each regiment, another for the Ordnance, and the re-
maining one for the garrison Staff, civilians, and all
casual subscribers's (the Governor's donation included).
Another resolution was also adopted, urging the propriety
of every regiment and all the members supporting Colo-
nel Maude the mahter of the hunt.

A M ELAN CHOLV eIIifIrMSTA N C E.—Last week, at the
Blockley Almshouse, a young women committed suicide
'by taking arsenic. The following note, found upon the
table in her room, explains the cause of her unfortunate
end :—" Let no one attempt to use any cup, tumbler, or
spoon on this table. This is to inform all who may see
it, that no one is chargeable with my death—that is, with
having in any form murdered me—l die by my own hand.
I have been the victim of a cruel deceiver, who, after
leading me into the greatest distress, has left me des-
titute of money, friends, and clothes. I know not
which way to turn. This has caused me to commit the
rash act. May God have mercy on my soul ! It is my
last request that Dr. E—may be made to come and gaze
on the cold clay of her he so ruined and cruelly deserted.
My name is 1 am the adopted daughter of Mr.
—. South Twelfth-street. I had, when I lay very low,

the promise of Mr. D—, brewer, at the corner of
and —streets, to lie in the Magdalen Burial-ground.
It has been my earnest wish in life—it is in death. I

think, if some one would call upon him (he is a very
benevolent man,) that he would let me lie there.—R--.
It is my earnest request that no efforts be made to restore
life. I have no tie to bind me here. I long to be cold.
A prostitute's life I cannot bear to lead,—no other source
is left,"—Philadelphia American.

IRELAND.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

DUBLIN, SATURDAY, OCT. 21. 1
The approaching state prosecutions are now become the
chief topic of conversation in this city, and give rise to
rumours of every shade and complexion from the most
plausible to the most preposterous, and all find persons
to believe them. Amongst others a report was being
prevalent that the parties who were recently held to bail
would not be brought to trial until Hilary Term, which
would be a delay of about three months. This, lam in-
formed upon good authority, is not the case : the parties
cannot traverse in prox., but must (by stat. 60, Geo. 111,
chap. 4) appear and plead in the Queen's Bench within
the first four days of term, which begins 2nd of Nov.,
and the trials will probably commence on the 17th, or on
the 27th of November, the first sitting day after term ;
the latter day I think is the most likely to be selected, at
least if they are to be trials at bar, as in that ease the
court will be composed of all the judges of the Queen's
Bench, and great public inconvenience would be caused
by the entire court being occupied during term with the
state prosecutions to the exclusion of all other business.
A charge of wilful and corrupt perjury has been made
against Mr. Hughes, the government reporter, upon
whose informations, chiefly, the conspirators were held
to bail, because Mr. Richard Barrett was sworn by him
to have been, on the 9th of October, at the meeting at
Calvert's Theatre and at the dinner on the same evening,
which Mr. Barrett offered to refute by the informations
of thirteen persons ; and this attempt is followed up by a
fierce article in the Freeman's Journal, raking up allusions
to a hired informer of that name who figured about the
period of the rebellion of 1798, evidently for the purpose
of exciting a prejudice in the minds of those who will be
upon the jury. The motive, however, is too clear, as, if
Mr. Hughes had really committed wilful perjury, or, as
probably will turn out to be the case, made a simple mis-
take, it would have been just as easy, and rather more
startling to the prosecution, for Mr. Barrett, when on his
trial, to disprove Hughes's testimony by the witnesses
whose informations he tendered, and then the jury would
be able to form an adequate opinion as to his general
accuracy or the contrary from the evidence; but the ob•
ject appears have been to excite, previous to the trial, a
prejudice against Mr. Hughes, and an impression that he
is a hired informer, who is ready to swear up to the re-
quired mark, or else to deter him from coming forward
at all.
After the magistrate had heard several counsel in sup-
port of the application against Mr. Hughes, they decided
not to take the informations.
An address from Mr. O'Connell appeared to-day, which
is full of exhortations to peace and order.
In the corporation, yesterday, Mr. O'Connell, instead
of the original notice of motion which he had given,
" To submit to the consideration of the council
the insult offered to the Lord Mayor and to the
corporation, and the danger arising to the citizens at large
by means of the issuing of an illegal proclamation, and
by a total disregard of the Lord Mayor's undoubted
power and willingness to keep the peace within the city.' "
moved the following milk and water resolution :
" ' That we deem the transmission of the proclamation
to the Lord Mayor about the hour of four o'clock on
Saturday, the 7th of October instant, to prevent a meet-
ing to be held on the next day, too late for the purposes
of due caution, and especially too late for him to warn the
citizens of Dublin of the impending peril.'"
which was carried by a majority nf 38 to 9, despite of a
most able and sarcastic speech by Alderman Butt; the
discussion, however, shews that after all, the charges of
insult and illegality which the learned gentleman was to
have established, have deviated down to this; not that
what the Government did was illegal, and was an insult,
but that it ought to have been done long before, which is
just what almost every conservative journal in the king-
dom has been dinning into their ears for the last six
months ; in the meantime, in proportion as the agitators
find their hold upon the affections of the people vitally as-
sailed, so they redouble their efforts to excite. Notwith-
standing the tranquil aspect of affairs, the military pre-
cautions which have been taken in order to prevent any
sudden outbreak, are not in the slightest degree relaxed.
In Limerick preparations are making for the reception
of 1000 additional men. Mr. Keith's stores at Mount
Kennett have been taken for their accommodation, and
one of the workhouses is about to be applied to a similar
purpose, and a considerable naval force will be assembled
in the Shannon, under the command of Captain Austin,
C.B. . _

Aldbornugh house, a spacious residence near the out-
skirts of Dublin, on the Clontarf road, is undergoing the
necessary alterations to enable it to accommodate troops,
and a large building on Usher's Quay, nearly opposite to
the Four Courts, called Horne's Hotel, is, it is said, to
be converted to the same use. Large placards are posted
through the town, calling on all the outpensioners of Chel-
sea hospital in Dublin to attend on certain days next week
to be examined for the purpose of being embodied in local
companies, and all who shall not attend are warned that
if they do not satisfactorily account for their absence their
pensions will be stopped. Three half-pay officers have
been struck off the list for joining the repeal movement.
SUNDAY EVENING, OCT. 22.
Nothing of moment has transpired in the city during
the day. Two meetings were held to express confidence
in the liberator; one of the post-office ward, and the other
of St. Patrick's, at which resolutions were adopted to ad-
dress the legislature on the rights of petition for the re-
dress of grievances, and also of Implicit reliance on the
dictates of the liberator. To-morrow the new grand Con-
ciliation Hall is to be opened ; the chair to be taken by
Augustus John O'Neill, Esq. of Bornowen Castle, re-
cently a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, and for-
merly Tory M.P. for Hull. If the proceedings should
prove interesting you may expect to hear from me by the
late mail to-morrow night, and at all events I shall send
you a sketch by the early mail.

DANIEL O'CONNELL AND THE REPEAL

ASSOCIATION

The following intelligence was communicated to us
by express, from our own correspondent, at an early hour
on Tuesday morning last, and published before eight
•'cluck in our Second Edition :

DUBLIN, Monday, 16th Oct. 1843
Two o'clock, p.m.

Mr. O'CosNELL returned to town this morning from
Glencullun, about nine miles from Dublin, the seat of
his son-in-law, C. Fitzaimon, Esq., whither he pro-
ceeded on Saturday evening to enjoy the mountain breezes
yesterday.
This morning's Freeman's Journal announces the
useal weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association,
to be held at the Corn Exchange, at one o'clock, and
that the Liberator will attend. It set forth the nature of
the informations which have been sworn, and which are
so voluminous that they have not yet been furnished to
Mr. O'Connell, though copies have been ordered to be
given to him with the utmost desp4tch.
Among other charges set forth in the informations
against the Liberator, and upon which special counts
will, it is presumed, be framed, are the following:—Levy-
ing money off the Queen's subjects—levying money off
persons the subjects of foreign governments, for the pur-
poses of intimidation, and for the better advancement of
seditious intents—assumption of prerogative in instituting
courts of law. Also for seditiously and malignantly con-
spiring to and with each other to endeavour to seduce her
Majesty's subjects in the Army and Navy from their
allegiance to the throne, with conspiring to establish
courts in order to supercede the courts of justice as esta-
blished by law, and with an attempt to overturn
tne constitution as established, under the pretext of
seeking for a repeal of the legislative union.
A host of other allegations were made, ;ind sundry so-
called seditious speeches set forth, but the only precise
information we have as yet been able to obtain regarding
this extraordinary and intere.ting document, is contained
in the above. _ _ _ _ .

It is
.presumed that the informations against the other
gentlemen are nearly similar to those against Mr. O'Con-
nell—the speeches alone excepted.
The several parties have engaged the most eminent
counsel at the bar for their defence, a list of whom I sub-
join :—The Right Hon. Dr. Pigot, Q.C.; Richard Moore,
Esq., Q.C.; John Hatchell, Esq., W. C.; Sir Coleman
O'Loghlen, T. O'Hagan, Esq., and James Close, Esq.,
for Mr. O'Connell.—Solicitor, Mr. William Ford.
For Mr. John O'Connell—Jonathan Henn, Esq.., Q C.;
Gerald Fitzginbon, Esq., Q.C.; James Whiteside, Esq.,
Q. C.; and Francis M'Donagh, Esq., Q. C. ; Solicitor,
Mr. Pierce Nlahony. _ _

However, it is indispensable that a license from the
Crown should be obtained by the Queen's Counsel, in
all cases in which the crown is a party, which has hitherto
been always granted in such cases, whether the Govern-
ment may exercise their right in the present instance I
cannot say.
The meeting of the wards I alluded to in my letter of
last night passed several resolutions expressive of their un-
bounded confidence in the Liberator—condemnatory of
the government proceedings, and urging the necessity
of all who had already contributed to the Repeal, contri-
buting a fresh subsidy under the head of Proclamation
money, but none of the proceedings were of such impor-
tance as to be worth transmitting in detail.
To-day, Dr. Gray, Messrs. C. G. Duffy, Thos. M.
Ray, Thos. Steele, Rev. James Tyrrell, Rev. Thos. Tier-
ney, and Mr. Richard Barrett, attended at Judge Burton's,
and ,entered into bail, themselves in £5OO, and two sure-
ties in £250 each. The following are the names of the
sureties for Dr. Gray—Alderman Gardiner, and Robert
ll'Clelland, T. C. for C. G. Duffy., Esq.—Aldermen
Richard Grace, and Patrick O'Brien, T.C. ; for the Rey.
Mr. Tyrrell—Thomas Car rall and Simon R. chard Fraser ;
for 'rhos. M. Ray (Secretary to the Association)--
Patrick (VErien, T.C. and John Ketch ; for Ri-
chard Barrett (n•ho is the editor of the Pilot)
T. Cr Brien, _Lord Mayor elect, and James Rooney ;
for Thomas Steel—James Rooney and Alderman M'Ken-
na'; for the Rev. T. Tierney—Alderman M`Keuna and
Wm. M'Gennis.