The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

IRELAND:

An English merchant has given Ca) to the Rev. Mr.
Nangle towards .the erection of a pier on Achill island.
On Saturday night, six sheep, the property of Mr. Os-
borne were killed at Newtown,Tipperary, and the car-
cases carried off by some persons unknown.
Two shillings a stone is asked for the foreign potatoes
in the hands of merchants at Limerick. Not a single bag
of home potatoes at market.
MALICIOUS BURNING.—FOURTEEN HEAD OF CATTLE
LOST.—On the night of the Bth instant, the cow-house of
Mrs. Ross, Sanpagh, containing her whole stock of black.
cattle, fourteen in number, was burned to the ground.—
Derry Sentinel.
Of the £BB acknowledged at the Repeal Meeting, last
week, about seven-eighths were sent up from the most
distressed parts of the country, by priests, who wrote
despondingly of the famine—which prevented the remit-
tances from being larger.
On Thursday, a very large and respectable meeting
was held in the Town Hall, Belfast, in pursuance of a
requisition calling upon the Mayor to convene such a
meeting, for the purpose of memorialising the government
to suspend the distillation of grain during the present
season of distress.
The Shannonvale mills at Clonakilty, near Cork, were
destroyed by fire on Sunday week. A part of the stock
of wheat, and all the flour, meal, &c., were consumed. It
is feared that the total suspension of this large mill in the
manufacture of flour, meal, &c., will affect the price of
those articles, as the stock was the only large supply of
food in that part of the country. The casualty will be
severely felt.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday night last, the rail-
way coach, coming into Cork, was upset by reason of the
wheels sinking in the newly repaired road, and was com-
pletely capsized. Though the coach was crowded with
passengers, all escaped save one, who had been sitting
with the coachman. His "apron" being fastened across
his legs, the unfortunate gentleman could not extricate
himself, and was neatly crushed to death, the coach hav-
ing fallen direct over him.
STARVATION.—The last number of the Mayo Consti-
tution that we received contains an account of nine deaths
from starvation, in six of which the awful cause of the fa-
tal event was ascertained by coroners' inquests. The
Western Star also bears testimony that numbers are pe-
rishing in Mayo from starvation ; and in the same jour-
nal we find a resolution of the relief committee of Kil-
mena and Kilneclossen, Co., Sligo, declaring that " hun-
dreds are in a state of absolute starvation," and that
" many have lately died of want and hunger. whilst many
more are reduced to the last extremity." The y
Mercury reports death from starvation near 'roam, and
the Westmeath Independent mentions that nine other
rkitances of the some tearful event occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Ballinasloe. The Cork Constitution records
two deaths from famine at Tralee, and the Cork Examiner
gives the horrible particulars of six others in the neigh-
bourhood of Bantry, where numbers are endeavouring to
sustain existence on a species of sea-weed called, milvawn.
The misery at Skibbereen is now unhappily but too noto-