The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Saturday week, two stacks of Wheat at Cleriban.
Tipperary, were maliciously set on fire by seven incen-
diaries, and were destroyed.
I❑ September and October, 1844, 2,753 pigs were
brought into Cork market ; in the same months of 1845,
3,025 ; whilst in those two months of this year, the enor-
mous number of 15,559 were brought to that market.
EXPORT OF CATTLE.—Within the memory of the old-
est inhabitant (says the Limerick Chronicle) there has
not been so large an export of horned cattle and pigs as
this season so far as it has advanced.
The " Young Ireland" party held their first public
meeting in Dublin, on Tuesday, when Mr. O'Connell
was spoken of as a good old man in his dotage, and the
people advised by Mr. Magee, the new agitator, to
" hide their time."
THE PRESENTMENT SESSIONS. According to the
Freeman's journal, the Board of Works have already
sanctioned presentments under the Labour Rate Act, to
the amount of £500,000, and the number of people em-
ployed is estimated at over 90.000.
The Cork union workhouse, designed to accommodate
2,000 persons, centains 3,200 inmates, while the appli-
cations increase at the rate of 200 a week. The guar-
oians have agreed, in consequence, to rent a store for
twelve months at £l5O. At their last meeting the clerk
stated that he bad seen so many as twelve in one bed.
Last Sunday evening, the house of the Rev. W. Bun-
bury, Charleville, Ireland, was broken into by a Popish
mob, at the very time when some gentlemen were discus-
sing measures for the relief of the destitute people, and
some shots were fired, to the great alarm of the family.
The mob was beaten off by the male part of the family,
their friends, and servants.
DEATH FROM STaavanoN.—A correspondent of the
Cork Examiner, writing from Macroom, states that a
poor woman, the mother of several children, who had
come into the town on Monday last, for the purpose of
parCcipating in some casual relief distributed at the
workhouse, died of destitution that evening, after having
dragg.ed herself to her miserable home.
At the meeting of the repeal association on Monday,
Mr. O'Connell oelisered a long fulmination against Mr.
Smith O'Brien and the Nation party. He had "done
justice to the former too long," and so now is preparing
to make up by a little abuse. He declared it was not his
intention to stand for Dublin at the ensuing election, but
true, good repealers would be found to contest the city.
The rent for the week was £57 12s. 4d.
PRESENTMENTS FOR ROMISH CHAPELS.--The Irish
Executive has cut off a fruitful source of jobbing, by re-
fusing to sanction any presentments for the building of
Roman Catholic chapels. This decision was announced

in a letter from the Under-secretary, in reply to an appli-

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cation from Wexford, and the local Romanist paper
charges the Government with offering " fresh insult" to
the Irish, " when their hearts are sorest, and their souls
darkest."

OUTBREAK.—On Tuesday a formidable outbreak took
place in Castletownroche, Cork. A large number of the
labouring classes assembled, and in the first instance stop-
ped some flour conveying from the mills, plundered the
carts and carried off the flour ; but after some remon-
strance they were induced to restore it, though in a
damaged state. Having given -up the flour, they went to
seize on the cattle of some of the gentry and farmers, and
drove off a large flock.
A VOICE FROM CAHIRMOYLE.—Mr. Smith O'Brien
has at length put forth a manifesto declaratory of his
views with respect to the repeal question, as affected by
the quarrel between the champions of moral and physical
force. From his letter, addressed to Mr. C. G. Duffy, it
appears that Young Ireland is about to set up business for
itself, and it is not too much to anticipate that such a re-
solve will affect the interests of the old and ricketty rival
establishment on Burgh Quay. At all events, as the pub-
lic cannot support both ; one or other must speedily be-
come insolvent, and of late all the symptoms of bank-
ruptcy are observable at the senior concern.
IRISH ASPIRATIONS FOR PEEL.—THE ANTI-RUSSELL
MANIA.—The Rev. Thomas Hardiman, parish priest of
Kilmcena, in the archdiocese of Tuam, thus concludes
an epistle laudatory of his own exertions in mitigating
the poverty of the people :—" Oh ! give me the great
Tory chef, with all his political sins upon his head, to
grasp the helm at this dreadful crisis with his master-
hand, and I will then hope that we shall weather the
storm. But I confess that my heart sinks to think that
the noblest people on God's earth are at this moment at
the mercy of a set of political jugglers, who seem to have
no mercy whatever for them."

THE MARKETS.—Prices are coming down. Since
Friday week wheat has fallen from 355. (currency) to
325. 61, and oats from 15s. 6d. to 14s. Bd. Barley, per-
haps from the activity of the distilleries, has more than
maintained itself, the price on the former day having been
18s. 6d.—Friday, 19s. Pigs have fallen within the same
Period from 365. 6d. per cwt, to 295. The English mar-
kets also exhibit a decline, and in London there has been
a reduction on bread of Id. to lid. in the 41b. loaf. We
have had three arrivals of Indian corn at Cove since our
last, and 46 vessels laden with it have arrived from
France.— Cork Paper,

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.—On Sunday week, the ser-
vant maid of Mr. John O'Grady, of Martinstown, Li-
merick, was attracted by a noise to the bedroom of her
master and mistress, when to her horror she found the
latter weltering in her gore from a fatal stab in the neck.
She screamed and ran down stairs, when she was pursued
by Mr. O'Grady into the stable, where, seizing a pitch-
fork, he stabbed her in several parts of her body until he
had killed her. He then left the house, and was soon
after taken into custody.- He had only been married
about six months to his poor slaughtered wife. It is sup-
posed that he was labouring under a fit of insanity,
brought on by an over excited mind in consequence of his
wife's relatives objecting to his three_unmarried brothers_
to whom he was greatly attached, continuing to live with
him. He lately built a fine new house, and purchased an
elegant car for his wife. Mr. O'Grady is said to be above
fifty years of age, whilst his wife was only seventeen.
The unfortunate lady was enceinte of twins.
BLANDISHMENTS OF ENGLISH CORRUPTION.—Mr.
George Moore, a gentleman in the prime of life, and
against whom not the shadow of a complaint has been
raised, has been pensioned off from the office of Registrar
of Deeds, Dublin, worth f.:1,5n0. Mr. O'Connell was
commissioned by his constituents at Fermoy to expel the
present ministry from office, and arrived in Dublin for the
purpose, on Wednesday week, to take the initiatory step
in that expulsion, by lecturing the Lord Lieutenant at the
head of an angry deputation. Next day, O'Connell had
an interview of three hours with the Lord Lieutenant.
The next day, the deputation was not angry at all, O'Con-
nell giving them the key-note roared gently as a suck-
ing dove. On Monday, he withdrew at Conciliation Hall
all his abuse of the Board of Works, and threw cold water
on the proposed meeting at Dublin to coerce the minis-
try. It has since been announced that Mr. O'Connell's
second son, Morgan, has been made registrar of deeds in
the place of Mr. Moore. This is a nice chain of circum-
stances, but other links have no doubt to be added, and
when all the little family have been provided for, the
careful parent will withdraw himself into quietude. This
finale has already been determined on—when it arrives,
let those who will, hurrah for repeal.
An extraordinary disclosure has just taken place in Bel-
fast, where eleven men, mechanics and iron-moulders,
were tried for conspiring to injure their employers, Messrs.
Coombe and Danville. The men were convicted, the
ring-leader sentenced to four months, and the others to
less periods of imprisonment. After the trial, it trans-
pired that the sub-sheriff had selected certain persons to
serve on the jury, and a man named Hill, with a number
of blank summonses, had filled in such names as he
thought proper, and even placed his own name on the
list. Mr. O'Rourke, the prosecuting counsel, said he
had long suspected the existence of such practices, and
that it was such a suspicion in this particular case which
had led to tle course be took in reference to it on Satur-
day, namely, pushing forward a comparatively trivial case
to be tried first. When the jury were deliberating on their
decision in this case, which, in point of fact, was one
which no man of the slighest pretensions to commonsense
could have the least hesitation in arriving at a decision on,
he (Mr. O'R.) was desirous to get a second jury em-
panelled for the other ; but, as soon as the jury then de-
liberating discovered what was going forward, they threw
down the issue paper, without even waiting to be asked if
they had agreed, in order that they might get charge of
the second case.

IRISH DISTRESS, AND SAVINGS' BANKS IN IRE-
I.AND.—The Times of Friday, publishes an extraordinary
official statement—an account of the sums paid in and
drawn out of the Irish savings' banks in the year 1846. It
would be expected from the superficial examination which
has been given to the subject, after the outcry which has
'been made, that there exist in Ireland no funds to pay
rent or to buy food; that these savings' banks, the reci-
pients of a surplus, would be closed; and that govern-
ment would be embarassed by the vast aggregate thus with-
drawn from its hands. This does not prove to be the case.
" The savings' banks there, with one great exception,
never were more prosperous thin in this year of unprece-
dented distress. What increases the marvel is, that their
prosperity, in different districts, appears to be exactly in
proportion to the extent of the demands on public bene-
volence. The more the people have wanted, the more they
have had. Under increasing distress, there has happily
existed a mine of increasing wealth; and while the trea-
sury has been lavishing its bounties with the right hand,
with the left hand it has received back a current of com-
fortable deposits. One feels very sure that no other coun-
try under the sun could ever have presented so remark-
able an inconsistency between words and deeds." The
SUM paid in, and the sums drawn out, by the trustees in
the province of Connaught, are respectively £9,600, and
£4,400. Mayo, where distress was said to be overwhelm.
ing, drew out only £2,300, and paid in £3,300. Roscom-
mon paid in £3,300 and drew out nothing. Sligo paid in
£l,BOO, and drew out nothing. In the province of Mun-
ster £80,699 were paid in, and £53,810 were drawn out,
the account being thus improved to the extent of £26,899.
Limerick beats them all : its trustees have paid in £18,200,
only drawing out £3,300. The only exception in this data
is one in St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, and has nothing to
do with either the potato rot, or the relief measures. As
much as £223,800 was drawn out by St. Peter's Parish,
Dublin, between October, 25, 1845, and January 3, 1846,
in consequence of a rumour that the funds of that bank
were not sufficient to meet the demands of the depositors.
So large a sum, of course, gives an unfavourable result,
as far as the whole of Ireland is concerned ; but taking
Connaught and Munster separately, the excess of deposit
over the sums withdrawn is £32,099

" JUSTICE FOR IRELAND."

Of Irish ills the chief is gone;
Fur by the letter of Lord John,
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We're made to understand,
Unlike all others of their line,
The resent absentees decline ~
.. rain" their native la-4,

UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL NEWS.

The Rev. J. N. Peill, of Queen's College, Cambridge,
and late of this town, has been appointed dean of the college.
The Church of England possesses nearly as many
bishops who are not peers as bishops who are; twenty, we
believe, to twenty-six.
The Norfolk Railway Company have presented the
handsome contribution of £3,000 towards the erection of
the Thorpe hamlet new church, Norfolk.
A contribution of 200 guineas has been anonymously
sent to the Pastoral Aid Society, through Messrs. Hoare
and Co. The donor merely gave the initials of "C. C."
The parishioners of the Rev. C. B. Taylor, late rector
of St. Peter's, Chester, have presented him, on leaving
that benefice, with a service of plate, valued at £5l. gown
and cassock worth £l6, and a purse containing £7O.
Miss Burdett's new church, for building, endowing,
&c., of which she has given £30,000 to the Bishop of
London, is to be built in Rochester-row, Westminsier.
The munficent donor is to have the first presentation,
and the bishop of the diocese afterwards.
TIIE BISHOP OF FREDERICTON.—A letter from Fre-
dericton says, " Our bishop, Dr. Medley, is building a
beautiful little stone church at his own expense, and the
cathedral will be commenced next spring. The bishop is
universally beloved for his mild deportment and his un-
ceasing exertions in going about doing good.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—We are
sorry to have to announce the melancholy death of the
Rev. Thomas Bullock, rector of Castle Eaton, and vicar
of Chisledon. It appears that about 10 o'clock on Thurs-
day night last, as he was driving near the Swindon sta-
tion, the horse suddenly jumped round, by which Mr.
Bullock and his servant were both thrown out, and the
former gentleman was killed on the spot. The servant
escaped with some slight bruises. It is supposed from
the denseness of the fog, Mr. Bullock was driving too near
the side of the road, and by the horse swerving the wheel
went into the ditch, and Mr. Bullock falling under the
horse was unable to extricate himself. He was found to
be quite dead when the horse and carriage were removed.
The rev. gentleman was about forty-six years of age, and
has left a widow and seven children. It is a remarkable
fact that the advowson has appertained to the family of
Goddard, of Wilts, from the period of the Reformation
to the present time. As early as 1550, Johanna Goddard
presented Humfridus Golimore. In 1623 Mr. Edward
Gopdard presented some clerk to the said rectory ; and
again, in 1627, the same Edward Goddard presented Jo-
hannes Hungerford.—Willshire paper.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—A crowded meeting of
the Protestant Association was held on Friday evening at
Exeter Hall. It was announced that Mr. Plumptre, M.P.,
would preside, but, owing to the unavoidable absence of
• that gentleman, the duties of chairman devolved upon Mr.
James Hamilton Storey, who opened the business of the
evening by expressing a confident hope that the meeting
would not attribute his deficiency to a want of zeal in the
cause of Protestantism. The attitude which Popery had
recently assumed was of a truly menacing character, and
therefore it behoved the friends of Protestantism and
truth to come forward and rescue the country from the
cloud of darkness in which the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land were insidiously and irreligiously endeavouring to
envelop it. This monition drew down rapturous applause,
amid which Mr. Storey resumed his seat.—The Rev. Mr.
Birks moved the first resolution, declaratory of their joy
at the signal deliverance vouchsafed to their ancestors, and
the church and nation, on the memorable sth November,
1605, and recommendatory of increased exertions upon
the part of every Protestant for national awakening and
national repentance.—The Rev. 11 ugh Stowell urged on
the meeting the necessity for preventing any endowarent
and encouragement of Popery, which stood opposed to
civil freedom and national prosperity; and the duty of
electors to secure the return of those men to Parliament
who would oppose Popery and support the Protestant
institutions of the country.—The meeting was also ad-
dressed by Dr. Kalley and some other gentlemen.