The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-17 00:00:00

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on Saturday

on the requisition of

poor-rate collector. The names of the gentle!
dance we know not,
_any further than those

Worshipful Thomas Meagher, Esq., t
as chairman, and Lord Huntingdon—

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WORKING OF THE IRISH POOR-Lik

We extract the following from the Waterford Chronicle

G A ULTIER DESPERATE RESISTANCE TO POOR-RATE

" The poor-law campaign has terminated *ere for the pre-
sent, and and in a manner which furnishes the invading army
with no occasion of quarrel about the division of the spoils,
as the novel mode of providing relief for the destitute poor
by a baronial ' cattle lifting, has proved a signal -failure.
numerous meeting of kiagistrazes w..ts held at the 1.,u0,..;1,-,„,,„

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strictly private. The question for debate was, whethe-r the
military were 'to be' or not to be' employed in this dis-
graceful and inglorious warfare ; and for the honour and
glory of the British arms we rejoice to find that they En
spared the degradation of being reduced to the level of
mon bailiffs, and, in all probability, the horrible r
shooting down unarmed population. The
decided that the military should not be called or
wise, and just, and humane decision, inasmuch as the people
in this vicinity had come to the firm determination of part-
ing with their lives rather than submit to the wholesale
mode of distraint sought to be enforced against them in this
instance. The people would rise, young and old, to the rescue,
ere they would submit to have their cattle forcibly taken—
even in the name of charity. The poor rate could not be
levied through the means proposed, except at the price of
blood. An impression had gone abroad that the cattle seized
would be exported for sale, in order to obviate the difficulty
of procuring purchasers at a poor-rate auction in this coun-
try. The knowledge of this fact added tenfold determina-
tion to the spirit of resistance by which the people were
animated. Were we to leap upon the tops of the bayonets
we will die before we let our cattle go,' was a saying we heard
amongst a party of Gaultier men. At the very fiercest stage
of'the anti-tithe warefare we never witnessed such a spirit of
deadly hate to the law, and fixed resolve to resist, through
fire, and smoke, and steel—an actual thirst for war even to
the death, rather than submit to the system of legislation
adopted by the collected wisdom of poor law authorities upon
this occasion. The very first seizure effected would have
been the signal for a popular outbreak. Nor would it have
ended in a mere temporary riot. The first shot fired, we
have no doubt, would be a signal for a general rising—an
insurrection' throughout a great portion of the county of
Waterford. Notices were posted extensively throughout the
county on Sunday morning, calling upon the people to meet
at the scene of action on Monday, and to brin • '

with them. Mounted men were posting express to distant
quarters at all hours for the last two or three eventful days.
Plans of attack and defence were discussed and deliberated
upon, with a seriousness that bespoke a deadly resolve—
men, women, and children were resolved to die upon their
tresholds rather than surrender. .

There
et one
s l—vaenwrlel o urddnosu iuonat Gml f eae aua tni ut r ete
or
sa arye connectedtphr
aint cti
this
iaswl
lciyti hroc
fut
tmhhi e
-s
stance is at all connected with the recent occurrences, and
we merely point it out as the first instance that has ever oc-
curred within our recollection, where the population and
landlords eken of different creeds and politics were alike hos-
tile to the operation of Saxon law. The evacuation of Gaul-
tier by the constabulary, and consequent cessation of
c revolto
n"s
e,v
atthiav ites
hostilities, will prove a death-blow to the system.
" FOUR o'Cxocx.—An immense body of men, amounting
to some thousands, armed with sticks and clubs, haue just
paraded the city, rending the air w.th their shouts. They
are principally Gaultier men, reicforced by numbers from the
adjoining counties of Wexford and Kilkenny. Up to this
date they have conducted themselves peaceably—ruour has
it that they are about proceeding to take possessiomn of the
poorhouse and turn out the inmates. The mayor and autho-
rities are on the alert, but as yet we see no grounds for ap-
prehension that any outrage will be perpetrated. The mili-
tary, we are just informed, have got directions to hold
themselves in readiness to repel the threatened attack on the
poor-house."

EARTHQUAKE IN LANCASHIRE.--\\Te learn that a slight
shock of earthquake was experienced about twenty minutes
past eight o'clock on Friday morning last, through a con-
siderable part of the district to the north-eastward of Man-
chester. The convulsion was indicated by a rumbling sound
and a rather sudden shock, which induced many persons to
think that some very heavy body had been suddenly thrown
down in their houses. Its centre appears to have been in
the chain of hills that separate Yorkshire and Lancashire ;
and it was more particularly felt about Rochdale, and in the
Todmorden valley, where in some cases it caused consider-
able alarm. We have not heard of its having been perceived
in the town of Manchester; but it was felt by several families
living in the immediate neighbourhood, and more particularly
at Cheetham Hill. This shock forms the third that has been
experienced during a few years past, apparently having about
the same range ; but the two former (one of which took place
on the 20th of August, 1835, and the other on the 11th June,
1839), were considerably more violent than the one on Friday
morning.—Manchester Guardian

SUBSCRIPTION.—In No. 90 of the Tracts for the Time!,
the solemn subscription to the articles is thus got rid of:—
" We have professed, in the words of the Canon, ' that th
to
Book of Prayer, &c., containeth in it nothing, contrary
the word of God.' Now, a position like this
[that it is
" against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time
in more places than one ;",] " may not be, and is not ' con-
trary to the word of God, and yet need not be true: e. g.,
we may
accept St. Clement's Epistle to the Corinthians, as
containing nothing contrary to Scripture, nay. as altogether
most scriptural, and yet this would not hinder us from re-
jecting the account of the Phcenix—as contrary, not to God's
that the
man who could write, and deliberately publish, and
vacant ceaun t
publish, such a sentence as this, should be officially held up
to_v the young men of Oxford as a safe guide and mentor
Scholarshipwithin the last
inw eek,
that we j
nhaveiverssieteyn, thedes candidatesred,
behavingf or ao
notice, to leave their names with ' Mr. Newman,'
been recently appointed ' Senior Examiner.' "
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.--.We find in the United States
papers, recentlyno
oon
rr received,occurred at
Troy. I
an
appearsof a
that a portion
dreadful
which of
the hill (Mount Ida) gave way and fell, burying beneath the
ruins eight or ten buildings occupied by poor families. It is
supposed that from thirty to forty persons were in these
buildings at the time, only ten or twelve of whom have
escaped. Within one hour of the occurrence, nine bodies
were dug out of the rubbish, five of which were without life,
one partially injured, and three not beyond recovery. Had
the accident occurred in the night, the loss of life would have
accident saved his life by leaping
been greater. The land-slide was from the same portion of
the hill which fell on the Ist of January, 1837, so deplorable
in its consequences. A farmer passing at the time of the
from his sleigh ; his horses
were killed and his load buried beneath the earth. The scene
is described to have been one of horrid desolation. The
eople collected in thousands, and a corp
s sof efficient men
were engaged in penetrating the earth and clearing away the
fragments of the buildings.
KILKENNY As
MARCH 11.—At four
o'clock this day the Hon. Baron Lefroy proceeded to the
city court to open the commission. As soon as the grand
jury had been re-sworn by the deputy clerk of the crown.
be wanting in my
His Lordship said—Mr. Foreman and gentlemen of the
duty if I did not take the first mo-
shouldgrand jury, as the bearer of er Majesty's commission I
h
want of respect and atten-
been received in the city of
merit to observe on the palpable
tion with which commission has
Kilkenny. Not one of the civil authorities, of either city
or county, thought proper to meet the barer of that com-
mission. I was obliged to depend on the intelligence of the
post-boyshall impose a fine on the city sheriffs in the first instance, found out the place at which I was to stop. I
for such unpardonable neglect, and on the county sheriff in
We regret to
the next. They will have an opportunity of showing—and
I hope they will be enabled to do so—that the want of res-
pect arose from some excusable cause, otherwise I am de-
termined that the fines shall bee flicted. It was peculiarly
necessary that on this, a larg public market-day
. 9 every
proper respect should have been paid to her Majesty's com-
mission.
ratbyebfnetllwoeweinngtre "
FATAL AFFRAY WITS THE REVENUE POLICE.—The
AhfaavyeotoesOtnaStteittUhialOtniCnOanntalarlffS
deceased was
revenue police
stationed at Newport and some of the peasantry in Achil,
one of the latter lost his life. It seems that on the Ist inst.
the police, under the command of Lieutenant Newcomen
made seizure of a quantity ofillicit spirits, and also took four'
prisoners into custody, at Dooaga, after which the party
came to
were
attacked by a number of the peasantry with stones. Upon
this some of the police fired, and one of the islanders, named
the evi-
dencebut it seems totfiethdee
esnoufer o
Thomas Masterson, was shot dead. Next day an inquest
was held. It appeared that only two of the police fired after
the stones had been thrown. The amount of provocation
not stated by the witnesses,
prominent among those who attacked the police.
that ojcucray-
The was
returned the following verdict :—` That the ceased
produced.' None of the witnesses examinedPoli
m ceman,
andhis death
w o
find
nbdy
that
agtubn;swhaost
noti wound
us t fired
ified ibnydao
doing
identify the man who fired the shot. One of the could
named Dever, had been committed for having on peasantry,
encouraged others to rescue the prisoners from th uty, and
sion obstructed the police in the execution
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elaborately-finished
di ohou;sd,
manufactured in Spitalfields expressly for the
was manufactured by M
of. Taunton, of Norfolk-street, Isling-
ton, London, at a cost 500 guineas. is an umbrella, of little
whole of the metal of which it ' • composed is
more than the ordinary size, covered with rich brocaded
The handle which o is
of pure gold. • , pens with a secret spring,
cpruirmpsoosen.saTtinhe,
unscrews, and beneath is a sun-dial and compass
contains a gold chronometer, the dial of which is about an
inch and a half in diameter. The part containing the chro-
nometer set with a valuable brilliant of the first
water; articles are beautifully arranged,
pou this portion of the handle being unscrewed,
((the
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gthermometer, a pencil-case and watchkey, a
in six compart-
:Ai:wo blades, the star and crescent engraved on either
tkruhreiei
of following
side of the handle, a comb, a toothpick, and an ornamented
circular case, containing, in three divisions, 25 leads for the
gold pencil-holder. In the next compartment of the handle
is a mirror, set in a bordering of chased gold. The tube
which is of gold, highly engravers, with a design of scroll-
work and flowers (when divested of the handle and fertile, the
latter of which contains a powerful microscope, richlyoarsntao-
mented and carved in gold), is so ingeniously contrived . . ,
The whole
tube to adapt it to various sights and dis.tat
h'ieen velvet and
is enclosed in a red morocco case lined wierng
.azone
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form a telescope, with a twenty miles' range, havings a slidme,
white satin, with the star and crescent ,
massive ZanaLdies
and the lucks, keys, and hinges are of nu four corners and in the centre. The
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engines
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STEAM NAVIGATION.—During the last fortnight a new
steam-vessel has made several trips up and down the river,
and her speed has created very great astonishment. She has
been built for the Watermen's Steam Packet Company, by
Messrs. Napier, the engineers of Millwall, whose two fast
boats, the Eclipse and Isle of Thanet, excited great attention
on the Ramsgate and Margate station last year. The hull
of the new vessel is formed of iron, and the immense speed
has been obtained by an improvement of a very peculiar de-
scription. There is a false bottom, which forms a condenser ;
and, by condensing the steam in the vacuum thus formed,
the whole power of the engine (for there is only one, and of
no more than 30-borse power) is applied to the driving of
the boat, instead of being wasted in pumping water into the
ordinary condensers. The steam is drawn into the conden-
ser by an air-pump, and the cold water passes under and
flinoalti6ngmin
over it. The machinery occupies a very small space. and the
consumption of fuel does not exceed a ton and a half per day.
With these very small means, Messrs. Napier have succeeded
in obtaining a speed unequalled in the annals of steam navi-
gation. Her ordinary speed with the tide is 18 miles an hour;
she has actually proceeded do,vn the river, with the
tide at the rate of 19 or 20 miles an hour. In one
ioeefreh ebb-
buteirsrecent trips, she performed the distance from London Bridge
floating-pier to Greenwich Hostpwitao
and on the following afternoonthiensaampepedaisrtaanoccee wi
in one minute less. The Father Thames, a verspfeaesd
nothing on the river which can at all compete wttohfh3esr. She
end steamer, with
is to be called Waterman No. 9, and is intended to
power each, was passed by the new steamer, a* -h
rose
be-
tween the Adelphi pier and the watermen
Greenwich.thay roTeheonnee steamer
t fo
rt'r ply
sasanything
never been surpassed.—Times. she a 8
ae machinery
'raves-