The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-04 00:00:00

IRE 14 AND.

The repeal rent for the week before last, amounted to
£1.259 3s. 91d.
A man of the name of James O'Donnell was killed on
the 18th instant, by lightning, near Mayo, in Ireland.
The Protestants throughout Ireland have determined to
avoid all processions and displays on the anniversaries
during the present month.

The Belfast papers state that all the women in the
barracks were on Monday ordered to leave, and take up
their quarters outside the walls.

According to Lord Alonteagle, an illicit still, with all
the necessary apparatus, may be purchased in Ireland for
£3, or hired at half-a. crown per brewing.
The Mayo Constitution records the death of a woman from
the effects of a fright caused by a thunder storm. She
was found in an upright position against the wall, without
any marks of injury except her hair being slightly singed.
TEA LEAD FOR IRISH REPEALERS.—We are in pos-
session of certain information that money has been sent
over from reprealers to Halifax to purchase tea-lead of the
grocers and tea-dealers of this town, which is to be sent
over to Ireland for the use of the Repealers. In one in-
stance, last week, upwards of £6 was sent to one man for
this purpose.— Halij ax Guardian.

The Rev. Dr. Drew in a letter addressed to a Dublin
paper, states, that whilst £2,439 2s. 9d. is annually re-
mitted from England in aid of the Hibernian Female
School Society, (solely for the benefit of the Irish poor)
not one hundred pounds per annum is contributed by
Ireland. What a comment on O'Connell's abuse of the
English !

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--OH Saturday last, a me-
lancholy accident occurred in the canal boat from Killalce
to Limerick. A presbyterian clergyma❑ and his wife
were amongst the passengers; and when within a few
miles of Limerick, the former looked out through one of
the cabin windows, but before he could withdraw from it,
the boat reached one of the locks, and, sad to relate, the
unfortunate gentleman had his head literally dashed to
atoms !—Tipperary C'onstilution.

The number of magistrates in Ireland who have been
superseded, in consequence of the Repeal agitation, since
the Ist of May, is 48, namely 28 by authority of the Go-
vernment, and 20 at their own request. Of the latter,
two, G. Delany, Esq., and W. F. Finn, Esq., in the
county of Kilkenny, have been reinstated. Messrs.
Daniel and Maurice O'Oonnell are among the number of
those removed by the Government ; and Mr. Charles
O'Connell is one of those removed at their own request.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE REPEAL RENT.—An Irish
correspondent states that the repeal rent now exceeds
upwards of £20,000; and that a division of this spoil has
just been arranged. What may be tht_share of Mr.
O'Connell is a profound secret; but the
ervices of Mr.
Maurice O'Connell, M.P., as warden of one province of
Ireland, are, he assures us, to be rewarded with £2,000,
"say two thousand pounds ;" and those of Mr. Dillon
Browne, M•P., in a similar capacity with £l,OOO. To
another O'Connell who is " inspector-general of the re-
peal lodges in England," four guineas a week are assig-
ned.

THE " CROWNING" JOKE.—lt has been already stated,
and the statement remains undenied, that the Romish
Bishops have given orders to insert the name of Daniel
the First next after the name of her Majesty in the Prayer-
book. This, however, was only the first step towards
the actual assumption of royalty. A second is thus an-
nounced by a provincial paper :—" A medal about the
size of a crown piece has just been struck in honour of
Daniel the First. On one side is a bust of the Liberator,
with the words, Daniel O'Connell, E•q., M.P.,' and on
the reverse is a wreath of shamrocks, with the inscription
above, Ireland expects every man to do his duty,' and
below, Repeal of the legislative union.'—What next ?"
What next ?" Of course an issue of new coinage from
the Irish mint, and the above description of the medal at
once suggests the pattern of the design.—Correspondent
of the Times.

"'The total quantity of sugar imported from the sth of
January to the sth of June, 1843, is 1,650,795 cwt. ; the
total for the corresponding period, 1842, was 1,530,150
cwt. The amount of foreign sugar imported during
those five months in 1843 is 207,512 cwt. ; in 1842 it was
108,266 cwt. The quantity of foreigh sugar entered for
home consumption entered in the first five months of
1842 was 71 cwt. ;in 1843 it is 31 cwt. The total entered
for home consumption in the first five months of the for-
mer year was, 1,563,547 cwt. ; in the latter 1,694,690 cwt.
On the sth of June, 1842, 991,746 cwt, remained in
warehouse ; on the sth June, 1843, 1,068,835 cwt.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—LOSS OF NINE LIVES.
—We regret to announce that on Monday evening, at one
of the pits belonging to the Fenton Park Company, situ-
ate at the back of the china manufactory of Messrs. Green
and Richards, of Fenton, an explosion of fire-damp occur-
red, which was attended with the loss of nine lives. The
cause of the accident is ascribed to the imprudence of one
of the sufferers, who shut to a door, which, when re-open-
ed, caused such a rush of foul air towards the shaft of the
pit, as ignited by the candles by which the men were
lighting themselves. Two of the sufferers lost their lives
by going to the assistance of those who fell victims to the
explosion. An accident of so shocking a nature has not
hapened in the Potteries for many years.
EXHIBITION OF CARTOONS IN WESTMINSTER HALL.
—This exhibition, the result of the prizes offered by the
Royal Commission for the Encouragement of the Fine
Arts, with a view to the decoration of the interior of the
new Houses of Parliament, has been opened to the pub-
lic. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the King and Queen of the Belgians, and other illustrious
foreigners, viewed it on Friday. There are one hundred
and forty subjects altogether, and the sizes vary from
15ft. to 10ft. square, none being admitted over or under
that standard. The subjects are chiefly from British his-
tory, embracing many of the most important incidents in
the annals of our country. Shakspeare and Spencer's
Fairy Queen have also afforded several specimens of great
beauty. The prizes have been awarded to the successful
competitors by the judges appointed by the roal com-
mission ; and we publish the names of the artistsy and the
subjects of their cartoons :—Prizes of £300: Armitage
(Landing of Julius Caesar) ; Watts (Caractacus at
Rome) ; Cope (the first Trial by y).__ tac
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of
£2OO : Horsley (St. Augustine preaching before Ethel-
bed and Bertha. his Christian Queen) ; Bell (Queen
Margaret taking Sanctuary at Westminster) • Townsend
(the Fight for the Beacon).—Prizes of £l'oo : Parris
(Joseph of Arimatbrea) ; Severn ing Edward and
Queen Eleanor) ; Bridges (Alfred presenting his Code of
Laws to the Witan) ; Frost (Una surprised by the Fauns
and Satyrs; Selous (Boadicea).—The judges were the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir R. Peel, Mr. S. Rogers, Mr.
R. Vv estmacott, Mr. R. Cooke, and Mr. W. Etty, and
they have taken occasion to express an opinion, that how-
ever liberal the number of pntmiums, they were still
found by no means equal to The number of approved pro-
dUCtiOnS.
FOREIGNERS AND COLONISTS.—Mr. Cobden gene-
rally understood to have a sharp enough eye to his own
interests as a manufacturer. We wonder that, in his late
attack on our colonies, he should have quite overlooked
a consideration of which, in the earlier years of the anti-
corn-law agitation, we thought we should never hear an
end. We were then told that the mere amount of our
exports to any country was no proof of the prosperity of
our manufactures,—that some sorts of exports, as for
instance of goods upon which little labour has been be-
stowed, were in reality ruinous to us—and we derived
little or no profit except from the export of finished
manufactures and goods into the value of which much
labour has entered. Now, assuming all this to be cor-
rect, let us ask, which, on this suppositio, is the best
customer for our manufactures—the foreigner or the
colonist ? The answer must be, the colonist. We take
up one of the returns moved for by the anti-corn-law
agitators, " a table showing the value of British produce
and manufactures exported to various quarters of the
world in 1827 and 1838, distinguishing finished manu-
factures and goods into the value of which much labour
has entered, from materials of manufacture, and goods
upon which but little labour has been bestowed." From
this table we find that of the exports to our colonies, the
centesimal proportion of those on which little labour has
been bestowed is only 15.45 ; while of the export to
foreign countries, the same proportion is not less than
30.28. The figures, which speak for themselves, are these :
Much labour. Little labour.
1827 • • 84.09 ...... 15.91
1838 ...... 84.55 ...... 15.45
Foreign countries, 1827 ...... 81.95 ...... 18.05
1838 ...... 69.72 .... 30.28
This shows a state of matters which we think might help
to reconcile:even Mr. Richard Cobden to our colonial
possessions.

Colonies,