The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

All the flax spinning mills at Belfast, amounting to
twenty-seven, have been put on " three quarter time."
A boat was upset a few days since at Waterford, and
five persons drowned.
Upwards of £70,000 was remitted by the Irish Board of
Works to the country for the payment of labourers in the
course of last week.

On Saturday week, three carts of flour on their way to
Ballinasloe were attacked by a mob and seven sacks stolen.
More would have been taken but the police came up.
The Marquis of Conyngham has made a reduction of
twenty-five per cent in some instances, and of fifteen in

Nation, the Rev. John Kenyon, a
, talks of " the desperate infamy
over the close" of O'Connell's career, and con-
hat it is time for Ireland to seek another leader.
,e Irish markets in grain and other kinds are going
nd this is general in every quarter. In Scotland,
same results are experienced ; the farmers who held
back being satisfied that they played a foolish card.
Messrs. Hayes and Co., coach proprietors of Down-
patrick have had nine horses poisoned within the last few
months. On the death of the ninth horse, a veterinary
surgeon was sent for, and detested a large quantity of

In a let

Roman Catholic priest.

poison in the stomach

The Irish Court of Queen's Bench has grantedto Lord
Lucan a conditional order for a criminal information
against the proprietor of the Mayo Telegraph, for a libel
on his lordship. The articles complained of reflected on
his lordship's character as a landlord.

have resolved to petition for such alterations in the Be

"as will render it acceptable to the bishops,
the clergy, and tire people of Ireland." Their reverences
must be clever hands if they can effect a settlement of
such a question to please every body.
In a letter to the Freeman's Journal, Sir Robt. Knae
denies the statement that the potatoe commission cost
the country £18,400, and doubts whether it cost the odd
£4OO. He; himself, gave his services gratuitously, and
his colleagues, Professor Lindley and Piayfair, had three
guineas a day and their travelling expenses.
A man named Cornelius Crowley has been committed
near Cork, to the charge of the wilful murder of his wife.
When the poor woman was found, her skull was broken
to atoms. The husband said he was starving, having not
eaten anything but an onion for twenty-Jour hours, and
that his wife had plenty of money. On searching her
3 lOs 6(.1. was found in her pocket.

Numbers of perbons well able to pay have refused to
I,quidaie their parish roars in the county of Mayo. but
they are to be proceeded against. The ,sorkhouse at Cas-

tlrbar wr,uid have been closed, and 200 wretc, es lett to
starve, but the Earl of Lucan has advanced from his
private purse money for the last six weeks to sustain

the paupers

Tne papers received from the King's County, the
counties of Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, and Cork

contain lists of outrages perpetrated within their bound-
aries during the previous few days. With the exception
of a few, there is no variety in the general character of
the offences from that which is so common—namely, the
plunder of provisions and fire-arms, assaults, and the
posting of threatening notices, &c.
THE GUN TRADE FLOURISHING.—" Of all trades
a-g.ing" the gun trade in Tipperary is the best. The
market is brisk', and prices moderate. Every man is li-
censed to shoot, and human game appears to get the pre-
ference. From al quarters we learn that " the fowlers"
are out early and late, and every man has either a handy
detonator, or one of the old stock in good order. How
tong wilt such a state of things be permitted to exist 1—
Tipperary Constitution.
BARBAROUS MURDER.—On the 2d inst., a barbarous
murder took place at Clogheen. Mayo, cf a man named
Michael Burke, by his wile. They had been married but
a few months, the woman having been the widow of a
former husband. It seems to have been managed to
make the unfortunate man drunk, and then, when got to
his bed, he was murdered in his helplessness by a blow on
the left aide of the head, above the ear, which frightfully
broke in the greater portion of the skull, the brain awfully
prnt.uding. Burke had been a man of great physical
strength, and a very harmless and inoffensive person.
LORD JOHN AT A DISCOUNT.—The priests of the
diocese of tit. Jarlath's have unanimously pronounced
Lord John Russell incompetent to the duties of his situa-
tion—that his conduct towards Ireland is "a base delu
sion

'—that bt• has " aggravated the sufferings of the
people by specious and hollow promises, which he had no
intention of fulfilling." In their speeches and letters to
the local newspapers, the Mayo priests boldly advocate
the return of Sir Robert Peel to power, and the priests
of Limerick, Clare, and other districts are nearly as ex-
plicit as their brethren in the county of Mayo.
The Limerick Reporter publishes four affidavits made
on the Ist of November instant before Carbery Scully,
Esq., J.P., at Newport, in the county Tipperary, which
disclose a fearful state of destitution. In the first a
labourer swears he has a wife and two children to sup-
vort, is able and willing to work, but cannot obtain em-
ployment, and that the previous day they had but one
meal, which consisted solely of cabbage and salt ! The
second man deposes that he has a wife, mother, sister,
and child to support, can obtain no employ merit, and that
they have subsisted on cabbage and an occasional turnip.
The third man bas a wife and five children, and the fourth
a wife and four children.

PUBLIC HUMILIATION.—Dr. Whateley, the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, has fixed Friday next, the 20th day of
November, to be observed throughout Ireland as a day of
pub is humiliation and prayer, in reference to the scarcity
in Ireland. His Grace considers it most important that
the sacrament of the Lord's Supper should be adminis-
tered, and that in the sermon the congregation should be
shown how to view and meet the calamity, and in parti-
cular should be guarded against, " presuming to pronounce
%/Am. creriskolocs Us. as.a c 15pm:1at sunerers are
necessarily objects of Divine displeasure." lie wishes

the congregation to he warned against desponding. and
such of them as are not likely to he personal sufferers
against regarding the exemption as any sign of being special
favourites of heaven.
THE O'CONNELL TENANTRY.—On Weenesdav last,
about three hundred labourers, chiefly resident in the

neighbourhood of Cahirciveen, met at a bridge about a
mile east from that town, and marched in military order
to the house of a magistrate, Mr. J. Primrose, who has
been distinguished for his exertions in procuring work for
the distressed peasantry. When arrived there, the gen-
tleman in question was not at home; and they returned
to Cahirciveen to endeavour to persuade the engineers to
set them to some work which would enable them to pro-
cure food The whole are said to have exhibited signs of
horrible destitution, tottering as they went along, from
weakness and exhaustion. Where is their middleman
landlord, Daniel O'Connell, in such an emergency of his
truantry ? One would imagine that to him, instead of to
a Protestant neighbour, they would have applied to pro-
cure employment and food.

IRISH POVERTY AND WILLINGNESS TO LABOUR.—
It appears, by a semiofficial statement that the number of
persons receiving employment through the Board of
`Yorks, was 110,251 But even these are not permitted
to work unmolested. At Mallow, the magistrates have
determined to call in the military to protect such of the
People as are willing to work. 250 labourers, earnine
some Is. 6d. a-day, others Is. 8d , were actually driven cif
the road by a band of miscreants acting under some mis•
chievou. delusion. The readiness to combine for any
mischievous or irrationally selfish purpose, is strikingly
illustrated in the Irish correspondence of The Times. A
person in Mallow took a contract for 1000 wheelbarrows.

No sooner was this known, than the carpen'ers advanced
their price fur working up the materials from 2s. 6d. to
4-. 6d. ; the smiths in like manner raised their charges;
so that the contractor, if he had not been able to call in
some coin try carpenters. would have been compelled to
uav 14s. for what .as worth 10s. This, too, in a period
of great privation, and when the object for which the con-
tr,,c' was ¢iren was met% a charitable one.
THE " FINE PEASANTRY."—A short while ago, the
Swallow weather, .hilst on her passage from Limerick to

Tralee, wilt, a cargo of meal to relieve the wants of the
destitwe people, was driven on shore by a strong gale.
An officer of the Shannon squadron thus describes the

conduct of the peasantry of the neighbourhood where she
is heached :—'• At the time of writing this, the Swallow is
still no shore, although the Pluto, Alban, and a party
from the Madagascar a. e ge ting all ready to set her afloat.
The copprr has been stripped and carried off by the very
honest peasantry, anti the marines and sailors have been
plunder,tl in a m-st sham-lot way. As a sign of the times,
the Lieu'enan, who has the direction of getting the Swal-
low (if, employed thirty men at Is. per diem—rourpence
more ,han the standing wiges. He required on Friday
two hundred more to :et the vessel off; the magiorate
kindly go' the men : thee were only required for half an
hour and were t.• he paid the Is. per diem for their half-
hott,

wwk, wip n joist as they had (Fanned the purchase-

f4l 's miserable. lotlf-siatved fellow stepped out and said,
• Caottun. what e ill v. U give us ?' Where h, was told
thr were to receive the 1,, he save ar, aular Irish howl,
d, op • d the fall, arid r0,11,d off, exelaimitiz, Bad eess to
II e soul of the man that would work for that ; they ean-
oot do without us. s, let us off." and off they went,
leaving the thirty that were there before. The tide had
taller,, cod there rettarned the Swallow. This is a sample

of the nyarviog people."
RkPEAI .—Nlr. O'Connell addressed the repeaters at
Cooc,ba,ion Hall on Monday. lie complained that they
were likely to have a Tory Lord Mayor at Cork, through
the handiwork of Youhg Ireland, and then went on to
‘ay—" Now, the Nation, of Sal urday, had stated that he
(Mr O'(oone'l) had called that party ' a phalanx;' but
he begged pArd n the Nation, and wished to say !hat
it had originated the name itself, and he had only adoped
it. and M . o•Brien had confirmed it. Ile did not care
what the young gentlemen called themselves; whether a
%ming phalanx, .ran old phalanx, or a noble phalanx;
they might adopt the latter name if they pleased ; and
y themselves w, re still satisfied with being called Old
I e•and Tt-re was then a noble phalanx on one side,
and ,he we' Assoeia.ion on the other. Mr. O'Brien,
the hr.(' o' this Noble phalanx. said he (Mr. O'Connell)
ugly. hut. unfortimately, he could not help it, and he
'to ught tt ea- ratle r harsh to abuse him for what he
e„,,i,1 ..ot I tip; Ip,weter he was .ati,fiert with the reflen-

on. Ow con r 0 'h. Y-une Irelar:ders were no great

heiiu i•s ihenisehi s. and I e wotith-red w: old any of them
e.ei licr tr ots+nd hriort• an I ii.h audience to ask if they
1,,,(1 .111 w le,l to, their cootory f r half a century. This
noble • ph, .ical ti rev I l alai x' were employed in doing
iitoh og land. Why. he would a-k, did they not
ro, an a,,s, c atioo for therto.elye,.? He would tell the

••io d fbr 112'4 it safer to fight with types
a.,d prig tf-ra' than to r, sort to the sword, which
they I t,d d ao truci, ; if ev were. as they I literarysaid,
Wi, v.., hi i2adiew •general ;at least, who was to
fib 'll,t ;mat hr d d tot koow. It was to be a literary
v, ie. ce ehet ae,e to rrovlov ; they were to use their
n.kes. and tin-ir pencils as bayonets; such was
Ihe yi,n,q, relandt courage." Tue rent for the week
was 188. 'Delwin% £2 2s. 6d. ftatu Liverpool.