The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA

We have received by express from Marseilles papers in
anticipation of the overland mail. The dates of the
advices brought by this arrival are—Calcutta, April 23 ;

May -3

The G3vernorlGeneral was at Sealkote on the 15th of
April, and was expected to arrive at Simla by the first
week in May.

The hill chiefs of the western frontier of the Punjaub
still continue troublesome. A detachment of irregular
troops had been sent after one of them ,Futeh Khan, who
had succeeded in effecting a des cent. An allied chief
Wahab Khan, with a number of.his own clan, attacked
this detachment, hut after a skirmish. in whicl. th

killed on each side, he was driven off to the hills. Sadut
Khan, son of Fettle!' Khan, is, however, collecting a force
to reinforce Vv-ahab Khan.

From Cabul information has been received that Ma-
hommed Ukram Khan and Gholam Hyder Khan, sons of
Dost Mahommed, are obliged to fortify themselves in
Balkh, as the people in the country round have not ac-
knowledged their rule. They have informed their father
that the Ameer of Bokhara has sent an army out against
them, but that in consequence of the want of boats it has
been detained on the banks of the river Hamoon.
Robberies are still of frequent occurrence at Peshawur.
Officers' fowling-pie!es and horses seem to be articles

28 sheep,

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

The Earl of Clarendon has entered an appearance to
the action broueht by Mr. Burke.

Since June, 1850, Nenagh union has increased its debts
from £4OO to upwards of £lO,OOO. The Limerick Chro-
nicle thinks it must borrow a loan of £6OOO to pay the
contractors up to tho 25th March last, and before a shil-
ling of the next rate is collected, there will be again £6OOO
due to the contractors.
A few days ago an old woman named Mary Cody, wko
had been known as a professional mendicant of the most
wretched cast for many years, died at Black Mill, Dub-
lin ; and, after her decease, the sum of £36 15s. was
found in an old box belonging to her, £7 of which she had
previously directed should be laid out on her funeral.

A frightful accident occurred on Tuesday, at a place called
Barnane, the residence of Mr. John Carden, near Tern-
plemore, in the county of Tipperary, an embankment for
the conveyance of water to a flax mill, in process of con-
struction, having given way, and four men being killed on
the spot, and several others badly injured.
Mrs. Tate, widow of Dr. Tate, of Portsmouth, having
brought an action against Dr. Rawson, of Carlow, who
had charged her as the writer of anonymous slanderous
letters, which she denied on oath, sued for £2,000
damages. The case came on in the Exchequer Court,
Dublin, yesterday week. and terminated on Saturday,
when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with
£3OO damages.
RlOT.—Kilkenny has again been disturbed by most dis-
graceful outrages of a sectarian character, arising out of
the publication of the names atrached to local petitions
against Papal aggression. On Monday evening a
orderly mob, composed chiefly of young persons, proceeMlf
through the town, carrying the effigies of some of the
Protestant inhabitants who signed the petition. Fires
were lighted in various directions for the purpose of burn-
ing the effigies, and the windows of Protestants were
broken. Some houses were considerably injured, and it
is stated that in one instance an attempt was made to set
a house on fire. The ringleader of the mob has been
arrested and committed to gaol, and a meeting of she re-
respectable inhabitants, presided over by the mayor, has
been since held for the purpose of protesting against the
disgraceful proceedings, and taking some means to prevent
their recurrence.

POPERY IN PLAIN CLOTHES.-The Papal system has a
well furnished wardrobe. It has one set of habiliments
for a Protestant country, and another for a Popish. In
England it presents itself to the public gaze bedizoned
with all the tinsel frippery and disguised with all the
consummate artifice, which characterize the toilette de-
signed for the bal masque; in Ireland it walks abroad in
all its undisguised deformity, exhibiting at once the
flaunting and unblushing effrontery of the courtesan, the
combined insolence and cowardice of the bully, and the
mingled cunning and cruelty of the imbecile tyrant who is
" Willing to wound, but yet afraia to strike."
The most recent illustration of its characteristics in this
respect with which we have been furnished, we derive
from an Irish contemporary, the Carlow Sentinel. A
meeting of the friends of the Protestant Orpham Society
for the Queen's County was held the other day in the
parochial school-house, adjoining the town of Graigne.
One would have thought that a meeting in aid of an insti-
tution for the benefit of orphans would at least not have
excited the community, if it did not actually secure the
sympathy of the populace. Not so, however. The move-,
ment had reference to a Protestant Orphan Society, which
made all the difference in the world. Accordingly, at the
conclusion of the proceedings—which, strange to say,
were only occasionally and partially disturbed by a popish
mob which surrounded the school-house—when the
clergymen assisting at the meeting proceeded on their
way to the residence of the Rev. Da vson Massey, who
had taken a leading part in the proceedings, they were
followed by a crowd of fanatics, whose infernal yells and
hootings were, before long, appropriately seconded by
volleys of stones, from which one of the rev. gentlemen,
the Hon. William Wingfield, sustained a severe injury,
which might readily have proved a fatal one. The danger
which they incurred was considerably enhanced by their
determination to protect from the cowardly brutality of
the ferocious rabble a couple of poor women who had
renounced the errors of popery, and embraced the Protes-
tant faith; and who, but for the protection thus afforded
them, might have paid, for their claim to exercise liberty
of conscience, the forfeit of their lives. The numbers and
the ferocity of their assailants increased as the devoted
little band passed through the town of Carlow, the capital
of the county which bears that name ! and a tragical
catastrophe was, in all probability, arrested only by the
arrival of an armed police force, by whom the roaring
mob, as cowardly as they were ferocious, were speedily
dispersed.