The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following, as received per our usual weekly express
from our correspondent in Ireland, appeared in an early
COTTON PIECE GOODS AND YARNS.-..-MadtipalliktllS Second Edition of our last week's paper:—
and jacconets are in good demand at fair prices, but lung
are not in much inquiry. Common bleached shirtings Dublin, Monday, 23d Oct. 1843.
are scarce, and have improved slightly in value. Prints
MORE WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.
are low, and not inquired for. The yarn market is rather
At a late hour last night, two companies of artillery,
flatter.
BRITISH WOOLLEN GOODS.—The market continues under the command of Majors Wood and Rawnsley, ar-
very depressed, and from present appearances we thing rived at the quays, and marched immediately into bar-
little will be done for some time to come. In former racks. The Ist Dragoons are expected to-morrow.
years at this season, the Marwarries generally commenced
operations, but this year they appear not to require any
addition to their stocks. Imports continue to arrive.
Freights continue very much depressed, and have slighty
declined since our last. Some vessels have been taken up
on speculatiots, for conveying emigrants to the Mauritius,
but we do not see how freighters are to clear their expen-
ses at the rates they have undertaken to land them at
Port Louis, the more especially as it is rumoured that the
local government are about to reduce- the bonus.—Bom-
bay Price Current

1 R E I. A N D

BOMBAY MARKET. AUGUST 26

EUROPEAN GOODS

Half-past Four o'clock.
The Conciliation Hall was opened to-day : the crowd
was immense.

The amount of the rent has not yet been announced,
hut will be little short, if not over, three thousand
pounds.

The railway from Vienna to Cologne is now open
throughout its whole length.
Lord and Lady Ashburton and family have arrived at
Naples. They intend to pass the Christmas at Rome,
and return home in April.

The entire proceedings of Monday having been for-
warded to us by our correspondent, per the mail-
packet, we hastened to present the following account
to our readers in a Third Edition :

Dublin, Monday, Half-past Eight, p.m

An injunction has been served upon Dr. Lardner, in
New York, at the suit of Professor Gouraad, restraining
him from the use of the planetarium, which he advertised
he would u-c in illustration of his lectures.
THE SULPHUR QUESTION.—The National annaunces
that the Sicilian sulphur question is terminated. The in-
demnity to the British merchants has been fixed by a
special commission at 130,000 Neapolitan ducats. '1 he
merchants demanded that this sum, which it was expected
would not be paid for several years, should bear an inte-
rest at six per cent. The Neapolitan government then
determined to pay in cash.
A BULL HT FOR PIOUS USES.—The Queen of
Spain and her sister were present, on the 13th, at a bull
fight, given for the object of procuring friends to build a
church at Chamberi, near Madrid. The sport was
magnificent. Eight bulls were killed, and twelve horses
remained on the ground gored and disembowelled. The
performance lasted three hours, and produced upwards of
£l,OOO.

As I had anticipated, the proceedings at the " Concilia-
tion Hall" extended to an unusually late hour. The
most important feature of the day was the adhesion of
Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P., for Limerick, to the Repeal
Association in unqualified terms. The meeting at past
six o'clock adjourned unt 1 one o'clock to-morrow, the
rent for the week was announced to be, as far as could be
ascertained up to six o'clock, X 2284; numerous communi-
cations containing remittances had arrived, the amount
of which had not been ascertained at the hour of adjourn-
ment, and which will therefore be carried to next week's
account. A government reporter was in attendance.

Four thousand Austrians commanded by Count Ra-
detsky have, it is stated, entered the Papal territories to
reduce the spirit of republican insurrection which lately
manifested itself at B logna and elsewhere. This inter-
vention is said to be the result of a joint determination of
the Austrian and Peidmontese governments; hut our
contemporary through whose columns these announce-
ments were made, does not inform the public on two very
material points—viz., whether this intervention has been
solicited by the Papal Cabinet, and whether France has
been consulted thereon ?

PASSAGE FROM INDIA DURING THE S.W. MONSOON.
—Abstract of the log of the steam-ship Hindostan, for-
warded by Captain Moresby :—" Left the Sand• heads,
Calcutta, for Suez, on the 12th of August, having the S.
W. monsoon to steam against during the whole passage.

DISTANCE RUN, AND ACTUAL TIME UNDER STEAM

Calcutta, Sand.heads, to Madras
Madras to Ceylon
Ceylon to Aden ••
Aden to Suez

Miles. Hours
695 79-1
550 69
2.215 2851
1,327 169

4,787 603
Or 25 days, 3 hours. I look upon this as an ordinary
monsoon voyage ; and my opinion is, that in the months
of June and July it will only differ a few hours more or
Iess.—ROBERT MORESBY, Commander.—Suez, Sept. 11,
1843."

The Trent steamer, with the West India mail, bringing
adv;ces from Jamaica to the 23d of September, and from
the other islands to corresponding dates, has arrived, but
the news so received is not of prominent interest. It ap-
pears that the weather had been seasonable for the crops,
and that the plantations gave promise of a good harvest.
The Jamaica and Planters' Banks had held their half-
yearly meetings, the former declaring a dividend of 41 per
cent., and the latter a dividend of 5 per cent. The Ja-
maica Bank had suffered losses to the extent of £B,OOO.
during the last six months, and the reserve fund was
therefore, to a certain extent, trenched upon to maintain
the usual rate payable to the proprietors. The late fire at
Kingston still occupied the attention of the colonists, and
preparations were on foot for rebuilding the destroyed
portion of the city on a more convenient plan. Liberal
contributions continued to be received in aid of the suffer-
ers; and on the meeting of the House of Assembly,
shortly to take place, a vote of the public funds was ex-
pected to be one of the first measures discussed. At
Trinidad, Demerara, and Barbadoes, political matters
were not engaging much notice, and affairs in general ap-
peared to be moving in a quiet and peaceably way.
AN EXPENSIVE CANE.—The Duchess de Montijo, a
Spanish lady, whose daughter is about to be married to
the Duke of Berwick and Alba, has just sent to Madrid a
magnificent set of presents to her daughter and her fu-
ture son in-law. But the most curious and expensive
specimen of her taste is a Malay can? of great delicacy
and just proportions, in ornamenting which so liberal an
outlay of small diamonds, emeralds and amethysts has
been made, that the whole cost amounts to no less than
14,000 f. £560 sterling. The Duchess, on being reproach-
ed by one of her friends for this lavish waste of money
replied, " You are quite right ; the sum is considerable ;
but when one marries a daughter to a Duke of Berwick
and Alba one cannot hesitate about expense." In Rus-
sia, when a marriage takes place, the father of the bride
places in the hand of the son-in-law a stick, not thicker
however, than his thumb, with the liberal use of which
th e domestic felicity of the young couple is to be ar-
ranged. It is to be hoped that the Duchess de Montijo
had no such ideas present to her mind in selecting the
Malay cane as a present to her pendre. Let it rather be
supposed that the choice proceeds from her Irish souven-
airs, as she is the daughter of an Hibernian merchant,
Mr. Fitzpatrie, well-known and respected at Malaga,
whose family shillelagh has more than once been heard of
at the fairs of Tradderee.

OPENING OF THE CONCILIATION HALL.
The Repeal Association held its usual weekly (met-
ing yesterday, for the first time, in the newly-erected
building on Bergh-quay, called the Conciliation Hall.
This new place of meeting is a quadrilateral structure,
capable of containing from three to four thousand per-
sons. A spacious gallery runs round the entire build-
ing, and at the end, fronting the entrance door, a plat-
form has been erected for the accomodation of the chair-
man, the principal speakers, and the gentlemen of the
press. The place is i❑ a very unfinished state, and pre-
sents a rough and cheerless appearance. It was densely
crowded in every part long before the hour for which
the meeting had been called ; but none of the corpora-
tion, as was announced, attended in their robes.
Mr. O'CONNELL entered the meeting shortly before
one o'clock, and was received with tremendous cheers.
After a vain attempt for several minutes to address the
meeting, in consesequence of the great inconvenience
arising from the pressure of the crowd in the body of
the hall, he said that he had the high honour of mov-
ing that the chair should be taken by John Augustus
O'Neill, Esq , of Bunnowen Castle—(loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN rose amidst loud cheers. The cabi-
net could not expect Irishmen to agree with them ; be-
cause they were diametrically opposed, and had been
so for 50 years. In 1819 Wellington held the opinion
that if Catholic emancipation was granted, the next
step would he to demand the forfeited lands. Now if
that were the case, he (the chairman) would be enti-
tled to upwards of £lOO,OOO a year, handed down from
generations through father to son. (Cheers.) In 1827,
Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Goulburn spoke against Ca-
tholic emancipation, and the present chief justice of
England opposed them, and in the following year they
came down and adopted his speech. (Cheers.) They
were called cowards for doing so, but no feeling of that
kind instigated them ; for he was sure they had acted
upon conscientious conviction. (Cheers.) It was quite
a fiction of the law to say that kings could do no wrong;
for they might do wrong, and had often paid very heavy
penalties—(hear)—for doing so. (Hear.) One set of
statesmen told the king that it would be perjury to
sign the Catholic emancipation bill, while others forced
him to subscribe to it. (Cheers.) He (the chairman)
hoped that there was a government reporter in the hall.
Mr. O'CONNELL.—Yes; there is one from Gurney's
office.

THE CAPTURE AND DEATH OF AN

ALLIGATOR

(From the Calcutta Star.)
A very large alligator was hooked and safely landed at
the Acra Farm on Saturday evening last. The hook,
which was a single barb and straight shank, about eleven
inches long, had entered the back part of the right upper
jaw, and, passing round the cheek bone, came out above
the eye. It may be mentioned for the guidance of fisher-
men that the hook above described is fac preferable to the
small grapnel-shaped affair which has been thought ne-
cessary for this game. But the probabilities are, that this
fellow would have taken any hook, for he was ravenous,
and it was not thought necessary even to float the bait,
but drawing it a few feet out of the water on the mud, two
hands were left to watch and report progress. When all
was quiet he came straight at it and made no bones about
it. The word was passed, and by the time he had rolled
himself over and over two or three times, some fifty bands
were hanging on to a 21 inch rope, and " pull devil, pull
baker" was the order of the day till he was safely housed,
a . matter of no slight difficu.ty, as may be supposed, con-

The CHAIRMAN continued to say—that he personally
knew that there were letters in Dublin from the Duke
of Kent (the Queen's father), in his own writing,
breathing the greatest and purest affection for Ireland,
and expressing a wish to be appointed Lord Lieutenant
at a certain critical period. People talked of a federal
parliament— but what was the meaning of the word ?
If gentlemen did not understand it, they should not
express opinions which would give triumph to their foes
and fear to their friends. (Hear.) It meant nothing
more than a treaty—or, in his opinion, as used by their
leader, a treaty between England and Ireland. (Hear.)
A federal treaty was " that which shall be done by
order of, and with the authority of, the senate." (Loud
cheers.) Mr. O'Neill next described the manner in
which the Belgian revolution was effected. By the in-
terference of France she became a diademed kingdom,
and the only part England took in the proceeding was,
to send a king there. (Hear, hear.) Belgium had suc-
ceeded accidentally by foreign intervention—but Ireland
would depend upon Irishmen, on God, and on Ireland.
If it should be the pleasure of a rash minister, forgetful
of the law of God and man—and such a forgetfulness he
by no means attributed to the Duke of Wellington, who
always during his campagins was most careful of human
life; but if, for a moment, he should think of steeping,
in the bland of Iriehrners, the frititvla which Ireland's sons
had placed on his brow, their still remained for them an
interposing power between him and the nation—they
could look to the Queen. He had shown that they had
a right to look for hereditary love to Ireland in her Ma-
jesty. Should the Duke resolve to act as he had de.
scribed. of which from his (Mr. O'Neill's) soul he ac-
quitted7his Grace, one might imagine the Queen, in the
words of Shakspeare—" Beware, take heed, bow you
awake the slumbering sword of war;" I charge you in
the name of God to take heed ! He would respectfully
offer his opinion, that if repeal were forced in the hour
of England's weakness, it would be the ruin of Ireland.
Repeal held back too long would create national bank-
ruptcy. Repeal at once conceded would be productive
of peace, prosperity, and indissoluble connexion with
England—(hear, hear.) But if a collision should take
place—if the Almighty in his anger withdrew his pro-
tection from the empire, the same Gazelle which pro-
claimed the victory of England over her twin sister,
would announce that one nation was depopulated, and
the other tottering on the brink of ruin—(hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said.—The first sentence I
wish to utter in the Conciliation Hall is this truth, that
there is only one way of obtaining a repeal of the union,
and that is, by using none but peaceable and legal means.
(Hear, hear.) My second sentence is. that the repeal is
certain. (Loud and long-continued cheering, waving of
hats and handkerchiefs, &c.) Yes, repeal is certain, pro-
vided you use no other than peaceable and legal means.
(Cries of "We won't.") I promised the master butchers,
as they gave me the largest sum, that I would hand in
their money first. I, therefore, beg leave to hand from
them £l6O. (Hear, hear) I am now about to make a
motion of the utmost importance to the liberty of Ire-
land. I shall not say one word in support of it. It is
that W. S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P. for the county of Lime-
rick, be admitted a member of the association. (Enthu-
siastic cheering.) _ _ _

,
sidering that with his tail he could manage *a. range of Mr. O'CONNELL said that Mr. O'Brien had been an
about 16 feet. He appeared to have remained perfectly anti-repealer, but events had shown him that there was
motionless during the night, being found in the morning nothing but repeal for Ireland. He was honest as an
just as be was left. It may be mentioned, that the off anti-repealer—oh! he was honest and brave, now that
hind leg was gone at the first joint, that is, the foot was he was a repealer. (Cheers.) The hon. gentlemen then
wanting, or band, for their extremities are much more entered on the subject of a federal parliament, which
like hands than feet. There are five fingers, three of had been alluded to by the the chairman. It was for
which have large and long nails upon them, and the other an independent parliament he was looking. He was
two are scaled to the very tip. He was maimed also in firmly attached to the connexion with England ; but he
the near fore flapper, and had evidently been in the wars. insisted that Ireland had a right to the revival of her le-
They are known to fight desperately with each other about gislature. (Hear, and cheers.) He would reject no
their prey, and this one had been maimed for life without man's assistance who went any part of the way with
a pengion ; the stump was well rounded off, and the injury him. Any man who wished for a repeal of the act of
not have been a recent one. union might join him until some parliament would
Some fortnight ago a child was taken away in this neigh- be obtained, and he (Mr. O'Connell) would obtain
bourhood by an alligator, while filling some water vessels, the best parliament he could with their assistance.
and it was thought most probable it might be the monster There never would again be an attack on the part of the
now under sentence. Gentlemen who amuse themselves people, and if the government chose to continue the pre-
with firing ball at this kind of large game may save their sent contest, there was determination enough amongst the
powder and lead. The trials made with a rifle show how people to continue it too, rather than resort to violence.
heavy the odds are against doing anything with them. The hon. gentleman next alluded to the letters of " Phi-
There was some difference of opinion as to whether a rifle lalethes," in the Morning Chronicle, (the substance of
ball would pass through him, supposing it was not to which will be found in our columns.) The name of the
strike the scales. The first one fired with a view to this writer of these letters was a Mr. Trevelyan. a secretary
experiment entered the side below the strong scales of the of the treasury, who was brought into office by the
back, and the brute took not the slightest notice of it ; Whigs, and had been some time in the Indies, where
and a second, near the same spot, which seemed not to he was laughed at by the people, as he was now by the
trouble him in the least; neither of them passed through, inhabitants of this country, for his absurd statements.
though they were fired from a distance of not more than Mr. O'Connell proceeded to censure the letters, and
ten feet. He was now stirred up in the rere with a long declared them to be full of misstatements. He gave
pole, and he turned upon his assailant with a ferocity that notice that he would make two motions to-morrow—
was terrific ; people talk of aligators not being able to turn one for a committee to procure petitions in detail from
easily ;he was round with the rapidity of a flash ; the re- every parish in Ireland ; the other for a conciliatory ad-
port, when he opened his jaws to the full extent, and dress to their fellow-subjects in Ireland. They were
closed them in his rage, was incredibly loud, and gave a working for all classes—for Presbyterian and Protestant
tolerable idea of the enormous power of the jaws. A third as well as Roman Catholic, and he would not accept any
shot was now fired, with the view of finishing him, if pos- benefit for the Roman Catholics exclusively. He would
sible ; and the aim was behind the large raised scales, at not take the Repeal, if he got a Catholic ascendancy
the extreme end of the head, so as to break the spine. with it. Meal. hear.) He declared this most solemnly,
This would appear to have been done, for he turned upon and he thought would be able to convince his Proses_
his back, and did not again recover his position. After a taut fellow-countrymen of this truth. (Loud cheers.)
fourth ball, and a most careful search for his heart with aHe concluded by proposing two resolutions—the first
bayonet and a spear, a rope was passed over him and he relating to the preparation of petitions from every parish
was dragged out, giving ever and anon sufficient warning in the kingdom, and the other proposing that a con.
of the propriety of standing aloof. A fifth ball in the spine citatory address to their Protestant and Presbyterian
appnred to settle him ; and on passing the tape along his fellow-countrymen be forthwith prepared and issued.
back he measured, to a nicety, sixteen feet six inches; For his own part he solemnly assured them that he
but his tail too had been curtailed eighteen inches lest, would not take repeal if it gave Catholic ascendancy—
than one caught in the same place about three years ago, (Hear, hear.)
and of which a very perfect skeleton was made on the These resolutions having been adopted, the secretary
farm, taken to England by Mr. Waterhouse, and depo- continued to announce the sums contributed since last
sited in a museum in Yorkshire. With a heavy axe he meeeting.
was now divided just abaft his hind legs. The next pro- The amount of the rent for the week was declared to
cess was an interesting one—the examination of the sto- be—Two Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-four
mach. It contained but little ; portions of the skull of a Pounds.
child, the thigh bones, some smaller ones, and the bones At six o'clock the meeting adjourned till one o'clock
of one hand, a quantity of straw, a large ball of hair, about to-morrow.
four feet of inch rope, and six or eight bangles, two or
three of which were of silver. Having cut off the head
and weighed it, it was found to he, to an ounce, 2 cwt. SIMULTANEOUS M ULT NEOUS SIGN A L FIRES MOVE..
MENT AMONGST THE PEASANTRY.
The muscular action in the tail end, about 6 or 7 feet, was

extraordinary, for, on inserting- a knife to expose the fat, --
which here lies in thick layers, the whole mass, saving The Tipperary Constitution states that "on Thursday
only the chump, ,11s thrown into violent motion; and, night between the hours of seven and eight o'clock the
After performing ~,,,:;-!ral gyrations almost on end, struck entire country was literally covered with fires. From
the ground with extraordinary violence. This was the every eminence throughout the counties of Limerick,
effect of every insertion of the knife, and it could not have Clare, and Tipperary, a fire blazed, and all shot into light
been less than an hour after it was severed from the body.
The head, by the by, was five feet 43 inches round the jaws, almost simultaneously. Fires blazed on the public roads,
and 3 feet 6 inches long. It is cleaned and preserved. and torehes were sto be borne along by the country
een
The fat from the body was carefully taken off by native people in every direction. It wasreallywon_derful to
operators, it being highly valued as an external applica- witness the exactness with which each tire, for miles
tion for rheumatism, &c. round, blazed into light, almost at the same moment, and

the organisation displayed by the incendiaries in lighting
these signal fires was almost incredible. The meaning
of those fires we cannot ascertain, hut of this we are cer-
tain, that they are intended for no good purpose.

The Cork Constitution also says-' hat " in the direction
of Donoughmore the hills were all " ablaze" on Thurs-
day evening. The lighting commenced about ten o'clock,
and soon after scores of fires were seen flaming round the
country. Are there," our contemporary remarks, " any
ill-advisers egging on the unfortunate people—urging
them on to deeds which they will by-and-by bewail in
blood ?"
The Limerick Chronicle thus confirms the above state-
ments :—"On Thursday night the whole country sur-
rounding Limerick for an area of many miles, including
portions of the counties Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary,
and the banks of the Shannon, at either side of the river,

furnished almost simultaneously glowing indications of
" a demonstration," the real meaning of which did not
transpire, but that it was a political ruse little doubt ap-
pears. Fires were blazing in all directions, as far as the
eye could reach, and the illumination was general., The
alarm to many families residing in and beyond tte suburbs
was extremely painful, and such fearful indications are
regarded with anything but pleasure in the present
state of the country. The formidable signal tires re-
ferred to, we since learn, were seen to spread into the
counties of Cork and Kerry, with almost magic rapidity."