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

SPAIN

On the evening of the 22nd ult., there was an explosion
of the powder magazine, situate outside of the Bilhoa
Gate, at Madrid. Several houses were more or less
damaged, and the number of persons killed is estimated
at between thirty and forty. It could not be ascertained
whether the calamity was the consequence of accident or
design. Several pesrons had been apprehended on sus-
picion.
The Supreme Junta of Saragossa has proclaimed that
all employ 6 who do not adhere to the pronunciamento
lose their places, and that those ejected as Esparteri3ts,
shall be restored to theirs. Don Jose de Crof is named
commandant-general of the province.
Madrid has been placed virtually under martial law,
without the ceremony of a proclamation, and numerous
arrests have taken place at the sole will and pleasure of
the government and its dictator, Narvaez. The Spaniards
have already found cut that they have exchanged their
King Log for King Stork with a vengeance.
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Accounts from Saragcssa, by post, of the 25th, show
the complete falsehood of the telegraphic accounts given
from that town. Instead of the town being blockaded or
hard pressed, the Eco of the 25th says,—" Some de-
spatches have been exchanged between the Captain-Gen-
eral Lopez Banos and the Central Junta of 'aragossa.
The general declared that he would not attack the town,
unless himself attacked. Alcaniz had adhered to, and
imitated the rising of Saragossa.

The Gazette of the Grand Duchy of Hesse announces
the accouchenient of the Grand Duchess Maria, wife of
the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, of a Prince, at St.
Petersburg, on the 20th ult.
GENERAL JACKSON.—The rumoured death of this
great and good man has no foundation but an indorsement
upon a way bill bdtwee❑ Cincinnati and Wheeling.—
Boston Post.

A diligence between Dole and Niogret was nearly de-
stroyed by fire a few days ago, from a piece of tinder used
in lighting a pipe having fallen upon some straw. Before
the fire could be extinguished it had made such progress
that the passengers were nearly suffocated by the smoke.
The Journal des Debals announces, that the French
government has obtained from that of Piedmont a further
reduction of duties on the importation of wines and bran-
dies, on porcelain, and on Parisian elegancies. It has
conceded in return an abolition of some tonnage duties, a
diminution of the duties on rice, white lead, and cattle.
The duties on spirits introduced by the Savoy frontier
will be reduced one-fifth for that below 22 degrees, and
one-sixth for that above it.

THE INSURRECTION IN THE PAPAL STATES.—
ROME, Sept. 21.—According to the latest intelligence
received here, the bands of insurgents at Bologna have
been broken up, and many prisoners have been made.
It is mentioned that an Englishman has been taking part,
as an amateur, in this mountain warfare. Captives con-
tinue to be made, and the gaols are filled with prisoners
of all classes. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has con-
sented to send back all the rebels who may take refuge
in his territory.—Brussels paper.
HORRIBLE MURDER.—A❑ inhabitant of Lommel, in
Belgium. suspecting that his wife had misconducted her-
self with an officer of the Customs a few evenings ago,
reproached her with infidelity. A violent quarrel took
place, and the woman became so exasperated that she
went to the room of the Custom-house officer, who lived
iu the same house, and taking a pair of loaded pistols from
his table, returned with them, and discharged one of them
at her husband. Having wounded but not killed him, she
deliberately fired the other into his breast, and completed
her object. The next morning she attempted to destroy
herself with the sharp edge of the cover of a pot in which
some coffee had been brought her. She made a severe
and ragged wound in the throat, but did not accomplish
her purpose.—Galignani's Messenger.
ARRIVAL OF THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—The Royal
mail steamer Tay, Commander Hayden, arrived on Thurs-
day evening, with Mexican and West Indian mails,
bringing twenty-seven passengers, and on freight 300,000
dollars and 240 serous cochineal. Her dates of leaving
are :—from Tampico the 19th August, Vera Cruz the Ist
of September. Havana the 9th, Nassau the 11th, and
from Bermuda the 20th of September. The Tay brings
dates from Demerara to the 4th September, Jackmel to
the 10th, and from St. Thomas to the 15th. The royal
mail steamer Clyde brought the Windward Island mails
to Bermuda. The mails by the Tay were not landed at
Falmouth, but taken to Southampton. Among the pas-
sengers by this arrival is a Mr. Cueto, from Vera Cruz,
who is the bearer of all despatches from General Santa
Anna. The Royal mail steamer Thames brought the Ja-
maica mails to St. Thomas, and dates from that island to
the Bth September, and also accounts of a serious fire
having taken place at Kingston on Saturday, the 26th of
August, particulars of which will be found elsewhere,

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UNITED STATES.—The packet-ship Hibernia, Bunt-
ing, which left New York on the 19th ult., arrived here
on Sunday morning. The Stock Market was active and
money continued abundant. The Havre packet, of the
16th, took nearly two thousand dollars in specie, but
these was no disposition to send that commodity to
England. The supply of bills was good, and but little
alteration had taken place in the rate of Exchange, which
was on London 109 to 1091, and on Paris 5.23 to 5.22.
In cotton much business was doing amongst speculators.
A destructive fire had occurred at Boston, by which up-
wards of twenty buildings, chiefly of wood, were de-
stroyed. The Halifax Herald states that two American
schooners had been observed by Captain Darby, off Sable
Island, and within the British fisheries. The schooners,
it appears, were wreckers, which went to the
.island for
the purpose of plundering the wrecks and stealing c'ttl.
Captain Darby, finding tbat he could not come. within
gunshot of them, proceeded immediately to Halifax and
reported the circumstance to the admiral, who, next
morning, despatched the man-of-war steamer Hermes to
the island. The steamer returned to Halifax, after being
satisfied that the two vessels were there, and that they
were acting contrary to the treat Nothing, it appears,
was done to them • for, from yiheir position and the
breeze that was blowing, a steamer might have taken them
after a chase of three hours at the
farthest. One blank
shot was fired at one of the schooners. By an arrival
from Mexico, on the 18th ult., intelligence was received
of a contemplated renewal of hostilities between Mexico
and Yucatan. The Yucatan commissioners had returned

with the news that no treaty had been concluded, and that
the commission was dissolved. The Mexican commis-
sioners had returned to Vera Cruz.

IREt,AND,

" REPEAL CAVALRY-CLONTARF MEETING."

The following advertisement, headed as above, appears
in the Radical papers.
The committee for this great national demonstration,
being apprised of the intention of many Repealers to ap-
pear mounted at " Conquer Hill!!! " Cloctarf, recom-
mend the following rules to be observed for theregulation
of the cavalcade at this first

MUSTER AND MARCH OF THE MOUNTED REPEAL

VOLUNTEERS!!!

lst—All mounted Repeaters of this city, or from the
south and west sides of the county, to musteron theopen
ground, Harcourt-street Fields, on Sunday the Bth of
October, at 12 o'clock at noon, and form into troops, each
troop to consist of twenty-five horsemen, to be led by one
officer in front, followed by six ranks four abreast, half
distance, each bearing a wand and cockade, distinguishing
the number of his respective troop.
2d—Fbat regulation w nds and cockades will by. fur-
nished by the committee to such gentlemen of the city or
county as shall arply, and be approved of, to head each
troop.
3d—That no person shall be be permitted to join the
cavalcade without a cockade and wand ; and that until one
troop is complete no second troop be formed.

N.B.—The committee will male the necessary arrange.•
ments, to prevent delay or confusion, at the turnpike
gates. _ _ _ _ .

4th—Each horseman to take and keep the place assigned
to him on joining his troop, and remain in rank until dis-
missal of the parade in the meeting field.
sth—That such troops as shall have formed by half-past
twelve o'clock do proceed in their order at slow time by
the following route : Harcourt-street, Stephen's—green
west, Grafton-street, Westmorland-street, Sackville-st.,
Britain-street, Summer-hill, Ballybough-bridge, Clontarf-
road.

6th—The mounted repealers from the northern parts of
the county to muster and form, as above prescribed, at
the southern extremity of the Howth-road, and bring up
the rear of the Dublin cavalcade to the meeting-field,
Conquer Hill.
7th—That the chairman and members of the committee,
bearing wands and cockades, do form the mounted staff
in advance; and that the muster march and parade, at
the meeting-field, shall be under their sole order and di-
rection until dimissed after the proceedings of the meet-
ing have commenced.
Bth—That the horsemen on the meeting ground shall
keep a proper distance from the platform, so as not to
incommode those attending on foot; and it is earnestly
requested. on the other hand, that no obstruction or inter-
ruption will be offered to the cavalcade by those on foot
or in vehicles, so that the order and regularity of the
march may be preserved.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

MOUNT FOR REPEAL!-MARCH FOR CLONTARF j
The committee will meet at the Corn-Exchange each
day during the ensuing week, from four to five o'clock.
Corn-Exchange, 30th Sept., 1843.

WARLIKE PRIEST AT PRESLIFORD.—On Sunday last,
after mass, the repeal meeting was held in Freshford.
The Rev. T. O'Shee said, " If the day should arrive in
which England should attempt hostilities against this
country, the priests of the people would be found stand-
ing by their gory bed on the battle plain."—Kilkenny
Moderator.

COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES? !! We were rather
astonished, on coming out of Audoen's Church this day
at half-past one o'clock, to find a crowd surrounding three
police constables, two of whom were carefully cutting
from the wall the placard announcing the Clontarf Repeal
meeting. It is an inflammatory document, terminating
with the following very intelligible summons to the battle-
field :—" Irishmen ! remember the glories of Brian the
Brave."—Dublin Statesman of Friday.
SHIP NEWS.—The Kathleen, late master Donovan,
put into Cove on Friday short of provisions, with only
three hands on board, and they in so disabled and sickly
a state that they had to be immediately removed on shore.
She was bound from the coast of Africa with oil for Liver-
pool. She left Sierra Leone on the 13th of July, and
was consequently seventy-nine days at sea. She had
lost her sails, &c., in a gale, and during the voyage the
crew became sick, and had all died but three. Captain
Donovan expired when off the coast, after experiencing
dreadful fatigue and anxiety.—Cork Constitution.
EXECUTION OF MOYLAN.—This unhappy and wretched
convict suffered the last penalty of the law on Tuesday
last at the front of our county gaol. His grandfather suf-
fered an ignominious death, and the father of Moylan—
after transportation twice, the first time for seven years,
and the second time for life—forfeited that life for a gross
criminal offence in our antipodes. This man exhibited
all the characteristics of a reckless being. With the
hardness of iniquity, and the doggedness of extreme ig-
norance, he appeared to think that the few minutes of
punishment in this life would terminate his sufferings for
ever. " What matter," was the wretched being's excla-
mation, "two moments, and it is all over!" Moylan
made no declaration of his guilt.—Nenagh Guardian.

THE COUNCIL OF THREE HUNDRED.—At a tagrag
meeting of repeal wardens held last week in the "city of
the violated treaty," the following bombastic resolution
was carried nem. con.:—" Resolved, that inasmuch as
Limerick—glorious in historic page, for successfully re-
sisting the furious and sanguinary onslaught of the ruth-
less invader—Limerick, that has imprinted upon the
name of Ireland the imperishable word unconquered'—
Limerick, that has invariably given the fire and
tone to popular national proceedings, even in our
own day, is called upon most imperatively at this critical
juncture of our country's fate to stand forward and rally
round the Liberator, and make the necessary preparations
to nominate four members of the council of three hun-
dred Irishmen." There hai been a vast consumption of
small talk respecting the anxiety of numberless respectable
gentlemen (names unknown) to bid a long farewell to £lOO
for the questionable honour of being enrolled members of
the convention of 300, to be assembled in Dublin Mr.
O'Connell only knows when. With the exception of
Mr. Daniel Callaghan, one of the city of Cork members,
' gentlemen" appear to be in no wonderful hurry to part
with their money.

A PROTESTANT BISHOP AT ROME.—Recent English
travellers in Italy relate that the Hon. Thomas Plunkett,
Bishop of Tuam, Ardagh, Killala, &c , attended high
mass at St. Peter's at Rome, on Easter Sunday, and it is
likewise reported that his lordship had an interview with
the Pope, who addressed him in words to this effect:—
" I thank you, my lord, for the kindness you have at all
times shown to my Irish subjects." It were as well,
perhaps, that a bishop, and especially an Irish bishop,
should not absent himself from his diocesan duties and
travel for his pleasure in foreign countries at a moment
like this; but to attend high mass at Rome, and to desert
the Protestant service of Easter Sunday, as it is well per-
formed there by an English clergyman, is a matter that
has surprised the Italians, and grieved the English. If
the words ascribed to the Pope be true, and he claimed
Queen Victoria's subjects as his own, surely it becomes
us to ask, whether the reply was such as it ought to have
been? Did the bishop tell his holiness that no " Italian
priest shall tithe or toll in our dominions ?" Did he deny,
as he ought to have done, the pope's usurped authority ?
—Correspondent of a Weekly Paper.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE TOWN OF COVE.—While
her Majesty's Brig the Lynx, a vessel mounting three guns
of formidable calibre, but pierced for ten, was lying off
Cove, her Commander, Captain Burslem, one day gave
the order to clear the decks for action ! the order was
quickly obeyed, the drums heat to quarters, the three
guns were primed and loaded, in fact double shotted, and
the crew waited in breathless silence and astonishment
for what was to follow ; but they were not long kept in
suspense, for in a few minutes after Captain Burslem
ordered the guns to be fired upon the Town ! The officers
next in command were horror struck at hearing such an
order, and though feeling the tremendous risk they would,
under almost any other circumstances, run by interfering
with the order of their Captain, yet in this case they
clearly saw that they would be fully justified in preventing
the execution of an order by which perhaps thousands of
her Majesty's peaceable and loyal subjects would be hurled
to destruction in the midst of the most profound tran-
quility and peace. Accordingly, the first Lieutenant and
one or two of the other Officers consulted for a moment,
ere the fatal command should be carried into effect, and
having arrived at the conclusion that no such order could
by any possibility have been given by any man in his sen-
ses, and without the least provocation, they contrived to
induce the Captain to go below for a moment, and suspend
the order ; this he complied with, and having been got
into his own cabin every precaution was taken to secure
him, and the whole affair reported to the Admiral. Cap-
tainßurslem was immediately removed, and the Lynx is
now. in the Shannon, under the command of her first
lieutenant. It has been stated that on two or three occa•
sions of late Captain Burslem had evinced symptons im-
intellect, but never before to such an extent.—Cork Re-
porter.-1-[The Cork Constitution copies the preceding,
but throws a doubt upon its accuracy.]

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting
of the Repeal Association in Dublin, on Monday, Ahas-
cragh was restored to the map of Ireland. and its people
to their station in the front ranks of Repeal. The motion
was made by Mr. O'Connell, at the request of Lord
French, which the Liberator considered as a command,
and passed unanimously. Mr. O'Connell then called the
attention of the meeting to a seditious placard that has
been lately posted up at Omagh, calling on the tenantry
of Lord Bellmore, and Sir H. Bruce, to meet on the first
Monday in November next, to consider what amount of
rent the times will enable them to pay, half rent only and
half county cess—no payment of rent till after the meet-
ing. Any tenant who keeps back, is to prepare for a
night visit, first to his haggard, and next to his person.
Mr. O'Connell condemned this notice as highly criminal,
and stated that its authors deserved punishment. He
complained of the bad accounts he got from Dundalk
about Ribbonism, which he censured strongly, and that
it must end in the destruction of all concerned in it. A.
long letter was read from Mr. Sharman Crawford, cor-
recting a mistake of Mr. O'Connell's respecting his, Mr.
Crawford's bill, giving power to the tenant to claim com-
pensation for all buildings and improvements made on
the farm, with or without the consent of the landlord.
Several letters were then read from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Thorold, Niagara district, Canada West, and New York,
forwarding their respective contributions to the cause of
repeal : but the most startling postion of the correspond-
ence is the following, which, with Mr. O'Connell's com-
ment, we take from the Freeman's Journal:—Mr,
O'Connell—l have got two letters which were trans-
mitted to me through Mr. O'Callaghan, to whom they
were directed. The letters are from Major-General James
Arlington Bennett and George Clinton Beckham, adju-
tant-general, offering me a military organization to assist,
and (tearing the letters into pieces) I trust it will appear
in the newspapers what I have done with them (cheers).
Mr. Mark O'Callaghan said, that although his brother
had received those letteers to deliver to Mr. O'Connell
he did not know anything about the writers of them.
Mr. O'Connell—They certainly know very little of me;
that is the way I treat their military organization. I have
a trick worth two of it (cheers and laughter). The Repeal
rent for the week was £Bl4 7s.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD