Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-22

scented himself for an audience. His holiness re-
quested his name, which he gave but before lie
was admitted, the Pope looked over the list Of con
spirators and found the name of the Capuchin. lie
Immediately summoned his guards, who on the Ca
puchln's entrance seized him. and on searching him
found he had brace of loaded pistols and poi.
soned dagger about his person. The Capuchn was
conveyed to prison, and many arrests took place.
PORTUGAL.
According to intelligence from Lisbon to the . $,
the Campus had taken position off Block House
Square Tor the protection of British subjects and
British property. Sir Hamilton Seymour had prof
tered the mediation of the British Government to
arrange between the Government and the insurgents.
BELGIUM
The captains of certain American vessels sta
toned at Antwerp have refused To- fulfil contracts in
to which they had entered for the conveyance of
emigrants to the United States. They alleged that
unless security were given to them beforehand they
would run the risk OF being subjected to the prov-
sions of the new emigration law
IRELAND
The Earl of BEsEoRoUsM, formerly Lord Duncannon the
present Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland, lying from all
counts at the point of death He is about sixty six years
of age lie has fallen into lehagic sate which his med-
cal attendants considered indicative of the final crisis He
is expressed in the journals, of whatever party.
The british Association for the relief Of the distress in Ire
land and Scotland has published Of the receipts
and expenditures to the 2sth of April from which appears
that the private subscriptions received through that channel
alone, from various parts Of England have amounted to
433, los 3d., of which thousand pounds sterling
the gift Of Queen Victoria and three thousand five hun
bred pounds were subscribed by other members OF the royal
family.
One hundred and sixty-fve thousand pounds had been
placed TO the credit OF the association by the Government
part proceeds OF the collections made in the churches
under the Queens letter. and Ca 537 IS 3d. were the pro-
ceeds OF provisions sold in parts of Ireland reduced prices
where the poverty was not so absolute demand gatuous
supplies The total amount received data was G3s6 go
The expenditures were for Scotland g63739 for Ireland
provisions clothing, small grants of money and eO0O
mted to the central committee at Dublin, 92O2 675 for
seed purchased and shipped Ireland GlsO73 advertising
printing, hostages, clerks salaries and incidental expenses
FL 2s3, lbs Cd leaving balance the disposal of the
committee subject to grants daily made for the relief Of Irish
distress OF El0l 200 S. Sd Liberal subscriptions were still
daily accruing Tor the humane object
The papers do not give the minute and horiyng de-
tails OF general famine and death with which time they
teemed but the warehouses still crowded. and fever and
other diseases making ghtfu havoc In some districts
the misery ndescbabe We extract such paragraphs as
will best convey idea Of the present condition Of the
ty and what is doing for the relief of the sufferers
The Government have taken the initiative in giving aid
Irish railways whose paid up capital and prospects
peon and successful enterprise would seem such
assistance The Exchequer Loan Commissioners have agreed
to advance to the Waterford and Kilkenny railway sum of
upon certain conditions, which the latter have fully
realized
The workhouse Monaghan already contains paupers
and they are adding to ii two wings, which will afford
mediation for 2OO besides temporary accommodation 400
making !, 400 in all
The Cork wokhouse has attained mechanically notorietv
may be interesting to show the Of mortality since the
commencement OF the year, emitting altogether the causes
which led to such fearful aggregate the death Of q 1870
in workhouse and in the brief space of four
Ianths
SOC, March 672 April 523, with one week unestirnated
rom the 24th The report Of the medical inspector has
hamed and alarmed the local authorities and the result has
been oder cleanliness and distribution the patients
with decided decrease in the mortality In Killarney also
The public health has improved The weekly deaths in the
which exceeded 80, below TO- and
the sick list has declined from 500 to 800.
Fever decimatng districts in which no human being has
died OF famine, OF disease brought by destituton
but the plague has been introduced from other parts
where it engenJered by of food In Dublin this
destructive disease IS spreading with alarming ropdy
he lower and middle classes There less than OF
he Cork fever hospital lying PROSTATE in
yphus fever From Kilkenny learn that fever raging
at Ihomastown Stoneyford, and Bayhae. Poor people
lying under the shelter of the walls near the hospitals
waiting for death to make vacancies within correspond
emit writing from Wexford says Pestlence as usual is
following in the wake of famine There are at present. in
Ennscorhy poorhouse $50 sick Of fever and 40 wasting
away under dysente The pooraw guardians have refused
to meet in the boardoom They buryng the poor crea
lures IN large pit the ground belonging to the institution
there being in the churchyard the increasing
numbers Of victims"
The Donegal paper contains proofs that the people are be-
SURFING themselves, and the landlords doing
their duty The Leinser Express says that throughout the
midland counties he prospects for the ensuing harvest
much brighter than there any suppose" And
THIS additional gratifying circumstance added that "the
extent OF land remaining unproducve will be comparatively
TIMING The quantity of potatoes is very large and
one farmer has put down hundred in King
With the exception of Cork the accounts from the country
are much more easy than for lime past.
THE ENGLISH MARKETS-MAr 4.
CoTToN MARKEr.-The price Of cotton the sailing OF
Inc steamship Caledonia had downward tendency since
her departure prices have further declined The market had
become Hat the sales less and spectators operating
Several causes have produced this reaction the prominent
one, the restrictive Of the Bank advance on the
rates OF interest," and its refusal discount bills bearing the
endorsement OF some OF the first houses of England who
SAID to have been engaged in speculation and shipping gold
to the United States This movement has had most telling
effect upon the manufacturing section Of this country and
the cotton market suffers under the pressure.
Inc prices OF American from the 9Th TO the 23d uimo
declined "a to 3D. Brazil, Egyptian, and Surat ID. T.
and at the close Of the following week ending the 10Th
Their reduction followed Of Id Id. American and all
other descriptions On the following day better accounts
were received from London the state Of the money mar
ke which gave improved tone the market Lv
epoo and the sales Of that day amounted about 600
bales OF American at advance Of 3D., half Of which,
however, speculation Yesterday the business amount
ed to about 900 bales at the OF Saturday. and the
market was free Of speculation Prices cotton fair to good
fair Bowed Georgia 81 to 81 Mobile 81 to New Orleans
81 to7I.
Flour MARKET.There has been some luctuaton in the
price of grain and flour during the month"; but prices have
settled down 40s for Western canal -four American
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