The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-26 00:00:00

A FIENDISH MURDER IN SPAIN

Mt. Nartzs supported the second reading. The grant
1143 made for the purpose of giving gout and enlightened
Education in Maynooth, but it was perverted to the teach-
ing of ultramontanism; and he contended that the House,
as the representatives of the people, had no right to vote
away money granted for one purpose for a directly dif-
ferent object. The right honourable gentleman quoted
'evidence :in proof of his statement that ultramontane
doctrines were taught. There was another part of this
question still more important than any other, namely,
that of the canon law, by which the consciences of the
laity were coerced. If there was any sincerity in the
resolution the House adopted the other night on a different
subject, they.would be very careful what course they took
1113011 this this question, for there could be no possible doubt
that the canon law of Rome grievously coerced the con.
sciences. of the people. (Hear). The class books in use in
the College of Maynooth quite indicated the dangerous
principle involved in that canon law. If that House
Vas serious in treating this as an educational ques-
tion,
Why should not the object be accomplished by an
annual parliamentary grant, by which means an annual
theological discussion would be avoided ? Parliament
Would have hold of an educational- grant, and, by exami-
rthin, inspection, or some other such means, would have
Coltitlued and permanent control over it. (Hear, hear.)
The State had a conscience in this matter, and that, to
use Words of another, was, "an operation more divine
than
breath or pen can give expression to." The State,
the n+
n, in the exercise of that conscience, should resist this
Coaching of Roman canon law. They talked the other
3' of the. Austrian Concordat, and later than that, of
the. rights of conscience, parental authority, and civil
:7,
t"." religious liberty, and yet, by this grant
° Maynooth, they crippled the rights of conscience, over-
pn,.Parental authority, and violated civil and religious
liberty .(Hear, hear.) Other subjects had been mixed
up With this, and it had been said that if the Maynooth
Grant Were withheld, the Irish Church would be de-
stroyed. He believed that the permanence of the Irish
Church
rested upon eutirely different grounds, and he
"id at once say, that if that Church could only be main-
tained by keeping. up the bondage upon the Roman
Catholics of Ireland Which Maynooth imposed, he would
I_aY., "let it go." (Hear, hear.) He was very anxious to
re the Irish Church become the bulwark of Protestant-
-6j3'loivhile it held out the right hand of brotherly love
classes of the community ;
.while it taught such
;titles,
and adopted that principle, he believed that it
°llld stand upon a rock, and that it never would be
ba
to 4
cvxed• (Hear, hear.) But with regard to the grant
aYnooth, he held that it was incompatible with
t 4
genius of the State that a religion should be taught
held lch was in direct antagonism to that which the State
tn be true, and that it was in opposition to the Act
4 :nl°n, which recognised only one endowment. As an
tiunal grant, he held that it had entirely failed. His
royal highness Prince Albert, in a speech delivered not
17 lung ago said, when speaking of the church, " I have
uo
the ;:r Whatever for the safety and ultimate welfare of
uurcb, as she holds fast what our ancestors gained
vittsus after the Reformation, namely, the Gospel and the
ttered right of its use." Upon that principle the
church Of Ireland would take its stand. (Hear, hear.)
1%1 r-MikoarxitE vindicated the College of Maynooth and
the Roman Catholic religion against the calumnies that
had been thrown out against both, and said the hon.
tale bee for south Warwickshire had been deceived and
led iluevervthing connected with the Roman Catholic
Church i
40 n Ireland. If he believed the teaching at May-
veryh undermined loyalty, he k Mr. Maguire) would he the
o first to cry " Down with Maynooth," but the report
of the
commissioners showed the contrary, both with
regard to that and the teaching at Alaynooth generally ;
had he contended that a report of that kind ought to
cave
feat" weight with the members of that House than
and hasty statements made, during the heat of
so ate, to the contrary. If the teaching at Maynooth was
ad as had been represented, and those who were
Educated there so immoral, the hon. member for South
war
wickshire and his party deserted their duty in not
endeavouring to wrest the 3,000 national schools in Ire-
land
front the management and control of those priests,
and
0 .not leave them as was proposed by the insidious
motion before the House a few nights since in their hands.
- also defended the Church of Rome from the charge of
o obstructingth educati in among the poorer classes belonging
Ito at church and extolled the general conduct of the
Mall Catholic priests towards the poor, which he said

In the town of Jerez-de-la-Frontera, near Cadiz, in
Andalusia, a crime has been committed, the cowardly
and wanton inhumanity of which we can scarcely con-
ceive. An aged. and poor woman came into a grocer's
shop one morning and asked for alms. The grocer
refused ; and the woman asked him to give her at least
a glass of water, because, as she said, she was dying of
thirst. "That is another thing, the grocer answered,
" I will give you something delicious to drink." He
then went out of his shop, and soon afterwards he
returned, and offered her a glass of liquid, which looked
like sugar and water. The woman swallowed it eagerly,
thanked him, and walked out ; but she had not gone far
in the street when she uttered frightful cries, felt as if
&he had a fire burning in her bewels, and vomited with
great violence. The neighbours took her to the hospital,
where it was at once discovered she was poisoned. She
died a few minutes afterwards in the utmost agony.
The grocer was arrested, and he confessed, with an
impudent indifference, that he had given arsenic to the
poor old beggar woman, to get rid of her, because she
often came to ask him for charity, and he had found her
troublesome. The police have since ascertained that she
was the sister of his first wife; he has had three wives,
who are all dead.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL,

We yesterday announced the arrival at Southampton,
of the Tagus, with the Peninsular mails. The Tagus
left Lisbon on the 19th inst. Among her passengers is
the celebrated Bathes, the French exile, and several
Crimean heroes.
It is believed :that Fontes will join the present
Portuguese Ministry. It is believed that Sanchez
influences the finance department, although his name
does not appear as one of the ministers. It is certain
that some addition will be made to the present cabinet.
Several places in the Portuguese Ministry are only held
temporarily.
The works of the Central Peninsular Railway are
going on. The principal English engineers have, how-
ever, been. discharged. Fontes' contract with Shaw will
it is believed, be seriously altered.
The result of the change of ministry has proved the
strength of the progessista cause. although Thornar and
his party will be a dangerous opposition in the House
of Peers. It is believed that the peers will oppose the
second article of the Thornton contract.- Our Lisbon
correspond, nt says, " The article is regarded as a
nominal matter, which circumstances will never allow
to be realised ;" it is as follows :—" In addition to the
above, a certificate shall be given entitling the holder of
every £lOO Three per Cent Stock to one per cent
annually, or any smaller sum that may arise from
surplus profits of the railways to be constructed out of
the proposed loans, i. e., such surplus to be calculated
on the basis of the annual cost of interest by which the
capital has been raised for their construction."
The Thomar opposition intend to make this a point,
and the government being most anxious to arrange
with Mr. Thornton, have prevailed upon Mr. Rurnball,
a relative of that gentleman's agent at Lisbon, to
proceed to England by this steamer to consult upon
the propriety of omitting the obnoxious clause. There
can be little doubt that the best policy for the bond-
holders will be to meet the views of the government,
otherwise there are the chances of Thomar's opposition,
said to he in majority on the point, and of the new
elections on the dissolution of the Cortes- after the 15th
July, when the measure, if procrastinated, will have to
be debated de novo by the new Chambers, and there may
then be fresh complications.
Saldanha has threatened to resign his post as Field-
Marshal. This has created a great sensation.
All grain, except Indian corn, is to be admitted at a
nominal duty until December, 1857.
Exchange at Lisbon on London, 30 days, 541 to 54i ;
90 days, 51t- to 544. Paris, 100 days, 520. Hamburgb,
3 months,' 49. • Amsterdam, 3 months, 431. Genoa, 3
months, 517. There has been more demand for- paper
on London this packet than there had been for some
time back, and business closed with money over at 641
for 90 days. On the other places no transactions of any
importance have occurred.

DEATH o SIR JAS. HuNLoKE.--This venerable Baronet,
the seventh of, that line, vied at Birdholme, Derbyshire, on
the 22nd inst., in his 73rd year. He was the last male
representative of an ancient Roman Catholic family of great
wealth and respectability, and had only succeeded to the title
on the death of his nephew, the late Sir Henry John Jos.
Hunloke, in the month of February lest. He was born in
1782, and, as he never married, the title has become extinct

by his decease. •
THE CRYSTAL PaLscx„*The anniversary dinner of
the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufac-
tures, and Commerce, took place on Tuesday, at the
Crystal Palace, under the presidency of Lord Ashburton.
The toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Society for
the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com-
merce," was proposed in an eloquent address by the
noble chairman, who descanted at length on the advan-
tages of affording sound practical education to the
artisan, manufacturer, and tradesman, with the view of
fitting them suitably, not only for their ordinary stations
in life, but also for promoting their social happiness and
advancing our general mercantile prosperity. Dr. Booth,
in responding, intimated that the society was never in a
better position, either as regards members or pecuniary
resources ; while its progress was amply demonstrated
by the success which had attended the examination
recently instituted ; persons in humble walks of life—
the draper's shopman, the merchant's clerk, and the
schoolmaster's assistant—having competed, and exhibited
the satisfactory results of a diffusion of knowledge, The
other speeches comprised those of Mr. Ewart, Mr.
Gassiot, Colonel Sykes, Sir C. Fox, &c., all of whom
bore testimony to the benefits conferred by the society,
and the useful influence it has exercised.: The company
separated early in the evening.
MINING PROPERTV.—Yesterday a public meeting, con-
vened by circular, was held at the London Tavern, o
persons interested in mining property, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the prejudicial tendency of a bill,
lately introduced into Parliament, entitled, " a bill to amend
the law with regard to the assessment of mines, other than
coal mines, in England and Wales, to the relief of the
poor." Mr. John Taylor, jun., was unanimously called to
the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, showed the in-
jostice of assessing mines producing tin, copper, and lead to
the poor-rates, and cited the opinion of the great Lord
Mansfield in furtherance of the argument. Mr. J. Watson
moved the first resolution, which declared that the bill now
before Parliament was unsound in principle, calculated to
discourage legitimate mining, and injurious to working
men. Mr. Thomas Field seconded the resolution, which
was spoken to by Mr. Rarrison, and Mr. Boyle, who con-
demned the bill, as totally devoid of principle, and only to
be met by public condemnation. Mr. Ttte, M.P., Mr.
Stokes, and Mr. Ilubbersty, having addressed the meeting,
the resolution was unanimously adopted. A petition against
the bill (to be entrusted to Mr. Masterman, M.P., for pre-
sentation to the House of Commons) was agreed to, and a
committee to watch the progress of tha measure was ap-
pointed. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the
proceedings,