The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Limerick Chronicle states that " upwards of £lBOO
was invested in the Limerick Savings Bank last week by
depositors." _ _

That modern Chrysostom, " Ram of TUAM," has res-
ponded by a broadside of his own peculiar artillery, to the
sharp fire of the speakers at Exeter Hall, at the recent
meeting of the Irish Church Mission Society.
_ _

A PICTURE OF THE POOR-LAW.—The 2Crenagh Guar-
dian says that in that union the out-door relief given in
the last week by the twelve relieving officers amounted to
£1 Bs. 6d.—the salaries of these officers amount to £461
per annum !! !
There is no truth whatever in the report in the Romish
papers to the effect that Lord Clarendon had negotiated a
compromise with the Orange body for the suppression of
those disclosures respecting the Orange armament, which
he has so much reason to dread.

menace

A thief lately stole some bank notes at Belfast, but,
being pursued and captured, he jerked them into his
mouth, chewed and attempted to swallow them. The
policeman, however, seized the thief by the throat and
compelled him to disgorge his intended banquet.
WRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.-011 the 17th instant, the
schooner Confidence, of Cardiff, from Limerick, laden
with oats, bound to Liverpool, was put ashore on the south
side of Arnmore, county Donegal, and has become a total
wreck. Two of the crew were drowned, and one of them
the owner's son.

A wretched-looking female, named Cusack, was found
lying on the road quite dead, at Birdhill, Tipperary, last
week. She was awfully emaciated, and died of utter des-
titution ; and yet on the police searching her clothes they
found six sovereigns and fifteen shillings firmly stitched in
her old gown under the left arm.
. . .

ceeded.".

Signatures to the address to Lord Roden are said to be
flowing in, in unprecedented numbers. Among other
adhesions to the cause is that of Lord Mountcashell, who
declares that " for more than twenty years it has been the
absurd policy of the British Government to degrade as
much as they could the old aristocracy of Ireland."
Dr. Grattan, of Edenderry, who presided at a recent
meeting of the Irish Alliance, has received a missive from
the Lord Chancellor, preparatory to his dismissal from the
magistracy. This step is, no doubt, taken upon the most
approved system of Irish policy—the See-saw : one Young
Irelander struck off to balance three Orangemen.
A young gentleman named Carlayne, living near Cork,
was, a few days ago, amusing some children, showing how
he was able to throw a penny piece into his mouth and
afterwards draw it from his nose. He had two penny
pieces in his hand, and while in the act of performing the
trick one of the pieces entered his stomach. He only lived
a day or two.
BERNARD CAVANAGH IN THE SHADE.—The truth
of this paragraph will, no doubt, be questioned by many,
but having heard it from a highly respectable source, we,
ourselves, would feel a delicacy in relying on its veracity.
Dr. Langley, as most of our readers are aware, has been
in Nenagh Gaol on a coroner's warrant, and in conse-
quence of some favour, which at first he was allowed,
being withdi awn, he refused to eat, and continued without
food of any description for a poriod of thirty-eight days—
partaking of nothing except cold water ! ! !--Nenagh
Guardian.
FRIGHTFUL ATROCITY.—Last week a drunken row
occurred near Waterford, where two brothers of the
name of Pennans, one of whom used his leather-knife,
maiming and stabbing all which lay in his way. The
night being dark, the work of destruction was not ob-
served except by the persons hurt. At this juncture
William Lawlor passed, against whom the Pennans had a
pique ; one of them rushed on him, and plunged a knife
into his side, whilst the other beat him with a candlestick,
(a long rod of iron driven into a lump of wood.) He ex-
pired immediately. The police arrested the two Pennans,
under whose bed they found the fatal knife, covered with
blood.
At the conclusion of the late Kilkenny sessions the as-
sistant barrister, Mr. Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman, made
some strong observations upon the indecorous conduct of
the attorneys of his court, " who did nothing," he said,
" but sneer at him, and endeavour to cast ridicule upon
him. But I'll bear it no Longer," exclaimed the enraged

judge, "as this very Alight I shall write off and insist
upon being transferred to another county." " Does your
worship think," said Mr. Michael Hyland, addressing
himself to the irate law dispenser, " that a memorial,
signed by all the attorneys of this court, backing your ap-
plication, would be of any assistance in obtaining your
object ?" A look of peculiar ferocity was the only re-
sponse to the generous interrogatory.
WHICH IS IT TO BE.—A severer castigation conld hardly
have been administered to the perpetrators of the wanton
insult recently offered to one of the first noblemen of the
sister islan 1, than the address presented to the Earl of
Roden by the Grand Lodge of Ireland, which will be found
in another part of our columns. " You were," says the
address' " (his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has com-
manded his under-secretary to insinuate) disqualified for
acting as a magistrate by having been `publicly arraigned.'
`Arraigned !—we would ask by whom ? Before what tri-
bunal ? Were you arraigned before any court of justice ?
By any competent authority ? No. You were, as you
have observed, in a sentence which ought to be felt and
remembered, not ` publicly arraigned,' but ` grossly ma-
ligned;' and you had the constancy and courage to dis-
charge your solemn duty in the face of defamation and

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, who did
not shrink from his rightful but stern purpose, when held
forth to public indignation as the worst criminal in this
country, 'ugh/ to have been the last man to impute as an
offence in you the fearlessness and fidelity for which he
had himself been honoured and rewarded by a gracious
sovereign. It is a pernicious principle to lay down, that
calumny and menace, and invective, shall be numbered
among the recognised agencies of the constitution, and
that the administration of justice shall be thus abandoned
to the mercy of the slanderous and disaffected." This is
not only an effective retort upon Lord Clarendon ; it is a
stern truth which reveals at once the social condition of a
country in which the administration of justice is insepara-
ble from the imputation of partisanship, and in which the
loyal have no alternative but either to lay themselves open
to that imputation, or to abandon the field at once to the
dis!oyal. Put the address goes further to inquire from
what quarter the impulse proceeded by which Lord Roden
was removed from the bench. "We have been informed
that there was a memorial addressed to his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant, in which this act act of despotism was
audaciously demanded. Was this the ' grand epistle,'
which the judgment of the Lord Lieutenant, or the sym-
pathies of the secretary, confounded with an arraignment ?"
An unmerciful question, and hard to answer ! There is,
however, a bitterer pill even than this for his Excellency
ti swallow. After stating the object of the memorial to
have been to sow dissension in the Protestant camp, the
address continues :—" And there may have been another
reason for the memorial in which you are arraigned. It
may have been the desire of the party who prepared it, not
only to affront the magistracy, but to disgrace the govern-
-- Tf this were the design, they have, perhaps, suc-
'—John Bull.

THREATENING NOTICE

(From the Dublin Mail.)

We copy from the respectable columns of a morning
contemporary the following threatening notice upon a
landlady, in a nor'-western county, which, for insolent
ignorance, vulgar assumption, and priestly intolerance,
transcends anything of the kind which we have ever wit-
nessed from the pen of either Lieutenant Starlight, or
Johnny Mac Hale, or the most incendiary of our anti-
Bible-reading schoolmasters.

The intolerant " C.C.," who writes and prints this
wretched sample of clerical tyranny, assumes, all through,
that that which was the act of an humble man in his pri-
vate capacity—namely, the invitation of his neighbours to
hear a preacher of the Word of GOD—was a "summons"
to her tenantry by the landlady of the estate : and he

calls upon her, under the severe penalty of her coffers
suffering on gale day, to " remove for ever from her em-
ployment" the unfortunate servant, who, in all human
probability, did no more than what, in his private capacity
as a man and a Christian, he had every warrant in the
laws of GOD and man—always excepting the law of the
Church of Rome as adverse to both—an unquestionable
right to do ; that is to say (we repeat it), to invite his
neighbours to hear the Word of GOD preach
Christian liberty the priest maims

tp oppose fiers

To this

the lady in question

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to work upon her hopes and her fears, telling her, as a
bribe, that, if she complies with his terms, her rents shall
be punctually paid, and menacing her, on the other hand,
with the threat, that her non-compliance shall be punished
by an act of dishonesty on the part of her discontented

tenantry.
But we must let the document sp,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE I

rt, Nov. 21

" Baily castle, Ki
" SlR—You'll not consider it I hope troublesome t
insertion to the following letter in your paper.—Yours tr

" M. A. CONWAY

" MADAM—I trust you will be kind enough to inform us
whether it was with your consent, directly or indirectly given,
that your Catholic tenants of Kilbride, diocese of Killala, county
Mayo, have been summoned by your driver to attend the
preaching of a Presbyterian minister named Branigan. If not,
I hope you will show your detestation of such abominably out-
rageous conduct, by preventing a possibility of a recurrence of
the same.

" Believe me, Madam, your coffers shall suffer nothing by
removing for ever from your employ one who, actuated by the
sheerest ignorance and foulest bigotry, could be capable of
doing that than which, in the opinion of every sensible person,
there can be nothing so nefarious. If you discountenance such
conduct in the manner suggested, I shall not fail to inform the
public or it, through the same medium that I now address you.
We expect it from your known character.—Yours with respect,
" MICHAEL A. CONWAY, C.C.
" To Mrs. Armstrong, Chaffpool,

near Tubber curry."
V/ course, tne ropisn Mocesan Is not ashamed of the
conduct of his clerical subject on this occasion.

COW

a' AND FASHION,

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Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family, have
remained at Osborne since Friday last, on which day they
arrived there in the enjoyment of good health. The
Queen has been almost entirely without visitors during
the week.

The Court Circular announces that her Majesty is
again in an " interesting situation," and, indeed, near
her accouchement.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—(Before Mr. Commissioner
Perry.)—Yesterday week, a long enquiry took place,
arising out of several disputed items in a bill of costs pre-
sented for taxation to the registrar by Mr. Charles Pem-
berton, attorney, for professional services in the affairs of
Edward Roberts, a bankrupt. After acting in the case
for.some time, Mr. Pemberton received notice that his
services would be dispensed with, and Mr. Evans was em-
ployed in his stead. Mr. Evans now applied on behalf of
Mr. Roberts's assignees to have certain items struck off
Mr. Pemberton's account, on the ground that in one case
he had acted without a retainer • in another in which the
retainer had been withdrawn ; and in another, had charged
for work that bad been previously paid for. [Mr. Pem-
berton's account contained a charge for preparing a deed
of assignment in the case of a person named Mary Wil-
liams ; for executing a writ upon a person named Bollard,
a debtor to the estate; for writing a letter in the case ;
and an item of £1 ss. for attending before the commis-
sioner in bankruptcy on the choice of assigness.] Mr.
Clarkson proved that he had paid Mr. Pemberton three
guineas to attend on the choice of assignees. A good deal of
sparring took place between Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Pember-
ton, and finally as the Commisioner declined to hear Mr.
P. except as a witness, Mr. Yates, jun., undertook
the case in behalf of Mr. P., who swore that he was in-
structed by Mr. Clarkson to obtain the writ against Bol-
lard. He admitted having taken certain proceedings after
receiving notice not to proceed, but if he had not done so
no money would have been recovered to the estate. After
hearing some further evidence as to the serving of the
writ. which was not very clearly made out, His Honour,
in adjudicating, said, in reference to the bill in Bollard's
case, the charges ought to be struck out; the items in re-
ference to Mrs. Williams's matter must be disallowed; and
for the three guineas received for attendance at court, and
included in the bill of costs, credit must be given.—At
the same court on Friday, the case of Henry Cole was
heard. Bankrupt is a builder at Birkenhead, and the
present was a dividend which the assignees applied to have
postponed, on the ground that a contract entered into by
the bankrupt for some land in Birkenhead was still open,
and that the vendor had called on the assignees to ascer-
tain if they would perform it. After some explanations
the case was adjourned to the 27th inst.—ln re Michael
Neale Baynes, timber merchant, in Birkenhead, a meeting
was held to Choose assignees, but no creditor appearing
the case was adjourned to the 27th.
In the case of the dean and chapter of Rochester and
Mr. Whiston, the latter has obtained from the Court of
Queen's Bench, a rule nisi for a mandamus, for his resto-
ration to the office of schoolmaster, from which he has
now a second time been ejected ; this time, it is supposed,
in due form of law.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, between
three and four hours were occupied in the trial of a cause,
an action for goods sold and delivered, in which the real
difference between the parties was a question of discount,
which, if taken one way, would entitle the defendant to
recover upon the balance of an account " three shillings
and sixpence," or, in the other way, he would have a ver-
dict for one half-penny."
In the Bail Court, on Monday, Sir F. Thesiger, follow-
ing up the rule he obtained last week in the inquisition on
Mrs. Whalley, at Leeds, in which a verdict of felo-de-se
had been found, applied to have the proceedings quashed,
which application was granted by Mr. Justice Patteson on
the first objection that the finding of the inquisition was
not on parchment, according to the 6th and 7th Vic., c.
83, which so required of all injunctions in regard to mur-
der or manslaughter' and felo-de-se was self-murder.
Several other technical objections were raised, any one of
which would have been fatal to the inquisition. The
object of the patties concerned is to obtain Christian
burial for the deceased.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FRIDAY.—CapeI V. the
Overseers of Ashton and Others.—Birmingham Freehold
Land Society's Claims.—This was an appeal from the de-
cision of the revising barrister of the North Staffordshire
district, who decided that shareholders in freehold land
societies were not entitled to be placed on the parliamen-
tary register. This decision excited great dissatisfaction
smong the numerous persons interested, and an appeal
was made to the Court of Common Pleas. The Lord
Chief Justice gave judgment, reversing the decision of the
court below, and ordering the names of the appellants to
he placed upon the register. There were several other
cases of the same kind, in which the same judgment was
given. The decision will have the effect of greatly in-
creasing the parliamentary constituency of the county.
COURVOISIER'S TRIAL.—Mr. Charles Phillips's con-
tradiction of the accusation of the Examiner has brought
down upon him a reply from the 'editor of that paper, in
which the accusation is. to all appearance, fixed more
firmly than ever upon him, from out of the very report of
his own speech (in the Times) which Air. Phillips appealed

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