The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Miss Catherine Hayes is to sing in Cork next ruqntb.
At the second weekly meeting of the Repeal Ilssocia-
kion, yesterday week, Mr. J. O'Connell delivered his usual
addroF,s, but the rent was only a few pounds.
A land-bailiff named Wheelau was shot dead in the
public street, at Carrickbeg, Kilkenny. on Wednesday
night. He was under-agent to Mr. A. W.'Sadlier. Two

men are in custody.
In order to give continual •employment during the win-
ter to the labourers in the neighbourhood of Curraghmore,

the Marquis of Waterford intends digging up the etlre of
his splendid demesne of IMO acres.
On Friday thirteen young female paupers left the work-
house of the Derry union for New South Wales. Previous
to their leaving, the guardians had each paupersupplied
with a respectable " outfit."
The Rev. Mr. Medlicott, of Pertlaw, has resigned the
commissinn of the peace for Waterford, in consequence of
the dismissal of Lord Roden, and many others are about
•
to follow the example.
On Sunday week, a boat, with eight in, upset in the
river Maieue, near Limerick. Five managed to swim on
shore, hut Mr.Vianello, master of an Austrian barque,
his brother, and a seaman were drowned.
'Lord Rodea says, in a letter just published. that twelve
magistrates of the county 'Down, acting on first impres-
sions, had determined to resign their posts, but that his •
I lordship had made a personal request that they would not
persevere in their intentions.
Lord Clarendon visited Cork last week on the occasion
of the opening of the railway from Dublin to Cork. His
reception was most cheerless—not a cheer was given, but
his lordship was saluted with groans. Not a hat was
raised, and the representative of royalty seemed sadly
mortified with the reception.
The 'Westmeath Gaerdian states •that this system of
plundering is rapidly increasing in that county. On Sun-
day night a gang of marauders cut down and carried off
the greater portion •of a crop of oats of four acres on the
.lands of Bellfield, near Mullingar. The tenant, was of
course, largely in arrear of rent.
FRIGHTFUL MUIMER.—On Sunday morning week, as

C.S. Gage, Esq., agent to Sir St.-George Gore, was on his
way to Creggan Church, near Fethane, King's County,
he was shot dead, by two persons unknown, from behind
a hedge, in view of many persons, who saw the fellows
run away. The left side of Mr.-Gage's head, neck,.artn,
and side, in the region of the heart, was completely
riddled with bullets and slugs.
WATERFORD, TZIDAY.—We have four steamers off to
Liverpool this week, all full to overflowing. Crowds of
emigrants, carrying heavy chests and comfortable beds
with them, are gone to-day by the Devonshire, on their
way to America. Jolly times steamers have of it now.
A month ago one steamer a-week had scarce enough of
cargo ; and now, four steamers go full to cramming in
every crevice, and we are shortly to have a fifth.
The speech of the Marquis of Waterford, at an agri-
cultural dinner in the county of Waterford, is worthy of
notice. He acknowledged to having received on the day
previonsly his annual Munster yearly rent, viz., £22,000,
—a fact which certainly makes .him a prodigy amongst
fish lanfilords. He said also that he had received his
Ulster rent of £14,000, and his Northumberland rent of
£20,000.
An inquisitive correspondent has elicited from the Mar-
quis of Anglesey a declaration, that " if he is supposed
to be an advocate for the repeal of the union, there never
was a greater error, as nothing can be .urther from his
feelings and convictions than the propriety of severing the
right arm from the body of the empire." "No one,"
his lordship adds, " is better acquainted with these my
sentiments than Lord Cloncurry."

The Right Hon. J.. Grattan, brother of the member for
Meath, has resolved upon the sale of his Irish property,
with the intention of leaving his native country for ever,
and becoming a settler in Old Virginia, where he has
already effected a purchase of 5,000 acres of land. Mr.
Grattan's estates are not very extensive, but they are to-
tally free from any family encumbrances. The right lion.
gentleman always bore the character of an indulgent land-
lord, and was a constant resident in Ireland.
ARREST OF MAYNOOTH STUDENTS.—The Clonmel
Chronicle has a startling statement :—" We learn that
arrests, which have recently taken place at Dungarvon,
implicate certain students of the Romish colleges of Wa-
terford and Mavnooth, in connexion with secret societies.
A few of the students of the former are already fugitive,
and it is rumoured, we know not how truly, that fifty or
sixty of the youths at Maynooth will be expelled, for being
connected with the secret conspiracy."
THE NEN A on CHAPEL.—This place of worship remains
yet firmly nailed ; and the stern determination of the
majority of the parishioners not to open it appears
every day to become more unalterable and unflinching.
They say they will never permit the Rev. Messrs. Kenny
and Bowles to enter the chapel, or perform any ceremony
whatever therein, while the bishop and the parish priests
are resolutely resolved to maintain their position.
A COUNTY OF KILKENNY ELOPEMENT AND ITS CON-

SEQUENCS.—A man named Cody was killed on Wednes-
day week by a man named Walsh. The former was on
his way from Callan, in the county of Kilkenny, eloping
with the wife of Walsh ; Cody had others, eiders and abet-
tors, with him, who were met by the unfortunate husband
and his party on the road at Coals, where a fight ensued,
and Walsh struck Cody with a pitchfork on the forehead,
and killed him on the spot.
On Wednesday night, the body of Lieutenant Ackland,
R.N„ was found lying dead on a bed in his house, at Lon-
donderry, with a handkerchief over his face. A woman
and two girls who lived with him had absconded, but have
since been arrested. Only a few pence were found in the
house, though the deceased had drawn his quarters' pen-
swn only a few days previously. His clothes had been
pawned or otherwise disposed of. The women have since
been released, as it appears that the deceased expired from
the excessive use of ardent spirits.
Wm. Darley Hall, Esq., of Fairburn, has addressed a
spirited and temperate letter to Lord Clarendon, re-
questing that his name may be erased from the list of
magistrates, as he " cannot any longer consent to retain
a position which now seems to demand a blind subservi-
ence to the government of the day, or the alternative of
an instant dismissal should that government prove tyran-
nical and unscrupulous." Mr. Hall has never been an
Orangeman or political partizan, and is not the private
friend of Messrs. Beers, though he is acquainted with
Lord Roden.
ORANGEISM.—Some former members of the Orange
Society, who had retired from that institution on its break
up in 1837, met in this city on Tuesday. The propriety
of again starting their old warrant, which had been
" boxed np" for the past 12 years, was talked over. The
reson alleged, and which the unanimous voice of those
present justified in again resuming the Orange and Blue,
was, the conduct pursued towards their old friend and
patron, Lord Roden, and the Messrs. Beers. The bre-
thren resolved to put themselves in immediate communi-
cation with the Grand Lodge of Ireland, with the view of
having their :old warrant renewed. Orangeism of late
has been at a discount in Cork, where at one period it
prosperously flourished, but Lord Clarendon has given it
a helping hand, never calculated on.—Cork Constitution.
THE GOVERNMENT AND LORD RODEN.—The disgrace
to which the government subjected our gracious and beloved
Queen in Belfast, during her Majesty's visit to Ireland,
has never been sufficiently brought to light. It was
fixed, before the Queen left Dublin, that she should visit
that noble institution in Belfast, the Ulster Deaf and
Dumb Institution. It is supported by the first men in the
Sister Island, and that it is no merely Church or sectarian
Institution appears from the fact that the Rev, Dr. Cook
is one of its Directors. Everything was prepared for her
Majesty's reception. But the Queen was advised to turn
away from it—to slight the bishop and noblemen waiting
to give their Sovereign a fitting reception—and to turn—
whither ? Why, to turn where Dr. Henry, the noted
Arian—the avowed heretic, according to the sentence of
the Church in all ages, but who had been appointed, (to
the disgrace of Government,) President of the New Col-
lege was waiting to do her homage ! ! It is quite becom-
ing and suitable that the men who honour Dr. Henry,
should attempt to disgrace Lord Roden.
NAVIGATION OF THE SHANNON.—The Shannon is now
a navigable river. A vessel may sail on this noble river
from the broad waters of the Atlantic to the quiet re-
cesses of Lough Allen. This event has just been achieved,
Charles Wye Williams, Esq., who has been called the
father of the Shannon navigation improvement, having
steamed almost to the source of this river to Lough Allen,
and to the waters of the Boyle. The steamer, with the
exploring party on board, proceeded on her voyage up-
wards, passing through Lough Derg, and successively
sailing by Porturnna, Banagher, Shannon-bridge, and
Seven Churches, to the important town of Athlone. On
the next morning the party again embarked, and pro-
ceeded at the rate of about nine miles an hour through
the various scenery of the river, until they arrived at
Carrick-on-Shannon, being 125 miles from Limerick, and
51 from Athlone. The last day of the trip was spent in
sailing to the source of the Shannon, and inspecting the
various objects of interest. The Shannon washes no less
than ten Irish counties, viz.,—Leitrim, Roscommon,
Longford, 'Westmeath, King's County, Galway, Tippe-
rary, Clare, Limerick, and Sligo. This river is in truth
one of the great arteries of Ireland. It flows through
some of the best parts of the country.
On Sunday morning a large party assembled to carry
off the crops of a farmer, named John Keyes, at Clonaslee,
King's County, when the police endeavoured to prevent
the removal, and a collision ensued, in which one of the
constables 'vas shot dead, and, four others dangerously
wounded. Several of the opposite party were shot, and
one, it is believed, was killed. The letter of the corres-
pondent of the Dublin Mail fully confirms the above
statement, with the following additional circumstances:—
" At the first fire three policemen fell; and while some of
their comrades assisted in carrying away the wounded
men, those who remained were overpowered by numbers,
and obliged to retreat into their barrack, into which
several vollies were discharged after them. The entire
booty was carried off in triumph to the house of Keyes,
at Rahan, with the exception of one load of corn, which
was thrown off by the road side, to make room on the car

for the wounded of the banditti." The coroner's jury, in
substance, finds that Joseph Keyes, (in custody) and
Jae Keyes, c;,,r,! in custody. ee -
wounded 4yeke present aiding —7l 'tiller t,"-111,.gigitt.t7
arrnOd poly, and by which e' "1
he e"" '" #“45 -
life, bat by whe.— .e. . party
ceaged lost his
.... tee snots were fired then was no
evidence to prove. All the other prisoners have been re-
manded. None of the reported wounded civilians have
yet been arrested, although the police from the surround.
ing districts are scouring the country night and day.
Thirty-eight prisoners have been arrested. The Dublin
papers of Saturday announce the death of another police-
man.
LORD RODEN.—The following address to Lord Roden
has been numerously signed by the gentry of Westmeath
—" MY LORD—An address, expressive of admiration land
respect for your lordship's character and conduct, Irowe
ever natural, as connected with recent events, mkght not
at this moment be welcome to your lordship, still less one
of sympathy and condolence, when there is place foe just
indignation. Our object in addressing your lordship now
is rather to join your lordship in protesting strongly
against the false position in which the letter of the under
secretary has endeavoured to place you; find in asserting
our ccrdial concurrence in y'e'l,ur 101d:4143's view of the
matter in question, which we trannot better express than
in your own plain language—' Thee-there was no reason
to consider you publicly arraigned, though you had been
grossly maligned ; nor can we admit that you were impli-
cated in abetting the proceedings of an illegal assembly.'
Waiving the question of the expediency of Orange proces-
sions (however invariably loyaltheie motive) we' delibe-
rately assert, that no magistrate, or any one else, had a
right to-deem that to bean ' illegal assembly, which was
openly 'encouraged by the exeoutive in 1848, and tacitly
tolerated up to July, 1849. In 1848 Orange displays
were encouraged, as composed of loyal anti-Repealers;
in 1e549 they were unnoticed, until a wanton attack pro-
voked them to resistance, resulting in consequences deplo-
rable, though deserved ; -and these gave occasion to the
factious cry for vengeance, which has coerced a yielding
government to make the vain endeavour to degrade Lord
Roden ! Had not the rebels tried to intercept the
Orangemen, nothing would have been heard of the 'ille-
gal assembly'—and such events are seldom to be judged
by consequences, never by such consequences. The
principle, or want of principle, upon which your lordship
has been treated, would render it impossible to do any
act with that moral security which is the privilege of the
British magistrate, when acting conscientiously. 'Official
sophistry may readily `implicate' him in offences that
come before him,-if such is to be the practice. We firmly
protest against this most unwarrantable proceeding—we,
at the same time, feel it a subject for gratulation that
their first blow has been aimed chiefly at one whose posi-
tion—we mean not as a nobleman, but as a man—will
rally the well-disposed against the unconstitutional act,
and will bring about a strong union against the insensate
policy which is influenced to-day by the rebels of the day
before—perhaps reluctant, probably afraid to act—but
more afraid to resist their evil influence. We leek to the
imperial parliament for redress, and may, meanwhile,
safely lead your lordship to the sure comfort you possess
in this case, of a " conscience void of offence towards God
and towards man."
VISIT OF LORD LONDONDERRY TO HIS DONEGAL
ESTATES.—The noble lord arrived on Friday week, ac-
companied by Lord Castleretigh, and his agent, Mr.
Lnngtree. They started on a flying visit to the estates ;
and, after breakfast, first visited Mr. Cassedys, of Bally-
lawn, and had luncheon. They thence proceeded to the
schoolhouse of Balleighan, where a large number of the
tenantry had assembled. His lordship proceeded to ad-
dress them. He was sorry to find that so little had been
done by them in the way of improvements, and the old
arrears were still accumulating. This should not be the
case; nor could he allow such a state of things to conti-
nue. He understood that a neighbouring landlord, Lord
Wicklow, could get all his rents paid, and his (Lord L.'s)
tenantry were equally as comfortable as Lord Wicklow's ;
he could not get paid. Arrears must be paid up, other-
wise he would adopt measures to obtain them. Some of
them kept a good many cottiers on their farms, and re-
ceived rent for the houses they lived in. This should be
the property of the landlord, and was so much out of his
pocket. (Murmurs.) They thought they had a great
deal to do, and many difficulties to contend with, but he
could tell them that he had as much to do as any of them,
when he paid his English servants and kept up his esta-
blishment. He had received a great many petitions, but
he would not attend to one of them, nor would there he
any indulgence given until the arrears of his property
were all paid up. (A voice, " You will have your rent,
but you will not read a petition."—Another, " In troth
you'll get no money to day.") His lordship became ex-
cited and ordered his carriage, which he entered. The
tenants, surrounding it, besought him to reduce their
rents. He replied, " I'll do nothing untill I get my rents
—all arrears must be paid up, and if you don't I'll know
how to meet you ; I'll bring over English tenants, and
have you ejected." A voice, " English tenants wouldn't
live on rotten potatoes—they know the difference." Lord
Castlereagh and Mr. Lanktree had left his lordship, and
as they did not appear when lie inquired for them he
ordered the postilions to drive on. Soon after Lord
Castlereagh came up and took his seat. Mr. Lanktree
then came up, but his lordship ordered him back, saying
in a loud voice, " You must stop and get all the money
you can, and then make your way to Derry as well as pos-
sible." His lordship drove to Derry. Mr. Lanktree re-
turned to the school and collected some rent ; but most of
the tenants had departed. Thus elided the visit of the
Marquis of Londonderry to his Donegal tenants_ On the
previous day his lordship visited his tenants on his Tully
estate, and treated them pretty similarly, refusing to hear
what they had to say, or to receive any petitions from
them. One petition which he got hold of, he indignantly
threw over his shoulder.

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CHANCELLOR.

Newcastle, Castlewellan

MY LORD,—I have had the honour of receiving your
Lordship's favour of the 6th instant, honourinz me, at
the command, if such I may call it, of the Lord Lieuten-
ant, with a supersedeas. I candidly confess that Mr
Berwick's conduct at the investigation in Ca3tlewellan
quite prepared me for such a communication. I did not
hold the situation which I had the honour of filling 15
years, as a partisan of this or of any other Government,
and it is now taken from me, as I firmly believe, not be-
cause I have dishonoured my magisterial functions, (for
that I indignantly deny), but because I have had the
honesty to avow myself as a fearless supporter of the
Orange Institution, the glory and the bulwark of the
land. I can hardly refrain, however, from expressing my
belief to your lordship, that the Earl of. Clarendon has
acted neither a fair nor a manly part in this transaction.
He should not have sympathised with assassins, he should
not have stigmatized loyal men, he should not have dared
to say, because the characters of men as upright and as
just as he, in his fancied infallibility, takes himself to be,
have been blackened and defamed by a Popish and Whig
Press, whose delight is in lies, that they are " publicly
arraigned." The Protestant Press of England and Ire-
land has " publicly arraigned" his Excellency, and yet
his Excellency continues in the exercise of his magisterial
functions ! •
I trust I do not offend your lordship by saying that I
believe lie has usurped your lordship's prerogative in
ordering the dismissal of three Protestant Magistrates,
the humblest of whom considers himself as unstained in
reputation, as high in character, though not in position,
and, most certainly, a far more loyal subject of the Queen,
than the nobleman who rules at Dublin Castle, and sends
the statutes 'which are to bind British subjects to the Pope
of Rome, for his revision, alteration, or annulling, as the
case may be ; and thus gives that priestly potentate a
share of the British Throne.
Be assured, my lord, that a day of reckoning will come ;
and that truth, Protestantism, and liberty shall prevail
in Ireland. In that day, the wrongs of this may be for-
gotten and forgiven ; but the principles for which I and
my Orange brethren stand, are those that will then be in
the ascendant.'--I have the honour to be, my lord, your
lordship's obedient servant,
171 h Oef., 1849.

WM. BEERS.

DIVES AND LAZARUS-THE RIVAL CHURCHES

(From the Dublin Herald.)
Need we remind our readers of two remarkable cases
illustrative of the sufferings of the Protestant clergy ?
The one was the case of the Rev. Francis Patterson
Studdart, who has just resigned his living of Corofin, in
consequence of the entire income of the parish being
barely sufficient to defray the poor rate and other public
expenses chargeable upon the incumbent. The.other was
that of an incumbent, the net yearly value of whose liv-
ing was under eleven pounds ! These are, however, but
particular instances of what in too many districts is now
most mournfully established to be the normal condition
of Church property in Ireland.
Let us now turn to another class of facts—the statistics
of that poor alms-supported church, which humbly pre-
fers its frugal dependence upon the popular bounty to the
tempting magnificence of a state endowment. The liberal
Limerick Chronicle informs us that " the late Doctor
O'Brien, P.P., of Slane, Meath, is now ascertained to
have died worth upwards of £100,000." One hundred
thousand pounds !—and that after all the slobbering,
waste, and dirty revelry which attends a country priest's
housekeeping, realized—how ? Why by fees, offerings,
&c., levied in the name of God from a population to whom
a meal of meat twice in the year was a luxury ! What
do the people—what do the Government think of this ?
May not the destitute peasantry fancy that they have
hitherto been paying a little too high for the haberdashery
of the priest's religion ? The layman dies in exile, in
the poorhouse or in the ditch, while his " dependent clargy"
expires in his feather-bed, leaving a hundred thousand
pounds behind him ! What are Liberals, with this fact
before them, to make of the feasibility of their meditated
endowment of the popish church in Ireland ?
But if we have thus a peep into the bank-book of the
Irish priest, we have also a glimpse into the scale and
quality of his housekeeping. Simultaneously with the
appearance of the paragraph we have just been re-
marking upon, there has appeared in the Water-
ford Mail an advertisement bearing the signature of
" Lorenzo F. O'Neill, auctioneer, Waterford." This
gentleman has, it appears, " been authorised by the rep-
resentatives of the late Rev. Thomas Dixon, P.P., of
Passage, to offer for sale the whole of his effects."
These, accordingly, be roughly catalogues in his advertise-
ment, and from it we shall extract some passages which
present a comfortable correspondence between the menage
of Priest Dixon and the fortune of Priest O'Brien :
"Brilliant looking glasses, lustres, and table lamps; rich
Brussels, Turkey, and Kidderminster carpets of the newest
and most exquisite designs • table covers of itreat beauty;
gorgeous window hangings and draperies with gilt poles, and
enriched with costly fringes; a rare and varied collection of
richly cut glass; a large assortment of China, in dinner, des-
sert, breakfast, and tea services."

Pretty well, it must be owned, for a bachelorts estab-
lishment 1 The " bed-rooms" come next, and exhibit a
taste that is Quite curious, and a costliness that is abso-

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