The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE POPISH HIE-
In consequence of the refusal of a Romish

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Priest to bury a soldier who had neglected his religious
duty, a correspondence has taken place between the Chief
Secretary of the government at Fort St. George and Dr.

Fennelly, the Romish bishop at Madras, which is curious,
inasmuch as the Bishop refers the Chief Secretary to the
Councils of Lateran and Trent, and other sources of
Romish Canon law, to which the Governor in Council

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The steam-ship Europa
lortly after midnight of the 7th ult.,
ce of 11 days. Five minutes after her ar-
, arranged by the New York journals, left
The_distance to the Bay Fundy. 100 miles.

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arrived at Halifax

rival an expres
Halifax

we nay was then
c. Jc n's by steam amidst dense fields of ice,
he in hence to the extent of several co-
'ansmitted to New York—a distance of 750
the space of 16 hours. This specimen of
,rise is creditable to the American press,
nd the celerity of the telegraph operation is not the least
emarkable feature in the experiment.
A COLOUR RETAKEN. There is something of an

crossed to

and thence the intel
lumns was trar-
journalist er

almost romantic interest attached to the standard cap-
tured at the battle of Chillanwallah, as it proves to be the
banner taken from the Mahrattahs by the 56th Native
Infantry at the battle of Maharajhpoor. and subsequently
borne by that regiment in addition to their own two
colours. It fell into the hands of the Sikhs during the
terrific conflict on the 13th of January, and was retaken
by the grenadiers of the 70th Bengal Native Infantry, in
the splendid charge made, rear in front, by Colonel God-
by's brigade, in which nine guns were taken, and those of
Christie's troop recovered. This standard, which is of

i aagzer, without a hilt, of red silk also, Was
returned by the 70th Regiment to their gallant brethren

WONDERFUL, IF TRUE.—The Hannibal Journal has
a fearful story, to the effect that a Mr. Weatherford,
sheriff of Schuyler county, in the state of Maine, and ex
officio collector of the county revenue, conceiving a design
to cheat the commonwealth out of some 43'2,200 which he
had collected, left the money in the care of his wife, part
in silver and part in paper, with the declaration that he
would be gone several days, and enjoined upon her that
she should permit no one to stay all night at the house
during his absence. At night a traveller, rather an aged
for pntortninm.nt _"rst

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refusing, under the instructions of her husband, was
finally persuaded to permit him to ,rnnin t

. rem, a. About eleven
or twelve o'clock the same night some persons demanded
entrance into the house, and upon being permitted to
come in they were found to be disguised as negroes, and
immediately demanded money of the woman. She handed
them the paper money. They told her there was also
silver money, which she must surrender. She replied
that she would go up stairs (where the traveller was lodg-
ing) and get it. She informed him of the state of things
below. He told her to take one of two pistols which he
had, to put the money into her apron, with the pistol
concealed behind it, and when either of the robbers came
forward to take it to fire, and he would shoot another of
. .

them witn tne remaining plstol. She did as instructed,
and one of the men fell dead at her feet. The old man
fired, and killed another, and the third made his escape.
Upon examination, it was found that the guilty husband
had fallen by the hand of his own wife.—American Paper.

COURT AND FASHION.

Saturday, the 19th of May, is the day appointed for the
celebration of her Majesty's birthday.

for
The court left town for Windsor Castle on Thursday,
where her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the junior
branches of the Royal Family, continue their accustomed
out-door recreations.

Lord and Lady John Russell left town on Wednesday
for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Miss Peel left White-
hall-gardens on Thursday evening for Drayton Manor,
Staffordshire, for the Easter holidays.
Lord Brougham left town on Wednesday evening for
Paris.

A marriage has been arranged to take place between the
Marquess of Stafford, eldest son of the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, and Miss Mackenzie, only child and heiress
of Mr. Mackenzie, of Tarbot, Ross-shire, one of the most
extensive landed proprietors in the empire.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

In the Court of Chancery, on Friday, an application to
alter the venue of an action which had been directed by
this court, to try the right to certain bales of cotton con-
signed to the house of Barton, Irlam, and Higginson, late
of Liverpool, and recent ly declared bankrupts, so that such
action should be tried at Chester or Gloucester, was refu-
sed with costs.

A BANKRUPT NOT DISCLOSING HIS REAL ESTATE.—
At the Gloucester assizes, on Wednesday evening, Henry
Harris, the elder, Henry Harris, the younger, Elisabeth
Harris, and Anne Harris were indicted—the first for not
having discovered, when he was upon his examination as
a bankrupt, all his real estate, and when he had disposed
of it ; and the others, his children, for having been pre-
sent aidiag:and abetting him. The indictment had been
framed under the sth and 6th Vic., c. 122, p. 33. The
principal defendant, a farmer in Monmouthshire, became
bankrupt in 1843, and after the fiat was issued, executed
a conveyance of his real property to his children, the
other defendants, which conveyance was antedated, mak-
ing it appear to have been executed in April, 1842. The
fraud was discovered, the property was seized upon by the
assignees, and the present prosecution instituted by the
Court of Bankruptcy. The elder prisoner was convicted,
but the others acquitted, on a legal point. The convicted
prisoner was not sentenced, two points of law being re-
served for the Court of Criminal Appeal.

ALLEGED LIBEL.-At the Chester assizes, on Thursday,
the case of Coppock v. Lomax came on. The duelaration
stated that Henry Coppock, of Stockport, was the plain-
tiff, and James Lomax, the defendant ; and the plaintiff
complained that the defendant had published, in a paper
called the Stockport Advertiser, a false and malicious
libel concerning the plaintiff, in his profession as an attor-
ney, imputing that he was selfish, dishonest, and corrupt,
and that when he filled the office of town-clerk he gave
corrupt advice to the corporation concerning a certain
purchase of certain manorial tolls from Lord Vernon,
with the dishonest motive of benefitting himself at the
expense of the burgesses of the borough of Stockport,
with the view of obtaining the office of clerk to the County
Court. The defendant merely pleaded not guilty. After
the alleged libel had been put in, Mr. Wilkins made a
brilliant speech for the defendant, contending that the
article in question was nothing more than a critique on
the conduct of a public man, who ought not to be so thin-
skinned as to bring an action on the ground that the ar-
ticle was intended to injure him in his private capacity as
a solicitor. The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation,
found a verdict for the defendant.
THE LIBELS ON LORD LEIGH.-At the Warwick
assizes, on Saturday last, the trial of the case of the
Queen v. Charles Griffin, was commenced. This was a
prosecution at the instance of Lord Leigh, for a libel,
charging Lord Leigh himself, his mother, his deceased
agent (Mr. Jones), the family solicitor, and several other
persons, with numerous murders, and other felonies, and
many misdemeanours. The defendant was a solicitor, at
Leamington, and the extraordinary allegations he made
have long been known to the public, and were published
last year in a book containing 90 pages. He pleaded a
justification of the libel under Lord Campbell's act, and
consequently was at liberty to produce evidence of the
alleged crimes. In the course of a trial of five days, the
utter absurdity of the charge against Lord Leigh was
proved, and a verdict was returned on Thursday against
Mr. Griffin. The judgment of tLe court was, that the
defendant be imprisoned for two years. and that he enter
into his own recognizances in £5OO, and find two sureties
in .C2eo each, to be of good behaviour for five years. The
counsel for the prosecution called witnesses (one of whom
was Lord Faye and Sele) to contradict the statement of

the witnesses for the defence. They deposed very posi-
tively to the death of Mr. James Henry Leigh, that there
ver was any monument to Christopher Leigh in the
h, as alleged, and satisfactorily accounted for eve
ns employed about the bridge. They s

lo proved
Irdered at

bridge never had any existence at all

CLERICAL INTEL-LIGENcE.

The Queen has approved of the appointment of the
Rev. R. Knox to the vacant see of Down, Connor, and
Dromore. Mr. Knox is prebendary of St. Munchin's,
Limerick, and Chancellor of the diocese of Ardfert and
Aghadoe. He is favourably known to the clergy as the
compiler of a valuable " Ecclesiastical Index."
A GOOD ExcHANere:—We are happy to find that the
Metropolitan Training School Society have purchased that
large building, so well known as a Dissenting Institution
under the name of Highbury Ccllege. We believe the
price they have paid for it is £12,500. And we trust it
will be given to the Directors to prosecute the enterprise
they have so auspiciously begun with wisdom, zeal, and
success. Those three institutions for the education of
the rising generation—for the education of those who are
to educate the rising generation—which we have repeat-
edly brought under the notice of our readers, ought, we
are persuaded, to meet for two or three years to come
with the fullest and most liberal support of the Christian
public : we mean the Society we h.
Church Training Schools at Chelten

1, and the Home

—We are happy to

and Colonial Schooir,
CHURCH PASTORAL AID tt
find that the Church Pastoral aid Society, in the year
which has just closed, ending with the end of March,—
has been raised above its difficulties, and is enabled once
more to go forward with its work. In the year 1847-
1848, the rapid occupation of its grants by the incumbents
aided, had swelled its annual expenditure to £29,000.

)CIETY

bout 1;25,000

Hence the committee had to appeal to the subscribers,
whether they were to pause in their work, and not only
to refrain from making any new grants. but even to dig_

continue some which had been made, from a fear that the
funds would not suffice when the day of payment came
round. This appeal has been warmly responded to.
Until the year had actually closed it would have been
• ossible to state with confidence what the thr.l receipts

of the year would be. But we now learn, that it. .
three or four weeks of the period, the contributions can.
in so rapidly as to swell the aggregate of the year's receipts
to a sum considerably exceeding £30,000. We are also
glad to hear, that the committee, having above sixty ur
Vent applications for aid before them, and bPI'--

_ relieving that it
is not the wish of theirpconstituents that their surplus
funds should be hoarded up, are about immediately to
resume that part of their duty which has been, for nearly
a year, almost wholly suspended,—namely, the making

tanding in need of such assistance.
;rants will probably be

new grants to pia(
We are told that s
made without delay.
on our readers to render thanks and pra
Head of the Church, for his goodnp
increased prosperity to this important St..
the short space of two years its regular annua.
been increased by more than £lO,OOO. That is, from
about £20,000 per annum in 1847, to more than £30,000
in 1849.

ome such ne
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to the great

In giving such

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

NORTH HANTS ELECTION7-01i Wednesda
was returned by a majority of 63, the numbej
Mr. Portal 1110 ; for Mr. Shaw 1047.

'cr. Portal
for

obtained leave to bring in a bill to esta,—
cial boards for the administration of county ra
penditure in England and Wales.

I county finan-

aio ULM mu-ounce politics into every appoint-
ment that becomes vacant at Cheltenham. The re-elec-
tion of Mr. Keitley, builder, to the office of surveyor of
the hamlets of Westal, Naunton, and Sandford, was vio-
lently opposed on Monday, but Mr. Page, the Radical
ken, was beaten by a majo-

candidate, on a poll being to
rity of 139.

THE RATE IN AID BILL.—In the majority in favour of
this bill, we find the names of E. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch,
W. Brown, J. W. Patten, J. Heyvvr-'
Heyworth, Sir J. Walmsley, 1-
Cobden, W. Ewart,
O'Connor, C. 1-1' imckness,
T. Thorneley. In the minority were Sir P. Egerton,
Earl of Lincoln, Hon. E. Stanley, T. S. Wortley, Sir L
O'Brien, R. Spooner, and T. Napier.
THE MINISTRY.—" ThP

A. Henry, L
y, J. Bright, R

Greene, I

svenor, F.

ye competition for the I