The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

IRELAND:

CHRISTIAN PERSUASlON.—lnformations were taken
at Dunmansvay petty sessions, against the. Rev. J.
Doheny, P.P., for flogging one of his congregation into
the chapel on the Sunday previous.—• Dublin Herald.
THE CROPS.—In the county of Clare the crops present
a healthful and promising appearance, and the inhabitants
look forward in the joyful expectation of ...au abundant
harvest ; indeed, from every county in Ireland the same
agreeable intelligence reaches us.
FUMIGATION OF COURTS OF JUSTICE.—AS-OTle of the
evil effects arising from inattention to •fumigation in
courts of justice, the Kerry Examiner states that, at the
quarter sessions for Listowel, the assistant ' barrister,
crown prosecutor, and interpreter, were all simultaneously
attacked with fever. The last has since died
REPEAL Assoc
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elections. Mr. J: made an attack .upon all the
Whig candidates, both in England and Ireland ; and
called on the repeal party, connected with the association,

five o'clock announced ij be £65 18s. 6d.
IRISH POOR RELIEF MEASURES.—The . Grand Jury
of the county of Clare have adopted a series of resolutions
summing up, as it were, the various measures that have
been taken by

quences of the total destruction of the people's food,
with an attempt to show the evil effect of such measures
upon the social condition of the country, as well as point-
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responding, at the present moment, to the demand that
is made for the repayment of the monies advanced by
Government.

The rejection of Father Matthew by the court of
Rome, and the nomination, in preference, of Mr. Delany

pric of Cork

tention in Irish ecclesiastical circles.. It was generally
thought that there would be no opposition to Mr.
Mathew's election. Many erroneous reasons for this
rejection have been assigned. It was said that one of
the bishops heard bim misquoting St. Paul, and opposed
Mr. Mathew solely on that ground ! Others imputed
heterodoxy of opinion, but the real reason why Dr.
Delany was appointed was, because while the virtues of
Father Mathew were appreciated, his. capacity for en-

by the bislic;ps.
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.—On Saturday, a widow of
the name of Cremin was killed by lightning, near the
Ballyhooly road. She was sitting by the fire in her
cabin on a low stool, when the bash,. entering by the
door, struck and killed her: the death was instantaneous.
Her cap, apron, and handkerchief were burned, one of
her hips discoloured, and the leg of the stool on which
she sat split as if cleft by a hatchet. A, grand child
standing near her was knocked down, and remained
insensible for about half an hour. The body of the
child exhibited no mark of injury, but part of her frock
had a scorched appearance. The lightning made its.
escape by the chimney, scattering the brick-work as it
ascended, and tearing out a portion of the top.—Cork
Constitution.

STRANGE SCENE.—The people of Cork want a man
who knows their country, and will-evince his affection for
her by something better than voting against the only mea-
sures calculated to serve her.. The Priest, however, is
working hard for Mr. Watson. He had a great scene, we
understand, in the Chapel on Sunday. His Reverence, in
full vestments, stated from, the altar, as we have heard,
that there was an enemy in the town—that he was cor-
rupting the voters—that any money received from him
would melt whether received as a bribe for voting or for
staying away from doing so. Taking off his parapherna-
lia, he proceeded, it is said, to utter a malediction, on his
knees, against all who. should accept money in considera-
tion of their votes, when one of the congregation called
out, " Stop, Sir, you are going too far with this—where
is the two thousand was given at the last Election ? we
never heard what becaine of it." A scene of general con-
fusion ensued, during which the officer in command of the
Roman Catholic soldiers of the 54th Depot took the men
out of the Chapel.—Cork Constitution.
MR. O'CONNELL AND THE CHURCH.—The papers in
the interest of Popery, make much of a funeral oration
delivered at Rome by father Ventwia, on the death of
O'Connell. It is a strange production. After asking,
" What Christian ever surpassed him in the observance of
the laws of God and the Church ?" the Father says that
his duel with D'Esterre may be urged as an objection, and
proceeds to account for his conduct on the ground of pro.
1 vocation—that it may have been undertaken in a moment
of impatience, and that as " D'Esterre was the Goliath of
of those modern Philistines (the Dublin Corporation)
O'Connell, in a moment of religious delusion, might have
looked upon himself as a second David, chosen to avenge
I the disgrace inflicted on the people of God." " When
this paroxysm of the fever of worldly honour, and of a
mistaken zeal for religion had passed away, reason and
religion resumed their empire over the mind of O'Connell.
He made a solemn vow before God never again to ac-
cept, much less to provoke the foolish and cruel judgment
of arms, and on all occasions, when he was treated as a
poltroon and a coward, he exclaimed ' oh my God, accept
these outrages and affronts which I endure in expiation of
the blood I have shed.' " It is the prayer of a Pagan.
The poor Hindoo, when he gashes his body, presents 'the
bleeding wound in " expiation " to his God ; but he knows
no better. He has never heard of Him who was wounded
for our transgressions, was bruised for our iniquities, and
'
by whose stripes we are healed, and cannot therefore ap-
proach heaven in the appointed " way." But it ought to
I be otherwise with a man who calls himself a Christian.
Mr. O'Connell made an advance towards it, for the priest,
after demanding " Who was ever more pious and devout
than he ?"—" who had ever a more holy reverence for the
name of God ?" adds :—" But above all who was ever
more devoted to the Queen of Heaven— ?" Above all !
That is, his devotion to the Queen of Heaven exceeded his
reverence for the name of God ! Such is Roman Christi-
anity. " But above all, who was ever more devoted to
the Queen of Heaven, or more zealous for her honour ?
To the people he spoke of her as their mother. It is now
well known everywhere that, carried away by an extraor-
! dinary sentiment of devotion and love for Mary, he pro-
! nounced an eulogium upon her in the presence of more
than one hundred thousand persons, Catholics and Pro-
testants. The multitude wrapt in delight hung upon his
lips. They felt as if they heard some Doctor or Father of
the church enumerating the glories and sounding the
praises of the mother of God. After the celebrated speech
which was to open the doors of parliament to the Catho-
lics, and when the most famous orators of the day were
becoming excited in that debate, in the awful moment
on which depended the liberty or slavery of Ireland,
O'Connell retired in a corner of the apartment, busied
himself in reciting the Rosary in honour of the Virgin that
overcomes all heresies (=etas hereses intermisti in uni-
verso mundo). Ah, it was because he placed the great
cause of emancipation under the guardianship of our great
lady—it was because of her protection more than on ac-
count of his own efforts he attained success ; and when he
had attained it, to her he atfributed all the glory." Aye
to her. With Rome all is creature. It was different in
the ancient time. It wasn't unto saints or angels glory
was given then : it wasn't unto saints or angels men
turned aside to pray ; nor was it to saints or angels they
looked for the destruction of " all heresies." One other
sentence, for the edification of our readers, we extract
" Never did he present himself at court without having a
Catholic priest near him ; he always wished to have him
by his side."