The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

A poor-rate of 12s. 6d in the pound is being struck in
Dung arvan union.
The Jane Black, of Limerick, sailed on Thursday for
New York, with 260 passengers.
Dr. Grattan has been dismissed from the commission
for Kildare, for presiding at a meeting of the Irish Al-
- Hance,

The eititens of Waterford have elected Mr. Cooke, a
Protectionist, to fill the office of mayor of their city for
the ensuing year. Mr. Aldward, the free trader, was
beaten by a majority of nine.
Some time since a poor woman was poisoned. and sub-
sequently barbarously choked with Ys tongs, whilst lodg-
ing in the house of a man named Meehan, in the neigh-
bourhood of Barrickbangher, Sligo. She had eight or
ten pounds in her possession of which she was robbed,
and then, buried in a ditch near Meehan's house. A man
who was severely beaten by some of the parties suspected of
the murder, gave information to the police, who instantly
went to the place pointed out, and on digging down the
ditch they found the remains of the poor woman buried
under a heap of stones and covered with lime, livid with
putrefaction, and frightfully decomposed.
DIABOLICAL ACT OF MATRIMONIAL DELINQUENCY.

—The following fact in relation to the elopement after
marriage of a Mr. A— K—, of the town of Banagher,
in this county, to America, taking with him the lady's
fortune, may be relied upon as substantially correct. This
person, through art and misrepresentation, procured an
introduction into a family of some respectability residing
at Kingstown ; and, after an acquaintance of a limited
period, he proposed for the hand of Miss M—. residing
at the house of Miss C—. in the suburbs of the above-
named submarine village. With such tact had this heart
less wretch played his part with the unsuspecting lady
and her innocent friends, that, without
consent was agreed upon for a marriage

much
injury, a
-inn, the lady

obtaining fora fortune the sum of £4.00. The nrelimi-
naries being all arranged, the nuptials were all celebrated
some day within the last fortnight; immediately upon the
performance of which this unprincipled bridegroom re-
ceived the marriage portion in four Bank of England
notes of £lOO each. Relatives and friends assembled by
invitation to enjoy the cheer of a good dinner upon the
evening of the marriage-day, and, to appearance, none
felt more happy or enjoyed with more pleasurable delight
the festive scene, than did this disgraceful, discreditable
human monster. So complete had this deceiver made his
arrangements, that under the pretence of a legal consul-
tation with his attorney, he absolutely had the accom-
plished effrontery to tell his bride and her immediate re-
latives that ho should go into Dublin by the nine o'clock
train, and could not return that night, as an alleged case
at his suit against certain parties was to come on for trial
the next day in the Court of King's Bench. He went
but never returned, alas.—King's County Chronicle.
THE ORANGEMEN AND THE GOVERNMENT.—The
liberal papers have very wisely said little about the report
of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, the substance of which we
gave in our last, for it seems to be the general opinion
that the allegations made against Lord Clarendon are
substantially proved. The Hereford Journal says, " The
report of the Committee of Orangemen of Ireland on the
conduct of the Viceregal Government towards that body,
shows clearly that Lord Clarendon and his advisers, after
relying upon the Orangemen for the preservation of the
public peace, and supplying them with arms, turned round
treated them with indignity and wrong. Other matters
damaging alike to the Irish Viceroy and to the Ministry
in London, are brought forward." The Cork Constitution
remarks that, " The question whether Lord Clarendon
proposed to arm the Orangemen, will, in the mind of no
intelligent and impartial person, admit of doubt. We
think that in so doing he did right. The proposal sheaved,
as we said a week ago, that they were a body on whose
loyalty he could rely, and he would have betrayed his
duty to the Crown and the People had he neglected the

surest means of rendering abortive the rebellion then on
the eve of bursting out. But why now disclaim the pro-
posal ? Why deny that he sought the support, courted
the alliance, and negociated for the aid, the armed aid of
the Society ? Simply because he cannot afford to be just.
He wanted to achieve the end without being responsible
for the means—to secure the advantage without acknow-
ledging the obligation. This is the explanation of the
mysterious manner in which the arms were supplied. No
one will believe, after what passed previously, that Lord
Clarendon was ignorant of the use made of his name and
authority—that the arms were furnished without his sanc-
tion, or that the £6OO were to come, in whole or in part,
from the pocket of Captain Kennedy. Why, in the name
of common sense, should he, acting on the part of Govern-
menment, undertake to subscribe from his own purse, or
to collect from friends, the sinews' by which the expected
insurrection was to be strangled ? The thing is prepos-
terous." The Church and State Gazette observes, " The
truth appears to be that the Government would have been
glad enough to have the Orangemen armed, hut did not
like to say so -" and even the Roman Catholic organ of
this town Is oiniged 1,. ...re.. that
pected treachery, but, in endeavouring to make use of the
faction for his purpose, his agents committed him. We
never had a very high opinion of his lordship, but we
never imagined that he would have acted so silly as he has

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.
DIOCESE OF CHESTER.
The Rev. Allan Greenwell, B. A., has been instituted
by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the newly constituted
rectory and parish church of Golborne, in the county of
Lancaster; patron, the Rev. James John Hornby, rector
of Winwick, for this, the first turn ; value, £132. The
rectory of Golborne has been constituted under the acts
for the division of the parish of Winwick.
The Rev. William Gibbens has been licensed by the
Lord Bishop of Chester to the :stipendiary curacy of St.
Paul's Church, Werneth, in the County of Chester, on
the nomination of the Rev. John Rodgers, the incumbent.
The Rev. William Spooner Hoole has been licensed to
the stipendiary curacy of Weaverham, Cheshire. The
Rev. Robert Rolleston to the stipendiary curacy of Rydal,
Westmoreland.
The Bishop of Chester has licensed Christ Church,
Everton, of which the Rev. W. H. Wright is incumbent,
for marriages in the whole parish of Walton on the Hill.
The Rev. J. W. Epworth has been licensed to the per-
petual curacy of Marthall, Cheshire, vacant by the resig-
nation of the Rev. J. Paul. Patron, Wilbraham Egerton,
Esq. Value, £6O.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has given £2OO, the late
Queen Dowager £5O, and the Earl and Countess of Clan-
william £lOO, towards a new church at Deal.
Another ineffectual attempt has been made by the
Bishop of Exeter to have Mr. Gorham's case post-
poned. It will positively come on to day.
The Rev. T. C. Southey, of Queen's College, Oxford,
who but recently took orders in the Church of England,
has joined the Scottish Episcopal communion at Mont-
rose.
The Rev. Henry Bittleston, M.A., of St. John's Col-
lege, Oxford, has been received into the Church of Rome
by Father Oakeley ; and also G. F. Gawthern, Esq., with
his family.
The Rev. Hugh G. Robinson, curate of Chin, Salop,
and formerly curate to Dr. Byrth, at Wallasey, has been
appointed incumbent of Trinity Church, Preston, in pre-
ference to fifteen other candidates. _

MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.—The Rev. C. Crewe, Vicar
of Longden, a few days back, gave £lOOO for the aug-
mentation of the living of Chaceley, and £5OO more for
the purchase of a site for the erection of a parsonage-house.
Mr. Crewe is only patron for life of this living, and has
neither family or relative ever likely to require it.
REVOCATION OF A CURATE'S LICENCE.—The Leam-
ington Courier contains a long correspondence between
the Rev. Mr. Dayman, curate of Wasperton, and the
Bishop of Worcester, consequent on the publication by
the former of a sermon entitled " The Houses of God, as
they were, as they ara, and as they ought to be." In a
letter to Mr. Dayman's rector, the Rev. T. Leveson
Lane, the bishop thus states the reasons which have
brought him to the " painful necessity" of revoking the
rev. gentleman's licence :—" The whole spirit of the ser-
mon is such that I am sure no candid person could read
it, who did not know that it was the composition of Mr.
Dayman, without concluding that it was the work of a
Roman Catholic priest, rather than a minister of the
Reformed Church of England." In his final letter to
Mr. Dayman, dated the 27th November, the Bishop of
Worcester says :—" I am so perfectly satisfied that the
doctrines held and the opinions professed in your pub-
lished sermon are contrary to the Articles of the Church
of England, that I cannot conscientiously permit you to
preach in my diocese."
THE DECISION IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—The Rev.
E. Bickersteth has published a letter in which he says,
" Let Sir Herbert Jenner Fust's decision be confirmed,
and a new doctrine (his interpretation) is introduced. Our
beloved church is placed in this false position ; an infer-
ence will seem to be forced on the baptismal service
foreign from the views of its compilers,. and so as to im-
pose a doctrine contrary to all obvious fact in the lives of
the majority of the baptised: contra!), to the plain word
of God, and contrary to the Articles of the Church.
What faithful minister but will testify against such a false
position ? It will also give power to those in our parishes
who hate the truth to bring before the courts every minis-
ter preaching the absolute necessity of this essential
change for the salvation of the wicked though baptised.
* * * I would add, that should the decision be ad-
verse, my advice, as that of an elder brother, is, let no
minister or layman secede from our Church at present,
but rather remain in it, and help faithful men in it, while
there is any hope of remedying so great an evil in their
struggle to withstand error and uphold the true faith of
Christ in our Church."
STRANGE PROCEEDING:The Tractarian clergy seem
determined to alienate the people from the church of their
fathers. Recently, a Scripture reader was sent to Ciren-
cester. who was a member of the Church of England. He
was consequently desirous to receive the Sacraments of
his church. Prior to Sunday the 7th of October last,
notice had been given in the parish church of Cirencester
that on that day the holy communion would be adminis-
tered. In accordance with the rubric, Mr. Thornton sig-
nified to the curate his intention to be a partaker of the
holy communion on that day. On the Sunday he accord-
ingly attended at the church, and at the proper time ap-
proached the Lord's table. Before, however, he could
reach it he was stopped by the sexton, who said " he w•

instructed by Mr. Powell to inform him that he could not
be admitted to receive the sacrament!" The Vicar of
Cirencester must have known this Mr. Thornton to be
" an open and notorious evil liver, or to have done wrf-
to his neighbours, to entertain malice and hatree, ow,;;;a
some other person," or he had no right whatever Under
the rubric to refuse him the privilege of joining the born-
minion. Now, the question is to which, if any, of these
charges is Mr. Thornton obnoxious ? The Rev. Mr.
Powell has been asked the question, and he " declines
offering any explanation." Within 14 days the vicar ought
to have given an account of his proceedin
ordi-
nary, whom,
we presume to be the bisly..,-"„0 to the p
of the diocese.
" And the ordinary shall proceed a
party, according to the canon." ' :Kainst the offending
rfas Mr. Powell given
an account to the ordinary, or
against Mr. Thornton ? N. 'arts the ordinary proceeded
either !—London Paper.
THE VICAR OF
LEr.ati AGAIN.—The Rev. James
Irvine, vicar of Lei .
has found out a new device by
which he is seeltie4.
to evade admi to harrass parents and sponsors, and
':astration of the baptismal rite. It seems
that two I:,r three sponsors for a child, declining to answer
his o.`aestion as to whether they were communicants, and
tie third stating that she was not, the vicar postponed—
(hitherto he has refused)—baptising the child, until pro-
per sponsors were brought to him. He was then served
with a formal notice requiring him to baptise the child ;
and last Sunday afternoon the parties attended the parish
church with the child; the sponsors being the same two
who had before declined to answer the vicar's inquiries,
and a third in the place of the one who had answered in
the negative. Again the vicar asked all three if they
were communicants; and as they severally declined to
answer the question, he said that, inasmuch as they were
not communicants at that church, and had 'declined to
answer his question, he must presume that they were
non-communicants, and therefore did not meet the re-
quirements of the church, which, by canon 29, had decided
that all sponsors should be communicants. He should
suspend the christening of the child until proper spon-
sors were provided. He therefore deferred the chastening,
and did not refuse it. On a former occasion, the vicar
refused to christen a child of these same parents ; because
of his refusal, it was baptised by a dissenter ; and subse-
quently the vicar refused to inter the child, because it tied
not been baptised in the church ; though such non-bap-
tism was his own act. Another feature in the present
case is, that the vicar has, on previous occasions, accepted
as sponsors, the same persons whom he rejected on Sun-
day last. Nay, the male sponsor was, on a.former occa-
sion, particularly rs finp.tpd by the vicar himself to become
sponsor for a child, in the place of a person whom he
deemed unfit. It is stated that proceedings will be im-
mediately taken to test the legality or otherwise of the
vicar's proceedings. We are assured that the vicar still
refuses to obey the order issued by the Bishop of Man-
chester respecting the offertory, and that every Sunday
he takes the whole of the money, without even allowing
the churchwardens to count it.—Manchester Guardian.

COURT AND FASHION.

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(he Qum) Prince Albert, and the royal family remain
tit Osborne, in the enjoyment of excellent health, taking
exerdise in the grinds when the weather permits. The
court hats maintained the strictest privacy since the lamented
death of the Queen Dowager.
Lord Cohn Russell left Pembroke Lodge, Richmond
Parks bin Thursday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight.
The Queen has caused all the chimney-pieces in the
reception-rooms at the Pavilion at Brighton, to be re-
moved to Osborne House. They are of a costly charac-
ter.

An Irish "outside" car has been made in Dublin for
the Queen, by order of the Duke of Leinster, her Majesty
having expressed a wisif to have one, when on a visit to
Carton House, the duke's seat.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro have returned
to town from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of.
Salisbury, at Hatfield House, Herts.

,
Among the guests of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn
Abbey, are the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster,
the Countess (Dowager) of Sefton, Ladies Molyneux, Mr.
Samuel Rogers, &c.

The funeral of the Queen Dowager will take place on
Thursday at mid-day (not on Tuesday, as originally fixed),
in St. George's chapel, Windsor. The procession will
leave Bentley Priory this morning, to be joined at Slough
by Prince Albert and other members of the royal family.
The whole of the shops and private residences through-
out Windsor have been partially closed from the moment
the intelligence was received of the Queen Dowager's
death. The good Queen's affection for the gallant pro-
fession of her late Royal husband continued up to her
dying hour; and it could vat be exhibited in a stronger
manner than in her latest request, that her body should
be conveyed to its final resting-place by seamen of the
Royal fleet. It is understood that, in compliance with
this request, a portion of the crew of the Royal yacht,
Victoria and Albert, have been ordered up from Ports-
mouth to perform the office of bearers of the remains of
the wife of our late sailor King. _

The inscription on the outer, or state coffin, of the
Queen Dowager, is as follows :—" Depositum Serenissimre
Principessre ADELAIDE, Reginre Dotarire, obiit Lido die
Decembris, anno Domini, MDCCCXLIX, retatis sum LVIII.

A supplement to Tuesday night's Gazette contains the
following orders :—" Lord Chamberlain's Office, Dec.
4, 1849.—Orders for the Court's going into mourning on
Sunday next, the 9th instant, for her late Majesty the
Queen Dowager, viz. :—The ladies to wear black bom-
bazines, plain muslin or long lawn linen, crape hoods,
shamoy shoes and gloves, and crape tans. The gentle-
men to wear black cloth, without buttons on the sleeves
and pockets, plain muslin or long lawn cravats and wee-
pers, shamoy shoes and gloves, crape hatbands, and black
swords and buckles."—" College of arms, December 4,
1849.—The Earl Marshal's order for a general mourning
for her late Majesty the Queen Dowager.—ln pursuance
of her Majesty's commands, these are to give public
notice, that upon the present melancholy occasion of the
death of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, all persons do
put themselves into deep mourning.—NORFOLK, E.M."
In the twelve years that have elapsed since the death of
her royal consort, the Queen dowager has bestowed, for
the promotion of religion, the advancement of education,
or the alleviation of distress, the whole of her income,
having only the necessary expenses of a very economical
establishment. With that single exception, twelve hun-
dred thousand pounds have been disbursed in public or
private benevolence; for we believe we speak on good
authority when we say that the Queen Dowager has left
no property beyond the sums receivable for some insu-
rances on her life.