The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Friday week, during a high wind, a lady was blown
into the canal,•near Dublin, and drowned.
On, Friday last, the Custom-house officers in Newry
made .a seizure of 22 barrels of American flour, in which
was found concealed a large quantity of Cavendish tobacco.
The steward of Mr. Skellett, of Cloncody, was shot
dead on Sunday evening. The coachman of a gentleman
named Sadlier, who was in the company of the murdered
man, had his arm broken by the shots.
THE RELIEF COMMISSION IN IRELAND. —Antici-
pating another scarcity of provisions, the Treasury have
re-appointed 23 of the 120 naval and military officers who
served under the relief commission in Ireland last year,
in superintending the distribution of provisions.
DISMISSAL OF ANOTHER BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—
The commissioners have dismissed the Board of Guardi-
ans of the Union of Scariff, county of Limerick, in con-
sequence of their refusing to carry out the poor law; and
they have appointedtwo respectable merchants of Limerick,
Mr. John Joseph Fish, a Quaker, and Mr. Christie, to
discharge the duties.
RELIEF SUPPLIES. —The consignments of articles of
food from the United States of America to the societies
established for the temporary relief of the poor of Ireland,
continue to take place. A vessel arrived from New York
has brought, as a portion of her general cargo, 468 bags
of corn, 309 barrels and 9 other packages of general pro-
visions, and 320 barrels of corn meal, addressed to the
" Society of Friends, Dublin." The arrival took place at
the port ofLiverpool, on the way to its ultimatedestination.
OUTRAGES.—On Sunday night week, a party of from
two to three hundred men, assembled on the lands of
Ballinasloe, the property of Mr. Nolan, within two miles
of this town, and having forced the keepers, who were, at
the moment, on the lands, to fly, forthwith proceeded to
carry off all the crops that were then on the property, and
seized under distress for rent. A similar outrage, on the
same night, took place on the lands of Cloonfinnane,
within one mile of Swinford, in that county. This pro-
perty belongs to the Rev. Mr. Rutledge.
Irish Popish priests are so habitually found in the ranks
of disorder that their lending themselves upon any occa-
sion to support the laws and quell turbulence, is accounted
a matter so extraordinary—we might say preternatural—
as to demand the especial gratitude of the Irish executive.
The priests of Killaloe acted properly on the occasion of
the late riots ; and the Lord Lieutenant, in a transport of
astonishment and thanksgiving, has written a compli-
mentary epistle to a divine whom the Freeman designates
"the Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy," and whom the Irish
Government address as " My Lord !"
RFPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly meeting
was held on Monday, Mr. Law in the chair. The letter
of the pope in reference to the Irish colleges was read,
and ordered to be entered in the minutes. The speaking
was principally monopolised by Mr. John O'Connell, at
whose suggestion a special meeting of the association was
fixed for Thursday, to express their devoted gratitude to
the illustrious pontiff for his care of poor Ireland, and for
all the benefits that have flowed to them and Catholicism
since his reign began. The rent of the week (including
£4 14s. from Liverpool, per Mr. James Livingstone), was
announced at £95 10s. 7d. •

SHAMEFUL ADVICE.—The Dublin Nation—the organ
of Young Ireland—is urging its readers to draw their money
from the savings' banks, because " if the present monetary
difficulties continue, and' Ireland refuses to send her usual
tribute to England, the government will deem itself justi-
fied in keeping all Irish funds it has in its hands." The
absurdity of the advice, and the reasons for it are unfor-
tunately no antidote against its operating amongst an ig-
norant people; and what would be the effect. It would
simply oblige the government to refund several millions of
money, which would be drawn out of circulation in gold,
to be hoarded instead in holes and old stockings.
Loss OF THE TRIBUNE, SCREW STEAMER.—With
much regret we announce the loss of this fine vessel,
which took place at three o'clock on Wednesday morning
off Carnsore Point, ten miles south of Wexford, where she
went ashore amidst a dense fog, with a heavy sea running.
The captain and crew, we are gratified to state, all escaped,
and were, when our account left, making every exertion
to save the cargo. It is thought that the vessel will be-
come a total wreck, and that no part of her will be saved
but the engines. The Tribune left London on Friday,
and encountered a desperate gale, which lasted during the
entire of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. She is the pro-
perty of the Senator Screw Ship Company, and was fully
insured at the Dublin Underwriters' Association.

KumAenionns.—The great tenant-right demonstra-
tion announced to take place in the county of Waterford,
came off on Sunday, at Kilmacthomas, a village about
fifteen miles from the city. It was attended by from
4,000 to 5,000 of the farmer and labouring classes, and a
few landholders ; but the number of the latter class pre-
sent was very limited, there being not more than three or
four persons on the platform who could be included in
such a category, and their properties were not of very
considerable extent. There was a large force of military
on the ground appointed for the meeting to take place,
consisting of the 4th Dragoon Guards and the 34th Light
Infantry, together with a strong body of mounted and
foot police, to preseve order. Amongst those on the plat-
form were—Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., who came from
Dublin by special invitation to take part in the proceed-
ings ; Alderman Meagher, M.P ; Mr. N. M. Power,
M.P. • Mr. L. Keatinge, M.P. ; Sir H. W. Barron, Bart.;
the Very Rev. Dean Burke ; Mr. J. Power, at Gurteen ;
the Mayor of Waterford, and about forty Roman Catholic
clergymen.
THE NATIONAL BOARD.—The Rev. Mortimer O'Sul-
livan is at present publishing a series of letters, to de-
monstrate his consistency and Scriptural faithfulness in
opposing the national system of education in Ireland.
We extract the following paragraph from one of the let-
ters :—" Has ruin fallen upon our schools ? In the year
1839. the year in which the Church Education Society
commenced its labours, there were under its charge 825
schools, 43,627 pupils. In the course of five years the
schools had increased to the number of 1,812, the pupils
to 104,968; and notwithstanding the unparalleled dis-
tresses of the last two years, which had the serious effect
of lessening the attendance of children upon instruction.
the number of schools had increased to 1,899, and the
average attendance of children had amounted to 94,825,
including 12,832 Protestant dissenters, and 29,621 Roman
Catholics. increasing numbers, augmented resources, do
not appear to justify the cry that we have been conquered.
Some friends and supporters whom we respect have with-
drawn from us. We regret their loss ; but it does not
prove that our cause is lost, or that those who remain to
defend it are conquered. The loss, we acknowledge, is a
trial—a warning; but it is a warning to strengthen our
posts, not to forsake them."
THE POPE AND THE " GODLESS COLLEGES."—Ac-
cording to the Dublin Freeman's Journal, Pope Pius,
" the great European Reformer !" has formally con-
demned the provincial colleges established in Ireland by
the law of 1845. We own that we expected this from the
See of Rome from the very first, and certainly• not less
confidently after we found Pius treading with such servile
fidelity in the steps of Alexander the Sixth, Julius the
Second, &c. The great European reformer is we see also
a little busy in exciting the Romanist Swiss cantons
against their Protestant confederates; this, however, is
not so much our affair. We are surely at liberty to ask,
what has Pope Pius to do with colleges of our Queen's
founded in Cork, Galway, and Belfast. He is not yet the
lay sovereign of Ireland de facto, though we suppose,
like the predecessors whom he imitates, he claims to be
so de here. Well, perhaps the time is coming when,
whatever doctrines they hold, the nations of Europe will
see the mischievous folly of permitting an Italian priest,
elected by other Italian priests, to hold a place among the
sovereigns of Europe. If, like the Russian Patriarch, the
man were a mere priest the Pope could do comparatively
little mischief. It is the prestige of worldly rank; the
prestige of temporal sovereignty, for which no religious
reason can be given ,thatenableshim to embroil Christendom .
THE IRISH EDUCATION BOARD.—The Dublin Mail
(Protestant paper,) and the Dublin Freeman, (Repeal
paper,) have announced that serious dissensions have taken
place in this Board. The Dublin Post (Whig paper,)
denies it "in terms the most decided and unqualified."
Whilst the Dublin Herald says—" Now we can state in
terms as decided and unqualified, and upon information,
we venture to say, much more authentic than any upon
Which our Whig contemporary has relied, that the rumour
is fully founded in fact—that Dr. Murray had on Wednes-
day actually sent in his resignation—that up to Thursday
evening it had not been withdrawn—and that unless an
adjustment of the quarrel has been effected in the interim,
which we have no grounds for assuming, " his grace" is
at this moment no longer a member of the Board. The
quarrel is very far from being reconciled. The cases belli,
we are told, is the Board's refusing to concede to the ag-
gressive claims of the priests, who insist that the property
of all schools under certain circumstances should be vested
in them, and not in the commissioners. The Board re-
sists, and " the Church" is obstinate. The latter never
yields, and we doubt if in this instance the former will.
It is now rumoured, too—but we cannot vouch for the
authenticity of the report—that Mr. Robert Holmes, the
representative of the Unitarian interest, has, in like man-
ner, but of course from other reasons, withdrawn his
name from the Board."

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Sunday Mr. James
M'Cullagh, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Uni-
versity of Dublin, committed suicide in his bed-room, at
ten o'clock in the evening, by cutting his throat with a
razor. The Rev. S. Butcher and Dr. Stokes, his most
intimate friend, gave evidence that for the last few days
he had been low spirited, and complained that persons
thought he was not right in his head. Dr. Stokes said,—
" I think his disease was melancholia, arising from dys-
pepsia' which originated from over application of mind to
a difficult mathematical problem, while he neglected his
bowels, and was drinking strong tea. I believe him to
have been a very reiigious man ; on Sunday morning I
found him reading Butler's Sermons,.which he said it was
his habit to read ; he asked me if I had ever read them ;
I said I had not, and he said, tapping me on the shoulder,
' My dear friend, I could not recommend you a better
book.' He often seemed labouring under despondency ;
but I never saw him in such health and spirits as he was in
since the College election. I heard that two years ago he
had an ulcer on his leg. I do not think that the' stop-
page of that ulcer affected his mind, because he was in
excellent health. He stated in his conversation that his
object was to bring a still stronger bearing between sacred
and revealed religion." The jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity." The Daily News gives the fol-
lowing account of the deceased :—" As a tribute of respect-
to the deceased professor, the quarterly examinations now
in progress have been suspended. He was forty years of
age, and entered college as sizar in 1824. He was soon
conspicuous both for his scientific and classical acquire-
ments. Scholarship and the science gold medal were
among his early prizes.. He was twice a candidate for
fellowship. At first he sulked and was unsuccessful. In
'his second, his answer was peculiarly brilliant, especially
in mathematics and physics. He was appointed Mathe-
matical Professor some years after, and on the elevation
oi. Dr. Lloyd to the senior fellowship, he succeeded to
the chair of Natural Philosophy, in which he gave the
most nndoul.tql stqsfactien to the few rOlowship randi-

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dates who attended his 'lectures. The learning of this
illustrious man was not confined to the severer sciences.
He had read profoundly and accurately a general course of
literature, and took especial pleasure in languages, with
many of which he was conversant. His contributions to
the transactions of. the academy, even before he obtained
a fellowship, brought up a European reputation, which
was not diminished by his subsequent exertions in the
cause of science. He had an extensive correspondence
with the learned 'men of Germany. and took much
pleasure in referring to the testimonials to his erudition
which appeared in the German journals. I may add that
his friends expected for him the provostship of the
University, in the event of his surviving the present
provost, and the present ministry, or a ministry of similar
principles, being in office. The liberals intra muros
have sustained a deep loss in his death. He was their
leader and rallying point, and will be missed in the days
of future struggle." To this may be added he was an un-
successful candidate for the representation of the Univer-
sity against Mr. Shaw.

T-111 LIVERPOOL STANDARD.