The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury last week consecrated
two new churches in his diocese—at 11Ielplash and West
Ford ington.
The Hev. Gilbert Eliott has been appointed to the living
of Trinity, Marylebone, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Dr. Penfd.
It is said that Mr. Newman hesitates about becoming a
priest of the Church of Rome, and may, like the Rev. W.
Sibthorpe, retrace his steps.
On Wednesday, the foundation stone of a new church
to be built in Elizabeth-street, Preston, was laid by the
Mayor.
The clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin, at a meeting
on Wednesday, came to the unanimous resolution of peti-
tioning the sovereign for the restoration of the now vacant
see of Ki:dare.
The Lolly of the Rev. Mr Stagg, who lost his way and
his life while ascending Snowdon, has been fouud in a bog
about half way up ate mountain. It appears he refused to
take a guide, as he had been there several times before,
and hence the melancholy result.
The Bishop of London, in his charge delivered to the
clergy on Monday, said, with reference to the Evangelical
kliance, that it was " an association which contains
within itself the elements of disunion, and must 'soon
crumble into pieces, if it be not turned into a mere in-
strument of aggression against the Established Church."
A correspondent of the Record, 'alluding to the recent
finding of many corsings of winged lions at Nineveh,
calls to observation the very remarkable and interesting
conformity brought to light between those ancient re-
mains and the words t..t. Scripture (Dan. vii. 4), in re-
ference to the Assyrian empire, " The first was like a
lion, and had eagle's wings."
CHRIST CHURCH, HEATON NORRIS.—The consecra-
tion of this beautiful edifice, opposite the Heaton Norris
Railway Station, took place on Wednesday, by the Bishop
of Chester. On the 29th July, 1844, the foundation
stone was laid by Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton
Park, who not only gave the land, but endowed the
church with £l,OOO, and presented the committee with a
donation of £2OO towards the cost of the spire.
TRACTARIAN COMFORT DRAWN FROM THE BISHOP
OF LONDON'S CHARGE.—Among other blunders of the
journalists, we were especially amused with the nalveliof
a Tractarian weekly paper. It endeavours to evade the
censure of the charge in the following fallacious manner:
—" Any how, if WE gain but little, we most certainly
lose nothing. If the bishop be as far offfrom Rome as
evor, most certainly he is no nearer to Geneva." Now,
who expected, or imagined, that the bishop should be
drawing " rearer to Geneva?" Who asked, who desired,
any movement that way ? No one. But observe the
other limb of the proposition :—" WE—i. e., the Trac-
tarians—gain but little by the present charge," because
" the bishop is as far off Rome as ever." It is true, ibis
little slip of the tongue tells us nothing that we did not
know before, but it is well to catch these gentlemen some-
times in the confession tbat their real and sole object is
to draw people over to Rome.—Morning Herald
CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Bishop of Ripon, at the
meeting of the Ripon Diocesan Church Building Society,
narrated the following instance of the effects of church
extension :—" In an out-township of the manufacturing
parish of Calverley, a church was built through the aid of

this society, five Or six years ago. So averse were the
population to the erection of a church, so indifferent to
the ministrations of religion, that only £l6 was raised
throughout the whole district towards the building of a
church which probably cost about £l5OO. A clergyman
has been ministering there for three years ; and now
between £lOO and £2OO has been raised to provide him
with a parsonage." But the Bishop of London, in his
charge delivered last week, narrates a more striking fact.
He says:—" The average aggregate number of persons

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Sirlienry Pottinger has been appointed, in addition to I forming the congregati6ns OT die seven new churches
the office of Governor of the Cape of Good [Jove, her I lately erected in Bethnal-green had been 1500 in the
Majesty's high Commissioner for settling and adjusting 1 morning, and 2000 iiii the evening. There were in those
the affairs of the eastern and north-eastern frontier of the churches 400 communicants ; and 3254 children attended
colony. the National and Sunday schools. As the number of
The mountains in the eastern frontier of France were attendants at the parish church and the paroci,ial school
covered with snow at the end of September. This is con-
had not diminished, they were justified in regarding the
sid red an indication of an early winter.
numbers he had mentioned as a gain to the church. In
e
The news from Switzerland is considered of a most f the single parish of Bethnal.green, which was now divided
ominous character—a civil war is all but inevitable. yet j into 12 districts or parishes, there were employed, at this
a word from Rome, withdrawing the Jesuits, would pre-
time, 20 additional clergymen, having uLder their irn me-
vent the fearful danger.
diate chrection 15 schoolmasters and mistresses, 100 Suu-
THE SCINDE PRIZE MONEY.—A correspondent of the day school teachers, SO Scripture readers, and 101 district
Times complains that, although three years and a half have visitors, all engaged in making known the truths and
duties of their holy religion in that long neglected neigh-
elapsed since the plunder of H vdrabacl, no public intima-
bourhood."
tion is given of the amount of shares of different ranks,
THE CONVERTS TO ROME.—The Pfforts which have for
except this account that £70,000, or 1-16th, will be the
probable share of the gallant Governor of Scinde. some time past been systematically made to revive
The King of Bavaria has suppressed all the newspapers amongst the members of our own communion opinions
in his dominions. Prom the Ist of January next he pro- and practices which have been usually regarded as pecu-
liar to the Church of Rome necessarily tend, i:s I have
mites to issue a daily State Gazette of his own for the
edification of his people. If he prove as poor an editor as before observed, to perplex and unsettle sensitive and
imperfly constituted and to pare
he has a poet, the Slate Gazette will be a wretched thing
for one acknowledgment ofconsc t heiences, paramountpre authoritythem of
indeed. that church, which as it concedes nothing, nor admits the
DUELLING IN PRUSSIA.—The Gazette des Tribunaux
possibility of its erring, even in the minutest feature of
calls the attention of its readers to the state of the law
with respect to duelling in Prussia, by which officers in that complicated system, which was stamped with the
character of unchangeableness by the decrees of the
the army are placed in a singular dilemma. The penal
code punishes them with imprisonment in a fortress if Council of Trent, has manifestly a great advantage in
they accept a challenge, and the Court of Honour deprives dealing with unstable and doubtful minds, when even one
them of their commission if they refuse. An example step has been taken in advance towards that system. This
lately occurred when a lieutenant of artillery was con- is especially the case with females, the natural constitu-
demned, by 27 votes to 3, to lose his commission for hay- tion of whose minds disposes them to rest upon the au-
ing refused to accept a challenge, thority of others ; while their livelier sensibilities are
A packet vessel which left Monte Video on the 27th of more easily excited and satisfied by an aesthetic ai,d cere-
August, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning. monial form of religion. Indeed, it is in minds of this
She brings despatches for the government, the purport of class—even in our own sex also, with some exceptions—
which is not yet known ; but letters received by mer-
that a Romanising tendency is most perceptible. Some
chants, affirm that Mr. Hood, (the envoy extraordinary
few there are who spewco have :Jeen caught in the meshes
despatched by the English government to mediate between of their own subtilty : others appear to be perplexed by
the contending republics on t e River Plate.) had succeeded erudition ill-digested and misapplied ; but a great number
in the object of his mission, having " arranged everything of those persons who have been, unhappily, perverted
satisfactorily both with the Buenos Ayres Government,
(and, after all, how inconsiderable is that number in corn-
and with General Oribe." We trust this may prove to be
parison with those who hold fast the truth without waver-
the case, and that nothing will occur to obstruct the final ing) seem to have been misled by the treacherous light of
settlement of a war which has been so injurious to corn-
a practical mysticism, following the guidance, not of their
niercial interests.
reason, but of imagination, or to have fallen a prey to
Romish sophistry for want of sound and well-digested
TAPPING. AN AQUEDUCT.—A novel case of fraud has
been lately discovered near Boston, in America. An theological learning, We must, I fear, look for more
aqueduct company which supplies the city of Salem with instances of perversion occasioned by these causes, arid
soft water, were at a loss to account for the failure of the it behoves the clergy to be prepared with a competent
s
supply for some time past, and went to great expense of store of reasons wherewith to combat the delusive ergo-
examination of logs and pipes to discover the supposed ments of Romish emissaries, and to establish and settle
leak. A Ltbourer in a tannery revealed the secret—that the faith cf the weak-hearted members of their flocks.
his master, a proprietor of a very large establishment, had The present is too plainly a time at which it is most need-
secretly tapped one of the logs, and bad been for a consi- ful for those who stand on the watch-towers of the church
derable tune drawing from it with a pipe whose capacity to observe the approaches of the adversary, and to cry
was ten gallons 3 EniDlite. He had thus not only supplied aloud to every soul that Is given to them in charge,
his own tan-yard, but had let out a right to one of his " Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ bath made
neigh'ioura, w 1•0 was ignorsnt whence the water came. 1 us tree, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bon-
lie was arrested end held to large boil. doge.—Bishop uf London, Charge..
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IRELAND.

Prince Geo-rge of Cambriige-was at Clonmel onFriday,
inspecting the troops.
The Limerick Chronicle says, the navy promotion will
come out with the army brevet on the 9th of November.
The Cusbmans are about to play a few nights at Belfast,
previously to their leaving this country for New York.
The Limerick Examiner states on the authority of a
medical gentleman, that founversons have died of starva-
tion in that neighbourhood.
At the two hotels of Ballinaeloe, the week before.last,
during the great fair, two thousand four hundred turkeys
were slaughtered for the guests.
At a recent meeting, Dr. Daly, Bishop of Cashel,
' stated that nice out of the twelve prelates, and 170 J out
of 2000 of the. clergy of Iteland, bad entered their pro-
tests against the national scheme of education.
The yacht " Wandering Spirit," the property of Lord
Kilworth, son of Lord Mouutcashel, was wrecked off
Kinsale, on Saturday week, and has gone to pieces.
Lady Mountcachel and two of her daughters were saved
in one of the boats. _ _ .

Official returns announce an increase of 50,000 inmates
in the Irish workhouses, as compared with the month of
'October, 1845. And, as a set of to this distressing evi-
dence of the progress of destitution, it is notified that
.52,500 people are now receiving daily employment
through the medium of public works.
The Times' Dublin correspondent says—" It is, I •be-
lieve, quite true that Mr. O'Connell has resolved to waive
his claim this year, and that consequently there will be no
tribute Sunday for 1846 ; at least so it is stated by the
managers of the national debt,' as the secretary faceti-
oudy styles this annual impost."
On Thursday morning, the body of a man, named
Maurice Hartnett, was discovered ie. Clonmel Gaol, sus-
pended by a web, to which was attached a portion of his
blanket, which had:been torn off and twisted into a noose.
The unfortunate deceased was confined on a charge of
stealing an ass.
THE .ULSTER LANDLORDS.—Lord Lurgan has pre-
sented £2OO to the town commissioners of Lurgan to-
wards the expenses of Lighting the town, and he has
announced his intention of reducing the rents of his
humbler tenantry, in consequence of their losses by the
failure of the potato crop.
THE REPEAL Asso-c:ATios:.—Nearly all the clerks in
the repeal association have been dismissed, and parties
connected with the establishment state that an adjourn-
ment of the meetings for six months is about to take
place—the association to commence its labours on the
Eve of St. Tits. The liberator has done it all to oblige
the " base, brutal, and bloody Whigs."
CLONMEL.—The gunsmiths in Clonmel cannot procure
arms fast enough fot the demand, the peasantry are pur-
chasing them so rapidly. The flour carts going from
Clogheett to Clonmel were robbed of their cargo, near
Knocklofty, by a body of men. We fear that all the
merchants' corn must be escorted by cavalry or police
throughout this great corn district. —Dublin Mail.
SLAUGHTER. OF SHEEP.—A multitude of rustic la-
bourers crowded the town of Mallow, county Cork, on
Tuesday morning, at an early hour, and, disappointed in
work on the railway, made a simultaneous onslaught upon
the farm of Richard Barrett, Esq , a mrgistrate, in the
vicinity, where they seized upwards of fifty sheep, and
proceeded to slaughter them, despite of the police.
On Wednesday, the neighbourhood of Limerick and
Cork were visited by a furious storm. Considerable da-
mage was done to the shops, houses, and fields, by the
winds aid floods. Waterford was also on the same day
visited by the storm. A lighter belonging to Messrs.
Maloomson of Clonmel, laden with 350 hags of flour,
was upset, and several vessels were driven front their
moorings.
INTIMIDATION IN TIPPERARY.—RENTS.-011 Friday
evening, about eight o'clock, a man armed with a blun-
derbuss, entered the dwelling of John Cormack, of Bally-
hogan, within two miles of Nenagh, and ordered Cor-
rnack not to attempt to pay any rent whatsoever, and
also desired him to tell all the tenants on the property to
act similarly, and swore he would give the contents of his
blunderbuss to Cormack, or any one else who paid rent.
—Nenagh Guardian.
DUBLIN.—At the repeal meeting, on Monday, in
Conciliation Hall, a letter was read from Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, in which he expresses his unwillingness to
give up the plan for a national committee of landed pro-
prietors in Dublin. The Hon. Cecil Lawles, (now M.P.
for Clonmel,) and Mr. O'Neil, (who thought he had
been unfairly passed by,) came to an explanation. Mr.
J. O'Connell, Captain Brodrick, Mr. Steele, Mr. Reilly,
and others, addressed the association. The rent was
short of .£7O.

DAY OF HUMILIATION.—The Primate of Ireland has
addressed a circular to the clergy of his diocese (Armagh),
enjoinirg the observance of Friday, the 30th instant, as a
day "on which public prayer should be offered up, in
acknowledgment of the divine hand which has sent this
calamity." In consequence of an earnest hope from the
Lord Lieutenant, that one and the same day may, by ap-
pointment of the several diocesans, be observed as a day
of humiliation throughout Ireland, the Lord Primate has
since postponed the day until Friday, the 20th November.
O'CONNELL AND THE RENT.—The Nation, in stating
the conditions on which only the party it represents will
return to Conciliation Hall, gives the following intelligible
hint on the present disposal of the funds :—" The funds
of the association should be accounted for in a regular
and satisfactory manner. No more false, plausible de-
fences for the public, while the actual fact remains as now
—that no committee, body, or individual whatever, has
the smallest knowledge of, or the slightest power of
obtaining any insight into, their condition—with the
single exception of Mr. O'Connell."
Two MEN DROWNED.—A yawl laden with fresh fish
came up the river to Cork, on Saturday, in which were
four men rowing. When they neared the Custom-house,
a hawser, which had been attached to the Nimrod steamer,
then on point of starting for Liverpool, from the Blarney
screw propeller, for the purpose of swinging the latter
round to be taken in tow by the Nimrod, came in contact
with the boat, and threw three of the men into the river,
two of whom were drowned, but the third was picked
up, having been severely hurt by a blow from the hawser
which had struck the boat, and was by the force of the
pressure snapped in two.—Cork paper.
ATTACK ON A FLOURCART—ROBBERY OF THE FLOUR.
—On Monday morning, as a man named John Prender-
gast was proceeding to Clonmel, in charge of a cart-load
of flour, the property of Samuel Grubb, Esq., of Castle
Grace Mills, he was attacked near Knocklofty by about
twenty persons who came out of a house. Several of them
laid hold of Prendergast and they then dragged the horse
and cart down a narrow road. They opened one of the
sacks of flour and divided it into empty bags which they
carried. They then took three more sacks which they
also divided. Prendergast states that he thinks he will be
able to identify some of the party.
WRECK.—The Rose, from Belise, which arrived in
Cove on 15th October, reported that she fell in with the
barque Ellen Jane, of Liverpool, from Belise, in lat. 39.
40, long. 58. 30 W., waterlogged, foremast only standing,
decks broken-up, and hull entirely under water; two
men alive in the foretop, took them off with much diffi-
culty, the sea was running so high. They had been in
that situation nine days, with three others who died from
exhaustion. The master and six men left the ship in the
lorg boat on the 19th of September, but it is supposed
they perished, as no boat could live in the sea which was
running. The two survivors lived on the remains of their
comrades, who died on the wreck.—Cork Reporter.
IRISH PRESENTNIENTS.—Some time ago we asked
whence was the money to come which was voted away so
readily, or where would the collectors find it when they
went to look for it. Perhaps few even of those who took
such an active part in disposing of the public property are
aware of the sum with which, were the Board of Works
as insane as " the Sovereign People," the country would
be saddled, and saddled for purposes for the greater part
worse than unprofitable. The items are worth reprint-
ing. Although they amount to X 608,015 13s. 7d., inde-
pendently of presentments for drainage, and if to this we
were to add the customary charges under the head of
Grand Jury presentments, many of those who have to
pay them would, we doubt not, be a little startled.—
Cork Constitution.
SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—On Friday,between the hours
of one and two o'clock, as C. W. Harvey, Esq., agent to
the Earl of Donoughtuore, was proceeding to this town
on an outside car, he was attacked near Mr. Bagwell's
ice-house, at the Waterford side of the river, by four
men, with crape covering their faces and otherwise dis-
guised. One was armed with a blunderbuss, another
with a long gun, and the other two with pistols, all of
which they presented at Mr. Harvey's head, at the same
time telling him to deliver up his money, or that they
would shoot him. He remonstrated with them, but all
was to no purpos- ; they would have put their bloody
threat into execution, had he not delivered up his pocket.
book to them, containing cheques, letters of credit, and
notes, to the amount of about £9OO. One of the party
called out to the other " to shoot the horse ;" but Mr.
Harvey and the man who drove the car interfered, and
they did not shoot the horse, but backed him, car and all.
over a precipice at the road side; they then made off
through Mr. Bagwell's wood. Mr. Harvey was collect-
ing rents at Knocklofty, and was on his way to lodge the
money he had received in the bank.—Clonmel paper.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
IMPORTANT TO SPORTING " GENTS."—The question
of liability to pay duty for those sporting vehicles called
" dog carts," although the original cost of which did not
exceed 19 guineas, was determined by the commissioners
of the assessed taxer at Kensington a few days back, on
an appeal by a colonel in the Guards against the assess-
picot. The commissioners decided in favour of the assess-
ment, on the ground that the act only applied to persons
in " trade or business," using it for that purpose. We
understand this decision is in accordance with that of the
Court of Queen's Bench.
ALLEGED NUISANCE.—On Friday and Saturday last,
Mr. Curl ie, barrister, sat in the grand jury room of the
Session-house to hear the case of Gerard, Bart. v.Gamble,
which was, at the last assizes, agreed to be left to an arbi-
trator, two somewhat similar cases, in which Sir John was
plaintiff, having been decided in his favour. A number of
witnesses for the Messrs. Gamble said that ro rnuriatic
gas escaped from their works, but that it was wholly con-
densed ; and therefore it was argued by Mr. Brandt, for
the defendants, that no possible injury could have been
occasioned to the plaintiff's plantations. The award was
postponed.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT STEEPLE CHASE FOR £looo.—The match
made between a noble earl, connected with the turf, and
J. R. Cornwall, Esq., is now fixed to come off on the
30th of December, over four miles of Market Harbo-
rough country. The stakes, £5OO a-side, are in the
hands of C. Richardson, Esq.
Miss Atherton and Colonel Clowes, it is said, have
finally determined not again to lease DI let #Kergal4noor
for racing purposes.