The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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DESTITUTION IN FERMANAGH.—The effects of famine
and destitution in Fermanagh are becoming more appa-
The poor-house is literally crammed,

ery da

numerous applications that are made every week,
`render
it impossible that such numbers as are crammed into it,
can be looted there without producing ultimately the

FEVER AND DYSENTERY.—The insufficiency of the
supply of food is beginning already to produce, .amongst
the poorer classes of the peasantry, the results which
might naturally be expected—namely, disease and death.
Fever and dysentery, accordingly, in some parts of the
country, are becoming prevalent, and carrying off their
victims rapidly. :In the centre of Clonmany parish, we are
informed, the mortality has for some time past averaged
from five to six per day. Even in this city, which has
long been proverbial for healthiness, funeral processions
are of frequent occurrence ; and we believe the same re-
mark holds good with regard to most of the towns in the
surrounding district.—Derry Senfinel.

caul, acomat.s tnat ne
hunger any longer, as those who heretofore fed him were
without food themselves. On the same day James D.
Flynn surrendered, givinc, as his reason the inability of
the people longer to assistb him. On the 15th ult. John
M`Carthy, a third party charged, surrendered himself,
and on the 24th, the principal, William Downing, came
in. He had been an athletic man, but his frame was so
shattered and his countenance so haggard, that he was

posed he would be hung, but even that were preferable to
the horrid death which awaited him if he remained at large
any longer.—Cork Constitution.
GREAT MEETING IN DUBLIN

The meeting of Irish

peers, commoners, and landowners, convened 13y the pro-
ductive employment committee, took place at Dublin, on
Thursday, for the purpose of "considering the present
alarming state of the country, and the measures which
may be necessary to meet the crisis—such meeting to be
confined exclusively to the consideration of the present
social condition of this country, and all extraneous topics
afid party politics to be strictly excluded." The chair
was taken by the Marquis of Ormonde. The Marquis of
Sligo, Lord Farnham, Lord Cloncurry, and ten other
Irish peers were present. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Mr.
Smith O'Brien, Mr. Frederick Shaw, and twenty-three
lbers of the House of Commons, likewise at-
-I;.d also, great numbers of the principal land-
. . . .

tended

the import duties on corn

given I

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The system o:

and distilleries.
, introduced by the labour-
rate act, is condemned, and a claim is made that the bur-
den imposed by them shall fall on the empire at large,

not upon Ireland alone, still less on the most suffering

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I UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEW

OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a congregation held this day,
being the first day of Lent Term, the fallowing degrees
were conferred :—Masters of Arts: Rev. M. E. C. Wal-
cat, Exeter college ; Thomas Leslie, Balliol college ;
Rev. E. Garbett, Rev. J. T. Pigott, Rev. R. F. Wood,
and Richard Ley, Brazennose college; Herman L. Prior,
Trinity college ; the Rev. H. Mansel, Fellow of St. John's
College.—Bachelors of Arts : Harry Wright, Magdalen-
hall, Grand Compounder ; J. W. Taft, St. Edmund-hall.
The Morning Post announces another victim. The
Rev. Francis John Laing, 8.A., of Queen's College,
Cambridge.

SURRENDER OF MURDERERS FROM STARVATION.
On the 15th August, 1845, a man named James Murphy
was horribly murdered at a place called Lisheens, within
five miles of Bantry. The principal in the murder was a
man named William Downing, the leader of a powerful
faction in this country. Since then the police were most The Chancellor of the Diocese has conferred on the
desirous to arrest him and others, who were abettors in Rev. Henry Carpenter, 8.A., the respected minister of
the crime, and though night after night they traversed the St. Michael's, in this town, a token of his kindness and
hills, and a large reward was offered, they did not succeed, regard, by appointing him to the office of surrogate, &c.
Downing and his guilty associates having been sheltered The Rev. William Cruttenden Cruttenden, M.A., Mi-
and protected by his murderous adherents throughout the nister of Macclesfield, has been appointed by the Right
country. However, on 12th December last, James T. Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley, to the Rectory of Al-
Flynn, one
ble of the parties c
oharged, gave himself up to derley, Cheshire, vacant on the resignation of the Rev.
\eaconsta atin __la not suffer Charles Girdlestone.

The leev. Charles Perry, M.A. minister of the district
church of St. Paul, Cambridge, has been appointed to the
Bishopric of Melbourn, about to be erected in Australia
Felix.

DR.. HOOK.—A correspondent of the London', Times
asks how, if Dr. Hook be sincere in his professed abhor-
rence of Popery, he can, when to draw near to Rome is
only to enhance' her power, advertise a cheap tract with
some such title as this—" In the Sacrament there is a true
sacrifice." Was it not the denial of this monstrous doc-
trine, he asks, and the glorious defence of the simple truth

justify any man, calling, himself a Protestant, who thinks
lightly of 'a truth so dearly bought, who can tamper with
it, fritter it away by nice distinctions or mystical subtle-

but the substance of the truth destroyed ? If a real sacri-
fice be once admitted, why should we halt between two
opinions ? A real presence must follow, and a change of
the elements too ; and who cares by what name it be
called, so that the doctrine is believed ?

FUTURE COURSE OF DR. HOOK.—A correspondent of
the Oxford Herald says :—" Dr. Hook has written to a
disting-uished member of the Hebdomadal Board to ac-
knowledge the pain with which he now beholds the part
taken by him against the Heads of Houses, with regard
to the most prominent incidents of the controversy which
has furnished an excuse for secession. He no longer talks
of ' usurped authority,' or of the unhappy determina-
tion of the Hebdomadal Board to
noncimp Air Volvmon

and from a PROTESTER has become a PROT

He will issue no more adverse manifestoes, but
will henceforth fight with the University."

NOBLE THANKOFFERING.-At the meeting of the
Lichfield Diocesan Church Building Society, last week,
the bishop of that diocese (who has just given £lOOO to
the society) related the following anecdote, showing the
good effects of this society. Au extensive manufacturer
at Newcastle, Mr. Herbert Minton, was on a particular
occasion to send his foreman 500 sovereigns in a bag, to
pray his workpeople. The men came to know of this, and
a plot was laid between some of them to waylay the fore-