The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

THE IMMUTABLE CHURCH

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
We have heard of an ingenious sophister who used to con-
tend that it was a legitimate principle not to have any p►inci-
ple at all, and that acts done accordingly could not be
properly said to be " unprincipled." So with the immuta-
ble church : she fakes as many forms as the moon, or as
Proteus, yet, she is semper eadem, and always " keeps her
eye on her ob.:yect." She prOtests that she is—'
" A milk-white hind, unchanging and unchanged," at the
very moment she presents herself to your notice, under the
aspect of a lion, a lamb, or a boa constrictor : and, if any
one be unreasonable enough to set up the evidence of his
senses against her asseverations, he must rest satisfied with
bearing the imputation of bigotry and intolerance. When
the Romanist bishops, on the 9th February, 1830, issued
their general pastoral, exhorting all the clergy of their church
in Ireland to abstain thenceforth from interference in political
affairs, any man who should have ventured to anticipate their
return to the beaten track of agitation within a year after,
would have been deemed guilty of a gross contempt of the
church's immutability. When, a year or so subsequently,
the Romanist clergy found it convenient to resume their
political acting, any one who should have taunted the reve-
rend agitators with their previous immutable pledge, would
have been adjudged equally a contemner of the church's
freedom. We shall be censured now for an attempt to im-
pugn her liberty of action by casting up the resolutions of
the bishops of 1830 ;. just as we then were censured for
doubting the unchangeableness of those solemn determina-
tions. However, at the risk of being charged in the usual
way with bigotry and intolerance, we will take the liberty of
placing, side by side, two pretty specimens of her conflicting
reteusiona to

IMMUTABILITY, AND
• 9th Feb., 1830.
PASTORAL ADDRESS.
heArchbishopsand Bi,hups,
whose names ere under-
signed, to the Clergy and
People of the Catholic

FREEDOM TO CHANGE
REPEAL OF THE UNION.

25th Sept., 1841

We, the undersigned, re-
quest a meeting of the Ro-
man Catholic Clergymen of
the united Diocess of Cashel
and Emly, at Cashel, on
Thursday, the 30th instant,
to take into consideration the
propriety of Joining the Na-
tional Repeal Association :

Chinch in. Ireland, Health

and Benedictic

[Exhorting, the• I•toman Ca-
tholic Clergy thenceforth to

Edmun-d O'Shaughnessy,
P. IP: Drangan; Jno. Mackey,
P.P. Clonoulty ; Thomas
Mullaney, P.P. Drum ; Pa-
trick Fant, P. P. Templemore;
William Laffan, PT. Holy-
cross ; Edward Cummins,
P.P. ; Robert Grace, P.P. ;
Patrick Larkin,C.C. Thurles;
Richard O'Brien, R.C.C. ;
Thomas Boyton, ;
John Butler, R.C.C. ; John
Ryan, R.C.C. Cashel ' • Ri-
chard O'Brien, R.C.C.New-
port ; Lawrence Bergin,
R.C.C. ; John M'Craith,
R.C.C.; James Howley,
R.C.C.; John Madden, P.P;
Nicholas Roche, O.S.A. ;
Peter Ryan, R.C.C. ; Pa-
trick Meagher, R.C.C. ;
Thomas Hewitt, P.P. Ulla
and Solabead ; James Han-.
ley, Latten, Tipperar, ;
Edmund Walsh, P.P. Kil-
teely and Drumkeen ; Philip
Cleary, P.P. Ballybricken ;
J. Fennell', R.C.C. ; John
Croke, P.P. Anacarty and
Dunanill ; Michael Quinlan,
P.P. Golden ; Patrick Mea-
gher, C.C. Door' ; Dauiel
Corcoran, P.P. Cappawhite;
:James Mullally, C.C. Gul-
den; John Maher, R.C.C.
Abington ; Thomas Bourk,
P.P. Ballylanders ; John
O'Connor, R.C.C; David
.Dee, P.P. Laughinore ; Jas.
Ryan, R.C.C. do; Thomas
Maher, R.C.C. Killenaule ;
Janies Clancy; dii;;
John Ryan, P.P. Tipperary
Free Press.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE EDINBURGH COMMITTEE OF

THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY

GENTLLMEN,—In reply to your laboured statement re-
specting the unfortunate dispute now pending between you
and the directors of this respectable company, I merely wish
to put the following simple questions to you :
By whom are the directors appointed ? I say by the
shareholders.
To whom are the directors responsible for the due dis-
charge of their duties? I say to the shareholders.
Byivehoni are the members of the committees in Edin-
burgh and Glasgow appointed ? I say by the directors.
Tiiiihom are these committees thus constituted amenable?
I say► to;the directors..
Thus it appears, you, as members of the committee, have,
under your act of parliament, only the power to act so far as
the board are sanctioned by the said act, and no one thing
can be done without the consent of a majority of the direc-
tors in general board assembled.
If, therefore, the English shareholders are to be subject
to the ,esprice Of 'any une or more member or members of
these committees, or even one or more director or directors,
acting in either capacity, appealing to the Court of Sessions
in Scotland for redress on all occasions, when the majority
of the board, but more particularly a large majority of the
shareholders in general public meeting, has decided against
the opinions so expressed by the said individuals, the sooner
such law is altered to assimilate to English practice the
better.

In order, however, to put a stop to all this unfortunate,
I may say uemeaui►rg, cabal about trifles, which is most
decidedly in direct opposition to the common practice in all
our public institutions in this country, I would recommend
every shareholder to be prepared to mark his disapprobation
of the opinions of these individuals acting so hostilely to the
true interests of this highly valuable concern, and on the
day of election for directors, effectually prove to them how
powerless are their arguments when put in opposition to
common sense and universal custom.

A LANCASHIRE SHAREHOLDER,
Liverpool, 25th September,lB4l.

. .
DESTRUCTION OF KINMELL HALL BY FIRE.—On Mon-
day night last, the beautiful mansion of Lord Dinorben, at
Kinmell Park, about fifteen miles from Denbigh, was totally
dotroyed.by tire. This elegant 'structure, which was a con-
spicuous feature from the high road which passes through
the village of St. George, or Lian Saint Soir, was a modern,
spacious,. and sumptuous edifice, furnished with exceeding
taste and magnificence. It was a favourite resort of his royal
highness the .Duke. of Sussex, who has, for several years
past, annually spent some weeks there, enjoying the diver-
sion of shooting—the beautiful park and adjacent grounds
being well stocked with deer and game: • The tire originated
in Lady Dinorbeu's dressing-room, owing to a candle having
come in contact with,some portion of the furniture. It was
iscovered Soon after two o'clock. The family had not
t an alarm was. immediately spread through
1. Lord and Lady Dinorben immediately
>sidelice of their steward. The most active
ti.ttwittlftrade for the removal-of the plate,
est ..ellects, and fortunately all was saved
f two Leds. There were no engines in
little could be done to retard the pro-
The mansion was therefore totally

retired t 9 re.

went over to t

furniture, ae.
with the exe(

.winity, so

„nced grouse shooter well knows how
. .to attempt to find out the best part of
ree is acquainted, by a distant coup
. On the same range the
,t numerous one year on the
u the brow, and a third on the flat
alien without any assignable reason. A
.is raage by rule will be as likely to fix on
-e,t• tie only plan, supposing he has ne-
, himself acquainted with the ground before
is to nod out from the shepherds where
noost plentiful, and concert measures accord-
trkhuppens that, if the hatching time is very
:at-paelcs may be found on the brow of a hill,
..sl4'i:q3ostcl to wet; and in a dry sultry season,
es. c.,-•tloge are the flats between -the hills, or
,- it with ” peat-hags." The very re-
--‘ay„ be; the case if there are few mossy
gs.' on the flat or top, and if the hill-
"ilea with water for the young packs by a constant
little .brooks. It is impossible for a stranger
without . questioning those who are
in the habit of
,travelling the hill, and who will be just as
likelp_tq know what is of more consequence, viz., where the
park are to he. found in the greatest abundance. As to the
gronndimmediately around him, a man accustomed to the
moors can always tell whether it is likely to harbour
game;
and let him be ranging, the top, the edge, the brow, or the
flat at the foot of the hill, if he is surrounded by alternate
young heather, interspersed vrith nume-
rous of old
,s or " peat hags, ' half filled with
I'OUS green mossy
„ mits-jrum.'t;ttion of a point. If, on the con-
trary,water; he is i" " and the heather burntier if kb
is bars,
of rank lnxuriance, he looks
in
one
unvarying crop
almost grudges the unflagging ex-
gro.wiiiiif. the
ex-
ertions
ol anxiously
hie
brew, ; and.
still
he never gives up hope,
per earring
nrul often" findsgame where he least • expected
noun's Moor and the Loch.

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SETTLEMENT OF I.IIE NO,N-INTRUST"..I9VESTI°N.—W, e
have heard it stated, that the plan of Sir Robert Peel for tee
settlement of the church question, will be based on the
principle, recently so.generally practised, of the patron pre-
senting a leet 4,04: names-,,from which the congregation
may,selfct a.uainisivr., ...Unquestionably, this has proved in
manylcases.4tregi4 beneficial in practice, and being already
ahnofceitablislictir enuld be easily made a statutory arrange-
meal, .i,t, the .sanie new, the modification of patronage
.. ~.. . . ...
whiehrii ~44,lies. is coOdarable, and might reasonably Le
madq ,gr,ftniid.of it &tumid for compensation on the part
91 t lams,: wideli, however, in any event, is far (rent
4,
. likely,
,4 44.,vsr pit forward.--ecotiisA 4,5744dard-