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 beard of an ingenious sophister who used to con-
tend that it was a legitimate principle not to have any princi-
ple at all, and that acts done accordingly could not be
properly said to be•"- unprincipled." So with the immuta-
ble church : she takes as niany forms as the moon, or as
Proteus, yet, she is ,vemper earlein, and always " keeps her
eye on her object." She protests that she is—
" A milk-white hind, unchanging and unchanged," at the
very =tient ilie 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 mad who should have ventured to anticipate their
return to the beaten track of agitation within a year after,
would have 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 urch'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. Ilowe-v.er, .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
retensions to
IMMUTABILITY, Awn
9th Feb:, 1830.
PASTOR-AL ADDRESS.
heArcbbishops and Bishops,
whose names are under-
signed,. to•the:' Clergy and
People- .of • the Catholic
Church in Ireland, Heald-
and Benediction
[Exhorting tl
tholic Clergy
cease taking

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 :
Edmund O'Shaughtiessy,
P.P. Drangan ; Jno. Mackey,
P.P. Clonoulty ; Thomas
Mullaney, P.P. Drum; Pa.
trick Fant, P.P. Templernore;
William Laffan, P•P. Holy-
cross ; Edward Cummins,
P.P. ; Robert Grace, P.P. ;
Patrick Larkin,C.C. Thurles;
Richard O'Brien, R.C.C. ;
Thomas Boyton, R.C.C.;
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 Solahead ; James Han-
ley, P.P. Latter), Tipperary ;
Edmund Walsh, P.P. Kil-
teely and Drunikeen ; Philip
Cleary, P.P. Ballybricken ;
J. Fennellv, R.C.C. ; John
Croke, P.P. Anacarty and
Dunahill ; Michael Quinlan,
P.P. Golden; Patrick Mea-
gher, C.C. Doon ; Daniel
Corcoran, P.P. Cappawhite ;
James Mullally, C.C. Gol-
den; John Maher, R.C.C.
Abington; Thomas Bourk,
P.P. Ballylanders ; John
O'Connor, R.C.O ; David
Dee, P.P. Laughmore ; Jas.
Ryan, R.C.C. do; Thomas
Maher, R.C.C, Killenaule ;
James Clancy, R.C.C. do. ;
John Ityan,P.P.—Tipperary
Free Press.

a Ca-

henceforth to

.t in politi-

cal meetings.--
Mail, August
signed by]
Patrick Curtis, D.D,Oliver
Kelly, D.D., W. Coppinger,
D.D., Corn. Egan, D.D., P.
M`Laughlin, D.D., John
Murphy,• D.D., John Ryan,
D.D., Patrick M'Mabon,
D.D., Patrick M`Gettigan,
D.D., James Keating,
James Doyle, D.D.; William
Crony, D.D.., Thomas Coin,
D.D., Thomas Kelly, D.D.,
D. Murray, D.D., Robert
Laffan, D.D., Michael Col-
lins, D.D., Wm. Kinsella,
D.D., Wm. Higgins, D.D.,
Edmund French, D.D., Jas.
Brown, D.D., Robert Logan,
D.D., Edward Kerwin, D.D.,
John M'Hale, D.D., Thomas
Costello, D.D., P. MaNicho-
las, D.D., N. Foran, D.D.

See D. E.
19, 1840—

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY

TO THE, MEMBERS OF THE EDINBURGH COMMITTEE OF
THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.
GENTLEMEN,—,-h 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.
By whom are the members of the committees in Edin-
burjh and Glasgow appointed? I say by the directors.
To whom are these committees thus constituted amenable?
I say to tbe 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 caprice. of any one 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 agairist
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 unmeaning, cabal about trifles, which is most
decidedly.in direct opposition to the common practice in all
our publitrinstitutions in this country, I would recommend
every shareholder to be prepared to mark his disapprobation
of the opinion., 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, 2.31 k 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
destroyed by fire. This elegant structure, which was a con-
spicuous feature from the high road which passes through
the village of tit. George, or Lim 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 Puke 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 we!! stocked with deer and game. The fire originated

in Lady Dir

sing-room, owing to acandlelaving

come in

me Partin of the furniture,

It was

. -
first diseovei•ed. so
retired to rest, And,
the neighbourhood.

after iwo o'clock. The family had riot
n alarm was immediately spread through
Lord and Lady Dinorben immediately

went over t

tie of their steward.

The most active

exertions were ?furl hwith made for the removal of the plate,
furniture, and ether effects, and fortunately all was saved
with the exception of two beds. There were no engines in
the vicinity, so . that little could be done to retard the pro-
gress of the flames. The mansion was therefore totally