The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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As James Cashen, a respectable farmer, near Emly, was
going to his chapel on Sunday week, he was met upon the
way by a party in wait, who beat out his brains with stones
-a favourite mode of slaying adversaries in Ireland.
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IRELAND

There is scarcely

county in Ireland in which considerable progress has not
already been made in the corn harvest, which is nearly a
month earlier than the average of seasons. All accounts
.g the produce as unusually abundant,
s excellent. The wheat, oats, and barley
-t, in point of breadth, ever

ton. B

h, including the townships of Astley, Ather-
d, Pennington, Tyldesley, with Shakerley and

otherwise'Leigh, in ti

ter, toget

y of I

le deanery of

-
Warring-
I irinnca of

itli such parts of the respective deane-
Kirkby Lonsdale, in the same diocese,

to county,

_ The Bishop's stipend is to be
)0 per annum, and a scheme for fixing the mode of
endowment is to be laid before her Majesty as soon
iy be. The Bishops of Manchester and Ripon are
ye alternately the patronage of all benefices hereto-
>r now belonging to any prebendary of the Collegiate

'hurch of Sou

'ORD AND CHURCH

ACCOMMO-

vestry of the parish of Upton-cum-Chal-
bey, near Slough, is at issue with the Bishop of Oxford,

re to afford greater accommodation to the
poor, determined that a portion of the seats in the centre

Of the church should beconverted into pews, and that a
eallery should be erected capable of giving accommoda-
free sittings, to one hundred and forty more per-
ms than had been deprived of seats by the erection of
WS referred to. Previously to these works being corn-
iced, the consent of the archdeacon and rural dean

was obtained. A few days since the bishop, who had
been informed of the nature of the changes, visited the
church, and refused to permit the additions which had
been made to remain. Under these circumstances,
a vestry meeting was called in the church, for the

Ir. Bedborot

gh, of Upton-parr

naintained that the vestry had 'proceeded regu-
after having obtained the consent of the archdea-
d rural dean, moved " That this vestry confirm the

resolutions of the previous vestries, as connected with the
alterations of the church, and recommend the church-
wardens to carry them out; and that this vestry under-
take to bear them harmless." Mr. W. H. Boncey,
fearing that the parish had acted in a headlong and heed-
less manner in not having first obtained the consent of
the bishop, moved an amendment to the effect that before
proceeding further the consent of the Bishop of Oxford
and the Church Building Society be first obtained. After
a long and stormy discussion the amendment of Mr.
Boncey was put to a show of bands, when only five were

held up for it. The original motion of Mr. Bedborough
was then put and carried by a large majority. The Rev.
Mr. Knox observed that, by the resolution they. had just

carried, they had completely " flown in the face of the
Bishop." Mr. Bedborough replied that they had quite as
much right to have an opinion as the Bishop of Oxford.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The Caledonian Railway is now completed to Beattock,
forty miles north of Carlisle. It is expected that the whole
line will be completed by November next.

WATER CONVEYED PER RAILWAY.—Trains of water,
conveyed in engine tenders, are now running up the
Midland Railway from Derby to Leicester, in consequence
of the shortness of the supply at the latter station.

The Manchester and Leeds (now called by the more
comprehensive name of the Lancashire and Yorkshire)
pay a dividend of 3.1 per cent. on the half-year, minus
income-tax.

At the meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company,
last week, Sir Andrew Agnew brought forward a motion
against all traffic on the Lord's day, which was lost by a
majority of 6,428 to 2,874 votes.

The railway calls for September amount to £301,439,
exceeding by nearly a quarter of a million the average for
the preceding eight months of the year, and by nearly
two millions the amount claimed last month.
RAILWAY SECTION OF PARLIAMENT. The new
House of Commons will comprise no fewer than forty-
three members connected with railroads—an important
phalanx who may turn the tide in any struggle on the
boards of St. Stephen's.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The posts for the elec-
tric telegraph have been put down, and the wires have
been laid along a part of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, so that in a month or two we shall lave a tele-
communication from Liverpool to -London, via

The London and North-Western, with its numerous
branches, has outgrown the usual " time table" arranged

. .
instead of seeing at a glance the information respecting
the times of arrival and departure at each station, you are
referred to the different places by means of an index.
The new mode is the less convenient, but perhaps is
unavoidable.

Ltv ERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAlLWAY.—Thewitien-
ing of this line, from Liverpool to Huyton, is proceeding
rapidly. Three lines of rails have been laid down on part
of the way, and four for a short distance. It is said that
when the four lines are completed, the omnibus trains will
be introduced at this end of the line as well as the Man-
chester end. There they are found to be an immense con-
venience to parties having occasion to visit the populous
villages along the line, and they would be found not less
useful at this end of the line, in rendering easy the com-
muniigiMen) F.-uway liut,un, and Lion will Brook

Prescot.

se to pay the church rates
J

ENILE ORGANIS'

.—Master Edwin Mercer, son of
Slr. James Mercer, who is only sixteen years old, has just
been appointed organist at the Episcopal Chapel, Great
Horton, near Bradford.
A petit' "

ion for the pardon of Lieut. Munro, having some

200 names attached to it, has been forwarded to the home
Secretary from Ross-shire, of which county the lieutenant

is a native.

A few days since, while a boy named White, ten years
old, was chasing some butterflies near the edge of the
West Cliff, at Whitby, he fell over the precipice, and was
killed on the spot.
The French government has ordered two English jour-
nals, Punch and the Weekly Dispatch, to be stopped in
the post-office, as they have published articles reflecting
personally on the King of the French.

Mr. Barrett, of the Broadway Theatre, New York, when
in London, offered Jenny Lind £5OO per night, for forty
nights ; but she could not engage, having already con-
tracted for a long time in advance at the European theatres.
A dreadful fire took place at Exeter, on Wednesday,
which began at the premises of Mr. Solomon, in Water-
beer-street. It extended to the adjoining premises, and
did nearly £lO,OOO damage.
A London paper says that several tradespeople in St
Paul's ' -

au- _ churchyard have placed boards descripti:ve of their
trade and calling against the chimney pots on the roofs of
their houses, in the hope of catching customers among the
visitors to the summit of St. Paul's.

The Gazette of Tuesday contains the appointment of
the new peers—General Strafford to be Viscount Enfield
and Earl Strafford ; Viscount Acheson to be a baron of
the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron Dartrey ! Sir
IL Bulkeley P. Philips, Bart., to be Baron Milford.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of Douglas, Isle of Man,
on Thursday week, Wm. Kelly, Esq., in the chair, the
deputation who ought to have presented the address to her
Majesty from the town of Douglas was called to account,
and their conduct severely censured.
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ing she died, probably from some internal injury caused
by vomiting.
A correspondent of the Standard, who signs himself
" A Rural Dean," states that he bas received a letter
from the Bishop of Oxford, dated August 23, in which his
Lordship says, " a thanksgiving is to be appointed when
the harvest is generally secured."

The magistrates of Windsor have determined to put
down " Derby sweeps," and lotteries of a similar nature,
in every public-house within their jurisdiction. A great
good would be effected if such a gambling practice as this
were put a stop to in London, where it is extensively
carried on.

THE FOLLY OF BEING UNINSURED.—A bankrupt
merchant passed his last examination last week, in the
London court. His property, an oil mill at Southampton,
uninsured, was burnt down by lightning ; and a vessel, in
which he had also an uninsured interest, being lost at the
same time, completed his misfortunes.
FALL IN FLouß.—On Thursday, the price of bread
fell in Lambeth a halfpenny the lost At_ one of. the
"cheap baker'si the shop was so crowded with customers
that the floor fell in, and several persons were buried in
the troughs of flour. All however escaped with a little
frightening.
In London, last weeic, an inquest was held on two chil-
dren of the'respective ages of eight and nine years, who
were proved to have died from dysentery, produced by an
insufficiency of wholesome and nutritious food. The fa-
ther is a billiard-table maker, and travelling the country
in search of work.

Among the young gentlemen who have just gained
honours at the London University is an East Indian,
named Soorjoo Coomar Chuckerbutty, who has distin-
guished himself in three different departments of medi-
cine—anatomy and physiology, chemistry, materia me-
dica, and pharmaceutical chemistry.
On Monday, three men, who were engaged in cleaning
out a sewer leading from Laggate under the ballast hills
to the river Tyne, were suddenly thrown down into a
state of torpor, and one of them was found dead soon
after, and the other two were insensible but ultimately
recovered. _

On Saturday week, a poor woman, named Daggett,
living near Bath, went from home early to go gleaning, and
having no one to leave with her children, all under seven
years of age, for greater safety locked them in the house.
On her return, they were all found suffocated with
smoke, but how the fire had originated could not be as-
certained.

DESTRUCTION OF 'WHEAT BY VERMIN.—There are
now standing in a close at Willingham four stacks of last
year's wheat so destroyed by rats that it is estimated their
produce will not exceed 40 coombs ; whereas, if thrashed
out at the proper time they would have produced 240
coombs, and the wheat would have sold for between £4
and £5 per quarter.—Cambridge Chronicle.
CONVERTS TO POPERY.—On Thursday last, at the
Spanish Chapel, Mr. and Mrs. Burns, of Porgy man-street,
and their family, along with Miss Christian, and Miss
Mary Banks, were received into the Catholic Church, by
the Rev. William Hunt.—Tablet (Romish paper;. [We
presume this is the popular publisher who MS been k lluded
to as likely to embrace Roman:ism.]