The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

A well-known character',, Culled " Old illanket Hall,"
died lately at Witney, at the advanced age of 120. He lived

in the reigns of seven sovereigns. His great age may be
partly ascribed to letters patent granted him by Queen Anne
herself, and the old gentleman prided himself on a fine por-

trait of her majesty, given to him many years ago, by one of
her old stewards, Earl Harcourt. Hn was much pressed to
join the teetotal society, but the venerable patriarch shook
his head and said, it was too late for him to begin, and that
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he had belonged to. the old school too long for any such
change to have any good effect on him. A threatened dis-

traini foryoor-rate,swas the immediate cause of his some-

what sudden decease

To some individuals who wished him

to join the teetotallers he has left his pump and rain-water
butt.—Oxford Herald.
The Dublin Statesman contains a correspondence illustra-
tive of the system of papal government in her majesty's
dominions. The parties to the correspondence are Lord
Clifford and the Hon. Mr. Cavendish, proprietor and editor
of a Mayo newspaper. 'lt appears that Dr. 0' Finan, a very
amiable gentleman, known to Lord Clifford, was some years
ago titular bishop of Killala, when he was libelled in Mr.
Cavendish's newspaper, brought an action against Mr. Ca-
vendish, and recovered £5OO damages. It was discovered in
the course of the trial that the author of the libel was a Ro-
man catholic priest. A false version of the story, in which
the libeller priest was made the defendant, instead of Mr.
Cavendish, was carried to the Pope, who, by the advice of his
cardinals, deprived Dr. 0' Finan of his titular bishopric, and
deprived the rev. gentleman has been for many years. The
fact of the misrepresentation came to Lord Clifford's know-
ledge during a late visit to Rome, and his lordship, interested
for his old friend, calls upon Mr. Cavendish to state the
trnth—a demand with which that gentleman promptly corn-
plies.—There are two things remarkable in this affair ; first,
the extreme negligence of justice with which the See of Rome
exercises its tyranny in her majesty's dominions. Dr.

0' Finan is perinitted to suffer for years under the effect of
a mistranslation, as Mr. Thomas Hood would say, the only
translation injurious to a bishop. The second and more im-
portant consideration, however, is the insult, approaching to
a declaration of war, offered to the British throne, in the
cause assigned, falsely as it happened, for Dr. 0' Finan's
punishment,—he " had brought an action against a priest
before a lay protestant tribunal." This is, we suppose,
enough to show the spirit of the papacy, even in the middle
of the nineteenth century.

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TUESDAY, DECE3IBER

—Wind N.W. moderare

ARRlVED.—Brigand, Bell. from Antigua—Commodore, Matthew-
man, and Brunette, Thompson, from Montreal—Mars,
from Quebec—Lady Adams, M'Lannan, from Baltimore—Siberia.
Bartlett, from Charleston—United States, Decan. from New Orleans
—Tarolinta, Smith. from New York—Margaret, Welsh, from
Savanilla.

SAlLED.—Chatham, Lovell, for Africa—Commercio, De Villar'
for Havana—and Lochiuvar, Miller, for Genoa and Leghorn.

Ida, -, hence at Antigua
Agnes, Lamont, hence at Barbadoes
Lady Seott. M.Farreu, hence at Granada
Mary Bibby, Archibald. hence at ditto
Ocean Queen, Pitcairn, hence at St. Thomas
Diamond, Rees, hence at Trinidad.
Fame, Trotter, hence at ditto !s
Hindoo, Fitch, hence at Boston
Blake, - , hence at Mobile
Silvanus Jenkins, Seymour, hence at New York
Stephen Whitney, Thompson, hence at ditto
Thomas P. Cope, Miercken, hence at Philadelphia
Maidson, -, hence at Virginia
Sir Colin Campbell, Pentecost, hence at New Orleans .•
Queen, Hoseason, hence at ditto, with part of her cargo thrown
overboard, having been aground on the bar
Packet, Burns, hence at La Guayra
10,-. from London and Trinidad at Savanilla
Mexican Packet, Chaplin, hence at Vera Cruz
Bonanza, Cragg, hence a Buenos Ayres
William, -, from St. Übes at ditto
Rapid, -, hence at Texas
Mary Loyd, Donaldson, hence at Rio de Janeiro
Eliza, Abernethy, hence at Venice
Paragon, Allen, from Monte Video off Cove

Don, Muir, from St. Petersburgh for this port, in the Orkneys,
after being on shore in Holm Sound, but without making any
water

Thomas and Elizabeth, Hearn, from this port at Waterford, with
mainmast earned away and other damage, having been in contact
with the Betsey bound for Ross

Avoca, hence for Sincapore, was spoken 15th Dec. in lat. 44, lon
90

Elizabeth, hence for Van Dienian's Land. was spoken 24th Dec
in lat. 49 o, lon. 7 0

Astrea, hence for Monte Video, was spoken 25th Dec. in lat. 48 0,
lon. p 0

Maid of Alicant, hence for St. Michael's, was spoken 26th Dec.
in lat. 44 0, lou. 16 0

Baliamign, Stroyan, from Calcutta at this port, sailed 4th Aug.
and from St. Helena 6th Nov. On the 6th Oct. to the eastward of
the Cape of Good Hope, was in contact with the Royal Adelaide,
from Bombay for the Clyde, cleared with maintopsail.yard, sails
torn, mizen mast badly sprung; &c.—Alem. The Royal Adelaide
passed St. Helena 4th Nov.

Patriot King, Roddock, from Calcutta at this port, sailed from St
Helena 12th Nov,

Fame, Pringle, from Buenos Ayres at this port, sailed 23th Oct.
The Oriental, sailed 22nd for this port. The Plumstead and Uroguay
were to sail about the 29th Oct. The Narcissus, Diamond, Janet,
and Urania, were loading for London. The Dickey Sam and
Chalco, for this port ; Cambridge, Isabella and Ann. Isabella
Brown, Thomas Leech. Caroline, and Eliza Heywood, for Falmouth,
and the Cheshire Witch, for Havana.
MAURITIus, Sept. 24.—The St: Lucia, Raisbeck, from Lombock,
to Rotterdam, which put in here 27th ult., and the Crusader, Inglis,
from Calcutta to London, which put in here 4th instant, have had
their topsides caulked, and re-loaded the portion of their cargoes
landed for that purpose.
ST. JOHN, NEWFOUNDLAND, Dec. 3.—The Bolton Abbey, Barton,
from Quebec to Liverpool, brought up in the Narrows this evening.
leaky, and it is expected must discharge to be caulked iu her upper
works.