The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

District Rao,

Jenny. Lind will appear at the Manchester Theatre-
Royal in the middle or latter end of August.
There was a severe thunder-storm in Manchester and
the neighbourhood on, Tuesday, and the electric fluid
caused several accidents, none of them, however, destruc-
tive of human life.

A young German named Adolphus Schutz is in custody
at Manchester on a charge of having fraudulently obtained •
a sum of £lBOO from the firm of H. J. Merck and Co., of
that town.

On Tuesday, at Lytham, a child eleven months old was •
strangled in a singular manner. It had been put to bed
by its mother a short time before, and when she went
soon after to look at it, the little thing was found between
the bed and a chair that had been placed near it, resting
with its throat upon the rail at the back of the chair, and
quite dead.

Messrs. Horrockses, Miller,. and Co., of Preston, com-
menced on Monday (yesterday) working ten hours per day,
at all their mills ; not owing to the depresed state of trade,
but in consequence of the " Ten Flours' Bill" having
paased through both Houses of Parliament, the permanent
provisions of which the firm intend carrying out imme-
diately in their works.

AWFUL EFFECTS OF FEvER.—The typhus fever, which
is at present raging amongst several families in Oldham,
has within the last few days committed dreadful ravages
in a single dwelling in Smethurst-street, Boardman-
Ground. On Saturday morning last, James Schofield,
the son of James Schofield, a respectable operative, resi-
dent in that street, died from the effects of the fever, and
in a few hours his mother died from the same cause, whilst
the father was lying dangerously ill of a similar attack.
On Sunday forenoon, the father likewise expired, and in
the evening of that day these three unfortunate victims of
contagious disease were interred at Oldham Church.

THE LATE MR. O'CONNELL AND THE CHURCH
OF 'ROME.
(From the Dublin Mail.)
To a calm observer of passing events, it appears impro-
bable that the priests of the Church of Rome ever trouble
themselves about consistency; or is it, that Popish con-
'sistency is of that undefinable nature, termed sui generis ?
In reference to the death of Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Miley,
intending no doubt to be magniloquent, as well as pathetic,
writes thus—" The glory and the wonder of Christendom
is dead ! Dead ! no, O'Connell is in Heaven. The spirit
which had moved the world took its flight so peacefully,
that all who were there, except the angels who were wait-
ing for it, were in doubt if it had departed." Now, ac-
cording to this, the soul of the lamented gentleman was
in Heaven, and truly glad should we be to believe so, and
let the matter rest there. However, we are informed by
this same Dr. Miley next day, that in the great chapel of
Genoa " the solemn votive mass was celebrated by the
whole chapter ; to-morrow the same ; snd on Wednesday
the grand mass. a naushxz with catafalque at the grand
altar, and at twenty-four other altars." Now it is very
natural to inquire, if the soul of the deceased was in.,
Heaven, for what purpose were these masses ? The con-
clusion forced upon us is, that Dr. Wiley either stated
that which he did not believe, or that he had masses, and
what, according to his church, he must regard as the glen--
flee of the body and blood of the REDEEMER, offered;
knowingly in vain. What solemn mockery !
It is obvious that the creed of the Romanist, even on
is the most important matters, is not uniform. Dr. Miley
assured that O'Connell is in Heaven." Doctor Mac
Hale believes his soul is still in Purgatory—and forthwith,
orders propitiatory masses for its rescue to be celebrated•
throughout the diocese of Tuam. Thus in a Pastoral,
addressed to his " subjects," dated Trinity Sunday, 1847.
—he commands them to take, in their respective deane-
ries, the earliest opportunity of assembling and offering
up the propitiatory. Sacrifice of the. Mass for the repose of
the soul of the late dutiful and heroic champion of the
Church," .k* "in order that, by prayers, and the
oblation of the Unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar his soul,,
if detained on account of venial or unexpiated guilt, may
be freed from that prison from which there is no libera-
tion, until the payment of the last farthing. due to the
Divine Justice." Now, this is an awkward slur on the
veracity of Dr: Miley ; and we must say matters have not
been mended at Rome, where—as we learn from a letter,,
dated from the Sacred City on the 27th ult., and printed
in the Times of Saturday—a solemn requiem has, ere
this, been performed for the departed in the Church. of
St. Agatha.
(From the Cork Constitution.)
The fathers of the infallible church ought to settle. Mr.
O'ConnelL's state. They ought to decide whether he
needs their masses and supplication or needs them not, for
at present it must be somewhat perplexing to their people
to find• that they are at "sixes and sevens" about the con-
dition of " the first Catholic layman. in the world."
Where he is, or how he is circumstanced, is all conjecture;
and if this be the case with the first Catholic layman,
how must it fare with his humble followers ? If it is so
hard to determine whether a man who laboured so long
and so lovingly for the church needs the masses and offices
of her priests, equally hard must it be to determine whe-
ther those masses and offices for which so many millions
are annually paid have ever yet secured the liberation of a
single soul out of that " prison" in which, as Dr. Machale
hypotheticates, the soul of Mr.O'Connell is " detained."
Some certainty would be desirable. With the apostles
there is no mistake on the subject. In the case of the
followers of their Master, to.be absent frnin the body"
was to be " present with the Lord ;" but as the Roman,
titulars have chosen to set up " another Gospel," their
disciples ought to pray them to adopt some means of
settling a question of so, much interest. As long, how-
ever, as they can make merchandise of the souls of men,
they are not likely to do that. But to come back to. Mr.
O'Connell. " The least we can do," (says Dr. Magian,
coadjutor and apostolic administrator of Derry, in a. letter
to his son John)—
"The least we can do for our Benefactor,' our Liberator,'
is to follow his spirit to that God that made it with our humble
prayers. My own opinion is that he does not need them."
There is a letter from Mr. Mathew, which is worth in-
serting

FROM VERY REV. THEOBALD MATHEW.
* * " Few have known longer or more intimately*,
or have more honoured and loved your great and good father;
In the holy sacrifice I daily present him before the throne at
the Most High, and on thousands of altars from the rising by
ministry,the setting sun the tremendous mysteries are celebrated TY,
priests, pure and spotless as the stoles of their for
the eternal repose of the soul of him who is wept by the whole_
world. In common with all the inhabitants of the south of
Ireland, I regret being deprived of the melancholy consolation
of paying my tribute of respectful sorrow to the remains of the
illustrious dead. Yet I must acquiesce in the propriety 01
selecting for the honoured resting place of O'Connell the ine:
tropolis of Ireland. I fervently pray that the Lord may gran;
to you and your beloved, family every spiritual and teroporn',
blessing.
" :Olin O'Connell. E.q m.r."

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