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

IRELAND.

The repeal rent is looking up. Last week it amounted
to £ll9, of which £lO lls. was from Liverpool, and £5O
from America.
IRISH M.P.'s.—The Nenagh Guardian says that Mr.
Keating, M.P., for the county of Waterford, is an in-
spector under the relief act, at a salary of 7s. 6d. per
day.

An estimate for £lOO was recently sent from Carriga-
bolt to the inspecting-officer of Kilrush union, to purchase
coffins for destitute living persons, who, it was calculated
would die within that period and the Ist of October next ! !
THE O'CONNELL MONUMENT.—The committee of the
" National Monument to O'Connell" have published their
receipts from the 6th of August, which amount to £239.
Of the subscriptions 40 were of £5, four of £3, one of £2,
and 25 of £1 each.

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.
Some dealing in land which he had lately with some of
his own family is supposed to have caused this outrage.
A fine young woman named Byrne was accidentally
killed near Ardee, County Louth, a few days since. A
young man of the neighbourhood presented a gun at her
—not knowing it was charged—and having pulled the
trigger, the contents lodged in her breast, causing instant
death.—Belfast Journal.
Larkin and Daniel, two of the murderers of Mr. Prim,
the pay-clerk, were executed at Kilkenny, a few days ago.
These miscreants, together with a third murderer named
Walsh, who was to be hanged on Wednesday, conspired
to murder the turnkeys, and attempt their escape from
the gaol, but were detected.
THE HARVEST IN IRELAND. There is scarcely a
county in Ireland in which considerable progresi has not
already been made in the corn harvest, Nvltich is nearly a
month earlier than the average of seasons. All accounts
concur in describing the produce as unusually abundant,
and the quality as excellent. The wheat, oats, and barley
crops are, in fact, the greatest, in point of breadth, ever
witnessed in this country.
A spirit antagonistic to the payment of rent is developing
itself in many districts in Ireland. In truth, the small
farmers are placed in a difficult position. If they sell
their corn, plentiful as is the harvest, the produce will do
hardly more than pay the rent and arrears, if even so
lunch. The potatoes are gone as a food resource, and
they can
not go upon the public works. They have, there-
fore, it is said, come in many places to the resolution that
rent they will not pay, but keep the corn for their sup-
port. It is very doubtful whether this will generally be
acted on ; and it is to be hoped that no such spirit will
generally prevail, for the whole force of law should be put
,in operation to bear it down.
MATRIMONY.-FREAKS OF FORTUNE.—A young gen-
tleman, but a few years of
age, and hitherto a total alien
to the graces of the blind goddess Fortune, will this
mouth lead to the altar the richest heiress in Ireland.
The lady is now in her thirty-third year, and has been for
several years known in the literary world. The fortunate
youth was seeking a commission in some regiment on
foreign service, when dame Venus demanded him of Mars
for the home department ; and ere this month shall be
ended, he may ride twenty-five miles in a straight line on
the lands to be bestowed on him. These possessions de-
volved on the lady by the demise of her father, a western

M,P., in April last.
THE ABSENTEES.—In the course of an eloquent article
:in the Dublin Packet, the writer states the following
most gratifying facts :—" And we tell the people of Ire-
land—tell them too on the most unquestionable authority
—that they may expect the immediate return of numbers
of noblemen and gentlemen who have been partially or
entirely absentees, and who for the future mean to reside
upon their estates, and to cultivate those intimate rela-
ti ,ns with their tenantry, the want of which has been so
bitterly felt. The Earl of Devon, for instance, is about
to break up his English establishment, and to reside
_.s per-
manently here ; and we have the fullest reason to add,
example will be followed b•• nvnibPrs 1,1o12:24; g;,y,ilrr
,eminent position."

FATAIIACT7DENT FROM Plitt Atots.4=Ott the 30th ult.
C. S: Agnew, Esq., of Ballyclare, went to shoot on the
mountain of Ballyalbanagh. On leaving the mountain in
the evening, he was in the act of adjusting' their guns, in
the straps of the dash-board of the gig, standing in front
of the muzzles, when, melancholy to relate, one of them
went off, and the entire contents lodged intthe unfortu-
nate gentleman's chest, which caused almost

instantaneous

The loss of a bank parcel, containing notes to the
amount of £7,500 has been .the subject-of .investigation
' •

)m the metropolis to a city in _the south,

and there

xamined, previous to being transmitted to its destination,
when it was found correct. The pared was forwarded to
is destination from the branch of a second town, and the

:ontents quite different from• what he was advised they
sere—for, instead of the bank notes, ainoseting to £7,500,
6 certain quantity of turf was discoveredin the envelope,
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'S OF FURTHER DISTRESS

AI a meeting of

La-diens of the Limerick Poor-law Union, Captain
1, Inspecting Officer of the Union, said he wished
ns of the amount of destitution

n the Gua

ssuredly prevail in-enother fortnight,
TPS Would rpricn in n fenxr days. he did nc

erick without making known the fact
,that,
irding to the most minute inquiry he had made, the
ibers on'relief lists at the beginning of the week were
ierick electoral division, 1,783 ; in -the rural districts,
rl4 ; or, on an average for the entire union, 26,500.

to leave I

cent on the population, which was a small average com-
pared with the amount of destitution which prevailed four
months since„provision should be made.under the new act
to provide 1183 persons in the city, and 15,950 in the
rural districts, with out-door relief. Unless some remedy

Some discussion took place on this an-
nouncement, and finally a committee, suggested by Lord
Clare, was appointed to devise means of affording relief in
the cheapest manner possible.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE IN CASHEL .—A SON
SHOT BY HIS FATHER.—The Tipperary Canstitzetion
states that the police, having got information that Mr.
Francis O'Ryan, of Cashel, had shot his son, proceeded
to the scene of the .outrage, accompanied by the Hon.
Mr. Ffrench, S. M. On arriving at the house, they im-
mediately arrested Mr. O'Ryan, who stated that laving

was immediate)
certainly starve

He got. up and

•ossed his mind

that all was not right, and he he was led to suppose that
an improper intimacy existed between his wife and his
son whom he had by a former marriage. He at once
repaired to the son's room, and there found his wife in
bed with him. Mr. O'Ryan then dragged her out of the
bed, and abused her.in a v,iolent manner, the son in the

street, from whence he returned into the house through
a back entrance. The father, who had a case of pistols
in his hands, then met him en the stairs, and immediately
fired one of them at him, the contents of which hit the
unfortunate young man in the corner of the right eye,
and fractured his cheek bone. Drs. Russell, Cormick,
and Power were immediately in attendance, and he now
lies in a most precarious state. Mr. O'Ryan has been
committed to Cashel gaol.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. 1

Lrd Bird, A. 8., late rector of St. Tho-
n, has been presented by Lady Olivia
ctory of Hyton vel Houghton, near

Sparrow, to the R
Huntingdon.
Mr. C. B. Marriott, of Thundersley Rectory, has ad-
dressed a letter to the Yorkshire-man, contending that
the clergy of the establishment ought to be eligible to the
House of Commons as Dissenting ministers are. _

The Rev. William Geo. Greenareet, M.A., of Christ's
College, Cambridge, is promoted to the Vicarage of Pat-
tingham, and the Perpetual Curacy of Patshull, both in
the county of Stafford, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Richard Thursfield.

The Bishop of Exeter has addressed a letter to the
various Archdeacons through his diocese, expressive " of
his earnest wish that the thanksgiving for plenty should
be used in all the churches of the diocese, to the end of
September."
The Hon. and Rev. George Montagu Villiers, M.A.,
rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and a prebendary of
St. Paul's, is now spoken of as the new bishop. Mr.
Villiers married Miss Hulton, the eldest daughter of Wil-
liam Hutton, Esq., of Hulton Park. He will be the
youngest bishop, being in his 35th year.
AN HONEST CONFESSION AND A DESERVED REBUKE.

—The Manchester Guardian, a free trade and dissenting
journal, made the following honest avowal last week with
reference to the " Manchester Bishopric Bill." "We
must, in order to avert misapprehension, repeat that we
consider the opposition of the dissenters to the bill as
most unreasonable, while at the same time it appears cal-
culated to defeat their own avowed objects. We cannot
admit that the appointment of an additional bishop, paid
out of existing revenues, and having no seat in the legis-
lature, is an insult to dissenters. We deny that it is in
any way a question between the establishment and dissent.
It affects simply the efficiency of the church; and, though
we do not deny that in this men of all sects may feel a
deep interest, yet it is no matter of complaint if the legis-
lature follows the counsels of those who are not open to
the suspicion of being influenced by their attachment to
other communions." _ _

The Gazette, of Tuesday, contains the order in Council,

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the new Bishop of Manchester ;. ordering the Collegiate
Church to be the Cathedral Church of the new diocese,
which is to consist of the deaneries of Amounderness,
Blackburn, Manchester, and Leyland, and the whole pa-
rish of Leigh, including the townships of Astley, Ather-
ton, Bedford, Pennington, Tyldesley, with Shakerley and
Westleigh, otherwise Leigh, in the deanery of Warring-
ton, all in the county of Lancaster and the diocese of
Chester, together with such parts of the respective deane-
ries of Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale, in the same diocese,
as are in the same county. The Bishop's stipend is to be
£4,200 per annum, and a scheme for fixing the mode of
such endowment is to be laid before her Majesty as soon
as may be. The Bishops of Manchester and Ripon are
to have alternately the patronage of all benefices hereto-
fore or now belonging to any prebendary of the Collegiate
Church of Southwell.

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND CHURCH Accommo-
DATION.—The vestry of the parish of Upton-cum-Chal-
bey, near Slough, is at issue with the Bishop of Oxford,
respecting some alterations in the church. The vestry,
professing a desire to afford greater accommodation to the
poor, determined that a portion of the seats in the centre
of the church should be converted into pews, and that a
gallery should be erected capable of giving accommoda-
tion as free sittings, to one hundred and forty more per-
sons than had been deprived of seats by the erection of
pews referred to. Previously to these works being com-
menced, 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
purpose of the position of matters being explained to
the parishioners, and Mr. Bedborough, of Upton-park,
who maintained that the vestry had proceeded regu-
larly, after having obtained the consent of the archdea-
con and 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 hands, 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.