The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., a highly accomplished
youth no doubt, is to be the repeal member for Dundalk.
Mr. S:leridan Knowles, it is stated, will be appointed
to the professorship of elocution in one of the new Irish
colleges, probably Cork, of which city be is a native.
No fewer than 260 outrages, many of an alarming cha-
racter, were committed in the disturbed districts of
Limerick within the last three months.
It is said that government have sent 250,000 quarters of
Indian corn to Cork, to be distributed' to the various
ports, as a preparative for the apprehended scarcity, owing
to the partial destruction of the potato crop.
At Gouran, Kilkenny, the other day, a substantial
farmer, named Miller, being jealous of his wife, beat her
with a spade handle until he thought he had killed her,
and then hung himself.
The name of the Right Rev. Dr. Crolly, the Roman
Catholic Primate, and those of all his clergy, are attached
to the requisition for free trade meetings at Belfast and
Drogheda.
Messrs. Warren and Henn, the former a sergeant-at-
law, and the latter a Queen's counsel, have been each
tendered the office of Solicitor-general for Ireland, and
each have reused the distinction.
A melancholy, and to one, fatal accident took place
last week in the neighbourhood of Cattle Blayney. Some
men were felling trees, which in felling became entangled,
by which two of the men were struck, and one of them
killed.
The jury who tried Bryan Steery, at the Westmeath
special commission, for shooting at Sir Francis Hopkins.
were unable to give a verdict after being locked up for
thirty-six hours. Two of the jurymen were released at
the request of a medical man, who pronounced their lives
to be in danger.
SHOCKING CASE OF INFANTICIDE.—A few days ago,
an inquest was held on the body of a male infant, about a
week old. The body was discovered near Clerihan ; the
head was literally battered in, and the doctor deposed that
it must have been struck against some hard substance.—
Limerick Chronicle.
RELIGION D'ARGENT.—A very elaborate description
of the imposing ceremony of the consecration of Dr.
Magian, as Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, concludes
with the following announcement :—" The proceeds of the
tickets of admission amounted to the magnificent sum of
£l3l and upwards." Money ! Money ! Money ! The-
atrical display, and " tickets of admission."
At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on
Monday, in Conciliation Hall, Mr. D. Callaghan, M.P.,
was in the chair. As the repeal members for Irish con-
stituencies had been requested to attend, unusual interest
was excited, but several of them were unavoidably absent,
and it was ultimately arranged that they should assemble
at Raby's Hotel, on Friday. The rent for the week was
announced as £367 3s. 11d.
STATE OF IRELAND.—The Limerick papers again con-
tain a frightful list of " agrarian" outrages, and from, the
Clonrnel Journal we learn that in the south of Tipperary
two murders have been committed. One of them was
perpetrated on a servant man, named Crotty, who was
shot through the left breast, and when discovered pre-
sented a shocking spectacle.
ABDUCTION.—On Friday night, the daughter of a
farmer residing near " the Devils Bit," was forcibly
taken away by a party of fellows, who broke into her
father's house.
.Her screams awoke a neighbour, who
ran out to remonstrate with the aggressors; but they
turned out and beat him severely, and fractured his skull,
and his recovery is not expected. The noise attracted
other neighbours, upon whose appearance the marauders
fled, leaving the " abducted maiden" behind them.—
Tipperary Vindicator.
SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. From an
interesting paper lately published by that excellent insti-
stitution, the Sunday School Society for Ireland, it ap-
pears that 566 schools, containing 54,585 scholars, have
received gratuitous assistance in books during the last
six months; and that 27,867 Bibles, Testaments, and
portions of Scriptures, besides 26,692 Scripture reading
books and spelling books containing reading lessons se-
lected from the Sacred Scriptures, have been issued
to the scholars during the same period. It is also a
striking fact that the number of Bibles sold during the
last six months exceeds, by 2748, the number dissemi-
nated during the corresponding period of the year 1844.
FIRE-ARMS.—FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday
John Sterling, a watchman, employed at Mr. Orr's bleach-
green, whilst proceeding homewards, at the above period,
overtook a man named Smiley, who was driving a horse
and cart in the same direction. The watchman put his
loaded gun into the cart, and immediately afterwards
Smiley took it up, and asked Sterling if he were going to
get it repaired, placing, at the same time, his finger on
the trigger. As the gun was cocked, it went off, and two
men, who were passing in a milk-cart, fell wounded; one
of them named Patrick Armour, mortally, as he died
shortly afterwards; the other, John Roberts, was so
much injured, that his life is considered to be endangered.
Smiley and Sterling are in custody.—Belfast Paper.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL IVEWs

Prince Albert has appointed the Rev. G. H. Liddell,
M.A., to be one of his Ris Royal •H ighness's Domestic
Chaplains, in the room of the Dean of Westminster, pro-
moted to the See of Oxford.
Dr. Symons, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, in an-
swer to a letter from Mr. Golightly makes the heartsick-
ening confession that he must forbear to reimpose an
oath upon Dr. Pusey, because, an oath taken by a person,
holding the opinions which Dr. Pusey has not scrupled to
declare he has adopted, is no test whatever of the sincerity
of him who makes it—" Proh pudor !"

AWFUI LY SUDDEN DEATII.—On Sunday, immediately
after giving out the text, the Rev. W. H. George, of
Spaxton, Somerset, suddenly dropped in his pulpit, to the
great consternation of all present, and especially when it
was ascertained that life was extinct. The Rev. gentle-
/rum was about fifty years of age, and much respected.
IMPORTANT STEP.—The Times say , that the Dean of
Christ Church has deprived the Rev. Thomas Edward
Morris, M.A., Student of Christ Church and Tutor, of
his tutorship in that College. Mr. Morris is brother of
Mr. Morris, of Exeter College, who has just gone over to
the Romish Church. The Dean, it is said, being anxious
to protect the young men of the College from Romanizing
influences, called on Mr. Morris to sign the 39 articles,
which Mr. Morris said he had lately done in the astute of
Tract No. 90. Hence the deprivation alluded to.
ADDRESS OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION TO THE
DIGNITARIES OF THE CHURCH.—The committee of the
Protestant Association have addressed a respectful repre-
sentation to the Archbishops and Bishops of the United
Church of England and Ireland, setting forth the alarm
with which the association views the progress of a Ro-
manising party in the Church, who declare they must re.
cede from the principles of the English Reformation ; the
apostacy more recently manifested from the Scriptural
truth maintained in the Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy ;
and the avowed secession of some of the chief leaders of
that party, with many of their followers, to the Church of
Rome, &c., and humbly urging their lordships to exert
their influence and authority to stay these and other con-
comitant evils, the onward course of which has not yet
been checked by effectual measures. They lament that
new and strange doctrines infect both our universities,
those fountains out of which the blessings of sound learn-
ing and religious education should flow : aIS6 that the
Thirty-nine Articles of the Church are frequently and
avowedly signed in a " non-natural sense," a practice
which strikes at the foundations of all honour and honesty
amongst men. Finally, after some remarks on the excel-
lence of these Articles " for avoiding diversities of opinion,
and for the establishing of consent touching true religion,"
the committee express to their lordships their earnest de-
sire, that the bishops and pastors of our Church " should
perseveringly exert themselves to maintain and diffuse
among every portion of the clergy a high and holy stan-
dard of conscientiousness, integrity, and faithfulness,
both in taking upon themselves and in fulfilling their or-
dination vows and engagements; and to holdup to general
detestation all jesuitical reservation and evasion, in regard
to an office so sacred and pledges so solemn and impor-
tant." The committee expresses the readiness of the
association to afford any assistance in their power to the
Fathers of the Church, in their efforts to banish the erro-
neous and strange doctrines referred to, and look to their
lordships to call upon others to do the same. The address
concludes with a prayer, that a blessing may rest
on their lordships pious endeavours for the purification
and protection of the Protestant Church.