The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

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stated that the Very Rev. William Delany, 8.8. of Ban-
don, who stood second on the list, has been appointed
Bishop of Cork by the Court of Rome ; and that the
consecrating bulls will be received in a few days from this
date.—Cork Examiner.—[Father Mathew was first on
the list]•

THE Inisn PACKET STATIONS.—We have learned
-as a stepping- that £30,000 has been granted by government for Port-
avinee patrick Harbour, and large steamers are about to be put
,nmerr on that packet station. At the same time, we under-
Juprer stand by way of experiment, an additional mail is to be
ehene carried by contract from Ardrossan to Belfast and Fleet-
itoyal Navy is supplied with seamen. , mai wood, to carry, we presume, the north mails to Ireland
that the suspension already tried, as far as experience and England—the south mails continuing as formerly to
proved, had had no practically beneficial effect ; and he go by Portpatrick and by Holyhead. The new arrange-
insisted
that the Government, instead of suspending the ment is said to be a temporary one.—Wigtonshire Free
Navigation Laws, ought to have employed all the vessels Press.
of war that could be spared in carrying grain to this MR. O'CONNELL'S REMAINS.—The Dublin Evening
country. By September next there would be no further Post says: The Oriental Steam-packet Company, through
pretence for continuing the suspension of these laws. their respected and public-spirited secretary, Mr. Hartley,
Lord J. RUSSELL assured the noble lord that the mea- have made arrangements on the most liberal scale, for the
sure was designed to be only temporary, and had no conveyance of the remains of Mr. O'Connell from Genoa
reference whatever to any ulterior change in the perma- to Southampton, free of all charge. The steamer destined
nent Navigation Laws. convey the body of the illustrious deceased is expected at
After a slight discussion, Lord G. BENTINCK consented Southampton about the 17th of July. Mr. Hartley has
to withdraw his opposition, as Lord John Russell had undertaken to convey the body in one of his own vessels,
announced that he would impartially consider the evidence and solely at his own cost, from Southampton to Dublin or •
taken before the Navigation Laws committee. Kingston, as the Dublin Cemetery committee may select,
The Custody of Offenders Bill passed through com- and has given directions that the Queen steamer should
mittee, and the report was ordered to be received on be suitably fitted up for this purpose. It is calculated that
Mon
heday. the remains of Mr. O'Connell will arrive in this city about
T Stock in Trade Exemption Bill was read a second the 20th of July."
time after some opposition from Sir R. Inglis and Lord STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Generally, the accounts are
G. Bentinck, the latter of whom moved that the House much less unfavourable as to the extent of fever and desti-
be counted. Sir G. Grey was then the only occupant of tution. Food is becoming plentiful and cheaper, and the
the Ministerial benches, but by a sudden rush of members fine prospects of the harvest are giving confidence to all
the House was saved. classes. Even in Skibbereen there is a most decided im-
Dr. Bow RING asked the Attorney- General whether the provement. The Rev. R. Boyle Townsend, in a letter
property of Tawell, who was executed for murder, and from that place, says—" Though the workhouse is as
respecting which an official inquiry had lately taken place, crowded as ever, having at this instant eleven hundred in
instead- of escheating to the Crown, would be restored to it, that is, three hundred over its original intended num-
his widow ? ber, there were but four deaths in the last week—a prodi-
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had been wholly gious change from over one hundred deaths in the same
surprised at the turn given in various quarters to the late space of time shortly ago. We have, to be sure, many
inquisition into the property of the convict Tawell. The epidemics raging still, and much destitution of course, but
hon. member was aware that the goods of convicts es- nothing above ordinary mortality, nor any want of food
cheated to the Crown ; but the widow of Tawell having in plenty allowed to exist, through the Lord's blessing."
petitioned the crown that an inquisition into her late In some districts, however, Sligo in particular, fever and
husband's property might be made, with a view to itsbeing destitution still prevail to a lamentable extent.
vested in herself, the petition had been granted, and the THE WEATHER.—Summer has set in in right earnebutst,
inquiry had taken place accordingly. ',Hear, hear.) not, as has been observed, " with its usual severity,
Lord SANDOM asked if the Governor of! Hong Kong with a brilliancy and warmth more resembling a tropical
had acted on his own responsibility in his expedition to
than the humid, lukewarm, climate of the " Emerald
Canton ? Isle;" and a continuance of such weather as we have had
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had received instruc-
for the last few days cannot but raise high hopes of the
tions to demand redress for injuries inflicted by the Chi-than average abundance. Nothing
advent of better times, by the realization of the prospect
of a harvest of more
nese authorities, of which he had sent home information •
but other circumstances having since arisen, he had acted can be more cheering than the accounts from all parts of
the kingdom—there is scarcely a drawback. The grain
without instructions as to the particular expedition.
crops are described as being seldom equalled, never ex-
To a question from Mr. Horsman, Lord MORPETH
celled, in appearances, while the turnip and other green
replied that he intended, on the passing of the Health of
Towns Bill, to discontinue burials in crowded towns. crops promise a field which must nearly, if not altogether
y
counterbalance the loss by failure—supposing it complete
The House went into committee on the Health of
Towns Bill, and clauses eight to fifteen inclusive were —of the potato. Prices of all kinds of provisions are
agreed to. The thirteenth clause, which excludes the gradually declining everywhere, and, all things considered,
city of London, was carried on a division by 112 against the aspect of affairs is by no means so disheartening as it
70. The Chairman reported progress, and obtain leave to was at the corresponding period of last year.
Mr. SHIEL'S PANEGYRIC ON O'CONNELL.—Mr. Sheil
sit again at twelve o'clock on Monday.
The House then adjourned to Monday. availed himself of the recent debate upon the Government
project for lending £600,000 to certain Irish railways, to
deliver a panegyric on O'Connell. The hon. member's
speech was in his usual style when he lavishes praise—
somewhat florid and tawdry, but at the same time cold
This week the installation of Prince Albert will take and constrained. He appeared as if wishing to be only
decently civil ;.without any deep feeling of admiration for
place at Cambridge. The Queen is to be present, and his departed friend, or of veneration for his memory. Mr.
would arrive there yesterday. M. J. O'Connell, who afterwards addressed the house,

would I

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id which would put in peril the naval supremacy
the source from whence the

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He maintained

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

J..-
The Lord Bishop of Exetsr has been pleased to appoint took no notice of this posthumous tribute, and we suspect
the Rev. William Maskell, M.A., of Broadleaze, near it will be very ungraciously received in Conciliation Hall.
Devizes, one of his lordship's domestic chaplains. The topic upon which Mr. Sheil expatiated most largely,
Friday's Gazette contains Orders in Council ratifying was his own regret that O'Connell did not live to reach
three schemes of the ecclesiastical commissioners. The Rome ! Nothing could be more trite or superficial than
first authorises the sale of certain lands now forming part the manner in which he handled this point :—I would that
of the endowment of the prebend of Bishopshall, in the he had lived to behold the seat of that ancient and per-
cathedral of Lichfield. The second and third assign dis- petual faith in which he was anh humble believer, and of
tricts to the consecrated church of St. Peter, Birming- which he was the proud and chivalrousthath champion—that
ne
tand—ktheal tt
ham, and to Newport Chapel, Bishop's Tawton, Devon. he had lived to behold the eternal city,
COLONIAL SEES.—We have now twenty-two colonial at the altars of that temple, the noblest that was ever
raised by the hands of man, an& worthy of the purposes,
sees and dioceses ; viz., Antigua, Barbadoes, Bombay,
the high and holy ones, to which it is devoted--and, that
Calcutta, Gibraltar, Guiana, Jamaica, Madras, Montreal,
through the marble halls of the Vatican the venerable
Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Tas-
man, though with a feeble and tottering step, had found
mania, Toronto, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, Melbourne,
his way, amidst the array of sacerdotal pampa, and re_
Cape Town, Colombo, and Fredericton. This is a goodly
ceived the sanctifying salutation of the great pontifical
and a godly array ; but it is the forerunner only, we trust
reformer who has ascended the chair of St. Peter amidst
and believe, of a far larger distribution of spiritual aid to
our vast colonial empire. The field for labour is bound- the acclamations of the world.
TRAGIC OCCURRENCE.-011 Saturday week, a trooper
less ; our duty, as a Christian state, to cultivate it. impe-
named Smith, of the 7th Hussars, attempted to shoot
native. Until recently, this duty was but feebly and par-
Sergeant-Major Trout, in the barracks at Ballinasloe.
tinily recognised ; but we are beginning to understand it
On examination, the culprit endeavoured to prove that he
better ; and we look forward to its future performance with
enrifithmep. The impulse which has been given will have fired a blank cartridge ; but, in.ortler to do this, it was of

a natural tendency to develop its own energic
Bull.

number of ball cartridge. It is supposed that a private
in the 75th Regiment, named John Radcliff, supplied a
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS OF TII IS DIOCESE.— W e I
relieve that the Bishop- of Chester has divided the ruri- cartridge to make up the number. This becoming known,
the colonel of the 75th issued the following memorandum,
decanal court hitherto presided over by the " Rural dean
of all and singular the rural deaneries of the archdeaeonry ' to be read in presence of the company :—" Private Rad.
cliff's hair will be cut quite close to his head, and he will
of Chester.' Hereafter, each archdeacon (of Chester,
Manchester, and Liverpool) will preside as rural dean over . be kept in the strictest confinement, and any man seen
own district. Archdeacon Wood and Archdeacon speaking to him is immediately to be confined and pun-
his' ished for ' disobedience of orders. He will also be
marched a prisoner on Wednesday next, at 5 a.m., to
Rushton are appointed and inducted, subject to the alters- .
tion of territory on the founding of the archdeaconry of ' -
of Athlone, handcuffed, and be prepared to take his trial by
Live- rol. As some of our readers may not be aware
a `general' or ' district' court-martial; and most assu-
ties of a rural dean, we may mention that rural redly he will receive the severest punishment that can be
are deputies of the bishop, planted all roundhi.
inflicted. The lieutenant-colonel cannot strongly

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diocese, tn(
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) inspect the conduct of the parochial express. his indignation- at the detestaote par
to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to
e the candidates for confirmation, and they are private Radcliffin the transaction in question,
ing the corps
in an odious liglitifforeneyubi:

judicial

coercive authority.—Mgneheeter Gwor;'/;a;

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rangements must, if possible, be made for sending the
wife of the prisoner to her friends, as her name w ill be
erased from the books at the end of the month." In
compliance with this order, Radclifrs hair was cropped
close, and after being paraded he was led back to the
guard-room in company with a corporal arid two privates.
Immediately on his entering the room he seized a razor,
and drew it across his throat, which divided the principal
vessels of the neck, and he soon afterwards died.—An
inquest was held, when the following verdict was return-
ed :—" We find that the deceased, John Radcliff, came
by his death in consequence of having inflicted an exten-
sive wound in his throat with a razor, whilst labouring

under temporary derangement, induced by the extreme
severity of the order from Colonel Hallifax produced in
evidence."

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

An action for libel against The Times was tried in the
Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, by a dealer in curio-
sities, named Evans. The alleged libel consisted in stat-
ing that he had sold a sword, falsely represented as having
belonged to Lord Nelson, A verdict was returned for the
_ _ _ _

THE LAW OF MARRIAGE.—Tbe London Gazette of
Tuesday, contains a notice that the Queen has been please&
to appoint the Right Rev. John Bishop of Lichfieln, the
Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, the Right Hon.
Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., the Right Hon. Anthony
Richard Blake, Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Knt.,
and Andrew Rutherford Esq., Lord Advocate of Scotland,
to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the
state and operation of the law of marriage.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—This Company has
been singularly unfortunate this Session in their schemes.
Out of five bills, they lost four.
It is estimated that the Wolverton accident will involve
the London and North Western Company in an ex

of between £30,000 and £40,000.
The daily expenses of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, in the present parliament, have been estimlted at
1£4500, or about £30,000 a-week.
The Mining Journal states that a series of experiments
made by Mr. Motley, C.E. have thrown doubts upon the
safety of Stephenson's bridge across the Menai Straits.
Twenty railway bills have received the royal assent
this session, authorising £5,404,915 to he raised by capital
and loan for the construction of 255} miles of railway.

he mere exi

railway

During the present session,
bills in parliament have been estimated at half a million
sterling, and during the last sessions at three millions

sterling- !

Thelrombro' Railway Branch was opened on Monday
and in commemoration of the event two thousand collier
received each a gratuity and free passage to Liverpool an(
back.

THE ST. HELEN'S RAILWAY.—The St. Helen's Rail-
way Company's Bill, for branches to Warrington and
Blackbrook, passed through the committee of the House
of Lords on Tuesday.
In the railway committee of the House of Lords on

and New

proved, and evidence was heard in favour of ti
Lancashire (Southport branch).

so in readiness to carry it farther

:n a short time we may expect to h

magic means of communication being extended to the
most remote regions of the American continent.
A useful label for passengers' luggage has been invent-

king patterns, all dissimilar; and passengers may readily
fix them on packages, so tkat they may be easily recog-

nised, and no mistakes arise
Yesterc'

y week, ti

locomotive en g
iran. exnloded