The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Six men were arrested on Wednesday week, charged
with the murder of the late Arthur Gloster, Esq.
One of the soldiers in Dublin having drank out of a
bucket used by horses, got the " farcy," and died in a
few days.

The Dublin Evening Post publishes a letter from Dr.
Murray. the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, enclosing
one from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Heytes-
bury, in which the latter assures the Archbishop that there
has never existed on the part of the government the slight-
est intention of entering into any negotiation with the
Papal See upon the subject of a concordat.
A NEW REPEAL CLUB.—It is reported that a club is
about to be established in Dublin to aid the repeal move-
ment : it is to be called " the 'B2 club ?" its members will
wear the green uniform of " the Volunteers of '45 ;" its
standard toast, "legislative independence," will exclude
federalists; Mr. O'Connell is to be its " president;"
Lord Ffrench and others will compose its "directory."
These new devices indicate mistrust of the ordinary repeal
si im ulants.

THE AGITATOR AT FAULT.—Mr. O'Connell cries
roccavi in a letter published in the Evening Post of
Thursday, for having asserted, untruly, that the papal
rescript to Dr. Crolly was an uncanonical document.
He confesses his offence, but attempts to explain it away
in a piece of the most flimsy sophistry, while he fawns on
Dr. Crolly and all the members of the popish hierarchy
in a style of slavish sycophancy, in order, if possible, to
win them back into good humour with himself and his
schemes.

SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—On the 11th inst.,
at four o'clock in the morning, a vessel was driven cn
shore by a southerly gale, at the Barrow, in Trumote
Bay. The alarm was given, and a number of brave fel-
lows went down to the beach to' endeavour to save the
crew, whose cries were distinctly heard. They formed a
chain, several of them plunging far into the surge, and
succeeded in saving one man. Two of them, Kenny and
Sinnot, afterwards, by great and perilous exertion, board-
ed the hulk, and succeeded in getting on shore three
others, including Travers the captain. A cabin boy,
however, perished from exhaustion before he could be
brought on shore. The vessel was the Elizabeth of
Bristol, 150 tons burthen, from Newport with coal for
Kins ile. Soon after the crew were taken off, she became
a complete wreck.
lIEPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual meeting was held
yesterday week. A letter was read from Mr. 0 Connell,
announcing his intention to be in Dublin on the 19th iust.
He saya in the course of his communication—" How lu-
dicrous is the state of ignorance of the public writers in
England, respecting the tone and temper of the Irish
mind I Tio- y will now have it that the fervent anxiety of
the Irish for the Repeal has cooled down, and been suc-
ceeded by some indifference. What folly I There never
were so persevering a people as the Irish; and the Eng-
lish scoffers may rest assured, that there will he no-relax-
ation of every means provided by the constitution for agi-
tating for the Repeal, until our parliament i 3 in College.
green." A letter was also read from Mr. Steele, the
Head Pacificator, which concluded with the following
reference to the Charitable Bequests Bill :—" As a matter
of delicacy, being a Protestant, I never once made a
speech, put pen to paper, or attended any public meeting
on the subject of the Charitable Bequests Bill ; I only
mourned in silence over that triumph of the Machiavelian
enemies of Ireland—division among the sanctified Catho-
lic hierarchy of Ireland. Over this I mourn, but still
mourn in silence. I venerate his Holiness the Pope as
the spiritual head, the sanclissirnus Pontiff of the religion
of my Catholic Christian brethren over the globe of the
earth; but I say to his Holiness, in his character of a
temporal Prince of a state in Italy, that no power on earth
except the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons, has a
right to make laws for Ireland—temporal laws for the
direction of Ireland, or for any portion of her people."
The rent was £230.
DR. CANTWELL AND THE POPE.—The letter of Mr.
O'Connell to Dr. Cantwell has produced a reply from
that reverend doctor. Mr. O'Connell had told him the
Pope's letter was uncanonical and undeserving of obedi-
ence, because it constituted an usurpation of temporal
power by the Pope. To this Dr. Cantwell replies, and
without saying that the letter is not an usurpation, that it
is deserving of obedience or that it is canonical, he at once
proceeds to panegytise his slanderous correspo .dent, who
had corresponded with him merely that lie might vilify
the Pope, and calumniate the Pope's Irish bishops, who,
with Cantwell himself, had promised to yield to the Pope's
command the obedience which, in their ordination, they
had vowed. He addresses Mr. O'Connell as " Illustrious
and Beloved." He says his letter was powerful and un-
answerable, and that it cannot fail to accomplish many
blessings ; and in the course of the letter, he declares that
Mr. O'Connell himself is the Irish nation's best religious
benefactor. Having thus characterised the calumniator
of the Pope, the Pope's bishop proceeds to prove that the
letter can receive no obedience, because it asks none.
The Pope's commands, he says, are hypothetical and con-
ditional, founded on information he had received, which
the Pope himself supposed might have been erroneous.
But Dr. Cantwell and Mr. O'Connell know that the
Pope's information was all erroneous, for each knows the
other respectively to be the most prudent and moderate
of prelates—the most peaceable and dutiful of subjects.
The Pope had heard of meetings in chapels, in fields, in
taverns, in ruins, in halls, and at dinners. He condemned
these, and, possibly, with perfect propriety ; but of these
neither Dr. Cantwell nor Mr. O'Connell knew anything ;
therefore, it was quite proper in itself, and quite in the
spirit of the letter of the Pope, for Dr. Cantwell to take
part in banquets to Mr. O'Connell—" banquets intended
to mark the nation's gratitude to her best religious and
civil benefactor." Such, literally, is the reasoning of Dr.
Cantwell.

UNCHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

Amongst the inmates of a convent in Galway was a very
old lady, who had become possessed of some freehold pro •
perty, which she held in her own right, independent of
the mother church ; and it was supposed that she retained
the ownership merely to secure greater respect and atten-
tion to be paid to her where she lived, but without the
slightest suspicion that any portion or remainder of it
would ever be permitted to revert to sinful wordlings
without the walls. The supposed whim of the old lady
was humoured by the sleek, affable gentlemen who bad
her conscience in charge, in perfect confidence that she
could not live always, and that her good acres would,
after her decease, be secured in perpeluum to those pe-
culiar charitable uses in which, according to their code,
the whole duty of man, and of woman, too. consists. In
short, they reckoned upon sharing the spoil among them-
selves, in the shape of masses and endowments, for the
good of their pious sister and of the church.
But when the Charitable Bequests Bill became the law,
it was no longer convenient that so valuable a waif should
float about, in dependence upon the breath of a Nonage-
narian ; and she was accordingly importuned most vehe-
mently to dispose of her estate. Transfer it she would
not ; but she consented at length to make a testamentary
disposition of it ; and being a self-willed person in all
things, and resolved upon having her own way, even in
that, she sent for a relation of her own, a Roman Catho-
lic merchant, who, by her directions, brought in a notary,
also a Roman Catholic, and in the presence of these two
persons, she did make a will.
It would bare been much more selon les re' Iles, if the
instrument had been prepared by one of the learned bre•
thren, who assist Doctor Mac Hale in guiding the hearts
and judgments of frail sinners in the straight and upright
course through the snares of this selfish woad. But the
old woman could do as she wished with her own, and
those patient Christians kindly acquiesced, still persuaded
in their minds that, in the point, they would find all that

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was right.
To make a long story short, the good old sister, full of
years and of sanctity, was gathered to her fathers ; and
be!ore she was cold in her bed, the will vea► opened. " 0,
tell it not in Gath"—she had eluded their grasp. and left
every sod of ground to lay persons of her own naa,c and
kindred. Not as much as a shovelful of bless-d clay did
she bequeath to convent or friar; not a maravedi to Bi-
shop or Priest, to Deacon, or Subdeacon—no ; nor one
farthing to his Grace, the Lord John, for the completion
of the fretwork of his cathedral; or to help the price of
that beautiful new organ, which he intends to inaugurate