The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

be pai,l

..191311t X 2000) be paid £lOOO, and the canons (now
....potted to derive £lOOO each from the living) be paid
K5OO eSeh per annum. The rectory and parish to be set
Ottt for the cathedral or collegiate church is to be annexed
td the deanery, and one of the other rectories is to be an-
nexed to each canonry. The chaplains are to be ap-
pointed by the dean, and to have the title and rank of
minor canons, and to be relieved from duties, except in
the cathedral end parish annexed to it. The right of no-
mination to existing churches to remain ; but, in any ad-
ditional rectory to be constituted under this act, the pa.
tronage is to be vested in the bishop. The patronage of
the dean and chapter is to cease with their office, (or be-
fore, with their consent), and be vested in the bishop.

IRELAND.

Mr. John O'Connell has sent in his resignation for
Limerick city, where it will be received with welcome.
The free-traders created so much disturbance at the
Limerick Protectionist meeting on Thursday, that no
resolutions could be passed.

At Cork sessions, last week, the Judge gave:damages of
£l7 2s. 6d. against a man for assisting a tenant fraudu-
lently to remove his crops. The act of parliament creates
a penalty of double the amount of crops so removed.

A vacancy is likely to occur within the month in the
representation of Mayo. It is said that Mr. Dillon
Brown has been appointed by Earl Grey to the govern-
ment of the Falkland Islands.

ROBBING OF THE MAIL.—Some few nights ago, as
the mail-car was on its way from Nenagh to Temple-
more, the driver was attacked near Moneygall, and the
mail-bags taken out of the car. The bags were found
by the police near the town on the next morning, robbed
of their contents.
THE ROYAL CANAL OF TRcLAND.—Another breach
was made in the banks of the canal on Saturday night
last, within about a mile of Kilbeggan, and only a short
distance from Lowertown, where another breach was ma-
liciously made a few days ago, to repair which it cost
nearly £5OO. An equal amount will be required to repair
the injury done on Saturday night.
The address to the Queen, from Ireland, in favour of
Protection, has now several thousand signatures. In
short, there is hardly a barony, a parish in Ireland, that
is not represented in this most important document. The
Earl of Buckinghamshire, with upwards of 400 tenant-
farmers in one district in Sligo, has signed this address,
and every post brings in signatures.
Mr. Michael Doheny, one of the hue'd and cry'd, in a
letter addressed "To the Democrats of the City of Dub-
lin," dated from New York, says:—" Heed not the cant
of grievances. Heed not those who rail at the Church.
It is a dream of mockery. If every vestige of the Church
Establishment were destroyed to-morrow it would not
give one of you an additional potato or an additional rag."
MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—A horrible murder was per-
petrated in the main street of Cashel, within 100 yards of
the police barracks, on Wednesday night. Four young
fellows, sent on that night with a cart load of bread to
one of the auxiliary workhouses, had a quarrel on the
way, and one of them, named Ryan, received a violent
blow of a skull-cracker, which rendered him at once
senseless ; he expired shortly after. Head-constable
Hallam arrested the three youths implicated.
LORD RODEN.—An address has been presented to
Lord Roden by the Norwich Protestant Association, in
which the members express their sympathy with his
lordship under the painful circumstances in which he has
been placed by the unjust, impolitic, and unconstitutional
act of the government, and their admiration of his lord-
ship's dignified demeanour and Christian patience. His
lordship, in his reply, says the indignation which has been
expressed by so many of his countrymen admits of no
doubtful construction, that he believes truth will ulti-
mately prevail, and that many who considered the circum-
stances of his case unfavourably had changed their
opinions, and that the parties to the address have sup-
ported by unanswerable arguments the sentence they
have pronounced. He concludes with thanks for this
mark of their approbation, which he values the more as
coming from so numerous a class of his countrymen as the
Protestant operatives of Norwich.
BRUTAL MURDER.—About five weeks since an inhu-
man murder, and an attempt at a second murder, was per-
petrated by an old beggarwoman named Catherine Con-
nelly, who lived at Lanagh, in the county Cork. In the
neighbourhood of Lanaght, a family resided of the name
of Driscoll—a man and his wife, and female child, of
about seven years of age. On the day of the murder,
Driscoll left home to attend to his field work. and his wife
having promised to be in Dunmanway, got the child of a
neighbour, also seven years of age, to keep company with
little Driscoll during her mother's absance. Shortly after
the mother left, Connelly, who is about 70 years of age,
went into the house with a young lad, and shortly after
Connelly took up an iron tongs, and beat the two children
on the head, until she thought both were dead. She then
ransacked the house and decamped, taking with her a
piece of frieze and a piece of flannel, and three shillings
in silver. In some time after a girl passing the door saw
the two children lying on the hearth and gave alarm to a
policeman passing at the moment. The constable found
little Driscoll dead, but the life appeared not to have left
her little companion, who under the care of Dr. Donovan
has since recovered, and a few days since wss enabled to
identify the murderess. For some weeks the murder was
involved in mystery, until little Morris was capable of
speaking, when she gave the name of the old wretch.

POLITICAL

MISCELLANY.

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The resolutions in favour of protection were carried
with much rejoicing at the Dublin county meeting on
Friday.

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A vacancy is likely to occur in the representation of
Mayo, Mr. Dillon Browne having, it is said, been
appointed to the Governorship of the Falkland Islands.
A demonstration has been got up at Manchester, by
the Irish residents for the purpose of thanking Mr. Bright
for his advocacy of Irish interests at the late meeting at
the Free-trade Hall.

Mr. Roebuck, who is residing with Lord Brougham at
Cannes, is said to be preparing a Ten Years History of a
Liberal Administration, which will contain his lordship's
views as well as his own.

The three daily protectionist journals have been
christened anew by the Times. The Morning Post it
calls the `' Morning Panic," the Herald the " Hard-up,"
and the Standard the " Stark-mad."
A writer in the Daily Neces asks whether the farmers
are bound to pay " the same tithes as they were assessed
at when there was protection I" Truly, coming events
are casting their shadows before.

The Weekly Chronicle states that among the earliest
measures to be submitted to parliament will be a bill to
provide an extention of the suffrage both in Engalnd and
Ireland, and that this reform will be recommeuded in the
speech from the throne.

THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—The council of ministers at
Turin has prepared a bill by which all the restrictions at
present imposed upon British vessels arriving at the ports
of Sardinia are to be removed, and they are to be placed
in every respect upon the same footing as national vessels.
Two great Protectionist meetings were held on Friday,
one at Chelmsford, the other at Salisbury. At both reso-
lutions were carried to petition the Queen for a dissolution
of Parliament. The Free-traders in vain endeavoured by
lawless conduct to impede the business of the latter meet-
ing.
SIR ROBERT PEEL IN FEBRUARY, 1842.—" 1 DO say
it is for the public advantage that I should say to him
(the farmer) continue your improvements ; I cannot un-
dertake to guarantee to you, by legislation, a particular
price, BUT THIS I WILL SAY, THAT AS LONG AS CORN IS
UNDER 51 SHILLINGS, YOU SHALL NOT BE EXPOSED TO
THE IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CORN."

The Protectionist movement goes bravely on. Since
our last there have been meetings held and Protectionist
societies formed at Ripon and Driffield, and in Notting-
hamshire, Suffolk, Essex, and other places, till, altogether,
now the National Association is supported by three hun-
dred and twenty local institutions. In Ireland a still
more lively Protectionist feeling has been evoked, and
every day is adding to the number of deserters from the
enemy's camp.

THE CURREACY.—The Rev. John Twells, vicar of
Eaton, recently delivered alecture upon this subject at the
Town-hall, Retford. The reverend gentleman, after ob-
serving that he bad been for many years convinced that
the monetary system was the main cause of the depressed
state of the country, gave a review of the experience of
the country for the last thirty years, and this experience,
he said, teaches that a contracted currency has invariably
lowered prices and brought distress ; and that an abun-
dant currency has lowered prices to rise to a remunerative
level, and restored Prosperity.
PROTECTIONIST MEETING.-011 Baturday a meeting of
the " members of the Leicestershire Agricultural Society,
and others favourable to the principle of just protection to
every British interest," was held at the Bell Inn, in
Leicester, for the purpose of " taking into consideration
the circular of the British Association for the Protection
of British Industry and Capital, and the propriety of
addressing her Majesty the Queen on the present depressed
state of the country." Abut 500 noblemen and gentle-
men were present, consisting of the leading agriculturists
in the neighbourhood, with a sprinkling of professional
gentlemen and tradesmen. Among the company were the
Marquis of Granby, M.P., Lord John Manners, Lord
Charles Manners, M.P., the Hon. H. W. Wilson, and
Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P. Altogether it was looked upon
as being the most influential and numerous meeting of the
kind ever held within the borough.
LORD WHARNCLIFFE ON PROTECTION.—This noble-
man has just written a letter in reply to an application
that he would take part at a meeting to petition in favour
of the restoration of the corn duties. At the close of this
letter his lordship says : " As a measure of protection, in
which light it is clear that the proposal is mainly to be
considered,—l am fully convinced that the corn duties
cannot be restored, and that to expect it is mere delusion,
than the propagation of which nothing can be more perni-
cious to the true interests of any branch of industry. I
can therefore take no part in any proceedings for such an
object. What the agriculture of this country really needs,
is a wider and more energetic application of capital and
skill. To invite this should be the end and aim of every
true friend to its prosperity. To accomplish it, the one
thing requisite above all others, is a reliance upon settled
prospects, without which the hope is small of attracting
either the one or the other. I am therefore firmly per-
suaded that no course can be so deeply prejudicial to the
cause of domestic agriculture as that which tends to pro-
mote and continue agitation and uncertainty, for objects
whose very nature is, to say the least of it, in the highest
degree problematical." His lordship's property is much
more likely to be benefitted by the extension of Sheffield,
Rotherham, &c., than by protection to agriculture.
SOCIETY FOR THE REFORM OF COLONIAL GOVERN-
MENT.—An influential society has been formed in Lon-
don, the object of which is to obtain " for every de-
pendency, which is a true colony of England, the real
and sole management of all local affairs by the colony
itself, including the disposal of the waste lands, and the
right to frame and alter its local constitution at pleasure."

According to the views of the society, this entinicipal or
local independence, this entire relief of flietant colonies
from the great evil of being ruled in local chattel& by a
department of the administration in Londet, innad of
being incompatible with allegiance to the crown of Eng-
land, is really calculated to substitute for growing disaf-
fection, and for the present danger of lt dismemberment
of the British empire, a loyal aad devoted attachment on
the part of the colonies towards the mother country, by
removing the worst impediment and affording a new and
powerful encouragement to colonisation proceeding from
the United Kingdom. It will be a main object of the
society's endeavours to relieve the mother country from
the whole expense of the local government of colonies,
except only that of the defence of the colony from ag-
gre•Asion by foreign powers at war with the empire. The
council is composed of influential gentlemen of all poli-
tical creeds, among whom are the Hon. Francis Baring,
M.P., (chairman,) the Lord Lyttleton, the Right Hon.
M. Gibson, M.P., Sir W. Molesworth, Bart., M.P.,
Augustus Stafford, Esq., M.P., J. Hume, Esq., M.P.,
R. Cobden, Esq.. M.P., E. Horsman, Esq., M.P., J.
Napier, Esq., M.P., J. Simeon, Esq., M.P., C. B. Ad-
derley, Esq., M.P., H. Ker Seymer, Esq., M.P.

COURT AND FASHION.
_._

The Court remains at Windsor Castle. The Duke and
Duchess, and Prince George, and the Princess Mary of
Cambridge, are visiting her Majesty. All the Royal
Family are in good health.
The Bishop of Manchester has arrived at Windsor
Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
Her Majesty's new year's gift of meat, bread, coals,
potatoes, blankets, and clothing, were distributed on
Tuesday morninz, to the aged, infirm, and distressed poor
of Windsor and its vicinity, in the presence of the Queen
and Prince Albert and the royal family.

RAILWAY

AFFAIRS.

The expenditure on the new and old lines, the traffic
returns of which are not published weekly, amounts to
about £l6,ooo,ooo—that is, £9,000,000 on the former,
and £7,000,000 on the latter—making, with the
£181,000,000, a total of £197,000,000 expended on 5,950
miles of railway, being an average cost of £33,110 per
mile.

RATING OF RAILWAYS.—At the Macclesfield petty
sessions, on Monday, it was decided that an assessment
on the London and North-Western line, in that township,
should be reduced from £1,500 to £6O per mile ; and on
the station from £2OO to £ll2. Another appeal of the
same company, against an assessment of £2OO per mile in
Adlington, was compromised by the overseers consenting
to reduce the amount to £3O per mile.
PARTIAL FALLING OF A BRIDGE.—SOMO sensation
was created in Hindley, last night week, by the falling of
a portion of the battlement of the bridge on the Liver-
pool and Bury Railway that passes over the valley near
to Hindley Mill. On closer examination, it was observed
that the arches of the viaduct were cracked in several
places, and men were set to work on Saturday and Sunday
last to secure the fabric. Fortunately the injury was
discovered in time to prevent any accident happening to
the trains.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC FOR 1849.—The receipts from all
sources, on forty-six railways, for the past year, amounted
to the sum of £10,876,866, of which sum £6,530,700 was
received from passengers, and £4,346,166 for goods. The
entire number of miles open was 5,063 i. The highest
sum taken in one week was by the London and North.
Western. It amounted to £52,031, but the fluctuation,
owing to the cholera and other causes, was so great, that
for several weeks the receipts were as low as £44,000.
The number of miles opened by the North-Western was
478 i, and the entire receipts for the year £2,154,400.
The company which approximated nearest to the North-
Western in receipts was the Midland, the earnings of
which amounted to £1,117,803.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC AND THE CHOLERA.—From a
comparison of the aggregate amount of traffic on railways
in the United Kingdom between the 22d of August and
the 3d of November, 1849, with the traffic of the corres-
ponding periods of preceding years, it has been estimated
that the falling off in the traffic in consequence of the
cholera at that period amounted to £155,000. In the
week ending the 25th of August, the falling off amounted
to £5,000 ; the week ending Ist of September to £9,000 ;
Bth of September, to £19,000; 15th of September, to
£25,000 ; 22d of September, to 30,000 ; 29th of Septem-
ber, to £26,000 ; 6th of October, to £20,000 ; 13th of
October, £13,000 ; 20th ofOctober, £6,000 ; and the 27th
of October, £2,000. It appears, also. that the whole
amount of this traffic was lost, because there is no corres-
ponding increase shown in the traffic during the remainder
of the year to make up the deficiency. In addition to this
the traffic on the northern lines of railway was seriously
reduced, for several months prior to the period mentioned,
from the same cause. Were it not for that deficiency, the
aggregate amount of the railway traffic for the year 1849
would have amounted to £11,168,800 instead of to
£11,013,800.