The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

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addressed the assembly in English, and set forth the nine
following roasons why the congregation wished to secede
from the Roman hierarchy, and to establish a free Ca-
tholic Church :—First, Freedom of conscience. Second,
Because we and our children are deprived of the Holy
Bible. Third, We cannot recognise the Pope as the in-
fallible bead of the church, or vicar of Christ. Fourth,
We do reject that the priests, through their ordination,
receive power to rule over God's inheritance, to traffic in
souls, enslave conscience, and stupify the mind with,
superstition. Fifth, We reject celibacy. Sixth, We re-
ject auricular confession as unrighteous and demoralising.
Seventh, We reject purgatory. Eighth, We reject calling
.on the saints, and veneration of images and relics. Ninth,
We reject indulgencies and pilgrimages, because they tend
to self-righteousness, and make commerce of human

of the Rev. Mr. Giustiniani. He exhorted his hearers to
be watchfal and prayerful; to clasp the Bible to their
bosoms, to read it, to put their trust in it, and as long as
a single star blazed in the American flag, they would be
safe. The Rev. C. Kast, of Germany, also addressed the
congregation. He spoke in German, and was eloquent.
After he had concluded, the Rev. Mr. Giustiniani des-
cended to the floor, and taking a lighted candle in his
band, pronounced the congregation as having seceded
from the Church of Rome, and blew out the candle. The
congregation seemed to be exceedingly well pleased with
the proc

DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS.—A correspondent of the Daily
Naas, writing from Namur, under date of the 16th of
August, thus describes serious harvest disasters which
have recently happened in Belgium :—" I traversed to-
day the line from Lille to this town, and on my way saw
a most melancholy harvest scene. For nearly sixty miles
all the low lands are flooded, and in some spots the water
extends over the railway itself to such an extent that we
were in fear that the fires would be put out, and the train
be at a stand-still. The aspect of the country is very
painful. In many places the reapers seem to have been
literally driven from their work by the waters, half a field
of wheat being cut and tied with the water extending half-
way up the shock as it stands where they left it, the other
half of the crop being still uncut, with the ears of the
-corn just visible above the surface of the flood. In other
places the cut wheat is seen floating about. Thousands
of acres of wheat now stretch on each side of the railway
and might be taken for lakes, were it not for the rows of
tree tops that mark the margin of the submerged fields.
Here and there the people were at work up to their waists
in water, striving to rescue their property ; but what they
could get, like that which now lies soaking under water
can have very little value. The floods seem heaviest to-
wards Charleroi ; and the Sambre, as I write, is rolling
into the Mense with double its usual volume, and its tide
as yellow and turbid as a second Tiber. if the rest of the
country suffers as this portion of it now does, Belgium
insist be a buyer of foreign corn this year, to make up her
losses." At Brussels, in many of the suburbs, the water
was five feet high. The quays of the Charleroi canal had
been carried away by the torrents, and four men drowned
at one place. In the Faubourg de Flandre, fifty houses
had been thrown down, and an immense number of cattle
lost. At Nivelle, near Waterloo, great destruction of
property has taken place. At Nimy, such was the force
of the current through the streets. that one hundred
casks of beer were rolled nearly half a league into the
plain of Nimy. At St. Denis, a large mill was bodily
carried away. The ravages in the vicinity of Mons were
not less severe. The Haiue threw down a great part of
the railway works on the Mons and Mange Railway ; the
rails were torn up and dispersed. The loss of he Manage
Railway Company is estimated at 300,000 tr.

lowing curious note of hand :—" In two days after t}
demise of my present wife I promise to marry Aliso '
, value received, under fifty pounds sterling
.ven under my hand this sixteenth day of May. &c., J
Sullivan." Shortly after Miss Moran received the abov4
lte she died, leaving it endorsed to a female friend, wlu

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wife ; however, on her sick bed, she also endorsed the
note, and gave it to a cousin, whom the tailor absolutely
married, agreeably to the endorsement, in two days after
the death of his wife, and it is said the tailor and his wife
are now living happily in the city of Kilkenny.—Kilkenny
Moderator.

The " sea serpent" was seen in Dublin Bay on Thurs-
day by several persons on board a yacht. Several portions
of the back were in view over the water and seemed to
resemble " the coils of a serpent," to adopt the phraseo-
logy of one of the gentlemen who waited on us to describe
the circumstance : the bead was shaped not unlike that of
an eel, and was borne aloft several feet out of the water.
The speed at which he moved through the water was esti-
mated at 20 miles an hour, and he left a wake such as
misfit be expected from a ship of several hundred tons.
The gentleman who saw this monster computed his length
at 100 feet, and was quite satisfied that the monster was
not of the whale tribes, and was not of a species heretofore
known to mariners or described by naturalists. The
Tralee Mercury says, " On Thursday last, as the Lord
Nelson, one of the boats belonging to the Royal Irish
Fishery Com par v, was passing through the Blasket Sound,

coast of Kerry, what at first appeared to be a dense volume
of fog was seen about a quarter of a mile ahead ; but on
nearing the object, it was discovered to be the head and
neck of a monster of the serpent genus, whose tremen-
dous appearance filled the minds of the sailors with inde-
scribable terror. After gazing for some moments at the

dulations of its body and caudal vertebate, it emitted an
eructation, not unlike the snorting of a locomotive engine
of the first class, and plunged into the depths of the ocean,
leaving a long track of foam and wave to mark its course.
The fishermen gladly made all sail for Dingle, and, with
no small terror, recounted their escape from the marine
monster. and it is to be feared they will not be induced
to visit that part of the coast for a considerable time. A
scientific gentleman now in Dingle, deeply versed in the
science of ichthyology, has informed us, en passant, that
this strange monster was the Ictheus Magacoddensis,'
which was not unfrequently seen some centuries since on
the Irish coast."
THE POPISH SYNOD IN IRELAND.—It ought to be
universally known that the Pope has summoned a SYNOD
of the Irish Roman Catholic Church to assemble at
Thurles. An accredited organ of the Romish Church in
Ireland thus announces the fact :—" The present assetn-
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blage is the first National Council synodically convened,
synodically conducted, and synodically to Le concluded
in Ireland, since the days of the Reformation, nay, we
believe since the days of the English invasion ; its d elibe-
rations must be viewed in a different light. The vene-
rated Primate of Ireland, by virtue of special legatine
powers, convenes the meeting, presides at its sittings, and
closes its proceedings. From its decisions, then, there
will be no further appeal. All its acts will be final and
imperatively binding upon every member of the Catholic
Church in Ireland, both priesthood and people, without
exception of rank or station." Let those who desire a
petition for synodical action to be revived in the Church
of England look to it !—ln consequence of this gathering,
the town of Thurles, on Thursday and succeeding days,
was a busy place. The Dublin Roman Catholic organ, in
describing the scene, says :—" The shops and warehouses
were closed, and the aspect of the principal street indi-
cated the observance which is usual on the occasion of the
high festivals of the church, or at times of great public
solemnity. The streets were crowded by a continuous
tide of people coming in from the adjoining parishes : but
the usual street noises, the loud laugh and the passing
jest, so usual in the street of a country town, were all
hushed : and the fine-looking peasantry, clad in their
Sabbath costume, might be seen either proceeding with
quiet and subdued demeanour, or standing in groups
conversing in low and restrained voices about the coming
ceremony. The gates of the chapel yard were kept 'closed,
and a strong guard of the constabulary was drawn up
around them. At the opposite side of the road, directly
fronting the chapel, the gates of the college were seen,
guarded in like manner by a body of police. From this
gate stretches a smooth and carefully kept carriageway,
nearly a quarter of a mile in length, extending to the ball
steps and vestibule of the collegiate edifice. This road-
way divides equally the beautiful lawn which extends in
front of the building. From the gate to the front door of
the vestibule there were stationed, at a few paces distant
from each other, privates of the constabulary force, armed
and accoutred as for parade or duty, who were placed
there to secure the line of procession from casual in-
terruption." The reporters omit to state whether the
police presented arms as the procession passed along :
" At a few minutes after ten o'clock the appearance of
some of the attendant officials at the front of the vestibule
gave indication that the procession was about to issue
forth. The large bell of the chapel and the chimes of the
convent were now heard at, intervals, and notwithstanding
the immense crowds outside, so complete wasthe stillness
and respectful silence that prevailed, that even at a con-
siderable distance within the college gates, the solemn
pealing of the noble organ of the chapel could be heard.
At length the glittering cross, borne aloft by the crucifier,
was seen issuing from the college vestibule. Through the
open valves of the great entrance a glimpse was afforded