The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

FuREIGN AND COLONIAL

An interesting proof of the mildness of Madeira is, that
swallows do not migrate from the island.
Sarah Gale, who was transported for her connexion
with the Gr«-enacre murder, is now keeping a fashionable
confectioner's shop at Sydney.
Marshal Bugeaud's troops have been again smoking
the Arabs to death. In the last week in November they
burnt and baked not fewer than 100 in a cave.

Cape of Good Hope papers just received state, that the
discovery of the guano islands had, in the shape of licences
for vessels making shipments, yielded £28,705. A num-
ber of vessels were still in the neighbourhood of Saldanha
Bay waiting for cargoes.

There are 208 " backs," 250 cabs, and 239 omnibuses
in New York • making in all 697 public conveyances in
that city. All the omnibuses are the property of six
firms; 64 being in the hands of one firm, and the mini-

mum number of 20 in those of another.
ALEXANDRIA.—The English Protestant Church is pro-
gressing very fast, but the works are likely.soon to be
stopped for want of funds. The amount already sub-
scribed, including £5OO given by her Majesty's Govern-
ment, will fall short of the architect's estimate ; con-
sidering the great number of English Protestants who now
pass through Egypt, a place of worship is essentially ne-
cessary.

The Siamese twins are no longer singular—they are now
matched, and a quadruple alliance might be easily formed
by their junction with the prodigies now in Paris. The
phenomena consists of two girls, enjoying perfect health,
of the age of three months, and soldered together through
the greater extent of their bodies. They were born on the
6th of August, and were baptised in the names of Philo-

mene and He

The Frankfort Journal states that the differences be-
tween Russia and Rome have been settled. Russia will
not seek to coerce Romanisti to conform to the Greek
Church, while Rome engages to watch that Romanists
shall not take part in political movements against the
state. This settlement is attributed to the conciliatory
interference of Austria.

The Paris papers of Sunday contain the details of an
attempt of " the students" on the preceding day to bring
themselves into notoriet;, rapairing, to the number of
1,200 or 1,500, to the house of M. Quinet, Professor of
the College of France, to compliment him for his anti-

Jesuitical principles. 'They iniended afterwards giving a
charivari to the Minister of Public Instruction for pre-
suming to suspend M. Quinet for his refusal to suppress
a notice that he would in his lectures introduce matters

dispersed

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of them

FRANKFORT. Nov. 27.—The German Diet will meet
immediately after the new year. The Prussian Ambas-
sador, Count von Donhoff, will preside, as Count von
Munch-Bellinghaustn will remain for some time longerin
Vienna. Among the questions for discussion in the Diet,
that of the religious movement is not the least important.
It his now become so important, in a political point of
view, that a serious consideration of it has been indispen-
sable, and the way is already prepared for it. The Ger-
man Catholics find support here in the circumstance that
a number of respectable Roman Catholic families have
declared in favour of the efforts to bring about a reform
made by the clergy who hold the opinions of Wessenberg.
Hambu'ph Paper.

DESTRUCTION OF A SYNAGOGUE.—The 'Jewish syna-
gogue at Avignon was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 24th November. The conflagration originated acci-

dentally in a cellar occupied by a vender of provisions :
it lasted until the next day at noon, and the walls alone
were left standing. The material loss was estimated at
55,000 francs ; namely, 34.000 francs for the building and
wainscoting, and 21,000 francs for the curtain and the
ark (make of silk. gold, and silver), the ark itself. the
chandeliers or lustres. and the sacred books, some of
which were very old. This last loss was more seriously
felt by the Israelite community than all the rest. The
collection of the Sepherem, or books of the law, was
composed of forty-two parchment rolls, and considered
one of the richest in the world. The temple, one of the

finest in France, bad been rebuilt and enlarged 30 y ears
bekre the revolution of 1789. _

—The packet-ship Hottinguer, arrived on
Sunday with New York advises to the 21st ult., the news
is not important. The auxiliary-steamer Massachusetts,
Capt. White, arrived at Hohne's Hole, near New York,
on the 19th ult. The cause of her very prolonged voyage
of twenty-eight days we have been unable to learn. We
presume that either her screw had been damaged or that
she ran short of coal. The Britannia steamer, Capt.
Hewitt, was telegraphed off Boston, at 4, p.m., on the
20th ult. The formation of the contemplated packet-line
between Baltimore and this port appeared probable. The
estaWishment of a steam line from New York to Charles-
ton had also been mooted. A new and beautiful ship,
named the Niagara, and intended for the Liverpool
trade, had been launched. She is to be commanded by
Capt. W. Russell, late of the Saratoga. Foreign Ex-
changes were dull, in consequence of the non-arrival of
the Boston steamer accounts. Sterling, 1081 to 109.

AMERICA

IRE LAND

Lord Roden has contributed £lO to the Dublin Protes-
tant Operative Society.
Dr. Kennedy, the Romish Bishop of Killaloe, has
written from Rome, to say that his visit to the " Eternal
City" has no relation, directly or irrtirectly, to the Col-
eges Act, the Bequests Act, or any other act.

'MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—AIderman Hearn, of
Clonmel, was, on Tuesday last, found drowned in a we-
tervat, in his brewery. The deceased had been impli-
cated in a case of defalcation to the extent of from ten to
fifteen thousand pounds.
MURDER.—On Tuesday night, John Hogan, of Bal-
linderry, Tipperary, was shot close to his own house.
His family ran out and found his mutilated body—his
clothes at the time were partly on fire, so close were his
murderous assailants to him. He was brought into the
house and laid on some straw—bis body actually riddled
in every part with balls, and a wife and nine children
mourning over him.

THE POTATOE DISEASE.—The Irish provincial jour-
nals represent the potato crops as nearly free from disease,
and that very few cases of recent attack have occurred.
The following is from the Newry Telegraph :—As a
proof that the progress of the disease is stayed, we may
just mention that an extensive farmer in this neighbour-
hood concluded, the day before yesterday, an examina-
tion of about forty tons of potatoes, which had been
pitted about a fortnight previously, and found them all in
a state of the most perfect preservation. That this is the
case generally appears to be the fact, from the several
communications published, from time to time, by prac-
tical persons in the public journals.
PROGRESS OF ORANGE ORGANISATION.—Cavan is
up and doing. The awful ribbon code pervades that and
the neighbouring counties, and the Protestant yeomanry
are therefore determined to be a more united band than
ever. The name of Orange has a talisman's charm to
bind the loyal men together. They will not give it up.
The Hon. Somerset Maxwell has become their leader, and
at a meeting on Tuesday with that gentleman in the
chair. it was resolved to reorganise the Orange Institu-
tion, on strictly legal principles, as the best means of pre-
serving under God the blessings handed down under a
Protestant constitution established by William Prince of
Orange of glorious memory.
IMPORTANT CASE.—The dining-hall of Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, was, on Thursday, the scene of much in-
terest. It arose from the rare occurrence of a❑ archiepis-
copal visitation to decide upon the claim of Mr. Heron,
a Roman Catholic, to a scholarship of the college. He
had, after due examin aion, obtained the appointment of
scholar of the house some time ago, but was declared in-
competent to fill it on account of his religion. The visitors
are the Lord Primate of Ireland and the Archbishop of
Dublin. They were assisted by the Right Hon. Richard
Keating, Judge of the Prerogative Court as their assessor.
The dining-hall was fitted up for the occasion as the
Court of Inquiry, which, it will be remembered, was di-
rected to be held by an order of the Court of Queen's
Bench, made last Trinity Term, which granted a writ of
mandamus upon the application of the appellant, requiring
the Primate and Archbishop of Dublin to hear the case
and adjudicate upon it. The arguments of counsel con-
cluded on Saturday, but it is not expected that the deci-
sion of the visitors will be given for several days.
OUTRAGES.—The Tipperary papers last week are full
of outrages. Near Youghall, a man, named Castel!, and
his son, were attaked and frightfully beaten. The son's
skull was fractured. On Sunday night week, some ruf-
fians, with blackened faces, entered the house of John
Flynn, near Nenagh, and beat him severely. On the sth
instant, four men, well armed, went to the house of John
Gleeson, and compelled him and his son to promise to
leave the country, and not act as stewards any longer.
On Sunday week, a party of police were attacked and
fired at near Ballynahinch. One of them received a ball
in his arm. Two houses, near Shinrone, were set fire to,
and consumed on Friday week. The tenants were about
to be put out of possession. On the sth instant, two
bailiffs, at Castletown, were about to make a seizure,
when they were attacked by a large party, and compelled
to leave without carrying out the process of law. On
Sunday night week, a party of seven men, armed, en-
tered the house of Michael Murray, of Crimlin, Tippe-
rary, and beat him and his wife, and left orders that he
was to give up his land, and that if he gave them the
trouble of coming again, it would cost him his life.

REPEAL AssociAnow.—The weekly meeting of the
association was held on Monday, James Kelly, Esq., M.P.
for Limerick, in the chair. Mr. O'Connell having handed
in a number of remittances, adverted to a further attack
which had been made by the Times " Commissioner."
lie was aware it was foolish on his part to take any no-
tice of the barking of the cur of the Times, nor would
he do so on the present occasion, but for the purpose of
returning his thanks to the Evening Mail and Packet.
Conservative journals, for the gentlemanly feeling which
they exhibited towards him. if the Times were guilty
of calumniating him (Mr. O'Connell) he held the Ex-
aminer to be still more culpable, for that journal pub-
lished every lie that was uttered against him, but never
gave one word of the contradiction. He (Mr. O'Con-
nell) would not condescend to read a line in the Exam-
4nring his life unless that journal changed hands.
Ariell having entered into some details for the
purpoe of shoving that the Times Commissioner did not
isit his estate at all, continued to say that no one need

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derive profit from the atrocious falsehood circulated on
Thursday last. lle then stated that he proposed p'ro-
ceeding. to Waterford during the present week, for the
purpose of reconciling the conteriding repealers in that
town, but he felt that his mission would be unattended
with any beneficial results. At the termination of the
proceedings, the rent was announced to be £291 12s. 9d.