The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

RIPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The rent for the week ending
yourday week, had tumbled down to £289.

SIIIP-BOARD.—On Monday, a fire was dis.
=wed On board the barque Ninian, at Limerick. The
nizets;'rigging, sails, captain's cabin, and a great part of
the: main hold were destroyed before the vessel could be
scuttled.

The 116 n. George Hely Hutchinson, who has of late
beemso conspicuous in the Conciliation Hall, hes gone to
Ititly,:.and left behind him an address to " Protestants,"
urgiuglhem to become Repealers.

FiITHITFUL MURDER.—On Monday night last as Ar-
thiir ,Gloster, Esq., of Moylish, near Limerick, was re-
tUsnimg home in his gig he was shot dead by two armed
rtiffattns. The deceased was a wealthy gentleman—of
hansom•and unexceptionable character, and the outrage
wits:committed in consequence of his having served noti-
ces of ejection on some of his tenants for non-payment of
rte`,

AATEMPTED ASSASSINATJON.—It appears that the
disapfMr. Gloster's murder (which sad event we record
irianother paragraph) was to have been signalised by ano-
thEirk,assassination in the same district ; and that but for
the:courage and presence of mind of his servant, Robert
of the city of Limerick, would, in all proba-
bility' have fallen a victim to the agrarian Tbugg of the
bankers, of Limerick and Clare. Mr. Hunt was accom-
pllicd in his gig by his servant, when he was attacked,
auxhcirpvidentially they were both armed with pistols, and
tin/a:able to' defeat the murderous intent of their cruel and
cowardly assailants.

RlttuoNism.—On Friday week, some young men at-
tetuladAt ribbon meeting near this town, and some dis-
puletarising, they attacked two men, brothers, named
Fesl3ll-, and beat them severely. Immediately after,
auutbUmbrother rushed into the party with a knife, and
knhithdne.of them on the spot, by stabbing him in the
heart-1 He also wounded several others, who are so
dangerously ill that their lives are despaired of. Sligo
Juhrual4.-;-[llnless our borough magistracy take some
ettivpto,,prevent this diabolical confederacy spreading
haranwrailst-us, we shall be having similar scenes enacted
evil

FIEVADS
.., 'ON THE BENEV
OfrAhttitlJubri ' , OLENT.-The commissioners
• -w metropolitan police, having received from
vitrioits,parts of the United, Kingdom counterfeited certi-
hates* purporting to from magistrates at Galway,
Sligovor other ports, with
iimpal
mut . fictitious subscription lists ap-
pended, rind sometimes seals (found to be im-
PrPsioits from casts of corporationpre,eutt livery buttons), in
wlaielx:papers, women re
the widows of ser-
geonts or other non•commissionedd. in° e
under pre-
tortes; are, recommended for alms, usually her Majesty's
vatous fabri-
teneeof, dest:tut'on from shipwreck ; and
catora-of, such papers, apprehended by the
escaped. punishment for want of legal proofof Police, having
the actual
receipt: of: money by means of the false pretences used
(Vereionly:offnce cognizable in the present state
of the
laai,i; 'have . issued a notice of the frauds practised, tone_
ther. Witive-opics of some of the forged certificates, in order
toiproprent further imposition, and induce the transords-
si!skotcharitable donations through responsible persons,
w Wch,ziven. in compliance with the written solicitations
oLsinittiown applicants.

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF LIMERICK.—This venerable
and learned ecclesiastic who has been long in a declining
,state of hellth, died on Sunday week, in the 85th year of
his age. The Very Rev. Arihur John Preston, when
Dean of Kildare, was promote,; to the Deanery of Lime-
rick, and instituted 1809. The Deanery of Limerick is
not valued at more than £l,OOO a year, but there are at-
tached to the office the patronage of Mungret and Bruree
vicar,gcs, the Perpetual Curacy of Cahirnarey, end six
Minor Canons in the Cathedral. The above dignity is in
the gift of the crown.—Limerick Chronicle.
Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter from Derrynane
Abbey to the Acting Secretary of the Repeal Association,
calling attention to " a most important article, which ap-
peared in a journal once devoted to Orangeism, and still
highly Protestant, the Warder, of the 19th October."
In several of the extracts from the Warder, the writer
declares, that, " Irish parties were never so fusible as
now" ; dwells upon the dangerous misery of Ireland as
tending to revolution ; and says, that, " if Irish parties
ate to unite, it ought to be in a spirit of equality, neither
submitting to the other's power." Mr. O'Connell ex-
presses fervent approbation of this paper, and calls upon
all Irishmen to unite.

IRIS!! NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.—The Rev.
Dr. Martin, of Killeshandra, in a letter to the Dublin
Evening Mail, of Wednesday, gives the following amongst
other reasons for co-operating with the National Educa-
tion Board vs now modified. " That by the last explana-
tion of the National Commissioners, the only condition
for the acceptance of a,d, which is seriously objectionable
to the clergy, is, that no child whose parents or guardians
object, can be compelled to read the Scriptures during the
hours appointed for general or literary instruction : and
that submission to that condition, in the cases supposed,
is now lawful, and involves, not the sacrifice, but the
maintenance, of principle ; or is not a sin, but a duty.
That for three classes, namely, the church, the dissenting
Protestant, and the non objecting Romanist children, the
nation now offers to the clergy an education strictly on the
principles of the Church Education Society; and for the
fourth, or remaining classes, or objecting,. Romanists, a
considerable portion (though not all they 'desire) of reli-
gion and moral, intermixed with literary instruction ; and,
at the same time, threatens them, in case of non-compli-
ance, with, probably, the irreparable injury of all the four
classes ; and after making the final choice, it refuses sub-
sequent repentance upon their part. That if irremedi-
able mischief be so done which might have been lawfully
averted by the clergyman, such mischief being the result
of his own voluntary act, is imputable to him, and he be-
comes morally responsible for it. That while the other
alternative of clbsing their schools and of abandoning
education to the priests in such districts, will save the
clergy both labour and expense, and damage not them-
selves, but their poor parishioners, the other alternative of
accepting aid will subject them to expense, and care, and
labour, and benefit exclusively the poor people and child-
ren, of whom they are the natural guardians. That the
districts where such submission may be advisable, are,
for the most part, situated in the 861 benefices of Ire-
land, whicn contain an average of 1,000 church members,
as well as tl,e greater part of the Dissenting Protestants,
and of the Romanists who are most willing to read the
Scriptures; and that if by one course only the clergy can
lawluily save thousands of such children from risk or ruin,
it becomes not wrong in them, but right, to adopt it."