The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

LIST OF PASSENGERS.

From Boston :—Mr. Peter J. Francisca, Mr. Robert
Leech, Mr. Purton, Mr. John Gilmorer, Mrs. Lee, Mr.
John Bryant, lady, and servant, Mr. Harbeck and lady,
Mr. E. Oxnard, Count Napoleon Bertrand, Hon. C. R.
Ogden, Hon. James Kirk, Mr. J. T. Jones, Mr. W. E.
Swaine, Mr. James Bryers, Colonel C. Johnson, Mr.
Thomas Appleton, Mr. William Young, Mr. W. Prehn,
Mr. Thomas Daly, Mr. George Martin, Mr. Geo. Smith,
Mr. Jacob Snider, jun., Mr. Muir, Mr. Macdonald, Mr.
Matthew Robin, Mr. Peter Robin, Mr. W. Southwell,
Mr. T. J. Kerr, Mr. Max. Bohrer, Mr. Chrs. Bohrer,
Mr. C. S. Barclay, Mr. F. C. Stuart, Mr. W. Crothers,
Mr. James M'Conuell, Mr. Thomas Hacker, Mr. George
S. Glover, Mr. Chrs. Schmidt, Mr. Bernard M'Connell,
Mr. S. Forster. Mr. H. A. Vandamme, Mr. T. B. Power,
Mr. W. C. M'Leod, Mr. G. W. Hoghton, Mr. J. Cuth•
bertson, Mr. 1-1. Holland, Mr. J. Garson, Mr. J. Rickard,
Mr. S. Benjamin, Mr. Jos. Jacobs, and Mr. James
Maguire.

From Halifax :—M. M. G. Black ; Hon. Emos Collins,
Mrs. Collins, Master Collins, child, and servant, Mr. R.
H. Chilton, Captain Egerton, Mr. Donohoe, Mr. Chrs.
Enches, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. William Hutton.

A REGIMENT OF BLACK GUARDS.—The British go-
vernment has considered it expedient to organise some
companies of black troops in Upper Canada, which are
stationed along the line of the Welland Canal, commanded
by white officers. The Halifax Herald says the Cork-
onians and Fardowns are kept quiet by these gentlemen in
red coats and black facings.—New York paper.
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Something effectual seems likely to be done for the
protection of Dr. Kalley and the British protestants in
Madeira. Lord Aberdeen has made a claim of £l2OO in
favour of the doctor, by way of compensation for his
losses during his illegal imprisonment in the gaol of
Funchal. We hope this demand will be not merely made,
but vigorously enforced.
SHOOTING MEETING IN SWITZERLAND.—The great
federal shooting meeting at Basle is concluded. It is cal-
culated that the number of carbine-shots fired was at the
least 250,000 ; and, it is said, on the Sunday, no fewer
than 21 000 bottles of wine were drunk in a few hours.
The list of all the prizes would fill many columi s of a
journal. There were three grand prizes of the respective
value of 3780 f., 2400 f., and 2100 f.—the first won by Col.
Hunerwald, of Lemburg, in Argau : the second by M.
Benzinger, of Appenzel : and, the third, by the English
nobleman, Lord Vernon, who obtained his naturalization
in Switzerland, in order to have the right of compet-
ing.

SPAIN.—By accounts from Madrid, of the 16th inst.,
it would appear that the Spanish Government really pro-
poses to send an expedition against the Moors. Madrid
letters and papers concur in regarding this matter as cer-
tain. The Isabella 11. Spanish steamer, was to leave for
Ceuta on the 18th, with a battalion of the Regiment of
Toledo on board. The Spanish force destined to act
against Morocco was to be raised to 10,000 men, and it
was believed they would attack and occupy Tangier,
whilst the French operated in another direction. The
Heraldo states that Brigadier Mauri, who is to take the
command of the Spanish troops now on their march to
the south, bad arrived at Algesiars. On the 6th, the
Dutch squadron, commanded by Prince Henry of the
Netherlands, reached Gibraltar, after a passage of 14 days
from Plymouth. The prince bad taken up his residence
in the Governor's palace. The Patriarch of the Indies
left Madrid for Barcelona on the 16th, at the request of
their Majesties, to act as their spiritual director.

THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.^In consequence of the
recent decision of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, thatlodgers
paying a yearly rent of £lO, were entitled under the Re-
form Act to the privilege of voting at elections, there is
every probability that the constituencies of the metropoli-
tan boroughs will this year be greatly increased. In the
Tower Hamlets about 1000 claims have been sent in to
the overseers ; in the ward of Cripplegate notices have
been served for 700, and in the borough of Lambeth there
are no fewer than 1000 new claimants, the great majority
of whom are lodgers.

IRELAND.

MAYNOOTH AND THE MINISTRY.

The Morning Herald, of Friday, reveals, by way of
hypothesis, the intentions of Government with respect to
Mavnooth, and general education in Ireland. According
to this organ of the Government, the Irish Romanists are
to be tempted out of their thraldom by offering them a
really liberal education, at the outlay of a few thcusinds.
But, no second Maynooth! says our contemporary, " nor
any increase of the grant to Maynooth, while left on its
present footing ! Not to speak of the filth of Dens, or of
the morals of Bailly, think of a British Parliament actually
paying a body of professors to inculcate such doctrines as
the following :
" It is proved by natural reason, that heretics can
justly be excommunicated, and therefore PUT TO DEATH.'
' Experience teaches that there is no other remedy ; for
the Church has tried every other in vain.' if you con-
fine them in prison, or send them into exile, they corrupt
the neighbourhood with their books and speeches; there-
fore, the only remedy is, to send them al once to their own
place.' ' All these reasons persuade us that heretics
ought to be put to death.' "
Such is the decision of Bellarmine (book iii. chap 31)
and Bellarmine is a class book at Maynooth. The Herald
then asks zealous Protestants if it is not possible to frame
a plan which, giving to the Irish Romanistsfar more than
they now receive, may yet relieve our Protestant con-
sciences from the pain and guilt of teaching and propagat-
ing Popery ? The Herald supposes a large college founded
for liberal education of the middle and higher classes of
the Romanists of Ireland; the state to find the fabric, and
the endowment of a body of professors in all the various
branches of a liberal education, theology only excepted;
and then it asks if the state were to do all this, would it
not be fully justified in throwing upon the Romish priest-
hood themselves, who are at this moment raising some
£50,000 per annum as " repeal rent," the charge of fur-
nishing theological tuition, with which the government
need have nothing to do?—Church and State Gazette.

REPEAL FLAGS.—On Monday Captain Postle, and
other officers of Her Majesty's steamer Flamer, prefered
informations before Alderman Watson and Alderman
Boyse for breaches of the Admiralty statute, by vessels in
this harbour, decorated with flags not national. The
legal penalty is £5OO, and not less than £5O. However,
in a commercial port so seldom visited by ships of war,
it is not surprising that neglect of the Admiralty regula-
tions should be apparent.—Limerick Chronicle.
THE HARVFST 11'4 IRELAND.—The reports from all
parts of the sister country speak most sanguinely of the
prospects of the harvest, which has already commenced in
some of the more favoured districts, several fields of barley
having been cut down in the neighbourhood of Dublin.
The grain crops will be abundant beyond the average of
preceding years, but hay, from the excessive drought,
will be scarce, and of inferior quality. Potatoes are said
to have failed in some instances ; but the complaint is by
no means general, nor is there at present any reason to
apprehend a scarcity of this necessary article of food. The
heat of the sun for the last two days bas been almost in-
tolerable. Some rain fell on Saturday night and Sunday,
the effects of which on the after grass must have been
neutralized by the intense heat which followed.
TRANQUILITY IN IRELAND.—There was no convict
left under sentence of death at Clonmel Assizes. Kildare,
Carlow, and Queen's County Assizes occupied only a day
each.—Dublin paper.—PEACE OF TIPPFRA.TtY.—For the
last 30 years this is the only assize at which the respected
coroner for this division of the county had not returned a
case of murder or manslaughter ! Between this and the
last assizes there has not been a single outrage of the kind
—a fact unprecedented for 30 years. This is one of the
effects of the repeal agitation : but if the youths who rule
the destinies of Ireland can help it, this is a fact that shall
not again be told.—Repeal paper.—[There is no denying
the fact, that " for the last 30 years" there has been sel-
dom witnessed so apparent an absence of crime on the
face of the calendars, not only of Tipperary, but through-
out the four provinces, as shown at the present summer
assizes; and it is also equally undeniable that this grati-
fying state of the country has been " one of the rt sults
of the repeal agitation," inasmuch as the blow struck at
the leaders of that agitation has had the effect of partially
restoring order, by convincing the people of the delusions
under which they so long laboured with respect to the in-
vincibility of the great agitator, and hence their gradual
return to habits of peace and industry.]
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.—No small stir has been
made by the repealers in consequence of an alleged ad-
mission by Lord Lyndhurst `'that the jury list was fraud-
ulently made up, &c." As some misapprehension still
exists on the subject in the minds of many persons, not-
withstanding the explanation of Lord Lyndhurst, it may
be necessary to give the following explanation :—On the
15th of January last, and before the swearing in of the
first juror, a challenge to the array was put in by Sir Col-
man O'Loghlen for the traversers, on the ground, as alle-
ged, that the names of certain persons recited in the plea
were omitted from the jury list—" that the names omitted
from thefraudulent paper writing were also omitted from
the jurors and jury list to the manifest injury of the said
Daniel O'Connell," &c.—" that the fraudulent paper
had been made out without the knowledge, assistance, or
contrivance of the said Daniel O'Connell, or any person
acting on his authority ; and it was therefore prayed, that
the panel might be quashed or set aside." To this the
counsel for the crown demurred ; and it may be necessary
to apprise the general reader that the very essence of a de-
murrer is the admission of a matter as a matter of fact,
for the purpose of raising an argument on the law ; for it
refers the law arising oil the fact to the judgment of the
court; and, therefore, the fact—as, for instance, the
alleged " fraudulent paper"—is, for the occasion, taken to
be true on such demurrer, or otherwise the court would
have no foundation on which to make any judgment. It
was in reference to this principle of pleading that Lord
Lyndhurst addressed himself in reply to Mr. Hill, when
arguing the prisoners' case ; and his lordship no more de-
clared the jury list to be " fraudulently made up" than
the Court of Queen's Bench in this country did when the
point was argued before the judges, upon the legal admis-
sion of the fact, and when they unanimously decided in
favour of the crown.

ARRIVAL OF LORD HEYTESBURY IN DUBLIN.--On
Friday morning, shortly before eleven o'clock, the Mer-
lin, Admiralty steamer, the vessel which conveyed his Ex-
cellency the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from this
port to the shores of the sister country, as noticed in
another paragraph, entered Dublin harbour under a sa-
lute from the guns of the revenue cruisers, and amid the
most enthusastic cheering from the assembled multitude.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore, and the Right
Hon. Frederick Shaw, the two Privy Councillors ap-
pointed to receive his Lordship, immediately proceeded
on board. His lordship then landed, attended by the
above-mentioned personages ; and, amid the continued
cheering of the vast crowd which had assembled, pro-
ceeded to the Railway Station, where a special train was
in waiting to convey him, and the cortege by which he
was accompanied, to Dublin. His lordship appeared to
be in the enjoyment of excellent health, and acknowledged
in the most courteous and dignified manner. the cordial
greetings which were tendered to him as he passed along.
At a quarter past eleven o'clock the train started from
Kingstown, and reached Westland-row in nine minutes.
There a detachment of the Ist Royal Dragoons was sta-
tioned, who received his lordship with the usual military
honours, and formed his escort to the castle. His lord-
ship having entered his carriage, accompanied by the
Right Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore and the Right Hon.
Frederick Shaw, proceeded to the castle. Manifestations
of welcome from the crowd were loud and repeated, inter-
mingled with some occasional faint cheers for the repeal
prisoners and repeal. It was a matter of remark that
amongst the immense crowd which filled the streets, and
even amongst the groups of people who raised these party
cries, not even a solitary repeal button could be seen.
The repeal Lord Mayor of Dublin, attended by the cor-
porate officers, and preceded by the City Marshal, who
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THE ADARE CONSPIRACY.—The miscreants convicted
of this nefarious case of incendiarism have been all sen-
tenced to transportation for life. Previous to the learned
Judge passing sentence, the principal offender, James
Regan, made the following confession of his guilt :—He
said " there were never so many witnesses seen on ,the
table before as appeared against him, though it was not
for conscience sake they came forward ; but to hang or
transport him if they could, when he was in a hobble : if
he was in the country as formerly, the very persons that
swore against him, would, if he committed White-boy
offences, call him a brave fellow, and a lover of his coun-
try.' If was easily known that what was sworn against
him was false, when his own mother-in-law, his brother-
in-law, aye, and his wife, if taken, would prosecute him :
his brother-in-law didn't swear informations for six weeks
after the burning, when his mother tutored him, and
taught him his lessons so well, that unless he began at
a particular word he could'nt tell his story. He should
inform his lordship that he was formerly a member of a
White-boy society, which was carried on by secret signs
and pass words : while connected with it, it was planned
to assassinate Lord Dunraven, which would have been
carried into effect were it not for his informing the priest
about it. The prisoner then alluded to his having prose-
cuted four men to conviction for attacking Mr. Lyndsay's
house near Adare, and said that was the reason the people
of Adare would not trust him : sooner than be much
longer under the separate system,' he would be as well
pleased to be transported.'' The Limerick Chronicle
thus remarks upon this extraordinary case :—" The con-
dition of these miscreants has been singular; for the
Crown was obliged heretofore to employ them as prose-
cutors of White-boy offences, and having therefore lost
their caste in the rural district—for nothing is more de-
testable than the name of ' a common informer, or spy'—
these outcasts were necessarily beholden to Government
for the means of support, as they must else have abso-
lutely perished of want. Finding their paltry stipend was
reduced, if not entirely suspended. they formed a plot to
burn the farming stock of the Earl of Dunraven, and to
fix the odium of that midnight outrage upon the character
of the populace, in the midst of which his lordship and
family have resided for so many years, dispensing hospi-
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RPEAL AND THE ORANGEMEN OF IRELAND.-At
Rathfriland, the following resolution was adopted last
week at a respectable meeting of loyal Orangemen and
Protestants :—" That we view with disgust the treason-
able invitation of the repeal party sent from the Concilia-
tion Hall to the Orangemen of Ireland, holding out in-
ducements to join with them in making Ireland, as they
style it, a nation, expecting at the time we are unjustly
treated that we will join them, which we fling back in
their face with contempt. Our determination, therefore,
is to rally round our beloved Sovereign, with our lives
and properties, in maintaining the union of Great Britain
and Ireland."

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.—The following
scene could only be enacted in Ireland :—Last week two
men, named Crane and Conway, were tried at Limerick
for riot, and the jury not being able to agree for some
time, were locked up in the usual way. At twelve o'clock
at night they intimated to the officer in charge of them
that they had agreed to a verdict. Judge Ball was in
consequence sent for, and soon appeared in court. The
jury being asked in the usual form whether they had
agreed to a verdict—the foreman replied " Yes my lord. "
" Then band it down, sir." At this matter-of-course
order the foreman looked greatly embarrassed ; and, after
much fumbling, leaned over the box with his hands
placed together as if retaining snipe shot or other small
particles. Judge Ball looked unutterable things at the
foreman, and again called upon him to " hand down the
i-sue paper at once." " Here it is my lord, " said the
embarrassed juror. handing down a handful of bits of
paper varying in size from that of a shilling to a four-
penny piece.—Judge Ball : What is the meaning of this ?
—The Foreman : My lord, this is the issue paper. The
fact is the jury quarreled among themselves, and tore it
up in this manner. 'I did all I could to save it, but with-
out effect!—His lordship condemned in strong language
this " most scandalous and disgraceful conduct," and
after giving the jury a sound rating, intimated that he
deemed it his duty to receive the verdict.—The prisoners
were foundguilty with a recommendation to mercy.—Judge
Ball declared that he would not pay any attention to the
recommendation of a jury who had behaved in the dis-
graceful manner which he felt it his duty to reprobate as
he had done.

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of
" The Great National Confederation," as it calls itself,
was held yesterday week. A Mr. Gordon complained
that the committee had determined that it would be inex-
pedient to bring the repeal question before Parliament
this session; and Sir V. Blake talked of " the discussions
that might arise, after the repeal, as to the best form of
government," thus showing that it is not the mere repeal
of one act of Parliament they contemplate, but a new go-
vernment of their own, apart from England. Mr. M 'Nevin,
a young barrister, endeavoured to show how little of the
public money was expended in Ireland, and spoke of " the
insane intolerance of the bigctted and besotted George
forgetting that at a Dublin meeting, in September,
1810, the " Liberator" himself had said that that monarch
" abounded in every great and good qualification to make
his people happy." He then alluded to the war in China,
perpetrated under the " felon flag" of England ; but sub-
sequently withdrew the odious word felon. Mr. Gratton
urged his countrymen not to enlist, but refuse the shil-
ling, and nothing could prevent their success. The Rev.
Mr. Hearne, of Manchester, referred to the strike of col-
liers in the north of England, and besought the Irish not to
go over to replace the men who stood ont, to favour the
Marquis of Londonderry. Mr. Smith O'Brien was sorry
that Lord de Grey had gone, as be produced " an aliena-
tion of feeling towards England." He stated that the
signatures of the Repeal Petition to thr. Queen now
amount to 872,000 ; but observed, that in some of the
smaller counties, it must have been signed almost univer-
sally." It would be prudent, not to have the number in
any county larger than the amount of population. The
week's rent reached no less a sum than £1,558. One
person handed in 255., collected the day before in penny
weekly subscriptions; but, said he, " 1 was all day at the
chapel."

UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL NEWS.

BISHOPS OF NORWICH AND DURHAM.

On reviewing the speeches of these bishops on the
Socinian Endowment Bill, it strikes us that there is that
in them which does require from us some further remarks.
These remarks we make with all reverence due to the
station occupied by an ecclesiastical ruler, but, at the
same time, with the recollection that he is a fallible man,
subject to the usual infirmities of our nat res, and liable
to mistake.

We consider, then, that the bishop of Norwich, in his
speech on the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, has betrayed the
trust reposed in him, and given up into the hands of its
enemies the great principle of Catholicism lodged in the
sacred citadel of our ecclesiastical polity. His lordship
is represented as saying, " Upon what title did he hold
his preferment? It had once belonged to men who held
doctrines widely different from those which Protestants
consider essential ;" and that he was satisfied with holding
his preferment by act of parliament! Strange admission!
As if the hierarchy of the English church had ever
changed—as if it were not identical with the ancient
British church—as if it had not acted constitutionally as
a church possessing an inherent power, as an independent
branch of the Catholic church, to purge itself from error,
and to restore itself to a conformity with the primitive
church. . .

Strange the mistake the bishop has made! The church
of England, at the Reformation, actually did what the
dissenters did in the case of Lady Hewley's charity—re-
covered the endowments by proving themselves in posses-
sion of the doctrine of the founders and the English
chu ch ; in restoring the doctrines of her founders—the
apostles—asserted her title to be the true branch of the
holy Catholic church planted in these kingdoms. But
hers was a stronger case ; for she ejected no one—she
retained her bishops in the true successional line, and
being truly independent of any other church on earth
which can have any jurisdiction in these realms, her en-
dowments naturally belong to her without any act of par.
liament. "Act of parliament !"
Then, again, the bishop says the Wesleyans need no act
of parliament. Indeed I why they could not exist but by
act of parliament. They are entirely an act of parliament
religion, What being have they without the license of
the magistrate ? 0, venerable mother ! who shall defend
thee when thy bishops betray thee ?—Church and Slate
Gazette.

OXFORD, JULY 25.—The election of three Demies
took place at Magdalen College yesterday, being the
second day of examination, when the following gentlemen
were the successful candidates :—Messrs. Sedgewick,
Christchurch ; Wickham, Wadham ; and Hessey. There
were 32 competitors. The Revs. J. L. Hoskyns, M.A.,
G. W. Paul, 8.A., H. Smith, 8.A., I. T. Landon, M.A.,
and Messrs. H. C. Adams, M.A., F. H. Deane, 8.A.,
and R. Cholmeley, 8.A., Probationary Fellows, were
this day admitted Actual Fellows of Magdalen College.
Mr. H. G. J. Parsons, 8.A., Demy, was also admitted,
and Mr. W. Balfour, 8.A., of Lincoln College, was
elected Probationary Fellow of the same college.

The foundation stone of a new church at Morpeth,
Northumberland, was laid by Lord Morpeth, the
brother-in-law of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Richard
Grey, the rec'or of the parish.
THE ISLE OF MAN.—The Bishop of Sodor and Man
held an ordination at Bishop's Court on Sunday, the 21st
instant, when the following gentlemen were admitted into
holy orders :—°riests.—The Rev. John Fry Garde, the
Rev. John Congreve, 8.A., the Rev. Isaac Brittain,
Deacons.—Alexander Watt, A.M., Philip Dowe.
LAY M UNIFICENCE.—M r. James Fussell, of Chantrey-
house, in the county of Somerset, is building a beautiful
church near his house, in the parish of WhAley, which
he intends furnishing and endowing at his own expense.
lie is also building a parsonage-house, stable, &c., for
the future incumbents. This magnificent donat,on to the
Establishment will, it is believed, amount to nearly £B,OOO.