The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mr. J. L. Arabin has been unanimously elected Lord
Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year. Mr. Dowden has
been chosen Mayor of Cork.
CAMELEON.—One of these singular creatures, caught
on Mount Calvary, by Mr. E. Tennant, M.P., and for-
warded by him, to the Natural History Society, has ar-
rived in Belfast alive, and may be seen at the Museum.
The editor of the Tablet (a Roman Catholic) regards
the adhesio❑ of Archbishop Murray, and other prelates,
to the Catholic Bequests' Act, as fatal to the catholic
church. He says "There is no longer a church in Ire-
land; there is nothing but a collection of bishoprics."
In the last number of the Cork Examiner subscriptions
to the Matthew Fund to the amount of X 1,195 are acknow-
ledged. At the head of the list stands a donation of £3OO
from a member of the Society of Friends, near York.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—We understond from
competent authority that the system of favour to enemies—.
desertion of friends—is to be carried out on an extensive
scale in all future appointments in Ireland ; and that the
elevation of Mr. Erle, a fierce political opponent of the
present government, to the English bench, is to be but
the Precursor to a similar honour intended for Mr. David
Pigot, the founder of that society, the name of which we
have printed in italics.—Dublin Mail.
HORRID MURDER.—On Tuesday evening last, as Mr.
Samuel M'Keirin, was sitting in his parlour reading, near
the road leading from Branchfield to Sligo, he was shot
by some base assassin, through his window, and so near
was the murderer to his victim, that the shot carried
away a portion of his head, and stretched him lifeless on
the instant. Mr. M'Keirin was a protestant, a most in-
offensive, respectable, industrious farmer, had not taken
land, or in any way disobliged his neighbours, and pro-
bably at the moment was unconscious that he had an
enemy in the world. No clue to this foul transaction has
been discovered.—Dublin Mail.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER.—Two brothers, named Shep-
pard, have been barbarously murdered. They had taken
a farm from the Rev. Richard Coote, near Ballyboy, in
the King's County, from which some tenants had been
ejected ; the Sheppards were served with several threaten-
ing notices, but having made the roof of the house fire-
proof with clay, and having bored gun-holes through dif-
ferent parts of the wall, they fancied themselves secure.
Three brothers were living together, but one of them left
the house on Tuesday morning, and on his return found
the bodies of both his brothers, with their brains nearly
beat out—one in the house, and the other outside.
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ANOTHER MURDER NEARLY EFFECTED.-011 Tues-
day night last, or Wednesday morning before day, un
armed party attacked the house of Patrick Curren, a
small farmer on the lands of Gurteen, near Tubber, in the
King's County, and forcing their way into the house, dis-
charged several shots at the helpless inmates, one of
which nearly shot Curren's arm off, the ball lodging in the
upper part, near the shoulder, when, after some denuncia-
tions and threatenings, and thinking be was dying, they
decamped. Land was the cause of the visit, he having
been paid another visit, on a former occasion, relative to
the farm he is now in for the last four years, there being
some grudge against his taking it. lie lies dangerously
ill, and it is supposed will comply with the mandates of
the midnight legislators, if he recovers, by leaving his
farm. What a state of things, and what times we live
in I—Dublin Mail.

AFTER DINNER TRUTHS.—Mr. Moriarty, a Popish
priest from Pennsylvania, stated at an after-dinner repeal
meeting in Dublin, on Wednesday, that there were 50,000
Irishmen in America solemnly pledged, on the shedding
of the first repealer's blood, to rush into Canada, and
rescue it from British rule !

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE IRISH CHERCH.—Any
communication between this country and England, which
has taken place outside the strictly official circle, has been
either with Mr. Wyse of Waterford, or the National
Board in Marlborough-street, or with some of the Popish
Prelates concerned for Maynooth. If any are apprised of
the secret, it is they. The Bishops and Clergy of the
Established Church, and the heads of all our Protestant
institutions for learning and education, are kept in the
dark. Is this proper treatment for friends—nay, is it
proper treatment for an enemy—anywhere but in the
field ?—Dublin Mail.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Mr. J. P. Somers. M.P.,
presided at the weekly meeting of this body on Monday.
Mr. O'Connell was present from the commencement, and
almost monopolized the speaking. He first urged atten-
tion to the registries, and moved resolutions on the sub-
ject, which were carried. He next spoke on railways,
strongly approving of them. In his principal speech of
the day he stated that the repeal agitation was now recom-
menced, never to terminate but with an Irish parliament
in College-green ; complained of having been greatly dis-
appointed and betrayed by the Federalists, still, however,
offering them an opportunity to take the leadership. He
went over the propositions included in his last week's
speech, and concluded by proposing that they should be
referred to a committee to prepare an address upon them
to the people of England. This was carried unanimously.
The repeal rent for the week was announced to be
£493 ss. 6d.

POPISH PLANS,—The Dublin Nation thus offers to
the Protestant proprietors of Ireland a gentle glimpse of
part of what the papacy expects to see soon accomplished.
" There remain two other plans, and between them lies
the real choice of Ireland. The choice, between plans
both so reasonable, will decide the conduct of the minis-
ter. The first is, that at Maynooth, or still better in Cork,
shall be established a great Catholic University, and in
Belfast a Presbyterian University—students of all sects
to be admitted to either, as in Trinity; but the govern-
ment and the• Divinity School of Cork to be Catholic, and
those of Belfast Presbyterian, leaving Trinity College,
Dublin, as it is. Aided by a great system of county and
professional schools, this would be an adequate plan ; but
the first grant to Cork in such a case should be £60,000,
and to Belfast £40,000. The last system, and that which
Mr. Wyse seems most to relish, is to have colleges for
men of all creeds established in the great cities—in Cork,
Limerick, Belfast, Galway, Enniskillen (or Derry,) and
Waterford for example; that the governing bodies of
these should form one corporation, in conjunction with
Trinity, as the University of Ireland ; and that (as we
understand) divinity schools for the clergy of each creed
should be attached to one or more of these colleges. In
theory this plan is more perfect—practically it would find
more support from the country, because of bringing a col-
lege into each great town, and it would render the need of
county schools less pressing."