The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-24 00:00:00

THE IRISH CLERGY.

Meetings have been held at Chester, Worcester, Manchester,
and other places, for the purpose of entering into subscriptions
for the relief of the Irish clergy, many of whom are reduced to
a state of the most abject poverty and distress from the iilegal
resistance offered to the recovery of tithes. The cases of dis-
tress mentioned at these meetings, as well as in the two houses
of parliament ou various occasions during the last session, are
too generally known, and too well authenticated, to need reca-
pitulation to excite the sympathy of our readers for the sufferers,
or their disgust fir their oppressors. Seine measure of relief
will no doubt be proposed in the ensuing parliament, whoever
may be at the head of the government. But what is to become
of the literally starving protestant clergymen and their families
in the mean time? In several parishes no tithes have been
paid for the last two years, during which period their incum-
bents have been compelled to part with every moveable or sale-
able article of property to purchase the necessaries of life;—
gentlemen of high attainments, eminent for their zeal and piety
iu the discharge of their pastoral duties; gentlemen whose cha-
rity, under other circumstances, knew no distinction between
catholic, churchman, or dissenter, are now, by the popish cru-
sade against-tithes, reduced to this humiliating and pitiable
condition

In the early part of 1833, when subscriptions were entered
into for the relief of the Irish clergy, those remitted from Liver-
pool wore or considerable magnitude. However, as we have
reason to believe that the distress existing now is as great, if
not greater than it was then, we hope something will be done
here as well as in other places for its relief. We understand
that a public meeting on the subject is in contemplation.

MOST EXTRAORDINARY EVIINT.—The Mona'x Heald, of
Friday last, contains the particulars of a very extraordinary
event which lies occurred iu the Isle of Man. A man and his
wife arrived, early in the year 183.3, on the island from Scot-
land, accompanied by the woman's daughter by a former hus-
band, The child, it is stated, was entitled, by her father's will,
to the sum of £1000; and her brother, who remained with his
father's relations, to that of .E6OOO. The man was in narrow
circumstances, and, it is supposed, had fixed his eves on the
child's portion. But how to gain his objeet was the puzzle. At
the latter end of the year 1833, the little girl, who had been her
mother's darling, sickened und, after a week's illness, to all 4-
pearance died. The body, it. was supposed, was buried in the
churchyard of Kirk Bride, the usual ceremony having been
performed by the Rev. Mr. Nelson. The man, as a matter of
course, communicated the tidings of the death of the child, ac-
companied with the clergyman's certificate of her funeral, to
the guardians in Scotland, who were, consequently, bound to
pay him. in his wife's behalf, the I:1000 settled upon the child
by the will of her father. Whether he received The whole of the
money or not, is uncertain : it is said, however, that he received
£lOO, and left the island, last summer, fur Ireland. Suspicion
seems to have existed as to the fate of the child ; and the neigh-
bours who had assisted at the funeral ►equested the clergyman
to give them permission to open the grave. Accordingly, on
Saturday morning week. the Rev. Mr. Nelson and others pro-
ceeded to the grave, had it opened, and, on removing the lid of
the coffin, found—what ? a log of wood, which purported to form
the body, and two pieces of sticks, intended to represent the
legs! The effigy was regularly attired in graveclothes, had a
cap on the head, and a tine cambric frill round the neck. Viihat
became of the little girl remains tote discovered. The Herald
hints, however, that it shall be enabled to communicate the se-
cret in its next:

W.yrtasi;ot,i.—A waterspout of unusual magnitude was the
lrand magnet of attraction to the gazers at Margate one day
ast week. It burst over the cliffi, to Ihe great astoni,Lment
nd alartn of the stereri of ttis ithenomenou: