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

IRELAND.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The rent for the week ending
yesterday week, had tumbled down to £289.
FIRE ON SHIP-BOARD.—On Monday, a fire was dis-
covered on board the barque Ninian, at Limerick. The
masts, rigging, sails, captain's cabin, and a great part of
the main hold were destroyed before the vessel could be
scuttled.

The Hon. George Hely Hutchinson, who has of late
been so conspicuous in the Conciliation Hall, has gone to
Italy, and left behind him an address to " Protestants,"
urging them to become Repealers.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER.—On Monday night last as Ar-
thur Gloster, Esq., of Moylish, near Limerick, was re-
turning home in his gig he was shot dead by two armed
ruffians. The deceased was a wealthy gentleman—of
humane and unexceptionable character, and the outrage
was committed in consequence of his having served noti-
ces of ejection on some of his tenants for non-payment of
rent.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.-It appears that the
day of Mr. Gloster's murder (which sad event we record
in another paragraph) was to have been signalised by ano-
ther assassination in the same district ; and that but for
the courage and presence of mind of his servant, Hobert
Hunt, Esq., of the city of Limerick, would, in all proba-
bility, have fallen a victim to the agrarian Thugg of the
borders of Limerick and Clare. Mr. Hunt was accom-
panied in his gig by his servant, when he was attacked,
and providentially they were both armed with pistols, and
thus able to defeat the murderous intent of their cruel and
cowardly assailants.

RIBBONISM.—On Friday week, some young men at-
tended a ribbon meeting near this town, and some dis-
pute arising, they attacked two men, brothers, named
Foody, and beat them severely. Immediately after,
another brother rushed into the party with a knife, and
killed one of them on the spot, by stabbing him in the
heart. He also wounded several others, who are so
dangerously ill that their lives are despaired of. Sligo
Journal.—[Unless our borough magistracy take some
steps to prevent this diabolical confederacy spreading
amongst us, we shall be having similar scenes enacted
here.]

FRAUDS ON TUE BENEVOLENT.—The
commissioners
Dublin of the ' metropolitan police, having received from
various parts of the United Kingdom counterfeited certi-
ficates, purporting to be from magistrates at Galway,
Sligo, or other
trits, with fictitious subscription lists ap-
pended, and sorficeoastmaeosimunicipal seals (found to be im-
pressions from
represented
livery buttons), in
which papers, women
misulzeted to be widows of ser-
geants or other non.com d officers of her Majesty's
forces, are recommended for alms,
pre-
tence of destitution from shipwreck , a
usually under
various fabri-
cators of such papers, apprehended by' the
escaped punishment for want of legal proof
having
the actual
receipt of money by means of the false pretences
used
(the only offence cognizable in the present at ate of the
law), have issued a notice of the frauds practised, t° 2e
ther with copies of some of the forged certificates, in order
to prevent further imposition, and induce the transmis-
sion of charitable .ionations through responsible persons,
when given in compliance with the written solicitations
of unknown applicants.

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N._ .
DEATH OF THE DEAIi.OI,IEruN.---Titis venerable
and learned ecclesiastic who li been long in a 'declining
lic,
state of health, died on Sunday wee iNn the 85th year of
phis age. 3/4 The- Very , when
,Rev. Arihur Preston Dean of Kildare, was`promoteo, te-the eanery 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
vicarages, the Perpetual Curacy of Cahirnarey, and 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
are to unite, it ought to be in a spirit of equality, neither
submitting to the other's power." Mr. OtConnell ex-
presses fervent approbation of this paper, and ,calls upon
all Irishmen to unite.

IRISH NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.—The Rev.
Dr. Martin, of Killesbandra, 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 as now modified. "That by the last explana-
tion of the National Commissioners, the only condition
for the acceptance of aid, 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 tour
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 closing 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 i
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 the 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
lawfully save thousands of such children from risk or ruin,
it becomes not wrong in them, but right, to adopt it."