The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-24 00:00:00

We ha

oay.og cunoiains, 13
afraid of venturing out to seek for some this weather, and the
heavy fall of snow has intercepted all communications with
the exterior.—Jersey Gazette.
THE GATES OF SONINAUTH.—MT. V. Smith has placed
a notice on the Commons' books, that on Tuesday next he
will submit a resolution regarding the proclamation of Lord
Ellenborough, as Governor-General of India, to the Chiefs
and Princes of India, upon the recovery of the gates
temple at Somnauth.
On Sunday evening, between the hours of seven and nint
o'clock, a robbery to the extent of £6OO was committed on
the premises of the London and Regent-street Bank, Lon-
don, by some adroit thieves, who gained admittance into the
banking-house, but in what manner for the present remains
a mystery. The police are in active pursuit of the robbers.
O'Connell has postponed the discussion of the repeal
question in the Dublin Council until Tuesday next. He did
not make his appearance last Tuesday, when the question
was appointed for- debate, until the council were about to
separate. Alderman Butt is prepared to discuss the subject
with O'Connell.

At the Middlesex Ses:
ed for stealing three apy
trates expressed their i►

on Tuesday, a boy was indict-

and the

was fined is., which

'as paid b

t of the ma

strates, ar

discharged

,ry Soci

ay add that the cor

portior, .uondon did themselves honour by voting, or
Thursday last, the sum of £5OO to this society.
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The Marquis of Ormonde's agent in the county Kilkenn,
has, by the direction of his lordship, made an abatement on
the rents due the 29th of September and Ist of November
last, of 20 per cent. (or four shillings in the pound) on all
payments made in full of those rents, before the 25th of March
or Ist of May next.
Two men were tried at the assizes of Rennes, on the 14th
instant, for having, on the 4th Nov. last, murdered an
Englishman, named William Geary, by beating him with a
stick. They were father and son ; and the latter was con-
demned to five years' solitary confinement, and the old man
to five years hard labour at the hulks.—Paris Paper.
The Rev. W. M. Kinsey has resigned the secretaryship of
the Cheltenham District Society for the Propagation of the
gn Parts, in consequence, according to his
laimer by Mr. Campbell, of his words ut-
ciety on the 10th

of November

The Bishop of Madras has resolve

his license from the missionaries of the Church Missionary
Society, there being, it appears, no guarantee in the consti-
tution of the Society, as explained and acted upon by the
governing body, that his license will not be respected in his
own diocese.

PROGRhSS OF CATFLOLICISM.—" The late Dr. Doyle's
calculation was that 5,000 Protestants embraced Catholicism
yearly in Ireland," so says an anti-Protestant journal, which
" remembers to forget" that the said doctor entertained

rather singular opinions touching certai
Mother Church.

!nets of Hol

We have heard, and we trust that the report may prove
'll-founded, that the lord mayor has presented the living of
. James's, Duke's-place, to the Ric,. Dr. M'Caul. The

worm or r❑
)r. M`Caul