The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Fourteen of the Orange lodges in the county of Derry
have been dissolved in consequence of the continued un-
constitutional conduct of government.
Two Roman Catholic clergymen, the Rev. Messrs.
O'Rourke and Colgan, whilst celebrating mass at White-
friars-street Chapel, Dublin, on Sunday, were suddenly
attacked by a madman with a heavy bludgeon, knocked
down, and severely injured.
The hierarchy and clergy cf the Roman. Catholic Church
in Ireland haVing abandoned the repeal agitation—just be-
cause their flocks would no longer contribute pennies to-
wards its sustentation—are w activel--

111)., _ y engaged in the
agitation, against the rights of the proprietary of the soil.
On Wednesday, some bailiffs seized a young lady on
leaving a railway carriage, at Kingstown, under a writ fir
£65 ; but, unfortunately for them, they had captured the
wrong lady; and, as they bad used ruffian'--

,iy violence,
they were taken before, a magistrate, and committed for
the assault.

THE NEW TRASH APPOINTMENTS.—The government
measure abolishing the office of the Irish viceroy. contem-
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pia,,n um, creation of three new crown appointments :' a
secretary of state for Ireland, at a salary of £5.0(10 per
annum, arid two under secretarieS. one with a seat in par-
liament and the other without legislative duties. The
salary of the parliamentary secretary is to be fixed at
£1,500, and of the latter at £2.000 a-year. Lord Claren--
don will accept the chief-secretaryship.
IRON SII IP •BITILDING IN CORR.—At the close of this
month the largest vessel ever built in Ireland will be
he launched from the steam factory of the Cork •Steam
Ship Company, on the Glanmire-road. She is to be
called the P.-li‘ an, and is to be propelled, by the screw.
She is over 800 tons burden; and is built on the lines of
the Ajax, which is declared the best steamship afloat of
her class. The boilers, steam-engine, screw, and fans
intended for the Pelican, are nearly completed, and will

"Amy • tie plats on ooard the day she is launched.
This vessel is intended to trade between Liverpool and
Rot terdam.— cork C'onstitution.
STEAM FROM IRELAND TO NEW YORK.—We have
already mentioned the enterprise which has given rise to
the formation of a line of steamers from Galway to New

ork ; and, from the spirit with which the project is re-
garded, we hope that it will prove as remunerative to the
projectors as it will be advantageous to the public and to
commerce. The announcement of the sailing of the
Viceroy will be found in our advertising columns. The
distance is 350 miles less than from here.
_Sir Philip
Nugent, and several other Members of Parliament, in-
tend to sail in the Viceroy. The Dublin Mail. says "the
Postmaster-Gefieral has most handsomely recognised the
Viceroy as a packet-shin for T,•;.1. _

s and newsp

Ts posted at the G

onaence.
Tal Post-

in Dubin

up to the evening of the 31st i

uthorised to state, that this is no
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'Dublin, Glasgow, and Cork Steam Packet Company,'
encouraged and aided by the Midland Great Western
Railway, the inhabitants of the town and county of Gal-
way, backed as we know it to be, by the warm sympathy
of the country at large. Nor is this trip to be reg•

• vApri-iwor, out rattier as the opening of the
port of Galway as a packet.station, from which ere long
we trust we shall nave a weekly steamer taking her de-
parture for the American shores. Her colonial connex-
.-seow what she is, and may we not hone

ions made GL
that Ireland ar

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UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

The Rev. Richard D-twes, vicar of King's Sombourn,
hag been appointed Dean of Bristol.
The bishops have declined to issue any declaration on
the subject of baptismal regeneration.
The Bishop of Bath and Wells continues seriously in-
disposbyed. The confirmations announced as about to be
he!cl his lordship will be held by the Bishop of
Guiana.

Magdalen College, Oxford, have voted the sum of 100
guineas to the Bishop of Ex-ter towards paying the ex-
penses in his process with Mr. Gorham. The Bishop is
a member of Magdalen College.
Some of the heads of colleges in Cambridge have waited
on Prince Albert to represent their objections to the pro-
noged rommiacifs” t •

mess, it is

known. is l
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