The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY cy CLERICAL, NEWS.

The Venerable Archdeacon Lear has been appointed the
successor of Dr. Pearson, in the Deanery of Salisbury.
The Bishop of Calcutta will sail sail for his diocese on
the 25th August._ _
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The Hon.-and Rev. George Neville Grenville, Master
of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and brother of Lord
Braybrooke, has been gazetted Dean of Windsor.
The prizes annually awarded by the Bishop of Durham,
for Latin composition in Durham University, were
awarded on Wednesday week as follows : Latin verse,
Bolland ; ditto, additional prize, R. R. Bradley.
Latin prose, F. B Dickson.
INTERESTING SERVICE. OR Wednesday, a new
chapel in John-street, Edgevrare-road, London, erected
for the Rev. R. H. Herscheil, a Christian Israelite, well
known as the author of " A Brief Sketch of the Jews,"
and " A Visit to fly Fatherland," was set apart for the
worship of God by an interesting series of services. Mr.
Herschell is a Nonconformist, but he has never identified
himself with any denomination of dissenters. In the
afternoon two of Mr. Herachell's brothers, who also em-
braced Christianity, took part in the services, addresses
being delivered by the Rev. Douglas, of the Established
Church of Scotland, and the Rev. A. Edersheitn, minis-
ter of the Free Church, on his way to Moldavia as a
missionary, both he and Mr. Douglas being converted
Jews. The entire service was conducted by Christian
Israelites. From the financial statement made on each
occasion it appeared that the chapel was erected at a cost
of upwards of £4,000, of which nearly £2,000 are yet re-
quired. The contributions have been received from
Christians of every denomination, and seldom, if ever,
has a place of worship been erected under similar circum-
stances. Sir C. E. Smith, Bart., the Rev. Dr. Dibdin,
of the Church of England-, the Rev. J. Bunting, and
other ministers, expressed their sympathy in the object.

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CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The General Assembly of
the Established Church was opened on Thursday week, the
21st instant, in the New Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, the
Marquis of Bute presiding as Lord High Commissioner,
Dr. James Paull, of Tullyneste, was appointed Moder-
ator. Grants from her Majesty of £2OOO, for education
in the Highlands and Islands, and a similar sum towards
the instruction of students for the ministry in the Gaelic
language, were announced. There was nothing of parti-
cular interest in the proceedings of Thursday and Friday.
The General Assembly of the Free Church met also on
Thursday, in the Assembly Hall, Cannon Mills, Dr. Ro-
bert James Brown, Professor of Greek, at Aberdeen,
presiding as Moderator. On Friday, the following finan-
cial statement was presented :

Home Missions
Education
Building
Foreign Missions .
Colonies 8,937 18 0
Jeews 6,427 11 11
Supplementary Contributions.., 14,210 4 93

Total . £76,279 11 51
A letter was read from the Presbyterian Church of Ame-
rica. acknowledging the receipt of the letters of this As-
sembly, enclosing their deliverence on American slavery,
which was, at the suggestion of Dr. Candlish, referred to
the standing committee, to prepare an answer if they saw
fit, and to report. At the meeting on Monday, an over-
ture on the better observance of the Sabbath, protesting
against the running of trains on the Edinburgh and Glas-
cow Railway, and the carrying on of such work in the
Post-office,—was ;adopted._ _

A DD ITI ON A L CURATES SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of this society was held last week. The sum received from
particular districts had decreased nearly one-half from
the sum received during the previous year, though ;he
aggregate amount received was greater. The total sum
received during the year amounts to £15,510. The report
specified an annual subscription from the Queen
Dowager of £lOO. Three annual subscriptions of £2OO
each from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and
the Bishop of London ; two of £lOO and upwards, and
thirteen of £5O, with others from the bishops ; four sub-
scriptions of £lOO each ; one of £7O; and eight of £5O
and upwards are still contributed by those noblemen and
gentlemen who have enrolled their names as annual con-
tributors. In addition to which the committee acknow-
ledge the receipt of the following donations :
.

.
Anonymous,Aymous, Capt.W.J. £6O l Friend,perMrEurrell£so
Lord Eldon
The Misses Champion .. 200 IJ. E. Cross, Esq. lOO
C
Anonymous, E. S. 5O P. Cazenove, Esq.
.. 50 E.
G. Daubeny, Esq... 200
E. L.

. .
Anonymous . . 5O for Bethual-green) .. 100
Foster,R.Esq. (legacy) 1000

Grants were then voted to the following places, viz.:—
Population. Grants.
6000 .. £BO to meet £lO
1333 .. £BO for one year.
3000 .. £3O to meet £3O
5354 .. £5O to meet £5O
9000 £BO to meet £BO

Glossop, parish of..
Thurgol.iiid, district of
Dorsky, parish of
Chippenham, Wilts...,
Leicester. St. Mary
l3irtley, P.Chester-le-st.

Shadwell, St. Paul's.... 10,000 .. £5O to meet £5O
High W% comhe, Bucks.. 7000 .. .J.:Bofor a2d curate
Nottingham, St. Anne's 7695 .. £BO to meet £2O
CHURCH OF ENGLAND SELF-SUPPORTING VILLAGE
SOCIETY.-:-4,11 Wednesday the first meeting of the mcm•
rs and friends of this society, established, as its fiat
indicates, for the purpose of founding a self-
village, in connexion with the Chun -
held in Exeter Hall

The Hon. W. Cowpe
t.,1 by the Lord Bisho

l. l'., pre-
'

the Rev. H

Rev. D. Kelly, the Rev. VV. W. Ellis, the -Rey. E.
Monro, trial other clergymen and gentlemen. The Chair-
man having offered some remarks on the constitution of

city of analling some provision for the labouring classes,
having in view their temporal and spiritual interests, was
moved by the Lord I.7ishop of Norwich. The urldertaking,

June 2, 1846.

his lordship thought, was a feasible one. It was men-
tioned to him, in the first instance, by Mr. Morgan, the
projector, who explained its details, and he was deterred
quence of the
dan which was

y wl-

re to the

rt Owen, the soci-
sidered the subject
error. and he was

that a

ently calculated
it v as designed.
Is, that £15,000 would Ibe
) acres of land, and the
!ommorlation for 100
n average, would be
-I two-and-a-half to
ld not be considered
Manners, ALP,, is
seconding the resolution, made reference to Freiderick-
Stan, in Holland, which was formerly an entire morass,
but it had been reclaimed through the combined exertions

three per c

is of ti

he object e
Lord Jot

of a class of labourers placed there to try the experiment.
e also cited a case of a similar character in Flintshire,
L conviction that the proposed society would
in a similar manner. The resolution hay-

,t 1 expri

he servicent

gentle-

men addressed the meeting, and subscribers to the nevi
society were enrolled. A vote of thanks to the chairman

IRE L

4ND.

Peter Purcell, Esq., a prominent public man in Dub-
lin, and a great government contractor, died on Friday.
MuRDER.—A man of the name of Stokes was waylaid
near Oula, county Limerick, and killed on Friday,return-
ing from the fair of Emly.

The average quantity of Indian meal sold daily to the
poor at Limerick. on behalf of the relief committee, is
four tons, at 2d per bottle. Allowing one pound per dicta
for the support of each person, four tons supply at least
8,960 individuals.
ANT IRISH GRIEVANCE.—The Limerick Chronicle
states, that the East India Company have only voted are
annuity of £2,000 to Lord Gough (an IriAman) ' • while
Lord Hardinge, " who acted in a subordinate and irres-
ponsible capacity," is to have £5,000. Really, the inge-
nuity of our neighbours at discovering a grievance is ex-
traordinary.

OUTRAGE.—Mr. Arthur Irwin, on his return from the
fair of French-park, in the county of Roscommon, on
Wednesday week, was stopped on the public road, be-
tween one and two o'clock p.m., by a party of "Molly
Maguires," who served him with a threatening notice, is
Um presence of a number of persons, who refused to
interfere, or arrest any of the gang. Another outrage
was committed by a large party of Molly Maguires, at
Lissymulhere, near Ardcarne, in the same county. They
amounted to nearly twenty, and visited three houses on
the night of Tuesday last. We bear that they swore
several of the parties. Two Molly Maguire notices were
found posted on the walls in the town of Boyle, ordering
no person to charge more than 2s. 6d. per cwt. for cup,
and Is. 10d. for lumper potatoes. A large concourse of
persons assembled last week near Clare, with intent to
plunder the brig Hope, of Cardiff, laden with Indian meal.
from Liverpool. The police, however. got timely notice,
and prevented the intended depredation.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—the u-ual weekly meeting
was held on Monday. Letters from Mr. O'Connell and
Mr. Smith O'Brien were read, in which there was much
about the necessity of mutual forbearance, for the sake
of the common cause. A Captain Seaver, in moving the
insertion of Mr. O'Connell's letter on the books, said
that Mr. O'Brien had " most unqualified approbation in
every thing he had done." This called up Mr. Steele,
who, in an excited tone, said, " They all had a solemn
duty to perform to their absent leader, O'Connell, and to
Ireland. The son of O'Connell was there. His kins-
man, Capt,,in Broderick, was there. They were all there
but his friend, Mr. Ray, and in consequence of holding a
sacred official responsibility, had a deep responsibility to
O'Connell and to Ireland ; and he would tell his friend,
Captain Seaver, that it would be deeply imperilling the
safety of the association, if they were to identify them-
selves with everything their worthy friend Mr. O'Brien
had choose to do, however much they admired the purity
of his principles and the chivalry of his conduct.
" pretty quarrel" was thus on the point of ari-ing; but
it was prevented by Capt. Seaver merely moving that
O'Connell's letter be inserted on the minutes. The re-
peal rent of the week was announced to be about £llO.
MURDER BY ITALIAN SAILORS.—The vicinity of this
city has been the scene of a murder devoid of every cha-'
racteristic that usually marks the crime in this country.
Here it seldom happens that a man falls by the stiletto or
knife, arid the fact that the murderers in this case are na-
tives of Genoa, belonging to one of the Austrian vessels'
now discharging Indian corn at our quays, has caused a
vast excitement to prevail amongst all classes here. The
victim in this case was the driver of a jaunting car, named
Keane, and the circumstances connected with his un-
timely end are as follows. About one o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning, two sailors, natives of Genoa, accompa-
nied by two women of bad character, hired a car froth
the deceased in John-street, and drove along the quay to
Mary-street, where they took up two other women named
Keane and Power, and put down the two in whose com-
pany they originally were. They were then driven out
the Cork-road, a little beyond the Manor Castle, whetre
they alighted. The driver immediately demanded his
fare, which was refused. He drove back again into tovvny
and having informed the owner of the car what had hap-
pened, be put up the horse and ear, and they both pro-
ceeded to the place where he had dropped his passengers.
The fare was again demanded, but refused, and some
blows were struck, and one of the sailors immediately
plunged a stiletto into Keane's bosom, who fell dead on
the spot. The other sailor, a powerful and athletic man.
attempted else to stab the owner of the car, a man named
Elliott, but he warded the blow from off his breast, the
knife passing through his arm. Elliott escaped
as quickly
as possible. and gave the alarm to the police, who on pro-
ceeding to the spot found Keane dead. After a little de-
lay they arrested all the parties implicated in the affair.
Elliott is severely wounded.— Waterford Chronicle.