The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
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The confirmation of Dr. Graham as Bishop of Chester,
took place at St James's Church, Piccadilly, London, on
Saturday.
The Bishop of Manchester has announced that he is
averse to granting letters dimissory under any circum-
stances, and that he will require candidates for orders in
his diocese to be ordained by himself.
The Rev. Richard Mitchell, B. D., public orator,
prwlector in logic, and vice-principal of Magdalene Hall,
has been appointed by the hebdomadal board of Oxford
university to preach the lecture founded by Canon Bampton
for the year ensuing. Mr. Mitchell is a sound theologian
and free from the tractarian leaven. _ _

The Gazette of Tuesday contained an order in council,
ratifying a scheme of the ecclesiastical commissioners, for
compensating certain clergymen whose emoluments have
been diminished in consequence of the establishment, by
authority, of new parishes adjoining their incumbencies.
Among the rev. gentlemen so compensated are Mr. W.
Hutchinson, incumbent of All Saints, Newton Heath,
Lancashire, who accepts £l6, and Mr. J. Henderson,
incumbent of Cohie, Whalley, Lancashire, who rejoices
in the bonus of £24.

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—On Tuesday morn-
ing the annual general meeting of the supporters of the
above society was held at Exeter-hall. Lord Ashley,
M.P., was in the chair ; and amongst the persons on the
platform were the Earl of Waldegrave, the Bishop of Nor-
wich, the Bishop of Manchester, the Rev. Hugh Stowell,
the Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel, and other friends of the
society. The chairman read letters from the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Bishop
of Ripon. expressing themselves favourable to the princi-
ples of clerical aid upon which the society was founded.
The receipts of the society amounted to £25,767 9s. 6d.,
and the disbursements to the larger sum of £29,537145. 3d.
The sum received from auxiliaries was £2,697. In May,
1845. there were 77 grants vacant out of 320, while there
were at present only 24 out of 360. The outlay had in-
creased in a corresponding degree, viz., by about £5)000.
The Bishop of Norwich moved, the Bishop of Manchester
seconded, and the Rev. J. Harding supported, a resolution
for the adoption of the report.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE REV. G. C. GOR-
HAM.—Five commissioners (W. W. Wingfield, chief
commissioner), appointed by the Bishop of Exeter, met
at Penzance on the 2nd inst. to inquire into a charge
against the Rev. G. C. Gorham, of having on several occa-
sions, and, on the 19th or 26th of July in particular, omit-
ted to read the Lord's Prayer in a part of the service
where it ought properly to be read. A witness named
William Addy deposed to the fact on one of those two
days, he was not quite sure which, and on several other
occasions generally. The general omission was also de-
posed to by another witness, who could not point to any
particular day. It was, however, distinctly shown in the
evidence of the Rev. H. Comyn, that on the 6th, 19th,
and 26th of July, Mr. Gorham was performing service for
him (Mr. Comyn) at Sancreed, at the times sworn to by
Eddy as those when he was omitting passages of the ser-
ice in his .own parish church. His evidence was on the
handwriting in the Sancreed register, but it was confirmed
by Mrs. Coinyn and Miss H. Comyn, who saw the service
performed, Mr. Comyn being absent. Mr. Kitson, how
cv2r, for the prosecution, urged that the general evidence
al not been contradicted ; and the five commissioners,
i)'ter a lengthened absence, declared a prima facie case
against Mr. Gorham to have been established. The bishop
has since, very wisely, abandoned further proceedings.

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IRELAND.
The United Irishman newspaper is taken in and :read
by the paupers of the Limerick workhouse
The trial of Smith O'Brien was to commence yesterday
(Monday).
The " Protestant Repealers" have held their 'first
meeting, and a sorry affair it seems to have been.
Mr. Butt has been retained for the defence of Mr.
Smith O'Brien. So far Mr. Mitchel perseveres in• his
determination to conduct his own defence.

Extensive failures have taken place in the potatoe crop
in the West of Irelandi but as yet no failure has been as-
certained which cannot be traced to ignorance or mis-
management in committing the seed to the earth.
THE QUEEN v. MITCHELL.—The Court of Queen's
Bench, Dublin, has decided that Mr. Mitchel's plea of
abatement is bad, and. he therefore has had to put in the
usual pleas to two indictments against him for sedition.
Mr. O'Brien has received a letter from the Chancellor,
informing the hon. member for Limerick that his Lord-
ship has felt constrained to remove his name from the roll
of magistrates.
A PRIEST DOING PENANCE.—Father Bermingham, of
Borrisokane, the author of the celebrated letter preaching
blood and slaughter, and who was very properly suspended
by his bishop, has mounted the stool of repentance, and
in abject communication addressed to the Evening Post,
the organ of the Irish-Government, retracts his letter,
and deplores his having uttered sentiments " so much at
variance with the preaching of our Divine Redeemer and
his blessed Apostles."
THE EARL OF ENNISKILLEN. —in his capacity of
Grand Master of the Orangemen of the United Kingdom,
the Earl of Enniskillen has published a long and sensible
address to the Orangemen of Ireland, calling on them,
and upon all the Protestants of Irelnnd, to " come for-
ward as one man, to pronounce one stern declaration from
every Protestant hearth and home, to assure her most
gracious majesty the Queen that they look upon the Act
of Union as indispensable to their existence as Protestants
and to the true welfare of Ireland."

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court remains at Buckingham Palace. On Thurs-
day her Majesty held, at St..llmes's, the first drawing-
room of the season. It was most numerously and brit-
lisntly attended, the Queen and the ladies wearing dresses
•of British manufacture.
On Tuesday, her Majesty and Prince Albert, accom-
panied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
visited the illustrious exiles at present residing at Clare-
mont, returning to dinner at 'Buckingham Palace.
The Queen, by her own all-commanding example, car-
ried into effect the object which she pressed upon the ob-
servance of others, for we observe it is stated that she
wore a petticoat of black crape of British manufacture,
trimmed with crape flounces and bugles. The train was
of black silk, also of British manufacture, and was trim-
med with black crape and bugles. Again, we observe in
the notice of the dress worn by her Majesty's Royal Mo-
ther, the Duchess of Kent, it is said that the dress, trains,
and petticoat, were all of British mantffacture.
VISIT ,OF THE QUEEN TO IRELAND.—We are enabled
to state, on authority, that it is her Majesty's intention
to visit Ireland within two months of the present time,
and probably to remain a considerable portion of the
autumn. Arrangements for the Queen's reception have
already been commenced.—Dublin Mail.—[lt is said that
her Majesty will proceed to the sister isle via Liverpool
and Birkenhead, whither the royal yachts will be ordered
to meet her, and it is her Majesty's intention to spend
eight or ten days in the Emerald Isle, pro,leeding from
Dublin northward, when she will embark for the High-
lands of Scotland.]
BAPTISM OF THE INFANT PRINCESS.—The ceremony
of christening the infant princess was performed with great
pomp on Saturday evening, in the private chapel of Buck-
ingham Palace. The babe was christened by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, and received the names of Louisa
Carolina Alberta; the sponsors being the Qaeen Dowager,
proxy for the reigning Duchess of Saxe Meiningen ; Prince
Albert, proxy for the Duke Gustavus of Mecklenburgh
Schwerin ; and the Duchess of Cambridge, proxy for the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz. The
chapel was brilliantly illuminated, the communion service
and font were of gold, and the chapel and altar were
richly hung and covered with crimson velvet and gold.
The foreign ministers were present, the officers of state,
the heralds, the cabinet ministers, and others in rich uni-
forms. Her Majesty entered the chapel, leaning on the
arm of the Prince of Prussia, leading Prince Alfred, the
Prince of Prussia leading the Princess Alice by the hand.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal immediately
followed. Then came the Count of Syracuse and the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Grand Duke Bernard of Saxe
Weimar and the Duchess of Kent, Prince Frederick
William of Hesse and the Princess Mary of Cambridge,
&c. Her Majesty wore the riband of the Order of
the Garter, with a magnificent George suspended, with a
superb suit of diamonds, necklace, and ear-rings. The
head-dress was a beautiful wreath of white accacias, as-
sisted with brilliants. The dress was white and silver.
and was an excellent specimen of the perfection of British
manufacture. It was ornamented with accacias. The
Prince of Wales was dressed in a very elegant light blue
velvet jacket, beautifully embroidered. Prince Alfred
wore a white tunic, embroidered with silver. Prince
Albert wore a field-marshal's uniform, with the insignia
of the Orders of the Garter and the Golden Fleece in
brilliants. The robe of the infant Princess Louisa was of
Honiton lace. Her Majesty afterwards gave a grand
ban
ouet in honour of the occasion, and a party in the
evenincr. _ _

It is said that the Duke of Athol intends to visit St.
Petersburgh shortly, taking with him the pick of his
Highlanders.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
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A vessel, arrived in the Thrmes from Boulogne, has
brought an entire cargo of railway stores of British ma-
nufacture, consisting of 190 waggons in pieces, 49 cross-
ings, and 380 wheels and axletrees.
The Railway Record mentions a rumour that Mr.
Austin, Mr. Talbot, and other eminent counsel have given
up their briefs for the Great Western Railway in conse-
quence of the company being in arrear for fees. It is said
that the company owe under this head, some £30,000.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,658 miles of railway, was
£186,436, thus accounted for :—.£93,365 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £46,594 for the carriage of goods,
and a remainder of £46,477 for passengers and goods
together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase
of £20,364 over the corresponding week of last year, when
the mileage was 2,845. The average earnings per mile
last week were £5l, whilst in 1847 they were £5B.

CARBONIC ACID AS A MOTIVE POWER ON RAILWAYS.
—At the Paris Academy of Sciences a paper was read,
"On the Application of Carbonic Acid As a Motive
Power," by M. Jagu, C.E., in which the author notices
the recognised fact, that the force of carbonate acid has
no limit ; and that, to show that steam is as nothing to it,
carbonic acid may be condensed with the heat of boiling
water, to 75 atmospheres. The ordinary locomotive en-
gine takes a power of six atmospheres ; and Mr. Jagu
proposes an engine to be worked with carbonic acid, the
principle of which is not to lose the gas, but, after it has
served to work the pistons, be made to return, without
loss, into a vessel similar to a portable gas holder, to be
placed in the hinder part of the locomotive ; and thus an
apparatus so charged at the station, might be made to work
for Years, until required to be repaired. Common chalk
or other ordinary carbonate of lime, will yield 220 quarts of
gas from 21, by the application of sulphuric acid diluted
with ten times its weight of water.
LAMENTABLE AND FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-At
the Paddington Station (Great Western Railway), on
Wednesday evening, great anxiety prevailed, in conse-
quence of the non-arrival of the express half-past twelve
train from Exeter, which should have reached the station
at half-past four o'clock. At six a telegraphic communi-
cation was forwarded from Slough announcing that the
train had met with a disastrous collision at the Shriven-
ham station. It appeared that the train consisted
of two first-class carriages and four second-class car-
riages,• also a luggage-van, followed by another se-
cond-class carriage full of passengers. The train
started five minutes after the usual time. No signal of
obstruction or required stoppage being shown at the Shri-
venham station, the high speed (about 50 miles an hour)
was maintained. At this place there is a branch railway
for turning off the carriages. At the angle of divergence
of the off-line was an empty horse-box, with a truck
attached, on which was a gentleman's carriage, which,
it is supposed, just overlapped the main up line, as
a collision took place, the effect of which was that
the engine struck the horse-box, when owing to the
velocity with which the train was progressing, the
horse-box, with the truck, were swung round. In
a moment, the second - class carriage, which was
connected with the luggage-van, in the rear of the
engine was dashed to pieces, and the unfortunate passen-
gers were flung out in every direction. The driver of the
engine, who was unable to avoid the collision, used the
utmost exertions to arrest the progress of the train, and
promptly reversed the engine. Upon returning to the
Shrivenham station a most appalling spectacle presented
itself. The line was strewed with the wreck of the car-
riage, while a number of the passengers, wounded and
dying, were lying in different parts, to whom every assist-
ance was being afforded by the servants of the company,
and by others who had arrived at the station, having heard
of the disastrous occurrence. Four of the passengers ex-
hibited no signs of life, and two others were so seriously
injured that they are stated to have died shortly after their
removal. There was but one passenger who received no
injury. The greatest alarm prevailed in the other car-
riages. The engine was so much injured that another had
to be provided to convey the train to Paddington, and
which arrived there two hours and a half beyond its usual
time. Every possible assistance was given by the gentle-
men and servants connected with the railway to the suf-
ferers. It appears that there was negligence in leaving the
horse-box at the point where the accident occurred. Gen.
Sir Alexander had a fortunate escape, the carriage in front
and that immediately behind being smashed to pieces.
His servant was killed. From the accounts yet received,
it appears that amongst the killed were the Rev. Mr.
Phillips, of Penzance ;" the Rev. Mr. Sandys of Stroud;
Mr. Wilshere, of Bath; a servant, name unknown.
Amongst the injured were Captain Blair, R.N., (supposed
fatal) ; four others seriously hurt, and nine bruised or
contused. The last account we have yet received says
that the accident occurred thus :—The up express train
was .25 minutes late, and two of the porters at the
Shrivenham station, supposing that it had passed up
the line, pushed two carriages from the good's shed
on to .the main line, without either acquainting the
policeman or turning the signal on. The .driver of the
express engine says, it would have been impossible to have
avoided the accident even with an ordinary train. The
coroner's jury Wye returned a verdict of manslaughter
against the porter
_and assistant porter who moved the
trucks.

[OL STANDARD.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The parliamentary committee recently appointed to en-
iquire into the recent election at Lancaster will sit during
the present week.

DEATH OF MR. CRIPPS, M. P. FOR CIRENCESTER.—
This gentleman, whose recent dispute with Mr. Feargus
O'Connor in the House of Commons will be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, expired on Thursday morning
at his residence in St. James's-place. The malady which
has brought the hon. and learned gentleman unto a pre-
mature grave was an attack of brain fever.
THE SPANISH CORRESPONDENCE.—In the House of
Lords, an important debate has been provoked by a motion
of Lord Stanley, respecting Lord Palmerston's extra-
ordinary Spanish lecture. Lord Lansdowne was fairly
obliged to throw Mr. Bulwer over, and that in the face of
the very awkward fact now made public, that Lord
Palmerston has, on behalf• of the cabinet, ratified and ap-
proved of Mr. Bulwer's conduct.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE NOT .UNIVERSAL REPRESEN-
TATION.—Let our Chartist friends take warning by the
results of the late French elections, that Universal Suf-
frage is not Universal Representation. If combined with
the vicious principle of a plurality of votes given to each
elector, it seems but to rivet the despotism of the majority.
Large and energetic minorities in the French nation will
either not be represented, or will be insufficiently repre-
sented in the French Constituent Assembly, although
elected by universLl suffrage ; and many leading men
amongst those of socialist, communist, and other extreme
or peculiar opinions, will not have a seat there.
REPRESENTATION OF NORTH CHESHIRE.—Mr. E. J.
Stanley, member for North Cheshire, has been called to
the upper house, by the title of Baron Eddisbury of Win-
nington, in the county of Chester. A knot of radicals in
Manchester, have brought forward Mr. F. Dukinfield
Astley, as a candidate to succeed him ; but we are glad to
find that the conservatives have succeeded in inducing Mr.
Cornwall Legh, of High Legh, to become a candidate,
and on Friday last a meeting was held at Knutsford to
promote his return. The meeting was numerously atten-
ded by the most influential gentry of the division. Sir
Richard Brooke, of Norton Priory, bart., was called to
the chair. After considerable discussion, it was resolved
that Mr. Cornwall Legh, of High Legh, be requested to
come forward to represent the division in parliament on
the conservative interest. A deputation was then appoin-
ted to wait upon Mr. Legh, and the meeting adjourned
until two o'clock. Shortly after two o'clock, the meeting
re-assembled, when the deputation were present, along
with Mr. Legh, who accepted the invitation to stand as
the conservative candidate for the division, and issued his
address.

TEMPERANCE.—A SCENE.—On Friday, Mr. Brother-
ton, in moving that the House of Commons do adjourn,
adverting to the conversation on the introduction of the
new Borough Elections Bill, said that as his name had
been frequently mentioned by the hon. member for Sun-
derland, he ( Mr. Brotherton) must complain, that be-
cause the hon. member did not choose to be in his place
when the discussion took place early in the evening, he
should come down at that hour and attempt to re-open a
debate which had been disposed of. He (Mr. Brotherton)
should strongly advise the hon. member to join a tem-
perance society. ( Laughter, and cries of " Order.")—
Mr. Hudson, with great warmth, said the imputation
thrown out by the hon. member for Salford was most
gratuitous, but he returned it with all the scorn and con-
tempt which one individual could exhibit to another.
What did the hon. member mean by the charge ? The
hon. member seemed.to be as careless of character as he
was of principle. Would it be right, however, in him
( Mr. Hudson) to charge the hon. member with being a
perfect drunkard ? Would it—an hon. member here in-
terrupted the scene by observing that there were not forty
members in the house.—The house was accordingly
counted out.

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BILL.—We suppose that this
bill may now be allowed to die in peace. As to " his
Holiness," with whom it seemed so desirable to establish
relations, he is, it would seem, to use a familiar phrase,
" neither here nor there." Whether he is to become
" Prince of Italy," or simply " Bishop of Rome," or
whatever other fate is reserved to him, it appears very
improbable that he will ever again claim the title of
" Sovereign of the Roman States." The only thing,
therefore, that remains to be done is, quietly to put the
bill behind the fire, and to let us hear no more about it.
By the way, the last news which reached Dublin from
Italy, stated the " Holy Father's" great indignation
against this very bill. " England had insulted him ; she
refused to recognise him as ' head of the Catholic Church;'
and consequently he could not consent to receive an am-
bassador from a government which thus treated him."
Such was the gratitude of this old usurper, for England's
foolish offer to receive him, after an exclusion of 300
years, into the fraternity of European sovereigns. Like
the Papacy of former ages, he will have " all or none."
England must not only exchange ambassadors with the
" Sovereign of the Roman States," out she must acknow-
ledge the Pope to be the " head of the Catholic Church."
As if he could overlook the evident fact, that to acknow-
ledge him as " head of the Catholic Church," would be,
to admit ourselves to be out of the Catholic Church ;
or, in other words, in a state of open and avowed heresy !
THE NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT.—The mere Whigs
appear no little annoyed at the treachery of the Free-
traders, who have converted the Anti-Corn Law League
into an association for furthering the new radical move-
ment, by which we are to be blessed with household suf-
frage, vote by ballot, triennial parliaments, and electoral
districts. The Globe thus complains of the breach of
faith "Again and again the leading membary of the
Anti-Corn Law Council declared the League was not a
political association. That it had not nor would it ever
connect itself with politics. They pledged themselves
that when the Corn Law was repealed the League should
be immediately and for ever abolished. Money was sub-
scribed and co-operation by thousands of persons upon
this express condition. Is it not, then, a public breach of
faith to use the machinery constructed under such circum-
stances for the purpose of political agitation ? That it is
intended so to use it is evident, for the circular of the late
chairman of the League is not addressed to parties known
to be favourable to organic changes; or who have ex-
pressed a willingness to join a movement to obtain such
changes. The initiative is taken by the members of the
late Council of the League ; the circular comes from the
old address, with the old signature, and is forwarded to
parties in the character of principal supporters of the free
trade movement throughout the kingdom."—The wonder
is that any one could be so very green as to imagine that
the Manchester League would ever be permitted to expire
so long as it could be made available for promoting the
interests of the manufacturing districts at the expense of
the nation at large, especially when the pecuniary interests
of Mr. Cobden and Mr. Wilson were so sedulously pro-
vided for, the former netting a clear £70,000, and the lat-
ter finding himself richer by £lO,OOO, which was coolly
transferred from the League fund into his own pocket, on
the passing of the Corn Law Relief Bill. The prospect
of another such harvest may be distant—but, at all events
nothing will be lost by the trial, and therefore the League
is now to come forward and bid for popular favour against
Feargus O'Connor and his Chartist Convention.