The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

POLITICAL VARIETIES,

The deputation appointed at the late tea meeting are to
have a meeting with Lord John Russell to-day.
It is said that Lord Morpeth will shortly be summoned
to the Upper House, a a colleague with Earl Grey.
A vacancy is caused for West Cornwall, by the death of
Mr. E. W. Pendarves.

The Right Hon. F. Shaw has intimated his intention of
retiring from the representation of Dublin University, on
the re-assembling of parliament. Mr. Shaw assigns ill
health as the cause of his retirement. Mr. Napier, who
was defeated at the late election, will probably be the new
representative.

The London Standard reports a speech alleged to have
been delivered by Sir Robert Peel at a private meeting of
Mends, in which Sir Robert Peel is declared to have said,
that, on her Majesty asking him to make one request on
his late retirement from office, he desired that " he should
never be again commanded to accept office as a minister
of the crown.

On Thursday last a deputation of the West India Asso-
ciation, Brook-street, consisting of the following gentle-
men, were introduced to Earl Grey, by Mr. Pattison, the
member for the City of London :—Dr. Hodgkin, chair-
man • Dr. Norton Shaw, hon. secretary ; Mr. Man, Mr.
Geddes, Mr. Land, Mr. Cargil, Dr. Fergusson, and Mr.
H. H. Cohen, of Jamaica ; Colonel Warren, of Deme-
rara ; Captain Sughrue, of Trinidad ; Mr. John Hodgkin,
Mr. Cornelius Hanbury, Mr. Robert Alsop. Mr. Pattison,
in introducing the deputation, stated that among those in-
trodue:d to his lordship were seyeTal detMnined free
traders. •

N._MATION LAWS.—MOVEMENT AMONGST THE
SEAMEN.—In calling attention, on Monday last, to the
spirited movement made by the masters, mates, seamen,
and shipwrights, of shields, to resist the threatened alte-
ration or repeal of our navigation laws, we said that we
had no doubt they would be joined by the seamen and
shipwrights of the Thames in their praiseworthy determi-
nation to lay before her Majesty a memorial, setting forth
the serious consequences of such a step. We have now
the pleasure to state that active measures are being taken
to carry out the object. Upwards of ten thousand seamen
from the Tyne are now in the port of London, who are
prepared to act upon the resolution passed at the meeting
which they held previous to their leaving the Tyne.—
Shipping Gazette.
THE GREAT FACTS ON TILE TEA QUESTION.---The
great fact for the advocates of the reduction to keep before
the public is the population of the country, which we treat
in such a conciliatory way. They are at least 250,000,000
some say nearer to 350,000,000. If every individual of
the smaller number consumed but to the value of one
shilling per annum of our goods, the amount would be
X 12,500,000. Our exports to China at present are about
a fifth of that amount. On the other hand, we consume
about 45,000,0001b5. of tea in a year. Whereas, if each
individual in the United Kingdom, taking our present
population at 28,000,000, consumed the moderate average
of two ounces per weep, our annual consumption would
amount to 182,000,0001b5. ; and the duty on that con-
sumption at Bd. a pound—and we could not venture to
anticipate so large a consumption at a higher duty—would
amount to X 5,600,000, or considerably more than the
revenue which is produced by the present duty of 2s. 20.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDiIdi.

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uooas, maim tney may legally ancl.eneetually prosecute.
Bishop O'Higgins has written a letter to Mr. J. O'Con-
nell, in which he calls Englishmen " pagans," and deals in

Two brothers, named Nester, were amusing themselves
near Mayo, firing at a mark, when one playfully presented
uistol at his brother, which u '-nately went off, the

ball entering the forehead

A coroner's inquest was held in Kells, county of Meath,
last week, on the bodies of two women, named Elizabeth
and C4therine Doggett, mother and daughter, who, ac-
cording to the verdict of the jury, " came to their deaths
from cold and privation and actual want of the'common

The allegations respecting the mysterious deaths of the
Rev. Mr. Maguire and his brother and sister-in-law have
all been denied. The first, it is affirmed, died of gout in
the stomach, and the two latter " suddenly" of fever.
Nevertheless, the report is still current that the stomach
of the brother of the rev. gentleman was forwarded to

Dublin for analysation, and that poison had been disco-
vered sufficient to cause death.
LARGE SURRENDER OF FIRE-ARMS, &
stable Hayes, on Thursday, deposited at tl

—Head con-

military

large quantity of pikes, bayonets, and ammunition, sur-
rendered under the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation. The
same head-constable, on Saturday, took up in the town
and vicinity of Nenagh, between 20 and 30 stand of arms,
all of which were urregistered.—Nenagh Guardian.
LORD STANLEY versus THE CONFESSIONAL.—The
Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry (Dr. Maginn) is palpa-
bly emulous of the fame achieved by the western metro-
p‘ollotann;, the
renowned
snporwontoedty
pJeoh;lsoaf
TnTourritd.
ambitionTh e t
northern
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into print ; and the speech of Lord Stanley, in the late
lsession, in which his lordship attributes much of the pre-
valence of Irish crime to the practice of auricular confes-

aplain to the High Sheriff, Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart.
The Bishop of Taswania has left England for his far

lurk has accepted the office of
patron and president of the York Auxiliary to the Church
Missionary Association.
The Bishop of Manchester will hold his first ordination
on the 19th March at Manchester. Candidates are to
send in the requisite papers before the 19th February.
- Mr. C. H. Frewen, M.P. for East'Sussex, in a letter to
P"--

ne ffeeora, says, " There are strong reasons for believing,
that if it had not been for the interference of one or two
of the bishops, Mr. Montagu Villiers would have now
been upon the bench."
The Bishop of Exeter is causing great excitement

ferred by the noble lord. The last of the series spreads
over five columns of Thursday's Freeman, and for scurri-
lity and virulence this letter altogether eclipses any pro-
duction that has yet emanated from the classic shades of
St. rarlath's.
JOHN OF TUAM A POOR-RATE DEFAULTER.—From a

among the clergy. in ins diocese, by a new rule, of subject-
ing to a re-examination every clergyman who may apply
to be instituted to a benefice, or licensed to a curacy, how
ever long he nay have been in holy orders.

It has-been remarked, that in the case of Dr. Hampden,
the supporters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction appear in the
Court of Queen's Bench in the name of the Crown, while
the assertors of the power of the Crown defend it on be-
half of the Archbishop.
The Derby Mercury states, that the Bishop of Lincoln
'has 'given it as his opinion that no consecration is neces-
sary when the whole or any part of a church is rebuilt. It
appears that it is- sufficient for a building to stand'upon
consecrated ground, and that it thereby partakes of the
privileges of the sanctuary, without being formally sepa-
rated from common uses, further than by its locality.

letter addressed from the Poor-law Commission-office,
Dublin, to the secretary of the Board of Guardians of the
Tuam Union, it appears that several " persons of rank

THE LABOURER NOT PAID.-A correspondent of a
daily paper writes :—" It is a fact that the perpetual cu-
rate of the united parishes of Wetheral and Warwick, in
the county of Cumberland, with an area of twelve miles
in length, with a population of £4OOO souls, and with two
churches, two miles apart, which he has to serve every
Sunday, -has assigned to him by the dean and chapter of
Carlisle the miserable pittance of £52 per annum out of
the tithes and other hereditaments, which amount to
nearly £2OOO a-year. The tithes are leased out to a Ro-
man Catholic 1"

and consideration, some of whom are guardians," are
still in arrear for their poor rates—that some of them
have paid no part of either the present or the previous
rate—and that amongst the number who have thus set the
'v for
than

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE VICAR OF HAREWOOD.—
For some time it has been known that proceedings have
been commenced in the Ecclesiastical Court, against the
Rev. Mr. Hale, vicar of Harewood, for a series of perso-
nal attacks which the rev. gentleman is alleged to have
made from the pulpit on certain of his parishioners who
have frequented his church. We may safely add that
Mr. Hale's character, as a gentleman and divine, is not
in the least implicated in these proceedings. We un-
derstand that the Rev. Mr. Hale is 74 years of age, and
that he has been minister of the parish for 47 years.—
Leeds Intelligencer.
Mr. Gorham, the clergyman whom the Bishop of
Exeter refuses to institute to the living of Bramford
Speke, on the presentation of the Crown (and whom he
has harrassed by an examination of s

Dr.M`Hale, Archbishop of Tuam. This "Lion of the
Fold of Judah" accuses the English government of whole-
sale murder for not feeding the Irish people, and refuses
to pay his own poor rates. The guardians are told that

of the rates they will be superseded by paid officers.
DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES GAYER.—On Thursday
death folded the Rev. C. Gayer in his relentless embrace,
in the midst of a life of usefulness and in the prime of life.
The Church of God has received a heavy blow in Dingle
by his death ; to his young and numerous family the loss
will be irreparable ; and the poor of his neighbourhood

win not again 100 K upon suen a mend—to them his use-
fulness during the worst pressure of the past year cannot
be told. The Rev. Mr. Gayer was in the 42d year of his
age when he fell, after a few days' illness, a victill to ty-
phus fever, brought on after influenza, at his residence,
His remains are interred in Dingle
ie Church he occupied the position of chap-_
Ventry, rector of Dunurlin

veral days, one day
continuing it eleven hours and a-half), is a clergyman of
thirty-seven years' standing in the ministry, and graduated
with high honours at Cambridge. He obtained all the
prizes in his college whilst an undergraduate. He was
the only competitor with Professor Sedgwick for the geo-
logical chair. His literary, and theological attainments
induced the late Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst to give him
the valuable living of St. Just, in Cornwall, worth more
than £5OO a year; but the situation in some respects not
being congenial, Mr. Gorham gladly accepted on the
presentation of the Crown, the living of Bramford Speke,
although the income is nearly £3OO per annum less.
RESTORATION OF TITHES TO THE CHURCH.—A Com-
mittee consisting of Lord John Manners, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Stephen
Glynne, Bart., the Dean of Chichester, the Rev. Robert
Spranger, D.C.L., the Rev. R. Chandos, Pole, &c., has
been formed, for the purpose of restoning the tithes now
held by lay impropriators to the exclusive use of the
Church. The patronage of the Church is as follows:
Clerical Patrons, 2353 ! Collegiate (Clerical and Lay),
805 ! ! Lay, 7553 !! ! Thus nearly two-thirds of the
patronage of benefices in England and Wales is in the
hands of laymen, and not of the Church itself ! The Rev.
J. D. Schomberg, a learned and able writer on Ecclesias-
tical matters states :—`• By the particular constitution of
England. every acre of land in the country is titheable,
unless an exemption can be shewn ; and the reason that
every acre of land is titheable, is not by prescription, as
Sir R. Peel and others have alleged, (which is no title)
but because the parochial clergy were endowed with this
tithe by the thanes or lords of the respective manors, who
made the payment of it a charge upon their estates, and
atutinst their descendants for ever. * * * Now, this
being the case, it may be a matter of surprise to many,
houi the tithe came ever to slip away from the parish
priests : in other words, how this endowment, having
been, as it were, clenched by the law of the land, so many
parishes came to be deprived of ' their own' maintenance
for their own parish priest." The learned divine then
goes on to state, that in the time of Henry VIII., the
monasteries were dissolved, and the then existing revenues
of these bodies were transferred chiefly into the hands of
rapacious laymen ;—and he then gives a table of what the
Russells and Howards derived from such transfer, naming
the Abbeys, &c., apportioned to each, and by which table
we see the Duke of Bedford gained £150,000 per annum,
and the Duke of Norfolk £25,000 per annum! That
many lay impropriators are now deriving large incomes
from Church revenues there can be no doubt. We hope
for the sake of the country, success may attend the exer-
tions of the Committee we have named, and that proper
regard will be shewn to the wants of the really pious
working clergy.

theCosmpepeaieraltciveemtmrainssqiuerMsglected in the bishopric of Team, what is the answer to by an application to that Court for a mandamus. H
that grave charge ? Simply, that the neglect is altogether third objection was, that if opposition had been made to
Lamb, the first of th.- p,eneTrvenadeeistttihege.count,ios in which to be attributed to the obstinacy of the government in re- the proceedings of the Court at the confirmation, and if
town meat mar,- 'fusing to place the entire control of the national schools, it was to he COPtded that the Court had not competent
year, was exhibited at the New- property and all, in the hand's of the priests ! "Is your jurisdiction to refuse to hear the opposers, remedy might
.--c.c, Limerick, onFriday,
•lordship aware," be asks, "that it was the instruction of have been obtained under the provisions of the Church
The P-
-ev, 3. Moore, incumbent of Mulaghfad, near his Holiness that the property of the national schools, re- Discipline Act. Certainly the Court of Queen's Bench
—olskillen, committed suicide on Friday week, by cutting sorted to chiefly by Catholics, should be vested in the had no more right or authority to inquire into and try
his throat. He was one of the most benevolent men living. Catholic pastors ?" The instruction, however, not hay- this case than it had to try offences which clearly came
It is said that the Government have two cases of altar ing been complied with, though proceeding from what is under the decision of the Ecclesiastical Courts. And
denunciation, by Roman Catholic clergymen, on their audaciously called the supreme authority of the Pope"— his fourth and last objection was, that under the whott
supreme in Ireland !—Dr. M` Hale would have no connec- of the circumstances of the present case- there was no
tion whatever with the national system, and accordingly ground whatever to justify that Court in granting a
lost no time in establishing seminaries of his own. mandamus.
The Solicitor-General followed on the same side, as
CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. did also Mr. M. D. Hill ; the latter quoted the opinion of
li— Blackstone, that the statute of Henry the Eighth vested
nfortunitelv went ~a' +l,. The Church and State Gazette states that the Arch- the eleetion of a bishop in the Crown.
bishop of Canterbury is in a precarious state. On Tuesday, Mr. M. D. Hill, Dr. Bayford, and Mr.
,-'
The Rev. S. B. Sellers, of Rufford, has been appointed Waddington, were heard against the rule and in support
- - - of the argument that the Court of Queen's Bench had
no jurisdiction in the matter. Dr. Addams spoke at great
length in support of the rule, contending that the Dean
and Chapter were not bound to elect the person named
in the letters missive, under the penalty of prtemunire, the
only penalty attaching to the act of the Dean and Chap-
ter in the election of any other person being that of the
appointment by the crown, by letters patent, of such
person as they might name. If the Dean and Chapter
had elected some other person instead of Dr. Hampden
to the see of Hereford, could it be maintained that they
would be liable to prtemunire ? Would not the person
so elected have been bishop to all intents and purposes ?
The learned doctor then proceeded to read, at considerable
length, several authorities, for the purpose of showing

mar the aurnoriry or the sovereign, m ___
bishop or archbishop was not so extensive as was con-
tended for by the counsel about making the rule absolute.
The learned counsel had not concluded the citing of these
authorities when the court rose at half-past four o'clock.
On Wednesday, Mr. Addams resumed his argument.
and in answer to the argument on the other side, that
the proceedings of the election, confirmation, &c., were
all " a show and a shadow," the appointment actually
vesting in the Crown, suggested that the Solicitor-General
should bring in a bill to abolish such useless ceremonies ;
or, if they were to be continued, that he would bring in a
bill fixing future confirmations for the first of April, so
that the old story of making April fools might be carried
out to the letter.—Mr. H. S. Stephens, Mr. Peacock, and
Mr. Baddely followed on the same side, and the further
consideration of the case.was adjourned to Thursday.
On Thursday, Mr. Baddely again appeared in support
of the rule for a mandamus. Sir F. Kelly then followed
on the same side; after which the Attorney-General re-
plied at some length to the arguments of the counsel in
support of the rule, and concluded by imploring their lord-
ships, as early as was consistent with the importance of
the ouestion, to intimate the opinion of the court upon it.
On Friday Lord Denman said that the judgment of the
court will be delivered on Tuesday (this day).