The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

of the heads of the church at deb

arly instanced the v

us reports propagated
o the disadvantage of the venerable prelate who presides
)ver the diocese, the result of which the preacher stated,
on the authority of a magistrate, to be that a "conspi-
racy " was actually set on foot by some evil-minded
wretches to take the first public opportunity that might
occur for offering violence to Cie person of Archbishop
Murray. The report in Dublin is, that advantage was to
be taken of the first meeting of the members of the new
_ _

board for this creditable display of mob brutality

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT
tle hamlet of Knockmar

T.—On Saturday week, at the

,n, near Phoenix-park, the

a sewer in coarse of formation for taking the
artificial lake about to be made there, gave
rapidly filled the

ien the

great body o

glen, to the height of seven or eight feet, and an
overwhelming flood swept into the houses, and in a few
minutes, before any human help could be afforded, four
children, and a cow, the chief support of one poor family,
were drowned. In the strawberry garden, at the back of
the house, stood a rick of hay, and this was carried off.
An officer, of the Ist Royal Dragoons, who was riding
fortunately along the road, with intrepid humanity rode
into the water and succeeded in rescuing an aged woman.
and three children from destruction. Three others of the
houses were not approachable. One of the children,
aged nine, providentially saved herself by climbing on the
top of her father's loom, and was found in that position
half dead, clinging with death-like grasp to it. The
eldest girl it is supposed lost her life in her anxiety for the
infant and her youngest sister. The poor mother was at
market, provid,ng some necessaries for the w,•.ek's sup-
port, and returned but to witness their dead bodies, and
that of the cow, their chief means of support. A man
named Coyle, had one child drowned. A poor helpless
man named Muflen, by trade a smith, living on the banks
of the Liffey, at the opposite side of the road, had his
house and furniture all wrecked and destroyed. A respec-
table tradesman, named Butler, bad his furniture de-
stroyed.

THE POPE AND THE REPEAL BISHOPS

A letter dated the llth instant, from Dr. Crolly, the
Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, to Mr. O'Connell
has been published. The Doctor gives in it the subjoined
letter from the Pope, in consequence of the Liberator
having asserted that that letter was " not a canonical
document. We give the translation, as the Latinity of
the original is not of the first order:—

" M ost Illustrious and roost Reverend Lord—Your grace
ought assuredly to recollect that letters were given to you
on the 12th March, 1839, from this Sacred Congregation,
in which, in the name of our most holy Lord. Gregory,
P.P. XVI., it was strongly urged to one or other prelate
and some ecclesiastics of that kingdom, who were reported
as being too much addicted to politics, and publicly hold-
ing forth with little discretion, that, if the same state of
things continued, you ghoul a recommend more wholesome
counsels, and should most diligently per,uade them to a
a course more becoming their sacred ministry. The Sa-
cred congregation. indeed, doubts not that you have, with
all zeal, laboured to accomplish this, and have bestowed
such pains as the importance or the affair demanded, and
as should naturally be expected from your reverence for
the Apostolic See. But, nevertheless, that the desired
end has not altogether answered the pains taken by you
appears, especially from the public papers of those realms,
in which speeches are reported as having been, recently,
made by some of the clergy, and even by some of the
bishops, at public meetings and entertainments, as well as
in sacred edifices, who, certainly, if this were so, would
not at all shoes themselves anxious about the salvation of
souls, the good of religion, and the honour of God, and
altogether averse to the designs of political parties and the
concerns of this world, as should be the case. Indeed, it
is net to be dissembled that it has caused more pain to
this Sacred Congregation, and to our most Holy Lord, as
tending to inflict loss and disgrace upon the ecclesiastical
assembly; yea, what is more, may cause an injury to the
Apostolic See, as if,—little solicitous about opportunely
directing salutary advice to that clergy,—she favoured the
stated designs of some of them, or, at least, seemed to
connive at them. And, perchance, it is unknown to your
grace, that grounds for these complaints, or, rather,
charges, have not already once existed but the Apostolic
I set, from sad experience, is greatly grieved.