The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Vanguard steamer has been got off the shore at
Cork.

THE ROMISH LAJTV.-At Westland-row Chapel, in
this city, on last Sunday, the entire body of the people,
men, women, and children, rose up and marched out,
when Priest O'Ma!ley, (who has lately distinguished him-
self by his opposition to O'Connell on the popish be-
quests bill) began to officiate.—Dublin Statesman.

The Irish Corporations have not been forgetful of
the press. The Mayor of Cork is the proprietor of a
newspaper ; the proprietors and editors of the Kilkenny
Journal, Drogheda Argus, Tipperary Free Press, and
Sligo Champion, have seats in their respective corpora-
tions ; and the editors of the Freeman, Register and Na-
tion, are in the Dublin Corporation.
The Dublin Freeman (Popish journal) says " that the
court of St. James is at present actively engaged in an
intrigue at the Papal court, the purport of which is, to
secure to the English minister an intluenct- over the Irish
hierarchy which, should it be attait,ed, wi&l necessarily
prove most destructive to them, and detrimental to the
cause of liberty in this kingdom."
Last week a servant girl, at Limerick, in endeavouring
to get a pail of water out of the river, fell in, and was
being carried down by the stream, when a private of the
Royal Artillery jumped in to rescue her. She caught him
by the breast, and as he ccu'd not disengage himself from
her grasp, b ith sun'. rer,, i the presence of a hundred
spectators, soon sank to rise no more.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday night last a shock-
ing accident happened in Portrush. The Rev. Mr. Whit-
taker, a clergyman of the Methodist Connexion, and Mr.
Cary, were thrown out of ther gig, after divine service,
and dashed on the rocks of the shore, the horse having
taken fright. Mr. Whittaker was so much injured as to
be in imminent danger, and Mr. Cary was instantaneous-
ly killed, the gig haying fallen over the unfortunate gentle-
man.—Limerick Chronicle.

FIRING AT A LADY.—On Sunday week, about five
o'clock, as Mrs. Henry Atkinson, of Cangort, King's
County (daughter of the Rev. William Savage, rector of
the parish), was returning home in a pony carriage, ac-
companied by one of her children and a man servant' on
the very confines of the village they were met by two
men, and immediately on pasting them a shot was fired
(happily without effect.) It is thought that the servant
was mistaken for Mr. Henry Atkinson, who, in his capa-
city of agent to his brother, has lately instituted proceed-
ings against some tenants on the Cangort estate.
POPISH BEQUESTS BILL—In Dr. Murray's pastoral
letter he announces future vigorous petitions and action to
relieve the " meritorious" but "degraded," Jesuits and
monks. He utters a " God forbid" that he or any other
" Catholic" should recognise the penal law against those
" venerated labourers in the sacral ministry" whom the
laws of England provide against as dangerous to the com-
monwealth, but whose only crime, according to Dr. Mur-
ray, is their superrogatory evangelic character. beyond
what God demands. When will Protestants awake, arise,
combine, and insist that an end be put to this bit-by-bit
admission of popery into every department of the state?

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—O'ConneII was not of course
present at the weekly meeting on Monday. The princi-
pal speaker was :sir. O'Brien, who, in the course of his
address, said " he did not think it necessary to speculate
on the means which should be employed by the united
Irish people for the attainment of repeal, but this he would
say—woe to the British Empire in the hour when Eng-
land attempted to meet the unanimous demand for repeal
by arms. The hour was approaching when England
%ould want Ireland. Louis Philippe dead, a fleet of
steamers would be on the French coast ready to transport
an army to the shores of England. The Irish army would
then be wanted, and they would have it in their power to
dictate their own terms—namely, the restoration of the
Irish legislature." The weekly rent was £175.
SHAMEFUL CONDUCT.—The funeral of the Earl of
Limerick took place on Monday, and although his lord-
ship bequeathed a sum of £5OO to be distributed among
the poor of that city, and yet the "finest people on the
face of the earth" could not permit his remains to be de-
posited in their final resting-place without indulging in
one of those displays of barbarity which bespeak, to say
the least, an imperfect state of civilization. As the fu.
neral passed along the streets of Limerick the yelling of
the mob was terrific, and the tenantry who attended to
pay the last tribute of respect to their landlord were as-
saulted, and their scarfs torn to atoms. The relatives of
the deceased, in their carriages, received similar treat-
ment, having been pelted with stones, and compelled to
take refuge in the houses adjoining the cathedral. Lord
Monteagle and Sir A. De Vere were amongst those who
were so treated. Lord Monteagle is son-in-law of the
late earl : Sir A. De Vere, nephew.

SPREAD OF POPERY.—The Roman Catholic Directory
q• 1845, states that the number of Romish chapels in
England and Wales is 501. in Wales 8, in Scotland 73,
besides 27 stations where Divine service is performed,
making a grand total for Great Britain of 582. Of the
chapels in England. there are in Lancashire 98, in York-
shire 58, Staffordshire, 32, Middlesex 25, Northumber-
land 22, Warwickshire 22, Durham 17, Leicestershire 15,
Cheshire 13, each, Kent and Lincolnshire 12 each, and
Cumberland, Derby, and Shropshire 9 each. Of the
chapels in Scotland there are in Inverness-shire 17, in
Banffshire and it) Aberdeenshire 10. In England there
are ten catholic colleges, in Scotland one. In England
there are 31 convents and 3 monasteries. The number of
missionary priests in England is 666, in Scotland 91,
making a grand total of 757.

THE COURT er FASHIONABLE WORLD.

NEW YEAR'S DAY AT WINDSOR CASTLE AND THE
TIIILERIES.—A singular and perhaps unprecedented event
will take place on New Year's-day. The Royal table at
ihe Tuileries and the Royal table at Windsor Castle will
both be supplied with portions of the same prize ox, the
first of the class at the late cattle show.

The Queen-Dowager is surrounded by a select party at
Witley Court, Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillipsthal and
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar have arrived there on a
visit to their illustrious relative.

ROYAL BENEVOLENCE.— Her majesty has presented
the British and Foreign Temperance Society with a dona-
tion of £25., and the Queen Dowager a donation of X2O.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Eight hundred families in
the neighbourhood of Hampton Court, Hampton, New
Hampton, and Teddington, received by the kind charity
of the Queen Dowager, three pounds of beef and two
quartern loaves on Christmas day.
Her Majesty's Royal Charities of ss. each to upwards
of 900 poor and aged persons were distributed last week.
The Royal Gate Alms were distributed at the same time to
168 persons, who received 13s. each. Many of the aged
poor who received the Royal bounty are blind, and labour-
ing under bodily affliction.
NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.—This evening (being new-year's
eve) her Majesty's annual gifts to the poor of Windsor
will be dispensed. 180 pairs of 10-quarter blankets will
be given to that number of families. Nearly 200 fami•
lies, averaging five children in each, will also be supplied
(the quantity being regulated according to the number of
children) at the same time with beef, plurn-pudiing,
bread, potatoes, and ale, and also 1 cwt. of coals to each
family. The provisions only which will be presented will
weigh upwards of 3 tons. It is expected that Her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert, attended by the members of the
Royal household, will be present to be witnesses of the
gratifying scene.