The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.
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Five convicts made their escape from Cashel bridewell
on Sunday night. Three of the fellows were under sen-
tence of transportation for ten years, and none of them
have since been discovered by the police.
A boy was accidentally shot by a soldier of the 9th re-
giment of infantry while out on ball practice, near the
Pigeon-house, Dublin, on Tuesday. No blame is attached
to the arrangements of the military on the occasion.
INCREASE OF RII3BONISM.—The Newry Examiner, r
paper of strictly liberal principles, contains an article on
the spread of ribbonism, which deserves more attention
than what we generally find on that subject in the Irish
papers. The Examiner asserts that ribbonism not only
continues to exist, but is suffered to flourish, no effectual
step being taken for its suppression; and the waylaying
system, which so often shows itself, is stated to be the
immediate offspring of a ribbon organization.
PROCLAMATION OF THE POPE'S SUPREMACY IN IRE-
LAND.—The new Popish Primate has, in conformity with
the brief of the Pope, issued orders for a National Council
to be held at Thurles. in his mandate he assumes the
following style :—" Paul, by the Grace of God, and favour
of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of
all Ireland, Delegate of the Apostolic See, &c."
The Limerick Chronicle of Saturday says :—" We are
deeply concerned to announce that the eldest son of Geo.
Gubbins. Esq., Miltown, Bruff, was this day accidentally
shot by his brother, while incautiously handling a fowling
piece, and the wound is believed to be fatal."

In removing a stack of oats a few days since from the
yard of a farmer in Kilkenny, the prodigious number of
366 rats, all full grown, were slaughtered. Many of them
were grey-haired patriarchs of this proscribed race, and
not a few bore tokens of hair-breadth stapes from the trap.
MR. W. SMITH O'BRlEN.—Among the gentlemen who
attended a public meeting on Tuesday, with a view to
procure some amelioration in the sufferings of that unac-
countable self-tormentor, Smith O'Brien, Mr. Charles
Gavan Duffy wound up a violent speech with the follow-
ing disgraceful words :—" I abhor all outrage against a
woman ; I abhor all coarseness towards a woman ; but I
tell the Whig ministry from this place, as I told them
from other places, and as I shan't fail to tell them, that
while Smith O'Brien is in -Maria Island, they shall not
dare to bring the Queen of England into this island."
These sentiments—if the reporters are to be relied on—
were greeted with " loud and protracted cheering, waving
of hats, handkerchiefs," &c., the chairman alone—Mr.
James Haughton—having ventured to dissent from them ;
and this within less than a week after the " Irish heart"
had been sickened with disgust, and swoln with scorn, at
a Saxon madman for offering violence to the person of
the Queen.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

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The Hon and Rev. Leland Noel, M.A., Vicar of Exton,
Rutland, has been collated to an Honorary Canonry in
the Cathedral Church of Peterborough.
The Rev. Dr. Jackson, who is about proceeding to New
Zealand, to superintend the ecclesiastical arrangements of
the settlement of Canterbury, is to bear the title of Bishop
of Christ Church.

SMALL LIVINGS.—A return has been published, show-
ing the number of small livings augmented by additional
grants from the fund at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. The total number of livings to which
grants have been made is 794, and the total actual
amount of permanent annual augmentations is £44,089.
By the death of the Rev. Thomas Thompson, the oldest
clergyman in the diocese of Durham, the rector of Pain-
shaw, near Hoghton-le-Spring, is vacant. Mr. Thompson
was 90 years of age; he officiated as sub-curate, perpetual
curate, and rector of Painshaw in succession, for nearly
60 years. The patronage of the rectory is in the Bishop
of Durham.

PEWS IN CHURCHES.-At the Archidiaconal Visita-
tion at Hertford, last week, the Archdeacon said it could
not be too extensively known that if there was a vacant
seat in a Church, and any parishioner was unaccommo-
dated, he might complain to the Churchwardens, who
could not refuse to place him in It:—" Except in the
case of a faculty, which was extremely rare, no man could
claim a pew as his own. He might have paid for its
erection, but that gave him no right over any more seats
than his family actually occupied. It must be considered
a shameful selfishness for two persons to occupy the
room calculated for nine, whilst any of the parishioners
were unaccommodated with seats. Where it was neces-
sary, the Churchwardens should divide the large pews, or
re-arrange them."