The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The relatives of the late A. Gloster, Esq., of Limerick,
have offered a reward of £BOO for the conviction of the
murderers of that gentleman.

Upwards of 500 tons of hay have been completely de-
stroyed between Banagher and Meelick, by the rising of
the waters of the Shannon.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—Father Tom Maguire's
dogs won six matches at the Leitram Club coursing meet-
Prig on Wednesday, at Drumkeerin,

MASSES FOR THE DEAD.—In the Rolls Court, Dublin,
on Thursday, it was decided that a bequest to a priest of
a suns of money for masses to be said after a man's death
" for his soul's health" was a valid bequest.
The " Agitator" seems to have incurred the resentment
of his French radical friends. The kfforme states, that a
distinguished statuary and caricaturist is about to make a
cast, representing O'Connell holding a torch in his right
band, and in his left a pail of cold water.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body held their weekly
meeting as usual. A long letter was read from Daniel,
in which he says he will make his reappearance at their
meetings on the 25th, and in the meantime the " Repeal
cause is to be forwarded as if this interlude (Federalism)
had not occurred." The rent for the week, including £5OO
from New York, was upwards of £BOO. After all the soft
coquetting and coy blandishment, the whole of the grand
new combination movement is found at length to be " no
go."

THE ARBITRATION COURTS.—Mr. O'Connell has dis-
covered another expedient for augmenting the " Rent ;"
he has written a letter to the proprietor of the Dublin
Freeman's Journal, in which he strongly recommends the
revival of the Arbitration Courts. These tribunals are,
he says, to be entirely unconnected with the Repeal Asso-
ciation ; and he declares that he has made up his mind,
"no matter at what risk, to assist the Irish people in the
establishment of a universal system of arbitration ;" but
they are to " keep within the strictest letter of the law."
Oh, Daniel, Daniel, how prolific of promises you are,
when your wallet is getting low !
THE CATHOLIC BEQUESTS BILL.—In the absence of
any more excitable topic, or in the want of some more
suitable field for the display of their ministerial avocations,
the Roman Catholic clergy of Dublin are at present en-
gaged in a most unseemly, if not disreputable, controversy
respecting the merits of the Catholic Bequests. Bill. Two

journals have opened their columns to the contending bel-
ligerents at either side; the Freeman being the organ of
the M'Haleites or opponents of the new act, while its
supporters, who, to do them_ justice have far the best of
the battte, pour forth their broadsides through the
Monitor. The letters of the Rev. Gregory Lynch have
created nothing short of a panic in the synods, and the
report has it that the writer will shortly have to account
before the Vatican itself for the wound he has inflicted on
the " unity "of the church. A third letter from the pen
of the rev. gentleman appears in the 211onitor of last night,
demolishing a weak reply of the Rev. Dr. Afiley to a
pungent epistle from •` A Priest of the Archdiocese'of
Dublin," who, amongst other unwholesome truths, laid
bare all the facts connected with that imposture, " the
day of humiliation and prayer," which the " priest "
most satisfactorily proved to have been neither more nor
less than a " forgery, a fraud, and a political intrigue."
The same number of the Monitor publishes a brief com-
muuication from another priest, the Rev. P. Smithwick,
announcing the withdrawal of his name from the " solemn
protest " of the Catholic hierarchy and inferior clergy.