The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

of guardians,

We understand a marriage will shortly take place be-
tween Aleicander Handifon, Esq., of Inistioge, in this
county, and a daughter of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief

3aron of her Alajesty's Court of Exchequer in
S'r Frederick Pollock).—Kilkenny Moderator.

A gentleman, Mr. Wm. Boswell, who for a series of
years carried on the brewery business on an extensive
scale in this town, was brought before the guardians at
their last meeting by Mr. Byrne, relieving officer of Ath-
lone, as a pauper claimant. Chairman :I am sorry to see
Mr. William Boswell come before the board, and do regret
to perceive that his relatives allow him to he put in here.
Mr. Boswell was ad mitted.—Athlone Sextino.

Pu RC !IASI!, OF LANDS IN IRELAND.—SaunderB's
News-Letter has an important announcement, to the
effect that a very influential company has been formed in

purchases are expected to be on a most extensive scale,
and persons in their employment are now busied in

value of the various estates. . . .
In the speech delivered by Mr. Lawrence. the American
minister, in reply to the address presented to his- excel-
lency by the harbour commissioners of Galway, he said :
" I would teach every man, woman, and child to read and

write; pbtc

take et;re of themselves.'

heir hands, and the people will
The Roman Catholic priests, it
fiuence to get these words omit-

peared, had sufficient

ted in the reports in the county papers. Mr. Llwrence,
while continuing his tour, discovered the mutilation and

has exposed it.
THE PRIESTS. —No doubt (says the Evening
Packet) many persons imagined that in this age of
enlightenment the race of horsewhipping and similar
penalty-inflicting priests hat! disappeared. We learn,
however, from a letter, addressed by a " Roman Catholic

Spectator," of the following alleged outrage to the editor
of the Waterford Mail, that the example dour Redeemer,
when addressing the woman, taken in adultery, he said

not followed by the Pope's sacerdotal army in Ireland.
Can the following-, we ask, be true ? " Dungarvon, Sun-
day Evening.—Passing through Buttery-street, about six
o'clock, p.m., an unusual crowd attracted my attention.
I hastily approached the scene to inquire the cause, and
found the Rev. Mr. O'Gorman and the Rev. Mr. Mooney,
Roman Catholic curates, with shears in hand, in the last
act of denuding the head of a young woman of its natural
I asked one of the crowd the cause of such a

covering

who had been cohabiting with a slater named Con Brown,
as his putative wife. Can it be possible, in this age of
christian civilisation, that no other mode of moral refor-
mation can be found efficient ?"

DISTRESSED STATE OF THE IRISH GENTRY.—A cen•
sus clerk, in a letter to the Dublin Freeman, in which he
complains of inadequate remuneration, reveals some factg
painfully illustrative of the distressed state of the Irish
gentry. He says :—" The gentleman next in authority to
the secretary, who was a captain in the army, and with-
out whose franking no letter could pass from this office,
has, by very gradual means, crept up from one guinea a
week, on which he got in in November, to two guineas a
week, which he had since to only a few days ago, and that
captain had above three pounds a week on the last cen-
sus; and,
_by-the-bye, he has a large family, and is the

clerk in the office

pay is one guinea

mon, and w