The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

CAPE OF Gooss HOPE.—Thetteam-sloop Vixen, which
arrived at Portsmouth on' Tuesda7. has brought advices
from Cape Town down to the Bth of May. The intelligence
from Graham's Town reaches to the 2nd of May, several
days later than the dates brought by previous arrivals,
The Kaffirs appear to have turned the flanks of the troops
employed on the frontier, and to have penetrated into the
colony in their rear. Scveral sharp skirmishes bad been
fought between the armed inhabitants and the irsradess,
with various success ; but the Kaffirs had captured nume-
rous herds of colonial cattle, and bad burned and plun-
dered -many houses. •Those settlers who reside on remote
farms appear to have abandoned their homes, and to have
entrenched themselves rand their flocks and herds at vari-
ous defensible posts. -Martial law had been proclaimed,
and the armed contingents of the various districts had
been called out -and- to-arched towards the frontier. A
Fingne, who- bad succeeded in making his way through
the Kaffirs, reported that the hostile tribes intended to
attack Graham's' Town ; but as Col. Somerset had arrived
there with. 300 men._ there could be no doubt that any
attempt upon- that place would be easily defeated. At
Salem, near the residence of a Dr. Livingston, an attempt
was made by a body 0f.300 armed Kaffirs to carry off a
herd of 2000 to 3004 cattle, and which at first was partially
successful. To oppose this force there were only twenty
mounted colonists,- aided by about twenty Zingoes ; 'but
such was the spirit that animated the little band, that,
after a desperate conflict. in which several of the enemy
were slain, the whole of the cattle were recovered, and the
Kaffirs repulsed.
Wom AN KILLED' BY YHEE, lILSBAND, AT HER OWN
REQUEST.—The following curious case of murder occurred
14tely in a small village, in Wurtemburg:—Adam Gayring,
shepherd, a man of sixty-four years of age, of honest and
upright dealings, loved and respected by all who knew
him, presented himself, on the Bth instant, before the

authorities of Meidenheim, and stated calmly' that he had
just killed his wife. .His declaration was immediately
taken, as follows :—'lly wife,' he said, ' as every one
knows, has been suffering for a long time from illness,
and at times the pains she had to endure were such as to
affect her reason ; she latterly gave up a'l hopes of reco-
very, and continually repeated, that not only was 'fife
torment to her, but that she feared that if I died before
her, she would be reduced to misery. This morning, after
we had read together the 4th chapter of the Book of
Judges, (they were devoutpeople, and read the Bible every
day.) she requested me to drive a nail into her temple, as
Jael did to. Sisera, as such a death seemed to her short
and easy, and would put an end to her sufferings; she
said she forgave me beforeband for the act, of which she
absolved me before God and man. A nail, she said, would
not cause a great hemorrhage, and would cause but a
alight wound. 'As soon as 4 am dead,' she added, 4 you
can close the wound, put me on a clean cap, and no one
will know anything at all about it.' After long resistance
(continued Gayring) I gave way to the wishes of my wife.
I took a nail and began to drive it into her left temple
with a hammer, but the nail was too weak, and the point,
instead of entering. flattened itself on the bone. I then
.took a small drill, but was equally unsuccessful. My wife
grew impatient, and requested me to kill her at once with
the hammer, which I did accordingly, by knocking inthe
skull. The body of my wife is at my house, where you
can examine it at your leisure.' The magistrate immedi-
ately proceeded to the house with a medical man, and
Gayring ,under a strong guard. They found the body

On the left temple there were two
wounds, and the right side of the skull was knocked in as
low down as the temple. Beside the bed was a table, on
which was a:Bible, the nail, drill, and hammer alluded to.
' On the ground was a basin of water, in which the mur-

derer, according to his own declaration, washed his hands
before presenting himself to the authorities. Gayring is
now in prison.; -Le is perfectly calm, and convinced that
he acted well in fulfilling the wishes of his wife, by put-
ting an end to her.4ufferings. Some Wurtemhurg papers
state, that the inhabitants of the village of Gussenstadt,
where the murder was committed, left their work as soon
's V— beard - mure-

_aey - of tno der, and spent the day in the
church, fasting and praying for the soul of the departed.

IRELAND.

A thousand tons of Indian meal are issued weekly
from the government defots at Cork alone, at £lO a ton.
Lord Downes has resigned his command of the Lime-
rick District, and Major-General Prince George of Cam-

bridge_is immediately to. be appointed his successor

On Wednesday, Captain 3wabury M'Clintock, R.N.,
was elected for the county Carlow, without opposition, in
the room of the late Wm. Bunhury,Esq., deceased.

The Dublin " Society of Arts " have given the lard
gold medal to Mr. O'fitien' a baker, in that city, tpri,
having procured an excellent bread from Indian corn, at
one penny per lb.
Alderman Staunton, proprietor of the Dublin Weekly
Regialer, has been nominated Lord Mayor of that city
for the ensuing ymo.r. He is a Roman Catholio and re-
pealer. - - - -

MUNIFICENT BEiauEsT.— Mrs. Magee, of Dublin,
lately deceased, has left £20,000 to trustee for the erection
of a Presbyterian College in Ireland. The deceased w•as
relict. of Mr. Alagee, of Lurgan, sister of Major General
Steuart.

Two yesselS of large tonnage, the Alvardo and Taro-
!iota, have arri►•ed at Belfast, direct from New York,
with full cargoes of Indian corn and other" bread stuffs,"
and small consignments of cured beef, &c. The Tarolinta
alone has 15,423 bushels of wheat, and 13,234 bushels of
maize:

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this
body took place on Monday. Mr. Smith O'Brien was
present, and received an enthusiastic welcome. Mr. M.
O'Connell read a long letter from his father, relative to
the political position of Ireland contingent upon the pre-
sent state of parties. They had seen, the letter stated,
the last of the coercion bill. He strongly urged repeal,
and enumerated the benefits the country would derive
from it. The rent for the week was 1259, including £77
from America, and £7 from Liverpool. The principal
speakers were Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Henry Grattan,
who urged the usual topics.
CORN LAW AND REPEAL.—The passing of the corn law
was celebrated last night in the city by a moving illumi-
nation. Bands paraded through the streets, striking up
cheering, and exulting strains, preceded by a broad and
brilliant line of torches. Lighted tar barrels were borne
along in other directions, followed by crowds, who pro-
ceeded from one baker's shop to another, and by signifi-
cant exclamations announced the joy they felt at the ap-
proaching abundance of the "staff of life." One party
bore long poles, on some of which large loaves were
mounted, and in front of another was a platform carried
along, on which " Bothered Dan," in cocked bat and
plume, was seated, grasping in one hand a long stick, on
which the fragment of a masssive loaf was emblematically
fixed.—Cork Reporter.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—One of those dreadful occur-
rences, at the very mention of which the blood runs cold,
arising from the use of intoxicating liquors, has taken
place in Dublin. The unfortunate victim to the fury of
a man mad with drink, named Jane Boland, resided in
Loftus-lane, near Capel-street. It appeared that she was
confined on Tuesday, of a dead child ; and a witness
swore that she confessed that her husband, when in a
state of intoxication, on Sunday, came into the room
where she was lying ; that he struck her with a stick
several times across the belly, and pointed to a stick that
was used for drying clothes out of the window ; she added
that, immediately after she. was struck, she was seized
with severe vomitinx, and acute pain. The coroner's
jury returned the following verdict:—" We find that Jane
Boland's death was caused by extensive peritonitis, pro-
duced by blows inflicted on her by her husband, William
Boland, while in a state of intoxication."
DREADFUL MURDER.—A terrible outrage, which
ended in murder, occurred on Monday, at Belturbet,
near Fermanagh. Three men came to the house of Tom
Burns, dragged him out of his bed, in which were his
wife and three children, one carrying him by his feet, the
other two by his arms, and murdered him in a most cold-
blooded manner. Two of the ruffians held Burns by his
arms, against a table at his own door, while the third de-
liberately groped for his short ribs, and discharged a
pistol filled with duck shot ! The shot spread upward,
and took effect in his lungs and heart. Poor Burns lived
from one o'clock on Monday night, until some time the
following day, and on the police being sent for, he gave
information against the three men, neighbours, whom he
knew, and identified. They are now in Cavan gaol.
Their names are Smith, Farrelly, and Reilly, who fired
the shot. Burns had ceased to worship as a Roman
Catholic, attended the Church of England, and had given
information respecting Ribbonism, fur which he has been
murdered.

what hmeant -by the equality he spoke of. There was,
however, a view of the subject *bids rendered his state-
ment altogether sophistical. Certainly, the religion of
the-•majority was established in lEngland, but then that
religion was true; and the religion of the majority was
established in Scotland, but that religion was also true.
Now, if the religion of the majority was established in
Ireland, that religion would be false—a delusion—a snare
—(cheers) ;—and therefore its establishment, instead of
placing this country in point of religion in a like condition
with England and Scotland, would create a most in-
jurious inequality between the three countries. As it
was, there might be said to be a religious equality between
'England, Ireland, and Scotland namely, because the
true religion was established in each. (Chess.) But if
Ireland were made an exception, and the false established
here, then, indeed, there would be created an injurious
inequality—an inequality infinitely greater than could be
created by any discrepancy in point of mere numbers.
( Hear, hear.) There were two ideas before the world.
One was the 'American idea of liberalism ; the other was
the English idea, much more stern and severe of rectitude.
The American idea was, that the state bad nothing to say
to any man's-religion ; that whether he were Jew, Turk,
or Atheist, worshipped God or worshipped Belial, was a
matter that the government should not interfere with.
The English ides, instead of growing out of that which
could scarcely be denied to be a convenient indifference,
-was grounded upon some chapters of Deuteronomy, and
other parts of the Scripture, which commanded the ruler
that if any one bowed down and worshipped strange gods,
he should be stoned with stones until he was dead. That
was unquestionably the principle of the Old Testament
Scripture, and he repeated that on that was founded
the English idea. Yet here he felt it necessary to
draw a most important distinction. The English princi-
ple did not warrant the persecution of individuals for
conscience' sake, but it did warrant, and demand, too,
the extirpation of. false principles by the exclusive pro-
mulgation of the true. It held unquestionably that the
eradication of religious error was a function of the state.
He (Mr. Gregg) took it that the only effectual way where-
by error could be eradicated was by sound educational
'laws—laws to diffuse and propagate right principles. The
English idea, then, presented a government raising, re-
fining, chastening, correcting the national mind, and ele-
vating its subjects in the scale of being, by an active in-
terference to increase the spread of truth amongst them.
The American idea allowed every man to do in religion
what was right in his own eyes. Of that idea Sir Robert
Peel seemed to have become enamoured, and in con-
sequence, he, was bound on letting the religion of
the majority in Ireland—that religion being false
—a free course through the cnuntry without ob-
stacle, opposition, or protest. He (Mr. Gregg) as
an individual, most humbly said that he regarded such
a design as utterly wrong ; and he could not help recol-
lecting with much satisfaction a bold and manful state-
ment which had been made some time since by the men
of Fermanagh, in an address to the Queen. They boldly
stated that they would sooner die than see popery estab-
lished in Ireland (great cheers). He (Mr. Gregg) was not
the man either to approve of violence or to advi•e it, and
there was nothing that he should expect less from than
from the encounter of battalions in a religious war. But
he should have little hope for Ireland if he did not believe
that there were thousands of protestants who would
take up the language of the men of Fermanagh, and in
the spirit of martyrs resolve to provoke death in the
most painful form, rather than tamely allow idolatry to
he made the national religious profession of Ireland."