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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

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this arbitrary infringement of a t
body of Commissioners %hose purposed task is

ltor's direction, by a
'early

bequeatbcrs of chari!ies thought of the poor and needy,
(ley never. thought of Lord Lyndhurst's Commissioners

IRE LAND.

The Rhadannanthus war steamer arrived at Galway last
week with 1200 barrels of Indian meal.

The only Orson says the Almanac of the Month, who
is safe in Ireland; is the Cove of Cork.

The number of emigrants who have already passed
through Drogheda this season to take shipping for Amer-
ica amounts to no less than 3,144.

Eight vessels have left this port within the last two or
three days for Glasgow and London, with cargoes of grain
and provisions !—Limerick Examiner.

GOVERNMENT DONATION.—The Lord Lieutenant has
contributed £1,550 towards the fund raised in Cork for
the relief of the poor.

Mr. P. Scrope gave notice in the House of Commons,
last week, that on Thursday, the 21st, he should submit
a motion to the effect that it is expedient to extend the
poor-law of England to the able-bodied poor of Ireland.

Five tons of Indian meal have been imported to Arran,
and a new quay is to be constructed there, to which Mr.
Digby, the proprietor, contributes £6OO, and the govern-
ment £l5OO.

On Friday, a dish of very fine potatoes was exhibited
for sale in a shop in Montgomery's-market, Belfast. The
potatoes were a good size, appeared ripe, and were raised
by Mr. Ewing, of Ballynafeigh. The dish was sold for 2s6d.
There is such a magazine of Indian meal corn at present
stored in Limerick by the commissariat, as would supply
the market for twelve months to come. It is believed that
half the quantity on hand will not be required for con-
sumption.

The porters employed in discharging the French barques
at Waterford of Indian corn, struck" for increased
wages. They were receiving 2s. Bd. per day, with 4d.
a day allowance. Conceiving this not adequate, they de-
manded 4s. per day, and refused less.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—At a meeting at Cork, Father
Mathew gave it as his opinion, that the distress would not
continue as long as might have been anticipated ; and far-
ther, said that the early potatoes were coming up luxuri-
antly, without any apparent failure, and that the wheat
crop was also very fine.

The Leinter Express contains an appalling account of
an atrocious conspiracy to murder a farmer, named Mur-
tha Murray. Revelations have been made, tending to
implicate a woman, who is stated to have hired the men
to perpetrate the assassination, who supplied them with
arms, and who concocted an alibi. She has been iden-
tified by a gunmaker in Carlow, as having purchased from
him a pistol; and £6 was to have been given for the
" job."

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A PRlEST.—Tuesday evening, as
the Rev. Daniel Freeman, junior curate to the parish
priest of Aghada, was riding along the Marsh road, about
a mile from the village of Aghada, he was thrown from
the mare he rode, and killed. The unfortunate gentleman
was dead nearly two hours before he was discovered. The
mare was standing near the corpse. She was a skittish
animal, and deceased was frequently advised to be cautious
of her.—Cork Constitution.

THP, REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The Repealers met, on
Monday, in considerable force—young Dan presiding.
That dullness and dearth of interest characterised the
proceedings will be sufficiently evident, when we announce
that the principal speaker was Captain Broderick. The
young Irelanders did not present so formidable an array
as was presented on this day week, and the enthusiasm
which was then exhibited on behalf of the martyred
O'Brien, seemed to have altogether evaporated. Rent
for the week, £l5l ss. 4d.
The Ribbonmen of Limerick have taken advantage of
the famine cry to carry on their depredations. Threaten-
ing notices have been served, cautioning farmers not to
charge more than LI a barrel for potatoes, on pain of
death. A local paper says, "Notices were posted at all
the Roman Catholic chapels on Sunday, calling on the

people to assemble in thousands, to devise means for

curing food for their starving families, and to ' settle the
blood suckers,' who are living in luxury, regardless of
their wants."

THE FIRING AT SIR DAVID ROCEIE.—Our readers
will probably recollect that Mr. C. Powell asserted in the
House of Commons, that the gentleman who accompa-
nied Sir David Roche at the time, had informed him that
Sir David had not been fired at at all. This assertion has
led to a correspondence between Mr. Powell and Mr. J.
D. Lyons, the gentleman in question, who maintains that
what he stated was, that, from the slanting direction in
which the gun was levelled at the carriage, be was induced
to think that the object of the person who fired the shot
was to intimidate and ❑ot to kill ; but totally denies hav-
ing stated that no shots had been fired at Sir D. Roche.
CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—The inhabitants of the
neighbourhood of Loughbrickland, county of Down, have
recently observed a very singular phenomenon i❑ the
lake, the water of which bad, for three days, assumed
a blood-red colour, returning afterwards to its original hue.
During the period of this change of colour, a whirlpool
was remarked in the centre of the lake, and the commotion
may have caused the suspension of sedimentary reddish
earth, thus giving the blood-red hue to the water. The
curiosity of the scientific and the wonder of the supersti-
tious have been alike aroused by the circumstance, but vs
yet there has been no satisfactory attempt either to des-
cribe the phenomenon, or to account for it.—Beffast
News Letter.

CHARGE AGAINST A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE.—
An important investigation commenced in Dublin Castle,
on Monday, undt r a commission from the Lord Lieute-
nant, granted at the instance of Sir Francis Hopkins, who
charges Arthur French, Esq., the magistrate who took
down his deposition after the recent attempt upon his life,
with having purposely omitted from that deposition the
name of Bryan Seery, the man by whom he was fired at.
Sir Francis States, that previous to the committal of B.
Seery, two informations were taken on the same day by
Mr. French, the first at eleven o'clock, a.m., the second
at five o'clock, p.m. In the first information the name of
Seery was omitted ; in the second information it was in-
serted. He had stated on oath on trial, that he had men-
tioned the name of Seery at the time the first information
was taken. Mr. French, the stipendiary magistrate, who
took those informations,swore that he had not mentioned
any name. Sir Francis also charges Mr. French with
having been some time previously aware that Bryan Seery
was to shoot at him. Mr. French appears to have acted
with good faith, and says he omitted the name, as Sir
Francis did not seem as if he could confidently identify
his assailant. The decision of the gentleman to whom the
matter is referred is deferred.

THE REPEAL AGITATION CO The whole Repeal
press are at loggerheads respecting the conduct of Mr.
Smith O'Brien. The organs of " Old Ireland," from the
Pilot downwards, are palpably chuckling at the hon.
member's dead fix ; while the handful of genuine native
Repeaters, represented in the person of " Young Ire.
land," now, more than ever, regard Mr. O'Brien as the
fit and proper leader of the people—even to the setting
aside of the reigning dynasty—and the man selected to
achieve the apochtypbal blessing of legislative indepen-
dence. In the mean time, the long quiescence of Mr.
O'Connell, and the almost total subsidence of the agita-
tion, are beginning to excite suspicion, which vents it-
self in occasional undergrowls, such as the following :
" The country expects an onward movement for the
national cause. 'Tis idle to deny that a continuous pro-
gress in the snail-like ineffectual course we have pursued
these months past will produce apathy end coldness, if
not indifference and despair, in the Irish heart. The pro-
mises made in 1813 must be in some degree fu;filled. We
placed great reliance on the 'B2 Club. It has actually
done nothing for Ireland. In that body, we are free to
say, is to be found the flower of the Irish Repeal party,
and yet they have remained quiescent since its formation.
We have to except a pageant or two, and a few dinners."
Such are the opinions of the Limerick Examiner, a
clever, honest, but withal simple-minded organ of bond
fide Repeal and no compromise.
RAISING THE WIND.—A few days since a person,
genteelly dressed, was observed standing at the window of
a respec•able jeweller of Dublin, as if admiring the rich
works displayed for sale inside. He had an umbrella
placed carelessly under one arm, and, while he was gaz-
ing, another individual who was passing, apparently
prompted by a love of mischief, contrived adroitly to
thrust the umbrella through the glass,oand escape, while
the unfortunate gentleman stood on the spot stupified with
astonishment. A shopman rushed out, and demanded
why he had broken the window; he denied that he had
done it, but appearances were against him, and he was
obliged to enter the shop to settle the affair. The pro-
prietor of the establishment demanded payment for the
damage done, and when the other talked of his complete
innocence, threatened to send for the police. The pane of
gl..iss was strong plate, and the cost 40s. " It is enor-
mous," said the unfortunate. " I paid it, and you must,"
replied the jeweller. " Here is 28.6 d," said the stranger.
" Send fora constable!" indignantly ejaculated, the man
of metal. He was inexorable; and the other at length
submitted, complaining bitterly, but observing just that
a gentleman couldn't go to a police-office for a trifle. He
took out three £2O bank-notes, gave one of them to the
pacified jeweller, received £lB 10s. sterling as his balance,
and retired. A friend dropped into the shop shortly after
—the occurrence was mentioned—the note WAS shown as a
corroborating proof ; it was a forgery !—Dublin Register.

THE POTATGE MIRAGE.—We have now come to the
middle of May—the predicted acme of famine and pesti-
lence—and all the artifices of the minister and his agents
are not able, says the Dublin Mail, to keep up the baro-
meter of supply to anything like an indication of scarcity.
On the contrary, the mercury in the tube having reached
its maximum some three weeks ago, without creating any
alarm, has since continued to subside and settle down to
a determined position of plenty—and all that is now want-
ing to the repose and comfort of the people seems to be
an efficient method of diffusing and equalising the sup-
plies, not by interfering with the markets, but by giving
sufficient employment to labour. Local failures of the
potato crop. have been balanced by general superabun-
dance; and in all other respects, the produce of the year,
far exceeded the average, and husbanded with more than
usual prudence, leaves no room, under the Divine bles-
sing, for doubt or despondence. The London Times of
Saturday says, " The reports from almost every quarter
are favourable." The Clonmel Constitution of Thursday
says, that the new potato crop looks healthy. and gives
promise of an abundant return to the farmer. The market
ot that town was well stocked on Tuesday, and prices
lower than the previous week. The Kerry Poet, pub-
lished at Tralee, says, the quantity of potatoes exhibited
at the last market was very
large, quite equal to that of
any preceding year at this period. The Sliao Journal
says!—" This town presents weekly an animating scene—
A superabundance is exhibited every SaturdHy. On last
market day there were 800 sacks; 6480 pecks of cho'ce
sound potatoes were disposed of at from Is. to Is. sd. per
peck ot four stone; diseased ones are rapidly diminishing
in quantity, few being brought in. The demand was slack
for oatmeal, of which there were three or four tots,
half of it being left unpurchased on Saturday and the two

markahle instan

one I and there is no do

previous market days; it sold from the, to 15s. 6d. a bun- I sim;
dred. From the counties of. Down, Arma;;;h, Kilkenny, I aver his cons
Carlow, and Leitrim, there are to-day accounts quite as is that persi

is supplied by Indian meal, and
fur the people.

May 19, 1846.

1 UNIVERSITY (5- CLERICAL NEWS.

OxFoan.—On Thursday the following degrees were
conferred :—Masters of Arls—H. S. Stratford, of Christ
Church ; Rev. J. Burrow, Rev. J. H. Shephard, and Rev,
T. H. Smith, Queen's College; Rev. E. R. Horwood,
and Rev. C. B. Jackson, Brasennoze ; Rev. J. L. Prior,
Exeter College ; E. L. Davis, Jesus College ; J. M. Leir,
New Inn Hall ; W. W. Hull, St. Mary's Hall.—Bache-
lors of Arts—S. Brandram, of Trinity College ; B. J.
Gibbons, Wadham College ; R. P. Cornish, Christ
Church ; W. H. R. Merriman, Brazennose; W. Bul-
lock, St. Mary's Hall.—Grand Compounders—Hon. H.
D. Curzon, Hon. A. Wrottesley, and L. C. Randolph,
Christ Church ; A. Dendy, Wadham College ; R. E.
Formby, and J. A. Ogle, Brazennose College ; W. Bran-
de, H. Morgan, and G. Saunders, New Inn Hall; J.
Hall, Liocoln Hall ; W. Bree, Merton Hall ; J. Bush,
St. Mary's Hall ; Rev. J. Stretch, F. Woodman, and J.
Glazebrooke, Magdalene Hall ; R. Menzies, and G. Al-
ford, Queen's College ; R. Hole, W. Hautenville, and
S. Hansard, University College ; H. Farmar, H. War-
burton, H. Tweed, and T. Sergeant, Exeter College;
W. Acton, and M. Bere, Balliol College; C. de Haviland,
H. Savory, J. Moor. and R. Arrowsmith, Oriel College ;
W. David, Jesus College ; W. Brewster, W. Colston,
and W. Feetham, St. John's College, H. Pruen, Pem-
broke College ; G. Quirk, C. Walter, A. Hensley, and
F. Morgan, Worces,er College.

CAMBRIDGE.—The following degrees were conferred
on Thursday :—Doctor of Law—S. T. T. Bartlett, Clare
Hall.—Masters of Arts—W. Franks, G Nugee, F. W.
Gibbs, C. Sargent, and G. Chance, Trinity College; T.
Tanqueray, Pembroke College.—Bachelors of Arts—W.
Coleman, St. John's College; E. J. Furnival, Trinity
Hall ; R. S. Baker, Magdalene College ; C. Riley, St.
John's College •, J. P. Haines, Trinity College ; H.
James, King's College; W. D. Snell, Downing College;.
E. M. D. Payne. Emanuel College.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11•—HORSE RACING.—The Vice-
Chancellor has just called the attention of all persons
in statu pupillari to the following order, which was is-
sued in the April term of the year 1840 :—" Whereas
many students have of late been engaged in riding races.
and otherwise promoting racing in the neighbourhood of
the University ! We, the Vice-Chancellor ar.d heads of
Colleges, hereby order and decree, that, if any person in
statu pupillari be hereafter found guilty of either of the
offences above described, he shall be liable to the punish-
ment of a rustication or expulsion, as the case shall ap-
pear to the Vice-Chancellor and heads of Colleges to
require." _

The Queen Dowager has contributed £lO towards the
erection of St. Simon's Church.

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
will meet on the 21st inst.

The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of Christ Church, has
been appointed to the incumbency of St. Thomas's
Church, Toxteth-park , by John Glad tone, Eq., patron.
A public meeting of the Anti-State-Church Association
was held at Leicester, last week, when Dr. Cox and the
Rev. J. Burnet uttered the most vehement protestations
to persevere in their endeavours to obtain a separation of
church and state.

Mr. Norris's prize for the best prose essay on a sacred
subject, has been adjudged to John Herbert Jones, 8.A.,
(1844,) Jesus College, Cambridge. Subject : Hash God cast
away his people ? God forbid.—Rom. xi, i.— [Mr. Jones
is a son of the Rev. John Jones, of St. Andrew's, in this
town.]

TheVen. and Rev. Wm. Forbes Raymond, Archdeacon
of Northumberland, was installed at Durham. on Tuesday
last, as one of the Canons of that Cathedral, vacant by
the death of the late Rev. Thos. Gisborne. By this
appointment, Mr. Raymond resigns the living of Howick,
which is now at the disposal of the Bishop of the Diocese.
NOBLE PRESENT.--On the Thur•day before Eater,

not to bi

nether with two
ins for the Com-

who wished his nan
beautiful books, a
munion Table), a most chaste and valuable entire service
of silver gilt plate accomphtned by a hundred pound note
to be put into the plate at the cffertory on Easter Sunday,
towards the endowment of the New Free Church in Et.-
dell Street.

Lord Sandon presided at the meeting of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, in London, on Wednesday. Ad-
dresses were delivered by the Marquis of Cbolmondeley,
the Bishop of Calcutta, Lord Ashley, and others. The
entire receipts of the year amount to £101,305 155., and
the expenditure b £105,851 2s. 9d. The issues of bibles
have amounted to 1,441,1;51; from the depository at home,
1,104,787 ; from depots abroad, 336,864; being 525,81 C
copies more than the preceding year.

BARNES V. SHORE.—The Clu'een's Bench decided last
week, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Shore, that a clergy-
man cannot, merely by proclaiming himself a dissenter,
discharge himself from the restraints, nor is he merely by
that act stripped of the privileges of his order. The pro-
ceedings on which that judgment was given have been cal-
culated and intended to rid Mr. Shore of certain vows
which he once solemnly took, and has s'nee very deliber-
ately broken, to release him from obliestions which it is
his practice to violate, and to deprive him of a character
which he owns he cannot conscientiously sustain.
A NOBLE OFNERING.—The Rev. W. J. E. Bennett,
M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, at
the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, referred
with satisfaction to the efforts which had been made by
his congregation in aid of a fund to ert ct a new church in
that district to be dedicated to St. Barnabas. The rev.
gentleman said that on the previous Sunday be had an-
nounced that the money given at the offertory that day
would be applied to the object alluded to, and he had the•
pleasure to announce that £2,300 had been subscribed for
that pious purpose, and that during the week he had re-
ceived various additional sums, amounting to £9OO.—
London Paper. .

FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. —This
ancient festival, coeval with the Restoration, was cele-
brated on Thursday, as usual, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
The sermon was preached by the Dean of Lincoln. Be-
sides the dignitaries of the Church, Prince George of
Cambridge was present. In the evening a large number
of the friends of the Church dined at the Merchant
Tailors' Hall. Amongst the company were—the Arch-
bishops of Canterbury and Armagh, the Marquis of
'Westminster, the Bishops of London, Ripon, Chester,
Chichester, Oxford, Bangor, Llandaff, Calcutta, and
.Litnaica ; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr Justice Erie, Lord Bolton,
the L ,rd Mayor, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir George Carrol.
Sheriffs Laurie and Chapman, the Chamberlain, Aldermen
Marshall, Challis, Farebrother. Thompson, Moore, Gibbs.
Hughes, &c. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, and
proposed as the first toasts, " the Church and Queen,"
" her Majesty the Queen Dowager ;" " the Crown Prince
of Hanover, Royal Steward of the year." The Rev. Dr.
Jelf returned thanks for his royal highness, and said that
he could declare that he had never known his royal high-
ness to do anything unworthy of his station as a Prince
or a Christian gentleman. The Lord Mayor then gave
" Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of
the Royal Family."

CHURCH PASTORAL Alp SOCIETY.—The annual meet-
ing was held on Tuesday. Lord Ashley was in the chair,
and the numerous assembly was addressed by the Bishops
of Winchester, Llandaff, Chester, and Norwich, Mr. J.
Labouchere, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Revs. Hugh Stowell,
Fielding Ould, W. Po.lock, &a. Lord Sandon wrote a
note, regretting he could not attend, for, added his lord-
ship, " there is no society in England that does more
good." The Bishops of Oxford and Calcutta, and the.
Earl of Effingham, have accepted the office of vice-
patrons. The income of the society last year was £22,505,
being an increase of £2,1)79 over the preceding year, and
£677 over any former year. The society's recent appeals
have met with the liberal response of £2,070, and it now
provides 272 incumbents with the means of supporting
266 curates, and 57 lay assistants, at an annual charge of
£25,418, when all the erants shall be in operation :—and
a population of 2,012,643 thereby have conferred on them
the blessings attendant on so many additional faithful la-
bourers of Christ. The grants of the society have already
led to the erection or opening of 103 churches and 117
rooms licensed for public worship; and, in the parishes
or districts now aided by this institution, 408 additional
services on the Lord's-day, 142 on week-days, and 268
school•room or cottage lectures are regularly maintained,
besides which there has been secured fully double the
amount of pastoral visitation, and superintendence of the
various parochial schools, and management of benevolent
and religious local societies. Multitudes of instances were
detailed by the speakers, in which the society conferred
the very greatest blessings on neglected districts. With
reference to the constitution of the society the Bishop of
Winchester said, " My Lord, I feel a peculiar satisfaction
in being permitted to attend your Lordship's bidding this
day, because 1 deem it to be my especial duty not to be
wanting upon any occasion, when this society summons
me to attend its Meetings, to perform the twofold duty of
expressing my gratitude and my confidence in the Society.
I am happy to say, that I have never been one of ,those
who have looked upon the society with any other eye, than
that of unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God, for hav-
ing raised up friends to assist the clergy in duties far too
onerous for them, and who have in carrying out the de-
signs of the society, expended its funds in a manner cal-
culated to draw forth the sympathy and thanksgiving of
every friend of our Church. M y Lord, I have never been,
able to see anything in the principles or in the object ?I
this Society which ought not to be dear to a churchman Is
heart. And I should be most ungrateful indeed, if I weren0t
to add, that its conduct has been as excellentas its prinini
have been pure. Connected as I am with many societies,
confess, that there is none in which I repose greater conk
denee than that which has assembled us this day." And th'
Bishop of Llandaff added, " Nothing gave him greateear:
pain than the complaints which were current some Y
ago against the agents who had been selected by the al,
mittee. But according to his judgment, they bad 001
performed a sect ed office in making that selection, but ae,
the trustees of a fund, it was their bounden duty to ae.
that the funds were not misapplied, but placed in a prOP!r
cloannel for carrying on the work for which they...
had beset'
granted. lie had never known an instance io which
improper inquisition had been exercised, or any partialloir
shown—any disposition to favour a peculiar portion
section of the Church, cr any encouragemen to thee 4
elusive teaching of certain doctrines—a laalt to `"hits,o
zealous people were sometimes liable. Fromthese se,.
these defects in the administration of theirfunds, he '-'
lieved the Society to be entirely free."

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