The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-24 00:00:00

PURSERS.—
from the Ist of April next

The half-pay of these officers will:be incr

mates an

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Some are to

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afraid of venturing

her, anc

heavy tall o
the exterior

as intercepted all communication

a notice on ti

Ellenborough, as Governoi-General of India,
and Princes of India, upon the recovery of the
temple at Somnauth.

On Sunday

o'clock, a robbery to the extent of £6OO was committee
the premises of the London and Regent-street Bank, I
don, by some adroit thieves, who gained admittance into the

banking-house, b

a mystery. The police are in active pursuit of the robbers.
O'Connell bas postponed the discussion of the repeal
question in the Dublin Council until Tuesday next. He did
not make his appearance last Tuesday, when the Question

was appointed fi
separate. Al&
with O'Connell
At the Middlesex Sessions, on 1
ed for stealing three apples, value I

until the council were abon
cuss the sub

man Butt is p

y, a boy was indict-
The jury and magis-

trates expressed their indignation at such a paltry prosecu-
tion, and the lad, being found guilty, was fined Is., which

aid by one of the magistrates, and the prisoner
rged.

It is rumoured that Mr. Natt, the late Vicar of St. Sepul-
chre's, London, has left to the Church Missionary Society
by his will an immediate legacy of £6,000, besides a rever-
sionary one of smaller amount. We may add that the cor-
portion of London did themselves honour by voting, on
Thursday last, the sum of £5OO to this society.

The Marquis of Ormonde's agent in the county Kilkenn,
has, by the direction of his lordship, made an abatement on
the rents due the 29th of September and Ist of November
last, of 20 per cent. (or four shillings in the pound) on all

payments made in full of those rents, before the 25th of March

v next

a were tried at t

s of Ren

on the 14th

instant, for having, on the 4th Nov. last, murdered an
Englishman, named William Geary, by beating him with a
stick. They were father and bon ; and the latter was con-
demned to five years' solitary confinement, and the old man
to five years' hard labour at the hulks.—Paris Paper.

The Rev. W. M. Kinsey has resigned the secretaryship of
the Cheltenham District Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, in consequence, according to his

letter
tered at

3f the disclaimer by Mr. Campbell, of his words ut-
the Cheltenham meeting of the society on the 10th

says the Messager, lately made their appearance in the park
of Apremont, near Chantilly, the property of his Royal High-
ness the Duke d'Aumale. A battue took place, in which one
of the wolves was killed by the duke, and the other by the

keepers.
The Bishop of Madras has resolved in future to withhold
his license from the missionaries of the Church Missionary

Society, there being, it
tution of the Society, a.

I acted upon by th

governing body, that I

own dioce

PROGRESS or CATHouctsm.—" The late Dr. Doyle's
calculation wus that 5,000 Protestants etnbraced Catholicism
yearly in Ireland," so says an anti-Protestant journal, which

"remembers to forget" that the said doctor entertained
rather singular opinions touching certain tenets of Holy
Mother Church.

We have heard, and we trust that the report may prove
well-founded, that the lord mayor has presented the living of
St. James's, Duke's-place, to the Rev° Dr. M'Caul. The
income of the benefice is very trifling ; but the suitability of
Dr. M'Caul for that peculiar post will be evident, when we

state tnat We great maj
London Paper.

the 2d of March, he will move for leave to bring in in a bill
for declaring her Majesty's subjects in Ireland released from
ion to take the oath prescribed by 10 Geo. IV., c.
lv called the catholic oath. nrerinntlir to rntint. sit

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3d that a re-

an address from a
ory of Lord Ellenl

it streets, at