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 bay have been completely de.
stroyed between Banagher and Meelick, by the rising o
the waters of the Shannon.

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

MASSES FOR THE DEAD.-111. the Rolls Court, Dublin,
on Thursday, it was decided that abequest to a priest of
a sum 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 Reforms states, that a
distinguished statuary and caricaturist is about to make a
cast, representing O'Connell holding a torch in his right
hand, 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
amCoastthuo unseemly,
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not disreputable,
suitable field for the display of their ministerial avocations,
t Roran
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a
presenten-
gaged
in a
controversy
respecting the merits of the Catholic Bequests Bill. Two

journals have opened their c*mns to the contending bel-
ligerents at either side; the Fheman being the organ of
its
supporters, M'Haleites or opponents of the new act, while
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 Lyncii 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 Monitor of last night,
demolishing a weak .reply of the Rev. Dr. Miley 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 corn-
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.