The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-30 00:00:00

THE PLUNKETTS.

"Make to Yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteous-
ness, that when ye fail they may receive you into their ever-
lasting habitations."
We copy the following announcement of donations from a
Limerick paper :
" The Rev. Henry Joyce, P.P., (alias Catholic Rector,) ac-
knowledges to have received the following contributions towards
the new Chapel at Mount Part r y : -
The Rev. Sir F. Lynch blosse, Bar*
The Hon. Patrick 'Plunkett 5
The Hon. David Plunkett
The Hon. and Rev. William Plunkett
"

Well done, Vicar of Bray! Three sons and a son-iii-law of
the Protestant Lord Chancellor of Ireland contributing to in-
crease the wealth of the Homan Catholic Church, while the
said lord is aiding and assisting to devise a legislative means
of depriving the clergy of the church to which .he professes to
belong of one-fifth part of their incomes of two years.
"And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he
had done wisely. • For the children of this world are in their
generation wiser than the children of light."—Dublin Packet.

ASTONISHING DFFECTS OFAT! AM.—We have received, from
a correspondent, the following account of the capture of the
Princess Reale, corvette of 2U guns, during Napier's action off
St. Vincent:—" Yonr friend was on board the William the
Fourth steamer; during the action, and actually went along—
side the Princess Reale, and told them he had water enough
on board, in a boiling state, for the scalding of three hun-
dred men, and that he would infallibly parboil them all unless
they struck immediately. The amazed crew, who had already
felt the unpleasant effect of being in hot water, at once hauled
down the colours, and surrendered to an unarmed steamer ! !"
When I was a young man I had never heard that oaths were
to be judged of according to their expediency. Now that I ant
an old man, permit me to lay' befoi e my countrymen the fal-
lowing fact, which, no doubt, that young nobleman, now as
Grey as myself, witnessed in Paris on the 14th J ulv,.foity-three
years ago. It has been described thus by some who were pre-
sent, and who most distinctly heard the words :—Louis XVI.
was then King of France. Ills Grand Almoner, the Bishop of
Autun, was accompanied by more than a hundred priests, who,
on that occasion, thought it "EXPEDIENT" to wear conspicuous
silk tri-coloured sashes, in addition to their pontificals, to give
more effect and eclat to the grand spectacle; thls bishop meta-
morphosed himself and his monks into mummers, and made a
mockery of religion by thus consecrating a temporary altar in
the Champ de Mars. This bishop performed the ceremony in-
tended to tie solemn, and a TE DEUM was sung by more than
three thousand harmonized musicians. The transaction was
awful by reason of the immense multitude assembled, as well as
by the tinportance at that moment attached to solemn oaths to
be -administered at an altar, consecrated by "the Bishop of
Antun." An angel of liberty, and the genius of France, hover-
ing in the air and pointing to the word "CONSTITUTION," were
exhibited in a splendid painting. After the 'celebration of a
solemn mass by this Bishop of Autun and his assistants, the.
Marquis de la Fayette and all the national deputies, on behalf
of the people, Inid the following oath administered to them:—
" We swear to remain ever faithful to the nation, the law, and the
King; to maintain with all our power the Constitution decreed by
the Notional Assembly, and accepted by the King; to protect (ac-
cording to the law, the surety Of persons and property, the circula-
tion of corn and provisions within the realm, the levying of public
contributions, under whatever form they may exist; and to con-
tinue united to all the French, by the indissoluble ties 01 brother-
hood." Mons. BonnaT, the Presidentof the National Assembly,
and the Marquis de la Fayette, after this oath was repeated,
pronounced each of them distinctly and with great dignity, their
right arm being extended, "I swear it." The multitude with a
general acclamation cried aloud, "We swear it." The King,
Louis XVI, then looking steadfastly at the newly consecrated
altar, repeated the oath assigned for him in the most solemn
manner, and said, "I swear it." The world knows how con-
scientiously these different personages and persons observed
and kept these oaths! This fraternal confederation amounted
at least to 500,000 persons, and events have since shown the
evil consequences of bending the obligation of a sacred and
eternal oath to the standard of any present EXPEDIENCY ! ! !
Have not these levities, vanities, and violations of oaths, drawn
down Divine vengeance on that nation?—Correspondent of Felix
Farley's Bristol Journal.