The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

ROMISH PERSECUTION IN IRELAND

A letter which has been shewn us, addressed by a
respectable Irish Protestant to his brother in this town,
spews sufficiently that if Rome in the present day has not
the power to bring the objects of her hate to the stake or
to the scaffold, she is not without the inclination for blood
which distinguished her in her day of supremacy. If she
has no longer the power of the Inquisition in her hands,
she makes tolerably free use of the bludgeon and the mus-
ket. The Kerry Evening Post reports the proceedings at
an investigation, held at the Gunsborough Petty Sessions
on Friday, the 20th inst., of a case of persecution of which
the following are the principal facts. Mr. Thomas Dow-
ling, one of the inspectors of the Irish Society, recently
commenced building a house for himself at Ballybunnion,
with a determination to employ only the neighbouring
wcrkpeople, who were well disposed to be employed by
him. The impression, however, got abroad that the
building was for a schoolhouse ; and the Roman Catholic
curate of the place " spoke of him" from the altar, and
he was from that day unable to get either a man or a horse
to work for him at any price. This, however, was not
sufficient. On the night of the 17th instant the timber
for the proposed building was cut to pieces by the pe+-
santry, and 30 barrels of lime rendered useless by being
mixed with gravel and stones. The people. who had for-
merly been kind and civil towards Mr. Dowling, began to
look at him with menace, and to attack him with foul
language ; and at length he had to appeal to the bench for
protection. This is a pleasant state of things to exist in
the heart of a civilised country, when a Protestant gen-
tleman, because he has roused the jealousy of the popish
curate of the village in which he lives, is not permitted to
build a house or to hold his very life in safety. Yet this
persecuting and intolerant spirit we are fostering by an
endowment of the seminary in which it is inculcated!

The magistrates, we observe, have announced their in-
tention to use every exertion to discover the perpetrators
of the injury done to Mr. Dowling's property. Is there
no law sufficiently powerful to reach the priestly instigator
of the outrage ? There ought to be in a country which is
governed.

GES,ERAL MISCELLANY,

The Herald says that the prospects of the tett hours
bill were never so bright as at present.

BALLOONING.—On Monday, Mr. Charles Green, the
veteran aerorant, made his 300th ascent.
Her Majesty has subscribed 200 guineas towards the
monument to Gen. Nott.

The deaths of two men from starvation, at Nottingham,
during the past week, are recorded in the Nottingham
Journal.

The Rev. J. M. Capes, Eastover, Bridzewater, has
formally announced his secession from the established
church. He has joined the Papacy.

A man named Wallace, in London, has been committed
for trial for manslaughter, for having killed another in a
fight.

A new system of electrical telegraph, by which the dis-
pa'ch is written with a pen by the mere action of the
fluid, has been tried at Brussels, and it is stated to have
been entirely successful.

Mtn LOTHIAN.—On Wednesday, Sir John Hope was
elected member for the county of Edinburgh, without
opposition, instead of R. Ramsay, Esq., who lately ac-
cepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

The Dundee Advertiser gives an account of the death
of two sisters by drowning. They were bathing together,
and one having got out of her depth, the other rushed to
give assistance, when both were lost.

William Hewitt, private secretary to Mr. Fergus
O'Connor, was committed to Brixton House of Correc-
tion for one month, on Wednesday, for having neglected
his wife and family, and allowed them to become charge-
able to the parish of Lambeth.

CHERRIES FROM ROTTERDAM.—The first importation
of cherries into Hull, was received on Sunday week, from
Rotterdam. They were retailed in Hull at eightpence per
pound. Green peas were also brought in the same vessel
for the first time this season.

On Thursday, a labourer named Blackburn, at Stondon
Massey, in Essex, murdered his wife by cutting her throat
and afterwards attempted to destroy himself in the same
way. He was however found alive, but he is not expected
to survive. He had been very low spirited for along time.
Two baptist gentlemen have offered an odd prize, viz.,
a premium of £l,OOO for the best painting of the baptism
of Christ in the river Jordan. The representation of the
baptism is to be by immersion, and the figures are to be
as large as life.

THUNDER STORM.—During the severe thunder storm
on Tuesday week, near Osmotherly, Yorkshire, a re-
spectable young man named Bentley, 20 years of age,
while at work was struck down by the electric fluid, and
killed upon the spot.

FIRES IN LONDON.-It appears from an official return
that during the year, up to the 27th ultimo, no fewer
than 411 fires have happened in London and its suburbs.
Their magnitude is greatly on the increase compared with
those of former years, although the number of lives sa-
crificed have averaged alike for many years past.
The Dean of York having published an attack on the
Vestiges of the Natural History of the Creation, com-
bating some of its statements of fact as well as infer-
ences, it has found a stout and thoroughgoing defender
in Lord Thurlow, who publishes a vindication in the
Times. The Dean replies, with stout reassertions.

IMPORTANT.—A correspondent of the Mining Journal
says that the steam boiler explosions may be prevented by
the very simple plan of having a small hole drilled in the
plate over the fire place, and filled with a leaden rivet,
which will melt only when the water gets below the
proper level.

Some spirited cattle feeders have begun to use molasses
for fattening their stock, and if the Porto Rico molasses
should be admitted, the supply will be abundant and the
article cheap, as the protecting duty does not amount to
more than 3s. 6d. per cwt. Sugar has long been known
to feed cattle excellently.

SIX LIVES LOST.—The Devonpert Conservative of
Wednesday contains the account of the loss of six lives—
those of four women and two children—by the upsetting
of a boat near a reef of rocks extending from Mount
Edgecombe to Drake's Island, locally known as the
" Bridge," which has acquired an unhappy notoriety from
the great number of lives lost within the last few months
by the upsetting of boats crossing it.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.—In consequence of a great tem-
perance society procession from Sheffield to Roche Abbey,
on Tuesday last, two fatal accidents occurred. A young
man named Looney, aged 29, jumped from the shafts of
a waggon, fell on the road, and was killed by the wheels
of the vehicle passing over him. Another man named
Booth, accidentally fell down, and was run over, and died
almost immediately.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA.—On Tues-
day, the first monthly mail, direct from China, was
despatched via" the overland route, and may be considered
as an epoch in the history of our intercourse with that vast
empire. It will be conveyed to Ceylon by the Oriental
Steam Company's vessels forming the branch line between
Ceylon and Hong-Kong, touching at Penang and Singa-
pore. By this arrangement Hong-Kong is brought within
forty-eight days post of London.

ELOPEMENT.—A young and beautiful lady, possessed
of considerable property, residing near Cardiff, recently

garded the fair one with great interest, and a mutual
flame sprung up. On the 14th instant, the fair one 'in-
formed her friends that, on the following morning, she
intended to go and take breakfast with one of her ac-

quaintance, and that she would return in the evening,

She was up wit

, her lover had a carriage wait:.
and away they went at a spank-
.

ing in the neighbourhood
ing pace, no one yet knows whither

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—ORWednesday, a young man
at the Edinburgh Register newspaper office was tending
the printing machine, and the steam-engine by which it
was worked, and while engaged in fastening a nut con-
nected with some part of the machinery, the nut-key
slipped, which caused him to overbalance himself, and he
fell against the engine fly-wheel, which was then revolving
with considerable velocity : the rnnarnnrnrP vane that hp

was torown into mite wheel-pit, where the whee.
his neck, and almost instantaneously his head was com-
pletely severed from his body.
TIMBER BILL.—A bill has been prepared and brought
into the House of Commons, relating to the importation
of timber. It proposes to continue the greater part of the
act 5 and 6 Vic., c. 17, for seven years, but to repeal the
section prohibiting the lading of cargo upon deck, or the

sailing without certificate, and the section imposing a pe-
nalty upon any one offending against the provisions of the
act. Clearing officers are to ascertain that the cargo of
certain ships, wholly or in part laden with timber or wood
goods, is below decks; and the captains of such ships are
not to sail without certificates. A penalty of £lOO is im-
posed for every offence against the act.

THE EUREKA—A MACHINE FOR MAKING LATIN
VERSES.—This machine, now exhibiting at the Egyptian-
hall, is one which presents much interest to scientific en-
gineers, although it does not afford mach facility to the
attainment of elegant latin composition. Its operation re-
sembles that of Brewster's kaleidescope, which, by very
simple means, produces an endless succession of geome-
tric figures. As in the kaleidescope, this machine is cal-

culated to manufacture, in never ending series, Latin
Hexameters, " at the rate of about a verse a minute, each
verse being perfect in grammar, sense, and prosody."
The machine may be stopped at any time, or suffered to
go on continually producing new verses, "each of which
is original, having never been produced before, and never
to be repeated again." The law which governs the oper-
ation of this machine is the law of evolution, by which, as
in Babbage's machine, endless combinations of a certain
form are produced. The form of the verse produced is
always the same. The following :—" Impia I regna
focis pro I gignunt I jurgia I densa " is a specimen of the
latinity and style of this mechanical poetry. The verb
always appears in one place, and is always of one form,
while the prevalence of neuter plurals is strikingly evident.
The inventor of this machine is a Mr. Clark, a native of
Glastonbury, to whom the first idea of this verse-maker
was suggested by an old book, the work of one of the
monks of Glastonbury Abbey, in which the theory of Mr.
Clark's invention was contained. This was, with some
labour, reduced to practice by Mr. Clark, and the result
is the machine which we have attempted to describe.

THE BRITISII ASSOCIATION.-ThiS Association com-
menced its annual sitting on Thursd,..y week, at Cam-
bridge. Sir John Herschel, President. The great
feature of the meeting is the magnetic congress. com-
posed of scientific men from various parts of Europe.
The object of the congress is to consider the propriety of
renewing for a further term the magnetic observations
which have been recently instituted in various parts of
the world. The proceedings in the different sections
have not, as yet, presented many pointsof general interest.
On Saturday morning the chemical section was the great
point of interests as the programme contained a notice,
that Professor 13outingv, of Paris, would freeze water in
a red hot vessel. The Professor's experiment excited the
most lively interest, and was completely successful. On
Monday, the Earl of Rosse exhibited to the physical
section, a sketch of the nebula, viz., Messier 51, which
he had recently observed with his large telescope. The
nebula was not only resolved into a considerable number
of stars, but they, as well os some unresolved light, were
arranged in two regular spirals, proceeding from a cluster
of stars, one spiral terminating in some bright stars, and
the other in a broad light interspersed with stars. Sir
John Herschel expressed his high admiration at the ex-
traordinary power of the immense instrument. At the
meeting of the general committee the same day, it was
unanimously resolved that the next meeting should be
held at Southbmpton, in the early part of the month of
September, 1846. Roderick 1-ppey Murchison. Esq.,
V. P. R. S., was appointed president, and the Earl of
Yarborough, one of the vice-presidents.

The following interesting communication was sent to
Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton Garden, London.
23, Mason-street Old Kent Road.—Gentlemen,—About
August, 1839, my hair began to fall off, and in so rapid a
.
manner, that the space of a month my head was aluost
divested of hair. I tried several preparations for its re-
covery without the slightest benefit, when one day your
circular, in " Collins' Memoranda," caught my eye, I
ventured in the purchase of a small bottle of " Row-
LAND'S MACASSAR OIL;" after using which I found my
hair was beginning to re-appear, and accordingly I pur-
chased a larger bottle, which, when finished, I telt satis-
fied that I had proved in my own person all you profess
as to its restorative qualities ; in short, after two months
steady perseverance in its use, I had as good a head of
Bair as at any time of my life, for which permit me t,, offer
my thanks. I have delayed writing to you for six months
(from the time of leaving off the Oil) wishing to test the
permanence of its restoration. I find it continues as
firm and as thick as before it began to fall off, with every
prospect of its continuance. I am, gentlemen, your's
obediently, Jouti FOSTRR.—See advertisement.

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