The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS

I3ateson, Rev. William Henry, M.A., fellow of John's
College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Madingly, Cam-
bridge, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. S. W.
Waud. Patron, the Bishop of Ely.
Brooks, Rev. Joshua W., vicar of Clarcorough, Notts,
to the vicarage of St. Mary's, Nottingham. Patron,
Earl Manvers.

Collett, Rev. Woodthorpe, M.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the rectory of Normanton, Lincolnshire.
Patron, the Marquis of Bristol.
Coulcher, Rev. George, of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, perpetual curate of St. Benedict, Cambridge, has
been appointed chaplain to the Mayor of Cambridge,
Rowland Morris Fawcett, Esq.
Hope, Rev. Thomas, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of
Hatton, Warwickshire.

Hosken, Rev. Charles Henry, 8.A., of Queen's Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the assistant curacy of Wellington,
Some,rsetshire.

Jackson, Rev. Edward Dudley, 8.C.L., formerly of
Trinity Hall. Cambridge, perpetual curate of St. Mi-
chael's, to the perpetual curacy of Heaton Norris, Man-
chester, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. P. Myddleton.
King, Rev. Watson, ALA., formerly of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, curate of Trinity Church, Leicester, and
late of 'Maidstone, to the perpetual curacy of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Batley Carr, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
Patron, the Rev. Thomas Allbutt, the vicar.

Kingsford, Rev. Godfrey, formerly of Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, to be assistant chaplain to the Mill-
bank Penitentiary, Westminster.
Thompson, Rev. George, M.A., late master of the
Grammar School at Wisbeach, has been elected to the
head mastership of the Free Grammar School at North
Walsham, Norfolk.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly meeting of
this body was held on Monday, when speeches were deli-
vered by Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Steele, and
others. The repeal rent amounted to £932 13s. 6d.
THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—NO exertion was spared
on Sunday to swell this amount. In some instances, OXFORD, Nov. 10.—The report of Mr. Gladstone's
double the sum collected last year was received. In being about to offer himself to fill a vacancy in the rep-
Dublin and the suburbs alone, upwards of £4,000 was resentation of the University is utterly destitute of
gathered ; and the total amount is expected to be little, if truth. There is no prospect of Mr. Estcourt resigning.
at all, under £30,000. We understand that the new Bishop of Lichfield, Dr.
ATTEMPT TO BURN BOYLE BARRACKS.—On Friday I Lonsdale, has resigned the preachership which he held of
night last an attempt was made to burn the barrack of Lincoln's-inn. There are several candidates for the va-
Boyle, and several panes of glass in the windows were cant preferment, and among the number is the eloquent
broken with stones. The parties are known ; three of and respected Rev. J. S. M. Anderson, of St. George's
them have been fully committed to Bridewell. The con- Chapel, Brighton.—Brighton Gazette.
sequences of this outrage must have been terrific had the SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT A CHURCH IN HULL.—
sentry not observed it in proper time, as the magazine is During the gale of Wednesday forenoon about 29 feet of
within ten yards of the gate, to which fire was applied,— the graceful spire of St. Stephen's Church was blown
Belfast News Letter. down. The spire, which is about 90 feet in height, was
DEATH OF SIR F. W. MACNAGHTEN.—WC regret completed, with the exception of fixing a cross on the
to announce the demise of Sir F. W. Macnaghten. which top, and the scaffolding, which had not been taken down,
took place at Bushmills-house, on Tuesday. Sir Francis was borne by the .wind against the newly laid stonework,
was in his eighty-second year, twenty-one of which he which was seen to resist the pressure for some time, and
served in India. His health had been gradually declin- which gave the workmen an opportunity of getting out of
ing since the intelligence reached this country of the death the way. At length it fell with eterrible "rash through
of his son at Cabool, whose melancholy fate is fresh in the roof. No person was hurt. This unfortunate cir-
the minds of us all. No hopes were entertained of the cumstance will delay the opening of the edifice.—Hull
life of the venerable baronet for the last ten days.—Bel- Packet.
fast Whig. THE REV. W. SIBTHORP.—At the late anniversary
SERIOUS INJURY TO THE LOUGH SWILLY AND meeting of the Society for Promoting Christianity among
Louth FOYLE EMBANKMENTS. —We understand the Jews, held at Bristol, the Rev. E. Bickersteth read
that a breach of very great extent was made in the Lough the following extract of a letter which he had received
Swill), embankment on Wednesday morning. The tide from the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp, dated October 5 :—" My
filled the bay from shore to shore, being higher than any dear Bickerstetb, I deem it my duty to inform you, that
that has occurred for the last thirty-six years, and de- I last Sunday received the sacrament at St. Helen's, as
stroyed the labours of three years, besides doing consider- declaratory of my separation from the Roman, and my
able damage to other property in the neighbourhood. return to the Anglican Church. I am, therefore, no
Some injury was done to the Ballykelly embankment, in longer a member of the Church of Rome. I have come
the Foyle, on the same morning.—Derry paper. to the conclusion, after much deliberat on, and the con-
viction I have is this—that the Church of Rome is the
MAIL TO FLEETWOOD.—The North Lancashire Steam
great harlot—the mother of abominations—an adulteress;
Navigation Company's beautiful new iron steamer the
Princess Alice, of 200 horse power, sailed from Belfast on and her worship is idolatory, chiefly Maryolatry.
Friday last, with the first mail for Port Fleetwood. It is FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. J.
intended, we believe, to have a regular mad from England M. Crockett, incumbent of Tatenhill, near Burton-on-
by that route three days, or at least two days in the Trent, met with his death, on the 14th instant, in the
week, there being now two splendid steamers on the stn- following melancholy manner :—He was returning home,
tion. The trade between this town and Fleetwood may and when passing the house of a widow of the name of
be regarded as permanently established, the quantity of Hassell, he heard a confused noise of voices, as though in
merchandise and number of passengers conveyed by the high altercation. On pausing a little, he could hear dis-
vessels increasing week by week.—Banner of Ulster. tinctly a man's voice, threatening Mrs. Hassell with
.vio-
lence. Mr. Crockett, who was ever ready to succour the
SBIZURE AND RESCUE OF A POTTEEN STILL.—AS
oppressed,especially the widow and fatherless, immediately
the supervisor of the excise for the Foxford Collection,
stepped through the wicket, intending to enter the house
, and prevent ill-usage, when, awful to relate, as he passed
Mr. Greaves, was returning from Ballina to Castlebar
some few days since, he observed four persons carrying a by the end of the house, the covering of an old well which
still, head, and worm, and leaving it at some distance was under the pavement gave way, and Mr. Crockett was
from the road. Mr. Greaves, though alone, proceeded to precipitated to
the bottom, a large quantity of soil and
the place, took the still, put it in his gig, and drove to- stones falling upon him. The alarm was immediately
wards town. The owners having witnessed the seizure, given, and the reverend gentleman was taken out in such
and not wishing to give up their property without a a bruised state that he died in about two hours.
struggle, followed the excise officer, and forced him to de- CHURCH EXTENSION.--A meeting of the Incorporated
Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and
liver up the still four miles from where he seized it. Mr.
U
Greaves made a desperate exertion to retain his capture,
but he was overpowered by the rather incautious illicit Repairing of Churches and Chapels was held, at their
distillers, chambers, in St. Martin's-place, yesterday week, the
Lord Bishop of London in the chair. The meeting voted
grants of money towards building additional churches or
chapels at Alltygryg, in the parish of Llangerick, Glamor-
ganshire ; at Kensal-green, in the parish of Chelsea,
Middlesex; at Wood-green, in the parish of Tottenham,
Middlesex ; at the district parish of St. George, Leeds ;
at Cowhill, in the parish of Oldham, Lancashire ; at Ply-
mouth ; and at Trawden, in the parochial chapelry of
Colne, Lancashire; also towards enlarging by rebuilding
the church at Bovingdon Hertfordshire ; enlarging the
church at Owston, Lincolnshire ; reseating or otherwise
increasing the accommodation in the churches at Bat-
combe, Somerset ; Burton, Westmoreland ; Stoke Gold-
ing, Leicestershire; Tavistock, Devonshire; and Wan-
borough, Wiltshire. The population of these 15 parishes
is 213,614 persons, and the accommodation provided for
them in 37 churches and chapels is 29,411 seats, being less
than one-seventh of the whole number; while the free
sittings are only 9672, or one free seat for 22 persons ; to
this insufficient provision of church room 5753 seats will
be added when the works above referred to (which include
the erection of eight additional churches) have been com-
pleted, and 3788 of those sittings will be free and unap-
propriated for ever

THE LATE OUTRAGE IN TIPPERARY.—MISS Vereker,
who was so seriously injured during the outrage at Finnoe-
house, near Borrisokane, on the evening of Sunday
se'nnight, died on Tuesday morning last. An inquest
was held the same day, at which were several magistrates
and gentlemen connected with the family. The verdict
was, " Died in consequence of wounds inflicted by some
person or persons unknown." Mr. Waller continued,
when the last accounts were sent off, in a very precarious
state. Mrs. Waller was nearly convalescent. The aged
butler, William Largin, was still confined to bed and suf-
fering severe pain from his wounds. A meeting of magis-
trates was held, on Tuesday, in the Grand Jury-room of
the Court-house, Nenagh, for the purpose of taking the
subject into consideration. There were twenty-four ma-
gistrates present. A resolution was passed that a reward
be offered for the apprehension of the parties concerned.
SUICIDES IN DUBLIN.—There were no fewer than
four suicides committed in Dublin on Monday. The first
of these shocking cases took place at 32, Old Dominick-
street, and was attended with very painful circumstances.
The unfortunate deceased was Mr. James Dillon, a sur-
geon, residing at the above house, and who was, as stated,
possessed of independent property, and most respectably
connected. It would appear that the gentleman laboured
under aberration of mind some time back, and that he
was formerly in an asylum, which be left about a year ago.
He was about -15 years of age, and without any family.
The deceased retired to bed about nine o'clock on Sunday
night, and slept in a room three stories high from the
basement floor. Nothing transpired with regard to his
movements after the hour mentioned, until he was found
lying in the area after twelve o'clock covered with blood,
and in a dying state, he having leaped or thrown himself
down from the bed-room window on the flags of the are'.
—ln the second, Hugh M'Coughrey, formerly a clerk in
Busby's distillery, took a dose of laudanum ; in the third,
Charles Thornton, a servant, hanged himself ; and in the
fourth, a soldier of the34th regiment, named Springthorp.
shot himself through the head at the Royal Barracks.

WALES.

COMMITTAL OF TWENTY-SIX REBECCAITES.—After
an examination last week, twenty-six persons have been
committed for trial, charged with pulling down the toll-
houses at Parkamorfa and Fishguard, on the 11th Septem-
ber last. The excitement in the latter town where the
prisoners were examined was very great, particularly as
regarded the informants, Thomas Williams and his wife,
who were obliged to be guarded day and night from
the barracks to the Commercial Inn, where the magis-
trates sat. The prisoners were confined in the Market-
house, surrounded by a treble guard of marines. The
Commercial Inn was also strongly guarded during the
time the magistrates were sitting.
BEAUMARIS PIER.—The new pier at Beaumaris is to
be carried out a distance of 563 feet from the termination
of the old town wall, at the corner of the Bulkeley Arms
Hotel Terrace-garden, in a direct line with Church-street.
It will consist of solid masonry, filled up with rubble,
&c., and be about six-and-twenty feet high at its extreme
end, having a roadway of twenty-three feet wrde the
whole length. It is calculated that the larger class of
steamers will be able to land passengers, &c., on the slip
(which will extend at a right angle from the extreme end)
almost at any time of the tide, there being fifteen feet of
water at that distance from the extremity of the slip at
thelowest spring tide.—North Wales Chronicle.

Tom STEELE.—We have often wondered that this
blundering simpleton should ever have been allowed to
take part in O'Connell's schemes. He is a laughing,
roystering, merry blade more adapted for tavern brawls
than for enterprises of " great pit and momen ; " the ac-
tors in which must know how to speak without letting
others know their thoughts. We can fancy "honest Tom
Steele," as O'Connell sometimes calls him (for we never
had the felicity of seeing him), such a man as Caesar pre-
ferred :

" Let me have men about me that are fat ;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights ;
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ;
He thinks too much, such men are dangrous.'.
And when Antony bids him fear not, for Cassius " is a
noble Roman and well given," imperial Caesar replies, he
fears him not, but—" but would he were fatter "he ex-
claims. Some of our readers will remind us, no doubt,
that O'Connell is fat. So he is ; but every rule has its
objection. Nobody ever saw a fat man hung. It is al-
ways your lean rascal that comes to the gallows. Com-
fort for Daniel, it will he said. Not so. He is already
an exception to one rule. There is nothing to prevent
him being so to another. He may lie in prison long
enough to get thin.—John Bull.

" A KIPPER !"-At one of the Free Church breakfasts
in Glasgow, Dr. Chalmers asked a French gentleman,
whether he wished " to be helped to some kippered sal-
mon ?" The Frenchman inquired the meaning of " kip-
pered," and on being told that it signified " preserved,"
he was helped to a portion, and seemed to relish it much.
On retiring from the hall, and taking leave, he was heard
wishing the Doctor that he might be long kippered to the
Free Church!"

A BURGLAR SHOT.—On Monday morning last, the
house of Mr. John Vickerman, farmer, of Thwing, near
Drlffield, was broken into by thieves. The robbery was
discovered in the following manner :—The female servant
having risen at 2 o'clock to wash, thought she heard a
noise in the house, and alarmed her fellow servants. On
proceeding to the top of the house they descried through
the crevices two men in a long garret running the whole
length of the house, who were rummaging about with a
light. The foreman then called for his gun to be fetched,
and finding it unloaded he deliberately charged it. The
foreman, with their own servants, having taken their stand
at a window, so soon as the burglars emerged from the
stable door by which they had entered, they were called
upon stop, but refusing to do so the foreman levelled his
gun and fired at them. The charge entered the legs of
one of the burglars, who, finding himself, disabled, sur-
rendered, and turned out to be a notorious thief, known
by the name of William Fisher, alias Bendigo, and who
was only discharged in April last from the House of Cor-
rection at Beverley, where he had been confined for ass-
stealing, and along with another man for stealing a quan-
tity of sheen-netting. The captive was so much injured
from the effects of the charge that he was at first consid-
ered in a dangerous state ; he is now in the custody of
Mr. Ward, police-officer, at Kilham. He would doubt-
less have been more severely woundedibut from the cir-
cumstance of his having on a thick great-coat, which it
was discovered he had on the same night stolen from the

ATTACKING A HOUSE AND MURDER OF THE OWNER.
—John Byrne, Esq., one of the coroners for the county
Louth, held an inquest, at Toorus, on the Carrickmacross
road, which was adjourned to Tuesday, I4th instant, to be
held in the town of Louth, upon the body of Nicholas
Byrne. Mr. O'Reilly, magistrate, and Mr. Litt's, chief
constable, were present at the investigation. After a res-
pectable jury had been sworn, several witnesses were ex
amined, when it appeared in evidence that the house of
the deceased was attacked by a body of men on the night
of the Ist of November last, when the family were in bed
(having previously broken the windows of several houses
in the neighbourhood.) The deceased and his son got up
to defend their house, when he was knocked down by a
blow of a stick, which fractured his skull, of which he
lingered until the 11th instant, when he died—after hav-
ing the blow of the stick, another person made a stab of
a knife at him, which, however, he escaped, the knife
having only struck the door. Dr. Garlant, and other
medical gentlemen, who had previously attended the de-
ceased, deposed that the fracture was the cause of death.
The jury, after deliberation, returned a verdict of " wil-
ful murder" against Thomas Hinchy and two other per-
sons, whose names it would not be prudent to mention at
present. Hinchy was commi

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