The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Lord-Lieutenant has issued a special commission
for the trial of criminals in the County Clare.
On Saturday night the udders of two cows, the pro-
perty of Dr. Roberts, of Youghal, were cut off by some
barbarous miscreants. _

On Friday, a woman residing at the Silvermines cut
her husband's head off with a hatchet ! She is fully
committed to Nenagh gaol for this atrocious deed.
The Dublin Evening Post has published a statement,
not official, of the receipts of the Repeal Association.
The income of 1843 was £47,914 ; 1844, £43,306; 1845,
Z 17,969.
James Doherty, of Garden Hill, going home on Sunday
evening from Castle-Connell, was met on the road by six
or eight men, who beat him with stones and sticks. The
sufferer is in the hospital. _ _

CHEAP TRAVELLING IN IRELAND.—An opposition
car was lately started from Pallakenny to Limerick, a
distance of 12 miles, the fare for which journey. was only
6d. ; but another car has been since set up, which accom-
modates the public at the still lower charge of 4d.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—OR Monday, between the
hours of nine and eleven o'clock, a party of Terrys, one of
them armed with a gun, went into a field of Mr. Toohy's ,
where he was working, and attempted to shoot him, but
the gun missed fired; they then knocked him down and
beat him in a most brutal manner.—Nenagli Gua' dian.
Government have offered £5O reward for the apprehen-
sion of the fellows who attacked the Rev. Thos. Westropp
and his servant, near Annacotty, on Saturday evening, the
11th instant. Mr. Westropp is nearly recovered from the
wounds he received ; his servant still continues in the hos-
pital.
A HINT TO OLD BACHELORS.—There died this week
in the union poorhouse three patriarchs, whose united
ages amounted to 307 years. Each of these " fine Irish
gentlemen, all of the olden time," were married, it is
stated, no less than four times, a circumstance to which,
no doubt, is att'ibutable their lengtbened sojourn in the
land of the living.— Waterford Freeman.
On Wednesday night a sacrilegious attempt was made
to rob the Roman Catholic chapel attached to a nunnery
in North William-street, Dublin. The Sisters of Charity
were awakened by the noise, and having given the alarm,
two of the night constables came to their assistance, and
on examining the premises, found 14 the chapel two rob-
bers, one of whom had secured the priest's vestments, and
the other had the chalice in his pocket.
As a proof how little dependence is to be placed on
dying declarations of innocence made by convicts at the
gallows, the Carlow Sentinel mentions a case of which
the editor was cognizant, in that town. A man convicted
of murder persisted in declaring his innocence till he was
swung off the fatal drop. The rope, however, by some
accident, broke, and the man was not hurt. He then
begged a few minutes time, and before he was put up
again fully acknowledge 1 his guilt. _ _ _

-MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday night week,
a soldier belonging to a recruiting party, stationed in
Portglenone, was going over his exercise, with a musket
belonging to the owner of the house where be lodged, and
which was loaded with shot, having been borrowed a few
days before, by a neighbour, for the purpose of shooting
rats. The owner of the house not being at home, the
soldier had lifted the gun to amuse a few persons who
were in the kitchen, and as he said " present, fire," it
w nt off, lodging the contents in the head of a fine boy,
about twelve or thirteen years old, an orphan (who was
also a boarder in the same house), named Michael Hanlon.
He only breathed for a few minutes. The poor soldier,
who is in a miserable state, is in custody awaiting an inves-
tigation into the case.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE " SACRED FUND."—Further
awkward and untimely revelations respecting the misap-
propriation of the (so-styled) " Sacred Fund " are almost
daily dished up for the edification and satisfaction of the

poor classes w

At is stated, on the competent authority of a " Catholic
Repealer." that the erection of Conciliation-hall, a plain,
if not unsighily piece of architecture, or, to use the words
of the writer, " a small oblong building, without durabi-
n... a " miserable edifice,"

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drained the " Sacred Fund" to the tune of LIUMUU, be-
ing £7,000 more than the simple contributors to the
Burgh-quay Excl ever were led
,to suppose had been ex-
. . o rob;

puliuru LW I.ll'll litGn lasa oaa.• •••• --
projrc,nr, it is said, and no doubt uly, " stood well"
with the committee of management, and hence thrir dif-
fuse liberality of the hard cash wrung, under other pre-
tences, from the pockets of the deluded lovers of home-
made legiblation.

Lords, on Mond.y, on r:ari tarry s motion on tne state
of Ireland was truly disheartening. On the one side, tie
had Lord Grey, Lord Fortescue, and Lord Fiz;villiatn,
"as Proteeants"—elaiming perfect equality for the
"Ca holic' and Protestant Churches (as they were
Pleased to term them) in Leland. On the other, we
found them vigorously oppo,ed by the Duke of Welling-
ton, but upon no higher ground than this—that the Irish
church bad been guaranteed perpetuity, at the Union ;
and that therefore it was not open to Parliament to dis-
cuss such questions. But his own coadjutor, Lord St.
Germans—who negotiated the Maynooth Endowment of
last year—at once gave up this doctrine as untenable—
rightly arguing, that it was not possible for the Legisla-
ture of any particular period to tie the hands of all future
Parliaments on any national question. Thus went the
argument ; the deplorable characteristic of which was,
that no one was found, whether bishop or lay-lord, to
utter one syllable with a view to remind their lordships
of the main points of the case ; namely, that the doctrine
established in the church of Ireland is the truth of God;
while the doctrine sought to be established by the liornish
priests, is soul-destroying error. We call this the main
point of the case; we might truly say it is the only point
of the least value. For if the fact. be not as we state it—
if Pr testantism and Popery are merely two variations of
the same essential truth—then we must adrnit, without a
moment's hesitation, that the present church of Ireland
ought not to be maintained for another year. On no other
ground than that of its scriptural foundation, can the Irish
establishment be vindicated by any fair and reasonable
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