The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

greys have recently been amusin

of recriminatory charges. Mr. Ingersoll against Mr.
Webster, and 11.1 r. Ashmun against Mr. Ingersoll. During
Mr. Ashmun's speech, charging Mr• E. J. Ingersoll with

have served, Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll came to the de-
fence of his brother. Mr. Ashmun resumed, charging
Charles Jared substantially with picking the locks of the
lepartm,,nt, with having told divers falsehoods,

with being guilty of divers equivocations, and wit having
tampered with the friends of John Tyler, to procure from

said Tyler testimon

gainst Mr. Webster. Upon this
❑rred :—Mr. C. J. Ingersoll : Do

the following sc

von Know it asnmun : aes ; i nave peen told so,
Ind have seen it in the prints. Mr. Ingersoll: Do
Mr. Ashmun : Yes. Mr. Ingersoll
sir; a lie, sir—the lie of a coward !

you accuse me?
(rising) : It is false

(A Voice : That's right.) The Speaker (rapping) : The
gentleman will take his seat. Mr. Ashmun : The aged
gentleman from Pennsylvania said- Mr. Ingersoll
trithhincr his hands) c Aged ! ;wed ! vatinir ennnah air

Mr. Aslimun : I come from a section which neither be-
lieves in duels, nor bowie-knives, nor pistols—(hisses).
Mr. Ingersoll : Nor getting drunk ? Mr. Ashmun : But
—(a Voice : You won't fight)—let the member try it, and
he will find it out.—Subsequently, a committee of five
members was appointed, " to inquire into the truth of the
charges thus made by Charles J. Ingersoll."
ENLIGHTENED ROMANISM.—Mr. O'Connell frequently
boasts of the progress of Belgium in enlightenment, but
a recent event in that kingdom gives but a sorry sample
of it. A person named Retsin, after numerous ineffectual
attempts to suppress the prosecution, was found guilty
of embezzlement, and sentenced to five years' imprison-
ment. He appealed, and the sentence was confirmed,
when he openly declared that he defied the law, and that
he would not remain in prison six months. His protec-
tion was this : he had been an ancient domestic of the
Papal Nuncio, and subsequently a vender of relics—among
others a skull of St. Dorothea, since proved to have be-
longed to a man. His trade was authorised by high
authority; and in his possession were found many docu-
ments from Archbishops and Bishops, to certify that his
relics were accredited by the Church. Although an igno-
rant and uneducated fellow, he had heed promoted from
his place as servant to an office in the Ministry of Finance,
of 1,000 francs per annum, and, in succession, to others
of 1,900 francs, 2,400 francs, and, lastly, was made re-
ceiver at Jemappes, with a salary of 6,000 francs, in which
latter he had committed the embezzlement for which
he was tried and found guilty. Well, he was sentenced
to be confined in the prison of St. Bernard ; but, in place
of this he was removed to Brussels, where he daily held
levees of all the devout and faithful—persons of the highest
rank visiting and proffering their services to him ; and at
length, after some weeks of this parade, was set at liberty
by an order of the Minister of Justice, and not declared
merely free to go where he pleased, but provided with a
government order for 350 francs on the treasury ! This is
all literally and strictly true. It is an event, the time of
which is our own day ; the liberation took place on the
sth of April last.—Dublin Mail.

THE MORMONS.—We copy the following particulars
from the Hancock Eagle, a weekly paper published at
Nauvoo, a copy of which, we have received by the Cale-
donia :—" The ' Camp of Israel!—Tbis is the title and
address' which has been adopted by the company of Mor-
mons now on their way westward. A mail carrier arrived
here, on Monday last, from the camp, and reported the
pioneer party, or head of the column, as having crossed
the tributaries of the Chariton river, over 150 miles dis-
tant. By this time, they are probably on the banks of the
Missouri. Thus far, everything has gone favourably,
with the exception of the breaking down of a few over-
laden waggons. The party is in good health and spirits ;
no dissensions exist, and the ' grand caravan' moves on
slowly, but steadily and peacefully. Their progress has
been materially retarded by the want of fodder for their
live stock ; the grass not having fairly started, reduced
them to the necessity of labouring for the farmers on the
route, to supply the deficiency. They travel in detached
companies, from five to ten miles apart, and, in point of
order, resemble a military expedition. We visited the
camp before it broke up, on the opposite side of the
river, and, with other strangers, were highly interested in
the romantic and exciting display of border enterprise.
It bore the appearance of a moveable town ; the waggons
and tents being arranged on either side of large streams,
and public squares left for the cattle, as we see in some of
our river cities. Tattersalls never turned out such a lot
of such broken down nags as are to be found attached to
this expedition. If they ever reach California, their de-
pendence must be partly upon slow travelling, and partly
upon miracle but chiefly the latter. Our visit was
made during the intensely cold weather of February ;
and notwithstanding the tents were blocked in by the
snow drifts, and their occupants subjected to the rigour
of a hyperborean tempest, the scene presented a cheerful
and animated aspect."

LAW INTELLIGENCE

Amongst the gentlemen called to the bar a few days
since by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn was Charles
Cardwell, Esq., of this town.
Mr. Watson stated in the House of Commons, on
Thursday night, that, though Lord Denman's salary is
£lO,OOO a year, he bas never taken more than £B,OOO.
A movement is now being made, at the suggestion of
Lord Denman, to secure the proper payment to petit
jurors, in civil cases, for their loss of time.
POWERS OF 7HE " COMMISSIONERS" UNDER THE
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BlLL.—Take Lold Cottenham's
objection to their power of selling, mortgaging, and ex-
changing lands. What a means of unlimited jobbing would
not this be in the hands of a corrupt or careless Commis-
sioner! The power of diverting trust property from its
original purposes, without regard to the will of the founder,
is even still more alarming. Are the only vested rights
in the empire to be the rights of private proprietors? Are
the Government or their nominees to alienate, because
they may consider a trust has been mismanaged, the ves-
ted interests which a testator has created? Who will de-
clare that a man shall not found a charity to be employed
in any way he thinks best, so long as the foundation is
consistent with the law and with public morality? Trus-
tees, constituted guardians of public funds, have vested
rights as sacred as those of any private land-owner. How,
then, can your Lordships admit in such cases this princi-

alienat

ti . .
nction between private estates held by intlividuals for
family purposes? The nomination of trustees is equally
a private right. The original trustees of a charitable estate
copra nnrn;nnhori tiv *ha tadatotnr ne !Int I ies in whom he

Vv 11 V 11111 l 01, 1.11611 7,11,;GDa1/113 ell Asa ••• ,•••,• I •••••
administrative body representing the original donor has
always been supplied. Why should the testator's direc-
tion be, departed from ? What good purpose would it
answer? What benefit can be expected to result from it?

body for the e
corpor

casts ; in the

iy prescribed the mode in I:vh

To wh

purpose, then

this arbitrary infringemen

of a tes

performed without their interference? Surely when the
bequeathers of charities thought of the poor and needy,
they never thought of Lord Lyndhurst's Commissioners

IXOSlta.gsw,iftret3

IRB LAND.

The Rhadamanthus war steamer arrived at Galway last
week with 1200 barrels of Indian meal.

The only person says the Almanac of the Month, who
is safe in Ireland; is the Cove of Cork.

The number of emigrants who have already passed
through Drogheda this season to take shipping for Amer-
ica amounts to no less than 3,144.

Eight vessels have left this port within the last two or
three days for Glasgow and London, with cargoes of grain
and provisions !—Limerick Examiner.

GOVERNMENT DONATION.—The Lord Lieutenant has
contributed £1,550 towards the fund raised in Cork for
the relief of the rioor.

Mr. P. Scrope gave notice in the House of Commons,
last week, that on Thursday, the 21st, he should submit
a motion to the effect that it is expedient to extend the
poor-law of England to the able-bodied poor of Ireland.
Five tons of Indian meal have been imported to Arran,
and a new quay is to be constructed there, to which Mr.
Digby, the proprietor, contributes £6OO, and the govern-
ment £l5OO.

On Friday, a dish of very fine potatoes was exhibited
for sale in a shop in Montgomery's-market, Belfast. The
potatoes were a good size, appeared ripe, and were raised
by Mr. Ewing, of Ballynafeigh. The dish was sold for 2s6d.
There is such a magazine of Indian meal corn at present
stored in Limerick by the commissariat, as would supply
the market for twelve months to come. It is believed that
half the quantity on hand will not be required for con-
sumption.

The porters employed in discharging the French barques
at Waterford of Indian corn, " struck" for increased
wages. They were receiving 2s. Bd. per day, with 4d.
a day allowance. Conceiving this not adequate, they de-
manded 4s. per day, and refused less.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—At a meeting at Cork, Father
Mathew gave it as his opinion, that the distress would not
continue as long as might have been anticipated ; and far-
ther, said that the early potatoes were coming up luxuri-
antly, without any apparent failure, and that the wheat
crop was also very fine.

The Leinter Express contains an appalling account of
an atrocious conspiracy to murder a farmer, named Mur-
tha Murray. Revelations have been made, tending to
implicate a woman, who is stated to have hired the men
to perpetrate the assassination, who supplied them with
arms, and who concocted an alibi. She has been iden-
tified by a gunmaker in Carlow, as having purchased from
him a pistol; and 46 was to have been given for the
" job."

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A PAlEST.—Tuesday evening, as
the Rev. Daniel Freeman, junior curate to the parish
priest of Aghada, was riding along the Marsh road, about
a mile from the village of Aghada, he was thrown from
the mare he rode, and killed. The unfortunate gentleman
was dead nearly two hours before he was discovered. The
mare was standing near the corpse. She was a skittish
animal, and deceased was frequently advised to be cautious
of her.—Cork Constitution.

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The Repealers met, on
Monday, in considerable force—young Dan presiding.
That dullness and dearth of interest characterised the
proceedings will be sufficiently evident, when we announce
that the principal speaker was Captain Broderick. The
yourg Irelanders did not present so formidable an array
as was presented on this day week, and the enthusiasm
which was then exhibited on behalf of the martyred
O'Brien, seemed to have altogether evaporated. Rent
for the week, £154 ss. 4d.

The Ribbonmen of Limerick have taken advantage of
the famine cry to carry on their depredations. Threaten-
ing notices have been served, cautionine farmers not to

charge more than £1 a barrel for potatoes, on pain of
death. A local paper says, "Notices were posted at all
the Roman Catholic chapels on Sunday, calling on the
people to assemble in thousands, to devise means for pro.
curing food for their starving families, and to ' settle the
blood sut

rs,' who are living in luxury, regardless of

their wants."
THE FIRING AT SIR DAVID ROCH

—Our readers

House of Commons, that the gentleman who accompa-
nied Sir David Roche at the time, had informed him that
Sir David had not been fired at at all. This assertion has

led to a correspondence between Mr. Powell and'lCfr.-.1.
D. Lyons, the gentleman in question, who maintains that
what be stated was, that, from the slanting direction in
which the gun was levelled at the carriage, be was induced
to think that the object of the_person who fired the shot

ing stated that no shots had been fired at Sir D. Roche.
Contous PnEsomENoN —The inhabitants of the
neighbourhood of Loughbrickland, county of Down, have

recently observed a very singular phenomenon in the
lake, the water of which had, for three days, assumed
a blood-red colour, returning afterwards to its original hue.
.... . .
riod of this chime of colour. a whirlnnni

May 19, 1846.

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD.—On Thursday the following degrees *ere'
conferred :—Masters of Arts—H. S. Stratford, of Christ
Church ; Rev. J. Burrow, Rev. J. H. Shephard, and Rev.-
T. H. Smith, Queen's College; Rev. E. R. Horwood,
and Rev. C. B. Jackson, Brasennoze ; Rev. J. L. Prior,
Exeter CoPege ; E. L. Davis, Jesus College ; J. M. Leir,
New Inn Hall ; W. W. Hull, St. Mary's Hall.—Bache-
lors of Arts—S. Brandram, of. Trinity College; B. J.
Gibbons, Wadham College ; R. P. Cornish. Christ
Church ; W. H. R. Merriman, Brazennose; W. Bul-
lock, St. Mary's Hall.—Grand Compounders—Hon. H.
D. Curzon, Hon. A. Wrottesley, and L. C. Randolph,
Christ Church ; A. Dendy, Wadham College ; R. E.
Formby, and J. A. Orle, Brazennose College ; W. Bran—
de, H. Morgan, and G. Saunders, New Inn Hall; J.
Hall, Liocoln Hall ; W. Bree, Merton Hall ; J. Bush,
St. Mary's Hall ; Rev. J. Stretch, F. Woodman, and J.
Glazebrooke, Magdalene Hall ; R. Menzies, and G. Al-
ford. Queen's College ; R. Hole, W. Hautenville, and
S. Hansard, University College; H. Farmar, H. War-
burton, H. raced. and T. Sergeant, Exeter College;
W. Acton, and M. Bere, Balliol College; C. de flaviland,
H. Savory, J. Moor. and R. Arrowswitb, Oriel College ;
W. David, Jesus College ; W. Brewster, W. Colston,
and W. Feetham, St. John's College, H. Pruen, Pem-
broke College ; G. Quirk, C. Walter, A. Hensley, and
F. Morgan, Worcester College.

CAluiiatUGE.—The following degrees were conferred
on Thursday :—Doclor of Law—S. T. T. Bartlett, Clare
Hall.—Maalera of Arts—W. Franks, G. Nugee, F. W.
Gibbs, C. Sargent, and G. Chance, Trinity College; T.
Tanqueray, Pembroke College.—Bachelors of Arts—W.
Coleman, St. John's College ; E. J. Furnival, Trinity
Hall; R. S. Baker, Magdalene College; C. Riley, St.
John's College ; J. P. Haines, Trinity College ; H.
James, King's College ; W. D. Snell, Downing College;
E. M. D. Payne, Emanuel College.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11--HORSE RACING.—The Vice-
Chancellor has just called the attention of all persons
in stain pupillari to the following order, which was is-
sued in the April Term of the year i840:—" Whereas
many students have of late been engaged in riding races,
and otherwise promoting racing in the neighbourhood of
the University ! We, the Vice-Chancellor and heads of
Colleges, hereby order and decree, that, if any person in
stalu pupillari be hereafter found guilty of either of the
offences above described, he shall be liable to the punish—
ment of a rustication or expulsion, as the case shall ap-
pear to the Vice-Chancellor and heads of Colleges to,
require."

The Queen Dowager has contributed £lO towards the
erection of St. Simon's Church.

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
will meet on the 21st inst.

The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of Christ Church, bas
been appointed to the incumbency of St. Thomas's
Church, Toxteth-park, by John Gladstone, Esq., patron.
A public meeting of the Anti-State-Church Association
was held at Leicester. last week, when Dr. Cox and the
Rev. J. Burnet uttered the most vehement protestations
to persevere in their endeavours to obtain a separation of
church end state.

Mr. Norris's prize for the best prose essay on a sacred
subject, has been adjudged to John Herbert Jones, 8.A.,
(1844,) Jesus College, Cambridge. Subject : Hath God cast
away his people ? God forbid.—Rom. xi, i.—[Mr. Jones
is a son of the Rev. John Jones, of St. Andrew's, in this
town.l

TheVen. and Rev. Wm. Forbes Raymond, Archdeacon
of Northumberland, was installed at Durham, on Tuesday
last, as one of the Canons of that Cathedral, vacant by
_ • . . -

sae auttn of the late Rev. Thos. Gisborne. By this
appointment, Mr. Raymond resigns the living of Howick,
which isnow at the disposal of the Bishop of the Diocese.
Now '.—On the Thursday before Easter,
the r, s', London, received from a Christian,

PRESENT
of St. Glle

beautiful be -
taunion Tab!e), a most chaste and valuable entire service
3y a hundred pound note

Id napkins for the Cotn-

of silver gift pl

accomptin

to be put into the plate at the offertory on Easter Sunday
towards the endowment of the New Free Church in Et:
dell Street.

Lord Sandon presided at the meeting of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, in London, on Wednesday. Ad-
dresses were delivered by the Marquis of Cholniondeley,
the Bishop of Calcutta, Lord Ashley, and others. The
entire receipts of the year amount to £101,305 155., and
the expenditure to £105,851 25. 9d. The issues
have amounted to 1,441,(i51; from the de-

1,104,787

sitory at home,
from derOts abroad, 336,861; being 525,81(

s more than the preceding year
RIVES V. SHORE.—The Que

n's Bench decided last

week, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Sh;;;,-iiitTiaCrergi-
man cannot, merely by proclaiming himself a dissenter,
discharge himself from the restraints, nor is be merely bi

WEIL EICL strippea of the privileges of his order. The pro-
ceedings on which that judgment was given have been cal-
culated and intended to rid Mr. Shore of certai❑ vows
which he once solemnly took, and has since very deliber-
ately broken, to release him from obligations which it it
his practice to violate, and to deprive him of a character
which he owns he cannot conscientiously sustain.

A NOBLE OFFERING.—The Rev. W.-J. E.
M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, at
the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, referred
with satisfaction to the efforts which had been made by
his congregation in aid of a fund to erect a new church in
that di,trict to he dedicated to St. Barnabas. The rev.
gentleman said that on the previous Sunday he bad an-
nounced that the money given at the offertory that day
would be applied to the object alluded to, and he had the
pleasure to announce that £2,300 had been subscribed for
that pious purpose, and that during the week he bad re-
ceived various additional sums, amounting to £9OO.—
London Paper.
FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. —This
ancient festival, coeval with the Restoration, was cele
brated on Thursday, as usual, at St. Paul's Cathedral.
The sermon was preached by the Dean of Lincoln. Be-
sides the dignitaries of the Church, Prince George of
Cambridge was present. In the evening a large number
of the friends of the Church dined at the Merchant
Tailors' Hall. Amongst the company were—the Arch-
bishops of Canterbury and Armagh, the Marquis 01
Westminster, the Bishops of London. Ripon, Chester,
Chichester, Oxford, Bangor, Llandaff, Calcutta, and
Jamaica; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr Justice Erle, Lord Bolton,
the Lord alayor, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir George Cerro!.
Sheriffs Laurie and Chapman, the Chamberlain, Aldermen
Marshall, Challis, Farebrother, Thom pson, Moore, Gibbs;
Hughes, &c. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, atT,
proposed as the first toasts, " the Church and Queen,
" her Majesty the Queen Dowager ;" " the Crown Prince
of Hanover, Royal Steward of the year." The Rev.
Jelf returned thanks for his royal highness, and said that
he could declare that he had never known his royal big"'
tress to do anything unworthy of his station as a Prim
or a Christian gentleman. The Lord Mayor then Pig
" Prince Albert. Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest ca
the Royal Family."

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—The annual meet•
ing was held on Tuesday. Lord Ashley was in the chair"
and the numerous assembly was addressed by the Bistlol
of Winchester, Llandaff, Chester, and Norwich, Mr.
Labouchere, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Stowell'
Fielding Hugh Stow'
Fielding Ould, W. Pollock, &c.
Lord Sandon wrote!,
note, regretting he could not attend, for, added his 10e°
ship, "there is no society in England that does nit.r,
good." The Bishops of Oxford and Calcutta, and l°,
Earl of Effingham, have accepted the office of Ylee,,
patrons. The income of the society last year was £22.5
being an increase of £2,079 over the preceding year, aDi
£677 over any former year. The society's recent apPe
have met with the liberal response of £2,079, and it o°,
provides 272 incumbents with the means of supportlt
i
266 curates, and 57 lay assistants, at an annual charge ~4
£25,418, when all the grants shall be in operation
a population of 2,012,643 thereby have conferred en tbt,
the blessings attendant on so many additional faithful 'cif
bourers of Christ. The grants of the society have alrelit
led to the erection or opening of 103 churches and tes
rooms licensed for public worship; and, in the paris!ca
or districts now aided by this institution. 408 additiliff
services on the Lord's-day, 142 on week-days, and ear
school-room or cottage lectures are regularly maintaintbe
besides which there has been secured fully double
amount of pastoral visitation. and superintendence o', the
yet
various parochial schools, and management of 132nevore
and religious local societies. Multitudes of instances n'd
detailed by the speakers, in which the society cclit)
the very greatest blessings on neglected districts. nor
reference to the constitution of the society the Bien°,"ioe
Winchester said. " My Lord, I feel a peculiar satisfac`cbil
in being permitted to attend your Lordship's biddila be
day, because I deem it to be my especial duty not ,etie
wanting upon any occasion, when this society suin'Ty t
me to attend its Meetings, to perform the twofold du,.jetf'
expressing my gratitude and my confidence in the Sothoge
1 am happy to say, that I have never been one of "tee
who have looked upon the society with any other eYet bar
that of unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God, Mr to°
ing raised up friends to assist the clergy in duties ill. (le'
onerous for them. and who have in carrying out
oalf
signs of the society, expended its funds in a roan.rlego
culated to draw forth the sympathy sod thaiisalc;:beelif
every friend of our Church. M y Lord, I have nec,,eteetl,
able to see anything in the principles or in the 0°1.1007
this Society which ought not to be dear to a chore l'¢
heart. And I should be most ungratefulindeed, if I C'iliercipiq
to add, that its conduct has been as excellentes its r•otiesiL,
have been pure. Connected as I am with many s°c' eon"
Ater ter
confess, that there is none in which I repose ere od,(
„.,e
dente than that which has assembled us this day. gretor.
Bishop of Llandaff added, " Nothing gave Ilimale yes
pain than the complaints which were current s° be coo'"
ago against the agents who had been selected by 'had olio
mittee. But according to his judgment, they but .0
performed a sacred office in making that seltction, to sc,
duty
the trustees of a fund, it was their bounden a pro), ci
that the funds were not misapplied, but placed l°,15(1 be,eo
cl:annel for rarryiog on the work for which they
ir•
gr ofanted. He had never known an instance 1.1
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