The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.—Fors he last fifteen years
(says the Limerick Chronicle) there was not such a rage
for emigration from this port evinced by respectable far-
mers and industrious agricultural labourers, with their
wives and families, who are pouring in from the counties
of Limerick and Clare, as at the present season.
DREADFUL MURDER.—On Wednesday night last, a
quiet farmer, at Graguengower, near Westmeath, was re-
turning from the fair of Clonmel, on the Ist instant, after
selling a cow, when he was waylaid and brutally murdered
by three men named Carrigan, who literally dashed out
his brains with stones, for no other reason but that he
was a brother-in-law of men of the name of Power, who
were of an opposite party.
MORE CURSING.—The following paragraph is from the
Westmeath Guardian. There is in it nothing to call for
particular remark. His reverence is but working in his
vocation—labouring to extinguish any li•tle spark of inde-
pendence that he can discover in his flock. But what a
church it is to belong to ! and what a clergy to look up to
for instruction !—" We have heard on good authority that
a respectable shopkeeper in Moyvore, a Roman Catholic,
who voted for W. H. Daniel, at the late election of poor-
law guardians, has been denounced by the priest ; and
such is the effect produced on the country people that his
shop would not be entered, nor a loaf of his bread (he
having a bakery) purchased by one of them.
The Radical papers still cry out famine in Ireland. To
show what ground for fear exists we quote the authentic
prices of potatoes, as we find them recorded in the mer-
cantile papers of the day. At Cork the average price is
6 2-3 d.. per stone of 141 b ; at Limerick, 51d. • at Water-
ford, 6d. ; at Clontnel, sirl.; at Wexford, 5 d. ; at Kil-
kenny, 5d.; at Belfast. 44d. At Novtownards, County
Down, a respectable dealer has contracted to supply the
workhouse with potatoes for the next two months, that
is for April and May, at 4s. 4d. per cwt, or 61d. per
stone, the contractor binding himself to take back all dis-
eased potatoes,
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting, on
Monday, which was all but deserted, Mr. Steele denounced
all repeal members who should not attend in Parliament
after Easter, as betraying their duty to their constituents
and their country. He also congratulated the meeting on
the altered tone of the speeches in Parliament, on both
sides, and the modification of the Coercion Bill, and
spoke of Lord John Russell's address as one of " magni-
ficent statesmanship." Mr. Ray stated that the Liver-
pool repeal warden, about to emigrate to America, was
Mr. Thomas Fallon. The rent for the week, which in-
cluded £9 from Liverpool, was announced to be £l9O.

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MORE DENUNCIATION.—Mr. Carrick, whose assassin-
ation we recently announced, was not, as at first supposed,
a Rom-an Catholic. He was a Protestant of liberal opin-
ions—an Emancipator—a Whig—a supporter of Mr.
O'Connell at the hustings ; but, unfortunately for himself,
an opponent in the arena of Conciliation Hall. "Ile was,"
says Mr. Creagh, "a decided anti-repealer, and subscribed
the anti-repeal declaration, and, as a grand juror and ma-
gistrate of his county, also signed a memorial in favour of
the Arms Act, and for this apparent change in his political
conduct, he doubtless incurred the displeasure of the
repeal party. A few months before his death he was
publicly denounced, together with other gentlemen, from
the alter of a Chapel in the district, a circumstance that
ought to be inquired into by a committee of either house
of parliament."—Dub/in Mail.
_ _

larsH l'HovrsioNs.—The following are the arrivals
at the port of Liverpool from the principal ports of Ire-
land, from the 27th ult. to the 2d instant, inclusive :-
2,796 firkins, 98 half firkins, 23a baskets, casks, &c., and
117 boxes of butter; 606 sacks. 2,28 barrels, 83 quarters,
and 54 tons weight of wheat; 2,675 sacks and some bar-
rels of flour; 150 tons weight and 74 bags of oats; 1,102
sacks, 40 tons weight, and 134 other packages of oatmeal ;
299 sacks and 20 quarters of malt ; 14 bags of beans ; 14
bags of barley ; 21 casks, 1,149 kegs, and 120 firkins of
lard ; 337 barrels, 50 quarter barrels, and 11 kegs of pork ;
235 sacks of meal • 492 boxes and tierces, 19 bales and 2
other packages of linens and cottons ; several packages of
general provisions ; 74 puncheons and 1 casks of whiskey ;
51 sacks of groats; 550 barrels and 18 tierces of bacon ;
72 packages of hams, 15 of seed, 222 sacks of farina flour,
and numerous other articles of minor importance.
SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—On Wednesday, at half-past
seven, two men disguised entered the kitchen of Scarth
House, near Kilkishen, Co. Clare, the re,idence of Sur-
geon Kenny, when one of the cowardly ruffians struck one
the servants, a female, a violent blow on the head with a
pistol. They then delivered a written notice for the
Doctor. directing the entrance gate to be kept open for
the future, that the people of the neighbourhood may have
free access to a spring well on the lawn, and threatening
Miss Bevan an excellent lady, and relative of the family,
with the death of Messrs. Gloster and Carrick, if she did
not discharge a particular female servant. Upon the first
entrance of the burglars into the house, Miss Bevan fled,
imagining they came for fire arms, and having climbed
over the entrance gate, she alarmed the neighbours, but
strange to say, none of them would go for the police,
though not far off. nor return with her to the house. She,
however, at all risks, returned by herself.
. . _ _

Dublin was visited last week by a terrific storm of
wind, accompanied by cold rain and sleet. The storm
raged to such an extent, that, near Kingstown, two young
gentlemen were blown into the sea, one of whom, the son
of Mr. Gibton, a stock-broker, was drowned.
IMPORTANT CASE.—At Roscommon assizes on Wednesday,
the case of Kelly v. Kelly came on. It was an ejectment
brought to recover from the defendant the property denomi-
nated Rookwood, which had been left to defendant by the will
of her late husband, but which plaintiff claimed for his heir-at-
law. The issue involved a question of property to the amount
of .t'600,000, one of the largest properties in Ireland. The case
affected freehold property about .t"4000. The defendant is Mrs.
Kelly, of county of Galway, who was married to the late
Edmond Kelly, a gentleman who made an immense fortune
at his profession of attorney, and who by his will left his
whole fortune to his wife amounting to the enormous sums
above mentioned. The plaintiff and his brother were it
appears distant relations of deceased, and next of kin, and
th.y .imipcn,hod the will of daaaftaad, ea *ha groin do that
their late relation was not in such a state of mind as to ren-
der him capable of making a will, and that the defendant used
undue influence over deceased by getting him to make a will
in her favour. A compromise was after some time effected, by
the defendant paying .t 7,500 to the plaintiff.

THE ANCIENT CREED OF THE CATHOLIC

CHURCH

The Rev. R. J. M`Ghee—a man known and honoured
by every Protestant—has addressed a letter, under date
7th instant, to Dr. Murray and the theological professors
of the College of Maynooth, in which, after announcing
that he had forwarded to them a document, he says, that,
in connection with it, be is about to make an appeal to
them, "on the important subject of endeavouring to pro-
mote the Christian peace and union of our dear country.
men," and that, if they be sincerely desirous of uniting in
the one pure faith of the ancient Holy Catholic Church,
he sees not why, with the divine blessing. " Ireland may
not again become a glorious and happy land, as any truly
Christian country must be." Mr. M'Ghee then proceeds
as follows :

111 y object now, is to bring into the narrowest compass
the great principles of the case.
Sufficient time given you for deliberation will enable
you more fully to consider the important subject, and
afford the laity of our churches leisure to consider it for
themselves. _ _

It is my intention, please God, to fix on some public
place, of which you shall have proper notice. and at a
public meeting; open to Roman Catholics and Protestants
—it you will favour me with your presence and co-opera-
tion—if not all, as many of you as may please to come—l
wish to submit to those assembled, the following resolu-
tions, to which I think the Roman Catholics in general
can see no objection :-
1. Resolved,—That all Irishmen, whether Protestants
or Roman Catholics, who love their country, and have any
sense of the obligation of Christian charity, and of the
holy law of God, which teaches us to love our neighbour
as ourselves, ought to feel heartily grieved for the dissen-
sions and divisions which exist, on the ground of religion,
amongst us, and to consider whether we cannot reconcile
our differences, without abandoning the great principles
of the Christian faith.
2. Resolved.—That it stands to common sense, to all
principles of sound reasoning, and of true religion, that
the profession of faith, which constituted the true stan-
dard of Christianity for the ancient holy Catholic church
for more than fifteen centuries, must be that profession of
faith which constitutes the true standard of Christianity
to this day ; arid that the profession of faith in which all
our forefathers agreed before Luther was born, which, up
to the year of his death, was "that summary in which all
who held the Catholic faith necessarily agreed"—" that
firm and only foundation, against which the gates of hell
shall never prevail"—is, and ought to be, the true and
only summary in which all Irishmen should agree at this
day ; and that we ought openly to unite in that holy pro-
fession of faith, and in none other.

3. Resolved.—That those who hold this pure, unadul-
terated standard of faith of the ancient holy Catholic and
apostolic church, must necessarily be this day the repre-
sentatives of that holy Catholic church ; and that those
who corrupt or adulterate that pure standard of faith, by
adding to it, or diminishing from it, cannot, consequent-
ly, be the representatives of those who held it pure and
unadulterated, as it was from the beginning ; and that it
is the plain Christian duty of those who have corrupted or
adulterated it by any novelties whate'ter, to renounce such
novelties, and to return to the true and pure faith of the
Catholic church, and to " that firm and only foundation
against which the gates of hell shall never prevail."
These resolutions, most rev. and rev, sirs, are, I hum-
bly, conceive, consonant to plain truth, and worthy of
being proposed and adopted by Roman Catholics and
Protestants, in every city, town, and village in Ireland ;
and I do not despair of seeing them so proposed and
so adopted, after our meeting in Dublin shall be univer-
sally known.

And now, as one fact is worth a thousand arguments,
and as example carries tenfold the weight of precept, 1
shall illustrate the power and truth of these resolutions
by my act and my example.
You know the document I have had the honour of
sending you—l trust it shall soon be in the hands of the
Roman Catholics and Protestants of Ireland—l refer you
now to that document.

I shall take to the platform, please God, that document,
and those to which it refers. I call on ou to bring your
Ritual, in which you have your formulary for absolving
heretics.

The mode of your conforming to our church, is to re.
nounce the twelve articles added by Pope Pius, and to
repeat and sign our standard of faith, which is the Nicene
Creed alone, as your profession of faith—tt.en we receive
you.

Now, I pledge myself to adopt your creed, and to con-
form, on the public platform, to the church of Rome, if
you prove that the creed which you call on me to sign was
ever published, or heard of, as the ancient creed or pro-
fession of faith of the Catholic church before the year
1564.

if you give this up, and are unable to do so, then I ap-
peal to you as-men who profess to belong to the holy Ca-
tholic church, and I call on you in the name of God to

renounm all novelties, and to conform to the branch of
the holy Catholic church to which we belong, by adopting
and signing our profession of faith, which I will prove by
the infallible evidence of your own Councils to have been
the profession of faith of the ancient holy CaihJlic church
up to February 4, 1546, and which continues to be ours to
this day.

I presume to say, that as far as our example can extend
through Ireland, this will determine the question as to the
matter of fact of the novelty or antiquity of the standard
profession of faith in the church of England and the
church of Rome.

When this is settled, as to the date of our respective
professions of faith, then arises the great question as to
the truth of them. We shall confine ourselves, at our
fist meeting, to the single question—" Which is the an-
cient and which the modern one ?"
,But as to the next
great question, which is the true one ? I think I shall
pro. ose, and have the honour of submitting to you, a
mode quite as satisfactory and conclusive on this head ;
and as this meeting, and this mode of determining truth,
which I have now the honour to propose to you, is evi-
dently free from all contention, and a were candid and
simple determination of dates and facts, so the subsequent
test, to prove the truth of these respective standards, which
I shall submit to you, please God, shall be free from all
the painful contentions and unsatisfactory disputations
which have characterised all other discussions, and shall
prove, I trust, conclusive and satisfactory to ourselves and
all our countrymen, and a basis of permanent union, on
the great foundation of the ancient holy Catholic faith
amongst us. _ _ _

May that God, in whose hands are the hearts of all
men, give to us such a right judgment and conscience in
these solemn subjects as we shall all wish we had had
when " we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his
body, according to that he bath done, whether it be good
or bad"-2 Cor. v. 10.-1 have the honour to be, Most
Rev. and Rev. Gentlemen, your faithful servant in Christ,
R. J. M'GHEE.