The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The attacks in Tipperary by armed parties are again
becoming frequent.
Wm. Boland, and his two daughters, died of cold and
starvationatFeakle, on Sunday week.—Cork Constitution.
A linen factory, upon an extensive scale, is being esta-
blished at Westport, under the auspices of the Marquis of
Sligo.
At the meeting of the Dublin Council, on Wednesday,
Mr. Hamilton, a Conservative, brought forward a memo-
rial to the'Queen, praying her Majesty to convene the
Imperial Parliament once in every three years in Dublin.
On Friday week, as Thomas Manning, a butcher, of
Cloumel, was returning home, he was set %mon by two
men and a boy, who fancied he had money. They mur-
dered him in the most inhuman manner with stones, and
also slaughtered a sheep he had with him.
On Monday night, a man named Keegan, living in
South Great George-street, Dublin, quarrelled with his
wife, and in a paroxysm of passion she stabbed her hus-
band, from the effects of which he died early next morn-

RESPITE•OF IRISH CONVICTS.—Four of the Ennis con-
victs have been reprieved, and their sentences commuted
to transportation for life. Their names are John M'Enery,
Patrick and John Guerin, for the murder of Thady
M'Mahon, and Michael M'Mahon for conspiring to mur-
der Matthew Boland.
A melancholy accident occurred at Killentiernee,
county Kerry, on Friday. Three persons of the name of
Brosnan (mother, son, and daughter), in endeavouring to
cross the river (Browne Flesk), were unfortunately
drowned, the river being at the time much swollen by the
snow and rain.
EXECUTIONS.—On Monday, the notorious Ryan and
Andrew Dea were executed at Limerick. The wretched
culprits were truly penitent, and made a full confession of

their guilt, and acknowledged the justice of their sen-
tences. Dea declared that he had no accomplice in the
murder—that neither his brother nor any other person
assisted in it. In his declaration Ryan ascribes all his
crimes to the neglect of his religious duties, and he
solemnly avers that during his life he never received one
farthing for anything except what he earned as a labourer
by the sweat of his brow—meaning thereby that he never
handled "blood-money."
REPEAL.-At the meeting on Monday, Mr. Nicholas
V. Maher, M.P., took the chair. Mr. John O'Connell
having left for London on his way to Paris at the latter
end of the past week, the part of "leader" was enacted
by Mr. Joseph Henry Dunne, who addressed the assembly
at considerable length, abusing the Evening Post in no
measured terms, and praising the letter of Dr. O'Higgins
in reply to the communication from Cardinal Fransoni.
The meeting was also addressed by Tom Arkins, tailor to
the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland, sword-bearer to
the Corporation' &c., &c., and Mr. Leyne. The latter
gentleman, referring to the recent meetings of the Young
Irelanders at the Rotundo, said that nothing so diabolical
had been discovered since the gunpowder plot as their
proceedings had developed. The rent was £6B 7s. 2d.
In Mr. Uniacke Bayley's case, when Daly was found
guilty, Nicholas Garrigan, an approver, gave some cha-
racteristic evidence. He declined shooting Mr. Bayley
for the reward of a suit of clothes, but offered to do it if
they would pay his passage out of the country. He ad-
mitted that Mr. Bayley had never injured him. He added
—" I would not murder any man I was asked to murder ;
but I would for Daly, because he was a relative of mine ;
I would have murdered any man Daly asked me." Er.
Rollestone—" Would you have murdered me if they
asked you ?" Witness—" By Gor, I would, sir." 04
being asked whether he thought it would be a greater
crime to commit a murder or break a pledge, Garrigan
said, " I think murder would be the worst ; but I don't
know."

DENUNCIATIONS AT THE ALTAR.—The English reader
will hardly feel surprise at the announcement, that a case
or two are about to come under the cognisance of our law
courts, in which denunciations by Roman Catholic priests
from the altar will form the subject of investigation. I
understand that "a bad case" of this description, though
one which, as yet, has not all been brought before the
public through the press or parliament, has recently been
submitted to most eminent counsel, who have advised
that a prosecution will lie, and if the case be proved that
it will be successful. Also, that it ought to be prosecuted,
not by the crown, but by the party denounced. The ob-
ject of the attack was in this case a nobleman of whig
principles and very liberal tendencies, who has property
in a north-western and an eastern county. I do not say
positively that this prosecution will proceed, but recent
developements from Rome incline me to the belief that
such a course may be deemed necessary.—Dublin Corres-
pondent of the Daily News.
The Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith at
Rome, that is, the Pope, has issued a Rescript to " some
if not all of the Catholic Prelates in Ireland," requiring
information as to whether the statements of the public
journals respecting denunciations of individuals from the
altar are true,—discountenancing the crime of murder,
and entreating the Catholic clergy to seek only the things
of Jesus Christ and abstain from secular or worldly affairs,
as much as possible. Dr. O'Higgins, the Romish Bishop,
has addressed a letter to Rome, in which he asserts that
the Pope has been deceived by the notorious calumnies
of Lord Minto and the English press. He further re-
quests that the Cardinal may be informed that, " under
the name of legal right, the body of landlords in Ireland
are literally starving the poor," without any remonstrance
from the Lord Lieutenant, or " his employer," Lord
John Russell. He recommends that an Italian Cardinal
be sent over by Rome to see and inquire into the facts of
the case.

A curious scene is reported at a recent sessions in Mayo,
when the solicitor for one Anthony Gavan, being tried
for sheep stealing, cross-examined the prosecutor M'Hale,
who admitted that he (M'Hale) was an industrious and
thriving man, " occupying between tillage, pasture, and
mountain, between 70 and 80 acres," and possessed of
" sixty sheep, four cows, and two horses," besides " some
stacks of barley, oats, a lock of hay, and potatoes, milk,
and butter." On the contrary, he acknowledged the
prisoner was " honest up to the time of this accusation ;
a poor man, with a rood of ground, no sheep or cattle,
and his family nearly starving." The following requires
no comment :

"Solicitor—` Do you know that the prisoner, with his poor
weak family, made several applications for relief to the reliev-
ing officer ?—A . •He did do so.'

"Q. ' And, notwithstanding they are starving, was he not
refused? A 'He was refused.'

"Solicitor—`Now Mac Hale—and I call upon the Court to
take down your answer—and I have the book of the relieving
officer here—by the oaths you have here sworn, do you not get
the out-door relief?—Come !—no hesitating !—answer the ques-
tion.' Witness—' Ido!' " _ _

.
SERIOUS v CHARGES.—On the arrival of the barque
Swan, at Cork, a few days ago since, information was re-
ceived by the authorities that one of the crew, named
John Preston, lay dangerously ill from the effects of a
beating inflicted on him by the mate of the vessel, John
Sloane, who was immediately arrested. The informations
of Prestonetaken by the Mayor, disclosed also a circum-
stance seriously affecting the captain of the vessel„ John
Sterling :—That on the 17th January, while the vessel
was on her voyage, a Dutch sailor named Ritchart Helet,
being ordered up to unfurl a sail, in attempting upon two
occasions to execute the command, was obliged to come
down upon the yard-arm, his inability arising from lame-
ness, the effect of a wound received while in the American
service. The captain went down to the cabin, brought
up a six-barrelled revolving pistol, loaded, and presenting
it at the unfortunate man, threatened to shoot him if he
did not go up and furl the sail—saying, while he directed
the pistol towards him, " will you go once—will you go
twice ?" Unable to obey the commaud, and fearful of
the immediate execution of the threat, the man jumped
into the sea and was drowned. Other evidence has been
had establishing the truth of this statement, and a prose-
cution will be instituted—Cork Constitution.

THE FARMERS' ESTATE :F;CIETY.—A number of no-
blemen and gentlemen have resolved to apply to parlia-
ment for the incorporation of a company under the title
of " The Farmers' Estate Society of Ireland," the objects
of which will be found defined in the following extract
from the prospectus :7" The Farmers' Estate Society
propose purchasing eligible estates in fee, as they come
into the market, and selling them afterwards in small lots
of not less than 40 statute acres, the preference being
given to the tenant in possession, if unobjectionable in
other respects, and the purchase-money taken in half-
yearly payments. The purchase-money being thus taken
by instalments, the purchaser can spend any capital he
possesses in the cultivation of the land, erection of build-
ings, and making other improvements ; and as he im-
proves he will be the better enabled to pay larger instal-
manta until tha purchase shall ba completed—a system
materially different from the present, under which the
farmer generally gives all he possesses to get possession of
a farm, and has no capital left for cultivation or stocking.
Provision will be made to prevent the sub-division of any
farm so purchased to less than 20 acres."—The project
has met with the decided approval of the Earl of Claren-
don ; and the provisional committee already comprises
the names of the Earls of Curtown and Devon, Lord
Monteagle, Sir Edward Borough, Sir David Roche, Mr.
Monsell, M.P., Mr. Fagan, M.P., Mr. Guinness, M.P.,
and several other influential country gentlemen. The
capital sought to be raised is £1,000,000, in 50,000 shares
of £2O each.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER

The Rev. Lewis Henry Strean, to the perpetual curacy
of Fettarks Church, Antrobus, in the parish of Great
Budworth, in the county of Chester, on the nomination
of the Rev. George Henry Webber, vicar of Great
Budworth. _

The Rev. Thomas William Johnes, to the vicarage of
Pennington, in the county of Lancaster, on the presenta.
tion of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, void
by the cession of the Rev. Joseph Maxwell: value house,
sub. £3OO.

The Rev. Edward Pigot, to the vicarage of St. Thomas,
Ashton in Mackerfield, in the county of Lancaster, void
by the death of the Rev. Edward Lisbon, on the presen-
tation of the Rev. Harold Hopley Sherlock, rector of
Ashton, in Mackerfield: value house, £3OO.

The Rev. Arthur Wilkin, to the rectory of Bootle, in
the county of Cumberland, void by the death of the Rev.
Alexander Scott, on the presentation of the Right lion.
the Earl of Lonsdale.: value house, sub. £5OO.
The Rev. Thomas Hornby, to the vicarage of Walton-
on-the-Hill, in the county of Lancaster, void by the
cession of the Rev. Thomas Gerard Leigh, on the pre-
sentation of John Shaw Leigh, of Childwall-hall, in the
county of Lancaster : value house, sub. £3OO.

Dr. Elvey was on Tuesday elected, at Oxford, successor
to the late Dr. Crotch.

The Bishop of Manchester has been presented by the
pupils of King Edward's School with a beautiful inkstand.
The fixed annval value of the see of Canterbury is
£17,000, and its patronage includes 149 livings.
Sir 11. Bishop has be4n pointed the new professor of
music at Coxfcml.

The Dean of Manchester, Dr. Bowers, has resigned the
rectory of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, and the Rev. H.
Hatton has been promoted to the benefice.
The Bishop of London is stated to be in a weak state
of health. His lordship is obliged, it is said, to have
recourse to galvanism as a remedy.
In consequence of the forcible petition presented to the
House of Commons by the Dean and Chapter of West-
minster, the Romish Archbishop of Westminster is
abandoned—the lesser dignity of a simple bishopric
having been determined on.
The Queen's letter, for a general collection in behalf of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, which has been delayed beyond the usual time, in
consequence of the two collections by royal authority
last year, for the relief of the destitute poor in many
parts of Ireland and Scotland, has just been issued.
On the foundation of the see of Chester (A.D. 1541)
there were in the diocese, exclusive of the portion as-
signed some years ago to Ripon, three hundred and

twenty-seven churches ; from that time to the year 1828,
one hurdred and eighty-six additional ones were built,
averaging two new churches in every three years ; the
present Bishop of Chester has consecrated two hundred
and thirty-three, averaging one new church each month
during his long episcopate.
THREATENED SECESSIONS.—I hear that the threat
which frightened some of our bishops was, that 800 (!) of
the clergy were going to form a nonjuring church, if Dr.
Hampden's confirmation took place. Something was
whispered, too, of obtaining ordination from the Scotch
bishops for the secession church. Your readers may re-
collect that Mr. Froude suggested the idea in his corres-
pondence, and Mr. Keble, one of the present triumvirate
of Tractarian leaders, was known to be favourable to
nonjuring principles as long ago as 1832.—Correspondent
of the Church and State Gazette.
PROCTORIAL RlOTS.—There have been some indecent
disturbances during the week in our streets, in conse
quence of attacks upon the proctors in the discharge of
their duties. Attempts were made by parties of black-
guards on Tuesdayand Wednesday nights to rescue women
of bad repute from the custody of the University officers ;
but the proctors were protected by parties of under-
graduates, and the attempts failed. These disturbances
may be traced to the license given to dissolute persons by
the absurd Spinning-house agitation which certain Libe-
rals were not ashamed to set on foot last year.— Cam-
bridge Chronicle.

DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER.—On Friday, immediately
after his installation, the Bishop of Manchester proceeded
to Whalley Range. and laid the foundation stone of a new
church. After this he went to Droysden, where he conse-
crated the new church of St. Mary in that populous place.
After this his lordship received a number of the clergy to
dinner at the Palatine Hotel. On Saturday morning
the bishop consecrated the new Church at Shuttleworth,
near Bury, and in the afternoon the new church at Cold-
hurst, Oldham. These three churches have all been
erected from plans of Mr. Shellard, architect, of Man-
chester, who, we believe, is also the architect for Mr.
Horsfall's new church at Everton.

The Earl of Shrewsbury has published a reply to Dr.
M'Hale's letter. The following is the commencing para-
graph :—My Lord Archbishop—Had you received my
letter according to the design with which it was written,
you had gone far to redeem the character of the Irish
Church in the opinion of the English people ; but you
have chosen otherwise, and have only made bad worse.
My first impression, on reading your grace's reply, was to
leave it quietly to the public, and to its own merits ; but
circumstances and reflection have altered my purpose.
I will not, however, my lord, reply to you in the spirit in
'which you have replied to me. I will not substitute in-
vective for argument, nor recklessness for proof; but,
nevertheless, I will speak the truth, for you demand it of
me."

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.—In looking over the
Life and Correspondence of the late Dr. Arnold, we find
the following opinions expressed regarding the present
Bishop of Manchester, in letters addressed to Archdeacon
Hare. They are highly honourable to the writer, as well
as to the gentleman to whom they refer :—" I cannot
close this letter without thanking you most warmly for
the invaluable man you procured me in Lee. He is, indeed,
far too good for any subordinate situation ; yet, having
once had such a man here, it will be a bitter loss to be
obliged to part with him. I trust, however, that we may
keep him for a few years at least."—Rugby, Nov. 12,
1830.—Life, (ST. of Arnold, sixth edition, p. 226. " You
would rejoice in the good that Lee is doing at Birming-
ham ; I do not think that there is, in all England, a man
more exactly in his place than he is now.--Fox How,
June 21, 1839.—Ibid, p. 47.

APPOINTMENT OF BISHOPS.—At a meeting of the
Church Pastoral Aid Society at Manchester, last week,
the Rev. Hugh Stowell made the following observations :
—" He trusted the glaring anomaly of appointing a bishop
by the Crown, and then the calling on the Chapter to
choose a Bishop—he trusted that that glaring anomaly
would be soon done away with. (Applause.) And he
should be glad to petition in favour of having it done away
with, and not to leave it in the mouths of their dissenting
friends to say, ' What a mockery, what an anomaly is
this !' (Hear, hear.) He had no doubt the recent con-
troversy on the subject of the appointment of Dr. Hamp-
den to a Bishopric, though that was a subject which he
was not going to discuss, but he had no doubt that con-
troversy would have some good practical results in mak-
ing men sweep away such antiquated inconsistencies and
contradictions. (Hear, hear.)
ENTHRONIZATION OF THE BIEHOP OF MANCHESTER.
—The ceremony of enthroning the Bishop of Manchester
took place, on Friday morning, in the choir of the Cathe-
dral Church. The Bishop was met at the main entrance
by the Very Rev. the Dean (Dr. Bowers), and Canons
Wray, Clifton, Sergeant, and Parkinson, who were attired
in their canonicals. His lordship was conducted to a seat
placed immediately in front of the communion table,
when the ordinary service on such occasions was read ;
after which the usual interrogatories were put to the
Bishop by the Dean. The Bishop answered each
question in the affirmative and then took the customary
oaths. The Dean then taking him by the right hand, led
him from the chair to the throne. and in brief terms ex-
pressed the congratulation of the Chanter on his elevation
to the Episcopal See. The Dean and Canons then pro-
ceeded to the communion and read the Litany. The
Dean afterwards offered up a prayer on behalf of the
Bishop, and implored the Divine blessing upon him.
The Bishop then pronounced the benediction, and the
ceremony was concluded.

THE PEW QUESTION IN CHELTENHAM.—For some
time past the parishioners of Cheltenham have been at
issue relative to the appropriation of a great number of
the pews in the parish church. Certain houses, chiefly
situate in the High-street, or more ancient part of the
town, were supposed to possess a rfeht by prescription to
particular pews in Saint Mary's. The owners of these
houses, and others, from tfme to time, have sold, re-sold,
let, and sub-let, the pews so claimed, to the great detri-
ment of many parishioners, who claimed a right to a seat
in their parish church, but were prevented by the traffic
in pews. As much as £2OO have been asked for pews
favourably situated, and by a strange perversion of pur-
poses, one of the most prominent anti-Church-rate lead-
ers in the town, who pertinaciously refuses to pay a six-
pence to the rate, lets a couple of the pews so claimed at
a handsome rental. At length, however, some few
parishioners memorialised the Bishop of the diocese, and
at his last triennial visitation. August 30, 1847, his lord-
ship, assisted by Dr. Phillimore, instituted an enquiry
into the nature and extent of the evil complained of. The
result was that an order was made on the Churchwardens
to report on the subject every articular they could obtain
before the Ist Nov., 1847. This order was obeyed; but
it was not until lest month, that any answer was given to
their report. They received on the 25th ult. a letter from
Dr. Phillimore, through Mr. Holt, the registrar of the
consistory court, at Gloucester, informing them that the
court has no power to make an order with reference to
the disposal of those pews, unless some suit is pressed be-
fore it. At the same time the learned doctor lays it down
as a clear rule of law, that no parties can have a right to
sell pews in a parish church, unless by virtue of an act of
parliament, that " prescriptive right," and " faculty
right," to pews, are very rare, and must be of an unques-
tionable character, or else should be treated as nullities in
law, and that in every instance where the holder of a pew
ceases to be a parishioner his right ceases. Although the
letter of the learned doctor is clear on many points, still
as no order has emanated from the Bishop or the Consis-
tory Court, the matter is left in considerable doubt, the
Churchwardens, if they act at all, being obliged to do so
on their own responsibility.
THE TOLERANCE OF ROMANISM.— We have lately met
with several illustrations of this, and latest of all, in a
work recently published by the Rev. F. Trench, minister
of St. John's Church, Reading, entitled " A Walk round
Mont Blanc." It appears that the reverend gentleman
found himself one Sabbath morning, of last autumn,
sojourning at the inn at Chamonix, in the territory of
Sardinia. On the previous evening he had intimated to
the landlord, after informing him that he, Mr. Trench,
was a clergyman of the Church of England, his wish to
assemble any English travellers who might be tarrying in
the hostelry, for the purpose of joining in worship
.to
God, according to the ceremonies of the Church of which
they were n,embers. To effect the latter portion of his
purpose, the modest English clergyman simply asked to
be accommodated with a private room ; but, proper and
modest as was the intimation,. it- well nigh killed the
landlord with affright on its being made to him. He
would have been content, and more, to accede to the pious
and becoming request ; but the Sardinian law
forbade all meetings for religious worship, peremptorily
except that of
the Romish Church. But, English travellers in a private
room ? Cospetto !—(cried the perplexed host)—English
gentlemen must not pray here without the permission of
the Government authorities. But mine host had naturally
a tolerant heart ; and, though ruin stared him in the face,
he had kindly audacity enough to apply to the proper
officials, humbly begging for leave to certain poor English
travellers to say their prayers together, on that Sunday
morn, within one of the rooms of his allergo• He mixed,
indeed, a trifle of worldliness with his zeal, by intimating
to the Government representatives that, if they prohibited
tarrysuch ia simplechamdaoniinx on the Sabbath ; and that the place ings English travellers would no more
general, and his own osteria in particular, would suffer
materially in consequence. And what was the result ?
" Corpo di Baeco I (snarled the village officials :) here's
a sinner'." They not only negatived the request, but
told him that, if he knowingly allowed any praying on
the part of wandering Protestants within the four walls
of his locanda—even by English who were under the
roof, without a single individual being invited or admitted
from any hotel or lodging in the town—he would be
seriously punished, and his house shut up by the police.
There was, it appears, not only a national and official in-
junction against the exercise of Protestant worship in
Sardinia—even in the private room of an inn—but the
landlord had _received a private letter from, of all unlikely
persons, the military commander of the province of
Faucigny, denosocing all such abominable practices in
pleasant and papistical Chamonix.—Church and Slate
Gazette.

Feb, 15, 1846

POLITICAL VARIETIES.

~.
Lord John Russell has fixed Friday next, the 18K,
bringing on the Budget.
Mr. R. Dillon Browne, M. P., is appointed to 511,d
Sir Emerson Tennent, as Colonial Secretary at COSI
At a recent League Festival in North Bren , •
United States, Mr. Joseph Sturge was toasted ass
knight of the order of Bethlehem.
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MORE TAXES.—Among the other new taxes suE,O
and probably kept in view by the minister for S 7;1,
necessity, there appears to be a general impresni
rumour of that sort which sometimes is a pledge;
fulfilment—that the property tax will be exteneZt
Ireland, and raised for one year to five per cent.---1,711
The election for North Shropshire will take Piro!
morrow (Wednesday). Mr. Dod, the only c,alitOr
will make a very valuable member ; he will " supP9',4
Protestant Church in all its integrity, here and in 11e40
and is opposed to all concessions to the Romish IA II
to the admission of Jews to parliament, and to the ri
gress of free trade."
.44. 1
Mr. Kyle has retired from contesting the Univer,
Dublin. Mr. Napier and Judge Keatinge are Wit
candidates. The return of the former gentleman is 0,
secure. In addition to his former supporters, neartfti
hundred of the electors who opposed him have, Si?
late contest, intimated their intention of supportiegr''
k
at this.
Lord George Bentinck has retired from the leaclet
of the country party in the Commons. The Marc,l
Granby is to be the future leader. Considering the
which Lord George holds with regard to the def,s,o
and further concessions to Popery, we cannot much
..ot
his retirement, though we are free to acknowledtt
important services rendered by him to the ColisP t
tive cause in the critical sessions of 1845 and 1846.
id
A COINCIDENCE AND A MISTAKE.—On MondaYid-
Lord Palmerston presented a petition against the
bill, which he said was agreed to by a majority °'o?
senate, when Mr. Goulburn said there must be sonif_ j.
take on the part of the noble lord ; for he had at 7 '
presented a petition from the University of Came?
against the bill, and (laughter) which petition was ade
by a large majority. (Renewed laughter.) Lordety,
merston said he had been informed that for the Perwhich he had just presented there were 75, and age`,
39. Mr. Goulburn : Why, those are the very Wink
that formed the majority in favour of the petition N'4°' i
presented against the bill. (Loud laughter.) iti"
DREADED INVASION OF FRANCE BY THE ENGLIST
The national defences question has, according teo:
Libre Exchange, raised a counter-panic in F 0
" While the ridiculous panic," says that paper, "is II
manifested in England, a counter-feeling is beginolo,
be felt on this side of the Channel. Here one is (10'
suaded that, under this pretext of defence, Engloo
reality is preparing the means of invasion ; and sureltd
conjectures are as well founded as those of our neiglibSt
The press already begins to demand precautionary P'iy
sures ; for of all classes the journalists are certaitap,
most warlike. They have the good fortune never to 'ty
in the field of battle either ' a leg or an arm ;' it is
peasant who is food for powder; and they contriburd
the expenses of the roar only a bottle of ink and a Om.
paper."—Hereford Journal.
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RATING OF SMALL TENEMENTS.—Two notices ai,'d,
the books of the House of Commons, but without 0, '0
cific appointment of a day for their discussion, whiena
probably attract attention from the owners of small 1,
ments. One is a proposition by Mr. Francis Pigott,
member for Reading, for assessing to local rates, i,
owners of leases which, in towns, are under the vel.?"fle
£8 per annum, and £5 in the country. The other 11, to
similar character, by Mr. Poulett Scrope, who wish,;st&
exempt the occupiers of small tenements from local id
tion. In this last case no amount is fixed. On Ni,'
occasions, when it was sought to establish, by direct
lation, the principle of rating landlords, there has D'iiit
;
most determined opposition, which has hitherto succet74E
Whether the intended measures possess within themsedi,
the elements of conciliating the house-owners is iie
known ; but it is not very likely.
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THE ORIGINATORS OF WAR.—We are not tor , t,
ing our armaments just now. Why ? Be.ause the 1)
tion of peace or war is not in the hands of inerchatits'ol
of wise and good men, or of public opinion, or ofig
people in the widest sense, or in any sense at all. Jot
not even in the hands of ministers or kings. It is ILI i
hands of fools or madmen, of dotards or striplioCo
tyrants and ruffians. An idiot throws the torch thathb
up a conflagration—a fanatic strikes the blow that Sfj;
a dynasty to its account, and nurses another in the el')
of war. A sot may sway the destinies of an empire,' #
so of the world, till the nuisance is suppressed by
adultress and an assassin. A headstrong admiral ts
raw lieutenant a word of rash encouragement ,Pita
royalty or power—a mistaken signal or an unintellf 0
dispatch, may begin those bloody retaliations wine°
age cannot close.—Times.
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A VERY SLIGHT MISTAKE.—On Monday night,a
Grogrn moved in the house for a return, the descrirty
of which was not very well heard at any distance fro" 0
table, upon which Mr. Reynolds, the repeal merabeid,
Dublin, stated that he intended to move an amendittif
The speaker blandly asked, " Has the hon. welhit
heard the motion ? It is—' That there be laid before,"
house a return of each kind of live cattle and othql,4o
mats.' '' Mr. Reynolds " thought it was the r'-i0
connected with the Corporation of Dublin." The :1 0
by its laughter, did not seem to think the mistake° ttli
hon. member a very material one. A return
_ait,
" other animals"—we could not spare the " live PSO
—might easily include the members of the Corjr_n9
of Dublin and a few more of their fellow-coup,m") os
now in England, and would be very seasonable, If
return was—to Ireland ! 00
A PROPER REBUKE.—In the House of Com/onto'
Friday week, Sir R. Inglis presented several petitiooo.2
various places in Scotland, and from several loyal4filt
lodges, praying the house not to sanction the 1e of
Relief Bill. Also petitions against the bull, In
....,
Domini, from several bodies of loyal Orangemen.
the
Flume wished to know why these bodies assumed to b',lo
selves the character of loyal bodies, when it v0i9..„,
known they had been denounced in more than one 911
ter ; and further, they were not a chartered bod9—gly.
R. Inglis said as the hon. member for Middlesex (le
ter),—he begged pardon of the Middlesex electors ( lik7tt
ter), for Montrose he should have said, had chosetV
stigmatise several petitions entrusted to him to Prel, (Di
that house as assuming a character for loyalty whi 11,
not belong to them, he begged to say the petitioners 6d
as much right to that character as the hon. tne
himself.
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COST OF PRODUCING SUGAR.—In the speech ed
T. Baring we have supplied some interesting parti
,4
with reference to the relative cost of production of 701
in the island of St. Kitt's during the period of sit,
as compared with the cost under a state of free laj"
The return is made up with great exactness, from
rience on an estate and in an island both favourattpol
tuated as regards other sugar properties in the )79
West Indies. It is as follows :—The cost of produott,
per cwt. averaged—During the last four years of s:o'
4s. sd. ; during the last four years of apprenti 14.,
fis. 7d. ; during the first four years of freadom, Os. dll'
during the last four years of freedom, 21s. 7d- 0 f iof I
ference between the cost during the last four years d•
0; l !
very and the last four years of freedom is 17s. "k.,
. ,
cwt. The returns of ten estates in the same islant
ring the last four years, show an average cost of 22t 9,
per cwt. In both cases, the calculation is for sugar el"ta
beach for shipment, without allowing any profit of
interest upon capital invested. / '
TIO7 0 ' I
REASONS WHY THE JEWISH BILL IS SUPPOA-.
The general mass of support given to the Jew quests eV
not, we feel sorry to think, of so honest and open I 9
racter as that accorded to it by Mr. Wood. We hued
and we are sorry to have to say it, but we believe It V,
the fact, that the feeling which generally supPOI.V,
measure throughout the country, and which is the 0,
that carried Baron Rothschild in London, is one a ; it,
irreligious indifferentism. People really think Machl
of little importance whether a man is a Jew or a es'
~
Lien. We do not, of course, speak now of such re :Oil
Mr. Wood, Mr. Gladstone, or, to take another ease', '
Sheil, or of those who think with them. But We .?, •
of the mass of men—men engrossed in worldly coil if;
who make up the Jewish party on this occasion; le
say advisedly that the above is a literal account 0
tot;
feeling in the matter. They do not think it of imP° gef,,,
whether a man is a Jew or a Christian, and by conseq Re,
they do not think it of importance either, whether 0 kr
lator is a Jew or a Christian. And thence the trans,/',
is easy to an active support of the Jew, merely be
,as such, he is opposed.—Guardian.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME.--11l the 154
of Lords on Monday night the Marquis of Lansdoolipt
on the table a bill to enable her Majesty to establish
matic relations with Rome. The noble marquis Enool-ftr
first reading of the bill, and gave notice that he woill'd I
pose its second reading on Friday. Lord Stanley 51300,1
Duke of Richmond protested in the strongest te!lo9
the course pursued by the government with respee'o Yj,
bill. A measure of such immense importance olig coff,l
to be pressed forward without giving time for dul.?..dri
deration. The people of England and Scotland 0' r
the least idea that such a bill was in contemplatioeir„,
the announcement of it would cause the greatestVy
ment throughout the country. The Marquis et igi
downe yielded to the strong expressions of the tvq,tori
lords for delay, and subsequently appointecl the IL, trey
the second reading of the bill. We are disposed wolvi
with extreme jealousy the overtures that are now 1:610d
to the see of Rome; and it behoves the true frie,,eVf
Protestantism to watch vigilantly the overt acts of i, i
fi
vernment. The promise of the Earl of Eglingtoo d
troduce a clause " preventing the Pope sending aneckii
siastic as Ambassador to this country,"—and the srlie
assurance of the Marquis of Lansdowne, that be„ eat,/
" never have asked their lordships to give their 0°01',4,
the bill, unless lie was enabled to prove that it w°,,,,at',o
be attended with the slightest injury to the Proter6l;
ligion,"—we hope will not be sufficient to sate
House of Lords, whose opposition to such a mealwo„ tr
no doubt, speedily be strengthened by petition
every part of the country.
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LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-Ms;f.bawl
well-known case of Reynell v. Lewis, came on i°,l-00.7
ing before the Chief Baron, at Nisi Prius, on Wei,"rol
last. This was a second trial; and the action was ',pipe'
by the plaintiff, as advertising agent, against the ci3,l
ant, as a Provisional Committee-man of a railvra9,4l
in respect of which the debt was incurred for are B:
ments. A verdict was given for the defendant, tl do/Chief Baron confirming the doctrine already 10,441,
that a Provisional Committee is not a partilers'V?
that no man, by becoming a member of a Coivinle
bound by the acts of that Committee, unless
some other act rendering himself liable, or 3...Lb's vro!
some one else to pledge his credit for him. In
it was shown that the solicitors of the Railway '0 it
had actually given an indemnity to the defendant, loia
advertisements were given by their order to the P
The liability could not be sustained.

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