The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

REPEAL. ASSOCIATION.—The rent for the week ending
yesterday week, had tumbled down to £289.
FIRE ON SHIP-BOARD.—On Monday, a fire was dis-
covered on board the barque Ninian, at Limerick. The
masts, rigging, sails, captain's cabin, and a great part of
the main hold were destroyed before the vessel could be
scuttled.

The Hon. George Hely Hutchinson, who has of late
been so conspicuous in the Conciliation Ball, lrls gone to
Italy, and left behind him an address to " Protestants,"
urging them to become Repealers.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER.—Oft Monday night last as Ar-
thur Gloster, Esq., of Moylish, near Limerick, was re-
turning home in his gig he was shot dead by two armed
ruffians. The deceased was a wealthy gentleman—of
humane and unexceptionable character, and the outrage
was committed in consequence of his having served noti-
ces of ejection on some of his tenants for non-payment of
rent.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.-It appears that the
day of Mr. Gloster's murder (which sad event we record
in another paragraph) was to have been signalised by ano-
ther assassination in the same district ; and that but for
the courage and presence of mind of his servant, Robert
Hunt, Esq., of the city of Limerick, would, in all proba-
bility, have fallen a victim to the agrarian Thugg of the
borders of Limerick and Clare. Mr. Hunt was accom-
panied in his gig by his servant, when he was attacked,
and providentially they were both armed with pistols, and
thus able to defeat the murderous intent of their cruel and
cowardly assailants.

RIBBONISM.—On Friday week, some yaoudng men at-
tended a ribbon meeting near this town
pute arising, they attacked two men, liar:the:elf"dia.
named
Foody, and beat them severely. Immediate'.
another brother rushed into the party with a knife,a after,
another
killed one of them on the spot, by stabbing him i
heart. He also wounded several others, who ;ire
dangerously ill that their lives are despaired of. Sligo
o
Journal.—[Unless our borough magistracy take some
-
steps to prevent this diabolical confederacy spreading
amongst us, we shall be having similar scenes enacted
here.]
.Fn....nDS ON THE BENEVOLENT.—The commissioners
of the Dublin metropolitan police, having received from
various parts of the United Kingdom counterfeited certi-
ficates,purportingt
Sligo, )orts, with fictitious subscription lists ap-
pended,
or n
and
sometimes
im-
pressions ians
papers, from
w casts ofmunicipal seals (found to be im-
ntnen corporation livery buttons), in
represented to be widows of ser-
geants or other non-commissioned officers of her Majesty's
forces, are recommended for alms, under pre-
tence of destitution from shipwr—eci,
b ; t..)d various fabri-
cators of such papers, apprehended thane police, having
escaped punishment for want of Peal proofotences used
the actual
receipt, of money by means of the false Pre
(the only offence cognizable ins thepresent state of the
law), have issued a notice of the frauds practised,
toge-
ther with copies of some of the forged certificates, in
order
to prevent further imposition, and induce the transmis-
sion of charitable donations through responsible persons,
when
given in compliance wit!) tke wri.tlgn solicitations
of unknown applicants.

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF LIMERICK.—This venerable
and learned ecclesiastic who has been long in a declining
state of health, died on Sunday week, in the 83th year of
his age. The Very Rev. Arthur John Preston, when
Dean of Kildare, was promote.; to the Deanery of Lime-
rick, and instituted 1809. The Deanery of Limerick is
not valued at more than £l,OOO a year, but there are at-
tached to the office the patronage of Mungret and Bruree
vicarages, the Perpetual Curacy of Cahirnarey, and six
Minor Canons in the Cathedral. The above dignity is in
the gift of the crown.—Limerick'Citronicle.
Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter from Derrynane
Abbey to the Acting Secretary of the Repeal Association,
calling attention to " a most important article, which ap.
peered in a journal once fievoted to Orangeism, and still
highly Protestant, the Warder, of the 19th October."
In several of the extracts from the Warder, the writer
declares, that, " Irish parties were never so fusible as
now"; dwells upon the dangerous misery of Ireland as
tending to revolution; and says, that, "if Irish parties
ate to unite, it ought to be in a spirit of equality, neither
submitting to the other's power." Mr. O'Connell ex-
presses fervent approbation of this paper, and calls upon
all Irishmen to unite.
IRISH NATIONAL BOARD CIF EDUCATION.—The Rev.
Dr. Martin, of Kil:eshandra, in a letter to the Dublin
Evening Mail, of Wednesday, gives the following amongst
other reasons for co-operating with the National Educa-
tion Board ns now modified. "That by the last explana-
tion of the National Commissioners, the only condition
for the acceptance of a'd, which is seriously objectionable
to the clergy, is, that no child whose parents or guardians
object, can be compelled to read the Scriptures during the
hours appointed for general or literary instruction : and
that submission to that condition, in the cases supposed,
is now lawful, and involves, not the sacrifice, but the
maintenance, of princ;ple ; or is not a sin, but a duty.
That for three classes, namely, the church, the dissenting
Protestant, and the non objecting Romanist children, the
nation now offers to the clergy an education strictly on the
principles of the Church Education Society; and for the
fourth, or remaining classes, or objecting Romanists, a
considerable portion (though not all they desire) of reli-
gion and moral, intermixed with literary instruction ; and,
at the same time, threatens them, in case of noncompli-
ance, with, probably, the irreparable injury of all the four
classes ; and after making the final choice, it refuses sub-
sequent repentance upon their part. That if irremedi-
able mischief be so done which might have been lawfully
averted by the clergyman, such mischief being the result
of his own voluntary act, is imputable to him, and he be-
comes morally responsible for it. That while the other
alternative of closing their schools and of abandoning
education to the priests in such districts, will save the
clergy both labour and expense, and damage not them-
selves, but their poor parishioners, the other alternative of
accepting aid will subject them to expense, and care, and
labour, and benefit exclusively the poor people and child-
ren, of whom they are the natural guardians. That the
districts where such submission may be advisable, are,
for the most part, situated in the 861 benefices of Ire-
land, which contain an average of 1,000 church members,
as well as the greater part of the Dissenting Protestants,
and of the Romanists who are most willing to read the
Scriptures; and that if by one course only the clergy can
lawfully save thousands of such children from risk or ruin,
it becomes not wrong in them, but right, to adopt it."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov.s.

BLUNDELL V. GLADSTONE.

This was a petition of Lord Camoys, praying that an
order made by the Vice-Chance•lor of England might be
discharged, and that he might be let into possession of a
farm situated at Aughton, in the county of Lancaster.
The facts of this case are short. The late Chas. Robt.
Blundell, by his will made in 183-1, devised all his estates
to certain members of the Weld family, except as was
thereinafter devised. The will then went on in these
words :—" I give, devise, limit, and appoint my farm,
with the appurtenances, in Aughton, in possession of
Thomas Haskayne. and my farm, with the appurtenances,
in Lydiate, called Shaeklady's, and all estate and interest
therein, to the Rev. Thomas Robinson his heirs and as-
signs for ever." Robinson died in the lifetime of the
testator, and the devise therefore lapsed. It turned out
that the testator was possessed of two farms in Aughton,
and both in the possession of Thomas Haskayne, one
called Molyneux, and the other Shepherd's. The ques-
tions raised under the will were, which of the two farms
at Aughton was devised to Robinson, or whether the de-
vise was void for uncertainty ? The Vice-Chancellor de-
cided that the devise was void for uncertainty, and that
the farm in question passed under the general devise to
the Weld family. It was against this decision that the
present appeal was brought.
The Lord Chancellor postponed his judgment.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 4.
(Siftings in Banco.)
MILNE V. THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER.

In this case a mandamus had issued,,;;i;;i the
defendants to give to Mr. Milne an adequate compensa-
tion, under the sth and 6th Victoria, ch. 111, for the loss
of the office of clerk to the Justices of Petty Sessions at
Manchester, from which he was removed upon the con-
struction of the corporation of that borough. The pro-
ceedings under tLe mandamus having come to issue, the
case was tried at the last assizes tor Lancaster, when a
verdict was returned for the crown.

Mr. Kelly now moved to set abide the verdict, and enter
it for the defendants, upon the ground that the office of
which the prosecutor had been deprived was not included
within the terms of the statute under which compensation
Tne grounds of the motion were altogether
of a technical character.
The application was granted.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 8.
GREGORY AND ANOTHER V. WILLIAMS.
This was an action for libel, tried be!ore Mr. Justice
Cresswell, at the last assizes for Liverpool, when the jury
found for the plaintiffs, with £lOO damages.
Mr. Watson now moved to reduce the damages, on the
ground that they were excessive, or for a new trial. The
plaintiffs were slate merchants in Wales, and the libel
was contained in a letter signed J. W. Roberts, but writ-
ten by the defendant, charging the plaintiffs with fraudu-
lent transactions in the course of their business. The
learned counsel contended that as a fraud, if committed
by the act of the partners as individuals, the action should
have been brought by them in their individual capacity,
and not as a co-partnership. The jury returned a ver-
dict for £150., but the damages laid in the declaration
only amounted to £lOO. No injury appeared to have
been done to the plaintiffs' business, and there was no
ground, as it appeared, for such large damages.
The Chief Baron.—The jury may have been indignant
at the defendant's affixing a fictitious signature to the
libellous letter.

Baron Parke.—You had great luck not to be obliged to
pay £l5O.

Rule refused.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 5.
(Sittings in Banco.)
BENTLEY V. FLEMING.

Sir T. Wilde moved to set aside the verdict which had
been entered for the plaintiff in this case, with 40s. da-
mages, upon the ground that the verdict was against evi-
dence; and, alto, that there had been a miscarriage in
returning and recording the verdict itself. The action,
which was for the infringement of a patent, being an im-
provement upon Dyer's patent for introducing metal teeth
into the backs of cards used for the purpose of combing
wool, was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell at the last
Liverpool assizes.
The Court granted a stile nisi.

ARCHES COURT, Nov. 2.
REFUSING TO BURY.-TITMARSH V. CHAPMAN.
This was a criminal proceeding against the Rev. H.
Chapman, vicar of Basingbourne. for having refused to
bury the body of a child, a parishioner, baptised by an
Independent minister, which baptism Mr. Chapman con-
sidered heretical. The only evidence as to Mr. Chapman
having had notice of the intended burial was that the
body was taken to the churchyard, and there left while
the child's father ran to the vicar and requested him to
come and read the service.—Sir H. J. Fast said the evi-
dence as to the notice was scanty, and postponed his
judgment.