The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The steam-sloopArixen, which
arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday, has brought advices
from Cape Town down to the 8111 of May. The intelligence
from Graham's Town reaches to the 2nd of -May, several
days later than the dates brought by previcus arrivals,
ThelCuffirs appear to have turned the flanks of the troops
employed on he frontier, and to have penetrated into the
colony in their rear. :Sever;.l sharp skirmishes had been
fought between the armed inhabitants and the invaders,
with various success..; but the Kaffir s had captured nume-
rous herds of colonial cattle, and had burned and plun-
dered. many houses. Those settlers who reside. on remote
farms appear to have abandoned their homes, and to have
entrenched themselves and their flocks and herds at vari.

ous. detent.ible. posts. :Martial Ihw had been proclaimed,
and the armed contingents of the .various districts had
been called out and marched towar.:s the frontier. A
,Fingne, who had • succeeded in making his way through
the Kaffir!, reported that the hostile. tribes intendee to
attack Graham's Town ; but as Col. Somerset had arrived
there with 300 men, th• re could be no doubt that any

attempt upon that place would be easily defeated. At
Salem, near the residence of a Dr. Livingston, an attempt
was made by a hotly of 300 armed Kaffirs to carry eff a
herd of 2000 to 3000 cattle, and which at fist was partially
succes•ful. To oppose this force there were only twenty
Mounted colonists, aided by about twenty Zingoes; but
such was the spirit that animated the little band, that,
after a desperate conflict, in which several of the enemy
were slain, the whole of the cattle were recovered, and the
Kaffirs repulsed.
WOMAN KILLED HT HER HUSBAND, AT HER OWN
REQUEST.—The following curious case of murder occurred
lately in a small•village, in Wurtemburgr—Adana Gayring,
shepherd, a man of sixty-four years of age, of honest and
upright dealings, loved ai;cl respected by all who knew
him, presented himself, on the Bth instant, before the
authorities of Meidenheim, and stated calmly that he had
just killed his wife. His declaration was immediately
taken, as follows :—' My wife,' he said, 'as every one
knows, has been suffering for a long time from illness,
and at times the pains she had to endure were such as to
affect her reason ; she latterly gave up a'l hopes of reco-
very, and continu dly repeated, that not only was life a
torment to her, but that she feared that if I died before
her, she would be reduced to misery. This morning, after
we had read together the 4th chapter of the Book of
dudees, (they were devout people, and read the Bible every
day ) she requested me to drive a nail into her temple, as
Jael did to Sierra, as such a death seemed to her short
and easy, and would put an end to her sufferings; she
said she forgave me beforehand for the act, of which she

slight wound

`As soon as fain dead,' she added, 'you

can close the wound, put me on a clean cap, and no one
will know anything at all about it.' After long resistance
(continued Gayring) I gave way to the w'shes of my wife.
I took a nail and began to drive it into her left temple

with a hammer, but the nail was too weak, and the point,
instead of entering. flattened itself on the bone. If then
took a small drill, but was equally unsuccessful. My wife

at once with

the hammer, which I did accordingly, by knocking in the
skull. The body of my wife is at my house, where you
can examine it at your leisure.' The magistrate immedi-
ately proceeded to the house with a medical man, and
Gayring under a strong guard. They found the body

THE LIVERPOOL STA ND AB D.

)e made t

3e nation

what he meant by the equality he spoke of. There was,
however, a view of the subject which •rendered his state-
ment altogether sophistical. Certainly, the religion of
the majority was established in England, but then that
religion was true; and the religion of the majority was
established in Scotland, but that religion was alr,o true.
Now, if the religion of the majority was established in
Ireland, that religion would be false—a delusion—a snare
—(cheers) ;—and therefore its establishment, instead of
placing this country in point of religion in a like condition
with England and Scotland, would create a most in-
jurious inequality between the three countries. As it
was, there might be said to be a religious equality between
Eng'and, Ireland, and Scotland namely, because the

true religion was established in each. (Cheers.; But if
Ireland were made an exception, anti the false established
here, then, indeed, there would be created an injurious
inequality—an int qnality infinitely greater than could be
created by any discrepancy in point of mere numbers.
( Hear, hear.) There were two ideas before the world.
One was the American idea of liberalism; the other was
the English idea, much more stern and severe of rectitude.
The American idea was, that the state had nothing to say
to any man's religion ; that whether he were Jew, Turk,
or Atheist, worshipped God or worshipped Belial, was a
matter that the government should not interfere with.
The English idea, instead of growing out of that which
could scarcely be denied to be a convenient indifference,
was grounded upon some chapters of Deuteronomy, and
other parts of the Scripture, which commanded the ruler
that if any one bowed down and worshipped strange gods,
he should be stoned with stones until he was dead. That
was unquestionably the principle of the Old Testament
Scripture, and he repeated that on that was founded
the English idea. Yet here he felt it necessary to
draw a most important distinction. The English princi-
ple did rot warrant the persecution of individuals for
conscience' sake, but it did warrant, and demand, too,
the extirpation of false principles by the exclusive pro-
mulgation of the true. It held unquestionably that the
eradication of religious error was a function of the state.
He (Mr. Gregg) took it that the only effectual way where-
by error could be eradicated was by sound educational
laws—laws to diffuse and propagate right principles. The
English idea, then, presented a government raising, re-
fining. chastening, correcting the national mind, and ele-
vating its subjects in the male of being, by an active in-
terference to increase the spread of Muth amongst them.
The American idea allowed every man-to do in religion
what was right in his own eyes. Of that idea Sir Robert
Peel seemed to have become enamoured, and in con-
uence, he was bound on letting the religion of
y in Ireland—that religion being false

—a free course through the coun-try without ob-
stacle, opposition, or protest. He (Mr. Gregg) as
an individual, most humbly said that he regarded such
a design as utterly wrong ; and he could not help recol-
lecting with much satisfaction a bold and manful state-
ment which had been made some time since by the men
of 'Fermanagh, in an address to the Queen. They boldly
stated that they would sooner die than see popery estab-
lished in Ireland (great cheers). He (Mr. Gregg) was not
the man either to approve of aiolence or to advi,e it, and

.nete was nothing that he should expert less from than
from the encounter of battalions in a religious war. But
he should have little hope for Irelarnd if he did not believe
that there were thousands of protesiants who would
take up the language of the men of Fermanagh, and in
wo t' if t- 1-e cleat! the

ne spirit o. martyrs resolve to, prow.. __a in
most painful form, rather than tamely allow idolatry_to

religious pro

UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS,

The Rev. M. A. Gathercole bas commenced another
action against the proprietor of the Nonconformist. It

whom, in 1603, he was created Earl of Ellesmere, and.
subsequently, in 1616, he was further raised to the dignity
of Viscount Brackley. and the king further intended to
have conferred an earldom on him, but he died before the
patent was made out. The earldom was, however, imme-
diately conferred upon his son Viscount Brackley, the
munificent patron of Milton, who wrote his " Comus"
expressly for the earl, when Lord President of the Princi-
pality, who had it performed by his family at Ludlow
Castle, in Wales. The siscourity and barony became
thus merged in the superior title of the Earl of Bridge-
water, and were enjoyed in direct succession until the
death of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last earl, and
ninth Viscount Brackley and Baron Ellesmere, who died
in February, 1829, and whose titles became extinct. It
is generally known that Lord Francis Egerton, then Lord
Francis Leveron Gower, nephew of the Earl, inherited
large portion of his extensive estates, as well as his valu-
able collection of paintings, familiar to all connoisseurs of
the fine arts as the Bridgwater collection. In 1833, he
assumed the name of Egerton, in lieu of his patronymic
Leveson Gower. In 1820 his lordship was returned to
the House of Commons; as member for Bletchingly, and
in 1826 was elected to represent the county of Sutherland,
which lie continued to sit for until 1830. In 1835, he
was returned for the southern division of Lancashire, in
conjunction with the Hon. It. B. Wilbraham, in opposi-
tion to Viscount Molyneux (now Earl of Sefton) and Mr.
G. NV. Ward. His lordship was chief Secretary for Ire-
land, from 1828 to July, 1830, when he was appointed
Secretary at War, and filled that office till the succeeding
November. The noble lord was offered a high appoint-
ment by Sir Robert Peel when he came into office in
1841. but declined the honour from his unsettled state of
health.

RAILWAY IN./it lad GEA CE.

In the House of Commons the preambles of the follow-
ing bills have been proved : Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth, except the branch from Basingstoke to Salisbury ;
West Riding Union, No. 2; Vale of Meath, Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford; Birmingham. Wolverhamp-
ton, and Dudley ' • Grand Junction (Porto Bellu Beanch);
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ; Birmingham and Oxford
Junction (Birmingham Extension); Rugby, Leamington,
and Warwick (as far as Leamington); London and Bir-
mingham ; Birmingham Extension ; Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Radstrevcr ; Liverpool, OrmsKirk, and Preston ; and
Lancaster and Preston Junction.

The preambles of the following bills have this week been
proved in the House of Lords : London and Brichton
(Wandsworth) branch; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion; Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole (Jlethley, A,kern,
and Oakenshaw ) Branch ; St. Helen's Canal and Railway ;
Wishaw and Coltness (Greenhill) Branch ; Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Duckinfield,
Worsborough), and other Branches.
The following Bills have been thrown out :—Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, in the Lords; and the
London, Newbury. and Bath, the Huddersfield and Man-
chester (Bradford Branch), and Blackburn, Chorley, and
Liverpool, in the Commons.

The Grand Junction Company are laying the electric
telegraph on their line of railway. _ _

The Leeds and Biadtord Railway was opened on Tues-
day last.

It is rumoured that Pope Pius %ill be as favourable to
railways as his predecessor was orpased to them.
The North British Railway, extending from Edinburgh

was opened

yesterday for general traffic.
MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLAND
JuNcTioN.—The preamble of this bill was on Monday
declared proved.
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The amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1
miles of railway; was £151,055.. thus accounted for