The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On Tuesday, two workmen, whilst repairing the man-
sion of Colonel Bryan; near Kilkenny, were killed by the
fall of the scaffolding.

The report as to the suicide of Dr. 'Loughlin, the
R,lnanist Bishop in Derry, and his alleged insanity, is
with,,ut foundation. The doctor has been ill, but is con-
valescent.

Sir Henry Pottinger was entertained at a public dinner
in Belfast, on Wednesday, by upwards of 200 of the gentry
of that, his native town. The chair was occupied by
Andrew Mulholland, Esq., Mayor of Belfast.

The Dublin Nation, alluding to the Queen's visit to
Ireland, calls her Majesty "a foreign potentate," and
says if she goes to that country, the cry of repeal shall
make her coursers tremble, and break in upon her revels
like round shot."

REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—On Sunday twelve per-
sons—eight men and four women—abjured the errors of
popery in St. Audcen's Church, in the presence of a
densely-crowded congregation : and, after solemnly par-
taking of the Lord's Supper, signed the renunciation roll.
REPEAL DEMONSTRATION AT DUNDALK.—The pro-
cession by which Mr. O'Connell was escorted into the
town is said to have consisted of 50,000 persons. The
repeal banquet took place in the evening. There were
about 600 guests. Letters of apology were read from
various Roman Catholic Bishops, but none were present.
NEWS FOR Sin R. PEEL.—The Rev. R. J. M'Ghee
and the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan will attend the great annual
meeting of the Protestant Association of England, to be
held in Exeter Hall to-morrow (Wednesday), and a
similar association for Ireland will shortly be formed,
which will carry the genuine principles of the Refo►ma-
tion into every village and Protestant family within her
shores.

" THE CALL OF THE HousE."—Mr. O'Connell and
his tail have hurled their high and haughty defiance at
the Speaker of the House of Commons, and laugh to
scorn the notion of the Serjeant-at-Arms daring to show
his nose within the four walls of Conciliation-hall ; and,
truth to say, a less perilous task might readily devol:e on
Sir William Gosset than an attempt to enforce his autho.
city contrary to the wishes of a crowded auditory at a
Monday's meeting of the Irish Parliament. Seriously,
however, the Repeal members have taken their stand, and
budge one inch they will not. This grand resolve is offi-
cially announced in the organ of the Association.—The
Freeman's Journal.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting, on
Monday, Mr. 0 Colwell gave another proof that the mea-
sures of the present government are little calculated to
allay agitation. lie said "We shall have meetings in
Meath, Cork, and Dublin itself to celebrate the 30th of
May. (Hear, hear.) They shall be all legal and peace-
able. We shall have millions of petitions against the
next session of parliament. Thus we shall have an exhi-
bition of the popular mind in a legal and constitutional way.
Meanwhile Sir Robert Peel is striving to take the Irish
away from me. He is bidding against me. " May-
nooth," says he. Well, I say, what next ? " The glass
duties." Good ? Bid again. " The bankers' bill," says
be. Good again. But what next? I wait to see it be-
fore I thank him fcr it. But against all this, I have just
one word to say, and that is—Repale. (Cheers.)" The
rent amounted to £4(i6,

STATE OF IRELAND.—On Thursday week a desperate
attack was made at the fair of Mountain Castle, Water-
ford, on Dr. Fitzgerald, the stipendiary magistrate, who
had made himself obnoxious to the people by some recent
convictions. The doctor and thirty police had to leave
the assailants in possession of the field. On Sunday
week, a young man named Waters, a ploughman, was
barbarously murdered near Nenagh, as he was returning
from a neighbouring dance—a general amusement of the
Roman Catholic peasantry on the Sabbath evenings. On
Saturday week, a man named Henzie, steward to Mrs.
Bennett, of Monaquill, being out on the lands, saw a man
approach him with a pistol in his breast. Henzie rushed
on the stranger and they both fell, on which another
fellow jumped from a ditch and snapped the pistol, but it
missed fire. Both miscreants then beat Henzie with
stones, and the butt-end of the pistol, and left him, as
they conceived, dead. The poor man was a prosecutor at
the late assizes. On Sunday morning week, as the clerk of
Monsea church, aoout two miles from Nenagh, was pro-
ceeding to his duties, he was attacked by six men and
dreadfully beaten. On Thursday night week, some mis-
creants set fire, in three different places, to the dwelling_
house of a poor woman named Judy Cawley, at Kilriflit,
within four miles of Nenagh, whilst the widow and her
five orphans were in a profound sleep. One of the party
cried out, are you within Judy ? Upon her answering
yes, another said, hasp the door and keep them in ; ac-
cordingly they put a plug in the hap outside and fastened
the untortunate family in, with a flaming thatch burning
in three places about them. Upon perceiving the house
in flames, the widow jumped out of her bed, and, taking
a spade, which was fortunately in the house, and in the
deperation of a struggle for life or death, forced a passage
with the spade, by the jam of the doer, large enough to
put out the hand of one of the children, who unfastened
the hasp outside, and gave life and freedom to the unfor-
tunate inmates. Two of the children were much scorched
—and the widow herself had the few garments she threw
over her almost burned to cinders. This outrage occurred

in the same locality where the form of a grave was cut on
the lands of Lieutenant Kennedy. It is impossible, how-
ever, to enumerate all the outrages of this kind which
have taken place; hut these are sufficient for one week to
show the sort of results which our parliamentary tacticians
are bringjng about in the rister country.

UNIVERSITY (5• CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, MAY 10.—The following degrees were con-
ferred to-day :—Bachelor in Civil Law: T. Spinks, St.
John's College.—Mastert of Arts : W. Milton, Exeter ;
Miley Crewe, Merton ; F. W. Garnett, Balliol.—Bachelore
of Arts: C. W. Cavendish Bentinck, New Inn Hall;
J. Willington, New Inn Hall; J. Milner, Queen's
J. Tombs, Queen's ; H. Jacobs, Michel Exhibitioner of
Queen's ; W. E. Batty, Queen's; A. Taylor, Queen's ;
J. C. Lowe, Queen's ; E. Green, scholar of Queen's
G. W. Dixon, Queen's ; G. R. H. Somerset, Christ
Church ; Trehawke Kekewich, Christ Church ; H. M.
Austen, Christ Church ; D. Robertson, Christ Church ;
E. A. Freeman, scholar of Trinity ; G. Merewether,
Wadham ; W. W. How, Wadham ; E. P. Eddrup, Wad-
ham ; T. Naish, Lincoln ; G. Smith, demy of Magdalen ;
Pakenham, Brasenose ; W. S. Hoole, Brasenose;
T. C. Layton, Pembroke ; F. J. Ede, Pembroke ; J. H.
Eld, fellow of St. John's; C. Hartley, St. John's ; J.
Henly, Exeter ; J. R. Major, Exeter ; A. H. Estcourt,
Exeter; F. C. Walsh, University; W. Haydon, Uni-
versity ; G. W. Winter, University ; E. Walford, scho-
lar of Balliol ; Hon. Stephen W. Lawley, Balliol ; M. F.
F. Osborne, Balliol; H. Dalrymple, Des Vceux, Balliol;
G. R. Mackarness, postmaster of Merton ; E. S. James,
postmaster of Merton; J. B. Hayley, Worcester; Arthur
Hinckley, Worcester.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 9.—At a congregation just held the
following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor in Divinity.
—John Robinson Hutchinson, St. College. Masters of
Arts.—Hon. George Denman, Trinity College ; Horatio
Mansfield, Trinity College ; William Williamson New-
hould, Trinity College ; William Baliol Brett, Caius Col-
lege; John Fenwick, Corpus Christi College; Richard
Sturtees, Corpus Christi College i • Thomas Bennett,
Queen's College; John Mathew Ridley, Jesus College.
Bachelor of Law.—James Blencowe, Christ's College.
Bachelors of Arts.—Charles Bethune Ewart, Trinity
College; Mortimer Manley, Queen's College; Henry
Thomas Veness, Queen's College ; John Barthclomew
Vale, Emmanuel College.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. E. W.
T Chave, to the rectory of St Pancras, Exeter.—Rey. W.
Dealtry, D.D., chancellor of Winchester, prebendary of
Southwell, and rector of Clapham, Surrey, to the arch-
deaconry of Surrey.—Rev. A. Shafto, curate of Houghton-
le-Spring, to the incumbency of the new district church
of Byers' Green, Newcastle.—Rev. C. Hockin, curate of
St. Mary, Truro, to the perpetual curacy of Chacewater.—
Rev. C. Chichester, 8.C.L., to the living of Barton Mills.
—Rev. E. Harston, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of
Tamworth, Staffordshire.—Rev. G. R. Medley, M.A., to
the curacy of Burston, Hants.—Rev. C. B. Lockwood,
to be chaplain to the Thingoe Union.—Rey. R. W.
Pierpoint, M.A., to the curacy of Kirkby-Overblown,
Yorkshire.—Rev. R. M'Neill, M.A., to the vicarage of
Shitlington, Bedford.—Rev. W. B. Rayne, M.A., to the
divinity lectureship in the parish church of Ashbourne.—
Rev. C. R. Pettat, M.A., to the rectory of Ashe, Hants.
—Rev. J. Samuel, to the rectory of Heythorp, Oxford.—
Rev. C. 0. Kenyon, to the rectory of Habberley, Salop.
—Rev. W. C. F. Webber, to the perpetual curacy of St.
Botolph's, Aldersgate.—Rey. W. J. Hamilton, M.A., to
the vicarage of Ivinghoe, Bucks.—lieu. F. Swanton,
8.C.L., minor canon of Winchester Cathedral, perpetual
curate of St. John, in that city, and rector of Piddletren-
thide, Dorset, to the vicarage of Barton Stacy.
The stone altar has been removed from St. Andrew's
Church, Plymouth, and a wooden table substituted.
The Church Extension Fund for new churches, the pa-
tronage of which shall be vested in trustees, now amounts
to upwards of 12.15,000.

On Wednesday the Court of Queen's Bench, on the
application of Mr. Kelly, granted a rule against the Uni-
versity of Oxford, to show cause why a mandamus should
not issue ordering it to re tore the Rev. George Ward to
his degrees of B.A. and M.A.

All accounts agree that Mr. Newman has declared him-
self a Papist ; but doubts seem to exist Ps to the numbers,
if any, that have followed his example, though it is added,
it is only a question of time when they shall pronounce,
as they have made known their intention.
TRACT XC.--The Hebdomadal Board have returned a
negative to the memorial of members of Convocation,
calling upon the board to pass a formal censure upon
Tract 90 as the Board consider that the recent proceed-
ings against the Rev. Mr. Ward have sufficiently ex-
pressed their opinion.

THE SEES OF BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.—On Friday
there was issued art account of the ecclesiastical revenue.
of all digniti,s and benefices of the sees of St. Asaph and
Bangor, on an average of three years, ending 1831. It
thence appears that the total amount of the average gross
yearly income of the sea of Bangor was £6,580; and of
St. Asaph, £7,408. That the permanent yearly pay-
ments made out of the revenues of the former see were
£2,116, leaving a net yearly income of £1,464; and that
the permanent yearly payments out of the revenues of St.
Asauh were £1,107, leaving a net yearly income of
£6,301.

CHURCH LE ksEs.—The church commissioners, on
Tuesday, came to an important determination—namely,
to conclude and bring to a termination all leases held
under the church, &c., &e. Valuators are forthwith to
be sent out, to estimate the actual value of the lease-
holders. The holder will he given the right of pre-emp-
tion at the full value, his interest to be calculated on the
lives existing, at their insurance computation—no allow-
ance to be made to him in consideration of the increased
fines he may have paid on renewals, from the supposed
security that the renewal was at his discretion and in his
power. It, therefore, behoves all who hold bishops' or
ecclesiastical leases, to put their houses in order, and be
prepared.

FATHER CONFIRMED BY HIS SON.—In the beginning
of November, Bishop Cobbs consecrated a new church,
in East Rossell parish, Bedford county, America, and
held confirmations in several parishes in that vecinity.
The Southern Churchman furnishes the following touch-
ing incidents :—lt was an interesting fact, that the first
person upon whom the bishop laid his hands in the apos-
tolic rite of confirmation was his own slaughter; and
most de( p'y affecting beyond all description, when, on the
following day, at St. Stephen's, he confirmed his own
father—a venerable greyheaded old man now upwards of
eighty years. But only one or two words at a time, with
long pauses between, could the bishop, with falering,
choLirg voice, audibly utter. He was almost entirely
overcome, and we feared he would sink under his agitated
feelings. What a sight ! The son, as bishop in the
Church of God, invoking heaven's blessing on the father !
We know not that there was a dry eye in the large assem-
bly.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meet-
ing of this society was held in Exeter Hall on Tuesday.
Among those who were present and spoke were the Earl
of Chichester, in the chair, the Bishops of Chester and
Cashel, Lnrds Ashley, Sandon, and Glenele, Chancellor
Raik, s, Sir George H. Rose, Sir R. H. Inglis, Revs. H.
11I'Neile, H. Stowell, J. H. Stewart, &c. The total re•
ceipts of the year amounted to £105,249, being an in-
crease of nearly a thousand pounds on the previous year.
'I he expenditure amounted to £89,093. The committee
fixed the maximum of expenditure for the current year at
£92,000, which would enable them to enlarge the society's
operations in Western Africa and India. The mission in
West Africa was going on prosperously. In Sierra
Leone the number of missionary stations, attendants on
Divine worship, baptized adults, comsounicant,, and edu-
cational measures had been increased. The schools in the
island of Syra (Greece) had been in operation fifteen years,
during which 4,222 children, 2,213 of whom were girls,
had enjoyed the blessing of Christian education. In Asia
Minor the labours of the Missionaries had steadily pro-
ceeded. During the past year 9,264 copies of the Scrip-
tures had been circulated in Egypt. The Coptic Insti-
tution at Cairo contained twenty students, and had re-
ceived the public sanction of the Patriarch. The accounts
from East Africa were cheering. In New Zealand the
mission was encouraging. In 1835 the number of com-
municants under the charge of the society's missionaries
was below 900; this year it was 10,100. Each year there
has been some increase, and now more communicants are
added in one single year than were collected during the
first thirty years of the society's existence. The report
showed that if the committee had now sixteen Missiona-
ries at their command, they could all be introduced to the
work of gathering in those who are waiting to enter the
fold of Christ, and of building up believers in their most
holy faith. And these are exclusive of any addition to the
China Mission.