The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

WEST INDIES

The Clyde arrived at Southampton on Tuesday, with
the West Indian and Mexican mails. Her dates are—
Vera Cruz, Sept. 6th ; Chagres, 9th ; Jamaica, 13th ;
Demerara, 11th ; Trinidad, 11th ; St. Thomas, 18th. She
brought specie to the amount of about 600,000 dollars, of
which about 40,000 dollars are on account of Mexican
dividends. Among her passengers are Sir W. Colebrooke
and family, from Barbadoes. The commercial news from
Jamaica is, that the produce market is quiet. Sugars are
low ; the finer qualities are scarce. Rum is plentiful, and
inactive. The new crop of pimento is being taken off,
but the markqt as yet is lightly supplied.—A smart shock
of an earthquake was felt at Trinidad on the 9th Sept.

AUSTRALASIA.
The Sydney Morning Herald, of the 26th of April,
contains a very interesting report of a meeting held in that
city under the presidentship of its bishop, the metropolitan
of Australaiia, in furtherance of the noble scheme in active
progress for erecting the cathedral church of St. Andrew—
to serve at once for the seat of the primatial throne of the
Australasian churches, and as a parish church, much needed
in that quarter of Sydney, a city now containing 50,000
inhabitants, a great majority of whom are members of the
Church of England. It will be a spacious and stately
edifice, suited to the congregational worship of multitudes,
and not tno confined for the more stately ceremonial
befitting a metropolitan cathedral.
Thq. last mail from Australia brought a formal protest,
addressed to the Colonial Minister, and signed by eight of
the most respectable and influential colonists of Van
Diemen's Land, in the name of the Australian Anti-
Convict League, against the convict system. The protest
was elicited by the arrival of two ships, the one containing
260 female, the other 249 male, convicts. The protest
declares that this new importation is regarded in the
colony as "a violation of the pledge given by her Majesty's
Government in 1847, that all transportations to those
shores should cease." The Anti-Convict League numbers
among its members a majority of the colonists of New
South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Australia.

NEW ZEALAND.
Files of the Canterbury paper, the Lyttelton Times,
have been received to the 26th of April. Two of the
colonists, Mr. Deans and Mr. Tancred, had been sum-
moned to attend the General Legislative Council of New
Zealand, at Wellington, to represent the Canterbury Set-
tlement ; but it was not certain that they would accept
the duty. Sales of rural land had taken place by auction,
in half and quarter-acre sections, some of the latter fetch-
ing as much as £6, though the district was a considerable
way from Christchurch. Severe weather had been expe-
rienced, but the craft engaged in the coasting trade had
escaped damage. The bridge over the Heathcote, on the
bridle track to Christchurch, was to be rebuilt lower down
the river, with the view of facilitating communication by
the new. road opened in that neighbourhood. " The
plains," it is remarked, " begin to exhibit signs of life in
several directions. But a few weeks ago there was not a .
trace of ; now on all sides you see houses commenced,
or tents and encampments promising comfortable farm-
houses at no remote period." Further discoveries had
been made of valuable building stone, which would assist
in the erections contemplated in the various quarters of
the settlement. The autumn had proved variable, and
the approach of winter, it was anticipated, would bring a
marked change in climate. Some very cold evenings had
been felt, but still the days were exceedingly favourable.
Meat for the moment was advancing,. and: would do so

unless there should be considerable importations in the
next few months ; but it was expected' that before long
the colonists themselves would possess stock of all de-
scriptions. Peat, for fuel, had been brought into use
near Riccarton, and cod, ling, and other fish of suitable
character had been taken in considerable quantities off
the rocks at Pulao Bay. The prices of provisions in the
Lyttelton markets were as follow :—First flour, 245. per
cwt.; bread, 6d. per 2 lb. loaf; beef, 6d. per lb.; mut-
tod, 6d. ; pork, 6d.; fowls, 55., and ducks, 4s. per pair;
salt butter, Is. 6d. per lb. ' • maize, ss. 6d. per bushel ;
ale, 2s. Bd. per gallon ; and ham and bacon, Bd. per lb.
ECCLESIASTICAL. NEWS
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PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The Rev. D. Ace, to the Curacy of Alston• Moor, near Penrith.
The Rev. J. M. Collyns, Rector of St. John and St. George,
Exeter, to the Vicarage of Sancreed, Cornwall. The Rev. James
Edwards, M.A., Rector of Barningham, with Coney Weston,
Suffolk, to be Chaplain to Alderman Hunter, during the ensuing
year of Mayoralty. The Rev. John Garbett, M.A., Honorary
Canon of Worcester, and Rector of St. George's. Birmingham,
to the Vicarage of Harborne, Staffordshire, vice the Hon. and
Rev. T. Law, resigned. The Rev. E.G. Harvey, to a Curacy at
Plymstock, Devon. The Rev. Grenville Frodsham Hodson,
B A., to the Curacy of Chew Magna, near Bristol. The Rev.
Thomas George James, M.A., Vicar of Bridgewater, and Rural
Dean, to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral Church of Wells,
vice the Rev. G. A Denison. The Rev. W. Lay cock, to the
Stipendiary Curacy of Burnie). The Rev. Thomas E. Lord,
Curate of Pinxton, Derbyshire, to be Citrate of Rainton, near
Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. The Rev. G. H. Marsh, 8.D.,
one of the Senior Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge, to
the Rectory of Great Snoring, with theltectory of Thuraford,
Norfolk. The Rev. W. Meara, to the Curacy of Hentland-cum-
Little Dewchurch, in Herefordshire. The Rev. L. Paige, of
Newcastle, to the new Church, at Hartlepool. The Rev. H. S.
Pigot, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Winwick. The Rev.
Stopford James Ram, 8.A., Curate of Burbage, Leicestershire,
to the Perpetual Cnracies of Warslow and Elkstone.
Staffordshire. The Rev. Henry R. Ridley, M.A., to the
Vicarage of Stranton, Durham, vice the Rev. Rowland
Webster. The Rev. K. Simmonds, M.A., to the Perpetual
Curacy of the new Church of St. Thomas, Wigan.
The Rev. R. Smith, Perpetual Curate of Churchdown, to be
Chaplain to the Gloucester Union.—The Rev. M. H. Vine, M.,
to the Rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, with the Rec-
tories of St. Pancras, Soper-lane, and All Hallows, Honey-lane
annexed.—The Rev. C. Walters, to the Perpetual Curacy of
Wardington, Oxfordshire.
BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT,
Prebend: Tullogh, in the Cathedral Church of Killaloe.—
Rectories St. Giles's-in-the-Field ; diocese of London; value
£9CB; patron, Lord Chancellor. Stilton, Dorset; diocese of
Salisbury; value £379, with residence; patron, Rev. Henry
Martin. Tuddenham, North, Norfolk ; diocese of Norwich ;
value £716, with residence; patron, Robert Barry, Esq.—
Vicarages: Blakesley, Northamptonshire; diocese of Peter.
borough ; value £176; patron, J. %V. Wright, Esq. Norton-
Disney; diocese of Lincoln; value £172; patron, Sir T.
Clarges, Bart. Tullogh, Ireland ; diocese of Killaloe; patron,
Bishop of Killaloe.—Perpetual Curacics: Leeds, St. Philip,
Yorkshire; diocese of Ripon; value £250; patrons, the Crown
and Bishop of Ripon, elternately. Norwich, St. Gregory;
value £120; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Norwich. Chap.
laincy: Wallingford Union, Berks ; salary £7O; patrons, the
Guardians.

IRELAND.

A letter from Cork, published in the Evening Mail,
remarking•upon the progress of emigration in the south,
states, that no less than forty tenants of one noble pro-
prietor have decamped within the last fortnight, "carry-
ing off the money realized by the sale of their crops; and,
what is worse, placing in possession of their farms persons
who must be proceeded.against by ejectment." Oneagent
in the city of Cork has acknowledged to the receipt of as
much as ZIOOD in one day from emigrknt passengers in
chartered vessels.

The rage for emigration has even seized upon the con-
stabulary, as we learn from the Limerick Chronicle,
which states that :—" The emigration of still larger num-
bers of the police may be looked for, as the lower ranks of
the constabulary do not find their pay proportionate to
their increased duties."

MURDER NEAR CORK.—On Thursday night a police-
, man of the Passage Railway Company found the body of
a woman lying behind the church at Passage quite l;fe-
less. On examining the body, it was found that the
death of the woman was caused by a fearful stab in
the throat, dividing the juglar vein completely. The
woman was known to be one of immoral character.
and had been seen going down to Passage in the seven
o'clock train. Her name was not known.. From the na-
ture of the wound it is thought that death must have been
almost instantaneous. A sailor belonging to a Greek
vessel has, we understand, been arrested upon suspicion.
Ono of the most awful whirlwinds ever experienced
within these realms occurred in Limerick on Sunday last.
The noise in the air as the whirl wind approached resembled
the roar of steamers discharging waste steam from their
funnels on reaching the quays. In a moment trees were
uptorn, and borne aloft in the air to a great height, the
leaves and huge branches dangling so for a few seconds,
when a dense body descended, tumbled the chimney-
glasses, demolished the window-frames, and rushed along
the Wellesley:bridge, prostrating those who were walking
thereon, some of whom only escaped' being carried over
the swivel by firmly holding on by the iron paling ; but
they were injured by the trees which passed over them.
Many casualties occurred, and considerable injury was done
to persons and property in various parts of the town.

POPISH INTOLERANCE.
The Clare Journal has published the following sen-
tence of excommunication, said to have been pronounced
by a priest, in the west of Clare, upon such of his
parishioners as sent their children to the schools estab-
lished by Mr. Westby, for the benefit of his tenantry.
It is not without some repugnance that we stain
our columns with this diseusting and horrible effusion
of ecclesiastical bigotry and tyranny ; for we cannot but
feel it to be a disgrace to our country, that a congregation
could be found in Ireland to fall down on their knees at
the bidding of a priestly miscreant, and participate in his
abominable and blasphemous intolerance. But the sinis-
ter influence conceded by the government to the Irish
priesthood, has worked too disastrously to allow us to sup-
press a particle of evidence, that may serve to elucidate
the malignant and anti-social tendency of the Romish
system, and we are therefore constrained to place on re-
cord the following revolting specimen of the spiritual ex-
ercises wherewith the Irish Roman Catholic laity are
instructed and edified :

Mr. -'s Curse, on Sunday, the 28th September, at the
Chapel of Cross, in the county of Clare; on the people of
Kilbaha, who sent their children last week to Kiltrellig
School, or who would send them for the
.future.
He quenched the Candles and rung the Bell.

"I pray God to pour down all vengeance on those who sent
their children to Kiltrellig school on last week (particularly
two), may the devil be their guide on the rlght and on the left,
lying and rising, in bed and out of bed, sitting and standing,
within and without, may all misfortune attend their families
and labourers.

" And any person or persons sending their children to this
school henceforth, may they be struck blind and deaf, so as
never to see any of their children again ; and may the children
sent to this school go wild. May they never leave this world
until they be such examples as that the marrow may come out
through their shin hones. May they be pained both sitting and
standing, and may they never leave this world until they are in
such a state that the dogs could not bear coming near the car-
cases when dead. I pray to God that every child who goes to
the school, that for every day be spends in it that his life may
be curtailed a twelvemonth ; and that they may never enjoy
the years of maturity; and that those people who send their
children to the school, that their crops and their goods may be
taken away by the devil, and may all these misfortunes attend
any person taking their posterity in marriage thirty years hence.
" I pray the Almighty to hear this prayer, as the minister of
God; and I now strictly command this congregation to kneel
down and pray to God to grant my prayer."

We have been informed that the greater part of the congre-
gation did kneel down ; but the whole proceeding is so dis-
gusting that we sincerely trust, for the honour of human nature,
that it is not true. We shall, therefore, make no further com-
ment at present, until we allow the rev. gentleman an opportu-
nity of giving some explanation on the subject.
The Clare Journal, it will be observed, expresses a hope
that the information forwarded to it in so formal, and ap-
parently authentic a shape, may possibly, after all, be un-
true. How that may be we cannot say, for we know abso-
lutely nothing of the facts, beyond what we find in our
respected contemporary. We ourselves also wish, for the
sake of the particalar priest referred to, whoever he may
be, that the explanation desired by the Clare Journal can
be given ; but even should the individual be exculpated in
this particular instance, the Irish priesthood as a body
remain not the less chargeable with the atrocious practice
of cursing and denouncing from the altar, in its worst and
most revolting shape. The tremendous anathemas of the
church are in their mouths at once brutalised and intensi-
fied, as might naturally be expected from the innate
coarseness and acquired ferocity of a peasant-born and
Maynooth-bred priesthood. The terrible enormities of
the Romish system are at length beginning to bo apere-
e'ated by the people of England, but they as yet know
little of some of its most odious and dangerous manifesta-
tions. Altar denunciations find no place in the mitigated
form of Popery which it is deemed prudent to exhibit in
England, and it is therefore the more necessary to direct
public attention to the perils and vices of the full-blown
system.—. Dublin Herald.

LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE NEW CHANCERY APPOINTMENTS.--011 Wednes-
day week, or, according to the words of the act, " from and
after the Ist of October," the powers of the Lord Chan-
cellor vested in the Court of Appeal. Although her
Majesty was empowered to appoint two persons on the
passing of the act to the office of " Lords Justices," no
appointment has been officially announced. It is, how.
ever, reported that Lord Cranworth and Sir James
Knight Bruce (with a title) have been appointed. They
have, however, not been sworn in, and the delay, it is
believed, has occurred in consequence of the Vice-
Chancellorship. It is understood that neither the
Solicitor-General nor Mr. Bethell will accept the Vice-
Chancellorship ; and the appointment, it is expected, will
either be given to Mr. Swanston, a very able equity
lawyer, or to one of the Masters in Chancery. If to the
latter, then another vacancy of £2,500 a year will occur.
By the latter act the Lords Justices must be sworn in
before the Lord Chancellor or the Master of the Rolls.
The Solicitor-General has announced to his constituents
at Oxford that he has at length elected to remain in his
present office as law adviser to the Crown, and not to ac.
cept of the office of Vice-Chancellor. We before inti-
mated, that this was Lord John Russell's wish, who has
in fact used all his influence to induce Sir W. Page Wood
to be the Government Solicitor. We have no doubt that
it is wise on the part of Lord John to retain the services
of an independent man of high talent and spotless charac-
ter, and the more so as the Attorney-General falls so far
short of the expectatiods entertained of one holding the
post of the chief law officer of the Queen.—Record.

WHITEHALL, OCT. B.—The Queen has been pleased
to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal
of the United Kingdom appointing the Right Hon. Sir
James Lewis Knight Bruce and the Right Hon. Robert
Monsey, Lord Cranworth, to be Judges of the Court of
Appeal in Chancery.--,-London Gazette.

SITTINGS OF THE NEW COURT OF APPEAL.—The new
court of appeal in chancery will not sit before Michaelmas
term. The judges in the new act are styled " Lords Jus-
tices." One judge sitting with the Lord Chancellor, or
both judges sitting apart from him, to form the court of
appeal. The Lord Chancellor sitting alone is to have co-
ordinate jurisdiction with the court of appeal.