The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The collection of the repeal rent is entirely abandoned
in Cork and Limerick.

The sheriff of the city of Kilkenny is in custody on a
charge of having forged several powers of attorney.
The Protestant colonists at Dingle have suffered an-
other calamity at Dingle in the total loss of their mission-
ary boat, which was dashed to pieces against one of the
cliffs during the late storm.
SALE OF FIRE-ARMS IN CAVAN.—lmmense quanti-
ties of new fire-arms. of Birmingham manufacture, have
been selling by public auction in the different towns
throughout this county.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.-Mr. M. O'Connell,
one of the younger sons of the " Liberator," received on
Saturday last the official announcement of his appoint-
ment to the lucrative office of Registrar of Deeds, in suc-
cession to Mr. G. 0. Moore, who retires on his full pen-
sion. The salary is about £l5OO a-year. The ex-repeal
member for the county of Meath has for several years
filled the situation of chief clerk in the office to the head
of which he bas just been promoted.

THE DUNGARVON RIOTERS.—On Tuesday, these
men, fifty-one in number, were tried. The ringleader,
Patrick Power, was sentenced to twelve months' impri-
sonment and hard labour, and the rest were liberated, on
finding two sureties in 40s. each, and themselves in .£5, to
keep the peace. Power asserted to the bench that he had
been four days and nights previous to the riot living o❑
boiled cabbage, and that he had joined the riot in despair.
A numerous meeting of the land-owners and others was
held at Fermoy on Saturday last, to consider the state of
the country. Mr. O'Connell was present. The speakers,
lay and clerical, seemed disposed to account for the exist-
ing distress, not by the failure of the potato crop, but by
throwing the whole blame upon the government, which,
according to some of them, has merely to will that there
shall be plenty of provisions and employment, in order to
convert the prevailing destitution into peace and plenty.
DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Saturday, a private soldier
of the 34th depot, named John Rankin, put a period to
his existence, by deliberately shooting himself whilst on
sentry at Clonmel. He loaded his musket, into which he
put two balk, placed the muzzle under his chin, and with
the aid of a string tied to a trigger and brought round his
foot, actually blew the upper part of bis head off. The
deceased on previous occasions made two unsuccessful at-
tempts at suicide ; once by drowning, and subsequently
whilst s:rving with the regiment in Canada he partially
cut his throat

DFSPERATE ATTEMPT AT MERDER.—On Thursday
evening, about six o'clock, as Mr. Benjamin John Cooke,
of Galbooly, near Thurles, was proceeding across his own
yard in the direction of an out-house, he was fired at, one
slug entering his temple, and completely destroying one
of his eyes ; two more shattered his jaws ; three were

lodged in his neck, and four in his shoulder. The gentle-
man now lies in a most precarious state. Mr. Cooke is
an excellent man, and, but a short time previous to this
dreadful attempt at his life, offered :o forgive his tenants
a year's rent, and to give them a considerable sum of
money each, if they would give up land, for which they
refused to pay anything near the value.— Tipperary Paper.
THE DOWNSHIRE ESTATES.—The Marquis of Down-
shire, whose estates are, generally speaking, amongst the
most improved and prosperous in Ireland, has, with a
view of mitigating,the present distress, made a temporary,
but at the same time a very important, reduction o❑ the
scale of rest now due and payable. The scale, indeed,
excludes the holders of old and valuable leases held at a
rent approaching to nominal, from any abatement, but
including the payers of rent from £1 to £lO, up to those
paying from £25 upwards ; and, considering that the
average rent paid by the tenantry of Ireland does not ex-
ceed £2O or £25 a-year, the scale, if carried universally
into operation, wout amount to a reduction of nearly
one-half the rental of the whole country.

THE PEASANTRY ARMED.—The peasantry of Tip-
perary are armed to the teeth ; every man has his gun,
blunderbuss, or pistol. It is fearful to contemplate what
may be the result, but such is the fact. The people do
not disguise their possession of the arms ; they walk about
with them in the noon d .y. and it is a common expression
amongst the lower classes to say " here are the fowlers,"
when they see those desperadoes traversing the country.
The government, as we said in our last number, must
step forward—they must disarm the revolutionists of Ire-
land before it is too late. Ireland requires, nay, demands,
a stringent arms act. If strong measures are not taken
forthwith, this country will present a scene of bloodshed
and rapine unparalelled in the annals of crime. We use
strong language, but the times require it.—Tipperary
Constitution.

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.—" Like people, like priest,
and I will punish them for their ways and reward them
their duings !" Solemn and awful words, spoken of a
corrupt race and a corrupt priesthood nearly three thou-
sand years ago ! but alas most applicable at the present
day. It is sad indeed to look on things around us, but it
is more sad to witness a judgment unimproved. That it
is so, in some instances, may be gathered from the follow-
ing circumstance :—On Sunday, the 18th instant, in a
large borough town in this county, the Homan priest ad-
dressed to his flock this precept:—" It would be sinful of
you to see your families perish with hunger while the
fields are full of cattle." The hint was not lost by those
who in solemn mockery are styled " the most moral, (?)
and religious ! people on the face of the earth, as may be
seen by the practice :—On Tuesday, a large mob marched
to a gentleman's ground near the town referred to, and
drove off a flock of sheep, which, after some difficulty,
the people recovered. On Monday, they were about to
slaughter two cows, and would have done so bad not the
owner made some sacrifice to them. Here we have " Pre-
cept and Practice"—the precept worthy of the priest, the
practice of the people."—Cork Constitution.

EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE.—At the Dublin
Commission Court, on Friday, Mary Downes, alias
Fitzgerald, alias Browne, a respectable looking young
woman, about thirty years of age, was placed at the bar,
and indicted for having intermarried with Henry Augustus
Browne, in the mouth of June, 1842, her former husband,
William Fitzgerat:, being alive. Considerable interest
was attached to the proceedings in this case, from the fact
that Mr. Browne, who is a barrister, and the prisoner's
second husband, was himself tried and convicted of bigamy
a few months since, and sentenced to seven years' trans-
portation, for marrying Miss Copeland, daughter of Mr.
Chalks Copeland, the manager of the Royal Bank in Dub-
lin, having previously married the prisoner. The court
was crowded to excess at an early hour, and particularly
by members of the bar. Mr. Browne was in court,seated
beside his counsel, having been brought up on a habeas
corpus. The prisoner pleaded guilty, but put in an affi-
davit mitigatory of punishment, to the effect that she and
Mr. Fitzgerald, were Roman Catholics, and had been
married by a clergyman of the Church of England, who
she believed was degraded, and that consequently she
thought at the time of her second marriage that her first
union was not valid. She was sentenced to two months'
imprisonment, and it is thought that the effect of the con-
viction will be the acquittal of Mr. Browne.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATIOY.—The attendance in the
hall on Monday was wretchedly small, and the proceed-
ings altogether destitute of interest. The Mayor of Kil-
kenny occupied the chair. The Head Pacificator, Mr.
John Reynolds, Capt. Broderick, and Mr. John O'Con-
nell, were the only occupants of the bench appropriated
to the speakers. Two letters were read from the " Libe-
rator," one commenting on resolutions recently adopted
by the Cork Repealers, advising a reconciliation between
Old and Young Ireland—and the usual weekly epistle on
the subject of the distress. Mr. John O'Connell repeat •
ed his speech of the previous week, and denounced the
" criminal negligence" of the government in not admi-
nistering relief more promptly,—when a large document
was handed to the chairman, who rose and said—Gentle-
men, this paper has been banded to me, but I presume it
should come through the secretary. The worthy mayor
then banded the document to Mr. Ray.—Mr. O'Connell
immediately got up, and having taken the document from
the secretary, pitched it over the rail, and desired
one of the clerks of the ball to throw it out, amidst loud
cheers.—Mr. Steele: Throw it into the street. That is
the proper way to treat it. (Ilear, and cheers.)—lt was
said that the document was the remonstrance got up by
the Nation newspaper against the proceedings of the as-
sociat on. In a few moments after it was expelled, when
Captain Broderick was addressing the meeting, a noise
was heard at a side door. Immediately on hearing it,
Mr. Steele rose and said—Mr. Chairman, I have given
directions to the police to put out any intruder. (Har.)
—Mr. O'Connell : If that is the individual who brought
in that paper, put him out ; he is not a memhrr. (Cheers.)
to £ll5 9,4 d., in-

—The rent for the week amounted
cluding £32 from Liverpool.

ENGLAND AND IRELAND,

When future economists strike the balance of favours
and duties between England and Ireland, they will pro-
bably scrutinise the traffic of the Irish Channel more
closely than we are wont to do. They witl insist much on
the fact that the food of millions did annually pass to the
rich and happier shore. They will not reconcile this with
the alleged improvidence of the Irishman quite so easily
as we are wont to do. They will inquire very diligently
what England gave in return. When their researches
bring them to that crisis which we are now actually suf-
fering, they certainly will be struck, perhaps even unduly
by the fact that while England was avowedly feeding Ire-
land—while both countries agreed in that view of their
position—while all classes of Irishmen. were flinging
themselves more and more upon the bounties of the era-
pire, whole fleets of provisions were continually arriving
from the land of starvation to the ports of wealth and the
cities of abundance. Scarce a day passes without every
great port of this country seeing this visible contradic.
tion, or rather this painful anomaly. We are emphati-
cally reminded that it is not to Ireland herself, but to her
social state, that the famine is attributable. This is no
exaggeration, no paradox. What, also, will the future
historian feel when in the very columns which he is
searching for the distracting and harrowing notices of
Irish destitution, he lights on such a paragraph as that
which app aced in the London papers last week, and which,
in fact, is only one out of many we could quote from the
last few weeks :

" No less than 16 ships arrived in the river Thames on
Monday from the Irish ports, laden almost exclusively
with food and provisions of various kinds, the produce of
that country, having collectively 14,960 packages of
butter, 224 packages of pork, 1047 hampers and bales of
bacon, several of hams, 140 sacks, 2926 barrels, and 7788
quarters of oats, 431 packages of lard, 75 of general pro-
visions, 40 of oatmeal, 44 of porter, 259 boxes of eggs,
and a variety of other articles of lesser importance, which
it would be quite needless further to particularise. Of
these almost unprecedentedly numerous arrivals from the
sister island 5 were from Limerick 1 from Belfast, 2 from
Waterford, 1 from Galway, 1 from Kilrusb, 2 from Dublin,
1 from Youghal, and 3 from Cork."

Dr. Short's promotion to the see of St. Asaph appeared
in Tuesday's Gazette. A Cambridge paper, which pro-
fesses to be well-informed, states that it is intended that
Dr. Short shall hold St. Asaph and Sodor and Man; at
least until Bangor also has become vacant. If this be the
arrangement, it seems to indicate the immediate erection
of the see of Manchester.
INTRIGUES AT LITTLEMORE, NEAR OXFORD.—The
Oxford Herald of Saturday last states, in confirmation
of the rumour we noticed a fortnight since, that the lease
of the monastery at Littlemore, which it describes as but
an bumble description of lodging, has been transferred by
the Rev. J. H. Newman. `• to a friend of:*bis, to provide
for his own personal convenience." Our own more pre-
cise information, which we derive from authority, and in
which we place the fullest confidence, is, that the mona-
stery is actually in the hands of the chiefs of the
Romanising party, to make what use of it may be found
convenient hereafter. We should be but too happy to he
able to place full confidence in our contemporary's implied
assurance, that the Church Commissioners had either de-
clined or been unable to effect the contemplated separation
of the chapel of Littlemore from the Mother Church of
St. Mary the Virgin ; but our information leaves no doubt
of an offer having been made by parties in connection with
the Anglo-Catholic Library to endow the chapel on
condition of having the first presentation ; and our con-
temporary may rely on it that such a consummation will,
if at all, be prevented ohly by the watchfulness of those
friends of the Protestant Church whom it charges with
" seeing Ronuanism in everything." liomanism is just
now in everything, and we will not imitate the Oxford
Herald by shutting our eyes to the fact.—Church and
Slate Gazette.

THE WORD " PROTESTANT."—It has been attempted
within the last ten years or so to bring the word Protest-
ant, as applied to the Church of England, into disrepute,
and some individuals have declared their determination to
un-P otestantise her. They found their objections osten-
sibly on the well-known fact, that the word Protestant
does not occur in the Liturgy, nor in any of the authorised
formularies of our Church. But in the Litany of our first
reformed Liturgy there was a petition to be delivered from
the tyranny of the Pope, and from all his detestable enor-
mities, which, in fact, amounts to a protest. The first
German Reformers were called Protestants from the cir-
cumstance of their having protested, at a second Diet at
Spires, in the year 1529, against the revocation of a de-
cree of a former Diet at the same place, in the year 1526.
In consequence of the dangers with which the German
empire was threatened by the Turks and other enemies,
the Diet of 1526 resolved, that all the German principali-
ties should allow ecclesiastical affairs to remain as they
then were, until a general Council should decide on the
subjects in dispute betwixt the Church of Rome and the
Reformers. The immediate danger having ceased, the
Emperor Charles V. convened another Diet, or Parlia-
ment, at Spires, three years afterwards, in which lie
revoked tLe toleration which had been granted to the Re-
formers and laid them open to the tender mercies of the
mother and MISTRESS of all Churches. The minority at
this diet, consisting of six princes and the representatives
of fourteen imperial cities, solemnly PROTESTED against
this, their practical carrying out of the doctrine of keep-
ing no faith with heretics. All the faithful Christians
everywhere who obeyed the Divine call to come out of
the corrupt and idolatrous Church of Rome, have been
called Protestants ever since. Protestant became after
that a generic name for all churches and sects that with-
drew from communion with Rome,and also for all the sects
that have separated from the Protestant, or Reformed
Catholic Church of England. In the Popish catechisms,
the words Protestant and heretic are synonymous. The
Reformers did not protest against the religion or the faith
of Rome, but only against the corruptions and the idola-
tries which Rome had engrafted on the Christian faith ;
in the fundamental articles of which, as they are con-
tained in the Apostles' Creed, the Churches of England
and of Rome are agreed. The Protestantism of the Church
of England sternly rejects the idolatry and apostacy of the
Church of Rome, which consists in image-worship, the
warship of the Blessed Virgin and other saints, in the ex-
altation of her into a med'attix betwixt God and man,
instead of the Man Christ Jesus, who is the only mediator
of the New Covenant, and in several other heretical tenets.
Our Church, therefore, considered it absolutely necessary
to come out from among them—to separate and not to
touch the unclean thing, Popery.—The Church Warder
and Domestic Economy.