The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRE LAND.

On Sunday week a steamer sailed from Kingstown,
Dublin, for Bombay, to take out a number of Romanist
priests and "Sisters of Mercy " to an establishment re-
cently formed at the latter place. On the day before there
was a concourse of people to see 116 convicts embark at
the same port for South Australia ; the mob on this latter
occasion were alarmingly riotous on losing their friends.
THE MURDER OF DR. QUARRY, AT CORK.-At the
Cork assizes last week Thomas Carroll Denis Carroll and
George Foster Delany were indicted for the murder of Dr.
Quarry. The circumstances will probably be remembered
as they appeared in our columns. The deceased had pos-
session of a saw mill in Cork, and the prisoners in endea-
vouring forcibly to eject him killed him. The jury found
the two Carrolls guilty of aggravated manslaughter, and
they were sentenced to transportation for seven years.
Delany was found gnilty of manslaughter but recommended
to mercy, and in consequence was sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment.

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday
night last a house painter and paper stainer named West,
lodging at 45, Essex-street, Dublin, had an altercation
with his wife, and in a fit of ungovernable passion, he
stabbed her mortally with a sword-cane in the abdomen—
her death was almost instantaneous. The wretched mur-
derer then turning the weapon on himself, attempted to
terminate his own existence, and had inflicted a wound on
his person, when he was prevented from perpetrating self-
destruction by his mother, who, with a child of his and
the deceased, was in the room at the time. He was taken
into custody by the police, and conveyed to Mercer's
Hospital.

RELIGIOUS 'ENTHUSIASM.—The following paragraph
appeared in the Freeman's Journallast week : Catholic
Church.—An extraordinary feeling of joy and exultation
was evinced on Sunday night in St. John's Chapel, at a
discourse pronounced by the Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor,
when in the course .of his lordship's exhortations he ad-
verted in glowing terms to the intended ceremony of :ag-
ing the first stone of St. Jarnis's new church, on Thursday
next, by the illustrious Irish Liberator. So great was
the enthusiasm manifested at the conclusion of the right
reverend preacher, that his lordship was obliged to remind
the immense congregation of the sacredness of the place
which they then occupied ! !
THE ROMISES PRIESTS.—One of the Irish Roman
Catholic priests is at present writing a series of letters in
the Dublin Evening Mail, in which be proves that the
repudiation by the Romish Bishops of a state provison was
made without any consultation with the inferior clergy,
and that a very large proportion of the latter are favour-
able to the grant. The letters certainly show the widely
dissentient opinions that exist on the subject, amongst
the papal clergy. The following extract from one of these
letters, shows, (on the confession of one of these deluded
priest; themselves) to what a friehtful extent that church
tampers with the peace and eternal destinies of her un-
happy laity. " I ask Dr. Mac Hale. are not the teachers
of all the national schools in Ireland, in whose ranks, I
think is included a clergyman, receiving the state provi-
sion for years, and where is the injury to faith and morals?
I ask Dr. Mac Hale, are not the Catholic clergy in the
British colonies paid at present by the state; and do they
teach heresy on that account, or are they bad and scan-
dalous men ? I ask Dr. Mac Hale, If we had a ' state
provision' would infants be left for years without baptism
and exposed to the loss of heaven, for not having the 2s.
6d. to pay the simoniacal priest? I ask Dr. Mac Hale, if
we had a state provision would the faithful be for years
without frequenting the tribunal of penance, because they
had no money to pay to the priests? I ask Dr. Mac Hale,
if we had a state provision, would women be left for years
unchurched ? I ask Dr. Mac Hale, if we hai a state pro-
vision, would parties be suffered to cohabit like married
persons whom the priest would not marry because they
wanted money? I ask Dr. Mac Hale, if we had a state
provision, would the holy sacrifice of the mass be reduced
to the mere character of every worldly traffic by sinful
wretches, compounding and bargaining about the retribu-
tions for mass? I ask him would those horrid indignities
be offered to the Majesty of the Son of God under the
state provision ? I ask him, in fine, if we had a state pro-
vision, would the clergy be exposed to the insults and
contumely to which they must now submit in order to
procure a livelihood ? The pure administration of the
sacraments, and respect due to the clerical character, re-
quire the adoption of the state provision, and loudly and
imperatively demand the total annihilation and extinction
of the present odious and scandalous system."

A reference to this abstract is so far satisfactory, as
showing an increase both on the corresponding quarter
and on the year; on the former, of £325,034; on the lat-
ter of £4,318,167. This increase is the more gratifying,
as it arises from sources which show an augmentation of
comfort among the productive classes of the community.
The Customs exhibit an increase on the £

year of..
On the quarter of
The Excise, on the year of
On the quarter of 85,316
The Post-office, on the year of ...
On the quarter of 30,000
Altogether the qnarter's revenue is a matter of congra-
tulation, and may be taken as an indication, though a
faint one, of slowly reviving trade, and prosperity through-
out the country.