The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Comparative tranquillity pervades the counties in.which
the Special Commission has been sitting.
Lamb, the first of the year, was exhibited at the New-
tewn meat market, Limerick, on Friday.
The Rev. J. Moore, incumbent of Mulaghfad, near
Enniskillen, committed suicide on Friday week, by cutting
his throat. He was one of the most benevolent men living.
It is said that the Government have two cases of altar
denunciation, by Roman Catholic clergymen, on their
books, which they may legally and effectually prosecute.
Bishop O'Higgins has written a letter to Mr. J. O'Con-
nell, in which he calls Englishmen " pagans," and deals in
a variety of other phrases equally significant and charitable.
Two brothers, named Nester, were amusing themelres
near Mayo, firing at a mark, when one playfully presented
a pistol at his brother, which unfortunately went off, the
ball entering the forehead.

—*—
The Church and State Gazette states that the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury is in a precarious state.
The Rev. S. B. Sellers, of Rufford, has been appointed
chaplain to the High Sheriff, Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart.
The Bishop of Tasmania has left England for his far
distant diocese.
The Archbishop of York has accepted the office of
patron and president of the York Auxiliary to the Church
The allegations respecting the mysterious deaths of the Missionary Association.
Rev. Mr. Maguire and his brother and sister-in-law have The Bishop of Manchester will hold his first ordination
rain, all been denied. The first, it is affirmed, died of gout in; on the 19th March at Manchester. Candidates are to
v ,
the stomach, .and the two latter " suddenly" of fever. send in the requisite papers before the 19th February.
i-E Nevertheless,, the report is still current that the stomach Mr. C. H. Frewen, M.P. for East Sussex in a letter to
es of the brother of the rev. gentleman was forwarded to the Record, says, " There are strong reasons'for believing,
y; Dublin for analysation, and that poison had been disco- that if it had not been for the interference of one or two
lont -a heavy sea ; ship .labouring very vered sufficient to cause death.
heavy hail storm from N.W. Thursday, 30th, LARGE SURRENDER OF FIRE-AR Mof the bishops, Mr. Montagu Villiers would have nowS, &c.—Head con- been upon the bench."
gale from N.W.. with heavy head sea; stop- stable Hayes, on Thursday, deposited at the military
The Bishop of Exeter is causing great excitement
../ty hours to .repair engine. Guard of larboard barracks, Nenagh, 300 stand of arms, together with a among the clergy in his diocese by a new rule, of subject-
-el-house stove and washed away. New Year's Day : large quantity of pikes, bayonets, and ammunition, sur- ing to a re-examination every elergyman who may apply
January. lst. Blowing fresh, with heavy sea from north. rendered under the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation. The to be instituted to a benefice, or licensed to a curacy, how
of Cut the wizen topmast to brace the cylinders. Sunday, same head-constable, on Saturday, took up in the town ever long he may have been in holy orders.
and Jan. 2d : 'Wind increases to a gat- from N.W., with heavy and vicinity of Nenagh, between 20 and 30 stand of arms, It has been remarked, that in the case of Dr. Hampden,
hail squalls. From eight, p.m., to midnight, wind light all of which were urregistered.---Nenagh Guardian.
, the supporters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction appear in the
"v sea rolling from N.W. Monday 3d.: COM- LORD STANLEY versus THE CONFESSIONAL.—The Court of Queen's Bench in the name of the Crown, while
_ and rain. At half-an-hour past noon Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry (Dr. Maginn) is palpa- the assertors of the power of the Crown defend it on be-
-,,,rrie, the blower engine pipe having burst. bly emulous of the fame achieved by the western metro- half of the Archbishop.
The weather is even colder in Paris and in the South- ";-.
`t--arried engine again at 3h. 45m. p.m., and the day ends politan, the renowned John of Tuam. The northern
eastern parts of France than it is in England.
The Derby Mercury states, that the Bishop of Lincoln
with a heavy gale from W.S.W. Tuesday 4th: Heavy " lion," like his prototype, has a morbid ambition to rush has given it as his opinion that no consecration is neces-
Some French engineers have been engaged to construct gale continues from W.S.W., with fog. At half-past two into print ; and the speech of Lord Stanley, in the late
a suspension-bridge over the Rhine at Cologne. - •
sary when the whole or any part of a church is rebuilt. It
p.m., stopped' to, repair breaks in pipes, and after ten lsession, in which his lordship attributes much of the pre-
On the 20th the goods warehouse of the Stuttgard and
appears that it is sufficient for a building to stand upon
hours and a-half, started again at 1 a.m. -Wodnesday sth : valence of Irish crime to the practice of auricular conies-
Posen railway was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is
consecrated ground, and that it thereby partakes of the
Fresh breezes and thick fog. At middle watch blowing sion, has afforded Dr. Maginn a fitting plea for addressing
met down at 50;00A tholes.
heavy gale from the S.W. ; carried away larboard wheel three monstrous epistles in refutation of the charge pre- privileves of the sanctuary, without being formally sepa-
The committee of the Prussian United Diet, now sitting
rated from common uses, further than by its locality.
and house. At six, p.m., cut off half speed, on account of ferred by the noble lord. The last of the series spreads
in Berlin to revise the penal code, has just decided for the ,
THE LABOURER NOT PAID.—A correspondent of a
sea. Ship labouring hard. Thursday, 6th : Heavy gale over five columns of Thursday's Freeman, and for scurri-
maintenance of-the punishment of death by a of daily paper writes :—" It is a fact that the perpetual cu.;
rate of the united parishes of Wetheral and Warwick, in
majority from W.S. W., and very heavy head sea; at one, p.m., lily and virulence this letter altogether eclipses. any pro-
-463 to 34 votes.
the county of Cumberland, with an area of twelve miles
passed an English brig bound eastward. Friday, 7th : duction that has yet emanated from the classic shades of
Excellent coal has been discovered at Vancouver's Continued fresh breezes from S.S.E., from four to 6, p.m., St. Jarlath's.
Island. It runs in extensive fields, and in clumpy in length, with a population of £4OOO souls, and with two
when, the wind increased to a heavy gale ; tremendous sea ; JOHN OF TUAM A POOR-RATE DEFAULTER.—From a
mounds, and will, we hope ere long, be brought within churches, two miles apart, which he has to serve every
Stopped at half-past ten, p.m., to secure braces of engine; letter addressed from the Poor-law Commission-office,
the reach of the fast ,increasing number of our steamers Sunday, has assigned to him by the dean and chapter of
started again at one, a.m. Saturday Bth : Stiff breeze W. Dublin, to the secretary of the Board of Guardians of the
en the west coast of America and the Pacific.
Carlisle the miserable pittance of £52 per annum out of
by N. Sunday 9th : Commences calm and clear. Found Tuam Union, it appears that several " persons of rank
The foundation stone of the monumental church of St. the tithes and other hereditaments, which amount to
our coal short, and shaped our course for Halifax. At and consideration, some of whom are guardians," are
John, at Colaba, Bombay, was laid by the Governor, on nearly £2OOO a-year. The tithes are leased out to a Ro-
two, a.m., made Sambro light, bearing N.W. by W. by still in arrear for their poor rates—that some of them
the 4th of December, assisted by the Bishop and clergy.
man Catholic !"
compass. Laid ship off and on. Wind hauled to S.E., have paid no part of either the present or the previous
The whole of the European society of Bombay was present with rain and thick weather. At daylight steered in for rate—and that amongst the number who have thus set the PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE VICAR OF HAREWOOD.—
on the occasion, and an immense crowd of natives. harbour; fog increasing hauled off; Sambro bearing law at defiance, and frustrated the means necessary for For some time it has been known that proceedings have
been commenced in the Ecclesiastical Court, against the
The waters of the Rhine are at present so low that the W.S.W. six miles. Day ends blowing very heavy gale the preservation of human life, is no less a personage than
foundations of the piers of the great bridge which the
Dr. M`Hale, Archbishop of Tuani. This p"
Lion of the Rev. Mr. Hale, vicar of Hardwood, for a series of perso-
from S.E., with rain, ship heading off land with full steam.
nal attacks which the rev. gentleman is alleged to have
Emperor Constantine had built over this river in the year Between six and eight,,p.M., began to moderate. At ten, Fold of Judah" accuses the English government of whole-
-308 are visible. Active search is at present being made
made from the pulpit on certain of his parishioners who
p.m., steered north. Monday, 10th : At one, p.m., made sale murder for not feeding the Irish people, and refuses
to discover some remains of the bridge thrown over the
have frequented his church. We may safely add that
Sambro, hearing north twelve miles distant. At half-past to pay his own poor rates. The guardians are told that
Rhine by Julius Caesar, but hitherto without result.
Mr. Hale's character as a gentleman and divine is not
seven got pilot on hoard, and at half-past nine o'clock, unless they exercise their powers to enforce the collection
n the
in the least implicated in • these . proceedings. "ViTe un-
-4- made fast to Cunard's Wharf, Halifax. of the rates they will be superseded by paid officers. derstand that the Rev. Mr. Hale is 74 years of age, and
The Halifax Morning Post, of the 17th instant, says, DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES GAYER.—On Thursday
death folded the Rev. C. Gayer in his relentless embrace, , that he has been minister of the parish for 47 years.—
"TI "-finch steamer Missouri again put into this port,
Leeds Intelligences.
-- a supply of coal. She left Havre for New in the midst of a life of usefulness and in the prime of life. I Mr. Gorham, the clergyman whom the Bishop of
and experienced moderate weather The Church of God has received a heavy blow in Dingle 1 Exeter refuses to institute to the living of Bramford
- ---bt. twenty-nine cabin pas- by his death; to his young and numerous family the loss I Speke, on the presentation of the Crown (and whom he
will be irreparable ; and the poor of his neighbourhood I has harrassed by an examination of several da- -dp
will not again look upon such a f " id— '-- 'hem 1

A coroner's inquest was held in Kells, county of Meath,
last week, on the bodies of two women, named Elizabeth
and Catherine Doggett, mother and daughter, who, ac-
cording to the verdict of the jury, " came to their deaths
from cold and privation and actual want of the common
necessaries of life."

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States army, General Scott is said to have pushed for- Sunday, 26th
ward a column to Queretaro, the seat of the Mexican I very heavy head sea.

rom W. S.W., and
and heavy weather:
27th : Blowing very fresh

government

A rumour, not confirmed, however, was current, to the
erect that General Scott had been recalled from the com-

I heavil

sea getting larger • ship labouring
Wednesday, 29th :

hopped to repair engine

The troops at Sant

Les, Wi

ere in a state of Berea

t insubor-

Mr. Clay had met with a brilliant reception at Wash-
ington.

Continued
ped t

Two severe steam-boat expl

ins had occurred. On€

steamer, bound to St. I

gunpowder on board, blew up with a report that was
forty miles from the scene of accident. The passengers
Uppity escaped. The boilers of another vessel burst, and and heavy
out of seventy passengers, twenty to thirty perished. mences light ai
- stopped ea.;

Eighth, King of Denmark, and Duke of Sales,
stein, and Lanenburg, died on the 19th ult., at
hagen. He was born on the 18th September, 1786, ana
succeeded to the throne December 3, 1839. The Crown
Prince, Fred. Charles Christian, was born on the 6th of I a
October. 1808.

anss rreaenca Herschel', sister of the great astrono-
mer: has just
_died suddenly at Hanover, aged 98. This

he steerage

- - - --, - - --- me.. . —to t_ m -ay a use- continuing it eleven hours and a-half), is a clergyman of
.
fulness during the worst pressure of the past year cannot thirty-seven years' standing in the ministry, and graduated
lady had acted for many years as secretary to her brother, LOSS OF THE SCREW-,STEAMER ARAM.
be told. The Rev. Mr. Gayer was in the 42d year of his with high honours at Cambridge. He obtained all the
and possessed great astronomical knowledge. She pub-
when he fell, after a few days' illness, a victi.n to ty- • •
lished several important works, and to her is due a selenic On Sunday, by the arrival at this port of the packet-age
prizes in his college whilst an undergraduate. He was
globe in relief, long celebrated, and which is now at ship Susquehanna, Captain Dunlevy, from Philadelphia, pnus fever, brought on after. influenza,. at his residence, the only competitor with Professor Sedgwick for the geo-
Ballintaggart. His remains are interred in Dingle
Greenwich. The deceased was engaged in astronomical intelligence was received of a serious collision between chair. His literary, and theological attainments
observations the night before her death. that ship and the auxiliary-screw steamer Aram, Captain Church. In the Church be occupied the position of chap_ logical
induced the late Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst to give him
The Bishop of Cape Town arrived at Madeira on the Easterby, by which the latter vessel was so seriously da- lain to Lord Ventry, rector of Dunurlin, and curate of
Dingle,he Y'
been chief instrument'
where has the under the valuable living of St. Just, in Cornwall, worth more
30th December. His lordship, on New Year's Day, held waged that she sunk, and six of her crew were drowned.than £5OO a year ; but the situation in some respects not
a confirmation in the English Church, in the prezence of The disaster occurred on Sunday evening week, at seven God in fostering the work of reformation going on there being congenial, Mr. Gorham gladly accepted on the
ber Majesty Queen Adelaide ; and in the evening the o'clock, off the southeast coast of Ireland, about forty so successfully for some years past.—Kerry Post.
presentation of the Crown, the living of Bramford Speke,
Bishop and Mrs. Gray had the honour to dine with her miles below Tuskar. The ship, which for some days pre- REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting on Monday, although the income is nearly £3OO per annum less.
Majesty. On the 4th January, on leaving the island, viously bad been contending with strong east winds, was the Lord Mayor, who had been so well abused during
RESTORATION OF TITHES TO THE CHURCH.—A coin-
- ..I_, --- • 'ishopio the beach, at the time of the collision standing to the northward, the week by his friends, the Repeaters, took the chair. mittee consisting of Lord John Manners, Lord Robert
close-hauled, with the wind about E.N.E., and the wea- A letter was read from his " lordship" explaining
,his con- Grosvenor, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Stephen
At least one hun-
tto the Bishop ther being very cloudy prevented the steamer from being duct with regard to the omission of O'Connell 's name Glynne, Bart., the Dean of Chichester, the Rev. Robert
the moment of seen till they were close in contact. After the vessels got from the list of toasts at the recent banquet—the letter Spranger, D.C.L., the Rev. R. Chandos, Pole, &c., has
clear of each other, Captain Easterby, of the Aram, find- also contained his subscription of £l. A communication ' been formed, for the purpose of restoning the tithes now
says that a ing his vessel in a very dangerous state, ordered the boats from Dr. O'Higgins was also read, inclosing subscriptions held by lay impropriators to the exclusive use of the
,haviour of to be got out, when seventeen persons, including himself to the amount of £4l. The assembly was addressed by Church. The patronage of the Church is as follows:
Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Timothy O'Brien, and Mr.
~,1 the first and second mates, got into them, and were Clerical Patrons, 2353 ! Collegiate (Clerical and Lay),
Ford on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. A
Awards taken on board the Susquehanna. It 805 ! ! Lay, 7553 !! ! Thus nearly two-thirds of the
Mr• Burke, of Tintrim,spoke at considerable length on
mend that six of the crew were missing. Every •
withpatronage of benefices in England and Wales is in the
various subjects, and concluded an attack on Mr.
3n, s made by Captain Dunlevy in searching for them,hands of laymen, and not of the Church itself ! The Rev.
td, after lying-to near the spot till daylight the next Shiel. Alderman Hyland, of Kilkenny, next presented J. D. Schomberg, a learned and able writer on Ecclesias-
himself, and in moving the adoption of a petition to the
'ling, no trace of the vessel or the poor fellows, whotical matters states:—`• By the particular constitution of
House of Commons from the Roman Catholic clergy of
it have 'mated on spars, being visible, the ship bore his • England. every acre of land in the country is titheable,
Ay for t' 4- locality, stated that there was not a more peaceable unless an exemption can be shewn ; and the reason that
The Ar Mersey on Saturday week, bound for county in Ireland than that of Kilkenny, though there had every acre of land is titheable, is not by prescription, as
been between eighty or ninety ejectments issued at the last
nle, to which ports she was aSir R. Peel and others have alleged, (which is no title)
quarter sessions, a large number of which were against, the
u superior vessel, rigged as a but because the parochial clergy were endowed with this
,of tenantry a judge of the land—Judge Crampton—who
on thetithe by the thanes or lords of the respective manors, who
- q he supposed, should any outrage occur in consequence, made the payment of it a charge upon their estates, and
would be sent down to try the offenders. Mr. Hyland
,against their descendants for ever. ** * Now, this
spoke with great energy, striking his knuckles against the being the case, it may be a matter of surprise to many,
table with considerable force at the close of every sen- I_lmm the tithe came ever to slip away from the parish.
:La 4-- 1,.... -C.•arr •
f pric,..to . iu miler. ......,,,i, nun tn. elltiOvv mum, Daring
CATASTROPHE IN RoscommoN.—On the 26th of last I been, as it were, clenched by the law of the land, so many
month (Wednesday last), a melancholy event took place 1 parishes came to be deprived of `their own' maintenance
It Ashford, in Roscommon, which threw the neighbour- for their ow- - - --'-ct." The 1 '

Bred persons paid this mark of respect to the b
The whole company fell on their knees at the -
his lordship pi‘.4--

the bened

It will be remembered

ion. I away for this port.
a 7 left ti
e "kr and Const!

le sixteen c

she had been receiving new machinery, &c.
the copy of a note from Captain Dun-
the Susquehanna, posted in the Underwriters'-

I The following

January
N. E.

23, in

E, by compass, distant

gues bq dead recKonin

..„, ~.. . .
Aram, Captain A. Easterby, from Liverpool, bound to
Constantinople. Hove the ship to, and found part of the
stem and cutwater carried away. Shortly after saw signals
....4. a:,..,... e__ ~.

hood into an unwonted state of excitement.
are briefly these, as stated in the Dublin papers
bailiff of the district, Mr. Peyton, proceeded to PT

The facts
The

I up two boats' crews, consisting of the captain;
second officers, and seventeen of the crew.
. .

law process issued at the suit of'gr:oeorgeCiLOh, of
Carrick-on-Shannon, against Hubert R. Waldron, Esq.,
J.P., of Ashford, near Drumsna, the object being to dis-
train. ' The bailiff took with him a number of the police
force ; but, on reaching the entrance gate to the country
house, was met by Mr. Waldron, who, with his son and
other persons, stood inside armed, and in an attitude of
defence. The gate was closed, and the bailiff denianded
••, • ,

ran to the steamer's light, when
,red, and have no doubt they perished
the ship to near the place where the
saving more of the crew ; at

it sudde

ix men missi

unk, in hopes of
saw a gang cask alongside
again. Feelinz assured' t

at eight, a. m., saw

.as, ULM il,-and proceeded on our passage towards pensn
Liv

aamission, winch was peremptorily refused by Mr.
Waldron, he stating that he was an old man, and had but
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one sue to lose wnicn ne cud not much value. The
bailiff explained that he must do his duty. Soon after,
the bailiff's men endeavoured to force the gates with
crowbars. It appeared that just before this a gun in the
hand of one of the police had exploded, which, it was
explained to Mr. Waldron, was by sheer accident. He,
however, still resisted the legal entrance of the officers.
It is stated that Mr. 'Waldron then fired from within the
bars, and wounded one of the officers. The police im-
mediately fired (whether by order of the bailiff or not
does not appear), when the affray became general, and
twelve to fifteen shots were exchanged through the bars.
Mr. Waldron was shot dead on the spot. He was fifty-
five years of age. One bailiff's officer was severely
wounded, as was a police-officer. The officers afterwards
discovered a quantity of fire-arms in the house, and several
armed men. The son of Mr. Waldron, aged fifteen, was
taken "prisoner" to the county gaol. Some of the pro-
perty sought to be seized was left on the premises, there
being no sufficient force to protect it. An inquest will
be held by the magistrates—and, no doubt, some official
enquiry will be made as to the real facts.

THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission
for the county of Tipperary was opened on Monday, at
Clonmel, whither the judges had proceeded on that day
from Limerick. The Lord Chief Justice delivered an able
address to the grand jury, in which he enlarged on the
necessity of repressing the disposition to crime and out-
rage which has spread terror through Tipperary and the

neighbouring counties. On Tuesday, a man named John
Lonergan was indicted for having murdered Mr. Roe, at
Boytonrath, by firing a gun at him. Several witnesses
were examined, and their evidence showed that the pri-
soner, who had been ejected by Mr. Roe from some land,
because he had not paid his rent, and who had used threat-
ening language respecting the deceased, was going towards
the spot where the murder was committed, in company
with another man, a short time before the fatal shot was
fired. One witness, a girl about fifteen, and a niece of the
prisoner, who had gone out of her house when the report
of the gun was heard, admitted that she had seen the
smoke, but refused to answer the question whether she
had seen any one she knew. After shedding a torrent
tears, sl- - " " "

ae said that she had not seen any one in the grove
whence the shot was fired; but when further pressed and
questioned whether she had seen any one in the field, she
wept bitterly, and refused to answer. The Chief Justice
then order.d her to be cormratedi bmtt nhe was asaill
brought up, and owned that she saw the prisoner in the
field next the grove, that he was coming from the ditch,
and that she saw the smoke on the road. Some 'other
evidence was heard, and the jury, after halfan hour's cor
suit

..,ation, returned a verdict of guilty. Denis Brien, Pa-
trick Ellard, Patrick Mullanphy, Patrick Hickey, end
George Hewitt, all young men under thirty

'ears of ag

them to be transpor

tor seven years

This case was the first sin

January, which seemed to excite feelings of sympathy upon
the part of the audience in favour of the prisoners. Two
" lent

the sentence was pronounced, andhad to be removed from
court.

Freeman's Journal devotes neatly seven columns to the
long-threatened reply of Dr. M'Hale to Lord Shrews-
bury. As to " points," you might as well look for cor-
ners on a balloon ; indeed, this pamphlet is just as flatu-
lent as the " Great Nassau." The letter is Wefaced with
an appropriate quotation from the Council of Trent, inti-
mating that " in former times" certain prelates had de-
meaned themselves too submissively towards ministers of
state and other exalted individuals. The English earl, it
will be recollected, confined himself principally to an ex-
pression of his surprise and regret at the apparent sanc-
tion given by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland,
to the vile and deadly calumnies uttered by their clerical
subordinates against the upper classes. It was, indeed, a
species of gentle remonstrance ; no more. But how does
Dr. M'Hale treat it ? He commences by sneeringly ask-
ing the noble lord where he had " taken out his commis-
sion to encroach on the Divine authority of bishops ?"
To interfere in the matter at all he pronounces to be " a
foul conspiracy against the lives of the Catholic peoPle,
and the character of the Catholic hierarchy." The lay
peer had the courageous boldness to affirm that Popery,
as it exists in this portion of the United Kingdom " is a
conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a pestilent
sore on the commonwealth." But the spiritual lord
meets the allegation by ridiculing the letters as "erratic,"
and assuring its author that his astonishment and the sur-
prise of Englishmen in general will only have the drat of
strengthening the accused parties, himself among the
number, in their " determination" to persevere. Then as
to the assertion that education has been scandalously ne-