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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD•

IRELAND.
REPEAL OF THE UNION.—The debts of the Repeal
Association having been all " wiped out," Mr. O'Connell
will agajn preside every Monday, as usual, in Concilia.

tion Haill
Judge Perrin decided, at the Galway assizes, that bene-
ficed Protestant clergymen could hold no office in the
character of agents, and that all their acts as such were
illegal and void.
AN M.P. IN TROUBLE—Mr. P. Somers, the repeal
member for the borough of Sligo, was violently assaulted
last week by Mr. Charles Bentley, of the Westminster
Cricket Club, who blackened the hon. member's eye, and
cut his face severely.
The O'Connell estates in the county of Kerry, extend-
ing over 14,000 acres, are among the properties put up by
the encumbered estates commission. They were put up
in 24 lots, of which 18 were sold, and produced near
£39,000, the encumbrances on the whole'being £60,000.
The, Limerick Reporter states that Mr. Smith, of
Castlefergus, a magistrate of the county of Clare, who is
accused of having conspired to shoot this mother, and
who had been liberated after a recent investigation by
Mr. Moloney, of Kiltannon, and Mr.,O'Brien, resident
magistrate, of Tulla, has been again arrested by order of
government.
A hawk: lately pounced on a canary's cage hanging out-
side a house at Cork, and carried off both cage and canary:;
but thecage was so heavy that the hawk, whose leg was
fixed in the wires, fell to the ground with it, at a short
distance from the house. The hawk was secured by a
person who chanced to be passing, and the canary was
found to be uninjured.
HORRIFYING EVENT.—ID the townland of Katy-
claugher, about three miles from Cookstown, a poor man,
named James Purvis, left home on a begging excursion.
A short time after his remains were found in a meadow,
nothing remaining but the principal bones, the entire
flesh and small bones being entirely eaten or carried away.
His old hat and shoes and two staffs enabled his wife and
daughter to identify him. He could not have been re-
cognised by his garments, as the dogs had torn them to
get at the flesh.
ANOTHER £5 MEMBER.—Dr. Power, M.P. for Cork,
is announced as the new inspector of medical charities for
Ireland. Ecod, these whigs are driving a brisk trade in
Irish cattle. In June the late member for Dundalk and
Clonmel bought with aeonsulship, and packed up for ex-
portation to the Brazils.. In July, the hon. member for
Tralee purchased with the collectorship of taxes. And in
August the hon. member for Cork hooked with a roving
commission. Who comes next ? Clear the way, gentle.
men, for Mr. Ouseley Higgins ?—Nation.
SINGULAR WEDDING.—On Sunday week a young
couple, the man named M'Cullam and the female Coggin,
presented 'hemselves hefore Rev. Mr. Marmion, at St.
Nicholas Church, Cork, to he joined together in holy ma-
trimony. Both the bride and bridegroom were deaf and
dumb. It appeared., however, that though unable to
speak, they could read and write, and during the ceremony
the usual questions put by the clergyman were correctly
answered in writing. Such an unusual marriage attracted
crowds of both sexes to the church, who appeared much
amused by the marriage. The wedding entertainment
was given in the evening—the majority of the guests,
male and female, being actually mute.
THETENANT-RIGHTCONVENTION.—The Tenant-right
Conference, or Convention, as it deserves more properly
to be styled, has been holding its sittings this week in the
City Assembly House, Dublin. It consists for the most
part of Roman Catholic priests, Presbyterian ministers,
and proprietors, editors and employes of newspapers,
most of them having no direct interest themselves in
land, but all anxious to " bring grist to the mill" by pre-
tending to be the farmers' friends. There were between
forty and fifty priests, about a dozen Presbyterian minis-
ters, and the same number of newspaper folk in attend-
ance. The Strabane Tenant Defence Association sent
the Rev. Moses Chambers, of Lecpatrick, and Master
Underwood as its representatives, and the Derry Tenant-
Right Association was represented by the ex-reverend
editor of a local journal. The assembly is illegal accord-
ing to the terms of the Convention Act.
In Dublin, potatoes are selling for half the price paid
here, and in Waterford good ones may be had at 11. a
weight, and the very best kidneys at 6d I The Water-
ford Mail of Saturday says:—" We have been informed
that new potatoes (whites) were sold at our market yes-
terday at lid. per 14Ibs.—good ones at 2d., and the very
best kidneys at 4d. per stone of 141b5." Fish, too, ap-
pears to he abundant and cheap. Thus :—" Haak is
selling in Waterford at 3d. per 12lbs. ; other descriptions
in proportion." All, however, does not stop emigration.
The food is there, but how are people to pay for it ?
Give them work, and the question is answered ; but
while we continue to employ the foreigner in raising what
we ought to raise ourselves, where is the work to 'oe
found ? and until it is found, what can we expect but
paragraphs like this, which we append from the same
Journal ?—" 'Yesterday (Friday) about three hundred
emigrants, the great majority of whom were of the bet-
ter class of farmers,—left our city by the Liverpool stea-
mers, bound for America. Forty-one females from the
workhouse—and nine males, brothers of some of the
females, left yesterday by the Mars for America."—Cork
Constitution.
FEARFUL MURDER.—Mr. Pike, an agent for land, was
murdered on Saturday week, in the forenoon, near Par-
sonstown. He struggled for some time with his assailants,
but at last one of them shot him with a pistol, and then
beat in his brains. Mr. Pike carried with him a pistol
and a cane sword, as he knew he had been denounced
from the altar. He fired at the miscreants but missed

them. The Dublin News Letter says, in giving an
account of this dreadful occurrence,—" The fearful
transaction occurred in the broad day light, upon an
open public road, where travellers and vehicles daily
pass—in no glen, no lane, no mountain fastness, no
ravine, no jungle, but on the common thi r uehfare,
with the full sunshine of heaven beaming upon it—num-
bers of the peasantry going to market—several in-
habited houses within a short distance of the spot, and
nearly fifty people working in the bog ; men they cannot
be called, for they saw Mr. Pike murdered—they beheld
the assassins run away after they had committed the dia-
bolical crime, and not one person followed to arrest them
—not one came forward to give evidence before the coro-
ner. Dr. Baker deposed that the deceased had several
gun-shot wounds in the back, chest, and abdomen; the
frontal bone of his skull was fractured."
SPECIMEN OF A ROMISII PRIEST.—The Limerick
Reporter contains a long letter from Priest o'Dwyer, the
popish curate of Doon, in which he directs all the artillery
of his polished rhetoric upon the Rev. Thomas Atkinson,
the Protestant rector of the parish, whose letters to Sir
Thomas Redington, complained of the systematic insult
and intimidation to which he and his congregation have
lately been subjected at the hands of the popish populace.
With the temper of Mr. Atkinson's statement it is impos-
sible to quarrel. The tone of Priest o'Dwyer's letter will
be gathered from its proemium. " Such a hodge-podge
of absurdities," observes the gentle curate of Doon,
" misrepresentations, exaggerations, and downright false-
hoods I have never seen before contaned within the limits
of one letter." Then follows the priest's own story, the
value of which may be collected from a single average
specimen :—" As to his nonsense about the contemplated
apostacy of many farmers, I leave Balaam's ass to bray in
disappointment among the ragged scamps, and pilferers,
and sheep-stealers that he has seduced. Surely I would
like much to see the sanctimonious grin which the visage
of the prebendary had assumed on the contemplation of
this grand accession of farmers to his ranks. lie accuses
us of want of taste in not stepping in to shield them from
the contempt of the people. We have lost all taste for
his doings, indeed. We have no taste for his soup and
mash. We have no taste for the Friday revellings of his
followers. The rancid odour that is wafted on the western '
winds, from the glebe and some of the neighbouring
cabins, has created another disgust in us all, priests and
people, for the conduct of the parson and his tribe of
black cats.' " And all this—the slang, the nicknames,
the scurrility, from a person styling himself the messenger
of Christ, and holding up himself, in word as well as deed,
as an example for the imitation of their people ! But it
will be observed that even here there is an admission of
the fact that conversions have been wrought in Doon, but I
a short time since pre-eminent in a bad locality for bigotry
arid crime. The converts, to be sure, are " ragged '
scamps, pilferers, and cow-stealers," but still they are
converts, and however much persecuted and abused, such,
we trust, they will remain.
ACTION AGAINST SISTERS OF MERCY.—Some of those
societies which make professions of poverty are occasion-
ally detected in very ugly exhibitions of avidity. A mis-
chance of this kind has fallen on the Sisters of Mercy of
Galway, and " the rev. mother" cuts anything but a
respectable figure. The facts are simply these : A young
lady of the name of M`Donnell, desiring to be enrolled
among the sisterhood, consent was given, on condition of
the payment of £5OO on her " profession," and of the
interest during what we may call her probationate. Six
months she was to serve as a postulate," and after that,
two years were to elapse before her " profession." On
no account, said the rev. mother, can those two years of
novitiate be abridged. The future, however, involved a
contingency which had not entered into her calculation ;
but we must not anticipate. It occurred to the sisterhood
and their friend " Father Daly" that: it would be a good
thing to secure the money, whatever became of the maid ;
so, on a representation of the " great service it would be
to the nuns if the family could give them the money at
once, as they were going to invest some money on very
favourable terms,', Mrs. M`Donnell unwisely trusted
them with the £5OO, stipulating. however, that in case of
her daughter's death before profession, or of her being
unwilling to be professed after the expiration of the novi-
ciate, the £5OO should be returned. This was in May,
1846, only two months after her introduction to the Con-
vent. In March, 1847, she took a malignant fever, and
on her dying bed, when there was no hope of her recovery,
she was subjectea to the farce of a " profession," and on
the strength of that farce, for farce it was, the reverend
mother and her dutiful " daughters" refused to restore the
money which they had craftily got into their clutches !
The mother of the lady, however, appears to have been a
match for the mother of the nuns. She had heard some
rumours not altogether to the credit of the convent. She
was not so simple as to close her ears or to shut her eyes,
and as they had allowed her daughter to die without even
apprising her of her danger, she reminds " Amelia White"
of her stipulation, and demands the money which she
sought to keep. Amelia, however, rested on her right.
She had a " vested interest" in the £5OO. The term of
trial had been abridged to accommodate the devotee, and
the ceremony—a ceremony performed in dumb show over
the dying body—was all:that was tendered to the bereaved
parent in return. This, however, did not satisfy Mrs.
Mg Donnell, so she submitted the matter to a jury. The
priests lent all their aid to the reverend defendant, the
lay complainant succeeded, •and got her money and her
costs against her appropriative opponent. To do the
titular bishop justice, he told the sisters that though he
lallowed the ceremony to be performed, they had, under
the circumstances, no claim to the consideration."
They seem, however, to have been baeked up by his sub-
' ordinates, who may read, in the verdict of the jury,a very
profitable lebuice.—Corh Constitution.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

Bishop of Chester intends to hold
his next ordination at Chester, on Sunday, the 13th
October.
CONSECRATIONS.--The Bishop of Chester has recently
consecrated the new cemetery at Nantwich, which was
opened by license during the prevalence of the cholera,
the churchyard having been closed. It is situated about
three-quarters of 11. mile from the town, and is likely to
have a most beneficial effect upon the health of the inha-
bitants, the churchyard having long been in a dangerous
state from overcrowding. Last week the Bishop also con-
secrated the•parish church of Drigg, in Cumberland•, which
has been entirely rebuilt, with some extension, by volun-
tary subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated
Church Building Society—the old church had become so
ruinous as to be almost incapable of repair, and the inha-
bitants ore indebted to the active personal evertions of the
Rev. IL W. Hodgson, son of Admiral Hodgson, of
Ildlearosh-hall, the incumbent, for the accomplishment of
this desirable object ; the necessary funds having been
procured by him without the assistance ,cf any rates. A
.piece of ground aaded to the churchyard was at the same
time consecrated as an additional cemetery. In the same
week his lordship also consecrated an addition to the yard
of the church of Longsledale, situate in the picturesque
valley of that name, in the parish of Kendal, Westmor-
land ; and on Saturday, his lordship consecrated the re-
built parish church of Wigan, now one of the most magni-
ficent churches in the diocese.
The Rev. Ralph Allen Mould has been presented to
Trinity Church, Warrington, vacant by cession of Rev.
James Todd. Patrons, Lord Lilfctd and others. Value.
£l3O.
The Bishop of Exeter, it is said, is taking steps to
bring Mr. Gorham before the Arches' Court, for heresy,
as held and taught in his book.
The Bishop of Ely has added his name to the list of pre-
lates who condemn the agitation which certain members
of the Church are encouraging throughout the country.
It is stated that the next efforts of the committee for
conducting the Colonial Bishops' Fund will be directed to
the erection of a See in Western Australia, separate from
that of Adelaide. Other Bishoprics for the Northern
provinces of India, the district of Tinnevelly, Canada
West, and the islands of the Mauritius. are said to be in
contemplation.
The Lord Bishop of Chester held a confirmation at the
old church of Bebington on Wednesday last, on which
occasion 350 children attended. When all the young ones
had passed before the bishop, a venerable old man, 77
years of age, presented himself as a recipient of " the
laying on of hands." Ihe episode had an imposing effect.
It is a curious coincidence that at the confirmation before
the last, two clergymen presented themselves at the same
church as candidates for that rite, one of whom was the
Rev. Joseph Baylee, of Birkenhead.
NEW CFMRCHES.—The annual report of the Commis
sioners for Building Churches has just been published,
from which it appears that, during the year, twenty-one
churches have been completed, among which is mentioned
that in Bevington district, in this town. Three plans are
now under consideration : seventeen plans have been de-
cided upon. Thirty-eight grants, in addition to the above,
hare been made, and, besides all these, five new churches
have been built by private persons, and nine more, built
privately, are now. in progress. Thus the whole number
of new churches specified in this report as either just
completed or in preparation, is no fewer than one hundred
and twenty-five. The total cost of the thirty-two churches
now building will he about £97,t,00, or rather more than
£3OOO each. Assuming this to be the probable average.
the church is now expending £315,000 on new places of
public worship. Great, doubtless, are the difficulties
which beset the church, but it is impossible to despair of
an institution which, even discouraged as it is, ca❑ put
forth efforts so vigorous as these.

INSTITUTION OF THE REV. G. C. GORHAM.

At the termination of the ordinary business of the Pre-
rogative Court o❑ Tuesday, the Rev. G. C. Gorham was
introduced to Sir H. J. Fust. Having signed the articles
and taken the customary oaths, Sir H. J. Fust addressed
Mr. Gorham to the following effect :
" We, Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, Knight, Doctor of Laws, and
Official Principal of the Arches' Court of Canterbury, lawfully
constituted, do, by virtue of theauthority to us committed, ad-
mit you, the Rev. George Cornelius Gorham, clerk, 8.D., to
the vicarage of Balnpford-Speke, in the county of Devon, dio-
cese of Exeter, and province of Canterbury ; we do give you
true, lawful, canonical institution, and do invest you with all
the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and do
commit to you the care of the souls of the parishioners of the
said parish?'
Mr. Gorham then bowed to the learned judge and re-
tired, accompanied by his proctor, Mr. Bowdler. The
proceeding was quite unexpected, and when Mr. Gorham
was introduced very few persons were present, but infor-
mation of the fact spread with great rapidity, and a large
number of the practitioners at Doctors'-Commons entered
the court before the completion of the institution.
The Metropolitan Church Union has memorialised the
Archbishop of Canterbury not to suffer any step to be
taken for the institution of Mr. Gorhatn. His Grace re-
plied that he could not " assume to himself the authority
of refusing a sentence of a court, or deny to Mr. Gorham
a right to which, after a legal trial and examination, he
has been declared to be entitled." This, however, did not
satisfy the " Union," and they again wrote to the prelate,
who sent the following able reply :
...

"'Addington, August 8, 1850.
" Gentlemen,—l beg to acknowledge your letter of the 3rd
instant, in which, as the organs of the Metropolitan Church
Union, you desire me to reconsider my reply to your previous
communication.

You disclaim my interpretation of the request then made to
me, and profess that in desiring me to withhold consent to the
admission of Mr. Gorham to the benefice of Bra►npford Speke,
you do not propose that I should reverse the sentence of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It is, however,
obvious, that to refuse Mr. Gorham a benefice to which that
tribunal has declared him to be entitled, would be practically
to reverse its decision, the decision of a tribunal which, whether
it be termed spiritual or secular, is the tribunal by which,
according to the existing law, Mr. Gorham's rights were to be
tried.

You suggest that I should represent to Her Majesty the view
taken by the Metropolitan Church Union on many points con-
nected with that judgment, in the hope that Her Majesty may
license the assembling of a Convocation, and that thus the
whole question may again be brought under deliberation, and,
as you expect, differently determined. But surely it would be
an unprecedented and arbitrary measure by any retrospective
decree to annul a right of which an individual is already legally
in possession. And whilst you assume as undeniable a variety
of principles, and make many positive assertions, in order to
invalidate the respect due to the decision of the existing tribu-
nal, I must remind you that your opinions are directly opposed
to those of a numerous body of intelligent and attached mem-
bers of our Church, both Clergymen and laymen, who, although
they have observed a prudent and respectful silence, are yet
deliberately convinced that no other determination of the ques-
tion at issue would have been in accordance with the articles
of our Church, and the known principles of those who framed
them, and that a liberty which has been enjoyed by all Church-
men from the Reformation to the present day, in the exposi-
tion of subjects of such deep mystery, should by all means be
continued to them within the limits permitted by the revealed
word of God.
Assuredly there are occasions, as you remind me, when it
becomes a duty to obey God rather than man. But I beg to
observe that before any one takes upon himself the responsi-
bility of contravening the law of man, he ought to he very cer-
tain that in so doing he would be obeying God. Now nothing
which I find in the law of God gives me reason to believe that
I should be acting in conformity with his will, if I refused Mr.
Gorham admission to the cure of souls, on the ground of his
hesitating to affirm the spiritual regeneration of every baptised
child. And the will of God in this matter had need to be very
plainly declared, before I could think myself justified in accus-
ing Mr. Gorham of heresy; much more, before I could assume
the right of individually. condemning him, after the decision of
the legitimate tribunal in his favour.
In conclusion. 1 beg to assure your Committee that I feel
great regret in the necessity laid upon me of professing a wide
difference of opinion from the numerous subscribers to your
address : a difference, however, which in no wise diminishes
the respect with which I remain, gentlemen,
Your faithful servant,
J. B. CANTUAR."
" To the Secretaries of the Metropolitan Church Union."