The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

REPEAL AGITATION

At a meeting of the Irish Conservative Peers and mem-
bers of parliament, held at the Earl of Wicklow's, on the
17th of June, 1843,
It was unanimously resolved—That this meeting deeply
deplores the present alarming state of Ireland.

That they consider the Multitudinous assemblages now
taking place in various parts of Ireland to be dangerous to
the public peace, and calculated to create well•founded
terror in the minds of her Majesty's well-disposed subjects
of all classes in that country. _

That in consequence, the Ordinary occupations of the popu-
lation are suspended, and the public mind kept in a state of
painful and dangerous excitement.
That under these circumstances the undersigned noblemen
and gentlemen feel it to be their duty to declare, individually
and collectively, their anxious desire and firm determination
to use their best exertions, in co-operation wills her Majesty's
Government. for the purpose of upholding the law, preserv-
ing the public peace in that part of
,the United Kingdom,
and allaying that dangerous excitement to which they have
referred

Signed,

DOWNSIIIRE; Cliair man, BELMORE,

LuCAN,

Lo RTON

CLARE,

BLoomvIELD,

COURTOWN,

I)UNSANY,

DONOUGIIMORr

lIHRESFORD,

CII ARLEVILLV

BLATNEY,

GLEN aim..

CARBER.

STRADDROKE,
141. TAYLOR, M.P.
CLAUDI HAMILTON, M.P
J. IRVING, M.P.
COURTENAY, M.P.

CAsTLEMAINE

W. R. ORmsuy Gonr..
J. H. HAMILTON, 111.1),
W. El. GR►:GORY,
E. J. SO !It LE V, 'M.P.
W. VERNER, NIA'.

lICHDALT,

E. CONOLLY, M.P,
BERNARD, M.P.
E. HAYES, M.P.
J. BOYD, M.P.

NORTHLAND, M.P.
A. LEFRov, M.P.
C. B. LEsii.E. M.P,
F. SHA

1-1. BRUEN, M.P.
M. BATISON, M.P.
E. GRoGAN, M.P.
QUINTIN DICK. M.P.
C. IL BALDWIN, M.P.
W. ORMSBY GORE, M.P,

GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P.
A DARK. M.P.
GEORGE WYNDII AM (of Pet
worth.)

ALEXANDER NRCIVAL

It turns out that several Irish Magi

:istrates have been re

ie Wis6ec

to be ad

martyrs." In each case the names or the parties so rnisrep
resented have been restored to the Commission.

We hate heard, on authority on which we feel disposed to
place reliance, that the government intent; to apprehend

their ohject in tilling the country with troops is to preserve
the peace when such an occurrence may take place.—Derry
Slandard.—Though we copy: this paragraph, we need not
say, we give it no credence.
THE LATE COUETS-MARTIAL.—The following, we are
informed, are the verdicts and sentences of the courts-mar-
tial held last week, for the purpose of trying the soldiers of
the 15th regiment, accused of improper conduct in connexion
with the late attack upon the Nlancliester police :—Serjeant
Lawrence Nolan, against whom there were three charges,
were acquitted on the first and third, and found guilty on the
second ; and was sentenced to be reduced to the rank and
pay of a private soldier. Privates James Rooney and Dennis
Tracey were found guilty, and each sentenced to four
months' imprisonment : and Privates James Bullock, James
Webb, and William Thorp, were acquitted.—Manchester
Guardian.

The epidemic amongst cattle is very pi evalent at present.
One gentleman, residing in the neighbourhood of Middleton,
county Cork, lost last week no less than seventeen head by
this disease.—Dublin Statesman.

MURDER AT BRAEGIL—On Monday, the sth instant, as
Andrew and Moffit, sons to Mr. William Moffitt, uf
Legacurry, were returning home from the fair of Befagh,
county Tyrone, they were attacked near the town, by two
brothers, of the name of Montieth, and others, who assisted
them in beating the Mottits in a most cruel and inhuman
manner. Andrew died the next day, and his brother lies
dangerously ill. The Montieths and Moffits are neighbours,
and had some dispute in the fair, but the Montieths, not
being satisfied, raised a party to aid them, and attacked their
opponents. An inquest was held ott the body of the de-
ceased, by Joseph Orr, Esq., coroner, when a verdict of
wilful murder was returned. Two persons were arrested and
committed to Omagh gaol, charged with being principals or
accessories,—Newry Telegraph.
.BASK OF IRELAND.—At the general half-yearly meeting
of the Proprietors of Bank Stock, the Governor presiding, it
was stated in the report, " That it Is the opinion of this court
that a dividend of 4 per cent. be made to the proprietors of
Bank Stock, for the half-year ending 24th ult." The Gover,
nor then addressed the meeting and said, in making this
dividend the governor and directors announce with regret
that, to make it, a further reduction of the surplus fund, to
the extent of £13,000, will he necessary. The amount taken
from that fund last' hittf-cr'r being; as then anticipated,
about £15,000, makes a reduction from the rest of abcut
£28,000. This deficiency has occupied the serious attention
of the governor and directors, but they have not thought it
expedient, at present, to recommend an alteration in the rate
of dividend. The report was adopted, and the meeting ad-
ourucd.

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BIGAMY.-INTERESTING CASE

The judges of the Queen's Bench this morning delivered
judgment on a case which created a good deal of interest here.
A man named John Burke was convicted of bigamy at Cork
before Mr. Justice Ball. Ills counsel (Mr. O'llea) raised an

objection in which the learned judge concurred—namely, that

the first marriage was invalid, in►tsmuch as the parties were
second cousins, and according to the rules of the Roman
Catholic church could not be married without a dispensation
from the bishop of the diocese. It appeared that they pro-
cured a dispensation from the Vicar General, which they
prese►ntetl to the priest, who married them ; but the prisoner's
counsel contended that it was from the bishop that license
should have proceeded. There were other collateral . ob.
jections which depended upon the first one. Judge Burton
said that if as the time of the first marriage the parties went
before a clergyman of the Roman Catholic church, stated
their relationship, and produced that which he and they be-
lieved to be a proper dispensation, each and both were stopped
from raising any question as to the validity of that marriage.

•They might get tired of each other, former faults might be
discovered, but the statute law of Ireland held such marriage

valid, nor could the rules of that church be considered superior
-to the laws of land. Mr. Justice Crampton, in the course of
his judgment, said that it had been argued, that inasmuch in
I A' was not strictly within the rules of
1, the parties being second cousins,

the Roman C

and not having obtained a dispensation from the bishop
of the diocese, it should be declared invalid in point of law,
and it was contended that the rules of the Roman Catholic
Church should be taken as part of the law of the land. Now
this was a monstrous assumption. The canonical law of the
Established Church was not part of the law of the land, only
o t:►r as it formed part of the statute law of the realm. He
then cited the 33 Henry VIII, c. 6, which took from the
Romish Church the power of dissolving marriages on various
grounds, This act went to nullity all the power assumed by
the Church of Rome. It was contended that this act did not
refer to the Catholic but to the Protestant church,—at that
time the►e was no recognition of the Church of Rome at all,
and the marriage law was made to be binding on all. It was
further urged, that if this marriage had taken place in Italy or
Spain, it would he held invalid here. He denied the applica-
tion of that argument to the present case; the law of Eng-