Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-01-24
FIVE DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.

By the packet ship Garrick, which arrived in N.
York on Wednesday, we have intelligence from
England, up to the 18th ut-Boston Alias
Cotton had improved 1,aa Id.
The Bishop OF EXeter's letter to the clorpv of
his diocese is creating great excitement Remon.
strances are pouring in from nearly every parish,
and several distinguished Churchmen have express
ed their conviction that firm stand must now be
made against the Romish tendency in the establish
ment
! Murders and midnight asaassinations appear to
increase in Ireland. On the 9th ult the house of O
man named Powell was attacked BY four armed
ruffians. Powell defended the entrance, armed
with pitchtork A gun was levelled at him through
the window, but his daughter placed pillow against
the window which received the contents of the gun
The report attracted assistance, and the men de.
camped
| similar attack made upon the house of q
widow. She despatched her son for assistance he
was shot at, but escaped. An Irish weekly pape
contains the accounts of no less than ten simia,
outruges.
| On the 9th ut at regular meeting of the Re-
peal Association, Mr.. O'Conne bitterly denoun.
ced Louis Philippe as tyrant and usurper The
rent for the week was 1888 80.
One Day Later From England The packet
ship Quebec arrived at New York, on Thursday.
bringing London papers to Dec. -. The follow
ing are extracts:-
! The Steam ship Great R1taia-The first attempt
TO float this gigantic vessel through the locks at
Bristol was unsuccessful, but an additional portion
of the masonry having been removed, she was got
through the next day, and being taken in tow by
three steam tugs, proceeded to King road, where
she arrived in two hours and eight minutes without
accident of any kind. Her own steam was then
got up for trial of speed down the Channel.
correspondent Of the London Times, says, that
the Archbishop OF Canterbury has announced his
intention to summon a meeting of the Bench of
Bishops, in consequence of the unhappy agitation
prevailing the Church of England, in ordei to de.
termine upon the observance of the rubrcs
Court of Common Counsel was held in Lon
don on the 18th Of December chiefly to consider a
petition for aid in the endowment of Free Church
in ST. Giless in the Fields The grant was oppos-
ed on the ground that the new Church was got up
under Puseye auspices, and defeated, only five vo-
ting in its favor when about one hundred and fifty
were present.
The weather in France and England was Excess
sively severe it was daily expected in Paris that
the Seine would be frozen over. There was good
skating, on the Serpentne, in Hyde Park.
| The RoihSchiids Ercommunicated. Our last advi-
ces from Jerusalem, says the Gazette des Tribun-
aux, mention that the Synagogue of that city
whose members are known for their deep aversion
to every Innovation and progress in general, have
pronounced sentence of accommodation against
all the Israetes who should participate either as
collectors or donors, in the subscription now open
in Europe for the purpose of encouraging agricul-
ture among the Jews OF Asia, and establishing al
Jerursalem for the INDECENT of those same Jews an
extensive hospital and schools for adults and chill
dren OF both sexes Among the persons visited
with this anathema are the heads of the different
branches OF the Rothschild, who have subscribed
ioo,ooof towards that charitable undertaking.