The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-01-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a congregation held this day, might naturally be expected--namely, disease and death. being the 'first day of Lent Term the following degrees Fever and dysentery, accordingly, in some parts of the were conferred :—Masters of Arts: Rev. M. E. C. Walcountry, are becoming prevalent, and carrying off their cott, Exeter college; Thomas Leslie, Balliol college ; victims rapidly. :In the centre of Clonmany parish, we are E. E. Garbett, Rev. J; T. Pigott, Rev. R. F. Wood, infornied, the mortality has for some time past averaged and Richard Ley, Brazennose college ,• Herman L. Prior, from five to six per day. Even in this city, which has Trinity college ; the Rev. H. Mansel, Fellow of St. John's long been proverbial for healthiness, funeral processions College.—. Bachelors of Arts : Harry Wright, Magdalenare of frequent occurrence • and we believe the same re- hall, Grand Compoundei; J. W. Taft, St. Edmund-hall. mark holds good with reg,anl to most of the towns in the The-Morning Post announces another victim. The surrounding district .—Derry Sentinel. SURRENDER OF MURDERERS FROM STARVATI Rev. Francis John Laing, 8.A., of Queen's College, ON.— Cambridge. On the 15th August, 1845, a man named James 31-nrphy The Rev. Charles Perry, MA., minister of the district was horribly murdered at a place called Lisheens, within church of St. Paul, Cambridge, has been appointed to the five miles of Bantry. The principal in the murder was a Bishopric of Melbourn, about to be erected in Australia man named William Downing, the leader of a powerful Felix. faction in this country. Since then the police were most The Chancellor of the Diocese has conferred on the desirous to arrest him and others, who were abettors in Rev. Henry Carpenter, 8.A., the respected minister of the crime, and though night after night they traversed the St. Michael's, in this town, a token of his kindness and hills, and a large reward was offered, they did not succeed, regard, by appointing him to the office of surrogate, tice. Downing and his guilty associates having been sheltered The Rev. William Cruttenden Cruttenden, M.A., Miand protected by his murderous adherents throughout the' nister of Macclesfield, has been appointed by the Right country. However, on 12th December last, James T. Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley, to the Rectory of AlFlynn, one of the. parties charged, gave himself up to Carley, Cheshire, vacant on the resignation of the Rev. head constable Grant, stating that he could not suffer Charles Girdlestone. hunger any longer, as those who heretofore fed him were DR. Hof Dr. correspondent of the London Times without food themselves. On the same day James D. asks how, if Dr. Hook be sincere in his professed abhorFlynn surrendered, giving as his reason the inability of rence of Popery, he can, when to draw near to Rome is the people longer to assist him. On the 15th ult. John only to enhance her power, advertise a cheap tract with M`Carthy, a third party charged, surrendered himself, some such title as-this—"jn the Sacrament there is a true and on the 24th, the principal, William Downing, came sacrifice." Was it not the denial of this monstrous docin. He had -been an athletic man, but his frame was so trine, he asks, and the glorious defence of the simple truth shattered and his countenance so haggard, that he was —Christ died once for all—that caused the life-blood of not recognised until he gave his name. He said he sup- the martyrs to be poured out ? And if so, how can we posed he would be hung, but even that were preferable to justify any man, calling himself a Protestant, who thinks the horrid death which awaited him if he remained at large lightly of a truth so dearly bought, who can tamper with any longer.—Cork Constitution.. it, y fritter it away by nice distinctions or mstical subtle•