The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-05-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FIGHT FOR £5OO.—A pugilistic encounter took place Mr. PLUMPTRE, who occupied the chair, expressed his the other day between Gill (of Coventry) and Norley (of satisfaction at once more meeting the friends of the so- Manchester) for £5OO, at a place called Withy Green, near ciety in defence of the Protestant faith. He did not wish Oxford. After a hard fight Gill was declared the victor. on the present occasion to speak in terms of antipathy or The number of fires that have taken place in the metrounkindness towards his Roman Catholic fellow sinners, polis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year, but as to the system of the Church of Rome, be felt according to the records kept by the brigade authorities, bound constantly to protest against it. He had had amounts to more than 300. many opportunities of seeing the tyranny which was ex- In the years 1835-39, there was 315 murders, and in the ercised over the Roman Catholics in Popish countries. year 1840-44, there were 347 ; being an increase of ten per He was sorry to say that in the Established Church of cent. ; while the increase of the population would account England there were men who were propagating the prin. for but six per cent. ciples of Popery, but who were destitute of the honesty to The Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, of Coventry, has been apavow their connexion with the Roman sect. He looked pointed Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic of the western upon the concessions which had been made to 11omanisnn district, in the place of the late Dr. Briggs. Dr. Ullaas a heavy blow dealt at the Protestant faith. It would thorne is a member of the Benedictine order. therefore be their duty, henceforth, to resist such conces- On Thursday, between the hours of four, a.m. and five, sions to the utmost, for although there might be trying p.m., no fewer than seven fires occurred in the metropoand sifting times before them, he had very little doubt his, some of which were attended with considerable dathat the cause of truth would ultimately triumph. mage. The Secretary then read the report.—The first portion Major Beniowski has discovered a simple process by of that document was employed in denouncing the con- which the daily newspapers, or any book printed from duct of her Majesty's government, who under the pre- common type, may be printed so as to be read by the tence of expediency had sacrificed the institutions of the blind. country, and to drown the cry of justice to Ireland had Mrs. Jane Culliford, who has reached her 108th year, attempted the destruction of the church. The present walked a few days since to Taunton from Yeovil Marsh, government had followed in the path of their predeces- two miles. She appeared in good health and full of sors, for the Charitable Trusts Bill, the Religious Opini- energy.—Doreet ufirontrie. ons Bill, and others of a similar character brought forward On Sunday week a fine Dutch galliot arrived at Preston by them, were all steps in the wrong direction. The re- with a cargo of oats from Holland, This is the first vesport then referred to the vigorous efforts made by the so= sal of the kind that has been up at Preston, and a great ciety to oppose the progress of the Maynooth Bill—the number of persons witnessed its arrival. number of petitions then presented against it being more At a special meeting held at the India House, on Wedthan 10,000, and the signatures amounting to a million nesday, a pension of £5OOO and £2OOO per annum, were and a quarter. The total receipts of the society for the voted, by a large majority, to Lord Hardinge and Lord year were £1,157, and the expenditure £1,044, the Bahl- Gough respectively. lities incurred being about £250. Their stock in hand A handsome collar has been presented by the Humane might be valued at £5OO or £6OO, but this could not at Society to the dog " Bess," which saved a female from once be made available for the society. The number of drowning at Granton Pier in November last. The collar additional subscriptions during the past year bad consi- bears a suitable inscription engraved on silver. derably increased. Several standard Protestant works The " strike" at Birmingham is at an end. The mashad been added to the publications of the society, and nu- ters have withdrawn the written declaration, and the men merous grants bad been made for the cause at home and are to declare verbally that they do notsupport any branch abroad and in the colonies. The report expressed the of the building trades that is at present " out on strike." satisfaction which should be felt at the establishment of