The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-01 00:00:00

TILE CABINET.

First Lord of the Treasury The Earl of Durham,
created Marquess
of Bermuda, (*)
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and invested with
the Blue itiband, to

exalt him an extra

K.G. (t)
Lord High Chancellor Mr. Turbo created
Lord Gomorrha(t)
Lord President of the Council Sir Wm. Chaytor,
created Lord Ox-
noble 0)
Lord Privy Seal The Earl of Radnor.
Secretaries of State ( Home) lit. Hun. C. Buller.
(Foreign) .. , Viscount Howick.
(Colonial) ' Marquess of Nor-
manby.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Iron. Cuthbert
liippon.'
First Lord of the Admiralty.... ... . lit. Flo,u. E. Ellice.
President of the Board of Controul lit. flOn. J. Hume.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt. Hen. Richard
.
• Lalor.Shiel.
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President of the Board of Trade . Rt. Hon. Dr. Bow-
. ... . ,
- . ring.
Secretary at War _ EL lion. J. Pease.
Postmaster-General Rt. Hon. Sir Wm.
Molesworth.' •
Chief Secretary for Ireland Rt. Hon. Daniel
O'Connell:
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First Commissioner of Land li 0 i enue 11t. Him. Edward
Lainbton.
' NOT OF THE CABINET.
Paymaster of the Forces Col. Sir De Lacy
!-"--'!--7." 'Evans.- • -
Master of the Mint 'l' S Duncombe,Esq
Master-General of the Ordnance Major Macnamara.
Treasurer of the Navy J Temple 'Leader,
Esq.
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Vice-President of the-Board of Trade.. George Grote, Esq.
Attorney-General Sir R. At. Rolfe.
SaliCitor-General - . - 'l' Colpitts Granger,
•- Esq. to be knighted
Junior Lords of the Treasury Ed. Gibbon Wake-
field, Esq.
- --- 1.,..a,....-4-12..:„..... Esc,.
G. P. Bushe. Esq.
Morgan O'Connell,
' Esq.
J. P. Somers, Esq.
Thos. Wakley, Esq.
Joint Secretaries of the Treasury William Hutt, Esq.
Andrew White, Esq.
Junior Lords of the Admiralty Arthur Buller, Esq.
Edward Ellice, Jun.
REDR. ED. Browne, Esq,

J. O'Connell, Esq. -
Chief Secretary of the Admiralty ....Charles Wood, Esq.
Lord Chamberlain
Headfort.
Lord Steward The Earl of Minto.
Master of the horse The Duke of Leinster
Master of the Hounds The Earlof Lichfield
Lord Lieutisnant of Leland The Duke of Sussex.
Lord Chancellor of Ireland • Lord Plunkett, cre-
ated Earl Hanni-
bal. (§)
Private Secretaries to the Premier Hon. J. G. Ponsonby
Hon. Colonel Grey.
Solicitor to the Treasury Russell Bowlby, Esq
Private Secretary to the Lord Lieut. ),
of Ireland ' 3 W. D. Gillon, Esq.
tinder Secretary for Ireland Maurice O'Connell,
Esq,
Under Secretaries of state ( Home).' Sir Samuel Whalley
(Foreign) Hon. Cot. Grey.
(Colonial) MorgauJ ohn O'Con-
nell, Esq.
Commissioners for executing the
Lieut.-Gen. Ellice.
office of Commander-in-Chief .. Col. Sir A. L. Hay.
Col.thellonP.Butler

N.B.—ln all the Government Offices there is to be a com-
plete change of the subordinate functionaries to make way
for well kno.cu Liberals—the craven, fawning, sycophantic
tribe of toadies—in which will nut be forgotten "the scum of
all the filth of Gateshead and Nionk-Wearmouth Shore."

* In honour of his master stroke of Canadian Policy—the
Famous ordnance for the deportation of the Rebels.
t After the examp:e of Earl Grey.
" It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha,"

&C.;
After a famous tatie much used in feeding Cattle, and
much cultivated by llte worthy Baronet.
"Like ElantAPl I will lead my children and swear at
the altar eternal hatred to the invaders of my country's free-
dom."—Vide Speech of Mr. Plunket on the Act of Union.

The Bisbop of London, in his ordination sermon at St.
James's church last Sunda•, condemned, in strong terms,
the late judgment of Sir Yerbert Jenner, sanctioning the
Popish doctrine of prayers for the dead—Morning Herald.

EXTRAORDINARY.--On Sunday se'nnight, a novel and
extraordinary scene occurred at St. Mary's Church, Mon-
mouth, under the following circumstances :—Upon the pub-
lication of the banns of marriage, a poor rawboned fellow
named Williatn Howells, but more generally known by the
name of Peter, arose in the church, and with
A throat of brass and adamantine lungs.
forbad the union of hippy souls, on the ground of his having
a prior claim to the hand of the fair one; this, however, he
failed in satisfactorily proving, and, (it being the third time
of asking) poor Peter ascertained the union was to tae
place on the following morning, at which time he was seen
pacing the churchyard in a paroxysm of grief and auger, be-
wailing his fate and cursing the fickleness of her onn-whOm
he had unfortunately bestowed his affections, and at the same
time emphatically declaring she should never be another's,
for

She was the sunshine of his soul, and like
A flower he lived and flourished in her light.
Notwithstanding his threats and precautions, the parties
most interested, evaded his lynx-eyed valet, the connubial
knot was tied, and Peter finding himself thus baffled, very
much to the disappointment of several spectators who were
anxiously anticipating a scene, came to the desperate resolu-
tion of allowing the happy pair to return home unmolested,
greatly to their satisfaction, the only alloy they could pos-
sibly anticipate being the institution of legal proceedings
threatened by the disappointed swain.—Merlin.

FOREIGN LETTERS.—In the appendix to the second report
of the Postage Committee, (p. 13,) is a curious correspondence
between the American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool,
and the Lords of the Treasury, respecting the seizure by a
custom-house officer of a parcel containing bonds worth
£25,000. Tne following extract of a fetter from the Treasury,
dated April 8, 1837, throws a light on the extent to which
foreign postage is evaded :—" It is stated to this board, by
the Commissioners of Customs and the Postoffice department,
that a large number of letters, beyond the privilege allowed
to consignees, has been discovered and sent (as is required
by law) to the Postoffice; that the number of packages and
letters sent by the Customs to the Postoffice, under this head,
between the 14th February, 1836, and the 28th February,
18.37, amounted, by a detailed account furnished this board,
to 2371."—"'That in one instance only, it is stated to my
lords, that 530 letters were discovered, and that out of 111
packages of newspapers opened between the '29th September,
1836, and the 20th February, 1837. and which contained 822
newspapers, there were ftiund concealed 648 letters: that my
lords have before them the details in these last cases, with the
names of the parties to whom the packets were directed, and
the number of newspapers and letters in each packet." Mr.
Lawrence, assistant-secretary of thepostoffice (1043:) "The
American packet leaves London every ten days. From what
we have learned about 4,000 letters go by each vessel, without
passing through the postoflice." Mr. 1 elkin, vice-president
of the Chamber of Commerce at Nottingham (6961:) " The
correspondence of our town with America is invariably by
parcel." Mr. Brown, merchant, of Liverpool (6156 :) "The
Sirius sailed from Cork, and a lather remarkable circum-
stance occurred : Mr. Banning, the postmaster at Liverpool,
was informed that the Sit ius was going to New York; he
had an iininense bag made to contain some thousands of
letters (judging from the quantity of letters that came from
New York Oy the packets what would be the quantity sent ;)
he was dyeing at a friend's house after the Sirius sailed;
after tlab bag had been despatched he mentioned this circum-
stance; and talked of the apathy of the Liverpool people to
this new mode of communication, and stated that, to his asto-
nishment, he only received five letters. He said he put his
bag on one side, ard directed those, in an envelope, to the
postmaster at New York. They did not mention at the time,
as they might have done, that at least 10,000 letters were
sent; they were all sent in a letter bag, which was at the
office of the consignee of the ship. I sent at least 200 ; they
went free."

MISCELLANEOUS.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MAIIKET, MONDAY, DEC. 24.-

There has been rather more doin, in the market to-day, but
still the demand has been limited.' So far as regards prices,

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there is no change. Low-priced wool is still looking up.
The Rev. William Smith, Socinian Minister of this town,
we understand, has been appointed Chaplain to the Corpo-
ration, on the recommendation of Mr. Secretary Stanley.--

Stockport Advertiser.
To FIND THE VALUE OF A DlAMOND.—Ascertain the
weight in carets, double that weight and multiply the square
of this product by 1:2. Thus a diamond of four cafes: Bby
8 is 64, multipled by £2, gives £128.L-Ure's Tictionary.
The general on di: of the fashionable world is, that the
wealthy heiress of the late Duchess of St. Alban's, is, ere
long, to be united to an ex-M.P. for the town of Lancaster,
nearly related. to a lady who has the honour of wearing oue
of the most ancient ducal coronets of England.—Preston
Chronicle.

A NICE SYSTEM OF CONTRABAND.—A wine-merchant of
Moscow is said to have recently transported the contents of
100 casks of wine to St. Petersburgh, without the casks, by
first freezing the wine, which was then conveyed to its desti-
nation in solid masses of ice.

M. Yates is about to astonish London, by introducing on
the boards of the ,Adelphi one who has attracted and asto-
nished all Paris—an actor eight feet high. Lie is, we pre-
sume, the Great Weston personified, or one of the Alps me-
tamorphosed into a mortal:

The Oxford memorial of Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer,
which has not been much more than a month before the pub-

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lie, has received extensive patronage. Between £2,000 and
£3,000 have been subscribed. The plan of combining some,
sort of monumental record. with a churi:h or sacellum near

the spot where the martyrs perished, has received the support
of a long list of contributors. •
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION FOR THE BOROUGH OF MARY-
LEBONR.—On Saturday, at a vestry meeting of this parish,
among other subjects which were taken into consideration

was that of an application to her Majesty's Privy Council
for a charter of incorporation fur the borough of Marylebone,
including the parishes of Paddington and St. Pancras. After
a good deal of discussion, a resolution to that effect was agreed
to, with only one dissentient.
A Marseilles letter of the 23d instant, says, "As the Rod-
ney was recently entering Malta she was struck by lightning,
which killed two men and set the ship on fire, but the flames
were extinguished is a quarter of an hour br the activity and
order of the crew. The etrectsof the eletric fluid are said to
have been so singular, that Captain Hyrie.Parker, who com-
mands the ship, is preparing a detailed account oithem:
EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE.—Thomas Bowman, of El-
lington, Northumberland, husbandman, in the Autumn of
1836. planted on the farm at Blakernore 4 grains of white
wheat, which produced the following harvest the extramili•
nary number of 7068 grains : The above number (measure-
ing 1 gill atid a halt') were planted by hand in October, 1837,
on 102 square yards of land, and produced this season 66 gills
and 1.% half.—Newcastle Journal.
SMUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A slaughtered pig, which
had just been landed at Hare's Wharf, Wapping, from the
Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company's steam-ship
I'erth,.Captaiu Spitits, which arrived yesterday forenoon from
Dundee, was seized by the officers of excise, in consequence
of a bladder—not its own—having been discovered in its in-
side, containing about two gallons of prime Highland whisky,
on which English duty had not been paid.—Standard.

DIVISION OF THE PARISH OF STOCKPORT.—On the 6th of

October last an order was issued by her majesty in council,
for the division of this extensive parish into two distinct and
separate parishes, as well as for the assignment of an eCcle-
sastic district to St. Peter's Church.. 'this desirable act (fur
each clergyman nil! now know the field of duty he has to
cultivate) has been effected by her majesty's commissioners
for building new churches, with the sanction and approbation
of Lord Vernon, the patron of the parish, and the bishop of
the diocese, in virtue, of the powers invested in them by an
act of parliament which received the royal sanction en the
30th of May, 1838. We have now two parishes in the town—
the parish of St. Mary's, and the parish of St. Thomas's.—
Stockport Advertiser.
A SECOND BEETHOVEN.—We learn by a private letter
from Paris, dated the 15th ult., that a concert took place in
that city about a fortnight ago, at which the works of a young
composer, named Berlioz, were exclusively performed. Two
symphonies, one entitled "Harold," and the other " La Vie
d'une june Artiste," are described as being equal to any of
Beethoven's most famous works. Pagauini attended the
concert, and was enthusiastic in his applause. So much was
he enraptured with the compositions of the young Maestro,
that on the following day he wrote him a most complimentary
note, and enclosed an order on his banker for twenty thou-
sand francs.

RADICAL DEMONSTRATION.—FIRE ARMS.—At two small
villages, called Gravel-hole and Crompton, which are be-
tween Rochdale and Oldham, the inhabitants have clubs held
at hush-shops and beer-houses, and pay sixpence per week to
purchase fire-arms. Last week, the members of a men's
sick club, in that neighbourhood, held a meeting at which it
was proved that the club was worth upwards of two pounds
per member; it was unanimously agreed upon that the
money they had iu the bank should be drawn out, and that
one pound should be allowed to each member to, purchase
fire arms, and to have them ready previous to the meeting of
the Radical Demonstration parliament. At Royton and
Oldham, the Radicals are opposed to physical force, but at
Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Hyde, there are
several hundred radicals who have lately got fire-arms. There
are also clubs similar to the above.—Stockport Adveriiser.
THE Naw JUDGE.—The Attorney-General is not to be
the new Judge in the Common Pleas. A pressure has been
put on Lord Abinger to induce him to retire in favour of his
son-in-law. All the expectant Radical M.P.'s with silk
gowns are again done, as they were when Mr. Justice Colt-
man was so unexpetedly elevated to the ermine. The seat
on the bench is to be given, not to the Solicitor-General, be-
cause Falmouth will be lost; not to Mr. Maule, because Car-
low is unsafe; not to Mr. Erle, because Oxford is doubtful;
not to Mr. Serjeant Wilde, because Newark is become Con-
servative; not to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, because the Bead-
ing men have recovered their senses—but to the Hon. T.
Erskine, (of the Bankrupt Court,) because be is not a Whig
M.P. Thus it appears that Lord Melbourne is determined
not to risk his easy chair at the Palace by the loss of a single
'int. arising from the prouietion of Radical M.P.'s bein.,g En-
glish laOyers. Wodid ho dog so to kick liadieitk
being Irish lawyers! MT. •Diattiel O'Connell would-rrevent
it; but the English lawyers being M.P.'s must grin and en-
dure.—Times.

THE EA lt,L OF CLARENDON,—We regret to announce the
death of the venerable Earl of Clarendon. His Lordship
expired at his residence, Wishner Terrace, Deal, at five mi-
nutes past one o'clock p.m , on Saturday, the 22d instant.
The death of the Noble Lord was sudden. In the morning
he had been well enough to frank a number of letters. The
late John Charles Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, and Baron
Hyde, of Hindon, in the Perage of Great Britain; Chief
Justice in Eyre, North of Trent; Prothonotary of the county
Palatine of Lancaster, and P.C., and also a Count in the
kingdom of Prussia, was born on the 14th of November,
1757, and succeeded to the title on the death of his brother,
Thomas, second Earl, on the 7th of.hlarch, 1824. His lord-
ship has left no children, his .only daughter, Lady Harriet
Maria Villiers, having died in 1835. The late Earl is suc-
ceeded in his titles and estates by his nephew, Sir George
William Frederick Villiers, (now Earl of Clarendon,) our
Ambassador at Madrid. The present Earl was born on the
12th of January,lBoo, and is unmarried. The present Earl's
sister is married to the accomplished author of "Granby,"
Mr. Lister, Registrar-General of births, deaths, and mar-
riages, and brother of the late Lady Jahn Russell.
WILL OF JAMES BARNES, THE PANTALOON.—The pro-
duce of Barnes's benefit, including the money subscribed by
the nobility and gentry, as well as
,by his brother profession-
a!s, having come too late to be of any real service to him, the
poor fellow on his deathbed willed all his early possession to
his old, steady, and tried friend, the pantomimic co-laborateur,
Toin Eller, the celebrated harlequin. Previous to his death,
Mr. Peake, the treasurer of the English Opera House, hav-
ing asked him, "to whom would you wish to- bequeath this
money that has been gathered fur you?" the poor man, ma-
king an effort to raise himself in his bed, pointed to Eller,
who stood by, .and, with a look of admiration, exclaimed,
"There stands Tom Eller, a man who never deserted me:
we have known each other since the year 1814: many and
many is the sovereign he has lent me. when I did not know
which way to turn. Since I have been out of the profession
he has been more than a father to me. I have never till now
had it in my power to pay him back a farthing. He shall be
the heir to all I possess in the world—money, picture, every-
thing. God for ever bless you, my dear Tom! You have all
been very kind to me gentlemen; but Tom always stuck to
me like a brother. God bless him I" Fie fell back, ex-
hausted by this effort, and it was some time ere he recovered
sufficient strength to sign the document which Mr. Peake
had in the meantime drawn up, bequeathing everything to
Eller. It is a remarkable fact, that Barnes never would part
with the picture (his own portrait) alluded to above, even in
his greatest distress, though as much as fifty guineas was at
one time offered him for it.
FIRE ARMS AGAIN !—On Thursday last, a Stephenite
spinner, residing at Padfield,near Hollingworth, named Gat-
lick, called at the house of Hall, in Tintwistle, with whom
he had some slight acquaintance, and begged to be allowed
to leave his stick, as he said he was going to Mr. Wilkinson's
mill, and, that he would call again for it in a short time. A
respectable surveyor, from an adjoining township, happening
to go to his house soon after the spinner bad gone away, Mrs.
Hall, who was is in a state of pregnancy, directed his atten-
tion to the peculiarities of the walking-stick. The surveyor
accordingly examined the curiosity, Sirs. Hall being at the
time sitting sideways immediately before' him, when, on pull-
ing what appeared to be a wire ring, the stick suddenly went
off, with the report of a gun, the contents of which most pro-
videntially enteringthe lower and back part of the chair upon
which she was sitting, but without injuring her. The stir-•
veyor, of course, was in a high state of alarm, caused by
an impression at the time, that he had shot Mrs. Hall, she
having fallen on the floor from fright. In a few minutes, how-
ever, the stick was examined and found to be a gun about a
yard long, encased with wood. Portions of the discharge
struck and injured the wall. The Stephenite called for his
" companion" irr a short time afterwards, and (strange to add)
the gun was returned to him. Sirs. Hall being too much
alarmed to adopt any other course. We have been credibly
informed, that a number of similar instruments may be had
at the house of a certain Stephenite beer-seller, in Glossop,
at which place, moreover, fire-arms are regularly raffled for
by the operatives empluyded in the factories there.—S lock-
port Advertiser. • •
THE LATE MURDER IN NEWCASTLE.—It is a novel and
remarkable feature in the history of the recent Savings'
Bank Murder in this town—so far as that history 'has been
hitherto developed—that the unprecedented anxiety and
pa nful suspense and disquietude,. which universally exist in
the public mind, arise as much from the position occupied by
the accused, as from the frightful and furious destruction of
the actual sufferer. From the laborious investigations which
have taken place, and the mass of evidence already adduced,
only one fact, as regards Mr. Bolam's share in the trans-
action, is indisputable. That Mr. Bolam was an actor during,
the dreadful events connected with the murder of his col-
league and assistant in the Bank, is as certain as that night
follows day. But then comes the mysterious question, was
he intended as a second victim, or was his the assassin's hand
that did the deed? This is the short but fearful issue now
awaiting the decision of a solemn appeal to a jury. If Mr.
Bolam, new immured in a prison, on the evidence already
elicited, be an innocent man, then is he the most deeply and
irretrievably injured person ever ruined under the sanction of
law. If, on the contrary, his hands are imbrued in blood,
then does the crime assume a character more awfully and
inexplicably sanguinary than any ever committed; and his
name will go down to posterity as the most diabolical villain
that ever disgraced humanity. At present the weight of tes-
timony for and against the accused seems pretty nearly
balanced; and, relying with confidence that justice will, in
the forthcoming trial, hold the scales with an even hand—
and hoping that the evidence will be such tie to clear up all
impending doubts, we leave the issue to H tam who alone
knoweth the secrets of men's hearts. Pending the trial every
possible inquiry continues to be vigorously prosecuted; and
' we proceed to state the only additional circumstance which
has transpired since our last. It has been stated, on the au-
thority of a contemporary, that Mr, Millie was in the habit.
of taking home coals from the Bank to his own house.
It
so, it may be that the several pieces of coal found wrapped
up in paper in his pockets were places there—not by the
murderer, to assist in consuming the body during the fire,
but by the unfortunate man himself, for tae purpose of being
consumed at home. This, considering Millie's strait-
ened circumstances, at first appears a probable event; but
then it does seem unlikely that a man, who bore an other-
wise irreproachable character, would become dishonest for
the sake of a few ounces of coal, more essecially considering
the cheapness of that commodity in Newcastle. On the
whole, every discovery tends to invest Ilia murder in a cloud
of deeper and more mysterious interest. —Newcastle Journal.

*THE WRITINGS, CORRESPONDENCE, &c., OF
TITUS O'FLAHERTY, ESQ.
No. IV.

The following advertisement has been sent to me, which I
presume is copied from a London newspaper:—" IMPORTANT
SALE. Mr. George Robins bas the honour to announce that
he is instructed to sell hi auction, early in January, without
reserve, all those valuable Leasehold Offices and Premises
in- Downing-street, commonly called "nlb: TREASURY
CHAMBERS,' now in the possession of. Viscount Melbourne,
which are well adapted for any gentleman in extensive busi-
ness, requiring spaoious accommodation. The only reason
for the present Noble Occupier disposing thereof, is his hav-
ing removed entirely to Windsor Palace. Further particu-
lars will appear in a few days, &c., &c."

The following extracts .from a letter written by a valued
friend in Dublin, one of Mr. O'Connell's Tail, will perhaps
interest my readers :
" I have great reason to believe that the report first put in
circulation by that lying journal, the Dublin Mail, that Lord
Normanby forthwith resigns the post of Lord Lieutenant, is
perfectly true. It is a provoking thing the lying Tory prints
will publish accurate information. * * * The O'Con-
nell rent this year is much below our expectations; but when
the precursor fund is added to it, ourworthy chief will net a
nice round sum. Never way Ireland be short of a grievance;
never may she obtain justice' so long as the Liberathur can
put £20,000 per annum into his pocket ! * • • * Dear
friend, if I were to reckon up the millions of trillions of woes
and wrongs which my poor, bleedin', sufferin' cuunthry has
endured at the cruel hands of Sassenach England, for nearly
six thousand years (it is an historical fact, now generally re-
ceived by-scholars, that Cain was an Englishman,- and Abel
an Irishman), by the side of which Job's sorrows would seem
perfect blessings, I believe I should brake every bone in the
stony heart of ye ! Faith, I only know one bit of bad thrate-
ment which England has omitted to perpetrate upon the body
of poor ould Ireland; and that is, puttin' her head under
wather—giving her a cold bath for twenty-four hours; and
even this atrocity was once in contemplation. You may re-
member, a few years ago, a Joint Stock Company set on lout,
called 'The Ireland Immersion Company,' under the aus-
pices of the late Sir Joseph Yorke, M.P..... But a brighter
and happier day has begun to dawn upon Ireland : her days •
of lamentation and weepin' eyes are past: England now of-
fers us the open hand, the band of fellowship, instead of the
closed hand, the fist of hostility. Sure, there is a mighty
sensible difference between the hand open and the hand shut!
A beginnin' is begun by the present government of liquidat-
ing the mighty debt (a debt which England can nivir fully
satisfy without being reduced to bankruptcy), the debt of
3. .lice to Ireland. There is.a world of meaning, man, in that
last expression. Why should I deny that In its thruly popu-
lar and just acceptation, ' justice to Ireland' signifies injus-
tice to England! But that is no odds to a rale patbriot like
me. I want to see Ireland righted: to get Peter paid: never
heed whether Paul is robbed;—that's his own look out. Oh,
I should bate myself, and shun my own society as a nasty,
blackguard, and caution my fellow-men against any commu-
nication with me, if I cared the value of a counterfeitfarthing
for any thing on earth savin' the interest of my own native
counthry. sly motto is, Perish the universe, and live ould
Ireland .1 In my opinion, an ounce of pathriotism is worth
a ton of philantrophy : moreover, there is something empha-
tically Irish in the snake and the sound of the former word !
* * ° Lord
.Normanby is the very man to occupy
the situation ho does, because he governs Ireland by not go-
vernin' it at all, but lavin' O'Connell and the priests to go-
vern it for him: Hurrah for indinindint Lord Normanby,
who, as you may guess by his name, is not of cursed Saxon -
blood 1.. This is one blessin' for which Ireland. is mighty
thankful, that she has at present a Viceroy who, with the
view of administerin' equal justice and impartial rule, has
tosses! himself into the arias, and become the toulaind slave
of time Popish Ribbon and Precursor party.! It is honestly
governmentdue to the Irish to- commend the uniform distri-
bution of Crown patronage. We have party sheriffs and
party judges; we hive busiest Popish juries, that properly
refuseto convict marauders; felons, incendiaries, and assassins,
even upon testimony pure and clear as sunlight; the police
force is whollyyielded up to us, and the magistracy is being
weeded, faster than eyed Common decency would suggest, of
Protestant and loyal gentlemin and magnates, and stocked
with the best stock of agitators, seditionists, and repealers;
in fine, the government never thinks of committing sich a
mortal sin as puttin any sowl into place except at the dicta-
tion, and with the consent of O'Connell. So far, so good;
as the boa constrictor said when he had half gulled the buf-
falo. Still, my hearty, you cannot call these much. They
do not collectively amount to .a penny in the pound upon our
bill of claims. G'oin' on at this rate, Ireland will be a thou-
sand years in obtaining complete redress! Plague on the
man that first invented procrastination : he was a thief,—the
thief of time. You have seen the moderate list O'Connell
has made out of national grievances. The Protestant church
establishment must be destroyed root and branch, and the
clergy of that heretical religion starved, drowned, or massa-
cred. We must have a re-distribution of property; we must
have a large quantity of British wealth imported into Ireland,
either by choice, and in a spirit of enterprise, or by force;
we require a large number of rich mines to be discovered
under the bogs of our island; we must have that same' in-
tersected by railroads, east, west, north and south, at the ex-
pense of British capital, Mr. Pierce Mahoney being appointed
chief jobber; and it is only our modesty that forbids us to
add what justice, i. e., Irish justice, dictates, that every Irsi -
man should have and enjoy a farm of his own, and sleep with
his landlord every night; and pray, why not let harvest con.e
before seed time, and potatoes grow ready boiled?' If lie-
land is to be pacified, excisemen, soldiers, and police must Is
driven into the sea, jails must be converted into distilleries,
Protestant churches into mass-houses, and noblemen's man-
sious into monasteries and Maria Plonk-cries! and last, albeit
not least, we demand the repale izit* • the cursed union! We
must have a domestic legiSlature of our own : nothin' but that
can heal the foul leprosy which covers the beautiful body of
ould Ireland ! Oh, to withhold that is to deny tis the-first
and the most precious of national rights!. Nature unques-
tionably intended every counthry to have a parliament of its
own. W hat, in' the name of common sense,. was College
Green created for, but to hold it in; and Ireland is-the first
and only instance to the conthrary since the days of Adam
. (who was himself M. P. for Paradise, but was ultimately un-
, seated for corrupt practices), otherwise I have studied history
• in my cabin at home most unsuccessfully." 7 " ti •7,
j Manchester, 26th December, ISIS.