The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-15 00:00:00

WHAT WILL O'CONNELL DO?

Mr. O'Connell, not to leave this query unsatisfied, has
written to Mr. Ray, the Secretary of the Precursor Society,
as follows :
" It is quite manifest that we are condemned by tory and
radical hostility to do without railrAds until an act passes in
College-green for their creation. I presume the government
plan will be abandoned as hopeless.
" Indeed I pity the Irishman who supposes that there is
any hope for his country save in the repeal !
My plan is this :
" First—l will publish an appeal to the people of Ireland
in a ' Hereditary Bondsmen' letter in the Pilot of Monday—
I will show them what little reliance they can place in British
statesmen. _ _

Secondly—l request an adjournment for a fortnight of the
Precursor Society—that is, from Monday, the 11th, to Mon-
day, the 25th. On the latter day I will, please God, attend,
and remain in Dublin, organising the popular party for a
fortnight, as the Easter recess will, as usual, continue until
after Low Sunday.
.!` Thirdly—l will, in the first week after the recess, bring
on the subject of an equalisation of the parliamentary fran-
chises between England and Ireland, and again divide the
house upon that question.
" Fourthly—l will try the same measure in substance, but
different in form, so as to meet parliamentary usages, in the
month of May. •
" Fifthly—Being defeated in thdse attempts, I will then
submit to the Precursor Society the necessity of either dis-
solving or making way for the National Association for the
Repeal of the Union.'' And thus keep up the game which
brings so much beautiful grist to my agitation mill. £15,000
a year is a mighty convenient thing, and the boys will pay it
as long as they are well agitated.

THE LORD LIEUTENANT AND THE

ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

(FROM ,HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS.)
" Viscount Ebrington has ever considered that the exist-
ence of a Church Establishment in Ireland so disproportion-
ate to the wants of the community was a STAIN and a
DISGRACE to the INSTITUTIONS of the COUNTRY, and he
should have found great difficulty in bringing himself to sup-
port the measure, if he thought it would tend to prevent
that reduction of the Church Establishment which at no
VERY DISTANT PERIOD HE HOPED TO SEE ACCOMPLISHED.
With respect to the principle of appropriation—if in the
present state of things he saw any prospect of carrying that
principle into operation—no consideration should induce
him to acquiesce in a Bill which did not include it. But if
the struggle against Tithes was still to go on, notwithstand-
ing the Bill—the burden would be on the shoulders of those
who were much better able to bear it, AND WHO HE HOPED
WOULD CARRY ON THE WAR WITH EFFECT. He should
support this measure, therefore, not as the best he could
wish to see carried into effect, but as the best which the pre-
sent state of parties held out a hope of obtaining."
The best practical commentary we can offer upon the
foregoing declaration, is the resolution unanimously adopted
by the " popular party" at a meeting held subsequently to
Lord Fortescue's appointment, at Blackrath, in the county
of Kilkenny :

" Resolved—That so indispensibly necessary to the peace
and prosperity of Ireland do we consider the extinction of
the Irish church establishment, that we pledge ourselves to
each other and to our countrymen, that if parliament reject
our prayer for the abatement of that national nuisance, we
will commence and continue a strenuous system of consti-
tutional agitation, and never desist from it till we see our
native country reinstated in her national independence, either
by a repeal of the union, or by some fortunate event which
shall, still more promptly and more decisively than even
repeal itself, raise us from our present abject state of pro-
vincial degradation."
What the more fortunate event" alluded to in the con-
cluding lines of the foregoing is; cannot be -matter of a
moment's doubt. A successful insurrection is evidently in
contemplation.—Dublin Evening Mail.

GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—The undersigned pas-
sengers by the Great Western, on her present voyage from
New York to Bristol, beg to offer their best thanks to Capt.
James Hosken, for his uniform kindness and attention to
them during a stormy passage. At the same time they feel
bound to express their high opinion of Capt. Hosken's un-
wearied attention to his duties, and talents as a navigator,
as well as their unbounded confidence in the noble ship
which he commands.
(Signed)
P. Townsend, jun.
W. S. Martin.
L. Mason.
Alonzo Draper.
Mayer.
W. W. Sirley.
Henry Lebor.
James B. Reid.
Ed. Gaskill.
A. Smith.
J. H. Bissell.
Thos. J. Goodwin.
H. J. Forester.
Paul Schmid.
W. Holford.
Lovell Follett.
On board the Great Western, March 11, 1839.

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M. A. Perley.
Wm. Aihusen.
C. Mactavish.
Thomas Applegate.
Sarah Applegate.
A. Buller.
G. W. Sontag.
G. Leacock.
G. W. Featherstonhaugh
John Mead.
G. T. Stephenson.
Oliver Parker.
James Lockwood.
Peter Goelet.
N. C. Tredenuick.