The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

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shed blood, on the slightest ground, is inherent in
the minds of the Irish peasantry, we hear of a Con-
ference, in Dublin, of "the friends of Tenant
Right"—the very question, a misapprehension of
which has led to half the outrages which have dis-
graced Ireland for years past ;—and at that meet-
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of parliament, and above a score of Roman Catholic
What their Reverences have to do with
regulating the contracts which may be made
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It is thought desirable, we presume,
that a hostile spirit should be kept up between
Without it there would be no " affrays"

like that of Sixmile-bridge--no shootings—
no Ribbon outrages—none of that "fun," in
which the Maynooth-bred Priesthood of Ireland

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the Conference in question resolving that -a
general collection" be raised to carry on the move-
ment—how these gentlemen do like collections !

and that they " most respectfully request the co-
operation of the Right Rev. the Bishops of the
Roman Catholic Church." Thuggism is sanctified
when carried on in a cause which has the Right
Rev. the Romish Bishops for its patrons.
Seriously, when is this unfortunate portion of Her
Majesty's dominions to be wrested from the keeping
and guidance of the malignant pests, who, in the
name of religion, are continually stirring up the
worst passions of the human heart ? Ireland might
be a land worth living in. It would be, if its people
were not blinded b) superstition and goaded to out-
rage. There is, we trust, " a good time coming."
The prosecution, by Lord DERBY'S Government,
of the two Priests, who were the leaders in the
attack upon the military at Six-Mile Bridge, is a
step in the desired direction, and will probably tend
to convince these Rev. Firebrands that, although
the POPE be their spiritual ruler, Her Majesty Queen
VICTORIA has both the power and the determina-
tion to control their brutality.

Apropos of priestly ruffianism in Ireland, we are
furnished with a case which has just occurred in
Sligo. We give the evidence of the victim :

" Mary Anne Blair, a well-dressed respectable young
woman, and who gave her evidence with considerable
firmness, was the first witness examined.—l was returning
from Mr. Cooper's school at Ballisodare in company with
a girl named Jane Nearin, and, when near my residence
at Ballvdribid, I was overtaken by a person on horseback,
who asked me how far I was going, and where I lived ?
I said, Not far, sir ; and I live convenient.' lie put
other questions to me, and to avoid him I went into a
man's house named Colleary. He got off his horse and
followed me in, and asked the woman of the house who I
was? She replied, An honest man's daughter.' He
then went away, and in about five minutes returned, and
with the butt-end of his whip beat me on the shoulders.
He left large welts upon me. He then caught Jane
Nearin, and threw her on the ground. The woman of
the house was going to strike him with a shovel, but when
she saw he was a clergyman she begged his pardon. He
then rode away in the direction of Sligo. I now know
that my assailant was the Rev. Andrew Quinn, of Sligo."

A pretty specimen of a divine is the Rev. ANDREW
QUINN, of Sligo. Yet ladies, no doubt, both mar-
ried and single, pour out the secrets of their hearts
into the ear of this fellow ! We are happy to be
enabY. to add that, priest though he be, he has
been committed for trial.
It is not often that we are privileged to laugh at
the Earl of CARLISLE, in whom, although politi-
cally we differ from him, we always recognise an
amiable man. After-dinner speeches, however,
often betray sensible men into absurdities; and this
is especially the case when the object of such
speeches is to laud some particular friend. His
Lordship attended a dinner on Thursday given to
Mr. ORD, late member for the borough of New-
castle-upon-Tyne ; and after getting into the se-
venth heaven of imaginatory description of that
gentleman's eloquence and oratory—save the mark !
—was tempted to indulge in a little glorification on
the subject of Whiggery. After telling the meeting
that his party, although said to be done for at pre-
sent—" repudiated, spat upon, dead and buried"—
lived in hopes of " a political resurrection and poli-
tical rejuveniscence," his Lordship continued :
" I feel convinced in my own mind that the old Whig
principle is still full of youthful sap and vigour, and that,
like the oak on Mount Aigidos, it will continue to gather
resources and vigour from each descending stroke.
(Cheers.) The party may be out of place—their chief-
tains may be out of power—they may no longer be on the
sunny side of the street, if men choose to think it so—(a
laugh)—but I do feel in my own mind assured that their
opinions and principles will still pervade the conduct of
public affairs, marshalling the march of Imperial Govern-
ment."
"The old Whig principle"—what is it, in the
name of wonder ? To he growling when out of
office, or not, as the noble lord felicitously phrases it,
"on the sunny side of the street," and bungling
when in office—to be pandering to demagogueism,
and shrinking from the paths to which it leads—to
be making large professions never intended to be
realized—to be meddling and fussy and fickle as
the winds—is all that ever the world knew yet of
the " ohl Whig principle." That it is " full of sap
and vigour" we have very little doubt, and still less
doubt that it hopes to put its fingers once again
into the treasury purse. But we should like amaz-
ingly to know what is the dodge which is resolved
upon astikely to bring about such a consummation—
what is to be the character of the next compact—
what the nature of the next unholy alliance ?
Whiggery per se—the Whig party—is " dead and
smashed" as described;but the old Whig principle
of sliding round the political compass still lives, and
will live for ever. To use a quotation once very
felicitously used by his lordship :
" Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis cevum."
The resolution of the Town Council, on the mo-
tion of Mr. BOLD—" That all coals and goods en-
tering the Stanley Dock from the Leeds and Liver-
pool canal be free from Dock Rates, provided that
they he shipped on board vessels paying Dock Rates,
or on board river steamers"—is a step in the right
direction, although a tardy one. The Coal Trade
ought to be one of the most valuable supports of
the commerce of Liverpool. But, to make it so, we
require something more than the remission of the
three-half-pence per ton, now paid as dock dues.
The facilities for the shipment of coal in an unbro-
ken state, which were some time ago promised by
the Dock Committee, ought to be forthwith provi-
ded, or we shall shortly see a considerable portion
of our exports of the article transferred to the new

port of Garston.
The inhabitants of Bury have been inaugurating
their statue, erected to the memory of the late Sir
ROBERT PEEL; and as a matter of course their
member, Mr. FREDERICK PEEL, was a prominent
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speaker at the dinner given on the occasion.
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one portion of the honourable member's
exception may very justly be taken. After com-
menting upon the benefits which he considers the
country has derived from his parent's career as a
statesman, Mr. PEEL proceeds :
"Above all, must be be regarded as the author of the
great boon of the year 1846, won at the sacrifice of much
that was dear to every man, and of friendships of long
standing, but in the pursuit and prosecution of which he
would have faced greater obstacles than any which be had
to encounter, and submitted to greater sacrifices than any
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