The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

TUESDAY

MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1840,

The foreign intelligence which has reached us since
our last is important. Another insurrection has broken
out in Spain, the particulars of which will be found in
another column. Disturbances of a serious character
have also taken place at Paris, among the working
classes. The riots had proceeded to such a height on
Thursday last, that it was found necessary to call out
the regular troops. A number of the combinators,
who were assembled in the Plain of St. Denis, were
charged on that day by a squadron of dragoons, and
dispersed. Upwards of COO of them were taken pri-
soners and lodged in the Conciergerie, where they
passed the night; but the next morning most of them
were set at liberty. From the examination of some of
the chiefs, it would appear that the secret societies
were at the bottom of tie whole affair. Some of the

prisoners, on being searched, were found to possess
large sums of money. In the pockets of others were
discovered -cards entitling the bearers to bread, meat,
or a meal. It was strongly suspected that the repub-

licans were active in fomenting or encouraging the
revolt. It was considered unsafe to call out the Na-
tional Guards for the purpose of suppressing the dis-
turbances. It was calculated that the actual number
of men in the coalesced tribes was not short of 40,000.
This number was likely, in a day or two, to receive

considerable accessions. 'Various rumours were in

circulation in Paris respecting the origin of these riots
of the " Coalesced Workmen." According to one
account, a plot was formed for delivering Louis NW'
loon from the Conciergerie ; another said that Russia°

agents were distributing gold for the purpose of cre-
ating a revolution ; while a third attributed the plot t°
Lord Palmerston. The news from Portugal is also of

a gloomy character. The 6th regiment of infantry, in
garrison at Castello Branco, had revolted and declared
for the constitution of 1832, and for the overthrow of

the existing ministry

organised state

The country was in a very (Es'

We have very little to add respecting the Easte,
question. The news of the rejection by Mehemet Ali
of the terms proposed by the four allied powers b
been confirmed. He has declared that lie will not
yield a single inch of ground. It now remains .to b°
seen whether he will take any ulterior steps. What'
ever may be the issue, we sincerely trust that the de'
signs of Russia will be frustrated.

The repeal agitation is proceeding in Ireland With
fearful success. Seven Popish Bishops have aired/
given in their adhesion to Mr. O'Connell, and become

members of his traitorous association. Such an er
ample cannot fail to swell the ranks of the Repealers'
who are every day become more numerous.

The language made use of at the meeting of the
Repeal Association is of the most violent, inflames
tory, threatening, and, frequently, blasphemous air
racter. Under the latter denomination we must Clao;
such expressions as the following, which were nacre
by a Mr. John Reilly, at a meeting which was held °P
Wednesday last :—" They (the Irish people) 1331'
nothing now to depend upon but Heaven, O'Connell'
and their own exertions." This blasphemous &Oil
ration, associating such a vile wretch as O'Connell
with,Providence itself, was responded to with " 1e0"
cheers." But it was followed by something still worse'
if possible. The same speaker said that " this 01
an ominous year to oppose repeal. The Israelites Were
forty years in the land of bondage, and were led„oui hi
Moses. They, too, had a Moses—O'Connell—to
their pillar of fire by night, and their cloud by deg,
thus, with daring impiety comparing the filthy dean!:
gogue, a eeking with the grossest and most sensel
vices, to the Omnipotent Leader of the Israelite°
Again, this blasphemous wretch exclaims, "
(O'Connell) was superior, politically speaking, in
Moses, for in his faith he never doubted, and ,Heaven
would bless him by allowing him to enter the land
promise, and enjoy the regeneration of his country
We might quote much More to the same effect, but we
relinquish the disgusting task. What are we to think
of the brazen audacity of the man who could hear
such language applied to him without a word of re.
clamation ?

One of the most prominent features in the speeches
delivered at the Repeal meeting in Ireland is, the tow
form denunciation of the Imperial Parliament as "
foreign legislature," and of the English nation as
" foreign oppressors." LEhus, for instance, the speaker
whose words we have quoted above, said that "he
demanded his rights, for he would not beg them froo
a foreign legislature." The meaning of this language
is too obvious to deceive any one. Its tendency 19
equally dangerous. If the same language were eloi
ployed by the miners and mountaineers of Wales-0
they have just as much right to employ it as O'CO
nell and his traitor gang have—we should soon bear

of police spies being sent to select victims for Wbi%
vengeance, and of troops being dispatched to "que
the rebels," and to bring them to justice. But what,
would be treason in Wales is openly connived at bi
the executive government in Ireland. What are we tc;
infer from this? Is Lord Ebrington a Repealer?
The Popish journals do not hesitate to claim his COO'
tenance and patronage. He has not taken a single
step indicative of his disapproval of the Repeal'agit3:
tion. How is such conduct to be reconciled with los
oath of office? How are we to persuade ourselves,
that Lord Ebrington is discharging his duty as a lei
subject of the British crown ? If any " untoward
event" should result from the present movement i°
Ireland, Lord Ebrington will have a fearful account t°
render. Impeachment for high treason will be the.
least reward that he can expect. Lord Melbourne
his associates must also look forward to the day of re::
tribution. Their patronage of O'Connell and his
brother conspirators may yet form the ground of ail'
impeachment.

We have called O'Connell a traitor. His 1=035
justifies the application of the term. The grand end °i
his agitation is, rebellion and dismemberment of the
empire. This is evident from his frequent and signi'
ficant allusions to the millions of able bodied Insbnielje,'.
panting for liberty—to the example of America, in,tb.
assertion of her independence, and that of Belgium,lo
rejecting the " yoke imposed upon her by Holland'"`