The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-21 00:00:00

JUNE 21, 1`0.6

Such
things have occurred, and may again, in this as in 1
Other lands. If we were to speak all that we feel on the '
Subject We shoUld say that prosperity has to an alarming
extent made a large portion of our coutitrymen callous
t° every moral and religious obligation. Upstart wealth
i
a fungus in society, and we have too much of it. Its
possessorsreitielrbeloved nor
aretooarrogant, and they are consequently
respected. Those immediately be-
low them hate them, but the narrow feelings of this class
tender them equally repulsive to the third class in the
dale; so that from the lofty liberal of ample means,
Iv% to the shabby radical who can hardly pay his taxes,
e have all the pride, insolence, ignorance, and inbred
execration of each other, which have their only correc-
ye in the prostration and extermination of all.
M. LAFITTE of Paris is a liYing illustration of the
rapid downward course of a furious republican. Forty
)'ears of travail in the wilds of revolution have convinced
:141 that during that long lease of years he has been
;Ills
he has sown for others to reap—that
;Ills PHILIPPE the son of EGALITE is on the throne of
and that he LAFITTE is—A BEGGAR ! ! Aye, a
beggar in every- sense of the word—in honour, in purse,
ilia "edit, in reputation. Hear the words of this fallen
uttered only this. day week in the Chamber of
elleties, when deploring the errors of his revolutionary
life; says:_
tit "It the deficit continue while the existing imposts are main-
I shall deem it my duty to ask pardon of God and of my
e:,:44ltrY for the part I took in the revolution of July. Revolutions
'dear, when the chief who falls is replaced by that member
:a
lthe same family who is nerti to him in the order of succession,
when no. more change is effected in things than in persons.
"(thaions cost dear when their fruits are gathered by a small
atlti!ber of persons, to the prejudice of all; they cost:dear when
gligai legitimacy is substituted for the national :sovereignty."

- . .
,le circumstances which provoked this despairing
eta •
illatlon on the part of 'the revolutionary patriot, are
ttteedingly instructive. 'During the reign of the last of
the old Botntio;is,"the expenditure did not ex-
ter:45,500,000,000 francs, but since the happy era of the
f"tlzeo King the expenditure has averaged 7,500,000,900
:411es) and yet. the people of France are much more re-
_trieted and much more enslaved than ever they were
nder the BOURBONS for the last hundred years„ They
base now not even a shadow of a free press. An in-
salent and tyrannical police are the masters of Paris.
li
twelve men can meet together without being suspect-
-17, or running the risk of being dragged to prison. The
t lilt's name dare not be written, or spoken, or alluded
,11,.except in terms .of flattery, else the offending party is
liable to be sent to gaol. This is French liberty ! These
are the last words of LAFITTE! Such is the picture of
th
eite(mseq4enees of revolution !
Bader,
4 • take warning : The same causes may pro-
same consequences nearer home !

xe
must be an unenviable person who, although en-
i,,e4touring to pick a quarrel with every man he meets,
not allowed the honour of either giving or receiving
:etisfaction. In the Irish beggar, for instance, it is ex-
„edingly convenient to have an oath in Heaven and be
hi'ared the trouble of fighting ; but there are other mem-
bers of the House of Commons who do not require the
i'lletity of an oath to protect their persons from damage,
il)1; Strange as it may appear, there is no gentleman who
1;c" be at the pains to shoot them. The honourable
lii,eltber for Ipswich belongs to this latter class. He is
4" a certain fish to be seen in the streets of London
:ling the dog.:days--.-no one will touch him. He is not
Zueular as to'the quality of the individual whom he
nrs with his abuse, and strives to mike his enemy ;
but still high and low are so ungallant as to decline
tr
blieetiog him under any circumstances whatever. This
aY seem odd to people who live in the back settlements,
but not to those who have the gratificatiotrof being
ac-
~uatnted with Mr. RIGBY WASON. He his signalized
14iself several times by being called to order by the
: oker, and by being placed more than-once under that
4ht honourable gentleman's protection; but what is
ost characteristic of Mr. WASON is the singular fact
when thus in collision with the house or any of its
illl,erobers, the honourable member for Ipswich is invaria-
.lY in the wrong. But Mr. WaspN has his. redeeming
: does not too precipitately confess himself
"e He fences with facts courageously-
1114intains hi4iights warmly—and only yields to prudence
it ti earnest Solicitation of his intimate friends. lie is
'tiff at an apology—but the apology comes in the long

Theie beautiful traits of:character in a public man so
Fell known tioliticai life; and whose forensic talents
%not be .sufficiently admired, have been called to our
,4eollection by • a -recent display in the House of Com.
11141g-:-.--We mean that of the SPEAKER versus WAsos and
h is quite refreshing to see the time of a re-
'larrued House• of 'COmnions so meritoriously employed.
,t
vileyeople must be delighted to behold representa-
pt4es devoting.nearly a whole day Ito the cultivation of
the prevention of bloodshed. True .there was
: fear of embroiling the empire in a sanguinary con-
t tBt > but one life might have been lost, and that of a
4testnan whcini we can so ill spare—viz., the honour-
-41.11e rnernbet for Ipswich.

The day is fast approaching when stern and uncorn-
ht°lnising justice will loudly deniand, and effectually
rtarn' protection from the tyranny of the Romish priest-
-1:oodfor the poor, oppressed, and deluded peasantry of
Ireland. a former number we reprinted from the
D-14Plin Evening Mail an article on the subject of the
ieY• Mr. MULHOLLAND'S petition to the House of
7°rds: The light which this specimen of popish into-
'ranee throws upon the condition of the Irish people,
44c1 the manner in which it points out the source of all
!I/lir woes, induce us to lay before our readers the fea-
`44% of this atrocious violation of the provisions of the
Feller act of 1829.
The facts of the case are simply these the month
November, 1833; the Rev. EUGENE MULHOLLAND had
;r'le Perpetual cure of the Roman Catholic population of
eltnonfechin, in the county of Louth, in Ireland. While
*'Sgaged in the discharge of his priestly duties in this
'Palish, he was the subject of a malicious calumny' propa-
°led by the Rev.. THOMAS TRAYNOR, the priest of the
j°lnink parish. Unwilling to suffer under this false
,41Putation, Mr. MULHOLLAND sought redress at the
Panda of his spiritual superior, the Rev. THOMAS KELLY,
.:,wllo":iriurped•then, aiftis successor does now, the title of
:4.,,telthishop of Armagh. The matter was referred by
fir. KELLY to his Vicar general, the Rev. ANDREW Ro
!Its, who, after making himself acquainted with the cir-
;nistances, at once declared the language used by Mr.
smrliorr Co be most unpardonable, and such as immedi-
T.uely called for an ample public apology. This was re-
sed• Having thus failed in obtaining redress f2'y the
interference of his ecclesiastical superiors, he, as the only
means nterY left to him of removing from his character
Inatitain which, until Mr. TRAYNOR'S statement was
4/r9ved to be false, must attach itself to him, made his
UPpeal to the laws of his country,
.and submitted the ad-,
*ation of his case and the purity of his character to
:tne decision and scrutiny of that body (of whose exiSt-
nce E;tg
i(3 lislimen are so justly proud) a jury of his feh
low-countrymen. For thus exerting the distinguishing
Privilege of every British subject, Mr. MULHOLLAND
• *as Cruelly deprived of his living. Not only was his
gnntiissal from this living harsh in its operation—it was
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Proceeding which the canon laws of the Roman Ca-
111°Iie Church allow, and which the Rumish bishops de-
- elated on oath to be strictly in accordance with the de-
crees of their church. Mr. MULHOLLAND then appealed
to the “COngregation of the Propagation of the Faith
at Rome." 'ln the meanwhile Dr. KELLY died, and was
rBoceeded by Dr. WILLIAM CROLLY, on whom, in May
35, Mr. MULHOLLAND waited, " furnished with the
strongest recommendatory instructions, to be reinstated
lind employed in the mission of his native diocese, where
Petitioner had laboured for the last twenty years with
• intmacnlate and irreproachable character, as by the letters
of the nobility, gentry, and clergy, both kotestailt and
• eStholic, in petitioner's neighbourhood, ready to be pro-
du
,eed to your honourable house, will more rdadily

o Cl*se observations Dr. CROLLY returned a smooth
44.8.we1.. and promised to reinstate Mr. MIATIOLLAND in