The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There are no less than eight candidates for the city of
Cork.

The Dublin Post denies on authority a statement in
reference to a contemplated new University in Dublin.
Lord Desart has made a reduction of 25 per cent. to his
Irish tenants.

Two convicts have escaped from Strike Island by climb-
ing over several walls and crossing over in a boat without
oars to Ringas-Kerry.
A cocoa-nut tree was drifted ashore a few days ago on
the island of Valentia, near Kerry—another proof that
the Gulf Stream, after running along the coast of America,
sets across the Atlantic.

The Marquis of Waterford has paid the full amount of
the rate-in-aid for his tenantry, without making any de-
duction from them, although not one of his tenants
received either in-door or out-door relief.
The extensive estates of the Marquis of Sligo, in the
west of Ireland, which are mortgaged to one of the prin-
cipal insurance companies of London, will come under the
operation of the new act for the transfer of encumbered
properties, at the first sitting of the commissioners, the
encumbrancers having made arrangements for asking
power to discharge the encumbrances by sale.
WHAT THE QUEEN HAS DONE AND WILL Do.—" We,"
says the Irishman, opposed the Queen's visit. She has
done nothing for us, and will do less!" This calculation
appears to have been made on the same principle that
Sir Boyle Roche accounted for the prosperity of the Dub-
lin fishmongers, who " went down to Ringsend when the
boats came in—bought the fish for half nothing, and sold
them for twice as much !"

O'CONNELL POPULARITY.—Mr. John O'Connell ap-
plied to the Lord Mayor to take the chair at the re-inau-
guration of the old pest-house on Monday last, but Sir
Timothy, not having the fear of the late Liberator before
his eyes, and not choosing to play second fiddle to such
small deer as Mr. John, not only refused the soft invita-
tion, but did so in terms which preclude the likelihood of
a second application from the same quarter.
There has been an extraordinary manifestation and
commotion amongst the Roman Catholics of Nenagh, in
consequence of the Bishop, Dr. Kennedy, having ap-
pointed Mr. Kenny to the parish, instead of Mr. Power,
who had been curate for twenty years. The people nailed
and barricaded the gates and doors of the chapel, and set
the Bishop and his nominee at defiance. This state of
things had lasted for about a week when we last heard
from Nenagh, and at that time neither party seemed in-
clined to give in, the people pertinaciously maintaining
possession of the chapel, and the Bishop as pertinaciously
endeavouring to force Mr. Kenny upon them. A sect of
Ranters could not exhibit a more remarkable specimen of
disunion and contempt of authority than is to be witnes-
sed in the Church of Rome at Nenagh, with its boasted
perfection of discipline obedience.
DISMISSAL OF LORD RODEN.—LORD CLARENDON'S
LETTER.—The phraseology of the letter is remarkable.
By no slip of pen or memory does it happen throughout
the entire letter that the body who walked in procession
are called " Protestants," the " Protestant party," or
any otherwise than " the Orange party." A designation
which slander has not been spared to render odious, which
is not applicable here either, because it is in proof that
many of those who attended the procession were not
Orangemen, and never had been so ; but which, at the
same time. we are far from objecting to, inasmuch as
every good Protestant, whether initiated or not, is, of ne-
cessity, an Orangeman in spirit. But we do object to the
Lord Lieutenant's description of the assassins who way-
laid the loyal Protestants with intent to,murder them. It
is not that he avoids calling them by their proper name.
That was not to have been expected. He does not even
venture to call them as they are styled in their own jour-
nals " the Ribbon party"—nay. he shrinks from styling
them even as the " Roman Catholic" party. His Excel-
lency blandly terms them the " Catholic" party. When
his Excellency, therefore, prays for " the holy Catholic
Church," it seems, lie prays for the Church of the Pope
and cardinals of Rome, as contradistinguished from that
pure and scriptural Church of which he is himself an un-
worthy member. It is not enough that the Queen's
commission is placed at the disposal of the priests—must
the Queen's English, too, be mauled and abused to gra-
tify their bigotted pretensions ? But he abuses language
to other purposes. With a small cunning, which he no
doubt thinks vastly clever, and which will render the
substantial injustice of the proceeding still more odious,
he labours to reduce by a systematic petitio principii, the
loyal Orangemen and the assassins who conspired to
murder them in cold blood, to a moral and legal level.
They are studiously placed in the same category as " these
armed bodies," and " bodies dangerous to the public
peace"—a tendency attributed by his Excellency to the
Orange procession, not only without evidence to support
it, but in the very teeth of the evidence actually taken be-
fore the magistrates, and as his Excellency conveys, care-
fully perused and considered by himself. The Lord
Lieutenant, too, persists in calling the line of road by
Dolly's Brae, " the disputed road," a phrase intended
like others employed in this statesmanlike performance,
to reduce the Orangemen and the Ribbonmen to the same
level. Now the Orangemen " disputed" nothing; they
simply asserted their undoubted right to walk upon the
Queen's highway. They asserted precisely the same
right which Lord Clarendon exercised, when in the acme
of his unpopularity, surrounded by his plumed staff, and
followed by his dragoons, he rode into the Phoenix Park
to celebrate an English victory, upon the very day on
which he transported John Mitchell. Had a mob of in-
sulted Dublin clubbists, led by Messrs. Duffy, M`Gee,
Ryan Puck, &c., and comforted by Fathers Kenyon and
Laffan, occupied the passage from the viceregal grounds
into the Park, it would have been in precisely the same
sense " the disputed road ;" and conscientious Mr. Ber-
wick must have pronounced his Excellency's gaudier cor-
tege upon precisely the same principle " an unlawful
procession," have placed him and his companions upon
precisely the same legal footing as the aforesaid Duffy,
M'Gee, and Ryan Puck, and demanded informations
(notwithstanding the evidence) against the gentlemen who
took part at the " English" side and against the " Catho-
lic party" in a demonstration so perilous to the public
peace. Nay, the upright Mr. Berwick must have done
more. The attempt to assassinate his Excellency having
failed, and the " Catholic party" having been dispersed
by the dragoons, he must have protected the aforemen-
tioned priests, Laffan and Kenyon, when pressed to iden-
tify the rifle clubmen, with whom they had associated
themselves, against so unreasonable an invasion of the
priestly prerogative. He must have said, " under all the
circumstances, I would strongly urge your not pressing
the rev. gentlemen, who were there, of course, in their
clerical capacity, for an answer to such a question."—
Dublin Herald.

WHIG SYMPATHY WITH RIBBONISM.-DIS
MISSAL OF PROTESTANT MAGISTRATES.

Lord Roden stands dismissed from the magistracy, and I
Protestant protective associations are declared illegal—
hostile to the spirit of the age, to the constitution, and all
that kind of thing. The Messrs. Beers 'are also deprived
of the commission of the peace ; and, in short, the Go-
vernment has poured out the full phial of its wrath upon
the recognised parties indirectly connected with the pro-
cession of Orangemen, which fairly fought its way through
the pass of Dolly's Brae. The report of Mr. Berwick to
the Lord-Lieutenant has been made the groundwork for
this extreme proceeding, which is intended to propitiate
the Papists of Ireland, and inflict tiwound upon Protes-
tant feeling for some Whig purposer.not beyond compre-
hension—but far as ever out of the-reach of that party—
popularity. The murderers of Dolly's Brae have thus
obtained a triumph, and Lord Roden, who has held the
commission of the peace for forty years, has been insulted.
We have referred in another place to the letter from the
Lord-Lieutenant containing Lord Roden's supersedeas
but we may say here that, as if to confound all Lord Cla-
rendon's insinuations, and to blast his suggestive logic,
the game of the Rihbonmen has been again played before
the magistrates at Castlewellan. and that in the absence
of Lord Roden and the other obnoxious magistrates, and
see what is the result. A second hearing of the case
came on on Tuesday, and the little town presented an ani-
mated appearance from the influx of the gentry belonging
to the surrounding districts. There was not, however,
what might he termed excitement manifested. During
the day it gradually became known that Lord Roden and
the Messrs. Beers had been dismissed from the magis-
tracy. The intelligence produced a deep sensation
throughout the whole community ; and on all sides no-
thing was beard hut expressions of regret and astonish-
ment. Mr. 'William Beers came into the town during the
day ; and if Lord Clarendon could have seen the manner
in which he was surrounded and greeted by all present,
his excellency would have perceived that the blow he
aimed has fallen innocuously on his intended victims, and
that he has roused a spirit in the province of Ulster that
will probably prove fatal to the reign of the " base, bru-
tal, and b—y Whigs." " What next ?" cried one ve-
nerable gentleman ; " I think they would dismiss her
Majesty if they could." Among the magistrates present
(eighteen in number) were George Shaw, Esq. (chairman),
the Marquis of Downshire, W. Blackwood Price, Esq.,
Major Nugent, &c. &c. After the evidence had been
heard in support of the application which was to grant in-
formations against several Orangemen, the Chairman
said the magistrates had agreed, with only one dissentient
voice (that of Capt. Skinner) to i efuse the informations.—
Capt. Skinner: As the name has been given, I wish to
mention my reason for disagreeing with my brother ma-
gistrates. It is that, from my experience and from what
I have seen, I wish all these things put down.—Chair-

man: From Capt. Skinner's explanation it might be in-
ferred that the rest of the magistrates are anxious to keep
up these things ; but I believe they are all, without ex-
ception, desirous that they should be put down (hear.)—
Thus terminated this essentially " frivolous and vexatious"
proceeding. After the case was concluded, the majority
of the magistrates, and a large number of gentlemen, pro-
ceeded in a body to Tollymore Park, to pay their respects
to Lord Roden.

Surely. after this, it will not be said that Lord Roden
has acted from party motives. He has evidently been
guided throughout by nothing but a stern sense of duty ;
and it is clear that no other decision than that which his
lordship pronounced could have been impartially arrived
at, or, on this second inquiry, the magistrates, whom no
one will dare to charge with factious motives, would cer-
tainly have arrived at a different conclusion.
The following letter, written with that becom-
ing forbearance which always characterises Lord Roden's
words and deeds, has been addressed to the Lord Chan-
cellor :

" Tollymore-park, Oct. 8, 1849.
"MY Loan,—l had the honour of receiving your letter yes-
terday, informing me that, in consequence of the recommenda-
tion of the government, your lordship had directed a warrant
to be prepared for superseding me in the commission of the
peace for the counties of Down and Louth. I cannot help
thanking your lordship for the kind and courteous manner in
which you have communicated to me what I must consider a
severe sentence, but to which I respectfully bow as a right
vested in her Majesty's government, to remove from the ma-
gisterial office any individual—although their services therein
may be as long as mine have been, for a period of nearly forty
years.
" I have also received, through your lordship, a letter ad-
dressed to you by Secretary Sir Thomas Itedington, detailing
the reasons for the proceedings in question, and resting them
on the report of the government commissioner, Mr. Berwick.
" I shall not now detain your lordship at any lergth by re-
ferring to the parts of that document communicated to your
lordship in Sir Thomas Redington's letter. There will proba-
bly be a future opportunity afforded me of doing so, and of
proving that I was in the strict performance of my duty, when
acting as a magistrate, on the 9th of September; and that I
had no reason to consider myself as being 'pubiicly arraigned,'
though I felt that I had been grosßly, maligned. Nor can I
admit that I was implicated in abetting the proceedings of an
unlawful assembly.' Having the honour of holding her Ma-
jesty's commission of the peace, I felt bound in justice to re-
fuse taking informations against a large body of loyal men,
charged with the offence of being engaged in an' unlawful as-
sembly,' the illegality of which there was no evidence to prove;
but, on the contrary, the witness, Mr. Hill, brought forward
by the crown solicitor, proving the reverse: it also appearing
that the procession was sanctioned by the pres'nce of her %la-
jesty's troops, the county police, and stipendiary magistrates.
It was natural, under these circumstances, for me to conclude
that had such a meeting or procession been unlawful, the go-
vernment would have instructed their officers to have dispersed
it, more especially when they had sufficient force en the spot,
if necessary, to carry their instructions into execution.

" I regret to find that, in the reirrt of the commissioner, I
am charged with not using my utmost endeavours to keep the
peace, inasmuch as I did not, when addressing the people at
Tollymore Park, request them to go home by a different road
from that by which they had come. I respecttully submit that
it would have been more ingenuous of the learned commis-
sioner, had he stated the reasons given in evidence, why I did
not press this point on the people; and had he quoted from the
evidence, the advice I did give them, part of which was—' to
take evil rather than provoke it—to let nothing induce them,
on returning to their homes, to resent even any insult which
they might receive.' He might also have added with truth,
that my advice was most scrupulously attended to by the
Orangemen until they were barbarously attacked and fired at
from behind walls and houses by Ribbon conspirators, who
had, during the day, been lying in wait for their prey, whilst,
on the hills around, great bodies of armed men were collected
from distant parts of the country, to effect a murderous attack
upon the Protestants of the district, had the Ribbonmen as-
sembled at Magheramayo succeeded in their object, which,un-
der God's blessing, the bravery of the police and the deter-
mined courage of those of the Orange party attacked were, as
apears is the evidence, the means of averting.
" I beg your lordship's pardon for referring to these circum-
stances—l have done so only with a desire to obtain a just and
fair consideration of my conduct in this unhappy transaction.
I have no will to remain any longer in the commission of the
peace, if my doing so were not considered by all classes of my
.-ountrymen as beneficial to the community at large. I shall
rest satisfied with the conviction that, however painful to my
feelings the course adopted by the government must be, yet
that, in the whole of my public career in this country, I have
upheld her Majesty's authority in this part of her em-'ire; I
have endeavoured to act justly, without favour or affection to
any particular denomination. And, in conclusion, I trust your
lordship will forgive me for saying, that it is a great consola-
tion still left me, that the last act of my magisterial life was
the conscientious refusal to take informations against forty-
two loyal men charged with an act not proved to be illegal by
the evidence brought before the bench.
" I have the honour to be, my lord, with great respect, your
lordship's faithful servant,
"To the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor."

" RODEN.

The opinion of the Irish people is universally opposed
to this shameful stretch of authority. The Dublin Mail
says,—" The object of this display of authority is palpa-
ble. Tt is hoped that the public indignation may be
thereby turned aside from the parties who are really
chargeable with the outrages and bloodshed which were
permitted on the 12th of July at Dolly's Brae. But that
shift won't do. Until Lord Clarendon or his people can
show that they had not sufficient notice of the intentions
of the aggressive faction on that day, or that they bad not
a sufficient force present to prevent a breach of the peace,
let them not hope to walk away scathless through this
mean attempt to transfer the blame to other men's
shoulders."

The Cork Constitution pertinently remarks that "the
aet may be arbitrary, but it is consistent :—yes, consistent,
What more consistent than that when rebels are ' indem-
nified' in Canada, loyalists should be discountenanced in
Ireland ? or than that a policy which, according to the
confession of the Times, is producing discontent in the
colonies should be alienating in Ireland the affections of
the men on whom England once relied for her reten-
tion."

.COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Buckingham
Palace on Friday. The youthful royal family are still at
Osborne.

On Saturday her Majesty and the Royal Family left
Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle.
The Queen has given an excellent site in the parish
of Balmoral for the erection of a Free Church.

Lieut-Colonel the Hon. Charles B eaumont Phipps,
equerry to Her Majesty, and who officiated as private
secretary to Prince Albert, under the late Mr. Anson, will
discharge the duties for the present of that gentleman
filithe Prince's household.