The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

IRE LAND.

The Irish Scc!ety of. London proposes to allow the
Mayor of Derry £2OO, and the Recorder £l5O annuities.
Two hundred additional police are to be stationed in the
county of Clare.
There were 678 car loads of potatoes at market last
week, of which 40 were diseased. The price—white, at
; cups, 4td. to sd. per stone.—Limerick Chronicle.
No less than 11l houses were inundated by the flood at
Cork. The furniture in nearly the whole of ►hem was
deQtroyed.
The bill for protecting life and property in Ireland, was
read a third time in the House of Lords, on Friday, and
passed
Sir Robert Peel says that Government has already ex-
pended £lOO,OOO in the purchase of maize and rice, for the
relief of the people of Ireland.
The High Sheriff and seventeen of the Grand Jurors of
Tipperary have sent petitions to both houses of parliament
against the proposed reductions of the duties on corn, on
the grounds that vast quantities of land will be thrown
out of tillage, and that consequently an annual want of
potato land will be felt by the population, producing most
calamitous results. _ _

At a meeting of the Repeal Association, last Mond4v,
Mr. Grattan, M.P. stated his belief that the Irish Coercitin
Bill would never become law ; and if it did, the people of
Ireland—the eight millions of people—had only to remain
out all together, on the came night, and no police force
could arrest them at all; and, even if arrested, the prisons
would not hold them.

Mr. Justice Torrens, in opening the commission at
Omagh Assizes last week, said that, " in passing through
the country he had not been struck with any appearance
of starvation or misery. He had observed the potato fields
ar d the haggards of the farmers, and felt extremely happy
in being able to say, that there was not more than the
usual, if so much. appearance of misery or destitution
throughout the country."
THE IRISH FAMINTE.—The following pithy letter was
addressed to the editor of the Times nn Saturday last :
Sir,—ln your Parliamentary report of to-day. I read. under
the head of •' Famine in Ireland." some observations of Mr.
O'C9 .nell's. He conchs 'es by saying—" For the Irishman was
always ready to share his last potato with his poor destitute
neighbour.''

Is Mr. O'Connell an Irishman ? if so, has he no potatoes. F. J
Another correspondent in a subsequent paper says that
it is the la:t potato that an Irishman is ready to hare,
and that the agitator has not reached the last in It's stock.
A Rock notice, written and signed by " Captain Moon-
light," was sent to Miss Maria Peacocke, of Dooneen,
commanding the young lady never to be seen with her sis-
ter Eliza, as his company intend "to shoot her as they
would a mad dog," and that they will watch her both day
and night with that design. These miscreants conceive
that the benevolent Mr. Peacocke would remit the entire
rent of his potato ground, after considerable reductions
heretofore, but for one of his daughters, and the notice
concludes—" Peel is now at our side—Hurry for Repeal
and Old Ireland."—Limerick Chronicle.

Neith,r O'Connell nor his cliqu3—no. nor his press—
can check the desire on the part of the more honest re-
peaters to know what has been done with their m ney
subecrihed to the " rent." The Pilot (Mr. O'Connell's
organ) openly avows that " the people of Ireland have
never paid one chilling to the repeal fund for any other
purpose but that the Liberator may have it to apply to
any purpose, or to (very purpose. which to him may ap-
pear most conducive to the ends of the association."
Such brazen assurance as this is anything but slticfactory
to a large body of subscribers, and hence the continued
bickerings amongst them, which are daily increasing.

MURDER AND TUE MURDERER RECONCILED —We
are no alarmists; but if ever the gentry of all religious
denominations (especially of our own communion) had
reason to be alarmed for their lives and properties, they
have good cause to be so now, by the awful and horrify-
ing disclosures in the letter of the Rev. Roderick Ryder,
in our columns this day. Mr. Ryder was lately a priest
of the church of Rome, and he has brought home the
crime of murder to the priests of that church. It appears
that that horrible crime may be committed with impunity
by the members of tbat church, when the perpetration of
it (according to the theology and morality of Maynooth)
is likely to advance the interests of popery. Mr. Ryder's
testimony and proofs are unanswerable. Every doubt
respecting Seery's criminality is removed by this letter ;
it shows how the murderer and murder are reconciled at
the gallows, and how the former is duped to believe that
he is about to die a martyr for his holy (?) religion, and
to atone for the sins of his whole life ! Oh ! popery, in
the very gibbet even, you make merchandise of men's
souls !—Dublin Slat: swan.
REPEAL LOYALTY.—At the repeal meeting on Mon-
day, Mr. O. Mahony (a barrister) made a speech, in the
course of which he said, that it was a most disgraceful po-
sition for her Majesty to have placed herself in, to have
met the bloated tyrant of France, Louis Philippe, in a
bathing box at Treport. Mr. Steele (a head pacificator)
—1 protest against any gentleman saying that her Mejesty
was ever, under any circumstances, placed in a disgrace-
ful position ; and 1 call for a retraction of the word " dis-

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graceful." (Cheers.) Mr. 0. Mahony explained, and said
his observation was only
__intended to apply to her Ma-

jesty's Ministers. Mr. Steele, again inierruptioz, said—
Sir, you must withdraw the word " disgraceful " as ap-

plying to the Queen in any way, directly or indirectly.
(Cheers.) Mr. 0. Maboily did so, and was ratber preci-
pitate in winding up his speech and resuming his seat.
Mr. Grattan having then made a speech, in which he gave
it as his opinion that the association would tn,ke very lit-
tle of itself to give any account of their expenditure, the
rent for the week was announced to be £283.
THE CASK OF BRIAN SEERIr.—A letter from
respondent, which appeared in the London Times of Sa-
turday, gives what we greatly suspect to be the correct
version of the case of this man, concerning whose execu-

tion so much hypocritical and priestly sympathy has been
paraded before the public. The writer remarks that,—
"The statement respecting Seery's tenancy and subsequent
settlement with Sir Francis Hopkins is true, and the
treatment of the latter produced in Seery's mind respect
and gratitude, but Seery was a ribandenan. The members
of that society take an oath of implicit obedience to the
committee or superiors ; and by reason of its being volun-
tary, and invested, as they suppose, with a religious hue,
they esteem it more sacred than any other obligation.
Sir Francis Hopkins was tried, found guilty, and sentenced
to death for some subsequent eviction of cottiers •' and
lots were drawn among the parties supposed to be ag-
grieved at a meeting of the society—the lot fell on Seery.
His companion, the second man at the offence, was ap-
pointed to see that he did not flinch from his duty; his
own death and violation of his oath, which he more ab•

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horred, would be the consequence of refusal ; Seery, there-
fore, resolved to undertake the supposed duty, but, true to
the lax morality and jesuitical teaching of his pastors, re-
solved likewise to fire wide of the mark, which he accord-
ingly did. This fact will account for the declaration, oft
repeated. of his innocence of the crime of which he was
accused, namely, firing with intent to kill." Were the
priesthood, who held up this man before the people of
Ireland as an innocent martyr, aware of the miserable
evasion of the truth, amounting to a falsehood, the utter-
ance of which was his last act before he hft the world ?
THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the
landed proprietors and other inhabitants of the union
e'ectoral divisions of Cloyne and Aehada was held, in
the Court-house at Cloyne, on Tuesday last, for the pur-
pose of taking measures to meet the approaching famine,
by procuring employment for the people, either by the
establishment of public works under the Government, or
in any way that might be suggested. A great number of
gentlemen were present, and the chair was taken by Mr.
Roche, M.P., who, after stating the lamentable condition
of the people with respect to food, noticed the several
bills now before parliament proposing grants of money for
safety harbours, piers, &c., which would tend to give em-
ployment to the people to a certain extent. The staple
food of the country was rotted almost every where, and it
behoved them to do all they could to alleviate the threat-
ened sufferings of their fellow countrymen. He recom-
mended that the grand juries should make presentments
of works necessary to be done. Resolutions were carried
to the effect:—That the attention of the Government be
called to the necessity of giving relief to able-bodied per-
sons, by carrying on public work.; that presentments
should be made ; that the Board of Works be memoria-
lized on the necessity of building piers, safety harbours,
&c., along part of the coast ; that the same board be re-
quested to send a competent person to meet the gentle.
men of the country, to decide on the lines of road and
other works now deemed necessary, and to which those
gentlemen were ready to subscribe; that another meeting
be called of the Union of Middleton, to carry out the pro-
visions of the relief act, &e. A committee was appointed
to carry out the objects of the meeting, which then
separated.
OUTRAGES.—On Sunday, (alas! that this day is so
often chosen for such deeds.) two men well armed, named
James Flynn. uncle and nephew, with their f-,ces black-
ened, entered the house of a farmer named William Bro-
derick, residing at Kiltane, near Freemount, in this
county, and ordered him to give up possession of the land
he had lately taken. One of them shot the house dog,
and threatened Broderick to serve him in the same way
if their commands were not immediately attended to.
They then went to the house of a man named John Sul-
livan, a caretaker on the same lands, and threatened to
shoot him if he did not quit the place the following day.
On leaving Broderick and Sullivan, the fellows said that
they were " Captain Kilfoyle's men" (the leader of the
gang that lately attached the police at Kilfinnan, county
Limerick). The police were soon apprised of the outrage,
and succeeded in capturing the miscreants, and they have
bean committed for trial. On the same evening, (Sun-
day,) about the hour of six o,clock, two men with their
faces blackened and well armed, one of them having four
pistols strapped round his body and a gun in his band,
the other with a pair of pistols and a blunderbuss, called
at the house of lohn Dobbins, of Elm-mount, a work-
man of Patrick Galvin, between Newtown and Free-
mount. After calling out Dobbins they desired him to go
on his knees, which he at first refused, but afterwards
complied, when one of the ruffians discharged a pistol at
him ; the powder burned his hair and whiskers. They
were shown the way to Galvin's house, which is but a
short distance frcm Dobbins', but, fortunately for Gal-
vin he was at the time in the cow-house, at the rere of
the dwelling, tying up the cows, or in all probability his
life would have been taken. Galvin's daughter told her
father that those persons were in the house, when the
poor man, frightened as he must have been almost to
death, hid under a large quantity of straw until they left
the house, which was near an hour. They could get no
light to search the house, or else they would have got
Galvin's gun which was laid on a table it: the room.
When Dobbins thought they were gone from Galvin's he
went to see was he shot, but on the way the two fellows_
met him and gave him a most unmerciful beating, itact- •
with their guns, four deep cuts on his head and a
severe contusion on the eye, together with several bruises
on the body. After leavina him for dead, they went on
their way towards Freemount, calling at one house to
smoke and rest themselves, as if not in tce least dread of
being apprehended. They were, however, captuted soon
after.—Cork Constitution,

DREADFUL MURDERS.—James Cane, a farmer, hold-
ing twenty-four acres of land at Gortmore, was beset on
is way home by three ruffians, and so dreadfully beaten
that he died on Saturday. The deceased has left a widow
and six children.—On Sunday night a party of men, Con-
sisting of six in number, one armed with a pistol, entered
the house of a man named Meara, near Cloghjordan.
They 4rst knocked Meara down with a stone, inflicting a
deadly wound ; they then, with savage ferocity, beat him
on the head until his brains were dashed out. This foul
deed was committed between the hours of seven and eight
o'clock, and within a few yards of Another house; but,
though the shrieks of the inmates were heard, no one came
to their msistance. Meara'a family consisted of his wife,
two sons, (one of them a grown man, the other a boy,)
and two daughters, who were in the kitchen the time the
party were beating the father. The son attempted' to get
to the father's assistance, but was held by the mother.
Meara is father to the man that killed Kennedy on last
Patrick's Day, on his return from the fair of Burrisokane.
Seven men have been arrested for this murder.—Nenagh
Guardian.

TII E TRIAL OF THE ORANGEMEN.—The trial of the
Orangemen charged with the riots at Armagh, on the
12th of July last, has just concluded in the conviction of
Ihree persons of " aiding and abetting at a manslaughter."
There are two or three circumstances in the trial worthy
of remark. First, no person of the Roman Catholic mob
was put to the bar. As far as appears from the measures
taken to vindicate the law, the riot was peculiarly national,
there being but one party to the quarrel. Yet it seems
from reading the report, that even the witnesses called
for the prosecution, all Romanists, admitted that the
Orangemen, being engaged in a procession legally and
peaceably, made no hostile movement whatsoever until
they were assailed by their opponents. They bad been
marching in procession to some distance from Armagh,
and in the evening found the Roman Catholics posted in
large numbers in a certain potion of the city which they
principally inhabited. The latter attacked the Orange-
men. putting, according to the old Romish and Celtic
custom, women and " lumps of boys" (as a witness de-
scribed them) in front. The assault was made with stones
—one man's head laid open, and others injured. The
Orangemen, beinz there in the exercise of a constitutional
right, now did what the police and military have been
applauded by the Government for doing under similar
circumstances—defended themselves. The result was
the death of one individual. The police in attendance,
and all others whose information the Government was
likely to take upon the subject, could as easily have seen
the aggression of the Roreanists as the defence of the
Orangemen. Indeed the witnesses all admitted the ag-
gression, yet for the riot the Orangemen alone were
placed upon their trial and convicted.—Britarazia.

THE REORGANISED ORANGE SYSTEM IN
IRELAND.

The Hon. SoMerst Maxwell, brother to Lord Farn-
ham, has accepted the Grand Mastership of the Orange-
men of Cavan. in responding to the invitation to accept
that high dignity, Mr. Maxwell enters at great length into
his reasons, amongst which are the following, which do
him the greatest honour :
" In order to induce me to this step, I had no need to
decide on the propriety or desirableness of the continuance
of Orangeism. A stubborn fact I h-id to deal with, which
supplied the premises which have led to the conclusiun to
which I have come, namely—that a legal, loyal confedera-
tion, cf a defensive character, animated by the principles
of the Reformation and of the Revolution of 1688, would
continue, under the name of ORANGE, (and under none
other,) to unite the Protestant yeomanry of Ulster, rche-
!her the gentry of its counties joined themselves to it or
not, a determination which my extensive experience ena-
bles me to pronounce unalterable ; and which is strength-
ened by late acts, both of the legislature and the executive,
to which (as my object is rather to allay than to irritate
your feelings) I shall not further allude.
" Having thus presented to me, engraved on the mind
of the Protestant North, in characters not to be erased, a
deep sense of the necessity of PROTESTANT organization
in days, on the one hand, of national abandonment of the
principles of the Reformation and Revolution, and on the
other, of increasing peril to Protestant life and property,
growing out of a widely-spread and deep-rooted conspira-
cy, so organized and so encouraged by the disaffected, as
to baffle the ingenuity of those who would apply a legisla-
tive remedy to it; having, I say, these data presented to
me, while the delicacy of my health, and my disrelish of
a contact with the stormy scenes of political life would
have caused me to retreat into a chetished ptivacy, my
conscience could suggest nothing to me, either as a Chris-
tian or a patriot, why I should shrink from my position
under the standard of loyalty and Protestantism which
they who revere the memory of William of Orange, have
planted in that province which was the theatre of so many
of his victories. Under such peculiar circumstances, to•
draw back would land me not only in a retirement which
I love, but in an act of cowardice, and an abandonment
of duty which would ill accord with the character which
your kindness has conceded to me.

" 1 have said that your organization is defensive. For
physical purposes it is purely eo in the theory of your
system, and I now assume your leadership on the faith of
its being really so in practice. To the executive govern-
ment, and to those who, like myself, are entrusted with
the commission of the peace, and not to arty self-formed
body, hoerever loyal or legal, belongs the institution and
prosecution of aggressive proceedings egaitist those who
wcu!d individually assail, or collectively combine against
the lives or properties of others. The least intrusion,
thetefore, into the province of the constituted authorities.
on the part of the Orange Institution, would meet with
my unqualified condemnation, and, if persevered in, my
separation from ic. But her Majesty's government need
fear no such movement by the Orangemen of Ireland.
However they may differ from, and protest against much
of their legislative proceedings, they know and reverence
the authority of that blessed book, which declares, that in
their executive character, the government of a country
are ' the ministers of God,' and bear ro' the sword in
vain ;' 'revengers to execute wrath upon him who doeth
evil.'—Rom. xiii. 4. I have no hesitation, therefore, in
tendering to the government, in the name of the Orange-
men of Cavan, our institution, (with the esprit de
corps imparted by the talismanic name of ' ORANGE,) as
ancillary to the present or any future efforts of the legis-
lature to remove the stain of human bl.ood from, and re-
store a sense of security to, our wretched land.
" But we tell our legislators and the government, that
the utmost which they can do, will still leave a work
fox Orangeism to effect. The ex'remities, the hands and
the feet, as it were, of MOLLY MAGUIRE, may be within
their reach; but I know of nothing so calculated to strike
at the heart of this mother of murder, as the known exis-
tence of Orange organization in and around the different
localities where she has established her bloody code. My
own experience (and it has not been small) enables me to
testify my firm conviction that, under God, to your insti-
tution, and to the who', some dread of its " bone and
sinew," is mainly attributable the fact, that peace is in
any measure restored to our once troubled border—that
Ribbonism is not now desolating our country, and priestly
agitation (as at Killeshandra last autumn) insulting and
maddening the Protestant peasantry by its monster arrays.
" So much for the physical purposes of our organiza-
tion—defensive, purely so, except when required to tender
cur co-operation to those who have authority to demand
it. But as regards great political, or rather religio.poli-
tical ends, we are an aggressive organization ; and it is no
small item in the amount of satisfaction which I have in
joining you, that there is net, as I believe, one member of
your body who is not prepared, on all fitting occasions, to
record with myself, his solemn protest against that minis-
terial policy which systematically deals out "hard blows
and sore discouragement" against our loved and common
Protestantism, " starving scriptural education that it may
gorge Maynooth," and rearing superstition and error on
the ruins of the truth of God. My friends, viewing our
Government in two such totally different aspects—hound
by the solemn sanction of God's word to tender all sub-
mission to, and co-operation with them, as " bearing the
executive sword," and yet bound, as we conceive, by art
equally solemn sanction, to offer the most firm though
temperate resistance to them, when, as is too of:en the
case, we behold them in their legislative policy rejecting
the standard of God's revealed will in great questions le-
gitimately capable of reference thereto—under such cir-
cumstances, need I say, that as Pret -slants, and at
the same time loyal subjects, your situation is one of great
difficulty ; you feel it to be so, and therefore you ask for
guidance. or, to use your own words, " government and
control." If a spirit thoroughly imbued with the doctrines
which I have laid down, and a firm resolve that, with
God's blessing, it shall be the spirit of the Orangeism of
Cavan. be a sufficient qualification for assuming the hon-
orable post which you have assigned to me, you have not
mistaken your man in your selection of me. It is as a
religious man I accept your invitation, and conscious of
the purity of my motives, and the singleness of my aim at
the peace and well-being of my native county, I can cow-
-1 fortably feel that I carry the presence and blessing of God
with me, and I can look to Him to make His weak un-
worthy servant an instrument of good."
Mr. Maxwell, at the conclusion of his letter, says
that he has every reason to hope that the other grand
offices of the institution will be filled by gentlemen
of the highest character and standing, and addresses
the Orangemen in an affectionate and solemn man-
ner on their responsibilities and privileges, and urges
on them the practice of patience, forbearance, and the
other Christian graces advocated in their laws and
ordinances.