The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE LATE VICEROY..—It is stated that the Earl an
Countess of Eglintoun, who are now in Paris, will pay 0
visit to Dublin in time to attend the opening of the Great
Exhibition.

THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY'S CATTLE SHOW WO
held on Tuesday. The show of cattle of all classes N'
regarded as better than that of last year. In the evening
the usual meeting of the society was held for the adjudl"
cation of prizes to the successful competitors. 110
excellency, as president of the society, took the chair..
THE EARL. OF DERBY'S TIPPERARY ESTATES.--TO
sale of the Earl of Derby's cattle and farming stock tool'
place on Wednesday, adjacent to the station of; tile
Limerick Junction Railway, in the county of Tipperary'
There was a very large attendance of the gentry and
graziers from the surrounding districts, and very big*
prices were realised. This sale produced upwards I?'
£4OOO. The portion of the estate farmed by the nob
lord has been let to tenants. who are at once to,enter on
possession.

EXODUS.—The Freeman's Journal takets,a gloomy
view of the ultimate effects of the Irish Exodo, which,
as it observes, with the return of the spring,
resumes
more than its old proportions. Home bad ceased to
attract the Celt, and he follows his kindred, whether t?
America or Australia, " with all that strength of domestlO
affection which characterizes the Irish race." The Frew'
man maintains that the result of this efflux cannot r
calculated in reference to the value ?f property, wages,
and other questions which are resolvaak by upholdins'
population.
due proportion between laud, labour, and

THE mADIAI, & PIERCE CONNELLY, YI.A`

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A letter on the subject of the Madiai, addressed to 01
Earl of Aberdeen, by Pierce Connelly, M.A., publis_rhea
by Hatchard, has already reached a fourth edition. X!'
Connelly, a convert from Rome, and formerly domestic
chaplain to the late Earl of Shrewsbury, at Alton Towergy
asserts that this is the very first occasion that, wee spool
he has penned one line for publication since his resider
in England. He now comes forward to correct wbat,l3ol
regards as a general misapprehension in a natter
such general interest—and from that general interest.l;r
such great importance—as the treatment of the Madial*„
He quotes the passage in Lord Aberdeen's 1034
to the General Assembly's Committee, in which
,tat
treatment of the Madiai is characterised as, e
variance with the civilization of modern times." 0
this assertion he does not concur, believing with e
writer in the Westrninister Review, that Englishmen (t7O
most highly civilized people on earth) are less worth)" .'s
be free now than in the days of Edward Besides List
avows the opinion that " the most voluptuous, the roliv
accomplished, the most scientific civilisation is perfeah's
compatible, nay, alas ! perfectly congenial with
cruellest despotism in rulers, and the most impote'a
political debasement in the people." The conviction Ile
persecution of the pious Florentine'and his wife, with tee
" whole damned imposture of the Papacy is at variotto
with something, a great deal higher, a rev,
deal holier, and a great deal older, than
thing it has ever been the fashion to call civilisatit;cl
—lt is at variance with the being of a ese
and with the nature of a man. It is at variance with th
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laws which were promulgated once and for ever o£
divinely, universally established upon " the 1,3(.:r ell
eternity"—at the creation. It is at variance widflor it
personal, all social, all civil, all religious duty ; _eeg
makes justice and the distinction between right and slurs
stand outside of us, and in opinion,, instead of Inn
lair
and necessity of truth. It is at variance with all no.er col
Terrestrial PoLITY:
all social, all civil, all religious rights. Popery nelloAcV
be a mere religion. It was once a great CoNsr
_jot;
against all CIVIL GOVERNMENTS. It is now a rlA'g„ue
with the yielded preQQaCtlA'

supremacy."