The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-17 00:00:00

philanthropy :—" While the landlords talk sentimen-
tally concerning their generous sympathy for the poor,
Can they forget that their claret is purchased with the
widow's tears, .and their venison sauced with the or-
phan's-hunger? Shall these-men any longer roll their
chariot-wheels over the sufferings, the miseries, and
woes ,of the people, those wheels being propelled by
the tears of the widow, and the privations and anguish
of 'the operative and the poor." The only man who
could. be found to give utterance to such'atrocious
sentiments as these, is the man who has a stinging
consciousness within him -that--his own means of ex-
istence are procured by even more revolting proceed-
ings. He must have had depicted before his eye the
lash of the priest falling on a poor wretch, to extract
from his reluctant grasp the penny which assists to
swell the amount of the national rent, but which ought
to have been devoted to the more worthy object of
relieving his famishing offspring—the purpose for
which the owner intended it ; he must have remem-
bered the tears and anxious entreaties with which the
delivery of that penny was resisted ;—but his mind is
steeled against the " anguish and privations" of others,
though endured to enrich himself, and he strives, in
the recollection of his guilt, to fix upon others the
character which only attaches to himself, and thus
vainly hopes to escape detection:
But we have another reason for directing the atten-
tion of our readers to this foulmouthed deceiver. It
will scarcely be believed that such an apparently ho-
nest and indignant denial as the following could be
given to a statement which has stigmatised the elm-
racter of this man as the impugner of the chastity of
the maidens and matrons of England, and which,
though indelibly fastened upon him, he attempts at
this late hour to repudiate and deny. The pompous
parade about his affectionate feelings and tender remi-
niscences will be duly appreciated by the recollection
of his slimy abuse of -Lord- Brougham; when attending
the funeral of his own daughter. O'Connell the ad-
vocate of the ladies of England ! Shame on such an
outrage on decency ! •

" I feel that on two grounds I am perhaps called upon to
respond to this toast. The first springs from the kindness
of your respected chairman; for it was through him that I
find, this very evening, one of the foulest and filthiest ca-
lumnies—and Heaven knows that calumny enough has been
directed against me,—but one of the foulest and filthiest of
all has been put into a placard, and stuck up in your streets.
I forgive every thing, but my Christian feeling can hardly
allow me to forgive them this. They dare,to say that I im-
pugned the purity of the maidens and matrons of England.—
(" Shame, shame.") They lie—a• fouler lie never was in-
vented. (Cheers.) I dismiss that, however, with the exe-
cration which every man who hears me would feel, if that lie
were directed against himself. (Hear; hear.) The second
reason why I reply to the toast is derived from grateful re-
collections of the happiness 1 have derived from those to
whom it refers. I have stood at the grave of a mother, and
I know what are the feelings of children to their parents. I
have stood by another grave that I dare not name, and I
know what it is to have a widower's hearth. lam the father
of daughters, who are themselves mothers ; and I know what
is the love of a daughter fora father: I have grand-daughters
growing up chirpingly and multitudinously around me—
(much laughter) Hand therefore, with the experience of
many years, and the recollection of present and bye-gone
happiness, and with the knowledge I have of the affection of
the female character, I can at least proclaim that there is no
haPpiness for the man who does not respect their sex, and
venerate them. (The hon. gentleman sat down amidst great
applause.)

We are glad tcand, from the Cork Constitution of
Tuesday last, that the landowners, farmers, and
labourers of the south of Ireland are awakening to a
sense of the danger which would '""
result to that coun-.
try from the' repeal of the corn laws. A large and
respectable meeting took place, at Fermoy, on Saturday
last, for the purpose of petitioning Parliatnent against
any alteration in those laws, and of "protecting the
Irish people against the conspiracy of the English ma-
nufacturers." • The repeal of thesorn laws would have
a more disastrous effect upon Ireland than upon Eng-
land. Ittlutherefore, high time ,fqy the agriculturists
of Irelandio look round them,-and? to seek, by every
means within their power, to avert the ruinous conse-
quences which would issue from the •success of the
'anti-corn-law.agitation. At present, Ireland supplies
this country with a large amount of . grain annually.
This grain is chiefly paid for in money. The money
thus acquired is spread, over the whole face of Ireland.
This money enables the farmers, the labourers, and the
landholders to 'purchase. English manufactures to a
considerable extent. The repeal of the corn laws
would throw an immense proportion of land in Ireland
out of cultivation. .It is absurd to say that the far-

mere of Ireland might rear more pigs, and export them
to England. This they would find to be impossible
Without growing more potatoes; and it is well known
that by the rotation of crops it would not be worth the
farmer's while to turn up his ground for potato crops
*unless he.can grow corn. It is very easy to say that
" rents must be lowered." How can this be done,
with.any thing like justice, when landlords have had
their estates- mortgaged nearly to their full value ? The
ruin of the landlords of Ireland would speedily involve
that .of the farmers. A poor or embarrassed landlord
is scarcely ever 'known to possess a prosperous te-
nantry. The ruin of the farmer, again, would be inevi-
tably followed by that of the poor labourer. If it should
not be worth the farmer's while to turn his land into
tillage, he would not find it necessary to employ many
labourers. The consequence would be that hundreds
of thousands, would be turned out of employment, and
reduced to starvation and misery, thus fearfully aug-
menting the burden of those who have to pay the poor
rates: The effect of the repeal of the corn laws on the
poor rates is scarcely ever thought of by the manufac-
turers ; and yet it forms one of the most formidable
objections to the abolition of :the restrictive duties on
foreign grain. When our labourers, and especially the
labourers of Ireland, are thrown out of employment,
there will be no one on which the increase in the poor
rates will fall more heavily than the farmer and his
landlord.

We trust that the agriculturists in other districts
of Ireland will follow the example set them by the
people of Fermoy, and that petitions will emanate from
every parish in the country in opposition to the anti-

corn-law combinatory.

The trials for high treason at Monmouth have been
brought to an abrupt and unexpected termination ! On
Wednesday last, Jones, the watchmaker, was convicted,
and at the close of the trial five of the remaining pri-

Boners charged with high treason withdrew their former
plea of " not guilty," andrpleaded "guilty." This step
is said to have been taken with the concurreuce of the
officers of the crown. The prisoners will be punished
with imprisonment. 'The other four, against whom true
bills had been found, 'were discharged, the Attorney-Ge-
neral declining to prosecute! Here is another instance
of Whig baseness and trickery. The course of justice
must be interrupted, and rebels against the authority
of the crown must be set at large, in order to afford the
Attorney and Solicitor-General of her Majesty an op-
portunity of hastening to the rescue of their degraded
aswociates in-office.. • This infamous procedure on the
pat' t of goxernient stamps them more indelibly than
ever with the brand of traitors to the public weal. The
reckless career of Lord Melbourne and his cabinet
of incapables is evidently drawing to a close. They
have been sinking from year to year in public estima-
tion, until, at length, they have hardly any one to sym-
pathise with them but the vile traducer of English
females, and the hordes of priest-ridden beggars who
howl against the whole of the English nation as tyrants
and oppressors. This last base act of the Melbourne
administration denudes them of their remaining tattered
remnant of public confidence. They have, in effect, de-
dared that treason is not punishable—that outrage and
bloodshed shall escape, as far as they are concerned,
• with impunity—that the lives and property of loyal
I. subjects are to be attacked and sacrificed without any
hope of protection—and that the loaves and fishes of
office are, in their estimation, of greater value than the
security of the crown and the peace of the empire.
We almost fear to contemplate the effect which will
) he produced by the proceedings at Monmouth on the
future movements of the Chartists. These rebels are
already in a state of insurrection in Yorkshire. What
is there to deter them from carrying their long-che-
; .rished schemes of plunder and massacre into instant
operation ? May an overruling PROVIDENCE preserve
this country from the threatened curse of anarchy and
civil war ! We have nothing to look to from the
powers that be. They have offered a bonus upon
treason, and given an invitation to indiscriminate car-
, rage and robbery. If England should be ea*d from