The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-29 00:00:00

NIARcEr 2,9, 1836.

grinding and avaricious exactions of his protestant land-
lord--that the curse ortile Country is the tithes—and that
he never can hope taibewirl a better condition until the
:Saxon hereticS are eiga;atind, the monasteries rebuilt, and
the lands of the churtivrest. tared to the see of Rowe.

We can easily cOthilOnti the efiect which these artful
but natural, becauseniallohat; delusions, produce on weak,
,g,porant; and volatilefands '•• They excite feelings of
deadly hate and imperishable !'resentment. When men
!are convinced that they have endured wrongs, the ardour
of their passions makes theta the. more facile prey of
their betrayers. They dearly love the man who, know=
ing their simplicity, can rouse them to madness. They
shower more readily upon him the patriotic contributions
which he prescribes. He adjures them from the altar, as
they value their own souls, as they love the darling reli-
gion of their ancestors, as they venerate the bones of
their suffering fathers in Purgatory—to obey his behests,
to follow his advice, to execrate whom he condemns, and
take vengeance on those whom he anakematises. Hence
the awful atrocitiesand deeds of COldltooded and damn-
ing guilt which make Ireland the reproach of Europe and
the disgrace of the. " Isles of the sea."
In illustration of the working of this unhallowed and
dernoralizin system, weto re beg fer to a trial which
•
took place in the county of Carlow, in Ireland, within the
last few days, the particulars of which, we doubt not,
most of our readers are already acquainted with. A ra-
ther notorious priest; of .the name of WALSH, one of the
zealous and most complacent tools of O'CONNELL, was
found dead on the road which led to his place of resi-
dence. On the night.before
.he was found he had been
visiting some of his friends several miles from home. It
is stated that he had drank freelythat be was on horse-
back—and that, though accustomed to ride as well as
drink, he was not exactly in a Condition to undertake
such a journey at so late an hour of the night. The evi-
dence of the. medical men is con-tvadictory. The mere
impartial and intelligent swear that he owed his death, to
a fall and probably a kick from his horse. The accident
happened at an acute turning of the road, and near a
house the inmates of which heard no struggling, no con-
tention, no blows, no groans. The general opinion, and
the only rational opinion, considering the circumstances,
is, that Father Wal.Sti was drunk, fell from his horse, and
Was killed. •

But in Ireland, unlike any other country, a priest can-
not be allowed to get drunk and fall from his horse with-
out his death being made . the subject of excitement on
political grounds. It was first insinuated and afterwards
asserted that the priest was murdered. Murder a priest !
It was a greater crime than murdering a whole nation of
Protestants. Murder a priest! Who would murder him
but a protestant ? The frenzy Caused by this falsehood
became popular. It was a capital topic of excitation.
The priests, awake to every fraud that may promote their
Wily, sinister, and "dishonest .purposes, encouraged the
fiction and joined in the cry of murder. .Consequently
Father WALSH, instead of being returned drunk from an
excess of whisky punch, and as having fallen from his
horse at a sharp turning of the road, which the horse
knew better than his reverence, was'returned murdered
45y an orangeman ! This popular decision was come to
Without a shadow of evidence. It Was a lie invented for

the purposes of fraud and agitation. It was as base a lie

as ever entered the mind of a popish priest. It was a lie
with a murderous intent—with a recklessness of life—
aimed at the peace and happiness of an innocent man,
and to bring obloquy upon a party.
We are happy to say that the lie and the infamous con-

spiracy did not succeed. But the attempt made, the wit-

tresses produced, and the evidence sworn to, cannot fail
to make a deep impression upon the minds of protestant
readers, inasmuch as they prove to what guilty lengths
the priests will go in making the judgments of-heaven
the instruments of fiction, the medium of falsehood, and
the terror of the innocent.
One woman was enticed to swear that she heard a
Person of the name of SLY,, (a protestant of course, and
Who was indicted for the murder,)- confess that‘he and
others perpetrated the.deed. It was afterwards clearly
Preyed that this woman was in a distant part of the coun-
try at the time, and- could not have heard any such con-
fession. She hal since been tried for perjury, convicted,
and sentenced to transportation. •

But on the trial two men, one of them a police con-
stable—both Roman CatholiesstVear that they heard
Mr. SLY make confessicin of 'his ifard'eitiation in the mur-
der. Two months had elapsedbeforethe policeman ever
intimated that he knew any on the subject, and he
says, what is curious- enoughOhat be never thought of
divulging it until he gas preparing to make emfession
to his priest ! There is something in this which an
Irish jury peifectly'UnderStarid, but which it would not
be safe in us to take any particular pains to explain.
However, the two men.told the same story in such exact

terms, and in the words of their depositions with such a de-
gree of precision, the result of study and compact, and
according to their instructions, that it was impossible
for any man in his sober senses to believe what they so
solemnly swore! A more atrocious case—a more abo-

minable conspiracy—a more diabolical attempt to ac-
complish murder by false evidence, never was presented
in a court of justice. It was infamy in its blackest form.
It had the taint of popish villany, made plausible by in-
genuity, and apparently pure by means of holy water.
The assassin and the sprinkler—the dagger and thein-
cense pot—swung, or ought to have swung together.
In no other country could such deliberate malice have
been worked into so repulsive a form. We forgive the
Poor wretch of a woman. No doubt she had confessed ;
no doubt she was at the mercy of the priest. But the
Policeman who was prepared to confess, and we suspect
(14 confess, as be was faithfully instructed, and which

confession was a lie, having for its object deliberate per-
jury in the first instance, and murder afterwards—of him
and of his priest, and his adviser, what shall we say ?
SiolPly, this, that the man can only do justice to GOD
and his country by exposing the villain who either in-
structed or encouraged him in framing evidence which
both must have known to be false.
Such, however, is popery in Ireland 1. To propagate
and encourage this falsehood which ministers to the foul-
est crimes--which criminates the witness and is intend-
ed to murder the innocent—to give a bounty to the
scoundrel and secure the extortions of the priests is
called " justice to Ireland !" If this be justice, we pray
GoD we may never hear the word " justice" pronounced
in the English language. If this be the justice which his
Majesty's ministers advocate, .we wish them no worse
fate than to run the gauntlet of it in their own persons.
It is to encourage. this sort of " justice" founded on fraud
and crime, that
.the revenues of the church of England
are to be appropriated as DANIEL O'CoNivzi.t. directs.
!re is to do justice to Ireland. The scamp ! what are
ills notions of justice.? Listen to his own words. The
day is the Sabbath—the hero is going to mass—the vic-
titll is a helpless, deserted; and starving child, his mother
The destitute relic of seduction and abandonment. What
" °'CONNELL'S justice ? "Don't strike the boy ANY
JOHN." ! 1 !

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'll 11 fir LONDON LATEST NEWS.

m"„cm" City, Saturday Evening, Hall past Seven o'clock.
By the Malta mail advices have been received from Tripoli
k to the 4th instant. A revolt had taken place among the in-
habitants of Tanjure and Zanzure, against the authority of the
Dacha, the people refusing to pay the tribute. Five thousand
troops had been sent against the rebels, who were soon reduced
tu.submission. and compelled to pay a fine of 7,000 dollars for
their misconduct.
The Stock market has again been rather buoyant this after-
-60, consols for' account having touched 913 ; but specnlative
siltness is still conducted on a very small scale. The last
Xsee of the day -for account was 9114, and for money Ole.
xehequer bills are firm at 23e.; and India bonds at 6s. to Bs.
Premium.
The value of Spanish bonds has improved to-day, in conse-
titlence of the expectations that the dividends wilt be forth-
, "tuing at the proper period. In the morning some extensive
ti,,purchases were made of Spanish stock, which led to an advance
'4J.7 r°.at Otto 451, but a reaction took place subsequently, tbe'
-declining to 44i. The last bargains were transacted at
44.4 ii• The:posivestock receded from 140 to 14#; but the de-
'at!, :!rred bonds are very firm at 211/. A few bargains were made
t 34, Piiitligu' es -bonds at 80 this afternoon, and in the 3 per
e_
!nits. at 54. In the ether. continental securities scarcely any
'lariation occurred to-day. Colombian bonds remain •at 31f,
*-Periniiin have fallen to 231.
2,T,,:herehaatbeert. considerable speculation in railway, shares,
11(',:ti ~",!!°tighthe'greater part of them have declined in value. To-
° +6V the IlreatE Western after having risen to 30, fell hack to
16'61 :Ott 40i-tikolvAintl.Brighton (Stephenson's) dropped from
°14,;, line from a to 2 premium; the Greenwich
•/1 "Uthitleteilea.'"'diiii Ws. prem., and the London and Sliming-
7011Tha., viNj .