The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-01 00:00:00

O'CONNELL AND THE MINISTRY.
(Prom Me Leeds Intelligencer.)
While the ministerial papers are vaunting the " tran-
quillity" of Ireland as shown by the withdrawal of
troops, Mr. O'Connell is assiduously carrying on his
operations for the dismemberment of the empire by the
repeal of the Union, and is enlisting all whom he can
induce, not to take a shilling, but to pay one.
Now one of two conclusions, with reference to this
matter, is inevitable. Ministers are treasonably in
league with the repealer, or the agitator is again play-
ing the hypocrite, and duping his followers for the sake
of the pence which they bring to his bag. In either
case the whole of the parties to the fraud are equally
We believe them to be entirely worthy of
each other.

infamous

Taking O'Connell at his word for once, however, lie
imself affords a trumpet-tongued commentary on his

own plans and proceedings,

On Sunday last he held a parochial meeting in Dub-
lin, for the promotion of his purposes ; and one of his
• es the following as his language on the ques-

organs g

tion of repeal

" Well, now, Ireland contains between eight and nine mil-
lions of inhabitants. There are only three or four indepen-
dent states in Europe that possess as much. There are twenty
independent states that do not possess as many inhabitants
as Ireland. Portugal has only one-third, Belgium not one-
half as many inhabitants as Ireland. It repealed the union
with Holland ; and if you ask your respected pastor, the Rev.
Mr. Flanagan, who has just returned from that happy coun-
try, he will inform you of the vast benefits the Belgians have
obtained by their self-government. (Loud cheers.)"

This gives us a clear insight into " Repeal." It
means Revolution. Belgium, at the promptings of the
Romish priesthood, shook off the authority of Protes-
tant Holland, and threw itself virtually into the hands
of Popish France. Belgium, in fact, rebelled ; ap-
pealed to arms; blood flowed in her streets; and a
mock independence was declared. O'Connell is fond
of the parallel ; he avows it ; he ostentatiously holds
it forth for imitation ; the Popish priesthood are with
him; they are to a man Flanagans ; 'and should the
deluded Irish peasantry be weak enough to fly to arms
in such a cause, we should soon hear of another French
armament in Bantry Bay, for nothing would so much
delight M. , Thiers as to involve England in such a
gle, as that would leave him, he probably sup-
, at full liberty to pursue the game of aggrandise-
ment in the East; And, in such a case, what solid ob-
jection could the Melbourne government urge to the
conduct of France ? They themselves similarly inter-
fered in Portugal and Spain. They have themselves
established both the precedent and the doctrine; and
they could not, without exposing themselves to uni-
versal ridicule and contempt, appeal to sound principles

In the teeth of the Emancipation Act, the Reform
Act, the Irish Poor Law Act, repeated encroachments
upon the Irish branch of the Protestant Church, and
the recently-conceded Municipal Act, O'Connell tells
his blind and unreasoning followers that they have no
chance of obtaining justice from the Parliament of
England. " You might as well," he elegantly says,,

• ,
" go ask a diamond for nothing from a Jew,- or a boded
potato from a hungry sow;" and he seasons the laugh
raised by the oddity of his illustration by adding,
„

"Now don't you think Lord Stanley is very like the
hungry sow with the boiled potato ?, This question
was replied to by another laugh; at which the ribald
jester cocks his eye and gesticulates, and it is settled
that Lord Stanley is a hungry, sow swallowing a boiled
potato belonging to the swinish multitude running af-
ter Mr. O'Connell. We admit that the man has rea-

son to hate Lord Stanley. But the Irish registration
law is the actual boiled potato, and the agitator is the
greedy beast who wants to swallow the sole benefit of
it; for, without it, he cannot maintain his authority in
the ministerial stye.

From the society of the pigs and potatoes Mr.
O'Connell makes a sudden transition to the infernal
regions and the spirit presiding there, giving rein to his
sooty wit in this fashion :

" Hanover—(loud cheers)—supports one of the worst boys
out. (Laughter.) Did any of you ever hear of a worse boy ?
(No, no, Yes, yes.) I heard of a certain black boy that lives
in a very warm place—(loud laughter)—and, to give the devil
his due, I think he is worse than His Majesty of Hanover.
(Roars of laughter.) Well, that fellow has only one million
of subjects, and they have an independent government."