The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

An inhabitant of Netherfleld Road South :complains bitterly of
the clouds of dust which fly in that neighbourhood everyday.
Our correspondent says that the wat,T-cart only visits the
street about once a week. No doubt after this hint the au-
thorities will attend to the complaint.
It is vain for us to speculate as to the influences used to induce
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tuatty ut tue peers who voted against the second reading of
the Navigation Bill to absent themselves from the divisions
in committee. The London correspondent of one of the
Whig provincial rapers says that " the repeal of the Naviga-
tion Laws, and the retention of their seats by the Ministry,
are in a great measure to be ascribed to the admirable tactics
of a beautiful duchess—to the drilling and coaxing of a white
sergeant."
"Z Y"—A correspondent, under this signature, asks us what
has been the origin of the quarrel between the two tr;,-
dians, which has just led to such disastrous
York. Our answer is, the disapn,"--
rican actor, Mr. Forrest. This
Britain, and egregiously failed.
claimed him a ranter, fit only for
and he visits the result upon the I,
he says, the London press w'
Mr. Macready himself, on

vanity of the Ame-
leman visited Great

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for a second-rate melodra
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bribed to put him down.
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ned by ecclesiastical authority.

Etberpool

TUESDAY MORNING, M.

AY 29, 1849

THE commercial advices brought yesterday by
the steam-ship from New York are very favourable.
The orders for manufactures continue to be on a
very extended cealP, the steamer having brought
them to a very large amount for every description
of goods. Exchange was very firm at 81, with few
bills offering—a good demand would raise it over
9. The money market having become easy, and
the bulk of the cotton crop having gone forward,
we need be under no apprehension of a further drain
of specie; in fact, that already exported may be
soon returned to us, and if so, the shippers will have
lost considerably. The coming crop has been very
little affected with the frost, although in some of
the southern papers dismal tales are told. Season-
able rain and a change of weather has brought the
crop forward vigorously—the only thing apprehen-
sive being, that the gathering of it may be retarded.
It is much if the present goes over 2,600,000 hales.
Several parties have arrived by this vessel to
endeavour to dispose of U. S. State and Rail Bonds,
Capitalists should he wary, and not be too easily
blinded with plausible tales and high dividends,
for although the latter are nearly all payable in the
United States at 6 per cent., yet before the holders
can receive them in this country they have to
employ an agent, pay commissions, postages, and
the difference of exchange, which reduces the divi-
dend below 5 per cent.
The accounts from California continue to be of
their usual exciting character, and some parties
contend that no description can equal the reality.
The friends of order at New York are well pleased
at the effectual way in which the rioters were put
down.

THE career of the Roman Republic in its strug-
gle for independence has presented one of the most
interesting spectacles to be found amidst the con-
vulsions of modern Europe. Menaced on every
side ; defending themselves against the iniquitous
aggressions of republican France, imperial Austria, THE government measures for the relief of des-
and insurgent Naples, the Roman forces have exhi- titution in Ireland have now either become law, or
bited a vitality of exertion and a valour worthy of are in progress through Parliament. They consist
the days of old, when their hardy sires contested of grants of a few thousands of English money,
with the nations around them for the dominion of for present emergencies—a rate in aid bill, to pro-
half the civilized world. That they have maintained vide for the future wants of Irish pauperism, and a
themselves so long—that raw levies have been measure to facilitate the transfer of the soil from
enabled to measure swords and to overcome disci- encumbered and bankrupt owners to solvent pur-
plined armies, arrayed against them in overwhelm- chasers, if such can be found ready to embark their
ing numerical force —is wonderful, and only capital in a land, whose famine-stricken population
accountable for on the supposition that God is are ready to snatch the half grown produce from
using them as his agents in precipitating from its the ground. Is there a sane man in her Majesty's do-
throne the spiritual tyranny which has so long held minions who will venture to express his confidence
captive the minds and consciences of mankind. that these measures will he effectual in rendering
By the latest news received from Italy it would life even tolerable in that country ? There cannot
almost appear that the enemies of the new republic surely be one. Ireland is too hopelessly sunk in misery
are, for a time, likely to attain the wished-for end and poverty for any such measures to restore her
of crushing their liberties. France, democratic in yet what further sacrifices can be made by the
civil matters, still leans towards supporting spiritual British public we cannot perceive. We cannot sup-
despotism ; and, having been defeated in successive Port a whole people in compulsory idleness, neither
attempts to put down the Roman forces by the can we, as a Christian nation, stand by and see them
strong hand, has descended to gain admission into perish from disease and famine.
-their territory by a subterfuge, where they hope to It is horrifying to contemplate a state of things
dictate their own terms, a portion of which are the such as is described as existing in portions of Ire-
spontaneous re-establishment of Pope Pius IX. land in every journal which comes to our hands.
As yet the issue is not decided; but, should it be The following, for example, is contained in a letter
thus crushed, the young republic will have done addressed to Lord John Russell himself, by the
sufficient to ensure that ultimately success must Protestant rector of Ballinrobe :
crown its efforts, and that the restoration of the "In a neighbouring union a shipwrecked human body
Popedom, in its full power of iniquitous and dis- was cast on shore; a starving man extracted the heart and
gusting tyranny, is become a thing impossible. liver, and that was the maddening feast on which he re-
In the meantime, it is singular to observe the galed himself and perishing family t and, nearer still, a
poor forlorn girl, hearing that her mother was seized with
want of sympathy with which the struggle which cholera, hastened to the rescue, alas l too late, but, with
has been going on at Rome has been regarded by a deep religious and filial devotion, desiring at least a
the liberal party, not only in this Protestant coun- decent interment for her dear departed parent, was driven
try but throughout Europe. We quote, as most
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pertinent to this subject, the following striking she might make lhsr wants and simply obtain a
sentiments delivered by the Rev. Canon M`Neile, coffin from the relieving officer. known,Need I tell you, may
at the Church Missionary Society on Tuesday last : lord, the dismal sequel ? She herself died of cholera on
"Nothing, in these remarkable days, is more remark-
the following day ! These awful facts may have been re-
able than the tenderness, in the disguise of charity, which ported, but if they were they have been cushioned and
has crept over and paralysed many minds towards Roman-
suppressed, for who has heard of them 1"
ism. But it wont do. The antichristian system is The reverend writer proceeds :
doomed. In the righteous judgment of God a species of . T will not, my lord, dwell at present upon the painful
exposure is going on at this time which bids fair to prove subject of the workhouse, as the evil has gone far to cor-
a blessing to the world. We do not justify any violence. rect itself, the inmates having, died off in awful numbers,
if violence there has been, in the leaders or members and more liberal supplies being now remitted for the cur-
of the young Roman Republic; but the wrath of man is rent weekly expenses—alas ! that these supplies should
made to praise God, and those republicans are laying bare have been withheld so long 1 I would, however, fix your
the atrocities of that fearful system, which were known lordship's deepest attention 'upon the appalling fact, that
indeed, and plainly told years ago, by those who had we have even at best, to encounter three montlA more of
studied the system, but pertinaciously denied by others as sore, sore' famine ; and, bear it in mind, my lord, the
too horrible to be credited, and sneeringly rejected by the three worst months of the year, in point of home supply—
Liberal press as exaggerations of the middle age fables. and this, with 27,000 of our population in the Ballinrobe
Now, the prison-house is laid open to the public; the union on, out-door relief; while the remaining 68,000,
cavern cells of the Inquisition, blasphemously called the minus the thousands already lost, are all, with very few
Holy Office; the rings of iron for chaining the victims to exceptions indeed, barely trying to hold on through the
the rock ; the trap-door for dropping the refractory into dread crisis ! The all-engrossing questions with every
the boiling lime pit; the piles of calcined bones; the locks one, gentle and simple, are these—' What, in the nam
of clotted hair—all these damning proofs of Rome's guilt of Heaven, is to become of me ?e 'What are we to doe
in blood, are dragged to the view of an awakened and dis- The country is gone ?' We must thus again and again
gusted people. In vain shall France, in the triumph of strive to arouse you, my lord, for it is not possible that
inconsistency, employ her republican troops to crush a ou or the Englishalive
'statep of things in thell wey st of Ireland., or
I
Austria, in the triumph of a dogged and unteachable con- grant that there may be, nay, that there is, much of im-
sistency, employ her Imperial legions to crush Italian position, but surely there cannot be any in this, that here
liberty. The present belligerents at Rome may, indeed. are the people dropping dead of utter want all around in
be physically beaten by their combined assailants, but in every direction, night and day ; and can we suppose for a
the meantime they have been made instrumental to an moment that the astounding fact is believed when we see
exposure, the moral consequences of which can never be no really vigorous and united movement. except through
beaten. The days of priestly domination in Rome are private benevolence, to stay the progress of death ?"
ended. (Loud applause.)"
We trust that these predictions of the rev. gen-
Such, then, is the lamentable condition of the
tleman may be verified. They must, indeed, if
wretched Pothers and the labouring masses. They
men have read aright the revelations of Scripture, are only dragging on a miserable existence until
the potato crop, where any has been sown, is ready
regarding the end of Rome's dominion over the
Christian world. for the harvest. The same state of things exists
in Skihbereen and throughout Clare and Galway.
The bulk of the substantial portion of the popula-
tion are either gone already, or are preparing to
flee from a land in which pestilence and famine,
which they can no longer relieve, surround them on
every side. The bone and sinews, the capital and
industry, of the country are transporting them-
selves to the backwoods of Canada, or the prairies
of the United States, to toil with the hatchet or
the spade for that bread which can no longer be
raised at home, without the certainty of their
owners being at least dragged down into the general
mass of pauperism and wretchedness.
What prospect is there for such a people ? 'What
hope have we of raising the emaciated and depair-
ing millions, who will speedily be all that are left
there, to a condition of self-dependence ? The pur-
suits of manufactures and of agriculture alike
suggest themselves, in vain, in these wretched dis-
tricts. Both the capital and enterprise necessary
to ensure success are gone, those who possessed
them preferring to bestow them upon the soil of
the stranger. The Irish farmer, in his transatlantic
home, can more than compete with the cultivator
of his native land. The beef, the pork, and the
breadfood of Ohio and Western Canada have long
ago displaced the produce of Ireland in the British
markets, and are beginning to form the chief source
of supply for Ireland herself. The pig has vanished
from every cottage in the land. The poultry are
no longer seen about the labourer's and the farmer's
homestead. The mill is almost idle; and even the
distillery has ceased to produce its wonted abun-
dance of that bane of Ireland—whiskey. " Im-
prove your system of cultivation !" "Adopt Eng-
lish habits, and imitate English energy !" Impos-
sible. What are you to do with your pauperism ?
What are you to do with the population which must
be ejected, before you can proceed a step towards
the improvement of your system ? Emigration
might effect something ; but you cannot transport
an entire people from your soil, and the bulk of that
people steeped in poverty to the very lips.
The question, What is to be done with Ireland ?
will have to be looked at as an imperial, and not a
merely Irish, question. We could not hold up Ire.

THE repeal of the Navigation Laws is now an
accomplished fact. The Lords have allowed their
judgments to be usurped by the threats, or the
cajolery, of one of the meanest and most imbecile
governments that ever swayed the destinies of a
great nation ; and another great interest is sacrificed
before the shrine of the modern idol—cheapness.
We must confess that we were not prepared for
such a result ; and deplore it, as well for the'eake
of their Lordships character as for the country.
It is a melancholy sight to see such a body, com-
posed as it is of the elite of the nation, in birth,
intellect, valour, and piety, dragged at the heels of
a faction of sordid hucksters, and submitting to
record the insolent fiat of men, whose avowed
sympathies are on the side of the destruction of all
that is noble, and chivalrous, and hallowed in the
eyes of Englishmen. Especially we deplore the
fact that, amongst the majority in favour of a
measure, upon the merits of which conflicting
opinions are held amongst men acquainted with all
the bearings of the subject, so many of the vene-
rable prelates of our church thought it fitting to
record their votes.

It must be clear to every observing mind, from
the indecent eagerness with which this measure has
been pressed forward, and the stubbornness with
which every proposed amendment has been resisted,
that ministers have thrown overboard all the re-
straints of prudence and experience, and are deter-
mined to run headlong to the realization of the
extreme views of the ultra free-trade party. Thus
far the system of the Manchester school of political
economy has been productive only of disaster and
widely-spread suffering. We have ruined our sugar
colonies, and alienated the Canadas ; and at home
we see agricultural distress and severe commercial
embarrassment. A social hurricane has swept
down our merchant princes, and scattered bank-
ruptcy and ruin over the land ; and even the
manufacturer, at whose selfish dictation the policy,
which has been attended with these results, was
adopted, finds himself rewarded with decreased
exports, and a diminished consumption amongst