The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-31 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL-A CHARACTER

k Mr. Talbot Glascock, in his address to the Electors of Kil-
early, thus describes Mr. O'Connell, now the member for that
City,
i„ ...Will you, men of Kilkenny, degrade yourselves by return-
who person who has decried' they very name of gentleman,
has even disgraced his own common caste, who is a traitor
13 - ais hi ; untr his people, and even to himself ? First
1„, his
” rii sCo y,
ng, his motto needs no comment—it is that of " the
ri,:tri) Without the Crown." Then to his country--look to the
thl'erY be entails upon the poor peasantry, instead of employing
a great gifts with which he is endowed, by means of his legal
vinliag and talents, by legislating as he ought to do, with a
h.'" °I getting employment for the people, who contributed to
ca wants, in the manner he could act, by propagating railroads,
Scc. But no ! he sets the people against their patrons
r disorder, to swell his pampered pride, by extorting pence
lieratisaigt_bie.poor man, and half-pence from ragged wretchedness
oeite7z that he would sink into his primeval insignificance, if
were maintained.
Laolt to the people, some of whom were once his friends,
el,"'Watds he became their foe • begin with the nobility, Lord
ACI„LIarrY, to wit, J. K.L., alias Doctor Doyle, then O'Gorman
one a. real gentleman in heart, in courage, in manners, and
hob'gat was his gratitude to him ? What to honest
La.wless, whom he betrayed and thought to destroy ? or to
-nsanded Tom Steele? What to Edeas M`Donnell? What
h ,Pnor Harding Tracy, whom he left to pine in prison, the
victim of the vilest treachery, whose relict was even
aftrteetlia few, shillings to rescue her from the hapless wrongs
Nasic--. upon her widowed woe? And though last but not
pi the sight of Heaven, to his own progeny, the son of the
h'i
retbut interesting Miss Ellen Courtenay. These are facts
is e,att be pircived by witnesses, but it seems mankind
,V.ded and afraid to tell the truth-1 am not.
hi,.e shall say nothing of D.'Estere. there is blood enough on
betrountlty soul already, so we shall leave him to God for retri-
hq but there are Other minor constellations who were
pr:Pa in the embraces of his ursa Major ; where is his late
thonetel. Mr. Raphael? I shall not mantion more names,
ithgt. could easily enumerate many, because there are those
Shine amilies who are not so fearless of letting the light of day
ill9selftT°ll his sayings and doings regarding them as I am

FAILURE OF AN ATTEMPT TO AGITATE IN

EDINBURGH.

Z'The whig-radicals of Edinburgh have been as signally unsuc-
ul in their attempt to get up an Irish municipal corporation
t e:ntinZ as their political brethern were in this place. In both
it%',.ft' ' .le cry of "justice for Ireland" was heard with the like
lksti:eti,,rener,e. The Edinburgh meeting was held on Friday.
it, iii.e-ening Post (Edinburgh) of Saturday. speaking of
The ,
let_ll,.,- •nonn in which it was held is capable of containing nearly
4) ''''s"ns; but we conscientiously aver that there Iv.ereno
Of fact on this occasion. The bulk of the meeting, in point_i,e,
hol`tet, r `insisted merely of the requisitionists, composedofl
f.s.h, Ors-on and expectauts of the whiA ministry--such as sheriffs,.
subsist commissioners, and the rest of that mongrel brood, who
wit.''st upon the crumbs that are swept from the tables of the
stA.toinistry. The whole display was most meagre—and the
theiarvoices sounding against the walls almost as empty
liaena:4l"l:s.tads, produced an effect which it was truly dismal to
Re ' And with regard to the character of the mere auditors,
Say that at least one-third was made up of loungers
~,,eits,ltzlit-seers about town, while the remainder was formed
to the of the " unwashed," whose curiosity had led them
and ? scene of action as a pleasant variety to their more useful
41, laborious occupations. But be this as it may, we chal-
thei'vel th nest furious and uncompromising Whig to say that
p,inrpelog was not a decided failure—that the numbers coin-
tiler (3 it were not ridiculously insignificant—and that altoge-
eity a more contemptible turn-out was ever exhibited in this
ocfur belief is that the inhg,hitant3 of Edinburgh—tile people
itqi:Vlblnd—are perfectly satisfied with conduct of the peers,
I'4_ ave no desire to interfere with their deliberate decisions.
ii,. manner in which the meeting of yesterday was so entirely
tk°_countenanced, confirms us in this opinion. It shows that
the citizens of the Scottish metropolis do not sympathise with
urekwhig-radical agitators, and that they have no wish to bully
are`Tat down the peerage, on a subject respecting which they
Tr_Junti to secure an indepandeut judgment.
the " speakers at this whig-radical meeting embraced
h old hacks, to the sound of whose " sweet voices" thepublic
b;'!"?. been so long accustomed. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder bab-
41t'i',,t. forth his usual tom-foolery. Bailie Stodart was character-
-44d `sv dull and ignorant—Mr. Armin predeterminedly rabid
441 l'l"l,ical—Councillor Robertson red hot and inconsequen-
r. Thompson Gordon pregnant with pompous inanities
ii,e word, the clarions:ration, so far as the speaking depart-
ikunt was
concerned, was as feeble and stupid as the audience
cif.
a, meagre and uninterested. 'l'o waste a breath :;11 the way
--...wrilliurnent upon the mass, of rubbish—all away from the p,int
t,,s,.:teh was poured forth on this occasion, forms no part of our
bested The cuckoo .cry of " equal justice to Ireland" was re-
st*
r 141911.! -ad nauseam; and b'-fond this, nut one of the
of
‘ .1,10 eies.
of his e
ad seellidito napable of carrying either his own intellects
urs.