The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

ace of the Romi—sh church

t power in Ireland, w

ras very significantly
he Conciliation Hall,

.om Doctor Higgins,

the Roinish Bishop of Armagh, forwarding 52 shil-
lings as the subscriptions of as many contributors
within his diocese, "who," he says to Mr. John
O'Connell, " desire me to assure you that this sum
is but a very feeble mark of their warm attachment
to your own respected person, and their unlimited
confidence in the wisdom, purity, and effic'
the true Repealers of Concili

ency of

ation Hall." We must
the letter :

quote the next paragraph of

" In the 1

awfully distressed state

will be of large amount. Still, lam thoroughly convinced
that, even in this season of fearful destitution, all that is
required for the triumphant support of the cause of Repeal
and Old Ireland is—organization. For this paramount
object let the detailed and persevering exertions of every
true lover of Ireland be immediately directed, and the

National 'I

ury will si

be filled with the voluntary

werned and oppressed, but determined
The minions of a hostile Government—the hy-
writers in certain would-be liberal papers—and
our country's worst enemies, the Chartist Repeaters, may
use their little influence and treachery as they please, but
I repeat that, if our virtuous and devoted people be pro-
perly organized, they will cheerfully supply abundant funds
for all national purposes."
_ _ _

offerings of a m
peopl
Pct

The impud

d dishonesty of the above is

sufficiently apparent; but what toes this firebrand
priest mean by the " National Treasury ?" Do the
Repeal funds constitute a " Treasury," by which
the Irish nation are fed ? That is evidently their

.nt moment. We
Lich has been feeding
vishly has the "hostile
of this country been dispensing the
ence of its people towards Ireland in her sor

chief requir

fancy t
them

Government

benev

mien, and children, fill our
our hospitals. They bring
amongst us pestilence. .They inoculate our popu-
lation with vice and filthiness ; and we feel and act

distress ! Irish Tr

prisons, our wo:

towa
ought to do towaras

as al

them, neverthel

THAT we had no wish to have a quarrel with
our contemporary, the Courier, was sufficiently
I evident from the fact of our having put the 'only
answer which we thought it necessary to return to
:'.operative article in our smallest type.
still unwilling to disturb him; but we
it proposed that this ill-feeling and cannot pass over without a few comments such
agitation is to be kept up ? By the instrumentality language a9the following, which we quote to show
of the Romish Church, of course. The Protestant how sadly people deform themselves when they
Clergy have been too assiduous of late in the work give way to ill temper. After copying our state-
of charity. The misguided people of Ireland, taught
ment, that a reporter from our office attended to
from their cradles to associate Protestantism with hear the lecture of the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, our
oppression, have seen these men perseveringly at contemporary proceeds :
.d late, in the fever-stricken hovel and ~ Marvellously candid and convincing ! So, because a
ide, feeding the hungry and clothing reporter from the Standard attended •' to hear' the
• i , 1 ~..".-..-...m.,._ 1—.4.--n+ ...,n...1 ha if nhaarvad ra }milt rannrlinn.--tha

ristian people
ig neighbour. Yet

this Bi

insiders such con-

duct as

the inculcation into the minds
of bitterness and hatred toward§

b 1 former

)enef'a et,

We are

And how

early I
by the road-;

lat the poor beings

Standard was ju

4cd in boldly and bluntly cl

and in putting forty

al peiversion of the lecture as its ' reporter's

is apparently re

led b.

ism as dangeroh

correct

Does the Standard forget that we said

ably, or kindly

iemin creed, although thu.

)ort had been `tampered with to seive a purpose ?'
it forget that we published transcripts of the disputed
age from the notes of two separate reporters, exactly
-ling with each other, and exactly falsifying the
statement of the Standard ? Does it forget that we

need. Hence, the Ipa

very chal-3el

are to be put in requisition to incu
Sn.,:nn. W 'Ave the Bev. Bisi

Late coy

programme, pointir

out the course of action to be of the lecture ? And is it sufficient—is it honourable—is
it honest—to tell us, in reply to all this, that we are 'in
error in saying that no reporter from the Standard office

" Ist. Each priest to impress upon

maintain-

s being the only as-
lose to tt

it manifd

Repeal