The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

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Cavendish. Prisoner said he brought it for his own use. Mr.
Rushtcn said that he knew full well that in bringing it on
shore he was doing an illegal act, and remanded him till
Thursday, at the instance of the agent for the Custom-
house.

ROBBERY BY A SHOPMAN

A respectable-looking young man, named John Hollins-
head, was charged by his employer, a shopkeeper, with taking
several articles of dress, consisting of gloves, &c., which were
found in his trunk. The prisoner was remanded until further
inquiry should be made.

THE REPEAL AGITATION.
(From the Mornittg Herald.)
Few things are calculated to impress an Englishman
with a lower estimate of the intellect of Roman Ca-
tholic Ireland, than the influence exercised by such a
person as Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The man has little
to recommend him, excepting the possession of a large
measure of physical energy. His eloquence (Heaven
save the mark !) is of the most bald and vulgar de-
scription. His jokes, his pathetics, his stirring appeals
—or what are meant as such—are all stereotyped. They
occur in every harangue which he delivers. His life is
- in grinding the same notes in the same mariner
'ittle rhetorical hurdy-gurdy. His one tune is
~over a bad one, and badly played.
Phis wretched impostor has been, for the last six
'-s, babbling about a repeal of the union ; and the
•,rould seem to possess deep attractions for his
-s. Daniel has, it is true, played
.Lnd loose with this subject often before ; but there
is in the bare mention of it, even by faithless lips,
something infinitely seductive to the hereditary enemies
of England. Yet, by a repeal of the union—if no-
thing more than Daniel and his partizans avow—were
intended, Ireland would, assuredly, prove a loser to a
fearful extent. If the union were repealed—if the no-
Aity and gentry of Ireland were again collected in
)üblin—Daniel and men of his stamp would (on the
sumption that property was to be allowed to exercise
legitimate influence) be utterly extinguished.—
arly all the landed property of Ireland is in the
• of Protestants ; and the weight of that super-
incumbent mass of wealth would speedily—if the re-
peal party entertained honest designs—extinguish the
flames of any agitation which Mr. O'Connell might
then raise.

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But the repeal party does not entertain honest de-
ns. That party might now, in the event of repeal
ing carried, hope to command an almost exclusively
Romanist House of Commons in Dublin, together
inverted into strongholds of offence
The first movement of the re-
to confiscate the property of the Ea-
ch in Ireland ; and, then, to bring into
tion a sweeping system of plunder and assassina-
-a system, of which Protestant landholders should
be the victims. Nothing, indeed, is more probable,
than that in the event of a repeal of the union being
1, the Romanist House of Commons that might
in Stephen's-green, would declare the fee-
of Ireland to be vested in the occu-
words, in the Roman Catholic pea-
Separation, in short, from England—separa-
tion by any means—is the object of the repealers.—
Their sole motive is inextinguishable hatred to Eng-
land, and to her Protestant institutions.
A repeal of ,the union, if aimed at in good faith,
would prove utterly ruinous to Ireland. The terms of
that union have been far more favourable to Ireland
than to England. These terms press severely at every
moment on al the industrious classes in Great Britain.
The labourers of England are, by means of boundless
mortations of low-priced Irish labour, robbed of the
due of their toil. The farmers of England are
I to unfair competition with the growers of Ir-
with the growers of corn which is produced
'hour, and without the check of
shape. The labour-market and
if England are thus invaded, greatly
he injury of the classes whose natural privilege it is
to supply these markets. It is, of course, most desi-
rable that the industry of Ireland should be encour-
aged, but not at the expense of English industry. The
industry of Ireland ought to be lifted up—instead of
being permitted to pull down the industry of England.
A repeal of the union on honest terms would lead to
the exclusion from English markets of Irish labour-
-11 as of Irish corn, and farm produce of all
,Triculturists and to the industrious
ses of England, the change would be most advan-
Reasons of policy render it, of course, desi-
a the union with Ireland should be maintained
the present conditions. Our object is merely
.te that by these terms and conditions England
s, a heavy loser.

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This small publication is full of important matter. It is an
appeal to the colonial minister, entreating him not to destroy
a growing branch of our commerce by promoting an under-
taking which professedly contemplates the regeneration of
Africa, but which can only serve to involve this country in
relations at once ludicrous and expensive, and to increase the
means of government jobbing. It is an appeal to which that
minister has turned a deaf ear, and which is therefore now
made in last resort to the nation at large.
Mr. Jamieson examines the grounds upon which the parlia-
mentary grant of £61,000 to meet the outfit and expences of
the Niger expedition is vindicated by Sir Fowell Buxton and
his " Society for effecting the Extinction of the Slave-trade
and for promoting the Civilisation of Africa." These grounds,
as recapitulated by Mr. Jamieson from Sir Fowell's book are
briefly—

_ .
" First, the success, such as it is, which has attended the
colony of Sierra Leone, and the benefits which might result
to Africa, if the experiment' were ' tried on a larger scale'
on the banks of the Niger : and,
" Secondly, the necessity of suppressing the slave-traffic in
the Bights of Benin and Biafra; from whence, it is repre-
sented, there is, to the exclusion of legitimate commerce, an
export of 140,000 slaves annually.

The former of these grounds Mr. Jamieson disposes of
briefly and conclusively as follows—
" Now, it is not needful for us to speak of the glimmer
of civilization' here alluded to. Neither shall we here al-
lude to the agricultural advancement of the colony, further
than to request the reader's attention to the facts. That of
the paltry amount of its total annual exports to all quarters,
shown in the official table subsequently referred to, only to
the value of £4,577 can be considered as the production of
the soil from labour : that the article of cotton wool (though
one so easy of production) is not once therein named : that
honourable mention is made of coffee as an article of export,
to the amount of i.£2o sterling : that sugar is therein men-
tioned as an artic e of import, to the amount of £500: and
that tobacco and rum are also found among the articles im-
ported, to the extent of £3,500 and £4,800 respectively ;
and all this with a soil, as shown in the appendix, suitable
for every tropical production, and labour at 31d. to 4d. per
diem. Great encouragement, truly, for a further and en-
larged trial of the experiment' elsewhere.
" But we shall endeavour to show what that large pro-
portion of African commerce ' really is, ' which has taken
refuge, as it were, in a spot so inconvenient.'
" By official tables laid before Parliament, and printed
last year, it appears, that the total amount of exports from
Sierra eone to all quarters in 1836 (the latest table given)
, were as follows—

" In ginger, pepper, arrowroot, rice, coffee, (the
last to the extent of £2O sterling,) to the value
of
" In camwood, plank, gum, hides, ox-horns,
ivory, bees'-wax, &c., to the value of 7,127
" In palm-oil, not produced in the colony, though
shipped there, but from distant parts of the
coast
" In timber, not procured in the colony, though
cleared at its Customhouse

" Such are the retuns from commerce to Sierra Leone.
And if such he the result after fifty years' fostering care of
philanthropists. and the expenditure of millions of public
money, what are we to expect from a trial elsewhere of ' the
experiment on a large scale?' "
Turning to the second ground, the assumption that there
exists an "exclusion of legitimate commerce" from the
Niger is shown to be unfounded.

EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE OF A ROMISH

PRIEST.
(From the Standard.)

In the late remarkable trial of Hearne v. Stowell, the fol
lowing astounding piece of evidence was given :

" The Rev. James Crooke examined.-1 am a Roman Ca-
tholic priest, and senior of St. Augustine's Chapel, in Man-
chester.

" Are there not many instances where persons who in-
flicted penance or► themselves have been held by your church
as objects of admiration ?—That is matter of ecclesiastical
history, upon which all may form whatever opinions they
please. I know of no such instances.
I ask the question again, as matter of fact, have not per-
sons who inflicted extraordinary penances on themselves
been canonised by your church, and, of course, held up as
objects of admiration ?
" Mr. Wightman.—Speak as to your own knowledge; do
you know of any such persons ?
_ .

" Witness in continuation.—l certainly never knew of any
such instances.

" I ask again, have not those who inflicted severe penances
on themselves been canonised by your church ?—I say again
that I know nothing of such things of my own knowledge.

" Do you not know that clergymen of your own church
hold up such persons to admiration ?---I have no distinct re-
collection of any instance of the kind.
" I ask you again, is it not the case ?
it myself "

'—l know nothing of

Now against this, without a word of comment, we shall
merely place the following extracts, not from any individual
writer of the Romish Church, but from " THE ROMAN
BREVIARY, restored according to the decree of the most
holy Council of Trent; and published by command of the
chief pontiff, St. Pius V., and recognised by Pop, Clement
VIII. and Pope Urban VIII."
In this Breviary, the authorised formulary of the Romish
Church, the following Saints are commemorated :
" ST. FIDELIS.—Amidst austere fasts, watchings, and fla-
gellations, pursuing himself with a salutary hatred ; he
showed towards others the love that a mother displays to-
wards her sons. _

" ST. MARY MAGDELEN DE PAZZI.—She tortured her
body with hair-cloth, whippings, cold, hunger, watchings,
nakedness, and all kinds of punishments.
"Sr. ANTHONY, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR.—He laid
down to rest upon the ground on the naked boards ; and al-
ways wearing hair-cloth, and sometimes girded with an iron
chain next to his skin ; he always completely preserved his
virginity.
" ST. JULIANA.—She was wont to bruize her body with
scourges, knotted little ropes, iron girdles, watclings, and
sleeping on the naked ground. She partook very sparingly
of food, and that a vile sort, four days of the week ; on the
other two she was content with only angel's food; the Sun-
day was exempted, on which she was nourished on bread and
water only.

" ST. JEROME EMILIAN.—In a mountain, which is close
to , having discovered a cave, he hid himself in it ; where,
beating himself with whips, and passing whole days fasting,
prayer being protracted far into the night, and enjoying a
short sleep upon the naked rock, he paid the penalties of his
own faults and those of others.