The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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Lord Cloncurry (now in his 75th year), is writing a
history of Ireland during the last 50 years.
The celebrated Dr. Cooke Taylor has fallen a victim to
cholera.

It is, unfortunately, beyond further question that the
potato disease has attacked the plants in many districts in
Ireland.

The Limerick Examiner prints the names of 750 per-
sons evicted in Clare, from the properties of four land-
lords.

The Roscommon Journal says that many of the unoc-
cupied farms in that part of Ireland have been taken by
English farmers and agriculturists; and that contractors
have commenced the erection of dwellings, out-offices, &c.
EMIGRATION.—On Monday 180 emigrants from this
county and Clare, left en rozzle to Liverpool, for America.
Yesterday 26 additional passengers proceeded by same
conveyance.—Limerick Chronicle.
The Rev. Francis Mahony, better known as " Father
Prout." and the author of certain private correspondence
from Rome, has been for some time on a visit to his
relatives in Cork.

The furtive cutting down of corn, and tenants removing
it illicitly, thus robbing their landlords, have compelled
many to distrain on the Sabbath, which latter course, from
the best opinion of barristers, is perfectly legal.—Limerick
Chronicle.

THE REVIVED "NATlON."—Alt'mugh the topics
touched upon on Saturday by Mr. Duffy are of a more
miscellaneous nature than he has yet ventured upon. the
third number of his journal is, in point of vigour, deci-
dedly inferior to the two nree'ding ones. The leading
article, " Rights of Property--Who shall eat the harvest ?"
smacks strongly of Communism, and is indeed a scarcely
concealed defence of the new " clearance system" adopted
by the peasantry to avoid the liabilities of rent and taxes.
This Mr. Duffy calls a " popular Lex talionis," and was
only carried into effect in instances where the landlord
had commenced the war by serving ejectments on the
tenantry.
IDOLATRY OF POPERY.—On Sunday week, dnring " a
series of devotional exercises in honour of the mother of
God," at one of the chapels in Dublin, the preacher "dwelt
with great effect on the necessity of studying the virtues
conspicuous in the life of the holy mother of God, im-
pressing upon them that all appeals to her patronage
would be ineffectual, and that all hopee in the efficacy of
her prayers would be superstitious, most offensive to God,
and highly displeasing to her, if the precepts inculcated
by her Divine Son—so strongly illustrated through her
virtuous life—were not faithfully observed, and if the ob-
servance of them did not constitute the chief foundation
of all our hopes in obtaining her assistance towards the
attainment of the salvation purchased for all, the sole and
all-sufficient means of the end, Jesus." Freeman's
Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY EseAPE..—Michael Hannelley, a few
days since, effected his escape from Roscommon gaol. At
midnight, he made his escape, breaking through two
doors by smashing the locks—this brought him into the
chapel, to get to the door of which he had to climb over
an iron spiked railing, fourteen feet high. Having
effected this, the next obstacle was the huge door of the
chapel. He wrenched the four massive nuts off the
lock, and appears to have failed in his attempt to get the
lock off ; as he got out by breaking the heavy hasp into
which the bolt of the Lock shot.. This opened the way
into an enclosed passage between two of the day yards ;
here he mounted a fixed ladder, leading up to the cistern,
and by a drop of about sixteen feet on hard paving, landed
at the other side. This is an enclosed corridor, into
which all the day yards open, as al's°, the cook house and
bread store—the latter he broke into, and took thereout
one loaf of white bread. Out of this enclosure he got
over a wall about twelve feet high, into the governor's
yard, out of which he took a ladder about 15 feet long,
and one-and-a-half inch thick board; and, unlocking the
gate of the yard, the key being merely turned, he pro-
ceeded round the inner grounds of the-gaol to where the
store yard ends, and where he would only have one wall
to cross—here he tied the ladder and board together, and
thus got over the boundary wall, which is about twenty-
five feet high. Having got on the wall, he pulled up the
ladder, and let himself down at the other side.
TRISH STRIFE.—THE DOLLY'S BRAE AFFAIR.—We
Will state the matter with somewhat more distinctness
than the noble Earl has done. The facts are notorious
that in 1848, Lord Clarendon received addresses in their
collective capacity from Orangemen as such ; he replied
to those addresses in encouraging terms ;--he was consulted
as to the propriety of discountenancing the processions
which his Commissioner and his Crown-Solicitor now
declares to be illegal, and he then encouraged and sanc-
tioned them; nay, he placed stores of arms in convenient
places for the service of the very men against whom he
now directs the vengeance of the law, forhaving expressed
by the peaceable act of holding guns in their hands, their
adhesion in 1849, to certain political opinions, which they
were that day twelvemonths commended for having made
known in a precisely similar manner. Fie, fie, Lord
Clarendon ; here is matter that falsifies the proverb, and
makes the fault of Mr. Berwick merge into a quasi virtue,
through the merits of his exposure of your diplomacy.
We will cap the climax of this miserable example of the
Anglo-Irish policy of dividing and governing, by the quo-
tation of two or three sentences, spoken at the close of
the Castlewellan sessions, by the most prominent repre-
sentatives of the two parties, the unthinking members of
which were led on by the government to the mutual
bloodshed of Dolly's Brae :—" Lord Roden—Why should
there be another trial next petty sessions day ? Would it
not be better to have done with the case and allow a good
feeling to grow up among the people ?" "-Mr. Rea—Your
lordship cannot be possibly more anxious taunite the two
sections of the Irish people than I am.. I have made
every effort to do soi and shall continue so to act." Will
the time ever come when the noble English people shall
no longer tolerate a policy of strife thus illustrated and
mourned over by its unwilling victims.—. Dublin Mail.

-ROMAN CATHOLIC LOYALTY.—Must-we then, acknow-
ledge with grief, must we avow with indignation, that
there were any to be found who withheld the expression
of their congratulations on this auspicious occasion.
Yes, be it ever remembered, that no fewer than twelve of
the Roman Catholic prelates of Ireland withheld their
signatures from the address to the Queen, cautious and
lukewarm as it was, which was presented by their fel-
lows, and that that address guardedly declared that those
who signed it, fourteen in number, did not profess to
speak the sentiments of others. Twelve Roman Catho-
lic prelates were found in Ireland who declined to ac-
knowledge the supremacy of their Queen. Our own
opinions are welt known. We are entirely convinced that
the Roman Catholic priesthood do not now, and we
greatly fear that they never will, bear true allegiance to
the Protestant monarch of a Protestant state. And we
believe that their influence, so long as it lasts, will be
exerted to the uttermost to curb and to divert the loyalty
of their people. And we are equally convinced that the
loyalty of the Roman Catholic laity who have shaken off,
or are removed by their station from the political tram-
mels of the priesthood, is steadfast and sincere. Every
step that is taken towards the improvement of the peo-
ple, everything that tends to restore the landed gentry
of Ireland, or where that is unhappily impossible, to in-
troduce a new and vigorous proprietary, to secure to
Ireland a race of landlords who Ere discharging the duties
will command the influence of their station, will rapidly
diminish the political influence of the priesthood, until it
entirely, disappears, and the loyalty of even the lower
classes of the Irish laity present no blemish. And
surely, so far as the spirit of loyalty can be developed by
religious•faith, no form of Christianity can compare with
the Roman Catholic, greviously as it is in error. Its
claim to antiquity, its solemn mysteries, its spacious tem-
ples, its gorgeous ceremonies,, its authoritative teaching,
control and keep in check the arrogance of man's intel-
lect, and develope, evens to an undue intensity. his ima-
gination and his affections. They teach him to bow to that
which is above him, and to invest it with mystery, with
reverence, and with awe. The usurped and anomalous
assertion of political influence by the priesthood may to
some extent obscure the object to which the loyalty of
the heart would turn ; but this will disappear,, and with
affections and imagination naturally strong, and discip-
lined to a great extent by religious faith, the heart of the
nation will recognise the true object of its loyalty in the
powerful, benign, and lovely monarch who has graced us
with her presence.—Dublin University Magazine.