The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The letter of " A Reformer" shall appear on Tuesday

Zlberpool k)tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1840

We have received a copy of the Sydney Commercial
Journal of the 25th of March. It adds very little to
the news already received from New South 'Wales.
There was little alteration noted in the markets. The
supplies of wheat were rather limited—settlers sending
only such quantities to market as could be turned to
cash, to meet their immediate wants. The first quality
of flour was selling at 355. to 40s. per 100Ibs. The
four pound loaf of bread was selling for one shilling
and sixpence. Rice was in great demand, and large
parcels had been purchased on speculation, in antici-
pation of a dearth and scarcity of wheat.

The mischievous career of the Irish mendicant is
still winked at by a degraded and anti-national minis-
try, and becomes daily more undisguisedly treasonable.
The cry of "Justice to Ireland or Repeal" has given
place to the more insolent demand of " Repeal or Se-
paration"—a parliament in College-green, or a French
alliance and an independent sovereignty for Ireland.
And yet we are coolly told by every whig oracle
throughout Great Britain of the " unexampled tran-
quillity" of that portion of the empire, and assured
by the Lord Lieutenant himself, in an address to the
citizens of Cork, that parliament and her Majesty's
government are endeavouring by their measures to
" cement the bonds of legislative union, and render
Ireland at once the brightest gem in the imperial
crown, and the strongest bulwark of the united em-

pine !"

But let us look more in detail at the superlative
impudence of the actors in this conspiracy to effect
the dismemberment of the empire,—from Father
Hughes to the Popish Bishop of Galway—from Daniel
O'Connell to her Majesty's representative, the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.
And first we may inquire what are the relative po-
sitions of the demagogue and the Lord Lieutenant—
of Daniel and Viscount Ebrington. The former is
the ruler of her Majesty's government : in him that
despicable crew " live and move and have their being."
The latter is the puppet set up by these imbeciles to
be worked by the great impostor for the gratification
of his breechless satellites. O'Connell is, de facto, the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Lord Ebrington only the
Lord Lieutenant travestie—" a tool a knave doth work
with." The former, after starring it in London since
February, has returned to the Irish capital, to perform
a little serious drama upon his own proper dunghill ;
and, " bearing no brother near his throne," has or-
dered his meaner prototype forthwith to quit the scene
of his usurped dignity, and content himself with en-
acting farce in the provinces. Accordingly we find
O'Connell busily sowing the seeds of rebellion in
Dublin—attending repeal breakfasts in Mayo, Castle-
bar, &c.—scraping together the repeal rent—organi-
sing repeal corporations—and preparing the hordes of
traitors and ruffians, who dance or shed blood at his
bidding, with weapons to strike at the throat of Great
Britain, so soon as a foreign enemy or a dissolute
ministry shall have succeeded in tying up her hands,
and presenting her powerless to the assassin's blow;
whilst the Lord Lieutenant is spouting his maudlin
praise of teetotalism to the patriots of Cork, and exhi-
biting the readiness with which a Whig nobleman can
shut his eyes and ears in broad daylight, amidst the
agitation of incipient rebellion, so long as he is allowed
to nestle amid the downy cushions and the gingerbread
paraphernalia of a mock throne.
Such being the relative positions of these twin lumi-
naries, let us see how their joint treason is working.
The demagogue, it is well known to every man, wo-
man, and child throughout her Majesty's dominions,
has declared that he will never allow agitation to cease
in Ireland until repeal of the Union is carried. Lord
Ebrington, so long ago as 1833, has declared that he
considered " a repeal of the Union to be A VIRTUAL
DISMEMBERMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, which
would involve Ireland in ruin in the first instance, and
would afterwards involve England in the same ruin
too." A more candid speaker on the subject, Father
Hughes, informs us that " O'Connell's continuous
doctrine of non-separation is now becoming both ludi-
crous and mischievous !" and that were the Irish
priesthood to cease to hold out to the people the hope
of their being an independent nation, " at that moment
they forfeit their influence, lose the confidence of their
flocks, and, in case of a national eruption, that their
anathemas, as well as their pastoral admonitions, will
descend on the Irish people—to use the language of
the late Doctor Doyle—' as a spent thunderbolt.' "