The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

There was no change in the market yesterday ; the demand
continued quite as inanimate as ever, and the gradually in-
creasing stocks of the spinners and manufacturers compelled
many persons to sell at prices involving the most ruinous
sacrifices. Nor does there seem to be the slightest prospect
of improvement, except nom a great diminution of produce ;
and that diminution is now rapidly taking place. We under-
stand, that most of the spinners at Bolton, Rochdale, Bury,
and Lancaster, have commenced, or are about commencing,
to work four days per week only ; and there is some expec-
tation, that a similar pleasure will be very shortly adopted at
Preston, in which case we believe it will become quite gene-
ral throughout the district.—Manchester Guardian.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL. MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 17.—The
market has been of a very discouraging hature to-day, the
demand being very limited, and prices uncommonly low. The
wool market has been quite as bad as the piece market, with
little change in prices. The woollen and cotton trade in this
town are both growing worse, and several of the cotton fac-
tories are working only four days a-week. The poor-rates
are fast increasing, and the overseers find daily a greater
difficulty in collecting them•

How THE ANTI-CORN-LAW PETITIONS ARE GOT LP.—
There uo doubt will be, by and bye, when the metropolitan
anti-corn-law petitions are presented to parliament, a fine cry
of exultation on the part of ministerialists, relative to the
great number of signatures attached to the said petitions.
But let no one calculate the feeling of the inhabitants of
London with respect to the corn-laws according to that
number. Those signatures, by fictitious means, will be
swelled to twenty times Jay
rel. amount. The writer of
this paragraph saw yesterday in lA. liitechapel a butcher youth
sign exactly seven different petitions, attaching a different
name to each of them. In that neighbourhood there are un-
der the archways of yards, and other convenient places, pe-
nendnld, solicit with
malenext
andfe to.
tition-stalls placed, attended by a paid touter, who, after the
manner of the Jews of fiolywell
personal violence all passers-by, young et
male, to sign the petitions lying upon their desk -formed
stalls. Thousands sign them in ignorance, and visibly for
fun's sake. The bills of Dr. Eady are not more forcibly
thrust inlo one's hands than are the placards of the corn-law
arsteeapew Bolewh
iigntax the
mustsec rebte-
leaguers. All this paraphernalia of agitation to keep minis-
ters in place must make
uk: which re y
i pretty deep
de
service money, to
invented, to be placed on the already heavily-laden shoulders
of the people.—Morsio Herald.

MAY N OOT H.
ITS PRIESTS VIEWED POLITICALLY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Will you permit me to set before the public, through
the medium of your highly-valuable paper, a few sketches of
the Maynooth priests. The petition against the grant to
Maynooth lies for signature in many places in the town, and.
I think Englishmen should know the characters of these
priests of Antichrist, the men upon whose education English
money is so lavishly expended, and by whose agitation the
question has almost come to this :—ls Popery or Protestant-
ism to be the religion of the land? Is the wafer to be the
God of Englishmen ? Are they to be vassals of the Italian
tyrant ? But I would chew the political character of these
ministers of Antichrist, who, should Maynooth continue to
flourish, and they gain from a duped government further

power, will inquisitionize, dragoon, and, with fire and fag-
hot, compel Christian men to receive their abominations,
end give up their liberty, their church, their Bible, and their
God. The testimony I give in this letter is extracted from
the highest authority—" The Report of the Select Commit-
tee of the House of Commons on Bribery and Intimidation
at Elections," dated August, ]835.

The first Maynooth gentleman I introduce to you is Priest

Talvery, a son who in no way disgraces his alma mater

" Mr. John M' Carter examined,

" Did any freeholder ever tell you that the Priest Talvery
had refused the rites of his church to a man who voted for
the Knight of Kerry ?—Yes, that he would do so.
" Did you charge the priest with that ?—I asked him whe-
ther what the man then present stated could possibly be the
fact.

" What was the thing stated I—That he would neither
christen nor baptize, nor perform any of the rites of the

church

" Did the priest deny that he had said that ?—He neither
denied it nor admitted it."

The next gentleman I bring forward from the USEFUL
seminary is Father John O'Sullivan.

" Mr. Charles O'Connor examined,

" Did you witness any threats or violent language used
by the priests in their chapels that influenced the voters at
the late election ?—I did previous to the election.
" What was the nature of the language used ?—Father
John O'Sullivan said at the altar, before the election, that
any person that would vote for that renegade the Knight of
Kerry, he would not prepare him for death, but he would
let him die like a beast, neither would he baptize his chil-
dren, and that they deserved to be pelted as they went along.
" Are you a Roman Catholic yourself ?—I am. _

" Did you hear these expressions once or only one day?—
Several days, two or three Sundays previous to the election,
and after the canvassing.
" Did he threaten that no man should deal with them ?
He did. He said that no man should buy from them, nor
sell to them."

The next Maynooth gentleman is Father Walsh, and his
namesake shall appear with him, par nobile fratrum. One
of these gentlemen was killed some years before Father Ma-
thew's teetotal society was established. He was returning
home from a party, and fell from his horse. He was found
with his skull fractured, lying on a heap of stones.

" Mr. T. H. Carroll examined,

"Did you attend at the election in Carlow in 1832?

'—l did

" WhA did you hear in the chapel of Borris during the
election ?—I received a note from Mr. Bate, Mr. Bruen's
law agent, stating that Mr. Kavanagh wished my attendance
at Borris chapel on the Sunday following, that was the Sun-
day previous to the election, and I attended Borris chapel on
that occasion as reporter.
" Do you write short-hand ?—I do.
" State what took place on that occasion ?—lt was after
mass that a meeting took place at the altar ; Father Walsh,
who is now dead, was in the chair, and Father John Walsh,
sen., was also present, and a Mr. Lawrence Nolan, of that
parish, was secretary. After some preliminary observations
from the old priest, the Rev. Mr. Walsh, and after a long
speech, in which he attacked some of the freeholders, he
said, that any person who signified his intention of voting
for Mr. Kavannah had ceased to be a member of his church
—of the Roman Catholic church, and was delivered over to
Satan ; and such as were present he called on them to quit
chapelfor fear of polluting the people, who should not eat,
drink, or sleep with them, even their wives should abandon
the apostates who would, in the face of their God, vote for
Mr. Kavaanab, and Bruen, who was an Orangeman ; the
curse of the Almighty would fall on them in this world,
while with the mark of Cain on their foreheads, they would
go down to the grave for betraying their religion and their
country; any man who voted for Kavanagh and Bruen
would be refused all religious rites, and would run the risk
of everlasting punishment.' That was the conclusion of the
Rev. Mr. Walsh, sen s address. The Rev. John Walsh,
jun. said, ' I view with detestation and horror the wretches
who will vote for Kavanah and Bruen, who is himself an
apostate ; we have appointed men to represent us in parlia-
ment, and any man who will vote against us will have ample
cause to regret it. No man can be a Catholic who would
do so in opposition to the wishes of their clergy ; my good
people, mark the recreants, and take care how you deal with
them. They are blind apostates who will do so, and I hope
the people will know how to treat them. Their votes belong
to their country, let them mark the consequences who dare
betray it ; I will not he answerable for their safety.' That
was the conclusion of Mr. Walsh's address."
And last, not least, I have the honour of presenting Father
Kehoe, a gentleman fully qualified to take his degree in the

Fish-hall of Billingsgate, to which Lord Morpeth might,
perhaps, in the exuberance of his friendship for the Romish
priests, recommend her Majesty to grant a charter.

" Mr. Carter Hall examined,

" Have you been in the habit of reporting speeches or
debates of any description previous to ),our taking that ad-
dress of Father Kehoe ?----During three sessions of parliament
I was parliamentary reporter for the New Times and Morn-
ing Journal.

" This is the paper :—` Address of Father Kehoe to his
congregation, from the altar of the chapel at Leighlin-
bridge, on Sunday, the 14th June :—ls there any one here
who will barter his soul for his landlord? There is one
wretch who has done so. Do you know whom I mean?-1
mean Pat Neil, the HYPOCRITICAL APOSTATE LICKSPITTLE,
Pat Neil, and his brother. (At these words there was a
great laugh and some groans.) This miscreant got £7O a-
year for voting against his country, his religion, and his God,
on the last election, and he now expects to have that increased
to £l5O ; besides, his landlord bribes him in every possible
manner, and the base wretch, who once acknowledged that
if he was a scholar he would be hanged, but he is no scholar,
but the most ignorant brute in the country, now exults in
being the lickspittle of his landlord. Now see how he makes
his apostate gain; he has a horse worth £lO, and gets £2O
for it, and so for everything else. I say, Pat Neil, you are a
detestable, hypocritical, apostate lickspittle, a ruffian, and a
miscreant, to be held up by the finger to sckarn, and detesta-
tion, and contempt : and what are you the richer than any
honest freeholder, after all, when your debts are paid ? * *
Good people, 1 am told policemen come here ; look out for
them, and if you see any policemen here that are not Ca-
tholics, their only object must be to create a disturbance;
therefore mark down their names, and I will soon take cars
that they shall not long hare occasion to wear their green
coats and black belts. * * But I tell you, boys, if the
conservatives gain this election—they cannot gai❑ it—but if
by perjury, threats, and violence they do gain it—if they do
trick us out of our representatives on this, as they did on the
last election, and we be beat, more blood will follow then
than there is water in the river Barrow.' "

Here is the political character of the Maynooth priest,
from unquestionable authority. It needs no colouring—no
comment. Judge the priests out of their own mouths. The
above are autographs of each of the rev. gentlemen. I have
brought you into the chapels, for these harangues came from
the altars. Hushed is the voice of prayer—the cloud of in-
cense is dissolved—the idolatry of the wafer is over—the
bell no longer rings to say, " Bow the knee." Here are the
sermons, " ipsissima verba," in three instances, of the sur-
pliced ecclesiastics. I need not add that in them English-
men will find the source of Ireland's ills—the bigotry, the
enmity, the intolerance that prevails against all that is pure,
all that is lovely. Maynooth drives the landlord from his
estate, to seek in foreign lands the peace he cannot find at
home. Maynooth takes away the liberty of the peasant, fills
his heart with superstition, and makes him the willing tool
of its soul-destroying priests. Maynooth drives away the
English manufacturers, who would improve and employ the
starving peasantry. Maynooth closes scriptuie schools—it
keeps empty Christian churches—it drenches Ireland with
blood. Let election mobs, tithe affrays, murdered minis-•
ters, emigrant Protestants, and a thousand other tongues
speak. They will—they must denounce Maynooth. But,
worse than all, Maynooth shakes the pillars of England's
throne, and tarnishes England's glory. Maynooth priests
have sent their slaves, " the tailsmen," to the privy council
of England ; and—shame, oh ! shame—Papists are privy
councillors. Sir, let Englishmen awake ! Let them hear
the testimony of an Irishman against Maynooth. I do de-
clare, that were the fabled cave of Eolus a reality, and could
all its winds be loosed at once, their mischief would be no-
thing in comparison to Maynooth ! Its influence has been
felt in Ireland. It has gone forth as the Simoon blast, scat-
tering death and desolation : it has descended as a tornado,
ruining every pillar, destroying every beautiful fane—turned
gardens into wastes, and pleasant places into a howling wil-
derness!

I am, sir, your humble servant,
HIBERNICUS

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THE SUGAR DUTIES.

At the urgent request of the Grocers' and Tea Dealers'
Association, we insert the following petition from that body
to the House of Commons. The petition was presented by
Lord Sandon on Monday week ; and letters were forwarded
to Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Thornely, soliciting their support
of the prayer of the petitioners.
" To the Right Honorable and Honorable the Commons of
Great Britain and Ireland, in this present
Parliament assembled.

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED GROCERS

AND TEA-DEALERS OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL,

" SHEWETH,

" That your petitioners have learned with the liveliest sa-
tisfaction, that her Majesty's ministers, have proposed to
your honorable house, to reduce the duty upon foreign sugar
to thirty-six shillings per hundred-weight avoirdupois, and
beg leave most humbly and most earnestly to implore your
'honorable house, to support the measure for the said reduc-
tion of duty as tending to the promotion of all the active in-
terests of the whole empire.
" That your petitioners, deferring much to the wisdom of
your honorable house, humbly submit, that if the said duty
upon foreign sugar was further reduced to thirty shillings per
hundred-weight, British plantation sugar would then be ade-
quately protected, and the best interests of the country more
extensively promoted, than by resting the reduction at thirty-
six shillings per hundred-weight.
"That your petitioners had fondly hoped that her majes-
ty's government would have deemed it in the present session
of parliament, to have proposed the reduction of the duty
upon foreign grown coffee, so as to afford greater facilities for
its introduction, into consumption in Great Britain and Ire-
land, your petitioners, therefore, as a subject of relief and re-
venue, humbly pray your honorable house to reduce the duty
upon all foreign grown coffee, to the lowest possible rate
consistent with the fair preference due to British grown

coffee.
" That your petitioners at all times confiding in the wisdom
and integrity of the Commons, of Great Britain and Ireland,
in parliament assembled, are cheered in the expectation of
your concurrence with their petition, from knowing that a
committee of your honorable house. here with much diligence

and anxious care, inquired into these subjects and reported
to you thereon recommending their adoption; your petition-
ers, therefore, humbly implore the concurrence and support
of your honorable house.

And your petitioners will ever pray
.Liverpool, May 8, 1841."

Mr. Thornely, in reply to the application made to him,
returned the subjoined answer, addressed to Peter Hope,
Esq., the chairman of the association.
<<" 24, Regent-street, 10th May.
Dear Sir,—l thank you for your obliging letter of Satur-
day, and for the copy of the excellent petition which the
grocers and tea dealers of Liverpool have sent up. lam
pleased that you have intimated that if the proposed duty on
foreign sugars had been 30s instead of 36s it would have still
given sufficient protection to sugar of British growth.

I _
" It should always be borne in mind that7anyiidvanced
price, caused by protective duties, is a tax on the whole com-
munity for the benefit of a few."

" It is quite understood that, although not included in the
budget, the duty on coffee is proposed to be altered, by a
Customs' Amendment Bill to be brought in by the President
of the Board of Trade.

" Believe me, dear Sir, yours always,
" THo. THORSELY

" To Peter Hope, Esq."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sir,—l have just had my house front painted; my door of
English oak, by a very clever artist, (with the number, to
guide others, not myself), when, during my absence at busi-
ness, there has been fixed, without " by your leave," over my
former number, an old rusty piece of cast iron, such as you
see at marine store cellars, which has spoiled n2y door. Can
any of your legal readers inform me whom I can punish for
this outrage, and oblige a constant reader.
17th May, 1841. Q.