The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

RE OF THE GREAT WHIG-RADICAL
DEMONSTRATION AT DUBLIN.
(From the Dublin Packet.)

FAILI

Well, ti

long-threatened meeting for supporting
tottering whigs, and defeating Lord Stanley's re-
ration bill, took place on Friday, and turned out,
is was expected from the very outset, a decided and
melancholy failure.

f the chairman, who invariably acts as
k to the Downing-street people, there
nobleman, and he only a lord by
That personage, together with about half-a-
of the tail, constituted the staple of
assemblage of Irish reformers.
ztr than Friday it was pompously announced
iastle journals that the Duke of Leinster, not-
anding his refusal to sign the requisition, would
ive his attendance upon the occasion ; but the
although in Dublin, would have nothing to do
Lhe parties. Not even could he be prevailed upon
lk from Dominick-street to the Theatre-royal, a
►ce only of a few hundred yards, to co-operate in
themes of Mr. O'Connell. The truth is, his
had the audacity to perceive that repeal, though
ugly kept out of view, was at the bottom of the
proceeding, and, therefore, doggedly persisted in
termination to remain at home. Such, also, was
2solve of the other titled requisitionists, all of
with the exceptions already mentioned, refused
their characters by any contact with the Kerry

t but one

jrethre

)ry too was of the most contemptible de-
Stale abuse of toryism, and virulent de-
of Lord Stanley, were the leading charac-
all the speeches,—the only one of which
rouble of reading was that delivered by a

Englishman, named Lethbridge, ,imported for
casion from Somersetshire. This gentleman,
roclaiming his relationship with the noble house
ntertained his hearers with a very strange—
tory about a certain Somerset-
whom he named to the meeting. The
question, the Rev. W. Bernard Tatwor-

n incredible

s represented as having stated his conviction that
hilts were altogether wrong in their mode of deal-

th the lower -orders of the people, who, he re-
3, ought to have been treated after the manner
Inds, and reduced to submission by the thong-

iw, if this statement be true, it is positively dis-
lble. It would be disgraceful in reference to any
but little less than infamous as applied to a Chris-
astor. Let us hope, for the credit of human na-
;hat the tale is a calumnious fabrication, and that
:h monster can be found on the soil of free and
aus England. However, the fact is now before
c, and Mr. Tatworthy is bound, for the sake
:haracter, as well as that of his sacred pro-
ire immediate contradiction if it be false.
7C shall soon have an opportunity of judg-
veracity of this Somersetshire story-teller,
aspect, after all, is entitled to little cre-

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O'CONNELL AND DR. COOKE.
(From the Morning Herald.)
O'Connell is a sort of Falstaff in his way. With-
, out anything of the genuine humour and mellow vi-
vacity of the fat knight, he certainly understands, as
well as Hal's tavern preceptor did, the secret that "dis-
cretion is the better part of valour," and would rather
have to do with a dozen " Master Shallows" than with
one Hotspur. He can route a dozen giants of his own
creation, as Falstaff made nothing of dispatching
knaves in buckram" when left to choose his own
time and place for the combat; but a bona fide chal-
lenge from one sinewy antagonist who insists upon do-
ing battle in the face of day, and takes the proper
means to secure an equal advantage in the lists, causes
him to show the "white feather," and to skulk even
from his favourite repeal question, like that animal in
. heraldry whose tail is ignominously dependent.
A voice from the north has cowed the " roaring
lion" of repeal. Dr. Cooke, the chief man among the
presbyterians of Ulster—no mean antagonist—has
thrown down the gauntlet to O'Connell on the repeal
question—has offered him equal terms, " a clear stage
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