The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

THE REPEAL OF THE UNION CUSHIONED

It has been rumoured for the last week or two that Mr.
O'Connell is about to sink the repeal agitation for a time, in
consequence of a new treaty having been entered into with
the whigs, as it was found that the Demagogue had done
them serious damage in the estimation of the moderate portion
of their supporters by his insane demand for the severance
of Ireland from Great Britain, and that he is henceforth to
apply all his energies to reinstate his fallen allies in office.
This rumour has received additional w.ight from the follow-
ing statement, which appears in a letter of Mr. O'Brien's, a
gentleman who lately withdrew from the Repeal Association,
as we announced on a former occasion :

" I do not intend," says Mr. O'Brien, " in this, my last
letter, to say so much about repeal. Poor question ! which
filled and divided the public press ; which raised up to the
plundered peasant's eye valleys of plenty and of ease. Thou
art near extinct !! ! The unnatural connection between
whiggery and the tenets of Mr. O'Connell, is about being
consummated ! The marriage—which no political history in
the world holds a parallel to—is about being perfected.—The
political mermaid has again come forth to disgust the world!
Mr. O'Connell is about supporting the whigs; and the whigs
grasp at the support upon condition—that they may, as of
old, have the liberty of denying him in all respectable places.
The whigs want you, Mr. O'Connell, and the moonshine of
repeal must be given up. There has been a dinner in
Stephen's-green ; and whig compacts can be formed in more
places than in Lichfield-house."

And, again, he adds :
" I will submit to be branded the greatest of public liars,
if Mr. O'Connell carries on his agitation for the repeal of the
union for twelve months with the same pretended earnest-
ness and singleness of purpose that he does at psesent. To
this I bind myself by all the ties that can bind man ; I care
not what the press says ; I dare the liberal journals to deny
the compact now agitating! The union of all reformers, I
say, is the entombing of all repealers ! But upon rapeal or
its apostle, (unless, in one instance, where, in my own de-
fence, I am compelled to allude,) I will be silent ; nothing
harsh or unkind should be breathed over the great national
monument, in which, for the third time, Mr. O'Connell is
about embalming his own flesh and blood."
It is highly probable, therefore, that Mr. O'Connell has
again consented to cushion Repeal, notwithstanding his re-
peated protestations that he would " never either abandon,
postpone, or in anywise soever compromise" that question.
This will be another instance of the profligate inconsistency
of Ireland's hireling patriot. The truth is, that he had ex-
tracted all he could out of the pockets of his dupes at home
on the strength of this delusive cry, and the offers of the re-
peal treasury have been replenished only by means of Yankey
dollars of late, transmitted by expatriated traitors, who usually
accompany their pecuniary donations by eleemosynary con-
tributions of sedition also, the Corn-Exchange spouters
having been run dry on such topics, or else having a salutary
dread of a conservative government, and therefore the scheme
is to be abandoned for the present. El wo long will the Ro-
man catholics of Ireland suffer themselves to be cajoled out
of their money by this " most incomprehensible of all imagin-
able vagabonds." to use a phrase of Dan's own coinage ? Can
they continue blind to the fact, that he is seaking his own
interest alone, and deceiving them with projects that are in
themselves impracticable, and which, if they were carried
into effect, would prove most injurious in their consequences ?
If O'Connell believed that repeal was calculated to benefit
the country, would he have hesitated to meet Dr. Cooke on
the subject ? Undoubtedly he would not.

A gentleman travelling in the west of England, scarcely
had a tine day during his journey; one morning, when at
Devonport, he said to the master of the hotel—" Raining
again I see"-0 (replied mine host) it is only a partial
shower."—" Egad (said the traveller), showers seem par-
ticularly partial to this part of the country."
YEAST MANURE.—It is not generally known that yeast is
one of the most powerful manures in existence. Some expe-
riments have been tried with grass plots and different culi-
nary vegetables, from which it appears that a small quantity
of yeast, after it has become putrid and useless to the brewer
or baker, will effect wonders when mixed with water and ap-
plied to plants as liquid manure.

FASHIONS FOR. THE MONTH.—Coats are very much worn,
particularly at the elbows, and are trimmed with a shining
substance, which gives them a very glossy appearance. A
rim of white runs down the seams, and the covering of the
buttons is slightly opened so as to show the wooden material
under it. flats are now slightly indented at the top, and we
have seen several in which part of the brim is sloped off with-
out any particular regard to the quantity abstracted. Walk-
ing-dresses are very much dotted just now with brown spots
of a mud colour, thrown on quite irregularly ; and the heels
of the stockings may sometimes be seen trimmed with the
same material. A sort of basket work is now a great deal
seen as a head-dress, and in these cases it is strewed over
with little silver fish, something like a common sprat, which
gives it a light and graceful character.—Punch.

FATTIER MATHEWISM.—Were such associations gene-
rally to prevail throughout the country—which, however, we
do not expect—they would aid in alarming the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. We perceive, from the revenue returns,
that in Ireland the gross revenue from malt, wine, and spi-
rituous liquors was £603,020 less in 1840 than it was in 1838.
Were Father Mathew, or any other temperance apostle, to
effect as great a reformation on the people of England and
Scotland as has been produced on those of Ireland, the gross
defalcation in the annual revenue would be about X 5,000,000.
—Mandiesier Guardian.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHUTTING OF THE GATES.—At
twelve o'clock on Saturday morning, the 153 d anniversary of
the shutting of the gates of Derry was ushered in by the
thunder of artillery from the old bastions, from which many
a shot, during the ever-memorable seise was fired in defence
of protestant life, religion, and liberty. The commemoration
of this great and glorions event, which eventuated in esta-
blishing the present royal family on the throne of these realms,
has, as it ever should, always excited the liveliest interest
among the citizens of Derry, as awakening in their minds
feelings of the deepest gratitnde to Almighty God for crown-
ing with success the efforts of the heroic defenders of London-
derry, and making them instrumental in gaining for every
man in these kingdoms liberty to worship God according to
the dictates of his conscience. We know that every person
in Derry, bearing the name of protestant, of whatever de-
nomination, professes to revere both the memory of these
brave men and the principles for which they contended.
Whether they are in earnest in the expression of these
sentiments or not, Monday next will tell; for we really
believe, should the liberal candidates succeed in being re-
turned as aldermen and town councillors of the new corpor-
ation, the mayor, whoever he may be, will prevent any out-
ward demonstration in celebration of our glorious and time
honoured anniversaries from being made, and trample under
foot the principles of the Apprentice Boys of Derry. We
understand that on the present occasion an effigy of the
traitor Lunday will be exhibited as usual at the corner of
Corporation Hall, and that the Apprentice Boys and their
friends will meet together in their club-rooms in the evening,
as heretofore.

TRICKS OF THE COUNTRY.—Proverbially sharp as are the
metropolitan youths and maidens, we think the more prudent
and reflecting among them trill not think us needlessly soli-
citous for their welfare if we forewarn them of their liability
to be occasionally hoaxed by the country, as the following
• illustration will show :—" A lady courtezan, whose dwelling
is not 50 miles east of Lincoln Minster, one morning last
week, was detected by the police, in a paroxysm of distress,
running after the carrier to Hull (the coach conveyance being
refused to the lady) that she might take the packet to Lon-
don en route to the south of France on an excursion of plea-
sure. It seemed, however, that London was her destina-
tion, and her purposes that of securing the services of a
maiden, the difficulties of obtaining a male servant being
insuperable. A young woman was soon obtained by means
of the register•office ; and by the stylish appearance and
specious representations of the lady, who stated that she
had a fortune of £7OO a year, and au excellent establishment
of servants, she was easily induced to accompany her to
her residence in Lincolnshire, rather (as she said) in
the character of a companion than otherwise. On board
the packet to Hull, however, the girl's surprise was excited
at the unladylike taste of her mistress, who chose rather
to herd with the lowest grade of society on board, because
" there was the most fun." It seemed rather surprising
that the lady referred the payment of the fare to her ser-
vant, such being " her custom". The girl paid her own
and her mistress's expenses from London, and also from
Hull to Lincoln, rather than hazard the detention of their
luggage. On reaching terra firma the lady descanted on the
superior advantages of travelling in an open waggon at mid-
night in preference to a coach or van, until both these con-
veyances had started, and, thus having no alternative, the
girl was obliged to succumb to the taste of her mistress, and
ride twenty miles in an open waggon in the rain. About two
o'clock on the Sunday morning they arrived at the lady's
mansion, which was su securely locked up that there was no
ingress but by breaking the fanlight in order to push back
the bolt ; but, as this could not be done without assistance,
the girl was desired to stay while the lady went in quest of a
policeman ; Bradshaw was found, and he, at the modest de-
sire of the lady, bent his body on all fours, and became her
footstool, while she slipped back the bolt, and let herself in.
The maid, aghast, inquired in all the agony of surprise and
disappointment, " Is this the place I'm conic to live at,
pray, ma'am" ? " Yes", was the reply. " But here's no fire
to dry us" I " No", it was rejoined, " nor coals either"
" Where," asked the girl, " are we to sleep ?" " Oh," said
the lady, " you must sleep on the table, while I sleep on the
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