The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

MORE BLARNEY FROM DAN. O'CONNELL;

(From the Cork Constitution.)
Mr. O'Connell is at the old work—blarneying the
Nationals. There is one—just one topic not altogether
stale, and that one he has stolen, but not without ac-
knowledgment, from the newspapers—we mean the
injury which Ireland is likely to suffer from the com-
mercial. and financial arrangements of the ministry ;
.but why does he call on us to support a ministry whose
acts are thus prejudicial to our country? Their whole
administration is made up of blunders. Incapakle of
comprehending the interests of the empire, step by
step they hare sacrificed them to the foreigner, though
to every eye but theirs the sacrifice was obvious. What
was Mr. O'Connell doing all this time ? Was he, like
a faithful sentinel, putting .the people on their guard ?
Was he telling' them of the plot that was in prepara-
tion ? Was he warning them of the ruin that would
be the result ? No, but, astride on his hobby at the
Corn Exchange, he was haranguing about " griev-
ances" that no ore felt, and declaring his determina-
tion to support ministers at all hazards, as if his sole
object were, by the dust he raised, to blind the nation
to the consequences which he now condemns. It is
folly for Mr. O'Connell—nay,. it is fraud—to affect
displeasure. Our trade might have been lost for him ;
but, after the newspapers—and foremost among them
a paper which he has been abusing with all the viru-
lence of an envenomed tongue, and an opposition to
which he has been labouring iiitli his usual liberality
to encourage—after the' newspapers have exposed the
injustice of the tariff with France, and shown the in-
jury it wig work to Ireland, forth he comes and prays
us to believe how deeply he deplores it! As to the
hardship on the Iris!) distillers, who but he is to be
blamed for this ? To whom do we owe the additional
taxation but to the ministry he has imposed on us ?
'l'p whom but to that ministry do we owe the wasting
• wars which, for aught the. country knows, it may at
this moment be engaged in ? Who was their chief
encourager• in the expensive expedition which lately
sailed for China ? Who was it that presumed to visit
with his vengeance some of the Irish members whose
absence diminished the ministerial majority that sanc-
tioned it? What right has the impostor to complain ?
Ile made the men—lie must take the measures.
Part of the oration is devoted to his Exeter Hall re-
ception. He cannot get rid of that: it sticks to him
like a blister, and the appliance of the apothecary is
not more tantalising than the irritation it excites. He
had the old story to tell—the same which we have al-
ready published in his letter, and which, therefore,
there was no occasion to repeat in our abridgment of
his speech. Two passages, however, we have re-
tained—one relating to. the well-known Jabez Bunt-
ing—the other to Prince Albert. For any thing in the
shape of a " Methodist" he has a most healthy horror.
His flesh is so sore from the flaying it received at the
hands of "Daniel M'A fee," that the very sight is
enough to raise a howl of anguish :—it is no wonder,
then, that he endeesssmrs to avenge himself on "Ja-
bez." It is a poor I,.ll4rmance, after all—well enough,
to.be sure, for thoSe ..i.llO witnessed it, but utterly un-
worthy of a crowd encloses] within any four walls but
those of tile Corn Exchange. Bad as it is, it would
probably have been wo: se however, had Mr. Bunting
been present; but Daniel 'chooses his tim.e, as well as
cotnpany. Is it not—we do, not say strange, for
nothing is strange to some people, but stupid—it is not
Stupid to be professing " liberality," to be denouncing
"sectarian feeling," to be exhorting to a common bro-
therhood, to be telling us that religion should not be
a wall of separation," and so forth, while he is la-
lrouring to rouse the rancour of his party against one
nf the most numerous and active of the Christian
,communities of England ? It is all hypocrisy—hol-
low, heartless, hopeless hypocrisy.