The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

'THE AGITATOR IN DESPAIR.
(From the Dublin Evening Packet.)

" Those who are not Repealers are Stanleyites. We'll
write villanous perjurers on the brow of every man who will
not join us now, and I must say I think such an one well
deserving it."

Were anything wanted to demonstrate to the world
the frantic desperation to which O'Connell has been
driven by the aversion evinced by all honourable minds
to his recent scheme of fraud and plunder, it would be
fully supplied by the foregoing extract, taken from his
harangue of Sunday last, delivered in the presence of
an excited rabble, congregated, after mass, in front of
Booterstown chapel. But the extract in question
proves something more than the ruthless ferocity of
despair. It plainly indicates the kind of respect in
which this mercenary old impostor holds the judgment
of his infatuated audience, when he could bring him-
self to venture on a declaration such as that we have
just quoted, before any body of rational beings, in the
slightest degree acquainted with the history of this
mountebank's immediate family for the last five years,
nay, even with the fellow's own proceedings within the
present month.
Those who are not repealers, we are now told, are
" Stanleyites," and deserve to be branded as " rillanous
perjurers.." Are they so ? 'Very well. Let us see how
this test will tell when applied to O'Connells' own chil-
dftn, and his numerous relatives and dependents now
supported by the public money, and of whom every
man of them has sold himself to the " base, bloody,
and brutal" whigs, for the emoluments of office.
There is, in the first place, Mr. Morgan O'Connell,
late repesentative for the county of Meath, but at pre-
sent deputy clerk in the Registry-office, at a salary of
£5OO per annum. Is this person, let us take leave to
ask—is he a repealer ? No such thing ; although like
the rest of his tribe, he entered Parliament eight years
since as a pledged advocate for a repeal of the legisla-
tive union. Here, then, is a Stanleyite—a mean, sel-
fish, and treacherous tanleyite, (in the agitator's ap-
plication of the term,) if ever there has been one.
Here is villanous perjurer the first.
Again, there is Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P. for
Kerry, another member of the same breed of patriots—
well, is he a repealer ? Most certainly not. On the
repeal question, as now broached by his consistent sire,
he is as mute as a fish. He, too, having, no doubt,
some equally creditable negotiation on the anvil, is just
as silent on the subject as his worthy brother. So,
here we have to our hand a second Stanleyite and
villanous perjurer, in the person of Daniel's first be-
gotten and favourite child. Nor does the catalogue
end here.

There is besides, a third member of the O'Connell
family, yclept Daniel junior; and is that gentleman a
repealer ? Most assuredly not. He is a hard strug-
gling and money making brewer, who has sense enough
to prefer the custom of the Viceregal kitchen to the
interests of old Ireland, and the profits on the consump-
tion of a few casks of porter to the welfare of the
" eight millions" of " hereditary bondsmen." Behold,
then, a third " Stanleyite" and villanous perjurer,
standing forward in the ranks of the Liberator's most
disinterested children !

Turn we now to old Hackball's nearest and dearest
relatives. Mr. Morgan John O'Connell and his father
in the respective relations of nephew and brother to
immaculate Daniel. Are they, or any one of them, let
us ask, repealers ? Again the answer must be " No."
They are at this moment, if the newspapers speak the
truth, engaged in getting up an address laudatory of
Lord Morpeth and the Ebrington administration, and
turning their backs with well affected horror on the
repeal imposture. Here therefore we have more of the
" Stanleyttes" and villanous perjurers, and no mistake.
There are, moreover, connected with Mr. Daniel
O'Connell's family by marriage, two gentlemen, named
Chr;stopher Fitasimon and Arthur .French, both being
his sons•in-law. Now, we should like to know whether
these individuals have had the courage to enlist under
the repeal banner, or make a single move towards the
attainment of " justice to Ireland ?" The answer must
be, " no, no, they have not." And why ? For this
all-sufficient and cogent reason, that the former, though
returned to Parliament on anti-union principles, in
1832, found it more prudent to become clerk of the
Hanaper than to continue legislator, and, accordingly,
is now in the comfortable enjoyment of—" say a thou-
sand" per annum; while the latter holds the rank and
receives the pay of a stipendiary magistrate, for which
he has been indebted to the successful solicitations of
his "no patronage" father-in-law. These men, too,
must therefore be classed among the " Stanleyips,"
upon O'Connell's principle. They are villanous per-
jurers both.

We might, if so disposed, add to the foregoing list
of patriots upwards of a dozen other names, in every
way qualified to be placed in the same category; but
enough, we apprehend, has been brought forward to
demonstrate the reckless inconsistency manifested by
the Kerry Demagogue, whilst hurling his denuncia-
tions at the heads of the anti-repealers. Will he de-
nounce any one of the gentlemen above referred to?
We may feel quite assured that he will do nothing of
the kind. On the contrary, he will chuckle with delight
at the certainty of having secured so liberal a provision
for his children and kindred, and will laugh in his
sleeve at the gullibility of the creatures whom he is
now plundering of their hard earned money.
But why his towering rage at the present moment ?
We can easily account for it. Rent-day is approach-
ing, and a more than usual demonstration of earnest-
ness must be exhibited in the cause of his afflicted
" father-land"--alias, the cause of his begging-box.
Hence the " sound and fury, signifying"—down with
the tribute, with which the public ear has been assailed
for the last month on the subject of repeal. It is but
one of the ordinary devices invariably resorted to by
this practised mendicant when contemplating a fresh
haul from the pockets of his wretched countrymen.
Add to this that the present repeal recruits are, with
few exceptions, supplied from the humbler and poorer
classes, and cannot therefore afford to come up to the
full measure of Daniel's cupidity. Shilling subscrip-
tions will never do to swell old Hackball's capacious
wallet; and hence the ferocious outcry against the
" Stanleyites" and villanous perjurers, including the
fellow's own children and relations. Really this is un-
bearable, and must disgust every sound-thinking and
high-minded man in the nation. But cares O'Connell
for that ? Let his rapacity be once gratified and all is
well.

EUROPEAN RELATIONS.
(From the Times.)
While the fate of the world seems to be depending
upon the formation of a pacific ministry in France,
which may restrain the perilous impetuosity of the
people in that country, and restore more conciliatory
relations with the ministers of England, our attention
has not unreasonably been directed to the position of
several of the other States of Europe. They are for
the most part unprovided with the conspicuous machi-
nery which sets public opinion in motion amongst larger
and freer communities. Whilst every rumour which
flies along the Boulevards or up Whitehall is re-echoed
to the ends of the earth, the most serious interests and
opinions of the humbler members of the European
family attract no attention beyond their own narrow
possessions. They await in anxious suspense the turn
which may be given .to events; but they are ignorant
of the remote causes, powerless as to the most imme-
diate consequences of a policy which may threaten
them with disasters or ruin. The independence and
impunity of those States which are too weak to raise
their voice in the councils of Europe, or to stir a finger
in her great political combinations, are no unworthy
objects of the attention of just and prudent politicians.
The peace which was preserved in 1831, through so
many dangers and difficulties, by the resolution of
Louis Philippe, by the diplomatic skill of M. de Tal-
leyrand, and by the foundation of the Anglo-French
alliance, was materially aided by physical obstacles to
war. France and Russia, the two most warlike and
hostile nations, found themselves separated by the
whole extent of central Europe ; and the propaganda.
of the July revolution produced no lasting effects be-
yond the Rhine, when the moderate reforms of some
of the lesser German governments had been conceded
to the people. In like manner, the lesser States con-
tiguous to the eastern frontier of France, from Belgium
to Piedmont, interpose a neutral, pacific, and inoffen-
sive boundary between that country and the great
German Power's, which is only broken by the tete-de
pont of the Rhenish provinces of Prussia. There is no
doubt that the treaties of 1815, which the war-party
in France declare to be such an excellent ground for
beginning hostilities in 1840, were intended, and wisely
intended, not to give the Allied Powers facilities for
fresh aggiession against France, hut to deprive France

of facilities of aggression against Europe, Acoordingly,
at the present moment, Europe is deriving some bene-
fit from those precautionary measures, although their
effect has been greatly weakened by the dismember-
ment of the kingdom of the Netherlands, and by the
state of public feeling in some of the Rhenish provinces.
Nevertheless, the common interest of all these mi-
nor states is that of neutrality. In Belgium a strong
national feeling has sprung up, very different from that
spirit of strife which repudiated the union with Hol-
land in 1839, and flung the insurgents of Brussels into
the arms of France; and the practical results of Bel-
gian independence have left that people little cause to
envy the loftier, but more perilous: and unsettled, des-
tinies of their neighbours. For Belgium as well as
for Holland, the maintenance of the neutrality of their
frontiers and the neutrality of their flag is the first
condition of their territorial and commercial exist-
ence.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE UNITED STATES.

By the Caledonia steam ship, Captain Cleland, which
arrived on Friday, we have received New York and
Boston papers to the 16th ult, both dates inclusive.
The news by this arrival is extremely meagre. The
election excitement in the States still continued. The
returns appear to be generally in favour of General
Harrison. Business continued to improve at New
York. The exchange on England stood at 108.1 to
109. Specie was abundant. The shares in the Bank
of the United States were quoted ut 631. The Phila-
delphia banks were preparing for the resumption of
cash payments on the 15th of January next.
The following are the most interesting extracts from
the papers before us
_ . _

- THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
(From the New York Morning 1-lerald of Oct. 16.
The violent political contest which is now raging in every
part of the United States, and which will continue to rage
for the next three weeks, will have a very important bearing
upon the interests of all those large capitalists in Europe,
who are interested in American securities.

The results of the recent State elections in Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, &c. although to all appearance having but one general
aspect, yet upon careful analysis, will be found to possess a
great variety of shades and complexions. The state elections
have many of them, beyond all doubt, been influenced by a
variety of local and other causes, that may not be brought
to bear on the great presidential question in November. But
yet, perhaps, on a careful review of the whole of these re-
sults, it is fair to pronounce their inevitable tehdency to be a
complete revolution in the men and measures connected with
the general government.
In Georgia, although the state elections have resulted in
favour of what is termed the Harrison or whig party, yet the
great question there has been the anti-bank question, and
the men who are elected to Congress on the whig side are
pledged to oppose a National Bank under any circumstances.
In Pennsylvania, the great struggle has been for and a-
gainst the United States Bank ; and the elections appear to
have resulted in favour of the party opposed to that bank.
The course of that bank has defeated and paralyzed the pros-
pects of General Harrison in Pennsylvania, and the proba-
bility at present is that Mr. Van Buren will get the vote of
that state. _ _

The prospect at present is that General Harrison will be
the next president of the United States. His election will
involve an entire change of policy in the financial measures
of the general government, bringing in their train a national
bank. There is some doubt, however, whether in the first
session of Congress, General Harrisen's administration will
have strength sufficient to carry it through, but that is the
ultimo thule of all their plans and movements.
In this revolution that is at hand, the probabiliiy is that
state stocks will be but little affected thereby; their stability
depending upon the conduct of the states themselves, and the
measures taken to preserve their individual credit, and pay
the interest of their bonds punctually. Fancy stocks, and
bank stocks, however, will all be considerably affected by the
change, and will all rise more or less, and induce a new train
of speculations. The Pennsylvania election may affect the
stocks of that state to a considerable extent ; but under no
circumstances is it possible that the condition of United
States Bank stock can be permanently improved. That ap.
pears to be
" Past hope, sunk in its fortunes."
For the rest—commercial matters will improve—confidence,
either real or assumed, will prevail—and the year 1841 will
bring new hopes, new men, new measures, new joys, new
speculations, new mouvements, and pretty much new every
thing on the tapis.
THE COTTON TRADE.

The past year has been remarkable in many respects: the
season last year commenced late, in consequence of the low
state of the rivers ; subsequently, when the rivers rose and
the influx of cotton became larger, prices began to recede,
and continued to do so up to April, when a fall in freights,
an improvement in exchanges, and favourable news from
abroad, caused the markets to rally. Since that period they
have gradually been rising. The following is a table of the
average monthly price, at the four principal ports throughout
the year :

PRICES OF COTTON AT FOUR PRINCIPAL PORTS THROUGHOUT
THE YEAR 1839-40.

1•I'. Orleans. Mobile. Charleston. N. York.
Oct. 101 to 13 .... la to 13 .... 101 to 13 .... 101 to 141
Nov. 94 to 11 .... 111 to 9 to 11 .... 104 to 134
Dec. 84 to 91.... 94 to 9/.... 94 to 91. ... 9 to 12
Jan. 84 to 94.... 84 to 84.... 94 to 91.... 94 to 11
Feb. 7/ to .84.... 74 to 84 to 81.... 74 to 10
March 6/ to 84.... 7 to 74.... 74 to 8 .... 64 to 91
April 7 to 74., .. 71 to 71.... 74 to 61 to 9
May 7 to 71Z .. 7 to 7/.... 8 to 84.... 74 to 94
June 71 to 84.... 7f to 74 to 8 .... 74 to 91
July 84 to 91.... 84 to 84.... 84 to 9 .... 84 to 104
Aug. 84 to 94.... 8 to 84.... 84 to n.. .. 9 to 104
Sept. 94 to 84 to 91 to 91.... 91 to 11
The cotton-growers have, indeed, received low prices for
their produce, but the quantity has been increased, in some
cases, near 90 per cent. The prices of the articles .of con-
sumption have been very low ; and the purchases of foreign
and manufactured goods have been exceedingly limited.
Under all these circumstances, the season has not been an
unprofitable one to the planter. The growing crop will, in
all probability, not fall much short of that just closed, while
the abundance of all other agricultural productions promises
a continuance of reasonable prices. The state of Europe
also promises, in the event of a continuance of peace, such
an increased consumption that will advance prices beyond
their average of the past year. The receipts of cotton, thus
far, have been large. The average quality of the receipts
has been " middling fair " to " fair." It is supposed that
the proportion of fine cottons will be less than last year.