The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-08 00:00:00

prosper, we regret to say, wit

:lin the British doini-

This is no vague conjecture,' or delusion ; it is
a fact. Ireland sends out her swarms every year who
settle in Great Britain, at the rate, we think, of 50,000
annually. The party have, for the present, lost• the
control of the executive ; but let us not be deceived
into the supposition that the snake is more than
scotched. The system is alive, and in full vigour. 'lle
Papists of Ireland are at this moment possessing them-
selves of all the municipal corporations of that country,
which by a most absurd and mistaken policy, have
been transferred into their hands by a solemn act of
the legislature. Mr. Daniel O'Connell will undoubt-
edly be the new Lord Mayor of .Dublin—the first under
the new law—the very first papist chief magistrate
since James II ! These things will re-act upon us ;
we shall feel them here in England, and to the Pro-
testant Associations we look as one means of counter-
acting their effects. • The Protestant Association of Li-
verpool will not forfeit any portion of that high charac-
ter which it enjoys throughout the kingdom by falling
away at this time. The great meeting of Monday gives
auspicious and satisfactory promise to this effect.
It is unnecessary to offer any lengthened remarlis
on the representation put forward. by
,Mr. Stowell
in censure of our representatives in Parliament. He
was immediately put right, and it will he distinctly
remembered that Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell,
in their first addresses, and in many subsequent
speeches, made, in the most Christian and distinct
terms, frequent declarations of their firm attachment
to sound Protestant principles.

Our Worshipful Mayor presided over a " nice ga-
thering "—(we do n't.think)—on Saturday night last.
eor
It was one of those expiring efforts which iserable
and contemptible Anti-Corn-Law L as been
making here and there where they coul few idle
mechanics to set the thing going, awl a (not of silly
gentlemen who dub themselves reverends, or esquires,
to give an air of dignity to the concern. The demon-
stration was first made in the chief city of the league,
and subsequently in any hole or corner where parties
such as we allude to, could be found to undertake the
agPrley. In every instance the attempted agitation has
been most ludicrously abortive—the anti-corn-law sea-
son was found to be over—the thing was defunct, and
there was no resuscitating it.

Among the last of these lame and drivelling attempts
we believe we may reckon the miserable farce of last
Saturday night. The thing was so bad that even Mr.
W. Rathbone disclaimed having had any hand in get-
ting it up, "He wished the public " he said, "to be
aware that it had not originated with what was com-
monly called the broad cloth. They had consulted
about it indeed, but did not think there was sufficient
spirit in the town to justify them in assembling the inha-
bitants." They left it therefore to " Kelly the cobbler
and Jones the porter," and these men with a few of
their companions, nothing loth, went to work—aided
most likely by a little greasing from the millOcrat junto,
and the result was that respectable assembly in whose
name our worshipful chief magistrate had the honour
to sign a petition to the. Queen, requesting-of her not
to dissolve parliament till their wishes were attended to.
The request was certainly most particularly modest,
and whatever her majesty,s intentions, or those of her
ministers may have heretofore been, we do expect that
they will be immediately re-considered, or perhaps en-
tirely changed at the instance of such gifted and re-
sponsible advisers as Kelly the cobbler, and Jones the
porter.

As to our "Thomas Bolton, Esq., Mayor," be cer-
tainly is, what they call in Ireland, "a broth of a boy."
Ile had been sent a copy of the resolutions intended to
be passed at the grand carouse; but he declared that
he had not had time to read them : but, gentlemen,
said he " any thing from you must be good." This
was received with immense applause ; and Billy Rath-
bone afterwards declared, that in all his life he bad
never met with so superhumanly and Aranscendantly
excellent an " authority" as his worship. By the by,
we should mention, that it is likely we shall soon have
to count this worthy Whig and Radical—we mean Mr.
Rathbone—in our Tory lists. Ile has certainly got
his foot upon the pivot, and will most likely be brought
round in a short time. We make this important an-
nouncement upon the best possible authority, and have
only to add, that we shall feel happy in recording so
remarkable a conversion.

In conclusion, we cannot but remark that the con-
duct of the Mayor in presiding at such a meeting was
in bad taste, if not without precedent. When the late
Mr. Wallace Currie was chief magistrate, he had the
manliness and good sense to decline taking the chair at
a meeting on the Irish Corporation Bill, on the same
grounds that Mr. Thomas Bolton accepted the honour
on the present occasion.
As to the rest of the sayings and doings of this
Saturday night convention, they are not worth wasting
ink upon. There was a row, of course ; nothing less
could be expected; in beer and Radical politics there
was an action and re-action which must inevitably
work this result on a Saturday night. The Mayor,
however, threatened one of the Jones's with the
police; and after much confusion, brawling, and non-
sense, the muddled mechanics were at length sent
home. We would recommend his Worship, the next
time be intends gracing such an assembly with his
dignified presence, to choose some other night of the
week, instead of Saturday, for the work. Such pap-
time forms but an indifferent preparation for the
services of the sanctuary on the following day.