The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-25 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

'a are confidentially informed that Sir Joshua Walmsley, in
a letter to a friend, informs him that " he has no chance in
succeeding for the representation of this borough, but that
be has now gone too far to draw back." What a pity he
did not take the advice of the STANDARD some months
since ; it would have spared him considerable time, trouble

and expense.
Will Mr. Baylee allow us to postpone the insertion of his
letter until the reports and other information consequent
upon a general election, and which occupy nearly all our
space, are disposed of.
We cannot possibly insert, or even notice at present, one-
half of the communications we receive.:

Ebe Etimpoot `k-tanbarb.

FRIDAY

MORNING, JUNE 25, 1841

.s truly and well

3, by Lord Sandon, on

iday, that " our government geeins to have taken

leaf out of the pop

book in the management of

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" Irel

nk that the most prudent measure
to secure quiet and contentment was by paying the
" chief disturber."

This is precisely the nature of the relation that
subsists between O'Connell and her majesty's minis-

ters ; and we need not say, that a more disgraceful
compact never was entered into. We set little value
on the quiet or contentment which such an agreement
could produce, and, in point of fact, it has led to no
improvement in the state of Ireland. It has not been
able to restrain the hands of the murderous Ribbon-
man, even whilst the Dictator's power was at its
greatest height; and as to any other sort of peace that
it produced—what was the nature of it ?—solitudinem
faciunt pacem apellant—it was just such peace as fol-
lows from the submission of slaves to a tyrant—the
peace which is characterised by intellectual prostration
and bodily fear.

The administration of the Whigs has been from first
to last an administration of shifts and expedients—an
administration of selfishness—a wretched provision
just for the day that was passing over their heads ;

but in Ireland, more than any where else, their misera-
ble policy, with all its baseness, was made manifest.
It was base to sell the people of Ireland to a detestable
tyranny, just that the office-bearers of the state might
sit down to their loaves and fishes in a little quiet;
and then it was knavish and hypocritical to boast that
this quiet was the fruit of good government, when, in
truth and in fact, it was the fruit of the govern-
ment altogether deserting its duty, and consigning the
people to the custody of their worst oppressors. If the
people of England were to exercise their liberty at the
coming election with a view to the good of Ireland
alone, they would be found, to a man, to vote against
the administration of the Whigs. We would call upon
them earnestly, in the name of Ireland, to turn them
out. We would beseech them, as they value true
religion, freedom, and happiness themselves, to have
regard to eight millions of their fellow-subjects in
Ireland, and turn out the whigs—turn out a ministry
that has sold Ireland to a brutal tyranny, which is
grinding her inhabitants to the very earth. Will they
sacrifice that splendid country for the highwayman's
peace upon the bandit's conditions ? People of
England, you cannot do it ; no, not though you were
inclined. If you love your church and constitution,

you must labour to impart the same blessings to your
fellow-subjects in Ireland; and you have now no way
to do that but by turning out the Whigs.

It can scarcely be necessary at this time of day to
offer any new proof of the execrable and insulting
oppression under which the people groan from
O'Connell, and the surpliced banditti in league
with him ; yet the sort of canvass which the beast and
his companions were carrying on last week in Carlow
county—so perfectly in keeping with all their other
doings—ought not to be passed over.
In the first place, who is the candidate ? A Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, youngest son of the old one, and,
doubtless, a chip of the old block. He has about as
much pretensions to Carlow as Lord Palmerston has
to Liverpool—and what is more, he, too, like Lord
Palmerston, is a phantom candidate. The young
Cupid is in France, and has never shown his face (any
more than our Foreign Secretary) to the electors ; yet
the Dictator says the people must have him. Priest
Mg-hie has declared, that he could make his cow-
boy a member of parliament, if it was his will and
pleasure to do so—and why not O'Connell any one of
the scions of so precious a stock as himself? His

address to the electors, in the name of the phantom, i
in his usual strain of insolence and bullying. Minis

ters, he says, were beaten on the no-confidence motion
by a single vote, and that vote was Colonel Bruen's.
" Let the Catholic electors," he proceeds to say, " who
voted for Bruen at the last election—let the wives, let the
daughters, let the sons of the Catholic electors who voted for
Bruen at the last election—let them know it was the Catholic
electors of Carlow, who, by voting for Bruen, procured a
triumph for the enemies of their religion, of their country,
and their Queen !
" Miserable men that they are ! Let them blush for shame
at the injustice and iniquity that they have committed. Let
them now prepare to snake restitution. Let them now come
over from the ranks of their enemies. Let them now join
the ranks of their friends. They know full well that without
restitution there is no pardon. Oh ! may they deserve—as
they would in that case be certain to obtain—forgiveness !"
Now mark the threat by which the foregoing invita-
tion is enforced. Read this, British freeman—English
elector, and say what sort of freedom is permitted to
the people of Ireland under the tyranny of O'Connell
and the priests; and remember, that this is the domi-
nation which the Whigs have been doing their best to
fasten upon that country :

' Any of you who persevere in supporting Bruen must

prepared for the hatrid and execration of his neighbours and
his countrymen. He will be looked on as a black sheep in
the fair flock of the honest electors. The black sheep will be
avoided as a pestilence by all the honest part of the commu-
nity. The black sheep voter for Bruen will be scorned by
his neighbours and former friends. No honest young man
will marry the daughter of a black sheep—no respectable
girl will marry the son of a black sheep. The black sheep
electors, who vote for Bruen at the coming election, will
meet the scorn, derision, and contempt of the universal peo-
ple of Carlow."
- • • •

So much for the conciliatory and insinuating terms
of the address. The mode of conducting the canvass
is perfectly suitable to it. " The greater part of last
week," says the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday,
" has been devoted, by Mr. O'Connell, to the further-
ance of the agrarian conspiracy in the county of Car-
low. From town to town—from market to market—
from fair to fair, he has been endeavouring to hunt
down the landed interest, and, by the aid of deputed
mobs sent to his assistance from the county of Kilkenny,
he has been labouring unsuccessfully to intimidate the
tenantry into a servile war against their landlords.
Like the Duke of Alva, in his exterminating mission
against the Protestants of the plains of Languedoc, he
travels with a pair of ecclesiastical bloodhounds at his
heels; and what the two jesuits were to the duke, the
two priests, Maher and Tyrrell, are to the demagogue."

The priests make no mystery of the. part they take
in forcing their priest-ridden, superstitious, and igno-
rant flocks to vote for this or any other phantom which
they choose to name as a candidate for parliament.
They put on a bold front, and openly avow it. The
following letter, which has been published in all the
Irish papers, furnishes an interesting piece of evidence
on the subject :

LETTER FROM THE RIGHT REV. DR. KENNEDY TO THE

CLERGY OF CLARE, IN THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE.
" BELOVED BRETHREN,—As we are now on the eve of a
general election—unquestionably the most important that has
ever occurred in our times, utterly disregarding the dishonest
and factitious outcry that has been so perseveringly kept up
against the Catholic clergy of Ireland, on account of their
necessary
interference in the political struggles of their op-
pressed and persecuted people—l deem it my imperative duty
to request that you will have the kindness to meet me at
Ennis on Wednesday, the 23d instant, that we may consider
how we may best employ, in the approaching crisis, that in-
fitunce SO hateful to tory tyranny, which we are said to pas-