The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-07 00:00:00

A BLOW-OUT FOR THE IRISH BEGGAR!

Last evening, in accordance with public placards of attrac-
tive dimensions, and advertisements in the papers of the town,
the " Friends of Reform" held a meeting in the Shooting Gal-
lery, Tarleton-street, " for the purpose of adopting immediate
measures to raise a FUND to defray the political expenses to
which Mr. Daniel O'Connell has been subjected.', At seven
o'clock about twenty of the leaders of the whig-radical faction
presented themselves on a raised platform at the upper end of
the room, amongst whom we observed Mr. William Rathbone,
of course,• Mr. James Branker, the expectant Lveurgus of Li-
verpool, that extremely wise gentleman, Mr. Lawrence Hey-
worth, our friend; Councillor Egerton, the orator of the tub,
Mr. Councillor (oglan, Mr. Councillor Shiel, Mr. James Mul-
linetlx, Mr. Godfrey Barnsley; et hoc genus omne. The au-
dience at this time, exclusive of the distinguished personages
on the platform, who constituted the aristocracy of the meeting,
and who kept themselves most scrupulously aloof and not with-
out some pungent reason, consisted of fifty-three gentlemen and
three bull-dogs, who, with their equally intelligent masters had
come to see the fun, boasting amongst them thirty-nine hats,
about a dozen of which were minus the crown- (the late hot wea-
ther might be an excuse for this convenience). We will not at-
tenapt.to describe the rest of their " outward men", for—it is
indiscribable. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Lawrence
Hepworth rose to propose Mr. James Brancker to the chair,
and in doing so, said, he felt bound to support Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, for had he not fought the noble battle of mu-
nicipal reform; he ( Mr. L Heyworth) would not have beeu a
councillor. ("Huzza".)
Mr. JAMES BRANCKER then took the chair. lie said (think-
ing of the shooting gallery) Mr. O'Connell had been the mark
which had been shot at by the tories, and they had now hit the
" bull's eye," and they were in duty bound to hold up a shield
to protect him. Every man ought to give Dan a groat. ( Hurra.)
Mr. Wu. RATHBONE, in moving the first resolution, said
they were bound to du something for the Irish nation, of which
Mr. O'Connell was the representative. ( Hurra, and loud cries
of'` order," "order," from the chairman.) Mr. Ratliboue then,
evidently with some doubt in his own mind that this was vox
preterea nihil, begged they would show their compassion and
sympathy for "that martyr to his country's cause" to some mo-
ment, and show that their hearts laid in their pockets. He con-
cluded with moving; a resolution. that that meeting duly esteemed
the unflinching advocacy of Mr. Dan!. O'Connell of civil and re-
ligious liberty, and entertained a deep sense of the important
services he' had rendered to the cause of reform in England and
Ireland, and hoping that those services would nut be allowed to
prove a serious loss to himself. (Hurra.)
Mr.GODFIIEY BA nNsLuy,who was introduced by the chairman
as " Friend Godfrey," now rose and was greeted with up-
roarious cheering, the candidate for the representation of Liver-
pool loudly crying " Arder, order." At length " order" was
restored and Mr. Godfrey Barnsley, having designated the
House of Lords as a " bow-wow-inong,ering, oligarchy," con-
cluded by seconding the resolution, amidst immense and up- ,
roarious cheering. t

Mr. JAMES MULLINEUX now rose and said he was indebted
to Mr. O'Connell for the " order" to which he now belonged.
He should not be doing credit to his "order" if he did not sup-
port Mr. Daniel O'Connell. He concluded with moving that
a subscription he opened for the purpose of defrayin,, the ex-
' penses to which Mr. O'Connell had been put. (" fiurra•")
A Mr. MusPavr, or Mr. MUST-PRATTLE, seconded the mo-
tion, which was supported by en operative named SMITH, who
said he represented the workmen of Liverpool, nay, he might
say all England and Ireland, (not the world,) and he was
delegated to support the motion. (" Hurra," and " Arder,
arder" from the chairman.) He was a radical reformer and
advocated the throwing overboard of all distinctions (Mr.
Smith stood on the platform.) (" Hurra.")
Mr. Councillor COGLA N rose to inure the next resolution
which forcibly reminded us of the relation of the exploits of the
mighty Thomas Thumb; it was magnificently grandiloquent.
He felt that on the present occasion it was a duty binding on
every friend of his country and of the human race not to shiink
publicly to express his sentiments in a cause in which they
were all so deeply interested. Mr. O'Connell's cause was the
cause of the British empire—it was the cause of every advo-
cate of human happiness, of philanthropy, of patriotism, and
of justice!! ! (Hurra.) He concluded with moving a commit-
tee to carry the objects of the foregoing resolutions into effect,
of which Mr. \Vm. Thornhill was to be the secretary.

VI.. EGERTON SMITH rose to second the resolution, and dealt
most unmerciful blows on us of the Standard, the gist of which,
however, did not seem to be fully comprehended by-the Meeting,
but seemed—

" Their minds unmoved and unconcern'd to lull,
And was at best most singularly dull. "
for having, we suppose, dared to express an opinion that Daniel
was "the most incomprehensible of all incomprehensible vaga-
bonds." Friend Egerton then gave his yarn a twist round the
neck of Mr. Talbot Glascock (the announcement of whose name
quite tickled their fancy, and was received with uproarious ap-
plause by the meeting) for daring to petition against the return
of Daniel for his new " snuggery" of Kilkenny, and concluded
with telling his hearers that he had an oaken box in his office
with a slit in the top which would just do to put penny pieces
in, and that it would do admirably to stand in his office to for-
ward the purposes of the subscription. The chairman then with
peculiar elegance of expression complimented Mr. Smith on the
eloquent manner in which he had dealt with an extremely brittle
subject—Mr. Glagcock, and announced that the business of the
meeting had terminated.
One or two patriots, " big with speech," then treated the
meeting to their extempore strains, and the gentlemen separated,
by this time about one hundred persons having assenabl,ed, ex-
clusive of the aristocracy.

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

FEMALE QUARREI.S.—On Friday, at the Police-office, an
Irishwoman and her daughter, named Jardine alias Brogan,
appeared pefore the magistrates, ( William Ripley and Edward
Cropper, Esqrs.) to complain of an assault committed on her
by a Welch woman and her daughter, neighbours of hers, the
(Cry before. The parties came quarrelling into court, and both
complainant and defendant addressed the magistrates at once;
after some difficulty they were silenced, and placed at opposite
sides of the court. The complainant then, addressing the bench
said, " Plase yer worships, that woman come to my place yes-
terday when myself was at home, an' tould me she had come to
complain against my doghter. Well, says I, what is it, says
I?" " Your doghter," says she, " has put her finger up this
way," says she " to my doghter," puttin' her thumb to her nose ,
and stretchn' out her fingers this way, savin' yer honours' pre-
since. (The complainant suited the action to the word, amidst
the loud laughter of the Court.) " Your doghter is as bad," says
doghter is tshaeyshlo,neusta,na, nedanrt 'etohneichuaprdtowhoerkr,i,t!'saayns'
11h. e d"ocelnyt
I. " the stare purtier doghter is there this side Dublin," says
I. "By the beauty
.o' man," sis she, " that's all I wanted,"
sis she, an' jist as td was shtrikin' four o'clock, yer halters,
she fell peggin' me, an' her doghter came ;in' helped her. An'
didn't they hate me shameful entirely, and knocked me down
flat as a griddle? I was not the man for the both of them, but
returned what I could of coorse." One of the magistrates re-
marked that her face did not appear to be very touch scratched
as if she had been very ill used. Complainant " No, Yes
honer, I shweated it off." (Laughter.) A witness deposed to
the parties striking one another. The defendant in extenua-
tion said, " On Suntay tat lady's toter, come pas or windy, and
put up her finger to my toter, and says, " what pisness you
to luk at me." So I went to make complaint apout it, and she
apused and struck me. And pecause I have got an unfortu-
nate son who has got seven years, they meet me at every corner
and say i have raised a transport ; and spit in my face and call
plack names, which I can pring witness to prove, and call my
taaghter a vagapont. We lifuapers, and it is' not convenient
to me or I would leave to naperhoot pefore I would pe troupled
with, her. . For she nefer pits my tour put she put up her finger
and clap her hands onefery part of her, and I nefer mislest
hee, for I can't apide to look at her." The magistrates said
there was no choosing between them, they were one as bad as
the other, and unless they chose to conduct themselves pro-
perly, he should make both of them find hail. The belligerents
having mutually promised to do this the charge was dismissed.
STEALING FROM A CHAPEL—On Friday, at the Police-
office, a young man of rather respectable appearance, named
James Dunn, was brought before the magistrates, charged
with having stolen a number of hymn books and bibles from •
George's-street chapel the night before. Ftom the evidence of
David Edwards the chapel keeper, it appeared that the night
before, after service had been heard in the chapel, the singers
were practising, and the prisoner remained in the chapel
apparently listening to them. lie observed him for some
time, till at length be moved, to come out, and he told hint
he.must go out the front way and not by the back door to which
he was going; as he turned to do so be lost a book down, which
he (the chapel keeper) picked up and asked if it was his. He
replied it was his, and thanked him for picking it up and then
went out. He suspected that it was not, and went after hint
and asked him to let him look at the book again, when he said,
e Oh, I can't now," and ran away. He shouted to have him
stopped, and he was apprehended, and on searching him be
found three hymn books on him. He was then taken to Bride-
well, where four more books were found upon him. A gentle-
man named Lacy identified two of the books as his. and also
the other two as belonging to a gentleman named Thompson,
who sat in the same seat. The prisoner in defence said, he had
come from Ireland a fortnight before to seek for employment,
and had spent all his money. He had not eaten anything for
two days before, and had pawned all his clothes, except those
he had on, and had even pawned his waistcoat off his back, and
seeing the books spread`before him, he took them to get some-
thing to eat with. The magistrates said he must answer the
charge at the sessions, and the informations fur his co.nuait-
ment were ordered to be taken.

INduEsis.---On• Friday afternoon an inquest Was held at the
Court-house before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner; on the body of
a female infant child, which was found dead in Williamson.
street, at the top of Great Howard-street. on Wednesday. From
its size' it-appeared to be about two months old. The body was
in such a deCompilsed state that it wa's impossible to ascertain
by what means it had come by its death. Verdict, found dead.
—o'd the same afternoon another inquest was held before P. F.
Cur 42 Eq., on the body of a male infant child Which Was found
deadm Boundary-lane the day befdie. From its appearance
wh'en found, It had evidently nut been born many hours. The
umbilical cord was found twisted round its neck. y A female was
seen passing down the lane near where the infant was found by
the policeman on duty, bat he had ant taken much uutice of ben.
Verdict; foUiatt &at'