The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received a great number of poetical, as well as prose
political squibs respecting the all-important dinner of to-
morrow, which want of space compels us to pass over. For
the same reason the communication of "S. f.," "A Looker-
on," and several other papers are omitted.

*.* The STANDARD of Friday will contain a full and
accurate report of the speeches delivered at the
O'CONNELL DINNER at the Corn ,Exchange to-

morrow.

EDE Eiberpool ,Stanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1836.

The dinner to be given to O'CONNELL, at the: Corn
Exchange, to-morrow, naturally excites more than an
ordinary degree of local curiosity, especially among those
who have known the-town of Liverpool for the greatest
length of time, and remember the character it has hitherto
borne for its loyalty to the House of Brunswick. That
the despicable republican faction, composed chiefly of
papists and unitarians, and the disloyal fanatics of every
creed, whose recent successes have raised them to some
,degree of importance, should follow the example of Lord
MULGRAVE, is perhaps a thing rather to be expected than
otherwise. The puppets, whose motions are governed
.by the head of the home office, must here,-.as well as in
Dublin, perform the tasks assigned them. Were they to
become refractory, the local patronage of the town hay-
ing been wrested from the hands of an independent
local body and transferred to those of the minister of the
day, their recommendations of stipendiaries would be
of no value, and their individual and collective importance
would instantly be destroyed. O'CONNELL, on- his way
to the parliament house, requires some favourable testi-
monials of character—the thief's last resource.at the Old
Bailey—for when there he well knows that he will be
called upon to answer RAPHAEL, of Carlow ; to meet the
coming s:orm from the Dublin investigation ; and lastly,
to cajole or bully the gentlemen of Brookes's Club. For
these reasons—it would be sheer folly to waste a single
dip of ink to prove the connexion between O'CONNELL
and Lord MELBOURNE—the peaceable, the well-disposed,
and time loyal part of the inhabitants of our town are to he
disturbed in the pursuit of their ordinary avocations, and
must submit to have their feelings outraged by a public
procession in honour of. a man who has had the audacity
to assert that seven- eighths of the women' of England are
strumpets; who, in the course of his turbulent and un-
principled life, has contrived to lavish his abuse upon
every public man in the realm, and upon Englishmen
To show that Mr. O'CONNELL feels that the party under
whose auspices lie is about to honour 'Liverpool with a
visit, are the tools of government, to show.that he know's
what they are and boa to estimate their worth, we quote
a passage from his speech at Tuam, on Monday, the 18th
instant, only two days after the date of his letter to Mr.
RATUBONE, accepting, the invitation to dine with the Cla-
rendon-room cabinet.' He said on that occasion :
"An alderman of the corporation of Liverpool—a sort of
cattle with which I have not hitherto been much acquainted—
has conveyed to me the wishes of a meeting over which he pre-
sided, that I should dine with them next week. Igo of course.
To gratify myself? No, but to try to get justice for Ireland."
Justice for Ireland to be obtained through the instru-
mentality of Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE! In the name of
the prophet !—figs! From the passage of O'CONNELL'§
speech which we have quoted,.it will be seen that he does
not disguise his contempt for the animals he is about to
visit. He cannot help expectorating—the word " spit-
ting" will perhaps be more intelligible to Mr. RATIIBONE
—some of his filthy venom upon the persons about to do
him honour; he affects not to know whether they belong
to the race of donkeys or of bears; whether they possess
the sapience of the gander, or the cunning of the fox ; it
is enough for him to know that they have been com-
manded by time creatures of his will to fall down and
worship, and that they are ready to worship even the
brazen image of him in whose hands the political exist-
ence of thosecreatures, the MELBOURNE cabinet, is placed,
and whose tenure of office depends upon his support.
To swell the train of Ireland's distinguished beggar, mis-
sives have been despatched to Mr. WILLIAM EWART,
who " accepts the invitation with pleasure ;" to Colonel
WILLIAms, "who accepts most readily the overture;"
to Mr. RIGBY WASON, who " thinks the important ser-
vices which Mr. O'CONNELL has rendered to this country
make it incumbent upon him to show his respect by
attending at the dinner ;" and to Mr. THOMAS TIMRNE-
LT, who, but for another dinner to be given to him at
Wolverhampton on time previous day, would attend.
The. story of the death's head and cross-bones, although
somewhat stale, is worthy of being repeated at this par-
ticular period, that the men of Liverpool may know the
engines of torture by which the catholics of Ireland are
subjugated to the will of one man, and that they may
know the kind of person whom it pleases their republican
leaders to honour. We take the subjoined extract from
the " Report of time -Select Committee on Bribery and
Intimidation at Elections, together with Extracts from
time minutes of Evidence showing the INTIMIDATION
PRACTISED BY THE PRIESTS IN IRELAND,"—a report,.we
should observe, reprinted in weekly numbers by the
friends and supporters of civil and religious toleration,
in order to exhibit to the world the nature and character
of popiSh toleration in Ireland.
H. J. Thownrigy, Esq., called in, and examined.
" What office do you hold ?—I am Sub-Inspector of the
county of Kerry, and a Magistrate of the county.
" You were employed in the county of Kerry previous to and
during the late election in January last ?-1 was.
" You made a report to the Government, dated 'Constabulary
Office, Tralee, January 13, 1835,' in which you said, ' 1 have
the honour to transmit herewith an affidavit, sworn before me
this day, by a most respectable gentleman, in consequence of
which, and in the absence of the High Sheriff, I have, in con-
junction with other Magistrates, made arrangetnents for the due
protection of the freeholders in question.'
" Extract from the deposition So great is the spirit of
outrage which prevails in said town of Cahirsween and its
neighbourhood, that on Sunday last, the 11th of January instant,
the Protestant congregation of said town, on returninyfrom divine
service, were pelted at with filth, and dirt; and even befbrc the
termination of divine service, several riotous and ill-disposed per-
sons came to the door of the church, and round it in every direction,
and threw gravel and dirt at it; that unless an efficient police
or military escort is appointed for the said freeholders on their
way to Tralee, he is convinced they will be deterred by force
and terror of their lives from voting at the ensuing election.
(Signed) Taken and sworn before me, this 14th day of
Januatv, 1333. (Signed) H. J. Brownrigg.'-1 took that de-
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pe4ition.

"Du you know whether Mr. O'Connell, in the county of
Kerry, at Tralee, from a balcony or platform, in *front of the
Commercial Reading Rooms, addressed the people on one day,
and that he stated in substance, as it has been printed in the