The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-27 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBIWARY 27, 1838.

c(z7- The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morn

ing at 5 o'clock.

DINNER TO O'CONNELL.—On Wednesday last a din-
ner was given to the " Big Beggarman" at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, London, to console him for the un-
pleasant treatment he has recently met with from the
Trades Unions of Dublin, and to comfort him under the
poignant sorrow which he must endure in consequence
of the denunciations of the Manchester operatives.
Perhaps we may also acid that the blustering demagogue
needed some comfort under the prospective horrors of a
diminished " rent." It is well known that the people
of Ireland are becoming more and more convinced of the
treachery, dissimulation, and selfishness of this heartless
villain. It is well' known that his deluded fellow-coun-
trymen are, at length, beginning to open their eyes to
the melancholy fact that the sordid avarice and reckless
vanity of this mischievous agitator have, more than all
other things put together, tended to paralyse the indus-
try, cripple the trade, and destroy the prosperity of the
country which gave bixth to the ungrateful monster. It
is well known that the disturbances, which lie has so se-
dulously studied to foment, have been the Most formida-
ble impediment to the employment of English capital in
developing the resources of Ireland. It is well known
that the systematic persecution of the Protestants, which

has been carried on under his auspices, has driven the
best friends of Ireland from her shores, to spend their
riches and to diffuse their bounty in More peaceful dis-
tricts of the British empire. It is eqtrally well known
that the miserable victims of O'Connell's ruinous policy
are, at length, enabled to appreciate these facts, His
prospects are, therefore, becoming more gloomy from

week to week, and serious apprehensions are entertained
that the "rent" will prove very unproductive in future.

O'Connell is thus in a situation which renders the syrn-
pat hy of the English radicals very acceptable, especially
f it should be followed by the collection of an English
rent. We strongly suspect this to be the object of the
party who gave him the feed on Wednesday. A few
days will probably show the accuracy of our conjecture.
The Dublin Election Petition will entail a very consi-
derable expense upon O'Connell, and it is not unlikely
that an attempt may be made by the ivhig radical faction

to extract the money to defray this expense from the
pockets of .Englishmen. "We wish they may get it."
But to come to the dinner itself. The chairman on.

the occasion was the illustrious hero of Irun—the com-
mander-in-chief of the Dogsmeatians—the renowned
Sir G. De Lacy Evans, M.P. A more suitable person-
age could not have been fixed upon to do honour to
O'Connell. The runaway general has rendered himself
conspicuous by his brutal treatment of the British Le-
.ion, and by his voracity and meanness in reference to

the funds intended' for the maintenance of the troops
under his command. Thus, in the sordidness and trued-

lency of his character there is a striking assimilation to
O'Connell, to whom he might with propriety exclaim,
Hail! fellow, well met." Nor does the parallel end
The general emulated O'Connell in his ferocious
angnage towards the uncle of her Majesty. In propos-
the health of " The Duke of Sussex, and the rest of
e Royal Family resident in England," the chairman

Phserved that...he eunld not. Inive coneuried in the toast,

had it not been qualified in the vay- he had given it.
This is the language of the man whom our present mi-
nisters thought proper to introduce to her Majesty for