The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

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THE NV FRPOOL STANDARD.

foul atrocities to disgrace Ireland, but those stimulated by
cruel and heart-rending evictions of the poor, the Earl
replies—" How is the fact ? Why, my lord, in the very
same journal in which I find your grace's letter, no less
than twelve foul, unnatural murders, or attempts to mur-
der, are narrated with all their hideous details, from the

Irish papers, in the daily sanguinary column devotec

y country, without one of them
g able to -claim the 3extenuating excuse of being stimu-

'the state' of your unhai

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—one and all—so many dramas in that demon-tragedy
now performing with such appalling atrocity in the dis-

turbed districts in Ireland, under the multifarious and
mystic characters of. Molly Maguireism, Terry Altism,
Whitefeetism, Whiteboyism, Ribbanisin, and so forth—

members o

one gre

conspiracy agai

.
that they who occupy- the land of others shall henceforth
hold it for themselves." 'This excellent letter next points
to the sympathy shown for criminals, whila it is denied to

their victims, by whole masses of the Irish population,
and to the absence of clerical exhortations against the
spirit which is abroad. It proceeds to speak with honest

indignation of those denouncers of what have been called

" the oppressors of the poor," and " exterminating land-
lords," as men who have stimulated turbulence, and in-
vented apologies for the perpetration of cold-blooded,
hireling murders; and deplores the reproach which such
proceedings have brought upon the whole Catholic. com-
munity. And alluding to the church to which he belongs,
the Earl emphatically says—" The public voice in Eng-
land now pronounces her to be a conniver at injustice, an
accessory to crime, a pestilent sore in the commonwealth ;
and so long will she be so proclaimed till we are shown
some better reason than has yet been given us why Arch-
deacon Laffan should still remain unreprimanded, and
why Father McDermott should still be permitted to exer-
cise his ministry." "My lord, (says the Earl,) the public
at large look to the prelates of the disturbed districts to
inform them whether in their dioceses these duties have
been punctually and properly performed, and Englishmen
must be excused in doubting it amidst scenes which'stand
forth so prominently to contradict it. My lord, it is not
only incumbent on you to satisfy the inquiries of all per
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that I shall have the•help and comfort of your prayers in
my behalf. For these, especially, I would most earnestly
desire ever to live in your affectionate remembrance.—
May, then, the gracious Lord, of his infinite mercy, bring
to perfection the good- seed sown in your hearts by his
Spirit, and so effectually keep us all in his faith and love,

that we may meet hereafter in his more immediate pre-
sence, never more to be separated, as one flock in the told
of one great Shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord."

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The Peterborough theatre is about to be converted into
'a commodious market for merchants, millers, &c.
The name of Lard William Paget is omitted from the

official list of captains in the navy.
On. Christmas Day a fire broke out in the rural church
at Croft Castle, near Leominster_ The greater part of

the tower have been destroyed.
-The Exeter Gazette states that on
soiree de Fearyus O'Connor" was given at