The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-07 00:00:00

Wralrosley, Liverpool

The present

;losing

This work, we apprehend, is about c...
being the eleventh number, and the incidents appear

3e,t appearance verifies our sup-

assing the climax. If a

s a complete volume. lu

we shall notice the
the meantime recommend it forstory its sound protestantisrn and
moral tendency. The lamentable effects of superstition and
the evils of popery are cleverly and temperately, as well as

strongly, exhibited

The New Statistical Account of Scotland. No. 41.
burgh : Blackwoods.
The description of the county of Perth occupies the whole
of the present number. The information which this Accou
rs,t
gives is exceedingly minute, even to the smallest particula
but at the same time every thing is excluded which is un-
Each parish has its topography and natural
instory described, its civil history narrated, its population
""-- *heir occupations, &c. ; and under the head of
- " very useful intelligence is afforded as
hoots,

important

en with

Ichial economy

to the means of communication, ecclesiastical state, su
industrial associations, and so on. " General observations
hen follow, bringing in any points which could not readily
,e comprehended in any of the previous classes. In the
count of the parish of Weem we are informed—what few
military readers perhaps know—that near the bridge of
-Iver die river of that name, the 42d or Royal High.
wham fame every body has heard -'

was first

,to a regiment, exactly 100 years since,
Black Watch." We recommend

,odied i

al notice of all interested in
timate that thew completion of
more than telve months.

Novels

"Titian'

will, or ought, to place the author in a conspi-
cuous position amongst the clever writers of the day. In
this new style of romance writing, this " art-union novel,"
he has opened a wide field for others to follow ; and follow
who will, " Titian " will keep the lead ; and we can recom-
mend it as being likely to impart as much entertainment as
information in its perusal.

EXTRACTS FROM " A MEMOIR OF
IRELAND, NATIVE AND SAXON, BY DANIEL
O'CONNELL, M.P.

CROMWELL AND THE ENGLISH WITH A MORAL INTERPOED. 1
Cromwell gorged himself with human blood. He com-
mitted the most hideous slaughters ; deliberate, cold-blooded,
persevering. He stained the annals of the English people
with guilt of a blacker dye than has stained any other nation
on earth.
And—after all—for what? What did he gain by it? Some
four or five years of unsettled and precarious power ! And
if his hideous corpse was interred in a royal grave, it was so,
only to have his bones thence transferred to a gibbet !
Was it for this that he deliberately slaughtered thousands
of men, women, and children? Female loveliness, and the
beautiful boy—aged but seven years (and rising three feet six
inches)—of Colonel Washingto

It has often been saw
Government of England. whu
exterminate the Irish nation. 'I Gov
times in their slaughter of the Ir
English people. Even the present administration is popul.
in England in the precise proportion of the hatred they ex
hibit to the Irish people ; and this is a proposition of historic
and perpetual truth. But to the Cromwellian wars, the dis-
tinction between the wars, emphatically of the English peo-
ple. They were emphatically the most cruel and murderous
wars the Irish ever sustained.—(Pages 320, 321.)

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DANIEL O'CONNELL ON DAVID PLUME.
Notwithstanding all this, for considerably more than a
century after the Restoration, the Catholics of Ireland were
set down as wholesale murderers, and were charged with
murdering 50,000 Protestants on the 23d of October, 1641.
And this atrociously false calumny was reiterated in books
and pamphlets, in speeches, and sermons, and acts of par-
liament! The arch-liar, Hume, the man who of all histo-
rians is least to be relied on—for throughout his history
scarcely one fact is stated accurately—has given great circu-
lation to this enormous falsehood : and he is the more cri-
minal, inasmuch as shortly after the appearance of the vo-
lume of his history containing the reign of Charles the First,
documents were furnished to him demonstrating the utter
falsehood of his account of the alleged massacre. But all in
vain. The immoral infidel adhered to his falsehood, as it
gave a greater interest to his fictitious history.

TREATMENT OF THE IRISH,

There;—there never was a people on the face of the earth
so cruelly, so basely treated as the Irish. There never was
so stained with blood, so blackened with crime, as
*e faction, which. under the name of Protestant,
,e remnants of their abused power, by keep-
ing in activity the spirit which created and continued the
infamous penal persecution of which I have thus faintly
traced an outline.
It would be worse than seditious, nay actually treasonable,
to suppose that such a faction can ever obtain countenance
from you, Illustrious Lady [the Queen, to whom the book
is addressed], destined, as I trust you are, at length to grant
justice, by an equalization of rights with your other subjects,
to your faithful, brave, long-oppressed, but mz
people of Ireland.
THE THREATENED FUTURE.
The Precursor Association declared in the name and with
the consent of the Irish people, that they might have con-
sented to the continuance of the Union, if justice had been
done them ; if the franchise had been simplified and much
extended—if the Corporations had been reformed and con-
tinued—if the number of Irish members had bee❑ augmen
ted in a just proportion—and if the tithe system had bee
abolished and conscience left completely free.
But, on the other lend, these just claims beine
these just demands
witheld, the Irish people at

a factior
that Or

seeks to retain ti

nanimous

being refused—our just r-ighis ben)

good, to despair, or to i

therefor,

no cessation c

country

D close

No wis,

:cuitiis which may

re too numerous, too wise, anc
tate on the course they shoulc

National L

no compromise

No honest man ever despaired of
.1

1-the way F 1

seven millions of

human beings and that liberty win,.
right. For them there can be no impossibility.
I repeat it—that as surely as to-morrow's sun will rise,
Ireland will assert her rights for herself, preserving the gol-
den and unonerous link of the crown—true to the principles
of unaffected and genuine allegiance, but determined, while
she preserves her loyalty to the British throne, to vindicate
her title to constitutional freedom for the Irish people.
In short, Ireland demands that faction should no longer
be encouraged ; that the government should be carried onfor
the Irish people, and not against them. She is ready and
desirous to assist the Scottish and English reformers to ex-
tend their franchises and consolidate their rights
has in vain insisted on being an equal sharer in every political
advantage. She has vainly sought EQ,UALITY—IDENTITV.
She has been refused—contemptuously refused. Her last
demand is free from
laS y a
THE lterna
Rtive—
IT EPEAL!
O'CONNELL ON BRITISH DISTRESS.
What the Sovereign and the statesmen of England should
nmlerltand is. that the Irish people feel and, know that there

.s—but she

cannot happen a more heavy misfortune to Ireland than the
prosperity and power of Great Britain. When Britain is
powerful, the anti-Irish faction in this country are encour-
aged, fostered, promoted ; Irish rights are derided ; the
scoffed at ; we are compelled to re-

gnevances of Ireland
ceive stinted franchise

~one ; limited privileges, or none
to submit to a political inferiority, rendered doubly afflictive
by the contrast with the advantages enloyed by the people of
England and the people of Scotland. The Tory landlord
class—exterminators and all—prime favourites at the Castle,
countenanced and sustained as the nucleus of that anti-Irish
faction which would once again transplant the Catholics of
Ireland to the remotest regions, if that faction had the power
to do so; and which actually drives those Catholics to trans-
port themselves in multitudes to every country out of Ireland.
The worst result of British prosperity is, the
nno protecth e.tion it
am lrish

landlords.
I !It is also of the utmost importance
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statesmen (
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reland feel at the fiscal ernba

satisfactl

rassraer!t

the su

artisans and operatives. but tney ao not regret the K
ness of the Ettglis a Government, which results from fading
commerce and failing manufacture. For the woes of each
suffering individual they ha

arm compassion and livel

ss of the Gover

e no other feelingl

lan those of

1 satisfaction

of hope.

Times.
Two barns and a stable, the property of Mr. Richard
Orarn, at Tinhead, Wilts, were on Wednesday night burnt to
the ground •, and the dwelling-house was only saved by great
exertion. There is no doubt the fire was the work of an in-
cendiary ; and this is the third incendiary fire in that neigh-
bourhood during the last two months.
A remarkable ploughing-match took place a short time
since in the vicinity of Cleland-house, Lanarkshire, between
Captain Dalrymple, M.P., and Edward Horsman, Esq.,
M.P. Both went to work like old hands, and produced ca-
pital furrows. After a very minute inspection, the judge at
last pronounced in favour of the firstnamed gentleman.
Mr. Eskrigge, of Warrington, has arranged as to the pur-
chase' of the machinery at the Mersey Mills, Heaton-lane,
Stockport, which have been standing idle upwards of twelve
months, and the whole will be at work in a few weeks.
The working of these mills will employ upwards of ,000
hands; consequently, many families will be improved in
their circumstances when these works are got in operation.
e.—Last week, at the London sessions, a
man was chati, .a with stealing six shovels. He was tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation, in
rather less than four minutes. The address of the presiding
Judge (the Common Sergeant) to the jury on this occasion is
a model of laconic eloquence :—" Gentlemen, the shovels
were taken; who stole them?"
• •

Qulcx NyoRF

FATAL ACCIDENT.—AS the passenger train was running
on the Durham and Sunderland Railway, for Sunderland, on
Thursday evening, when near Seaton Bank, one of the pas-
sengers looked out of the carriage, when his head came in
contact with a bridge, and he was killed on the spot. We
understand the unfortunate person was a traveller, and re-
sided at Shields

The two officers of the 44th Regiment were brought before
the magistrates at Rochester on Thursday last, for killing the
fowls of Mrs. Walker. It appeared, however, that they had
shot the fowls by direction of Mr. Foster, the landlord of the
hotel where they were staying, who told the young gentlemen
they were his. The magistrates acquitted the officers, but
committed Mr. Foster, for trial at the Maidstone Assizes,
for felony.
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ak.•• •,......--,
THE P.Ps.—Mr. O'Connell has frequently admitted his
inability to understand Connaught ; it would appear, how-
ever, that some of the " peaceful agitators" of that province
know well what they are about. The following is from the
Limerick Chronicle :—" The priest of a parish in the neigh-
bourhood of Limerick has been served with a notice relative
to ' dues,' of the same import and meaning as that circulated
by the peasantry in Connaught."
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•
At ten minutes before three o'clock on Thursday afternoon
her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by her Royal
Highness the Princess Royal, left I3uckingham Castle in a
carriage and four, escorted by a party of hussars, for Clare-
mont. The Queen is expected to return from Claremont
this day. Her Majesty, we rejoice to say, is in the enjoyment
of the best health, although the event that so warmly interests
the nation is now so near at hand. It is expected to take
place in the beginning of April.

It is a singular coincidence that while Sir Henry Pottinger
was in China, so instrumental to the negotiating of the treaty
with that empire, his brother, Major William Pottinger, at
present in command of the 6th regiment, should be destined
to receive on the English shore the first payment of the
ransom, one of the stipulations of that treaty ; thus doubly
connecting the name of Pottinger with one of .the finest
achievements graven on the tablets of British history.—
Hampshire Telegraph.

SEDBERGII PIG MARKET.—A singular case occurred a
few weeks ago at Sedbergh. An elderly man, who resides
near the town, was in want of a young pig; and, on the day
be:attended market, pigs were so low that he purchased one
for three shillings, from an elderly woman. He took his
bargain home ; but, thinking he should like to know whence
the pig had come, be went back to the woman to inquire;
and before many questions had been put and answered, to
the utter astonishment of both parties, they ascertained that
they were own brother and sister. but had not seen each other
for the space of nearly twenty years.—Kendal Mercury.

ABATEMENT OF RENT.—The Earl of Erne has directed
his agent to call a meeting of his tenantry, for the purpose of
announcing to them that, in consequence of the temporarily
depressed state of the markets, it is his lordship's intention
to give them a deduction of ten per cent. upon the accruing
rect. Ilis lordship states it to be his opinion that the de-
pression to which he alludes has been occasioned by panic,
and that it is not likely to leave permanent consequences ;
but, " that all produce will, ere long, find its level, and that
the farmer's heart will once more be cheered by steady and
remunerating prices."

THE LATE FIRES AT 'HEYSHAM RECTORY, NEAR LAN-
CASTER.—Tbe investigation, which was adjourned from
Monday to Wednesday, has, we believe, been terminated.
We have not heard the result ; but we believe there is not
likely to be any legal procedure arising out of it. We are
informed that sonic of the evidence left no doubt on the
minds of the magistrates, that the Rev. Robinson Shuttle-
worth Barton, rector of Heysham, was labouring under men-
tal aberration; and we are assured, that on Wednesday, by
the desire of his friends, he was removed in a coach from
Lancaster, and was conveyed to a private asylum, at or near
Chester.—Manchester Guardian.

MR. COBDES.—In the course of this gentleman's reply to
the address from Manchester occurs the following passage :
" Sanctioned and sustained as I have been by the approving
voice of the inhabitants of Manchester, and of my country-
men generally, I shall go forward undeterred by the arts or
the violence of my opponents in that course to which a con-
scientious sense of public duty impels me ; and whilst studi-
ously avoiding every ground of personal irritation—for our
cause is too vast in its object, and too good and too strong in
its principles, to be made a mere topic of personal altercation
—1 shall never shrink from declaring, in my place in parlia-
ment, the constitutional doctrine of the inalienable respon-
sibility of the first minister of the crown for the measures of
his government." What bombast!

MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS OF DOUGLAS AND THE
PRINCESS MARIA OF BADEN.—On the 23d ult., at seven
o'clock, the marriage of her Highness the Princess Maria of
Baden to the Marquis of Douglas was solemnized in the
splendid Court Chapel. His Highness the Grand Duke of
Baden conducted the bride, and her Highness the Grand
Duchess of Baden the bridegroom, to the altar. Beside the
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Sophia of Baden, and the
Grand Duchess Stephania, there were present the Grand
Duke of Hesse, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess,
Prince, Charles and Emelius of Hesse, the Hereditary
Prince of Hohenzollern and his consort, the sister of the
bride, and many other persons of high distinction. After the
ceremony congratulations followed, and a splendid banquet
was given ; after which the new marriage pair took their de-
parture for Schwetzingen.
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THE CHINESE TREASURE.—On Friday evening, at seven
o'clock, five waggons, each drawn by four horses, and a cart
drawn by two horses, all heavily laden, entered the gateway
of the royal mint, escorted by a detachment of the 60th Re-
giment, with the Chinese silver, amounting to £1,000,000
sterling, being the first consignment of the indemnity to be

paid by the Celestial Empire. The treasure was brought
over by the Modeste, which arrived at Portsmouth on Thurs-
day morning, and was forwarded to London by the South-
ampton Railway. On the arrival of the silver at the Vaux-
hall terminus, it was transferred to Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne's waggons, and by them conveyed to the royal mint.
The novel procession attracted a good deal of notice, and an

. ,
immense crowd followed the waggons to the mint and as
the outer gates were closed upon them three hearty cheers
were given. The sycee silver was contained in large wooden
boxes; and, on passing along the Minories, one of them
burst; but, owing to the precautions which had been taken,
not a particle of the precious metal was lost. The master of
the mint and other authorities of the establishment were
present when the silver arrived.
in It is in a very dirty condi-
tion, and will be melted down the crucibies prepared for
the purpose, and sold without delay. The last consignment
of sycee silver from China, the ransom for Canton, was re-
fined, but the process was so expensive to the government
that it will not be repeated, and the silver will be simply
melted and sold to the refiners.