The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF REPEAL

On Sunday week, a repeal meeting was held in the
Post-office Ward, Dublin, where the arch-agitator himself
attended, and kept up the steam necnsary for extracting
a vote of confidence in himself from the " respectable in-
habitants of that spirited ward." At this meeting the
catch-words appear to have been, " He who commits a
crime, strengthens the enemy ;" and accordingly large
promises were made of Repeal being sure to be carried
"ere the revolving year passed over their head," provided
only there was peace maintained, and perseverance prac-
tised : _ _ _

"Let no man," said Mr. O'Connell, " abandon Re-
peal. (Cries of 'We never will,' No, no,' and vocife-
rous cheering.) Let them rely upon it, that if he were
preaching to them out of prison he would tell them the
same, and his advice would not be a bit the worse of it."
We are told this sentiment was cheered and laughed at ;
but we are not distinctly informed whether the laugh arose
from a recollection having arisen in the memories of the
hearers of another occasion, when the same speaker ac-
companied an allusion to the contingency of his being cast
into durance vile, with a more valiant commentary :—" If
they put me into prison, I wonder will those be safer who
are outside?" Nothing was said in the Post-office ward
meeting of any danger to "those outside "; but, on the
contrary, a Mr. Frazer was very near being very uncere-
moniously put outside, for exhibiting a little untimely
valour :

" Mr. O'Connell rose and said—l must protest against
such language as this : I must request you, Mr. Chair-
man, to call Mr. Frazer to order. The nation is not as-
sailed in my person ; I am merely proceeded against as
an individual, and in those proceedings nothing has oc-
curred in the least calculated to cow me. (Loud bursts
of applause.) I can defend myself; and I tell Mr. Frazer
that nothing could injure my cause more than the use of
such language. Ido declare solemnly if I hear a word of
that kind again, I shall leave the room. (Hear, hear.)"
Another meeting was held at Spitalfields. and composed
of all the respectability and all the talents of St. Audeon's
ward; and here we find Mr. O'Connell (probably not
supposing that the government reporters would work on
Sundays) was not altogether so guarded as he was in the
more Saxon locality of the Post-office. Peace and tran-
quillity were still required, and Repeal was still certain
within six months—say six months ; but it was now—

" Give me but six months of perfect peace, and I'll give
you my head on the block, it', at •.he end of that time, you
have not a parliament in College-green. (Loud and long-
continued cheering.) Don't think they can decide the
question of repeal in the jurv• box. I shall appeal from
that box to the country, and I know that in doing so I
have the peaceable, the loyal, the temperate, the religious,
and the determined people of Ireland to support me. If
they put us down in one shape, why we'll be up in ano-
ther. (Cheers and laughter.) England cannot go to war
with any foreign power until she makes peace with Ire-
land ; and we are ready to make a peace with her, but
only on the terms of having our domestic parliament re-
stored to us. Hurrah, then, for Ireland and Repeal!
(Loud cheers.)"
However, at least one sentence of truth was spoken by
Mr. O'Connell on this latter occasion. It was the fol-
lowing:—" In struggling for emancipation I wished to
set conscience free, but the advantages of that measure
have only been felt by the wealthy classes. It enabled my
worthy friend in the chair to become an alderman and
myself a member of parliament, but the people got little
practical good by it." The people, say we, would do well
to take the hint, and inquire, in time, what practical good
they are to get from the present agitation.
A meeting was also held in St. Patrick's ward, and one
at Kingstown, at the latter of which, Mr. Dunne, Repeal
Inspector and Arbitrator, moved and carried the follow-
ing resolution :
" That w, adopt, and recommend for the adoption of
every meeting of Irishmen, the resolutions passed at the
late great aggregate meeting of the province of Leinster,
on the ever-rnetnorable and blood-stained Rath of Mul-
laghmast, especially the one that declared no power on
earth ought of right to make laws to bind this kingdom,
save the Queen, Lords, and Commons of Ireland."
At both meetings it was voted that confidence is still
reposed in the " illustrious Liberator." By the way,
who suggested the necessity for moving all these votes of
confidence ? Was it the illustrious confidant himself?

Such was the progress of Repeal and of Sabbath dese-
cration in the city of Dublin, on Sunday week.

INTIMIDATION AT CHAPELS

(From the Carlow Sentinel.)

We regret to hear that a disgraceful system of intimi-
dation was resorted to on last Sunday, at the ch 4pels of
Bagenalstown and Newtown, with the view of forcibly
extorting money from the poor people who attended their
religious duties. We repeat it, it is disgraceful to a civi-
lised land to see a band of repeal desperadoes standing at
the chapel doors, and plundering the people of their mo-
ney in open day, or forcibly expelling them from the
chapel, for refusing to subscribe for an illegal purpose.
We have been furnished with the names of the parties
who conducted themselves in so ruffianly a manner; and
as it is not unlikely that the government may afford those
village patriots a little wholesome instruction, we shall
not give the list publicity at present.
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The forcible Collection of money under the circum-
stances is a violation of the law ; and we trust the heart-
less miscreants who are disturbing the public tranquillity
by fomenting disunion and civil strife, will be no longer
permitted to commit those wanton outrages on the Sab-
bath, or to revel in the lawless scenes of which some coun-
try chapels were the theatre on Sunday week. The go-
vernment must not strike about, or at the top, but at the
very root of sedition in this country ; and the only effec-
tive way of suppressing it is to indict those fellows who
are appointed as collectors to swe'l the list of subscriptions
to the repeal fund, by actually taking the money out of the
people's pockets. The following will show how cheerfully
the people pay in the county Carlow. We long to see
the amount of remittance from Bagenaistown collected on
pain of expulsion from the chapel :

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" On passing through a street in this town, my attention
was attracted by a noisy crowd at the chapel gate, and
prompted by curiosity 1 made one of the number, and to
my astonishment 1 saw no less than six persons (shop-
keepers and shopboys) busily employed in collecting
Proclamation money,' as it is called, and by their bul-
lying and threats they succeeded in wringing shillings
from some poor wretches whose miserable clothing be-
spoke their extreme penury. In vain they told these
would-be patriots that their families were in want, and
their necessities would not allow them to contribute. The
glorious cause of repeal needed their assistance was the
only reply, and with heavy hearts they were obliged to
hand them (very probably) the only shilling they pos-
sessed. One person named Byrne presented himself at
the gate, and on their demanding his shilling he coolly
refused, and said ' that O'Connell never put a shilling in
his pocket, but on the contrary, endeavoured to take one
out.' He was eventually refused admittance.

" Mr. Martin Hughes, of Kildrenagh, met with a si-
milar reception at the chapel of Newtown, on the same
day, and was obliged to return to his house, with what
feelings may be imagined. This method of swelling the
repeal society is becoming very general at the gates of
country chapels, and intimidation is hourly on the in-
crease."

THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.-011 Monday last, a
meeting of gentlemen was held at Tipperary, to express
their regret at the contemplated removal of the Marquis's
establishment from the county, in consequence of the
recent fire there, as mentioned in our last. His lordship,
however, has determined to remove.
REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY OF KILKENNY.—
It is reported that the Hon. Mr. Wandesforde, of Castle-
comer (one of the largest landed proprietors in this coun-
ty,) will start for its representation upon the ministerial
and anti-repeal interest, supported by his nephew, the
Marquis of Ormonde, and all the wealth and respectability
of this county.
DISCOVERY OF A MURDERLR.—A man of the name
of Hughes has just been apprehended in London on a
charge of having murdered his wife at Waterford in 1836.
He has hitherto escaped the vigilance of the police. It
appears he murdered his wife by fracturing her skull with
a hammer, and, by leaping upon her body, she being
pregnant at the time, thereby destroying the infant in the
womb. He put her head also under the grate, and poked
the fire upon it.
SHIPWRECK AT BALLINTOY.—Extract of a letter from
Randal M'Donnell, Esq., agent for Lloyd's :—" Ballin-
toy, near Ballycastle, 16th October. The schooner Emer-
ald, of Londonderry, Thomas Moore, master, from Arch-
angel, with a cargo of tar, pitch, and rosin, came on shore
here on Friday morning, and is now near a complete
wreck, lying in deep water close to the rocks. Not a soul
was found on board the schooner, which, with the portion
of the cargo saved, are i❑ my care !

Loss OF LIFE.—On last Friday morning four men
from the immediate neighbourhood of Enniscrone put off
in a boat for the purpose of hauling in some nets which
they had set for taking herrings, When at a short dis-
tance from the shore, the sea rose suddenly to a tremen-
dous height and upset the boat, when three of the men
were unfortunately lost. The fourth person clung to the
boat, and by that means succeeded in reaching the shore.
The bodies of the three persons drowned have not yet
been found.—Mayo Constitution.

MUSKETS FOR IRELAND.—On Friday, upwards of
1,000 percussion-lock muskets were put on board a barge
at the Tower, preparatory to their being transhipped on
board a Government steam-packet at Woolwich, tnr In--
land. The muskets and bayonets were packed in strong
wooden cases, and marked " Stores, Carrickfergus."
ON DlT.—The Dublin Evening Mail, of Friday, states,
that a rumour prevails, which had its origin in Roman
Catholic circles, that Dr. Higgins, the Titular Bishop of
Ardagh, has been summoned to Rome, to answer, before
the " Sovereign Pontiff," for an expression used by him,
in reference to England, at one of the early repeal meet-
ings.

LORD CARDIGAN AND THE PRESS.--It is stated that
Lord Cardigan has instructed his law agent to apply to
the Court of Queen's Bench in London, for a rule for a
criminal information against the Times, for the publica-
tion of a letter reflecting upon his conduct as Colonel of
the 11th Hussars. The letter in question was published
last week. It is also stated that Lord Cardigan has di-
rected legal proceedings to be commenced against the
Dublin Freeman's Journal, for the publication of a letter
signed " Captain Outall."
THE WHITE QUAKERS.-A party of White Quakers
arrived in this town on Thursday last, and created a sen-
sation by their primitive appearance and zeal in the cir-
culation of blasphemous documents among the crowd.
One of them was a manifesto from Mr. Joshua Jacob,
against Thomas Thacker Pim, Edward Sugden, and Ed-
ward Litton, who are proclaimed outlaws, as follows:
" Unless Edward Sugden and Edward Litton. two noted
offenders against God, are brought to condign punish-
ment within twelve calendar months, for sanctioning
hypocritical liars, rogues, robbers, swindlers, and mur-
derers, the faithful in Christ Jesus are commanded to
abstain from all observance of human or man-made laws,
observing only the law of God given by Joshua Jacob and
Abigail Beale." We hope the law of the land makes
provision tor placing those wretched maniacs under proper
restraint, for at present they are a social nuisance.—
Carlow Sentinel.
THE PROSECUTIONS.—There have been rumours that
the prosecutions are about to be, or have been aban-
doned by the government. We have no grounds for form-
ing any conclusion about the truth or falQehood of the
rumour. We cannot believe it. But the Standard the
other day had a suspicious paragraph to the effect that it
wished earnestly some means could be adopted of putting
an end to the repeal sedition without punishing the con-
spirators. We see no great sense in such an aspiration,
any more than the desire that murder and larceny might
be put an end to without puni-hing the criminals. The
Post of last n ght had the following paragraph. This is
all we can learn of grounds for the rumour, which we do
not credit :—Without speaking from any authority, we
have some reason to suspect that government, at the ap-
proach of the eleventh hour, have come to the determi-
nation of re-considering the policy of a prosecution un-
der the present circumstances. We should congratulate
the public, and even the government to which we are op-
posed, if the result should prove such as our information
has led us to infer.—Dublin Statesman.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Tuesday the adjourned
meeting of the Repeal Association took place. The as-
sembly was chiefly occnpied with receiving addresses and
sums of money. Amongst these, Dr. Gray read a letter
from Liverpool, from which we take the following ex-
tracts. It had been said that the best way to damp the
ardour of the repeaters was to forbid the holding of the
Clontarf meeting, and thus disappoint hundreds who were
on their way to attend it. Now the effect produced was
the very reverse, as was proved by the letter from the re-
peaters of Liverpool, which enclosed £53 16s. 6d.:—
" Paradise Chambers, Liverpool.
" My dear Sir,—As I anticipated in my last letter to
you, the coercive folly of the government has added more
to the repeal rent in Liverpool during the last few days
than all the zeal and activity of our repeal staff could effect
in a month, and a more efficient body of wardens and
collectors there is nowhere to be found. Last week the
amount of our remittance was only £ll ; this week, to
mark their disapprobation of the conduct which the go-
vernment is pursuing towards Ireland, the repeaters of
Liverpool have increased it to £53 16s. 6d. Of this sum,
£3l 17s. 6d. was received in shillings and pence. I have
just at this moment, through a friend, received £1 from
Robert La Poer Trench, Esq., barrister-at-law, Harring-
ton Chambers, who is, I understand, a son of General
Trench, and first cousin of the Earl Clancarty.
" Dr. Gray." " GEORGE SMYTH.

IVALES

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

At the close of the week before last, a gentleman, while
posting from Carmarthen to Llandilo gate, on arriving
near the gate saw some house burning on the left of
the road. Judging it to be an incendiary fire, he drove
as fast as he could to the town of Llandilo, and having
acquainted the proper authorities, the dragoons proceeded
to the spot in all haste, and found that the out-buildings
of a farm, called Pen-y-Bank, situate on the side of the
Mynydd Bach-road, about three miles from Llandilo, the
property of Mr. Thomas, of Ffroud, were on fire, and the
cow-house and pigsty were c3mpletely destroyed.
A farm called Gwar Graig, with the outbuildings &c.,
situate in the parish of Llanfihangel Ararth, near the
New Inn, on the left of the Llampeter• road, was also
destroyed by fire. The farm is the property of a lady
named Nicholls, and is only about two fields off from the
main road. The house was at the time untenanted, and
the roof being thatch, it burnt very rapidly, and the flames
could be seen for some distance. The house and out-
buildings were entirely destroyed.
Mr. Cripps and Mr. Richards have arrived at Carmar-
then.

On Saturday night an attack was made upon the house
of the police superintendent of the newly-appointed rural
police force. Several slues were fired through the door,
and a threatening notice affixed to it, stating that if he did
not resign his situation, and, together with his wife, &c.,
quit that part of the country within a fortnight, he should
be done for.

The special commission, for the trial of the persons
committed for their participation in the recent distur-
bances in that part of South Wales which is situated in
Glamorganshire, was opened on Wednesday by Mr. Baron
Gurney and Mr. Justice Cresswell. The learned judges
arrived at Cardiff at half-past eleven c'clock, in the car-
riage of John Homfray, Esq., of Llandy, the high sheriff
of the county, and shortly afterwards proceeded to court,
and opened the commission. The court was then ad-
journed till two o'clock, and in the mean time their lord-
ships attended Divine service at St. John's Church. The
trials appear to excite no extraordinary interest ; for, al-
though the court is so small, there was ample room for all
who sought admission to it.
The number of prisoners in the calendar for trial is 17,
all of whom, with the exception of three, are out on bail.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Vaughan Williams, and other
learned gentlemen, are retained for the prosecution ; and
Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Montagu Chambers, and
others, for the defence. On the return of the learned
judges from church, the grand jury were duly sworn in
with the accustomed formalities. The senior judge, Mr.
Baron Gurney, then proceeded to deliver his charge.
After the delivery of the charge, the court adjourned
until the following morning (Friday,) when John Hughes
was arraigned at ►he bar for having unlawfully, riotously,
and tumultuously assembled with other persons, to the
disturbance of the public peace, and feloniously, unlaw-
fully, and with force begun to demolish the dwelling-
house of one William Lewis, at the parish of Llandilota-
lybont. The prisoner (who appeared at the bar with his
arm in a sling) pleaded not guilty.
The Attornev-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr.
Chilton, Q. C., Mr. J. Evans, Q.C., and Mr. E. V. Wil-
liams appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. M. D. Hill,
Q.C., and Mr. M. Chambers for the prisoner.
A great number of challenges were made on the part of
the Crown, chiefly amongst the class of farmers ; the pri-
sonees counsel also made several challenges.
The prisoner, who is a hale, powerful, and good-looking
young farmer, appeared to take much interest in the choice
of the jury who were to try him.
At length a jury was sworn, when the Attorney-General
stated the circumstances of the transactions, in which the
prisoner was charged with having been implicated, but
they have appeared very recently in our colums.

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On Saturday the trial closed, and the jury found the
prisoner guilty, recommending him to mercy on account
of previous good character. Sentence was not then
passed.

A commission of inquiry appointed for a full inquiry
into the causes of the discontent and outrages in South
Wales, was opened in the Town. hall, Carmarthen, on
Wednesday. The opening address of the Right Hon.
Frankland Lewis, chief commissioner, is pronounced to
be calm and dispassionate, full of kindly expressions, and
displaying a due anxiety on the part of the commissioners
to enter upon the fullest possible inquiry into those griev-
ances which have been alleged as the cause of the past and
present disturbances.
At 10 o'clock the Right Hon. T. F. Lewis and Mr. W
Cripps, accompanied by the secretary to the commission
(Mr. G. K. Rickards), entered the Town-hall, and took
their seats on the bench. Among the gentlemen present
were Colonel Trevor, M.P., vice-lieutenant of the county,
David Morris, Esq., M.P., Dr. Jones, Captain Phillips,
Dr. Lawrence, the Mayor of Carmarthen, Dr. Bower.,
Captain Scott, &c.

The court being opened, the chief commissioner pro-
ceeded to read her Majesty's commission, after which he
delivered his address, and the commissioners then retired
into the grand jury-room, and were occupied the remain-
der of the day in a preliminary examination of Mr. Sta-
cey, clerk to the main trust, and the examination of vari-
ous books and papers, with a view to show the working of
the trust.

The three Jones's. Thomas Harris, Seth Morgan, and
Henry Thomas, charged with the destruction of the Porth-
rhyd gate, underwent a further examination at the gaol,
Carmarthen, on Wednesday, and were committed for
trial, but subsequently admitted to bail.

On Sunday morning, two of Mr. Rogers's children, at
Carnarvon, of the aces of thirteen months and nine weeks,
were found dead in the servant's bed in which they were
in the habit of sleeping—from the effects of an over-dose
of laudanum, administered, it is said, by the girl the pre-
ceding night, for the purpose of making them sleep sound-
ly.—North Wales Cheonicle.

EXORBITANT TOLLS IN BRECONSHIRE.—From Crick-
howell !o Hay, a distance of 24 miles, there are five gates,
at which 9d. toll is demanded for a horse and carriage.
This is the most expensive toll:in south Wales, and Pon-
typool is the cheapest in that district—only 3d. is charged
for a horse and gig, and a ticket given to clear the next
gate. It is a singular fact that the smallest amount of the
is demanded where the best toads are. There is no pros.
pect of Rebecca and her daughters visiting the Pontypool
district while the roads are under the management of the
present trustees.—Bristol Mercury.