The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

The writ was ordered amidst considerable sensation.

Lord JERMYN communicated her Majesty's most gra-
cious answer to the address of the house on the auspicious
birth of another prince. Her Majesty thanked her faith-
ful Commons for their loyal and affectionate attachment.
Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that early next session, he
would call attention to the unsatisfactory and evasive
character of the report of the secret committee of the post-
office.

Sir C. NAPIER called attention to the state of affairs
as regards Tahiti and Tangier ; he wished to know if steps
had been taken to obtain reparation from France for the
gross outrage committed at the former of these places
against a British subject, and whether matters bad been
satisfactorily arranged as regards Tangier.
Sir R. PEEL said that as respected Tahiti, the provi-
sions of existing treaties had been strictly fulfilled ; and
touching the other question, an amicable and satisfactory
settlement had taken place.
Mr. DUNCOMBE begged to know if the new writ which
had just been moved for in the room of Lord Stanley
would interfere with the conduct of affairs at the Colonial
Office ?

Sir 8.. PEEL answered that the issuing of the new writ
referred to would not in the least interfere with the duties
of the noble lord as head of the Colonial Office.
Mr. DUNCOMBE called attention to the reversal of
judgment in the case of Mr. O'Connell and others; he
contended that something like a vindictive spirit on the
part of the British government had been exhibited towards
Ireland. He wished to know what was to be done for
Ireland ; for recent proceedings had hastened the cause
of repeal. He should move for a copy of the opinions of
th' judges, and of the judgment given.
Mr. 0. CAVE expressed a hope that steps would be
taken to administer justice to Ireland. He condemned
the late conduct of the Irish Attorney-General, as par-
taking of the character of the wild justice for which the
Irish people had been wrongly characterised.
The motion for the papers having been put.
Sir R. PEEL said that, when the proper time came, he
would be prepared to vindicate the course taken by her
Majesty's government in the proceedings referred to; but
it ought to be recollected that seven out of nine of the
judges affirmed the judgment of the court below. (Cheers.)
He had no objection to the motion of the honourable
member for Finsbury. He regretted that allusion had
been made to the Attorney-General for Ireland; but the
present was not the time for referring to that, or indeed,
to any part of the late proceedings in Ireland.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he was aware of the inconveni-
ence attending such a discussion at the present moment,
but be could not help expressing his belief that Mr.
O'Connell had not a fair trial—that, in short, he was
tried by a jury elaborately put together for the purpose of
conviction. (Hear.)
Sir T. WILDS also said he was aware of the inconveni-
ence of entering upon the discussion of the subjects re-
ferred to, and he would not have risen on the present oc-
casion had not allusion been made to the opinion of seven
judges out of nine. It was notorious that every record
ought to speak for itself—(hear ; it was notorious also
that the Irish judges did not act upon the sixth and
seventh count•.
The honourable and learned gentleman was here inter-
rupted by Sir Augustus Clifford desiring the attendance of
the Commons in the House of Lords to hear her most
gracious Majesty's speech, for which see Lord's report.
After the speech was read to the assembled Commons
they returned to the house, and Mr. Speaker read the
speech at the table, after which the right hon. gentleman
received the congratulations of the hon. members, and in
a few moments after the house was empty.

SINGULAR AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.-9n Thurs-
day a messenger of the Great Western railroad was
robbed of about £1,300, in the following manner :—lt
has been for some time his practice to take a blue bag,
with a considerable sum of money in it. from the rail-
road station at Paddington, to Sir R. C. Glyn's banking-
house, in Lombard-street. On Thursday, at about three
o'clock in the afternoon, he got upon the roof of the rail-
way omnibus with his bag, in which were wrapped up, in
a leathern trunk, 800 sovereigns and £5OO in bank-notes.
A gentleman at the station having occasion to say a few
words to him, he got down, leaving his valuable parcel on
the top of the omnibus, and the moment he was on the
ground, five men mounted and occupied the whole space.
The men got down at different places between the ter-
minus and Alarylebone Church, and the messenger, upon
arriving. at Lon.bard-street, took what he considered to
be his parcel to the banking-house. Ile soon found that
a very unwelcome exchange had been made, for the blue
bag. which had been made to resemble his as closely as
possible, was filled with old pieces of lead and copper.

4A.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.

The Paris papers of li;eclriesday are destitute of political
news. Our. Paris friends are looking with intense interest
to the news from this side the Channel, and the utmost
anxiety was shown to know the result of the deliberations
of the Privy Council on Monday last, on the Tahiti ques-
tion. The' Commerce says that the Prince de Joinville is
about to return to Paris, where he is expected to arrive
about the 20th of the present month.
The Constilutionnel gives the following extract of a
letter from an aid-de-camp of the Prince de Joinville to
the French Consul at Cadiz, dated on board the Pluton,
the 17th :
" The Admiral has reveived orders to keep possession
of the island of Mocador, in which we have placed a gar-
rison. The possession of the island is equivalent to that
of the city, and fulfils all our desires, insuring us a gua-
rantee for the complete satisfaction of all our wrongs.
The city-will remain in a state of blockade, and conse-
quently the Emperor will be deprived of the large revenue
he derived from its customs, which is wounding him in
his most sensitive part. The campaign is thus brought to
a close."

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—We beg to congratulate the
country-on the truly gratifying intelligence of a probable
arrangement of the Tahiti question, and a termination to
all fears of a rupture betwee❑ ourselves and France. M.
W.Aubigny has been moved from Tahiti ; his conduct has
been made the subject of apology, and satisfaction will,
we are told, be made to Mr. Pritchard fot the ill-treatment
he has received. The former officer had been previously
censured by his superior, Captain Bruat, and this addi-
tional stamp upon him, accompanied with a due measure
of satisfaction to the injured person, appears to be a suffi-
cient recognition on the part of the French government
of our charge against D'Aubigny.— Times.
The losses sustained by the Emperor of Morocco since
the commencement of hostilities with France are esti-
mated at 30,000,000 francs, and this loss is everyday in-
creased by the cessation of commerce.
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At Franconville, France, the other day, a drunken
man, whilst sleeping on a bench, set himself on fire by
crushing a box of lucifer matches in his pocket, in turn-
ing, and was burnt to death.
A letter from Gibraltar, published in a Madrid paper,
reports that the Bey of Larache and the Emperor of
Morocco's son, who are at Tangier, are charged by the
Emperor to accede to all the demands of France.
SPAIN.—Senor Cardero, the late political chief of Ba-
dajos, has been banished to the Canary Islands, after
some weeks' imprisonment at Cadiz, without trial, and
without an accusation being brought against him. His
only crime was that of being friendly to Espartero.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.—
It is stated, that on the 26th ult., at the moment the
troops were filing off before the Emperor and Empress
of Austria, four piers, that supported an iron railway,
near her majesty, fell down and killed two men and in-
jured several ethers, amongst whom were two captains,
very severely.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 29th ult. says :—" The
Governor has received an official communication, in which
it is stated that the Moorish subjects who fled from Tan-
gier are allowed to return there. The same despatch adds
a caution to all British subjects who may visit Tangier at
present merely from motives of curiosity, nor to enter nor
remain in that town. This, however, does not apply to
official persons, or to persons having commercial relations
with the place.
THE MORMON TEMPLE.—One of the editors of St.
Louis Reveille, having lately visited Nauvoo, thus speaks
of the new Mormon Temple: "The system upon which
this temple has been building is the exaction of labour
every tenth day from every man who cannot purchase his
exemption from the task with money. It will be, if ever
finished, a very imposing looking edifice. It stands in a
high and commanding position, a prominent object, rivet-
ing the stranger's eye at once, and, upon near inspection,
the style of architecture is found to be more than com-
monly attractive, from its singularity. It is like nothing
else ; and, unless we may be allowed to designate it as the
Mormonic order, it certainly has no name at all. The
stone is of excellent quality, quarried in the neighbour.
hood, and very good mechanics have been at work upon
it. The massive caps of the columns are already carved
from huge blocks, showing a gigantic round human face,
like the broad full moon. The columns are made to rest
upon crescent moons, sculptured on the face of the stone,
resting with the horns down, and with a profile of eyes,
nose, and mouth, upon the inner curve. What idea this
is meant to convey we could not learn, though the im-
pression is irresistible, that the church is built upon
moonshine,"
MEH EMET ALI.—A youthful prank, played by an old
gentleman of eighty, Mehemet Ali, has frightened the
Levant, and but for the more juvenile pranks of the
French, would have caused still greater affe.gbt. His
sage highness, the Nestor of the Mediterranean, went to
a party, committed an excess, and got so uprorious and
extravagant, that no Irishman, before the invention of
teetotalism, ever equalled it. He beat his women, cuffed
his minister, cursed his physician, broke his pipe, and
flung his fez out of the window. At last he sent for
250,000 purses, and, flinging himself into a boat, set sail,
or oars, for Cairo, bent on gaiety, but acquainting his
worthy Alexandrian subjects that he was bound for Mecca.
The feast in question was given by Mehemet's daughter,
the widow of the Defterdar Bey ; in honour, too, of the
wedding of one of the family. The old Pasha was invited,
and was served, of course, alone, with viands the most
spicy and drinks the most exeting. The drink was not
wine, for that is forbidden by the prophet ; it rather re-
sembled that drunk at Irish temperance halls, where
whiskey is prohibited.. but where cordials concocted of
alcohol, disguised with ginger and pimento, are swallowed,
as ❑ot only compatible with the pledge, but highly ho-
nouring it. So Mehemet's tipple was more of the spicy
than the spirituous; and instead of making him good-na-
tured, it made his highness very much the contrary, for
he set abont beating all the women, to the horror of eu-
nuchs, black and white. He then made off, as we have
described, in a tangent, Ibrahim going to all sorts of de-
vices to send his physicians after him, smuggling them
first into the house, and then into the boat. Such is a
meagre and true outline of an event which has much
alarmed politicians, and even the Alexandrians, although
their affright was considerably intermixed with laughter.
There was neither conspiracy nor revolution. It was not
a deep-laid plot of Ilbraham's, nor yet the Marquis of
Lavalette, French consul, nor yet of any hostile Turk ; it
was simply the political effect of a social orgie.—Exa-
miner.

IRELAND.

LIBERATION OF THE STATE PRISONERS.

In the early part of Friday, a communication was made
to the High Sheriff, by means of an official letter from Mr.
Lucas, that he should hold himself in readiness to dis-
charge the state prisoners as soon as the order of the
House of Lords should arrive.

Mr. Gartlan, one of the agents for the traversers arrived
in Dublin on Friday evening with the order for their dis-
charge. Immediately after his arrival, shortly before six
o'clock, he proceeded at once to the Richmond Bridewell,
and informed Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners
that they were at liberty, which intelligence having spread
rapidly through the neighbourhood, a considerable num-
ber of persons collected round the entrance door of the
prison in order to see and welcome them upon their liber-
ation, it having been generally understood that they
would go to their respective homes for the night, and re-
turn in the morning for the purpose of leaving the prison
in triumph---ipassing along the same route by which they
were conveyed there. Shortly after seven o'clock, Mr.
O'Connell left the Penitentiary leaning upon his sons,
Mr. John O'Connell and Mr. Daniel O'Connell, junr.,
accompanied by Mr. Steele, and proceeded on foot
amidst the shouting of the mob, down the Circular-road,
along Harcourt-atreet, Stephen's-green, Upper Merrion-
street, to Merrion-square, where he arrived about a
quarter before eight o'clock. The other prisoners subse-
. quently left the gaol, and were also loudly cheered upon
making their appearance•
A considerable assemblage of persons of the lower orders
were collected about Mr. O'Connell's house, and in a few
minutes after his entrance he appeared upon the balcony,
and briefly addressed them to the following effect, as far
as we could collect under such unfavourable circumstances
for hearing accurately, which were considerably increased
by the noise and confusion arising from the anxiety of all
present to be the auditors of " the first speech after the
incarceration" :
lie commenced by stating that he had at last returned
to his honest home from prison, and proceeded to say,
that in othcr countries it was generally rogues and vaga-
bonds that were sent to gaol, which was not the case in
Ireland, as they were all aware that he and his brother
martyrs were doomed to imprisonment for endeavouring
to make their fellow men free. (Great applause.) He
then briefly thanked the Irish people for the peace and
tranquility which they had manifested during his incar-
ceration, and said that he had no doubt that they would
continue in the same course now, that they had reason
to be joyful. He then alluded to the procession, which,
he said, would take place in the morning at ten o'clock,
and said he would give his countrymen an opportu-
nity of testifying their love for him, which was only
equalled by his love for them. After exhorting them
to go home peaceably and quietly, and telling them that
he would meet them in the morning, the learned gentle-
man re-entered his house amidst loud cheers, which con-
tinued for some time.

The crowd, however, dispersed shortly after, without
any disturbance taking place, as far as we could learn.

THE PROCESSION.

At an early hour on Saturday morning Mr. O'Connell
and all the other state prisoners (who were discharged on
the previous evening) returned to the Richmond Bride-
well for the purpose of leaving it in procession, and pass-
ing along the same route by which they were conducted
there. The morning was very inauspicious for such a dis-
play, in consequence of which it was postponed from ten
until nearly two o'clock, by which hour the weather had
taken a change for the better, when Mr. O'Connell took
his; seat, accompanied by Mr. John O'Connell, in the
chair in which he and Mr. Ruthven were chaired after
their return for the city of Dublin, in 1832 ; and pro-
ceeded after the trades, corporation, committee of the
Repeal Association, &c., to pass through the specified
line of streets, to his own house.
Previous to the arrival of any of the carriages, the Cir-
cular-rmul was crowded from the turnpike to the prison,
and as far again upon the other side by thousands of
the lower orders, who relinquished all ideas of business,
and regardle,s of wind or weather, attended for the pur-
pose of seeing the " [Aerator liberated." Several gen-
tlemen also arrived early, and called at the prison, amongst
whom were a considerable number of Roman Catholic
clergymen, to congratulate the traversers upon their libera-
tion. Many of them who came from the country pre-
sented Mr. O'Connell with addresses, including the
1 mayor and ex-mayor of Limerick, who handed him an