The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-02 00:00:00

THE DINNER

At six o'clock between 400 and 500 persons assembled at
dinner, in the old Roman Catholic chapel of the town. The
chair was filled by Dr. HIGGINS, upon the right of whom sat
Mr. O'Connell, and on the left Dr. Cantwell, the Roman
Catholic bishop of Meath.
The cloth having been drawn,
Dr. HIGGINS rose and said that the humble individual who
stood before them had become lately the object of obloquy
_hitherto unexampled. lie had been reported to have used
at Mullingar certain sentiments, the most of
.which he stood
by and would until death. (Loud cheers.) Obscure as he
might be in the' mind of Lord Wicklow, and others of his
. class, he had light enough in that obscurity to see their dark.
ness, and he reiterated that all those sentiments he had tit.
tered proceeded from his heart, which would continue tin.
changed until it ceased to throb. (Cheers.) He had been
accused of -saying that there was no hope for Ireland but in
the repeal, and he now reiterated ,that assertion. (" Hear,
hear,' and cheers.) He also reiterated that he had the most
unbounded contempt and hate—not as he had been reported
to have said, for the aristocracy, but for their vices. (Re-
newed cheering.) By the lying and immoral press of Eng-
land he had been called something like a rebel. He was
reported to have roused the priests of his diocese, and to
have maddened the people to such a pitch that-there was no
safety either for life, or property, while such firebrands ex-
isted. Could he convert himself into a general, his clergy
into,captains, and his people into an army—if it was in his
power to convert the towns of Longford and Athlone into
garrisons, how did the villains dare to suppose that be would
tarnish himself hy such acts. (Loud cheers.) No; he
would sooner die than attempt such things, whatever amount
of power he might possess. (Hear, hear.) -He would at the
same time let the people of England know that if it was
attempted to carry into execution the threats which had been
held out lately against the people of- this country, he would
make every chapel in his diocese a repealing place, and
would go into every sanctuary to proclaim repeal. (Loud
cheers.) Dr. Higgins then proceeded to advert to the
speech recently delivered in Parliament by Lord Beaumont
respecting him, and said that for what Lord Beaumont had
uttered respecting him he forgave him. Ile gave him a carte
blanche to revile him, and the more Lord Beaumont said
against him the more lie would conclude that he was properly
performing his duties in the sphere in which he was placed
(" hear, hear," and cheers). Another noble lord (Wicklow)
had said that even if the bishops of Ireland were all repealers,
they would not have chosen so obscure a medium of com-
municating their sentiments as he (Dr. Higgins) was, and
he also denied that Dr. Murray was a repealer. - Now he
(Dr. Higgins) had the authority of a most respectable clergy.-
man, who could verify his statement on oath, that Dr.
Murray had declared himself a repealer before a numerotis
company, and when or where had he since contradicted that
statement ?—(lou.d cheering, which lasted for several mil.
mites). With all the respect which every man of common
sense and judgment must entertain for the aristocracy, when
they are entitled to respect on account of virtues descended
through a long line of ancestors, he still stood to the senti-
ments he had uttered in Mullingar, and embodying the
sentiments of his clergy and people, he defied them all to the
death—(loud and continued cheering).
Dr. CANTWELL, Roman Catholic bishop of Meath, in
returning thanks for his health, stated that lie concurred in
all the sentiments put forward by Dr. Higgins that night.
His opinion represented 150 Catholic clergyman and 250,000
of the people of his diocese, and that opinion was, that the
union was a robbery, and that they could be respected by no
man if they did not persevere in demanding a restoration of
their rights—(loud cheers).

Mr. O'Connell has announced to Sir Edward Sugden his
determination to impeach him in the LiOS parliament for
dismissing him from the Irish magistracy.

REPEAL RENT.—The Dublin Mail, of Wednesday, says
"The repeal rent for the week ending on Monday, exceeded
£2,ooo—the amount acknowledged being £2,205 16s. Bd.
a pretty little contribution paid by a people too poor to be
subjected to the income tax !

As a set-off against the supersedeases issued by the Chan-
cellor, ten barristers, headed by Sir Colman O'Loghlen, son
of the late Master of the Rolls, subscribed this day to the
funds of the Repeal Association, and were by acclamation
admitted as members. This bar-motion has caused a great
sensation.

MODESTY OF O'CONNELL.-Mr. O'Connell, at a recent
repeal meeting, thus modestly propounded one of his many
wants. " I want to get three hundred gentlemen who shall
enjoy public confidence by bringing in one hundred pounds
each, and that will yield a sum of £30,000, as a fund to pay
the expenses which may be incurred."

THE QUEUN'S VISIT.—It was whispered in " well-in-
formed circles," as the phrase goes; that letters had reached
the high places, announcing positively her Majesty's deter-
mination to eschew the " Emerald Gem " for this summer
at all events. Extravagant as it may appear, this announce-
ment is unlooked for by many, who affect to think that the
Queen, in the teeth of -all the turmoil, and threatened
" placarding " and " petitioning," will face the cortege of
500,000 repealers, to he, in the event of her coming, cant
toned at Kingstown.—lrish paper.

PUBLIC PRAYERS FOR O'CONNELL.—We understand that
some, if not the majority, of the bishops of Ireland are about
addressing pastoral letters to their clergy, directing the
sertion of the name of Mr. O'Connell in the public prayers
after the name of her Majesty, before the commencement of
the holy sacrifice of the mass. In consequence of the
diabolical threats of assassination held out against the Liber-
ator, propitiatory sacrifices are deemed necessary, lest the
Almighty would permit tiff violent removal of the only man
who can at present direct the mighty storm of public opinion.
They know full well that if aught happened to O'Connell, it
would be impossible to krep the, Irish people from taking a
bloody and fearful revenge on all whom they suspected to be;
we won't say privy to such a nefarious proceeding, but on all
whom they• believed to coincide with them in opinion, or
who would rejoice at such an event ; and, in mercy even to
the anti-lrish in Ireland, it is fervently to be hoped the
prayer to'be offered will be effectual, and will prevent so great
a calamity.—Athlone Sentinel.— [What an extraordinary
compound of cant, blasphemy, and treason.]

The Athlone Election Committee have decided that Joh
Cobbett, Esq. was duly returned for that borough. _

. .
DUBLIN, May, 2G.—lt was mentioned in the Hall of the
Four Courts yesterday, on what was considered good au-
thority, that Chief Justice Pennefather will not again resume
his seat on the bench.—Freeman's Journal.

A subscription is now raising in Belfast for the purpose o
presenting some enduring testimonial to the Rev. A. C. Ma.
cartney, vicar of that town. £430 has been already sub•

scribed

--4;; POTATOE CRor.—in many of the rural districts the
early sown potatoes have failed to a great extent. Several
fields in the baronies of Condone, Fermoy and Barrymora
have been resown, as the seeds first put in were found, in•
stead of springing up, to be completely rotten. The circum-
stance is not, it appears, owing so much to moisture as to
the last crop having been dug too early, and consequently
wanted mature ripeness for the seed. It would be well if
farmers, whenever so favorable a season as the last occurs for
the early
getting up of their potatoe crops, would leave such
quantities as they intend for seed to acquire a perfect state
of ripening. The wheat and other crops in these districts ap•
pear very promising, alt hough the weather continues harsh,
with frequent boisterous and cold showers, rather resembling
March weather than that of May.—Cork Constitution;

REPEAL IN THE ARMY.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

measures.
reports of the liberal
At the weekly meeting of the "Loyal National Repeal
Association," held on Tuesday last, in the Corn Exchange, r
ac rleettat reyr , awned
f,oal
lso Su chow,
the, the official organ of
papers) from " Cornelius O'Callaghan, Esq., (author of the
that body,r the
read d secretaryletter,
e
Green Book,) in which he refers to official documents as to
the composition of the British army." The following is an

extract :
" From these documents it appears that there were in
January, 1830, in the so-called English army—of English-
men, 44,329; of Scotchmen, 13,800; of Irishmen, 42,897;
and in January, 1840, there were in the same force—of Eng_'
lisbmen 51,539 • of Scotchmen, 15,239 ; of Irishmen, 41,218.
It will be remarked how much more soldiers, as compared
with the size and population of England and Ireland, the
latter country furnishes than the former; while the Scotch,
of whose feats in the British army we are scarcely allowed by
their writers to hear any end, bear no comparison, in point
of numbers, to the Irish. I may likewise observe, that while
Ireland, which certain folk would tell us must be nothing but
a province, is superior in population to 18, and in territorial
extent to 15 independent European states, the Irish, from a
number of experiments, but particularly from a comparative
examination made amongst the various European armies as-
sembled in France after Napoleon's fall, have been allowed
by the celebrated S'cotch and Belgian professors, Forbes and
Qnetelet, to be the strongest race of men in Europe. And,
by the way, if England should think proper to crush public
opinion on the union in Ireland by mere force, and the Irish
Catholic Church, knowing repeal to be the right of Ireland.
were, through the medium of its patriotic prelates and their
subordinate clergy, to set its face against any more recruit-
ing for the so-called English army in Ireland—pray where
wonld that army be then ?"
The concluding question is pertinent enough. But there
remains one to be asked. still more to the purpose—lf the
forementioned prelates and priests were to direct the con-
sciences of the Irish Roman Catholic soldiery in favour of
repeal—pray what would that soldiery be then?
This question.we can only answer by saying, they would
he what the agitators wish and suppose them to be to a very
great ex tent—repealers—ready to desett her Majesty's stand-
ard, and to range themselves under the oriflamme of the
church repealant. Let us take take warning in time : let us
•'?lravoiristructiort from the vaunts of the enemy.
The Ga I:cam Vindicator is a priest's paper—the Popish
nrgan of the. province of Connaught. The following is
among his recent lucubrations

REPEAL IN THE ARMY.

"Surely Sir Robert, Peel displayed either a lamentable ig-
norance of the truth, or a more culpable ignorance of the
state of the public mind respecting repeal. Had he consulted
the material of the army, and found that it contained forty_
one thousand ardent ready Irishmen, he would have scab-
barded his brutum fulmen, and saved Ireland the necessity
of despising his impotence.
We, as repeaters, preach peace and order—crime and in-
subordination we condemn and deprecate. We would not
rejoice at any efforts made on our behalf, if those were not
sanctioned by every principle of justice; and in referring our
readers to our other columns for an expression made use of
by a rifleman in Drogheda, we shall reserve our comments.
" Contagion is easily spread—if we remarked upon it we
might unconsciously be inoculating our garrison; but we
shall not either applaud or damp the enthusiasm of the sol-
diers.under existing circumstances, as it might not be our
province to blame or our duty to approve.
The last number of the Pilot is more specific. It names a
'went said to be infected. Fleading one of his columns
with the wordstegl

or prophecies of the
correspondent
his case:—
" The following proof (quoth he) of the repeal spirit, ex-
isting among the trocys, will not come with great surprise on
pthioloset.whoo
upru
readers
eaandye faithrs
may in the reasonings
uponi
our
is correct

' ' MANCHESTEIL

" ' There has been a great disturbance here for the last two
nights, between the 15th regiment and the police; the sol-
diers were fighting for the repeal of the union in a public-
house, and the police took three of them
into custody, when
those in the barrack turned out, broke the station-house,
and beat the police. There arc some of them now lying in
the infirmary

regiment 111;;;
applauded
(yaoM ANOTHER CORREoSnP:hNaDdE
jNuTst.)given
cheersb repeal
y a l
i
" ' What will Wellington say when he hears that his ow
regiment (the 15th foot), of which he is colonel, are for the
poef alE,nbl'itonfonlielli,oaolkidinugld Ireland, when the ne,-.-
poor fellows, who were vehemently
number
no
rbTerhreethr e
lice interfered, and the row commenced. The
since been removed out of town. Any of the repealers who
were aware of the occurrence lgoked quietly on, interred
in no manner with either party. ng
We have ourselves xi° faith in this mischievous report :
and we copy it merely with a view to produce an authorised
denial of its truth. So far as the examtrans pireina d which tion into the riot
at Manchester has gone, nothing has in-
volves the regiment in any such disgrace.
not.
If the Pilot would consult the Arm
the List, b
ele would
the find
th
that the Duke of Wellington iscolon of 15
foot. His grace's son, Lord Charles Wellesley, is lieute-
nant colonel of the regiment.
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y pr0g5......1t
gs......It is a remarkable featurebri
SIGNS or Tire Tar
----
times that the
throughoutpeasantrverywhere purchasing 11 p t the
lead from grocers g the province. At first the err-
cumstance was not noticed, but there is now strong ".''
reason
to believe that the tea-lead is purchased for making hone,
otherwise why purchase it in such quantities, and for ~,L8
or nothing? It is not very generally known that, within the
last few months, several French priests or missionaries ha
arrived in Ireiand, and have visited not only callow'
bute
several parts of the country. They are Considered ht. the
peasantry to be endowed with superhuman power,
they perform miracles. Now, a question arises, wi;otand that
nouht
them here at this moment ? Are they missionaries to g t
pogate the tenets of their religion, or are the
other-
emissaries? Whether their mission be one of Peace or French
wise, it would be well if the Government had an eye on the
movements. The country swarms with foreigners who
members of the monastic order, not one of whom is regis-
tered tered on the books of any clerk of the peace, under thes-
Reef Bill, the penalty for the omission of which, is xicg
Here is another subject worthy of public attention.
spectable Rotnan Catholic has written to us ARe
a very iron° -
taut communication, which we regret we cannot publish..-
We are, however, at liberty to state that on Sunday last ih
Roman Catholic clergy of the entire colliery district " e
prided their religious instruction"
and harangued "sus-
Romanthemselves their
flocks on the necessity of enrolling . yes as repealer,
and, above all, to 'attend to repeal meeting at Ilallyra • ,
which was to have been held on Thursday. They get
to work in earnest, and ouar respected correspondent,are
going
s " the people are in ai:a firm
supporter of the Un,ion,
ts
,I is rumoured that ie
- 'rightful
state of excitement.
are being held in the neighbourhood auistown, county
of Kilkenny, and lae masses of men are occasional();
seen moving in thedirectionr of Gowran and erne is bridge"
It is certain that since 1798 the population of this counfr '
was not so much excite
d as at this moment, and • Y
inflammat in a great
measure owing to such wildand ory harangus a
that of Dr. Biggins, which .e-echoed f
altar in the neighbour!
lig counties. The people,
rout almost every
forned are everywhere armed in that part we are in-
n the
ready county of
''' ' I ich we allude, and for mischief -
Kilkenny, to w ! .
circumstance we can the more at a
moment's warning, a 1
believe„ from our know eged of the fact readily
of Kne that at the lateY
election thousands of the co.unty. Kilkenny
ncl* Peasantry 1
tided this county, armed with pises a fire-arms, an,
u con
tinued their savage forays on i peaceable inhabitants, na.
intervals, during a month ; at Mmes stoppingt.r
her M i
a.,esty't
mails,
living on free quartersiia d h
o,coeatening to murders
any one who dared to disobey r. Connell instructions.
—Carlow S
entinel.
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01
accumulate
t
cwuimulate
Id left hissm
to his brother, the present
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Limerick, of £2OO a year, n
the rents of his estates in Clare and Galway peers
attains the age of 21, he bequeaths the said accumulated he
until the death of the present lord, to whose heir
The late Lord Vesey Fitzgera
and estates, but in failure of male issue the money and sum
tales deseend to the eldest sons of his sisters, the es-
Sir Mahon and Baron Foster, the former the Gal nws of
His Lordship ' waY th
latter the Clare estate. p s personal property,'e
exceeding £150,000, he leaves to his two illegitimate child
one of whom is married to an eminent physician in London.
He also bequeaths £5,000 to Mrs. Baron Foster. The °n•
cipal executor is his late privale secretary, son of Mr._Prin-
of Dawson street, Dublin. imerick Chronicle. cane,
Mona.—A labourer of
_the name of Allan Mair,about
82 years of age, residing 1;
rtiate andyend, near Avonbrid
this county, was apprehe d d last week on a charge a ge, in
der, peroetrated under the following circumstances -e, in
that on the rnorning of Sunday, the 14th i : It rip_
quarrel arose between him and an old woman who
Instant,
him as his wife, concerning some trifling
circumstance,
wed with
he swore at her and beat her dreadfully on the hence' when
and chest with a large stick. The neighbours, II ad, arms,
cries, ra their to render her assistance, hurNring her
learning intention, withl horrid imprecations, ti. lair, on
to shoot anyone who shou.i. approach. They wer threatened
polled to desist, as be was known to be a recklessie thus corn-
- In the m • person and
to possess fire-arms. morning, however, information
was given to the olice, who proceeded to the h
finding the manewo ery ill in bed, immediately
toouoske, and,
into custody. Her arms and chest were dreadfully lacer Muir
and her head bruised, and the injuries altogether of ated,
so severe that she lingered in great agony till a nature
early on Tues-
day morning.. when she died. A post modem examination.
of the body
immediately took place, and we understand
report of the medical gentlemen was, that the a the
consequence of the injuries she received. m'ooman died in
examined by the sheriff and fully committedto air has been
'on a charge of murder.—Sliding Advertiser. Stirling gaol
IMPORTANT TO CHEMIsTs.—At Kingston-upon-Thames
on the 27th ult. two informations were
most respectable chemists of that to preferred against two
half a pint of spirit of wine to a personwn, for having each sold
belonging to the ex-
cise, and who has been making a practice lately of going to
the shops of varioas chemists for the express purpose of esed
n-
trapping those who may not unfortunately be duly licen
to sell spirituous liquors. After
a lengthened search into the
merits of the case, and after a minute • - '
inquiry into the quo
anirno with which the spirit had been bought and sold and
put into the hands of the informer, whether as an article of
general commerce or as a medical compoun, it was unani-
mously agreed upon by the magistrates that, according to the
legal construction of the act, they must feel bound to convict,
wished it might bear upon the two defendants, though
they wished it to be understood that they were convinced
that neither Mr. Jones nor Mr. Gould had the slightest in-
tention of committing a fraud upon the revenue. And Dr.
Roots, one of the magistrates present, having most em-
phatically inquired whether the informer would reap any ad-
vantage or portion of the fine, observed, that although the
law might sanction such modes of detection, yet it was against
the feelings of well regulated minds that common informers
should be upheld, and reap rewards, where no undue in-
fringeroent of the law was absolutely intended; and he was
of opinion that it would have been far better for the officers
of excise in the district to have cautioned the chemists and
all other parties liable to fall into similar errors, instead of
setting spies and informers to catch them unawares.—[The
gentleman who thus strongly reprobated this improper prac-
tice, must have a very different notion of propriety in such a
case to that entertained by our worthy stipendiary. The
latter functionary indi,gnantly rebuked a gentleman the other
in the Police-Court, for applying the word spies as de
cptive of the police who are employed, under what are in-
o our op:nion, much more reprehensible circumstances to watch
for some trivial offence committed by an unfortunate übl'
can, and in some instances take upon themselves, if not • I-
structed so to do, to " entraP,'' as Dr. Roots has it thin-
unsuspecting victim. Such conduct, says this gentleman,'eir
repugnant to the feelings of " well regulated" ' is
ED.
minds.]...

Whether the agitators, clerical or lay, who conducted
emancipation to a successful issue, had actually corrupted any
portion of the Irish soldiery or not, is a question more im
portant than capable of solution. They professed that they
had done so ; and the ministers of the day not only acted but
spoke as if no reliance was to be placed on the loyalty of the
army.
But, whatever may have been the case at that time, there
is no doubt at the present that the agents of the Church of
Rome are busily engaged in similar endeavours; and if the
reports we alluded, to in a recent number—viz., of regimental
contributions to the-repeal rent, &c., be true, there is but
too much reason to apprehend that their artifices have not
been unsuccessful. Enough has at least transpired to put
the authorities, both civil and military, on the alert, and to
warn them of the necessity of preventive and precautionary

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