The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-30 00:00:00

AFFAIR OF HONOUR.

At four o'clock this morning a meeting took place at the
North Bull,, between James Haire, Esq., chairman of the Dub-
lin election commission, and J. J. Murphy, Esq., the agent for
Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven. The former was attended by
Robert Johnston, Esq.; the latter by Ebenezer Jacob, Esq.
After the usual, preliminaries had been adjusted, the parties ex-
changed shots without effect, and Mr. Johnston asked Mr.
Jacob "if he were satisfied?" to which, Mr. Jacob having re-
plied in the negative, Mr. Johnston then added—" Recollect,
on your shoulders rests the responsibility of a second shot, but
if you demand one you shall have it." Mr. Jacob answered-,--
" You have insulted us, and we must have a second shot." The
parties were then placed on the ground, and a second shot was
interchanged, also without effect, upon which Mr. Johnston re-
moved Mr. Haire from the ground without any remark or fur-
ther explanation given. The circumstances which led to the
above meeting originated, as we have been informed, in the
following proceedings which took place before the commissioners
yesterday :
Mr. Maguire, the agent for the petitioners, rose to leave the
court, whereupon the chairman requested him to nominate, in
writing, a person to act for him in his absence. Just as he left
the room he stated to the chairman that he was called down in a
hurry to the Court of Chancery—that Mr. Brennan, whom he
now nominated, he would nominate in writing, at his return,
which would be in a few minutes. _ _

Within a few minutes after, Mr. Murphy, the agent for the
sitting members, said to the chairman--" in allowing Mr. Bren-
nan to act as an agent, without being nominated in writing, the
court has one rule for one side, and another for the other."
Upon which the chairman replied—" In consequence of what
occurred yesterday, I did rewire a written nomination from you,
Mr. Murphy, because you deceived me." -
Mr. Murphy then stood up and said—"l, in the presence of
Mr. Haire, and of all here present, most distinctly and em-
phatically ueny, that I ever deceived Mr. Haire, or that I am
capable of deceiving him or any one ; and I call upon, him to
state any instance in which I deceived him, and stated that a
person tu Mr. Haire's situation was privileged to make observa-
tions as he pleased."
When the Chairman replied—" Mr. Haire never seeks to
shelter himself under auy privileges." To which Mr. Murphy
replied—" I never supposed so."
The Chairman then stated the transactions of Tuesday and
Wednesday, and also read the minutes of yesterday's proceed-
ings and the evidence of Mr. Turking,ton; and again stated
that he considered himself deceived by Mr. Murphy, in leaving
Mr. Turking,ton apparently acting for him, without stating to
the court the extent of his authority (the court considering him
.talax.e_full. authority to-act for him ift--his abse.noeosed havi
recognized him, on• several occasions, in that capauity,) and,
afterwards, disclaiming the acts of Mr. Turkington.
Mr. Murphy again said—" I deny that I deceived Mr. Haire."
The Chairman then stated that he would, in the course of the
day, examine further into the matter.

Mr. Turkington was accordingly again examined and cross-
examined, the court putting to the witness every question Mr.,
Murphy required. The court, at the close of the examination,
remarked gut they would send the minutes relative to this
matter ovet' to the committee, with the other proceedings.
The three commissioners were understood, at the close of the
examination, to be concurrent in the opinion expressed by the
Chairman, and which he had formed from the previous proceed-
ings of Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the course of the evening Mr. Johnston was waited on by
Mr. Jacob, on the part of Mr. Murphy, who announced that
he (Mr Jacob) came about the business which occurred in
court; upon which Mr. Johnston asked Mr. Jacob if he were
aware of the particulars of the case, to which Mr. Jacob replied,
that Mr, Haire had stated that Mr. Murphy had deceived the
court. Mr. Johnston then insisted on detailing all the particu-
lars, which he did, which Mr. Jacob assumed to be correct, but
demanded an immediate meeting, or a public retractation of
Mr. Haire's observations in open court; Mr. Johnston, on the
part of Mr. Haire, having declined the latter, an appointmen,
on the fifteen acres, at half-past eight, was agreed to; Mr.
Jacob, requiring as a preliminary to the meeting, that Mr.
Johnston should engage to adjourn with Mr. Haire to France,
if the police should interfere, or anything else occur to prevent
a meeting. This offer being declined by Mr. Johnston the par-
ties separated. On Mr. Haire and his friend reaching the
ground they were informed by Mr. Jacob that they had outstaid
their time, and told Mr. Johnston that as some officers' servants
had taken.their pistols from them whilst waiting, asked for the
loan of one of Mr. Johnston's pistols.* Mr. Johnston, in order
to put an end to the matter without adjournment, complied with
Mr. Jacob's request. While in the act of loading the police
came up, and secured Mr. Murphy's brother; the principals and
their seconds, however, eluded heir vigilance.
Another preliminary meeting took place at a late hour last
night, when the Nortli Bull was agreed on, as before stated,"
Mr. Haire, to say the least of it, however his sense of honour
may have impelled him to take the course he adopted, acted im-
prudently, and for the following reasons:—
First--Had his death ensued, the commission would have been
at an end.
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Secondly--" Had he shot his adversary, the fact of his being
compelled tolly would have had a like eifect.
Thirdly—Plad he been taken into custody by the police, and
been necessarily absent for a single day, he would have been
subjected to a penalty of £5OO.
We are requested to state that neither Mr. Joy or Mr. Antal,
the other commissioners, were aware of the fact of a hostile
message having been delivered or accepted until the assembling
of the court this morning.—Dublin paper.

E O, 1836:

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

The Last Night but Three of the engagement of Mr. and Mis.
WOOD, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-
lane.

Second Week of the engagement of Mr. BROUGH and Mr.
G. HORNCASTLE.
ripHIS present TUESDAY, the 26th iiisttnt, will be per-
il_ formed (for the third time this season) the popular Opera
of

CINDERELLA;
OR, THE FAIRY QUEEN AND GLASS SLIPPER.
The Orchestra (which is considerably augnien ed on this occa-
sion) under the direction of Mr. A ridge.
Previous to the Opera, the Overture to enerentola.
Felix Mr. Wo d.
Baron Ponapolino....Mr. G. rncastle.
Dandini Mr. Bro h.
Cinderella rs. Wood.
Clorinda Miss orge.
Thisbe • M s Stanley.
Incidental to the piece, a variety of DANCING,
by Mr. J. Ridgway and Mlle. Marie.
To conclude with the Romantic Melo-Drama of
VALENTINE AND ORSON;
OR, THE WILD MAN OF THE WOODS.
On WEDNESDAY will be repeated, for the second titre,
the celebrated new Opera of FRA DIAVOLO; or, the Inn of
Terracina; which was received with the most decided appro-
bation last night by a crowded and fashionable audience. Pre-
vious to the Opera, the Original Overture. Fra Diavolo, Mr.
.Wood. Lord Allcash, Mr. G. Horneastle. Giacomo, Mr.
Brough. Lorenzo, Mr. Frazer. Lady Allcash, Miss George.
Zerlina, Mrs. Wood.—After which a favourite FARCE.
On THURSDAY au Opera, in which Mr. and Mrs. Wood
will perform.
On FRIDAY Mrs. WOOD'S BENEFIT, and the Last
Night of the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Wood.

Trfit 3"iiberpool *tattbariL

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 30-; 1835.

We have Jamaica papers to the 16th of May. It will
be seen by an extract elsewhere that Lord &too had re-
sortedqo some extraordinary and apparently► arbitrary
proceedings in the Caymanas islands. The animadver-
sions upon his lordship's conduct are extremely severe.

By the George Waitldngtoit,- whf6h—airifed here on
Saturday; we have received New York papers to the 9th
instant. They do not contain any political news ofinuch
interest. The following relates to a subject which we
have alluded to before :

LATE FROM NORFOLK.
They contain two articles of eonsicferable interest, viz., the
arrest in that place of the insurgents of Port Praya and din
safety of the commanding officer of H.M. schooner Virefly, lost
some time since on the coast of Gabs.

THE PORTUGUESE INSURGRNTS.—The U.S. district attorney
arrived in this place on Sunday last, and, after consuitatiou with
the mayor of the borough, the latter issued a warrant for
the apprehension of the Portuguese officers and soldiers who ar-
rived here on Wednesday last, in the Brazilian schooner Boa
Nova, from Port Praya, via St. Thomas. The mayor issued
his warrant on the oath of Bernardo Raggis, who certifies that
the said officers and soldiers committed an act of piracy on his
vessel, within the cognizance of the act of congress of April,
1810, and about fifty of the soldiers were accordingly taken
into custody.

The officers, being informed of these proceedings, took mea-
sures for eluding the process issued agailist them, and it is
reported that some of them left here yesterday morning, in the
steam-boat South Carolina, for Charleston

Yesterday afternoon, the men in custody were examined
before the mayor, in the presence of the district attorney and
the Portuguese'vice-consul, and committed for further exanaina-
"--

THE FIREFLY.—We are pleased to learn that the reported
loss of Lieut. M`Donald, commander of the schooner Firefly, is
incorrect. That gentleman has escaped with his life; his pre-
servation was almost miraculous, his sufferings intense; for,
after ten days' exposure on a reef, he was fortunately discovered
and conveyed to the Belize. We cannot refrain from express-
ing our sincere regret at the loss of Mr. Lockyer, first mate;
the assistant surgeon, Mr. M'Rae; and six seamen; as also
Capt. West, his son, and servant, who were taking pafsage in
the Firefly when she was wrecked. Mr. Lockyer was the son
of Capt. Lockyer, late mayor of Plymouth, England; and had
been some years in his majesty's service. Capt, West was of the
Royal Engineers, and had been ordered from Jamaica to Hon-
duras, on duty, and was on his return : he is spoken of as an
officer of much merit—as having served with great distinction
during the peuinsular war and during the attack on New
Orleans, where his conduct was particularly mentioned as a
zealous*fficer and oue of promise.—Bermuda Gasettto.

We have a file of the Malta Government Gazette to the
4th instant. They announce the death of His Highness
, ifassEN, Bashaw Beglerby of Tunis, on the 2% ult., and
that he had been succeeded by his brotherSint 11InsTAFA.
The new sovereign had assured Sir THOMAS READ; his.
IMajesty's agent and consul-general at Tunis, of his
earnest and sincere desire to maintain unimpaired the
friendly relations which had so long subsisted between,
his late brother and the British government. We have
given elsewhere an account of Col. CHESYEY'S expedi-
tion. to the Euphrates, extracted from these papers. The
following is taken from the Gazette of the 3d instant :
The master of the Greek brig Policritos, which arrived here
on the 29th ultimo, in two days, from Tripoli, states that on the
preceding Monday, the 25th, a Turkish squadron made its ap-
pearance there, composed of two ships of the line, two frigates
two corvette; four brigs, and two smaller vessels, accompanied'
by eight transports, from which three thousand men were im-
mediately disembarked. The Pasha, Sidi Ali Caramanli, went
on board the ship of the Turkish commander of the expedition,,
and on the following day the gates of the fortress of Tripoli
were thrown open, giving free ingress and egress tcithe people of
the town and country. The Policritos left Tripoli on the 28th.
in the morning. There were then in the roadstead. an English.
and a French corvette, and a ship of the line and a frigate, ap-
parently American, were in sight at a distance of about twenty'
miles in the offing.

We have been favoured with the following extract of
a private letter received by a nietcantile house here :
" LIMA, MAacit 9, 1835.
" On the 23d of February the commander of the castles
of Callao, General Salaverry, marched up to Lima at the bead
of his troops, disposed the government, who retirtd into the in-
terior, and nominated himself supreme chief. The general
levied a contribution of 100,000 dollars on the inhabitants of
Lima. Trade is entirely at a stand still."

We have some difficulty in determining whether the
case of Lieutenant-Colonel EVANS, therepreientative of
Westminster, or that of the transported' Dorchester la-.
bourers, be the hardest.: Some six or seven patriots are
sent to Botany Bay for having combined against their
employers, menaced their fellow-workmen, threatened
their masters' property, and for having administered ille-
gal oaths. The Whig government, the friends of the
people, having succeeded in convicting these men, did
not lose a moment in shipping them off to bur_ penal set-
tlement on the other -side of the-globe.; Tha—t they justly
deserved their fate we never for a moment doubted ; hut
in candour we are bound to say that the ministers who,
encouraged political unions, and corresponclo.d with the
Birmingham union, ought to have accompanied them in
the same transpot t.

That not having been.done, we are called upon to don-
cede that the hig ministers, in pure liberality, took a
very diTferent view of ihe.matter. The House of Com-
mons too considered the merits of the transports worth a
ten hours' discussion, which fact, in our estimation, forms
the ground for our assuming that their case is deemed of
as much importance as that of Colonel EVANS and the
transports he has been appointed, without consulting his
constituents, to conduct to Spain, there of course to be
shot and immortalized.

In the house, on the debate which Lord MAHON origi-
nated, an immense deal of palaver and affectation was
brought to bear upon an exceedingly simple question..
The hero of the London stock-jobbers, who has been pre-
ferred to tight the battles of the insolvent bondholders—
of CHRISTINE, and her daughter IsABELLA---who, from
the rank of a half-pay lieutenant-colonel, is raised to
that of a general—who, from commanding a marching
regiment, is entrusted with the command of an army—,
who, from having ten hundred soldiers under him, is
deemed fit to marshal some ten thousand tailors, gaol-
Wrds, swindlers, Irish peasants, suspected of being coat-
less and shirtleSs, as he himself once was—this hero of.
Westminster has chosen to take a sort of Boa ACRES and
twelve-paces exception to the natural and harmonioes
term—MERCENARY.

lam no mercenary, saith half-pay Lieutenant-Colonel
EVANS, any more than Marshal BERESFORD or the Duke
Of WELLINGTON! Beautiful comparison this ! 4 The mo-
desty of the contrast is quite delectable. Half-pay
Lieutenant-Colonel. Mr. LACY EVANS puts himself into
the scale with the Duke of WELLINGTON ! The hero cf

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may'°'`

the chimney-sweeps, located in the Isle of Dogs, and
plaCed there to be beyond the reach of picking pockets,
claims rank and equality with the conqueror of NAPO-
LEON, the victor of Waterloo! Well may the cockroach
pass amongst the race of beetles for an elephant, and the
frog by dint of inflation call itself a cow !
Have mercy, most valorous lieutenant-colonel of half-
pay, upon our nerves ! You say you are no mercenary.
Well, then, permit us to inquire and decide as to what
you are in reality.
When a brave officer enters into the military service of
his country we attach some 'degree of credit to the na-
tionality of his ambition, and we assume that under the
banners of his king he fights for distinction, for fame,
anti for his native land. We honour him for his valour,
but we honour him more for his virtues as a loyal sol-
dier. His country rejoices in his success—the king re-
wards him—the people respect and idolize him. But
when a British soldier enters the ranks of a foreign ad-
venturer we treat him in a very different manner. He
has no claims upon our national affections—be has no
claims upon our admiration—he gains no credit in the
court of honour—we look upon him as an huckster in
the path of glory, buying and selling his blood in the
best market, and gaining by the traffic the share of spoil
which gives no renown.
Now, what is Colonel EVANS ? He is paid for hisser-
vices as a broker is paid who enters a poor man's house
and distrait* upon his goods for assessed taxes. He is
paid for fighting as a chimneysweep is for climbing. He
is paid by a foreign power which despises him. He is
not paid unless his work be equal in point of compensa-
tion to certain stipulated wages, If a constable be em-
ployed to detect a thief he is paid for his labour, but the
ratio of remuneration, is invariably regulated by his suc-
cess. If EVANS and the heroes of the Isle of Dogs
should succeed in securing the Spanish crown to the child
ISABELLA, the probability is that he will be. handsomely
rewarded ; if he fail be- will; like. any military trades-
man, be dismissed, and paid.grudgingly, if paid at all;
Is it any abuse of lartguagtlberefeire, to call such s
man a mercenary ? • We knQw kf no term so appropri-
ate. If it concerned. the. ,loklf4pat lieutenant-colonel
alone we should speak.of hintwith greater reserve. But
the British government are compromised by this mean
device of war by the subjects of a neutral sovereign,
It places the kingly dignity it a most questionable if not
humiliating light. His majtifity ii'at peace—his subjects
are at war. He remains quiesc'eit as regards the Spanish
monarchy—but his subjects are hired out, as mercena-
ries, to effect, if it; be possi6le, an important change in
the dynasty of a kingdom with which he has not chosen
to interfere.

Well, at last, after innumerable delays, the ministerial
scheme for accomplishing the purposes of O'CONNELL'S
sacrilege, has appeared. On Friday evening Lord
Mon Para, the representative of a part of the registered
constituency of Yorkshire--LOrd MORPETH, the chief
-secretary for Ireland, alias the cat's-paw of the Irish tri-
bute-money receiver— aye, on Friday evening, the 26th
•of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five, Lord MORPETH introduced the
measure for the plunder of that branch of the protestant
`establishment which has hitherto existed in Ireland! Yes,
the bare-faced effrontery of the panderers to Irish agita-
tion have chosen, as a fit and proper day for the introduc-
tion of this revolting measure, the anniversary of the ac-
cession of his present-Majesty to the throne of these
realms. On the twenty-sixth of June, 1830, our gracious
Sovereign became the protestant Monarch of this coun-
• try ; he becathe, at the same time, defender of the faith,
and the supreme .head of the visible church ;—in- one
-Word, he was on that day in possession of authority " in
all causes, civil as-well as ecclesiastical, within these his
dominions, supreme." On that day he became an in-
stance of the fulfilthent of the gracious promise of JEsto:
VAII, that in the days, of the prosperity of his church
"kings shall be .I'.er nursing fathers, and queens her
nursing mothers."- Who that witnessed these. thins--
who that saw another of the illustrious :house of Bruns-
wick on the throne—who that reoogniied in that branch
-the son of GEORGE lll.—who, we ask in solemn -disap-
pointment and horror—who could have anticipated that
in five years after the occurrence` of these things, a 13-li-
r-Oster of that King would introduce a bill of sacrilege ?
Who, indeed ? Yet so it is. On the 26th June, 1830,
King WILLIAM IV..enterg Upon the promise of the most
momentous and sacred' engagements for the protection
and preservation of the 'prOtesiant faith. On the 26th
June, 1835, a minister of the crown—a confidential ad-
viser of that King—obtains leave in the House. of Com-
mons to bring in a bill for the suppression of the means
in use to combat the errors of popery.
Who can witness these things and not tremble for the
issue ? Of all the various provisions of this bill it will
not be our concern now to speak. The different stages
through which thii measure has to pass will allow ample
time for this. We must confine ourselves for the present to
its general character. We cannot here help observing
'the manifest anxiety to plunder and rob which the very
title of the bill evinces. Why, in the name of common
equity and sense, -ShOuld the tithe bill and the appropria-
lien clauses be united except for the sake of plunder?
In the former part of the bill the deviations from the
bill of last session to be introduced by Sir H. HARDINGE
are but few. The million-loan is to be remitted, or, in
other words, a bounty is thus to be given to the landlords
and popish tenants ; for it must ever be held in view that
this is no boon to the protestant clergy in a pecuniary
Feint of view. The systeni of a per centage in lieu of
tithe differs somewhat from Sir H. HARDINGE'S bill; but
of that more hereafter. These are questions of reckon-
ing. The new features of the bill, however, demand
serious consideration---we mean the.approPriation clause.
Now by this bill 41 parisites•are wholly deprived of a pro-
testant clergyman. No, we beg pardon, casual travellers
are to have the benefit of a clergyman ; and now, generous
reader, guess, if you can, the amount of his stipend ? The
whigs are ever andanon clainorouS,abnut the impoverished
ipcomes of poor curates. NOthing is more common than
to hear these brawlers. cOthplaining of the scanty pit-
tance of £l5O for a curate, and with all this froth and
talk they have the consul:11014e finytidence to offer a gen.:
• edge-priests • •
tlesnan and a scholar, (the of Rome in Le-
land are neither the one nor .the other,) to one whose
time and money have been expended to gain an educa-
tion—to such an one theSe"base slaves of Q.C.ONNELL
i« : • .
dare to otibr a stipend of five pounds a year ! Why is
this five pounds offered fait for compensation ?. No,
it.would not cover one-tenth ',of the imposed expenses.
What then ? Why simply this. It is a ready and sim,
pie way of offering a marked fnsult to a man of breeding
and of honour.

Go, slaves of Rome, and you, the slaves of the hire-
hogs of Rome, go back to the slough-ponds of your
native ignominy ! Is it not enough that you have suc-
ceeded in reducing the clergy of Ireland to pauperism,
but you. must also heap insult .upon misery ? But the
work of sin ends not here. 'Upwards of eight hundred
parishes are to be subjected to a curtailing influence.
The maximum amount of plunder calculated upon is
about fifty thousand pounds! To get and gain this for
a '‘‘ reserve fund," Lord 'MORPETH tells us that he has
determined the revenues in every case " STRICTLY AND
scorn's."

Let us look for a moment` at this question of " appro-
priation," as the polite and 'gentle phraseology of the
day bath it. We had occasion not very long ago to dis••
cuss this question, on the grOund of the alienation of
this property from the protestant ecclesiastical establish-
ment. We took occasion then to borrow from the valu-
able charge of the venerable Archdeacon. WILKINS.
We again avail ourselves` of his arguments and Jan-

guage. At page fifteen, be says, in the passage imme-
diately following our former quotation :

"In the next place, if by the temporal omnipotence of par-
liament this principle be disregarded, and a fixed proportion
only of this property be appropriated to the church as it now
exists, and the remainder be turned over to the purposes of
general education, that is, to the education of such as are nct
protestants, then a religious barrier is set up between the
opposing churches, from which is proclaimed this interdiction—
'SO fars ye protestants, may you come, but no further; you
havenow a sufficient maintenance for the religion of your peo-
plesup to the present day. If your numbers increase among
yourselves, (for further conversion is out tf the question,) what