The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-24 00:00:00

MR. THOMAS FINN'S LETTER TO O'CONNELL.

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' "Ctarciniziare: crudacthr ali9aiii adhei-e7M."—M A CHI AVE L.
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' Lire on l'huridai
.evenieg last,. a gentleman put into my
*t.ertits the, P;a:newslwer ofeeYednesdey, containing.the. re-
liort of a speech deliVered by you at the Anti-tory Association
ti.eprecedipietire.in. which report I .find the following pas-
"eige :---,-" I 11,i1W tutu to Carlene and 1 ask, why .was not that
xcellenthirati, 3.lr..Tigore returned: Because,tbirty-five base.'
lektlaelleS.Yeited against him. (Hear, hear,andeeies of shame.).
Apt these :Heil pretend to be catholive. One of these leaders
SaVotirC'd of republicanisast;, and if I hid tie• et hee ,reason for;
"gislikine republieanism, thii. feet alone would be euflicient.
I'llietr? hear.) rani. outrageous and,high-ilying republicens I
could never tied fit to be trusted ppm, public guest ions. They
welemightily,exelted epon abstrect Tioetions, hut witeu it came
is, elyelaccif pttlittcal liberty, they sunk their republicanism in
lieir, erockets withetbe weight of the money that went along with
It. (Cheers and latighter.) res; there he is, east I do not
I)eSifate to name the worthy gasitlernate I might be mistaken
in hiiripublicaiiiiin but tioteats a:l,in the prosfligacy of his poli-
tieelopitliene, when Mr. Tiny Flee votes rur a„tio-psipery ean-
amite; .1r : • .
I kilo W net Whether you have read Maehia.vel, but if you have
rl'oe you have the4redispositior; forelaeder and felsehood which
.Pfereutirie. tabilit as an useful science. " Fling dirt enough,
omc of it:Will stick," is as much an ' article of . your political,.
efeesle as a Wier in the Messiah is an artielesaf your reiigious
creed;
.yet yon, fling 'not'Yo'urdirt with a master hand;; yours is
lisit-Oq:refi tied dirt of a 4lisrlial or aPerSine, of, a. Horace or a
uvenal—it is the geese and off p _is e oist re t fet Machlho kno
ee • -LI . 1 * ' ' 7 3
la, Dennis, of 'a,ll,etiWnor a Vatibrugli-S-it is the than( a vul-
-1
ar,lhiv-lifeif Mind, whose original impressious have not been
effaced by eeadiog or social intercourse, nor chaetened• by a
erablie'cemPeficinship with the best 'dotal of the empire.
Y7SU liaye asSd'ined thit I 'ant "a, republican." I never told
pit so. You sever enjoy c 1 my confideoce Inagne k know you :
or. I f ahveye ihspecterl, from the first time m I begae ecquatnied
Vith'Ytin, which was during the Bedford adininistration in Ire-
Itentlx.thet,you were vile as you have since proved to be. My
e..erly diserust Of.your integrity is proved by the fact that I never
t nrtilled may. name es..a member of your catholic aseueiation,
nor in year trades' or political uniees esind though my esteem,
in
fqr some eXcellent embers Of ypur farnilY has prompted sue, '
f t aiircont perv.t, to repel your personal enemies, my ,original
ofilfiloV of yotef meanness, treachery, aod ;deplicity. lies never
undergone the'slightest alteration. Iles !show that I ;tin better
acquainted withthe prirdte histnit of your political delinquencies
thin rensetean in ;Ireland; but there is matter' euoug'u for i'u
purpose is the latter part of.your history, and I have therefore
no occasion to-draw upon _ancient reminiscences or private
ineepsoranda. :l shall, however, mention in this place, that,
ttratTiSr byeey form of goveietnent, whether- inonarchical or t*-
tiEqiCp; rational liberty .atul social happiness may, -1 think,
ke enjoyed by, the holiest end' the virtuone; . bet under no:form
oac. government, that,ever was devised ,by humesn . intellect, has
pee be ration a 'llt.Crty. prOYed'seustactory to those spirits
y,ll,icli, liisertite monsters or the icean, that portend the coming
kerne, eppee..r tai tie Most happy when the tempest of eiyil. strife
is tend!ng.into fragments every pillar of the still edifice;
I respect toasty of,those persons millet:led with yonr family;
Pint they are as eminent .for their virtue as you are conspicuous
fineyour wickedness. That this letter may possibly be the cause
04-dasquiet te those valued personsol. shail always regret. Thad
no altersuetive, however, but that. of silently sublstituto; ep those
taut imphtations which your inventive malignity. has fabricatee.L
or by
.the vindication of my character, and by inilictingon soli
that punishment you have so well deserved at sty hands, con-
vinee theintelligent people of Ireland that You are a eoineound
of, politic fraud, of falsehmeletreachery, duplicity, andsingrati-
tude, of which there is no living medel; and that you are so
base a inereimory,.that &the .Goil of Heaven were again to
come upon the earth, iu quality of a saviour, you would take
the priest of his blooA,,were iteiffered to you, and betray him for
thirty pieces of silver.
lota eeCond.charge is, that "I sank my republicanism immy
pocket, with the weight of the money that scout along with it,"
I,lleauing the ..money I received. from Francis Bruen. When
lotuattered this slander, you knew that you .were enacting the
Vert of a deliberate liar. You were convinced that there is not
op, man .whO knows sue that, will not say you are a liare-even
in that lihsomotive levee of prostitutes and hireling ragamuffins,
Whien, moves* from hue_ part of Ireland to the other at your
hiddieg. To be called a liar has, however; nothing reproachful
in ,it for your ear. Lying was the foundation upon which you
Lased the colutnn of, your pridessional character. Lying was
the foundation upon which you raised the superstructure of your.
publiferae.. Lying was the draft which you drew on piddle
ere.dulity, when you sent your mendicant collectors through
every part.of Ireland, to extiaet, from the very vitals of pau-
perism, the ineans,of indulging iu secial riot, orlivingin vulgar_
splendour, and.of satiating your toad-eaters to repletion, when
they looked for a:remuneration of their services amidst sceues
of extravagant luxury or criminal dissipation.'
-WhY; therefore, should you not continue to be a liar, when
national ignorance and'creduliey, beastly shpdrstition, and 'sue-
Ceseful knavery have made lying so profitable a trace for you
to fulloW ? •
And is it yop who charge me with having sold my principles
to Francis 'linen for ineney ? 'Yon that laid Your griping
hands on • What you called the "'sacred fund," the Catholic
relit; vets who have taken mere thari ten thousand pounds of
that "seered fund" to your own uses, and to the ,uses of those
professional swindlers and political paupers whh 6iiinpleted the
strength oryour hireling "train bands" in the Catholic 'asso-
ciation ; yon who never would allint the accounts of that asso-
ciation to be published, lest your enormous knaveries niieht be
detected; you who, by the construction of a financial machine,
such as never before existed in env country, haVelc outran.brery
invention and improvement of the age, and who has brought
the icfCnee of mendicancy to such perfection, that von hare not
only plundered the higher classes of their hundreds, and the
middle classes of their pounds, but have taken Mit of the greasy
pockets of the Irish beggars the cried-down Canute hallpenres
and the sterling farthings which casual charity had given for '
the relief of suffering indigence. Thou brutal idol of a most
brutal cengregation of worshippers, I have seen one of your
evlleclors
of
gate of a chapel, like a stag at bay in the mid, t
of a pack of ounds, beset by a group of beggars, abusing him
fur having intercepted those donations of the pious and the
charitable, which were intended for the lame and the blind, the
widow and the orphan, and transferred to the begging box of
hilt atiirdy representative of his heartless employer..
~
t -•Yetir third chrirge denounces ine- for. tin; "'profligacy" o
M y :Political 'opinions. . To be a prodlgate is to be an alien
dotted man—to be lest to virtue and decency-to be &llama_
leis. -*- is• - elf ei • . •• • -0 • *
' Your fourth and last charge is, that I voted for "a no-pepery
candidate:" You knew perfectly well. when you preferred this
ehatge, that it "Vras a lie so shameless, that it eau:U.-irk even be
bused' on nOisiliility, for l :tin not a registered' electer for either.
theberosigh or connif of Carlow ; coniequehtly I did not vote
at all, a;rl the public will at Q nee see, in this pretended justifie
catloti of your atthelt on .iny character, the evidence ',ir some
lurking Venom in a-heart debased as much by habitual brutality.
a any
•fi'eatt:that ever throbbed within the bosom of a human
dieing': But ,uPPose'l had been an elector; 'null .had voted for
Francis Bruen, how can you rccoecile your condoct in dehomics
irsg site With 'frier' pretended i.d‘Mtacv of liberal reineiplee ?
TA boast of having pleaded for the diseeriters• apd the Jews—
yhir takeicredit to yourself for lay n" snipered the petition of
"..t leern:en King, when tie applied to the govertinsenl to be ti nt-
peeSated for 'the leik of his natent; although the 'eunie Aldetinen
-King was an officer high' in the Gland Orange
,Locige of
Irelausl. '
Through I never could aroire that vulgar and fraudulent
egotism of yours, Which engrossed all the merit of welbaloing to
yourself, I approved of your conduct on thei c'o
e Several bCsionF.
Is it not; then, pasiing strange,:iir, that 'eiti, sO greata uhilan-
thropikt, and so ardent a 'leyee,bf liberty in the abstract, 'sill
Tint perMit a manner of your Owti relisidus persuasion to exer-
cise: his franchise as a free egent, or to promulgate his political
opinion's, witheut lieing pointed mato Too assassin press and
to your assassin ruffians, as one Who'shoted stiffer the pennities
of civil eitcorntnuriteneisn if be dares to geinsev your tyrannical
mamlhtee? Do you imagine that the edlicated; inielligent, and
independeut catholics of Irelend, who would not patiently en-
dure the yoke of protestant ,aseendatie,y, although its pressure
was scarcely felt for .tnany years previuus to its removal, will
slaw. patiently endure the yoke quo individual tyrant, .because
he calls himself a catholic—of a tyrant who has .giveu them an
earnest of.what they. triay.expeet, should-fate or the furies place
him at the head of a. fanatical and inerviless democracy? Col.
Titus, in his pamphlet. entitled.' ".it lllingeso murder:" speak-
ing of Charles the First. and Oliver'Cromiireil, says—o shit
we who destroyed the lions, tamely; lie down. to be devoured by
the wolf?" And 1 ask, will the eiithulies sit I ieland, who would
not crouch, as willing. slaves, before the royal lion ef Engand,
now suffer themselves .to be scratched to death by the monerel
whelp of a plebian kennel?. If ninan be the hireling of aKing,
a prime minister, or member of parliament, public scorn may
be neutralised by the quality of hie employer eebut you are a
. hireling of the 'rabble—of that. rabble which you have rendered
infinitely more depraved and more. ferocious than ever it was in
my retnembranee. .Can the quality of youromployers neutralise
that scorn which your surpassing uieatiness•has generated? or
is it possible for a man to .descend 'one-degree lower than you
have desceuded in the scale of human baseness?
Younre not in that position where.> (ter audacious and insolent
vanity prompts you to place .yourself--et !behead of the people.
You are nought .but one of.ttie rablile,-exalted a littleeabove the
lowest of that rabble by a. firotesaiional callihe but 'bunk...in-
finitely beneath the-lowest of that rabble by Xxose degiadinee
vices which., in . eveal civilised country on earth, have marked
the ballad ling Of. distinction ..botal/2.an 4 . foul pkbeiata .scieu our

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our mother earth, and the true nob.lity of nature.- Nicanull
the most disgikting, filselrrids the Must ihaUon d sla.,ders the
most truculent, avarice' the ilr)st degrading, and Morals the
most depraved, It ice colobined to foou a,clratact:er for You,such
as may he iu v tin sought ti; throkigLt the ling dnd etvgiterett
vista of ancient and • avelein history. Tit the p‘thrte. sir, in
;your next tpeenh, what class of men; or what: einrtrent,
inriivl-
ila in theßy:bob enyire has been left unscathed hy your forked
tongue' Have yon Vared the prestivterians Of the north, or
the quakets of the South ?. HaVe you spired eititer,whig or
tory, whether members of the cabinet or. law officers of the
crown? is there a single individual of the lute ministry
that )ou Iptve not libelled, commencing. with ,Eari: Grey, the
first premier, and eniling with Littleton, the last. Irish
sevretary-. _ • - .

flas gratitude. for, past services been 'able' to counteract in
your bosom that imiate depravity of heart which would' work '
out ruin fir the hest friend as Well as the direct foe? You havb
dealt out, not slander, but threats of extermination to the triads
of Maurice Fitzgerald iii Kerry, and to John Dasid Latopche, !
its Ihnblin. - Seine of the fitait names that appear enrolled in the
records of civil and-religions liberty in. the •ciattitry were those
of
.the Fitz.geralds and Letouehes.: The. eatholics of Ireland are
giateful to those illastrions feniilies fir their unparchased!advos
racy in the worstof tunes;' they Willenit identity themselves in
feeliug or in coil:Oct with such .a renegade ingrate as you are;
they will never- recognise in your vile tongue an organ pf their
.principles or opinnts; nor politically, associate with theseuffian
calumniator of such men as Meurico Vitz-,serald, the Knight of
Kerry, and John DaVid Latour he. • The most ardent, consists
ent, and unswerving friends of the Irish catholics were these
two virtuous men; and yet
!von fpund catholics• scisthoroughly
base as to liitee to you, and sit silent, while you vomited your
valgar and venoinime tirade on the unblemished character?) of
these venerated geutlemen. .To the one you have dispatched
your symbols of assassination, to the other you offer the. signifis
cant hieroglyphic of it Critmwellian- catrshead hash; you say
you will, have it painted anildiepatched to that venerable mans
whom none but a mortal monster, like yourself, would have
dared, to insult and oatragee It maSis be useful to state, for the
inferrnetion of these wretched men who have been so long the
dupes of your flagrant impostures; t hat for more than two hun-
dred years after the death-Of Charles I. the descendants of those
men who . followed • the fortunes of.: Oliver Cromwell,- pre-
pared on each anniversary of that monarch's martyrdom, a calls
head hash, which they had iserviel ep at their dinner tanks, in.
savage, derisiou of his melancholy fate. In those two cases you
have told the public; id language too plain to be misunderstood,
that you da'te to be a trader to blood if you dared to risk your.
. .
recreant carcass. ,
John Dahidsfsatouche, you say, is a livpocrite. Thou vilest
of all'hyviscrites! Mehemet; your grand prototype, pretended,
.in the mosque, to have his supethuinan leveriee and his celestial
correspondence; von, also, "blessed be God," proceed with
sauctimonious'bedringto:some chapel, where, in the perform.'
ante of your, religious -anties.-befere the attar, you pretend to'
haye yearr superhuman reveries and your celestial .
'.correspond-
ence• and while you affect to do homage. to the Most High,'
your heart is at your home with your household'deities,'Molochs
and Mammon, to whom only you shouds offer -sacrifice; for the
God of truth, of justice, and of charity, cannot he the Deity of
such a miscreant impostor. •• '' . • - : '
The melancholy homicides consequent on, the collisiorrof the'
peasantry with the King's troops at Ratheoemac. form for you
an inexhaustible theme ef expatiation, be Whitt) you may. exas-I
peratothe poor people in every part of the hingilum. -Now, I:
'shall deMoustrate to these poor people,'that, by one audaeious!
and truculent speech, delivered at a public dinner at Cork, you
have bee.n the proximate cause of. these homicides. •Not ,very :
long before this public entertainment had been provided for
yoa,n 'fleeting ef-piotestants Was held at Lord Bandon's, whete,
rt.waiiespeeted iu one el the public journals,. that the number
collehted on the occasion amounted to eight thousand. When -
your health was preppies.' at the Cork dieuer, you answered the
compliment by delivering one of those speeches so peculiar to
Your own taste, and your own character—en oration composed
of "shreds and patcheo"----of boggederio, lying and vulgar per-
'sonalities. -. You alluded, in that •speech, to the meeting held at
'Lord .Bandoo's„ and the paltry numerical strength of the pro-
testantss - Y nu said- that "the ijarsotins title boys) of Cork would
drive these eight thousand .prutestants into the SCA*" •The driv-
ing of those eight thousand protestantainto,the sea could not•be
So effected, I' preSuthe, by " conStitptienal agitation and passive
,resistance." • You well know it could • not : behso• effected:, and
that it would require ruusquets, bayonets, and artillery; to drive
theie proteStarits into the sea. But when this speech of 'yours
'was conveyed.; through-the medium of the presss to the different
'towns arid villages:.l the comely, of Cork, and read on the ens
suing Sunday to the wondering peasantry, by village pedagogues,
what a high opinion must they have enterteinettof theiroven
invincible prowess, when the "garstions"-of Corkhhoirld drive
eight thoesand protestants into the sea, without guns, bayonets,
pikes, or Mutton. • Oh, thought the poor people; •" if the, boys of
Cork could drive eight thonsaud motestants lute the -sea, with-
ofiefiresarths, sure we on drive away the tithe collectors in the
same manner." You •filfered no explanatipn of 'your words;
you did flat say you spoke in metaphorerspertared not•whether
the lower classes put a true or false ihtgepretation on your brag-
gart merlin:es; you left those ineria4hto be adopted in their on-
lions meaning Gy the people, and arty have they paid fur "lis-
tening to the craven counsel of so 1 ug.an oracle. It is mani-
fest,' by the reriert taken at the coroner's inquest, that' the pa-1,
tiquce of the officers. and soldiers engaged at dtatlicormae wee;
fried to the utmost limits of-hitinan forbearance—that the pooe
people streak both officers and soldiers with sticks and witik
stones,--brolse their arias, and wouariedisome of the party. But
then the contents Of your speech were uppermost in the minds
of the tithe debtors. If the boys of Cork could kilt eight .thou-•
seend;protestants by the breath of their nnstrils, why should:not.
the, peasantry et Itatheurrnac he able to annihilate a small', inis
Mary force with sticks and stones? It is clear as is the sun in
the;, ormainent of heaven, that your cowardly vepouripg•.at the
V irk dinnerled to thelsmentalle catastmophe at Ratheormise.
Will you now, most diltingnished patriot and unrivalled mo-
ralist, iuform the..publie what was the amouut of the professional
fee that accompanied the Itathcormac case, on which you pros
trounced &solemn and deliberate opinion, that if something M4IS
done, amid what that enartst hing was I do.not.nossharhoerfteef, the
peasantry bail been all " murderett,7 But this I reenilee4, that
at the time I read this case and opinion, I discovered in the latter
the same proportionate qoantum of equiVocation and •circum-
stantial falsehood, with which every production of yours is so
abandantly interlarded. You will not deny that you -received
on that evcasiau as large•professional fee from the relatives of
the .sleih peasautrv. "rid money in .thy,pursq,". said iayo,. "at
iiiiyhazard;". enif this you have done—extsacting gold with re-
nuirseless avarice hand the very blood of 'those men Who had
been consigned tepreinature graves by 'adopting the drunken
Calculations of a heartless demagogue.
During the whole course of my -hie, neither nty-moral nor
my Wilk character has beep before assailed but ottee—l•vas
their assailed by a monster in canonicals:-a miscreant priest,
whose pretensionies) public or to private 'virtue are just as well
founded as your. own. Ilitecelestial panoply on that occasion
was the bravo'cluak of an anonymous assassin, and the-empty'
shelties of irbeggared printer. iqiiir 'celestial papoply, put on
when you attacked sue, with the spirit ofone of those Antropo-
phigi New Zealanders whom you resemble so much, .amid from
whom, •I verily believe,' you are descended, was . your brazen
disregard of truth, and-your established character of being an
unconquered blackguard bully in the -prize ring .of politics.
Toe priest will inform you of the amount he pocketed by his
attack, and you will be able, after the publication of this letter,
to say what gains have accrued to vou from _your speech at the
" Anii-Prupriety-Association," arid then'yuu may both sit down
and divide your profits. Yet why should Ibe at all surprised at
your attaelsOn me? Is. there otie respectable catholic in. Ires
land who would not condescend to be your, slave, or who would I
not contribute to your beggar's tax, that you have net slander-.
'ed? You have 'often talked of conciliating the Irish people
who belong to the'clifferent religious creeds; your plan of!ton-
' ciliation is indeed most magical—it has converted your un-
happy country ii to a pandemonium " where eternal discord.
reigns." There will be no peace in Ireland until the voice of
public indignation shall hunt you back to that obscurity from
which it were so devoutly to be wished you had never emerged
—where your sphere of action will be confined, and where you!
may continue the perpetration of those pert` larcenies on lite-
,rature which hove hithecto been so successful;` and which have,
already earned for you, with learned men, and with men of ex-
tensive reading. the reputation of being " the greatest literary
felon that has appeared in. our hemisphere since the days of '
Sterne." . • . . . e
- You have established one rnendicity asylum at Derrynane
Abbey, in the county of Icerry, and another mendicity asylum
at Merrion-square, in the city of Dublin, where "fat contented
ignorance,". brazen effrontery, and irreclaimable dullness may
repose under the shade of splendid beggary, proving to the
astonished cow-herd and turf-cutters of Caberciveen, as well as
to the starving weavers and ragged scavengers of Dublin, that,
while every trade and manufacture in Ireland is on the wane, -
mendicancy—proud, puffed-up, well-fed mendicancy, flourishes
in the drawing-room, or lolls iu the gilded chariot, without fear
of diminution or decay, •
The three great emancipators of the " olden times," Jack !
Cade amid Wat Tyler of England, and Massaniello of Naples,
connueucedeach his political career after your fashion, with
this difference, that the rabble which they respectively beguiled
they led man bravetv tQ the field of battle, When Sack Cade
arrived In the suburbs of London, he declared that he " would
not leave one lord in all England, and that mutton should he
sod for a farthing a- pound." How far short of this honest
'ln „e's deelacation is the letter or the spirit of your manifestoes ?
Jack, huwever, was a courageous ruffian, and was taken in the
'fact of murdering an- old peer for the sake of his "beloved
countrymen ;" he was,' therefore, ignominiously and unjustly
• led .to the, 'renews. -1.0 what will happen. your " beloved
countrymen," 'sort are never to lie found at • the post of danger
when the battle rages at Moncoin, Carrickshocks. or Rathcor-
mac. Yon arrive at the-suburbs with your troops, turn back
.upon them, publish a letter exhorting them to obey the laws.,
and then declare that "•not sen 4 drop of• blood .has been shed
during the progress of constitutiohel agitation and passive re-
sistance." Ilesi- long will those- unfortunate people, which you.
have uecoyed.by• your inflammatory letters and speeches to the
very threshold. cif insurrection,. continue to follow- in the foot-.
steps of such a ferbcions coward and such a base meieenary ?
Arough MaS3aniella.was not followed by a corn exchange or
ih onsehold,Lezzarinii, he was able, to- collect nearly as great.
a foree, empposeth of geuuints lovers .01 liberty, at, you once
promisedebut!afrerwarils forgot• to meet on . the hill, of Tara.
.After the fisherman hail proved his d6votion to the sacred cause
'of " ciinstitutional egitation," by the Murder °revery commoner
who presumed to hold a different opinion from' himself on the.
!subjeet of. untaxed fruit, his rabble worshippers immolated
t heir deity pn. his own altar; • leaving, if history besot as worth-
less " as an old almanac's," a very awful and very significant
'warning to such fellows as you are, not to trust too much to the
!patehatisin and humanity of your "-beloved coaritaymen." .
' hlitton's'lsuciferhuid:that he would-rather •" reign• in 'hell
than serve in heaven."• Had you lived in the dtrys of Milton,
`you wood have furnished the poet with an admirable portrait of
the original-you most certainly- would rather " reign in hell
'than serve in •heaven," and a' hell you•will make of your native
country. and in that hell you will essay to reign triutnphant, if
1 hr' king's ministers,'lkeeky whig or they' do t.i t enact strong
lases ate present' 'the "eircidatiau of theite libellous andinsurrec-
titulary prockeaationss ,ibidi yourself and your cut-threat sa-
,
hellites have been so tong pronithlgating.
And now; sir.' to year beggar's. dish, •
" With what appetite you Deity." •
Carlow, Feb:9, 1535: • • THOMAS FINN
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I Esc LISII Worynt.—Siineof our •worth, in conqnuence of
itlie prevalence of an accidental import, acquire rather .a ludi-
!eroos force.when -aptilied to other eirceinstaiices. 'Thus, from
;the verb to perform being. so commonly userl'ivith reference to
he stage. it startles net° tititi'thatfuerets are always performed
by the undertakers,' and `more recently in the Court Circulars,
That dh'ine service is•also'perfirmed. •
Loan LOr'aftridnol 011.--:-The first cause at the English bar
'in Which Wiidderhurne, afterwards LordLoughbOrough, pleaded
was that of'"l.)Ouglas v. 1-lamiltOn;". before Lord Camden.
After which, when the chanceilr.r -.got into his carriae; he
observed .16 his 'se'cretarv, Mr, Wilmot, whOM ilia lordship:
familiarly ejlieil " Weil, tii.rif,". Said lie, -"What do
thlrilt-01- That Seotchmaiir' kt My • replied the
secretary, "I ebusider him a great pleader." Sir,"'itaiil Lord
binide.n, "that man; iri.niy)aPinion,-is equal to Lord Mansfield,
and sitpericit.'te .was-;' if he pleaSes, he must be
rhancellor.".-We fully Lord Ctituden's-prediction
wit* Weddefliaroe'S clevatieli. I . received this
aneediite froiil the late 'Lleart of Raphoe, Dr. Allett; who was
uarle to the Mr. Wlldabt alluded to.

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

SaTuanar.---Before the MAYnit-aild Mr. AI4I.:SIANIFOraIf.. •
6K1,00: 6 kolthilay.—finee women ot had cit,rticter, named
ben liunhes, Aiice Mullen .and Anne Youtig,• Were• charged
with. being -concerned iu roboing ,t4revn, an Irish pig-
jobber, ot a number of sovereigns, Ins in onerty. lliesoin-
.plainatit, who resides at -the Lint l iln9, Withiu a Tiarter of a
mile. of Llrogheda, arrived in.Livt-rpoui by the pacl,...et on Wed-
neschiy last, wiih.a quantity of pigs which he soli for 1;22,- in
sovereigns, half-sovereigns, and silver. 114 ptaced the money
in his inside;v.aistcoat.poeket, and.saw ,safe in the affirimou
of the same day, at four o'clock. On the day iullowing he was
leaving ilachelOr-street, when he met with alnau whoin he had
known before,.named Edward Quin, who hail a - woman with
him. By Quiu he was induced to go into a public-hose, where
he was treated with three glasses of spirits by Quin, and became
tipsy. He then,..at the solicitation tlutn and the woman,
went with them to a house in Orange-street to stay the Right.
The three prisoners were in the -house, end the coniplamant
after sleepingan.hour awoke, and' patting his -hand- itito• his
pocket missed therefrome.even, sovereigns. gays the alarm,
when the prisoner Eilen Hughes entered -the room, arid toll
him not tube uneasy, -as she knew the person who had taken
his money, and if he would give her a sov•ereign she would find
it for hint. Complainant was foolish enough to give Hughes
sovereign, and then fell asleep a second ,tiine, bet-was. shortly
awoke by Hughes feeling at -his waistcoat pocket. She con-
trived to take the purse and its contents, and ran down stairs:
He then.f.missed his. watch, ,and followed .:Elughes, but she had
, left the place, and the prisoner Muden told
.him titiatAis,friend
Quin knew the thieVes, awl would see him righted. Complain-
ant then gave information-to the police. The watch ',reduced
he identified as his property. f A -pawnbroker proved• that the
watch was pawned with him on the day of the robbery by a wo-.
man, in- the name of Mary Williams. ••• -• • -
James Davison spoke to appreheuding-the prisoners from the
inrormation given to him by the complainaat, who identified
them. The pawntickct of the watch was-found •uporythe pri-
sonei Young, who lives next door to Mullen, in Orange-street.
Yonng•ciffaed him 2s. (id. to say nothing" of the tnatter.—
. Committed. . • • • . . .
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STEALING A TWENTY POUND
,NOTE.—William Gamblio,
a Manor bad character, Was charged with stealing a twenty;
pound. Bank of England, note, the property of a young man
named William Orton, under, the following circumstances. —•
The prosecutor, who is employed by Messrs. tie.i)rge King awl'
Co., starch. manufacturers, on Tue;div, the :3tt instant, wished
to obtain change fur a twenty . pound note, and. accordingly
went to several shops in Scotland-rOad to endeavour to do so,
•but without-success. On passing-the, corner of Rdgar-street the j
prisoner, who must have been watching hig motions, t;anael,to-,
and tapping him ou the shoulder said, " Arc not you the yMing
man who has been trving to get change. of a note ?', Ttie pro- '
secutor replied that he was.; when the prisoner asked thavalne
ofit, and on beiOg told said that if he (the prosecutor) would'
come, to his house he could give him change immediately. Pro
secutor assented, aud walked with the prisoner to a- pub!ic-house
in Richmond-row, where he gave. him the note, the prisoner:
taking 'him-into a parlour, Where he desired hint to remain
whilst he fetched the change. Ile never, however, returned with
either the note or-the change, aud the prosecutor finding he had
beets done, went in search of a police otHeer: •
• John Dale, a shaptnaa in Scotland-road, proved that the pro 7
secutor had asked for change at his shop. .
The dgughter of the publican in Itichmena-rovi said she re-
tollected the'prisoner and prosecutor entering her father's braise,
*and saw the prisuuer go through the kitchen out at the back.
dodr. • •
. Robert Barton, a constable, having! received the denription .
of the prisoner from the complainant,: apprehended hint on
Thursday night in a tap-room 'in Scotland-toad, and 'on bias
found a night protector. He was ideutitied .by, the prosecutor.
The prisoner, who had uothing•Ao say in his defence, was
committed.

tEsTEarisy.---(Before the Mlyokt and 'Mr.' Aid. CASE.)
TlAtri3OUT' CO-ACIIMPAgliS*—John Cavaunagli and James
Calaghan, two Irish coachwheei-malters, were placed at the
bar, enarged with assaulting two other pperatives in the same
business. .The. assault, it appeared; originated in the kite turn
out of coachinakers against their masters. The. complainants
were content to .go to work, in defiance Of the rules of the
trades unions, and were consequently termed ". black-sheep,"
and assaulted by the unionists whenever oppertunity. offered.
On Saturday,.night last, the complainants were sitting in a
beer shop;;called the SbanirockTavern,.when the two prisoners.
in company with other turn-outs nut in custody,.entered and
commenced an attack upon them. Cavannagh had it 'Weapon,
with which he struck at a man named` Powell; - and cut his head
open.. Powell was taken to a surgeon, any, on his way, was
stoned by the turn-outs. Several other persons sustained injury
frorn'their violet-lee; and the magistrates held' the prisoners'th
bail to answer any charge that may he brought against them at
the sessions, themselves in .£,lO and two sureties in £2O each.
A -Ut3VENJ t.fi 'ASSAULT' 0 ASE.—A boy of 11', years of age.
named Geo. Taylor; was brought forward at the instance of his
parents, to complain of a violent assault having been committed
upon him by Benjamin • Burrows, another bey, (his senior by
.'. t a year,), by which his eye was literally knocked out. it
6te
L .ared from-the evidence of the boy'and the statement ,-fMr.
: a, an attorney, that, on.the 29th of September last, the cum-
s- ••4 . • tit was *laving somewbeie in the neighbourhood of
.ndant's father's house, Limekiln-lane,;when, seeing .the de-
s.. ;lit passing, he called ont " Ha, ha, there goes Ben Bur-
t, I" upon which the defendant went up to him:and ehallenged
to fight. This the complainant refused to do, when Bur-
L ' s struck him on the right eye with his fist. By' the blow
.4.e poor. little tellow:s•ieye was instantaneously knocked out.
' .3 female residing in the neighbourhood, seeing the blow shuck,
Went to the assistance of the cOmplaivant, and sawliis eye upon
the.groinad, Barrows was. standing by at the time, and-ac-
knowledged to having done it. , ,
Mr. Crew, the solicitor, Who appeared 'for the youtig defen-
dant, elicited-that both .bilysAvere previousiy on good tetnis of
friendship, and that the cutuplainant's eve.ivas nearly blind in
.chnsequence of being pearled before the a ecidetit happened.
, The Nlaybr and .-adr.-Alilerrnan ease wars' or epicuou that tiK
parents of each boy should meet and settle the matter amicably,
as they did nut sea what the magistrates could do fur them.
Mr. Yates, the attorney for the Plaiatitts, said that a:I that
was wanted was compensation for the injury, which had been
refased;

The magistrates said they could Mild the defendant to bail to
answer the charge ,at the sessions, but they were at a loss to
conceive what purpose such a proceeding could serve. They
(the parents)' bad much better settle it. , • ' • •
Mr. Crew, on behalf of his client, considered-that it would be
better to hold the defendant to bail to answer the charge at-the
sessions,=and-probably -in the mean time It -might he settled.
Mr. Yates examined Mr. Haskell, a surgeon, from whose
evidence it appeared that the thumb of the defendant must
have been used pointedly•to eject( the-eye fruni the'soCket.
The Magistrates then took the Mr. Burrows, the 4e-
feutlarh's father, for die defendant's appearance at the sessions,
at the same time stating that they strongly advised him to
settle, thematter •by compensation. • .
Seize RA OF AN ILLICIT. STILL.,-.-.A respectable looking
working man named Henry Lammer, and it boy about Sixteen
years of age, sail4o-be his, son, were charged with _working
Illicit Still In Banastre-street. The supervisor. of excise, said
that from information he had that morning received he accom-
panied an excise officer to the prisoner's house-in Banastre
street, and there faund the two prisoners superintending .an
illieit.still in full operation. On the premises there were-about
sixty gallons of wash for making .whiskey, besides tubs of grain;
and distilled spirit..
,
In answer to a question from the Magistrate, the supervisor.
said he believed the younger prisoner was son to the elder one,
and as he would be acting under the advice of his father, he did
not wish to press the case agaiust the son.
The elder prisoner having nothing to say in his defence, the.
magistrates convicted him in the penalty 4E30, and in default
of payment to be imprisoned fur three calendar months. The
son was discharged.
John M'Court, a negro seaman, was charged with stealing
pair of trowsers, the property of a, clothier, near the docks. It
appeared that the prisoner, in compacty with another-sailor not,
in custody; whom he called his shipmate, went to the complain-
ant's shop to sell an old coat, whirls having done they mauaged
to steal the above article. The shipmate escaped, but mac
was shippe)d, and remanded to the strong hold till this day.
Ant- UNaccilt7wra BLit. 1;i1S !I M -o'Shaughnessr,
rude, rough-spun Bareralder, was placed at the hat., charged by
a watchman with briug drink and unaccountable on the previous
night. •
Phase yer worship, .said -one of Mr. Whitty's 'witty watch-
men, this blackguard countryman of mine, of which, the saints
be praised, there's a scarcity in Ireland, siuce the new police
and new parliaments were 'stablished, was as drunk as a suck-
in.. pig last night near Clarence Dock, and as I spoked to hint
to'know what he was doing widge himself, widout his being able
to account, I lugs him to liridevvell.
Magistrate—(to the prisoner.)—Well, are you able to ac-
count for yourself now?
•Pat.—Och, by the mother-of St. Patrick, its me that-can, but
bad luck to the day, I could, seeing that 1 havn't a rap to tiv
Wid. It was yesterday that I had five golden sovereigns *bed
came off Lie packet...
Magistrate.—And what's become of them 1 .. •,
Pitt.—Goitre of emir Fait that'S What 1 want to know. Iri
;co/lids getting a quart of ale and a bitof bread for my dinner,.
and tan naggius of whisky as a refresher, but devil's the thing
heside•till I finds myself bele,.
Magistrate.,-Well, go about your business, and-take care ,:)r.
your Money in future.
Pat.—Whisky's a queer cratur, yet honour.—(Exit.) •

A NEW SAINT.—The pope has ordered the name of John.
Baptiste Rossi to be added to the calendar, the pontifical
decree. dated the 221 of January -last, declaring the decVitied
worthy of being ranked with the blessed." A solemn .beatifi-
cation is to he performed, if the family of the defunct are ready
to pay the. piper.—Atbion: .
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, . .
Tux • CHATTERING. PARLIAMENT.-6,Mercy: on us! Three
thousand four hundred and, eighty closely printed foli,) pages of
eloquence, all uttered in the course Of a single -seSsion! Our
:parliaments have frequently had-variout sobriquets applied 1'
them tredenote the respective qualities by which they were, dis-
tinguished. The last ought certainly to tie•kiniwu to posterity
by the title of" the chattering parliatnent." It is curious to oh
serve how the octeuthes loptendi has, been of late years increasing
in our-legislature, especially in the popular portion of it. This
is, probahly,in 'a great degree attributable to the sad lack of men
of commanding genius among out existing-orators, When such
highly gifted 'beings as Pitt, and Fox, and Burke, Sheridan, and
Windham, and. Canning flourished, inferior minds did not ven-
ture to obtrude on the public attentton. Debates were compara-
tively few in number, and,' after half-a-dozen of the Principal
speakers had expressed 044 v-opinions, the house would not listen.
to any others. But now ( with rare exceptions) there is adead
level of' meJiocrit v. T
Tom knosis that he cart speak as well as.
Jack; and: Bob knows that he can speak..as well. as and
Dick knows that he can speak as well as liarry ; and, se they
,all
speak, 'and keep one another in countenance': A snore Nan
feminine yeti/hinny prevails:, With little or no preparation, an
houourable gentleman starts tip, and pours forth an incoherent
mass of matter in a style suited to the meridan of a parish vestry
era common hall. 'Talk:. talk, talk, is the order of the day;
and it is never ellowed.to be a,dropped order. , One would think
that our representatives had been studying Mathew's " patter."
Not a petition is presented but it is accompanied by one, two.
three, ten, twenty speech-et. It a hundred petitions are, presented
of the same description, the same speeches are repeated, Evers,
topic-is talked tolatterS. ' First, we have the joint, then the cola
meat,- then the hash, then the mince, then the broiled bone. A.
subject is referred tu,the consideration of a committee above stairs,
in which it tindergoes ainple and minnte-inveStigation : never.'
the:es:4. when.the report is mndr to the house; it is debated. w
as much earnestness and prolixity as if the question were tine)
first broached. Never befote, in the history of 'the world, was
there . such persevering prattle. .Beginning at noon, rarely,
indeed, does it happen that an adjournment of the House of
COramons, takes place until two or three o'clock next morn-
ing. ,Tbe,cousequenee ofall'this is chat little progress is made
in real business; and that measures of the highest public ha-
pertanee are necessarily postponed from time to time, until it
periotharrives when, they must be either hurried through both
houses in a crude and imperfect state, or .entirely abandoned.
If some remedy be not devised for this enormous and growing
evil, it :will deStroy all rational and wholesome
Literary Gazette on ihe tbritror (tt the last Parliament.

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