The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

Mr. O'Connell, in a letter, in his choicest style, re-
nounces his tribute for the current year, and promises
£5OO subscription to the wants of his countrymen. It is
a letter very much calculated to excite a panic.
On Sunday night week, a party of armed men attacked
and beat James Neal and Cornelius Conway, at Fahy,
county Clare, for paying their rent due in March. There
have been also similar outrages in the county Tipperary.
On Sunday evening week, at about half-past six o'clock,
eight houses were attacked in the neighbourhood of Ahane,
near Limerick, by fourteen armed men, some of whom
had their faces blackened. They carried off about twenty
stand of arms, and seriously injured several persons.
Mr. John Irving, the well-known bead of the distin-
guished firm of Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., died on
Thursday at an advanced age. By Mr. Irving's death a
vacancy is occasioned in the representation of the County

Antrim.
DREADFUL MURDER.—Yesterday evening week, a
young man named William Crawford was brutally mur-
dered on the Saintfield road, near the village of Newtown-
breda, near Belfast ; and his brother was, at the same
time, so severely b:,at,al, very little hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery.
Mr. Lucas, late Under Secretary for Ireland, is to be
chairman of the new commission of inquiry into the
state of the potato crop, and Commissary-general Sir
Randolph Routh, and Sir James Dombraine, the bead of
the coast guard department in Ireland, will, it is said, be
added to the commission.
THE POTATO CROP.—The panic is obviously abating.
The provincial journals say little about it ; and our nume-
rous correspondents are silent. Do not those circum-
stances suggest, either that the alarm was premature, or
that the plague had been staved at a point which leaves
abundance for the future ?—Dublin Mail.
MURDER IN LONGFORD.—Three brothers, named
William, Henry, and John Bergin, were waylaid on Sa-
turday week on their return from market, by fourteen or
fifteen fellows, and William was so severely beaten that
be died shortly afterwards ; the other brothers were
dreadfully beaten. John Buchanan, and Philip Farrel,
two of the assailants have been apprehended and com-
mitted for trial.
ELECTION NEws.—The following little illustration of
cause and effect was given to the public this week. Mon-
day.—Mr. O'Connell bestows the vacancy in Cork to
Mr. Alexander Mc Carthy. Friday.—Mr. Alexander
McCarthy bestows the sum of £2O to Mr. O'Connell's tri-
bute. There was a time when such a situation would be
valued at £looo—say £lOOO, but now-a-days such gifts
are cheap and nasty. The Conservative electors of Cork
may demur to this tidy little arrangement.
SPREAD OF FEVER IN DROGFlEDA.—Malignant fever is
very prevalent in the lanes and suburbs of this town. A
gentleman, who is in the habit of visiting the cabins of the
poor, states that he has, during the week, witnessed several
most awful instances of destitution—in many cases two or
three sick in one apartment of the wretched cabins, and
in some eases, two or three in one bed ! ! The Board of
Guardians are compelled to seek the temporary loan of
the hospital in North George's-street, until a fever hospi-
tal is erected. If disease so soon makes its appearance
among the poor, what may we expect if measures be not
taken to prevent famine, or even an insufficiency of food,
and which may endanger the lives of the rich as well as the
poor ?—Drogheda Conservative.
PROTESTANT MOVEMENT.—At a meeting held at Ar-
magh, on the 7th instant, at which a large number of in-
fluential noblemen and gentlemen from the various coun-
ties of Ulster were present, one of the resolutions adopted
on that occasion was to the effect—" That a society,
under the name of THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE, should
be formed to meet the increasing dangers by which our
Protestant interests are threatened." A committee was
subsequently named, consisting of the following noblemen
and gentlemen (many of whom were present), with power
to add to their number :—Duke of Manchester, Marquis
of Downshire, Earl of Roden, Earl of Enniskillen, Earl
of Erne, Viscount O'Neill, Lord Edwin Hill, M.P.,
Hon. S. Maxwell, D.L., J.P., Colonel Verner, M.P.,
N. Alexander, Esq., M.P., Roger Hall, D.L., J.P.,
Waring Maxwell, D.L., J.P., Rev. William Forde, D.L.,
J.P., Major Waring, D.L., J.P.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting on Mon-
day was attended by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Smith
O'Brien. Mr. O'Connell, in speaking bf the differences
existing amongst repealers at Waterford, said Mr. Wyse
was no repealer, and as to Sir Winstone Barron, he sup-
posed that gentleman imagined he would degrade himself
by attending in Conciliation-hall. He (Mr. O'Connell)
would take that opportunity of saying, that neither of
the individuals be alluded to would be troubled with re-
presenting that borough in the next parliament. No
persons would be selected to represent the citizens of
Waterford but those who were identified with them in
feeling and in sentiment. In reference to Dr. Kirwan's
appointment to the new college, at Galway, Mr. O'Con-
nell also said, " God help the people of Ireland ; but I
trust the thought will not cross their minds that their
clergy would be accessible to bribery. Had any man told
me that Dr. Kirwan would have taken a situation under
the Colleges Act, I would have said I would as soon be-
lieve that a stream could return to its source." The rent
for the week was announced to be £3OO I7s. 6d.

PROGRESS OF REPEAL

(From the Dublin Evening Mail•)

We are told by the place-hunters, and, what is worse,
Ministers are mis-informed, through the same channels—
that Repeal has been put down in Ireland. It is, of
course, vain to expect that any information passing through
the " ordinary channels" can reach Downing-street.
The occupants of that locality make it their boast that
they never read newspapers, and, naturally, their subor-
dinates follow in their wake. Sir Robert Peel knows
nothing of Ireland but what be hears from Sir James
Graham, who derives his knowledge from Lord Heytes-
bury, who doubtless never does so un-diplomatic an :let
as to look into a newspaper, and is, therefore. dependant
for information upon Mr. A'Cour t, the A.D.C.'s in wait-
ing, and other members of that select family circle, to
which the Viceregal hospitalities are now limited. It is
the same throughout the whole political chain ; neither
Mr. A'Court nor his cenviees profess Repeal opinions at
the Castle symposia ; and, therefore, Lord Heytesbury
knows those opinions are extinct, and to that effect he in-
forms Sir James Graham, who repeats the glad tidings to
the Premier.
This is the information that reaches head-quarters by
the official course ; but see what is circulated through the
ordinary channels, and conveyed to all the nation, Minis-
ters excepted ! Mr. Sergeant Stock, it is known to most
quidnuncs and curious inquirers, has for some years rep-
resented the (so-called) liberal and Irish sentiments of
the burgesses of Cashel ; and Mr. Sergeant Murphy, it is
also known, though with somewhat more of public
notoriety, was the organ of similar sentiments, as en-
tertained by the citizens of Cork. Both these learned
gentlemen, however, have been dismissed, to make way
for " Repealers, and no mistake :" witness, in the case of
Mr. Stock, the following paragraph, which we quote from

the Freeman's Journal
" We believe we may now state with certainty that our
respected fellow-citizen, Alderman O'Brien' will accept
the very complimentary invitation of the Repealers of
Cashel, and offer himself for the representation of that
city, about to become vacant by the resignation of Ser-
geant Stock. Cashel has been one of the blots upon the
Repeal constituency of Ireland. It could at all times
since the reform bill have returned a Repealer without
even a contest; now for the first time these ten years it is
about to elect a nationalist. Some local incubus seemed
to weigh down the spirit of the masses in Cashel; whether
that it was that the few preferred self, and temporary
gain, and private ends to the exaltation of the national
cause, or whether all the electors were indeed apathetic
if not worse, we care not now to inquire, since they have
by their recent choice redeemed themselves, and declared
so unequivocally for Ireland as to select a man for their
representative whose still recent official life was marked
by uncompromising adherence to a then persecuted cause.
We rejoice for the honour of the city of the kings, that
even late, it has taken this decisive step. If Cashel has
heretofore had the disrepute of being a non-Repeal bo-
rough, with a Repeal constituency, it will henceforth have
the honour of being the first of its class to adopt the
honourable course."
I The Alderman O'Brien here alluded to is the gentle-

man who was Lord Mayor of Dublin last year, and whose
merit consists in his having attended the procession to
receive Mr. O'Connell from prison, in his full mayoral
state. If Mr. Alderman O'Brien possesses any other
qualification, real or imaginary, to fit him to bee mem-
ber of Parliament, the circumstance lies not within the
compass of our knowledge.
Thus have two faithful servants of the O'Connell fac-
tion—faithful to the verge of Repeal—been dismissed in
deference to the progress of the movement. Another
ejusdezn generis, it would seem, from the following signi-
ficant sentence, has got instant notice to quit :--
" We are delighted (says the Tipperary Vindicator) to
know that it is the intention of the Repeaters of the
above important town invite the youngest son and name-
sake of Ireland's Liberator, Daniel O'Connell, jun., Esq.,
to stand for the representation of their borough, in the
event of the resignation of the Right Hon. David Pigott,
M.P."
So much for the suppression of Repeal.

DRAINS ON IRELAND

(From the Dublin Warder.)

Turning to the Catholic Directory for the present year,
we find under the heading " Propagation of the Faith" a
report of the receipts of the "Irish branch" of the associa-
tion, combined for that purpose, for the year ending Jan.
2d, 1841; and which states those receipts at no less a sum
than 1,0681, 65.01 d. AU this comes out of the pockets of
the poor, and lest one penny should find its way back
again into their possession, the whole amount, after de-
ducting the necessary charges of collecting it, is remitted
to France ! and so an end of it. Assuming the last year's
to have been an average return, we find that the amount
collected under this head alone, since Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
accession to power, has been no less a sum than 28,2731.
4s. 2d. Let us now turn to the Roman Catholic Church
in Ireland. The following is an exact statement of the
number of its prelates and clergy respectively

. . _. .
Archbishops .. .. 4
Bishops • • .. .. 23
Parish Priests .. , . .. 957
Curates • • .. 1294
The archbishops and bishops are supported partly by
the revenues derivable from chapels reserved to them-
selves, and partly by dues:payable by their diocesan clergy.
We shall merely calculate that part of the revenue of the
Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, which is derivable
from the diocesan parishes, which we shall assume to yield,
at an average each, £4OO a-year ; their number is 1,016;
and this would give for a single year the sum of £418,400;
and since ithe accession of Sir R, Peel to power a total
zzceir of £1,673,600. One item snore, we think, is worth

computing. The number of chapels we find to be 2,175.
The expense of maintaining them in repair, and of occa.
sionally building others, we shall assume to be represented
by a yearly charge of £2O each, which will give for one
year £42,500; and for a nett amount for the four years of
Peel's ascendancy, £170,000. It is to bo observed, that
in these necessarily imperfect estimates we have made no
attempt, through lack of materials, to calculate the yearly
cost, which must. be very considerable, of maintaining the
staff of officers, boys, &c., necessary for the service of the
chspel; nor have we made any estimate whatever of the
revenue drawn from the people by the swarms of regulars
who infest the country. We shall here add together the
several sums received under the respective heads to which
we have referred, for the four last years
Repeal rent • • • • • •
O'Connell tribute .. • •

£117,287 7 01
80,000 0 0
28,273 4 2

Propagation of the Faith ..
Revenue of the Roman Catholic
Church, derivable from parish L, 1,673,600 0 0
dues .. • • • • ) .

Charge of repairing, building, &c.,
170,000 0 0
the chapels .. ••

Total amount collected for parish
purposes, political and religious, 2,C66,160 11 2
for the last four years ..

Now first, we would suggest to our poor fellow-country-
men that such a suns might have been found convenient at
this menacing season; and, secondly, we would venture to
press upon the notice of Sir Robert Peel the fact, that
such are the resources of the Church, and such the reve-
nues of the religion, to add to whose gigantic wealth he is
permanently diverting the money of Protestant England;
while, at the same time, he peremptorily denies to the
struggling cause of church education a single penny from
the public purse. Upon such a theme volumes might be
written. We feel, however, that we have transgressed the
modest limits to which we would fain have confined our-
selves, and reluctantly take leave of the subject for the
present.