The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR!)

are not,—that they will yet pause in their ill-advised for it was asked, a week ago, by the arch-agitator
-Re,—that they will allow private grievances, himself, whether, upon the occurrence of such an
'hey may be, to be privately expiated,— event as his incarceration, "those outside would be
importance of the trust which any safer than those within." His own person se-
that the cowP-

DISASTROUS RESULTS TO IRELAND OF AN
ATTEMPT TO CARRY THE REPEAL BY
VIOLENCE.

the possession of the franchise confers upon them cure from injury, it is little indeec.
for public purposes, make use of it only to advance rebel will care for the lives of his ignorant and be-
'ause and those great principles of which trayed followers. The very event—an outbreak

'onnell upon the writer of t

Ireland, from which we extracted large

that great c

and attempt at rescue—which ht, himself thus insi- oration of the public, with an authenticity of character, of
diously suggested, would perhaps take place; and
Nwvheicthheortehferwise
ore make no
might
havte been deemedo
our unwoers rthy.
-
or prreesceot.
Upon the question now at issue, with respect to for such an attempt the Government are no doubt ing to their notice a fewo apology
further extracts, which we orn
the necessity of providing increased dock accommo- preparirg. But, we ask, is it wise in Government mend in particular to the serious consideration of th
dation for the increasing shipping of the port, by to stand patiently waiting, although prepared, for duped followers of O'Connell it
the purchase of the Harrington Company's pro- lan event so calamitous in its results as this may he ? to the delusion of the Irish pe

hitherto they have been the foremost assertors

Referring

I north of the Do

numerical superiorit,
" The poor people forget, or they have never heard

marked at

1 ....a au ti lac au put IML, unuer Lunt- very eye
most within hearing of the Castle of D

r remarks

, however, mooted a

on Thursday, we are under the neces

the same dangerous organization to be perfected—

greatly outnumbered by the rest of their countrymen, in-
cluding the loyal and well-affected Catholics and Protes-
tants of Ireland, and the great body of the English and

the same illegal levying of funds to continue, and
additional hundreds of hot-brained fools to be

Scotch

rvations

'efer to the

Finance Com-

drawn, week by week, within the meshes of trea-

" But mere numbers form only one, and by no means
the most important, element in a military question.
",The sea is entirely at the command of the British go-
vernment. No part of Ireland is much more than fifty
miles from the sea. Our ships of war and steamers would

,nd the Council

n fixing the price of their

I, so to he disposed of to the Dock Committee

son,—when one more prompt and vigorous step in
advance would suffice, either to bring rebellion to a

and the fa

premature head and crush it at once, or to break
up the organization by which it is pushed forward?
We submit that such a waiting policy is not wise—

command the maritime towns and coast, and convey
troops to the flank of rere of any rebel force that might
he assembled in any part of the country. There is no part
of Ireland in which an insurrectionary force could take up
its position, and say. " We are safe here."

he north

—at the utmost 5s

)rporation by de-
We

weak, in a military point of

other traitors

us obstacles to the manceu-

dock works

cavalry m-i2ht act ia'numt

illegal ; and if the executive has not already power

uflicient for a cont

this description. The island is
every direction by good roads;

Iso now perforated in

to prevent as well as to punish sedition, ilia

ought at once to he sought from Parliament, in
justice to those who, day by day, encouraged by

the tacit posture of the authorities, are bringing
into jeopardy their own liberties, and the lives of

thousands who look up to them for guidance