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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ENERAL MISCELLANY,

The conservatives have a clear gain of eleven on the re-
gistration for the 'West Riding of Yorkshire,
The Queen held a Privy Council at Windsor Castle on
Monday week, when parliament was ordered to be pro-
rogued from the 19th instant until November.

The lawyers of Stockton, one and all, without exception,
have agreed to close their respective offices at six o'clock,
both winter and summer, for the benefit of their clerks.

A NUNNERY IN SUNDERLAND.—The whole of the ar-
rangements are now completed by the Rev. P. Kearney,
for commencing this establishment.
In Birmingham £30,000 is said to be saved to the in-
habitants by having the gas lighting of the town in the
hands of the Corporation.
The committee of the London Wood Paving Associa-
tion has offered a gold medal, with thirty guineas, for the
best machine for cleaning the streets.—Artizatt.
The revision for North Cheshire has terminated. The
conservatives succeeded in sustaining sixty-eight objec-
tions, and the radicals only eight. _ _

Mrs. Wood (ci-divant Miss Paton) with her husband,
attend Chapelthorpe, near Leeds, every Sunday, and
render the choir the most efficient of any in the district.
COTTAGE ROBBERY.—On Sunday, the 24th ult., the
cottage of a labourer named Cudmore, at East Donyland,
was broken into, and £B, the hard-earned savings of in-
dustry, stolen therefrom. Two men are in custody.
CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS.—Several new discoveries of
frauds were made at the Custom-house in the course of
the last week, and parties before unsuspected are, we
bear, implicated in them.
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A circular has been sent to the creditors of Messrs.
Dixon and Dalton, of the Dudley Bank, informing them
that a dividend of 6s. Bd. in the pound will shortly be
paid.
The Great Yorkshire Stakes, to be run for at York
Angust meeting, 1846, has closed with 117 subscribers;
and the Competition produce, for the same year, with 27
subscribers.

Mr. J. B. Smith, a leading member of the Council of
the Anti-corn-law league, offers himself a candidate for
the borough of Kendal, vacant by the sudden death of
Mr. Geo. Wm. Wood, M.P.

Mr. Slott, of the Edinburgh Town-council, has given
notice of a motion "to petition parliament to remove
from the land the established church, and apply its re-
venue to a useful purpose,"

MANCHESTER ATHEN/EUM.—The bazaar for the pur-
pose of paying the debt on this institution, was held last
week. Up to Friday night the sum paid into the bank
on account of the bazaar, was £1,600, but the debt
amounts to £3,000.

REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—Mr.
Thomas Baring (conservative) has acceded to the invita-
tion of a numerously-signed requisition, and offered him-
self as a candidate for the vacant seat. Mr. Pattison
(radical) is the opposing candidate.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.—O❑ Friday, Mr. Waller, a
morchant, at St. Mary-at-Hill, London, was in his count-
ing-house, when his clerk, Thos. Rowe, about 75 years of
age, drew a pistol from his pocket and shot him in the
left side. The effect of the wound is at present uucertain.

The vicar of Ware, which parish has been so much dis-
turbed by contentions respecting Church matters, has
advertised for a curate on account of his health. The
curate is required to be " in full orders, of sound church
principles, good judgment, and calm temper."

The Chartist Convention, lately held in this town, have
started the notable project of raising a fund of £lOO,OOO !
They say the money is to be appropriated in the purchase
of 1.000 acres of land to be divided into small allotments.
—Birmingham Advertiser.

On the fells between Kendall and Shap, Westmoreland,
on Friday night week, the mist was so dense, that the
drivers and guards of the mail and other coaches say,
they never encountered such great difficulty and danger
in getting along that terrible road.

A TERM IMPUDENT THIEF.—Last Monday evening,
some persons obtained access to the bench-room at the
Town Hall, Brighton ; and, whilst the officers and the
police were about the hall, they broke orn the poor-box,
and carried off its contents, amounting, it is supposed, to
about £3.—London Paper.

YORKSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION.—The Earl of Mex-
borough has consented to take the chair at the great meet-
ing of chess-players to be held in Huddersfield on the Bth
of November next. This has given great satisfaction to
all the members of the association, and a large muster is
expected.
THE WIFE OE THREE SUICIDES.—On Monday an
inquest was held on the body of David Mason, aged 48,
a dfal- weigher. of 23, Lower Shadwell, who had destroyed
himself, leaving his family in great distress. His wife, who
was examined on the inquest, stated that this was her
third husband, all of whom had committed suicide!
FALL OF A HOUSE.—Two PERSONS KILLED.-012
Tuesday afternoon a house fell in the village of Westfield,
near North Weildham. There were seven persons in the
house at the time. Two of them, a bedridden old man
named Prosser, and a poor woman named Wilkes, were
buried in the ruins, and when their bodies were dug out
life was extinct.—London paper.

SECOND EDI'T'ION.

Standard-qfice, Ten o'clock

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Twelve o'clo.-k

MEETING OF THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION,

YESTERDAY.

The usual weekly meeting took place yesterday, the 9th,
in Calvert's Theatre, Abbey-street, the Corn Exchange
being insufficient to accommodate the numbers expected
to attend, including some hundreds of the Liverpool re-
peelers, who arrived on Saturday and Sunday. The theatre
was crowded to excess in every part. Shortly after twelve
o'clock the chair was taken by John O'Connell, M.P.
Addresses of congratulation were then presented to Mr.
O'Connell, from the repealers of Manchester and Staley
Bridge, congratulating him on the progress of the repeal
agitation. He briefly thanked the deputation for the
compliment paid to him.
Letters were read from various parts of the country,
enclosing subscriptions, and many of which were denomi-
nated " proclamation money".
Mr. O'CONNELL, in reference to a phrase in one of
these letters, said that nothing could excruciate him more
than the occurrence of anything tending to a breach of
the peace, and he would be moat unhappy if he were not
certain that repeaters gave him credit for entertaining
these sentiments. He would conduct them through the
present crisis safe and sound, unattacked and uninjured,
in person or property. They should give their enemies
no occasion for triumph ; and they would come out of the
present crisis with the certainty of obtaining legislative
independence—that to which their lives were devoted, and
the struggle for which they never would give up, ex-
cept with their last breaths. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. GREENE, of Liverpool, handed in £45 from that
locality, and real the names of the contributors, many of
whom, he said, were then present in the pit, and were
ready to do or die if necessary. (Great cheering.)
Mr. NUGENT, of Kingstown, handed in £7 Ios., which,
he said, he had collected on the previous day at the door
of his own house, by hoisting Mr. O'Connell's proclama-
tion as a standard. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The peo-
ple flocked around it immediately, and in a few minutes
the anm he had handed in was collected. He was de-
lighted to see the soldiers who landed in Kingstown yes-
terday sharing their bread with the poor creatures who
were asking alms on the beach.
Mr. O'CONNELL handed in what he termed his own
"proclamation" money—Xs from himself—£l from each
of his seven children, and 255. from his quarter of a hun-
dred of grandchildren. (Cheers and laughter.)
The Hon. and Learned GENTLEMAN then came for-
ward to address the meeting, and was received with great
cheering. He said he had never addressed a public meet-
ing with a greater feeling of responsibility—with a more
triumphant conviction of the propriety of the conduct of
the people, and of the iniquity of their enemies. (Cheers.)
It was true he had passed a most hideous day yesterday,
because for hours he could not raise his confidence in the
people to such a pitch as not to apprehend that mischief
might occur at Clontarf, and a massacre of the people
ensue as the inevitable result of any disturbance. (Hear,
hear.) He would say it was not the fault of the govern-
ment that a massacre did not take place, and if he were to
go to the scaffold for it, he would not hesitate to assert that
if the government wanted to entrap the people, they just
adopted thecourse calculated to effect their purpose. ( Hear)
Had it not been for his interposition a massacre would
have occurred. He now called on the people to obey
every thing having the shape or appearance of legality—
if they wished for safety to themselves and for a repeal
of the union. if they follow this course they must in-
evitably obtain repeal—by keeping themselves out of the
power of their enemies, who would never venture to throw
off the mask and raise the dagger against them —(hear
and cheers.) If they did so, it would, of course, be a
different case altogether; but he wanted to carry repeal
without shedding a drop of blood—without crime or
violence of any kind—in such a way as that he could meet
his Redeemer without having anything criminal
to answer for, in that struggle for the liherty of his coon-
try—(cheers.) It had been said that if he was arrested
there might be a struggle. They could say nothing that
more grieved him, for it led to the inference that they did
not believe him to be sincere, when he told them to keep
the peace. He now told them to obey the law even if he
were to perish in consequence of that obedience. The
course of the government with respect to the Clontarf
meeting was, he repeated, calculated to cause the slaughter
of innocent people. They were in possession of the fact
for three weeks, yet did not announce their attention of
putting it down till the last moment. Only for the activity
used, and his being in town, the friends of the people
could not have cautioned them from attending, and the
result might have been fearful. For six months the go-
vernment had permitted, nay, he might say, countenanced
these meetings ; they knew the names of those who took
part in them, yet there were no prosecutions—no hint
even of their being illegal—no caution given—in fact, on
the contrary, there was a continual acquiescence and ac-
knowledgment of their legality on the part of the govern-
ment. Up to Friday last such was the state of things,
when suddenly the government thought proper to inter-
fere with the last of their meetings, and one, too, above
all others, characterised by decent tranquillity, for the
requisition by which it was convened was signed exclu-
sively by Catholic clergymen. (Hear, hear.) Why did
they not publish the proclamation in the Gazette of Fri-
day ? The association might then have had time. t. mo-
ve nt the people teem attcadtng. Is was law on Saturday
before it was issued ; and if he had not sent messengers
to the various parts of the country, whence the people
were expected to attend, there was no doubt that three or
four hundred thousand persons from the surrounding
counties would have assembled at Clontarf on yesterday;
and, it they had done so, it would be next to a miracle if
some riot were not committed or fomented. (Hear, hear.)
Any of the low Dublin Orangemen could have gone there
and done it. (Hear, hear, hear.) He asserted that a set
of men who could act so, were unworthy of being entrust-
ed with the government of Dalkey Island. (Laughter.)
He then took out a copy of the proclamation, and com-
mented on it in a sneering and contemptuous tone, clause
by clause. One clause referred to placards calling on
people to march in military order. Of these placards the
Association knew nothing : they were anonymous. The
charge that their meetings tended to bring the govern-
ment and constitution into contempt, he utterly repu-
diated. He wished only to revive the constitution, and
this charge (to use the term of a friend when a man spoke
nonsense), mere " fudgeography." (Great laughter.) He
denounced the addressing of the proclamation " to all
magistrates, officers," &c., as illegal in language, and of
ferociaus authority, and quite different from the proclam-
ation issued in Wales, in which a complete catalogue of the
crime was set forth, and ended with enjoining all " magis-
trates, sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and all other civil authori-
ties whatsoever to be aiding in the suppression of these
outrages." In Ireland there had been no such outrages,
and the persons who issued the Irish proclamation should
be impeached for the abominable latitude as to the per-
sons to whom it was addressed. If they put such a procla-
mation into the Corn-Exchange Rooms, he would
be the first to go into it, notwithstanding. If they
sent police or soldiers to arrest them, they would
submit at once. The crime would be the govern-
ment's—the legal vindication should be theirs—(cheers.)
Mr. O'Connell then announced that he intended to have
simultaneous meetings on two occasions, but he would
not then fix the days. They would take place before the
meeting of parliament, and would be for the adoption and
signature of petitions to parliament. Re concluded by
impressing on the meeting the necessity of an implicit
obedience to the laws, but at the same time never desist-
ing from legally struggling for repeal, and proposed a
resolution to that effect.

Captain SEAVER, of Newry, seconded it, and it was
adopted.
Mr. O'Connell announced the amount of the week's
rent to be £1,105 3s. Id. .

Major NICH OLSON, who said it was the proclamation
brought him there, was the second chairman, and the
meeting seperated after giving three cheers for Mr. O'Con-
nell.

The above we have abbreviated from the Dublin Even-

ing Mail of yesterday. In addition to the circumstantial
account given, our Contemporary states that the moment
the paper was going to press, his question of " What Will
Mr. O'Connell do next," has been answered by no less a
personage than Mr. O'Connell himself; for his reporter
who has just returned from Calvert's theatre, brought
an account that the Liberator had entered into a solemn
undertaking

" TO PROSECUTE AT LAW EVERY MAN
WHO SET HIS HAND TO THE PROCLAMATION
PROHIBITING THE CLONTARF MEETING."

Farce after Tragedy is fair and quite in O'Connell's
view; but he may shortly find other more serious matter
to occupy himself with.