The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

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THE LIP E OF Mancn.—Grand marshal of the day ; body
of horse ; Navan band ; labourer's banner, followed by the
Nobber band ; MAN band ; trades' marshal ; four bodies of
trades, each preceded by its appropriate banner; Collon
band, similarly follo.ived ; Balbriggan band, similarly fol-

owed ; Dunleer hand. similarly followed ; Trim band; simi-
arly followed ; Bells band. body of horsemen ; officers of

corporation in carriages ! [their first appearanee j ; mem-
bers of town-council, and aldermen in carriages [their first
appearance] ; the liberator's carriage

THE CONQUERING lIERO.
After about twenty minutes' delay the liberator, and the
gentlemen who accompanied him. proceeded to the platform,
where he was received with the most enthusiastic cheers.

PHYSICAL FORCE—FORMING INTO SOLID SQUARE.
" The sight at this time was most imposing. The mall,
in front of the platform, and on either side, was crowded by
150,000 persons—beyond them the shipping lay with flags
and streamers flying, the trades' banners interspersed the
vast crowd; and at the various ends the several bands, whose
lofty notes were drowned in the shouts of the multitude."
This estimate of numbers which is taken from the Dro-
gheda Argus) falls 20,000 short of the Freeman's calculation,
which states the numbers at 170,000. We may as welt
despatch the raw material at once, by stating THE RENT
received at £l5O and upwards • and forth apply ourselves to
those cooked and dressed up ?or TIIC DINNER, at which the
purple marksmen, each with his titular prefixed, were there
in the spirit only. Letters of apology were read from five
right reverends ; and a letter apologetic from the private
secretary and domestic chaplain of that right rev. marksman
Doctor HIGGINS—CXCLISCtI his absence in the body.
Sir Wm. Somerville, M.P., declined by letter the honour
of sharing in either the ante or post-prandial disaffeetion.of
the day ; but his absence was compensated for by the bodily
presence of the county member for Meath—Mr. Henry Grat-
tan—not the ;ramortal—from whose speech we extract the
following bit of Hannibalisrn :
" What have our fathers done, that we should be treated
with such indifference, and despised and insulted as we are ?
Is it because that they had the manliness to strike off those
fetters which degraded them ?—(bear.) There is the rub. Onr
fathers would not submit to remain in slavery. and we are to
be oppressed in consequence. I beg to tell Englishmen (if
there be any of them here)-1 pledge my word, and that of
any children, and the word of my friends—and they are nu-
merous—and the words of their children—that we will never
abmit to what we are enduring, and what they have in store
lons cheers.) What they want is war ; yes,

I repeat it. and I trust the press will take it down, that the
English want nothing but war with us. I have the letter at
home in my desk which was written to me from the House of
Commons ;_ yes, they want to let loose the troops upon us,
and to send over the marines to slaughter or to put us down
from meeting as we do—(hear, hear.)"
We therefore come to Mr. Tom Steele's harangue,

ETHEREAL METHOD OF PACIFICATION

" Thereis;o subject upon which the people of England
seem to be so little informed as the mode of pacifying Ireland.
For some • years our august leader has entrusted to me, a
Protestant, the rank of head pacificator of the peasantry of
Ireland. lam a person who sometimes express myself with

tense the reflection which precedes it. (Hear.) Peel the
Saxon ! (Hear and laughter.) I said today at the meeting
that the streets of Drogheda were once dyed with the blood
of the inhabitants, but I hope that Peel and Wellington will
never be the bloody villains to dye anew those streets with
the blood of the people for looking, by peaceable means, for
the attainment of what they considered their just right.
(Hear, hear.)

"In the construction of my diving bell (continued Mr.
Steele) it was necessary that I should have considered two
things-Ist, The strength of material, to secure the safety of
those who hazarded their lives in the experiment—(cries of
bear, hear)—and next, the perfect organization. But that
organisation would be no use unless he had material to work
on. (Hear.) Dr. Kennedy, a learned and exemplary cler-
gyman, has stated ' that war had no terrors for the people
of Ireland.' O'Connell has said some time ago that in some
countries it is difficult to get men to fight, but in Ireland it
was difficult to restrain them from fighting. (Hear, laugh-
ter, and cheers.) I can lay my hand upon my breast, and
say with great truth, that since I was appointed to the high
station of head pacificator of Ireland, now thirteen► years
ago, I have done the utmost in my power to preserve the
peace, and to restrain the people from violence, and that I
never will allow an.outbreak unless another Cromwell comes
to dye our land with blood, and any attempt of mine to re-
strain the people in such an hour would be vain."
The sentiments thus ethereally delivered to the people of
Drogheda, are enforced again by the following, addressed,
we are told, by the same energetic Boanerges, to the members
of the Reveal Association, at a meeting held on Tuesday in
the Corn Exchange, Dublin :

" Mr. Steel said, were it not that he was quite sure that
the motion would be seconded by acclamation, he would
claim to second the liberator's motion. He wished, how-
ever, to redeem a pledge which he gave to- the people of
Drogheda on the previous day. He addressed the people at
the multitudinous assemblage held there, and they did him
honour of drinking his health. In returning thanks he had
occasion to give his opinion with respect to certain public
characters, and he wished that opinion to be identified with
the proceedings of that association. He had occasion to al-
lude to Drogheda, the streets of which town had steamed
and streamed with human blood by the massacre there under
that atrocious Saxon villain Oliver Cromwell. (Cheers.) He
thought it was a most appropriate occasion to apply that
opinion to three other public characters, and he now repeated
it. He had called three other characters, Peel, Wellington,
and Brougham, those bloody-minded villains—(cheers)—the
Crornwells of the day. Furthermore, he said, and he wished
this to be recorded, that in addition to the bloody villany of
their threat of physical violence to the most purely virtuous
and brave people i►► the world, the Irish people—(cheers)—
in addition to calling them three bloody villains, he said of
Sir Robert Peel that he had the nefarious audacity to make
their august and sanctified Queen ne accomplice of this
bloody threat upon Ireland." (Loud cheers.)

We understand that the' Earl of Roden, with the spirit
which ever animated himself and his forefathers, has returned
to Ireland, at once to share in the perils of his countrymen,
and undertake that part which best becomes the Christian
soldier at a crisis so eventful.

Mr. O'Connell left Dublin nn Wednesday morning for
Kilkenny, where there was to be a repeal meeting on the
following thy on a scale of immense magnitude, and where
the scenes which have disgraced the country and degraded
the government will doubtless be repeated with customary