The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

FAULTY CONDUCT OF ENGLAND TO IRELAND.

From the reign of James the First to the Revolution, the
hostile spirit of the Roman Catholic faith never ceased to
manifest itselt. In the massacre of the Protestants in 1631,
in the wars with Cromwell, in the troublous period of the
second Charles, and in the wars of James, the Roman
Catholics but asserted their unquenchable hostility to the
British connexion, and to the English Protestant settlers
in this country. The iron energy of Cromwell crushed
and for ever annihilated the power of the old Irish chief-
tains; but the envenomed spirit of religious rancour was
too subtle an antagonist even for his master-spirit to grap-
ple with. Ireland was thus everlastingly in revolt ; there
was but one effectual means by which this could have
been prevented—namely, by sedulously spreading the
doctrines of the Reformation, and thus identifying the
sentiments of the two countries. This duty England
most shamefully neglected. Spencer tells us that the
Roman Catholic priests spared not to travel from Spain
and Rome to Ireland, -where they knew peril of death
awaited them, and no reward was to be had only to draw
the people to the Church of Rome; but that our idle
ministers would, neither for the love of God, nor zeal for
religion, nor for all they could do by winning souls to
Christ, be drawn forth from their warm nests. So utterly
worthl ss was the ministration of the Established Church,
that very many of the settlers who came over with Crom-
well and with William, lapsed by degrees into the Roman
Catholic faith, and amalgamatity, with the ancient Irish
and original English settlers, added their numbers to
the array of the numerous enemies of England. The
north escaped this evil by deriving its clergy chiefly
from the active anti intelligent people of Scotland. But
when we recollect the number of Protestants who came
over with Cromwell and with William, and in the inter-
mediate period, and who settled on the lands which were
then confiscated and appropriated to their use, and com-
pare them with the comparative numbers of Protestant
and Roman Catholic as they now exist in three provinces
of Ireland, it is plain to demonstration, even if we were
without the aid of express authority on the subject, that
a large proportion of the new Protestant settlers must
have joined the Church of Rome; indeed we could point
to districts in Ireland where the same names, and
obviously the same families, are to be found, those of
them in the plains adhering to the Reformed faith, and
those in the adjacent mountain districts, which the zeal
of the clergy of the Established Church, at that day, was
unequal to penetrate, professing the doctrines of the
Church of Rome.

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tms DAY.
Our Share Market this morning continues improving, and
we have had a good business done at the quotations, of which
the following is a list:—Caledonian preference, * p; Sheffield
preference, *p; Leeds preference, 15/ p, 17/6 c; Newcastle
preference. 25/ 27/6 25/ p; Great Northern, 9 d; Leeds sths,
1 d; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 13 d; London 4 shares, 32/6
30/ 32/4 30/ 32/6 p ; Midland stock, 104 ; Do. * shares, 51 d ;
Newcastle St Carlisle, 1081; North St affords, 21 I; Old Dovers,
24**-; Do. No. 4,2 j d ; Bank of Liverpool, 4* p ; Borough
Bank, 3 d.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—THis DAY.
The arrivals into this port, during the week ending yesterday,
consist of 3018 barrels of Flour from Canada, 8023 quarters of
Beaus from Egypt, 1810 barrels Corn Meal, and 17,263 quarters
of Indian Corn, chiefly from the American States; beyond
which, our supplies coastwise, from Ireland or abroad, are
trivial.

Since the close of last week we have had much heavy rain
here, and though yesterday was tolerably tine, the weather last
night was again wet, and it is showery to-day, thereby pro-
tracting harvest to a later period than is desirable ; hi-
therto, however, we have few surmises of the grain crops
having sustained any serious injury from the rains. With re-
gard to Potatoes, accounts from some parts of Ireland still com-
plain of disease, but in general they are certainly more favour-
able than of late. Our markets are at present freely supplied
with excellent quality at low prices; but it is much too early to
pass any certain opinion upon the later crop, though in ordinary
years present appearances would have led to little suspicion of
even a partial failure of any importance.
In consequence of the short supplies at hand, we had but a
limited disp!ay of Wheat samples at our Corn Exchange to-day,
and needy buyers were obliged to pay a further advance upon
that of Friday ; thereby raising our quotations for general runs
2d. to 3d., and upon tine qualities of English, Irish and Foreign
3d. to 4d., over the rates of this day week, at which a fair
amount of business was transacted.

Flour, although not in brisk demand, realized, in English and
Irish. an advance of Is. per sack, and, in American, 6d. to Is.
per barrel over the rates of Tuesday last.
In Barley and Malt we have no change to note.
Beans and Pease were little noticed, and rather easier to pur-
chase.

Oats were 2d. per 451 b., and Oatmeal Is. per load dearer.
The supply of Indian Corn being large, and met by fewer
buyers from Ireland, must be noted Is. per qr. cheaper; and
Indian Meal receded 6d. per barrel.