The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

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Government is still in doubt as to the course to be
taken with the rebel leaders. The result of O'Doherty's
trials has led to further doubts of the propriety of making
any fresh experiments upon trial by jury, as the system
exists in Ireland.
REWARDS OF THE CONSTABULARY.—The Lord Lieu-
tenant has awarded £2O to Constable Williams, of Mul-
linahone, and £5 to each of his men, for the firmness they
so nobly displayed in the attempt on the part of Mr. W.
Smith O'Brien, to tamper with their allegiance. He has
also promoted Williams to the rank of Supernumerary
Head-Constable of the second class, with two chevrons of
distinction, and the senior sub-constable to the rank of
constable with a chevron, and to each of the other men a
chevron. Constable Madden, who arrested Messrs.
Meagher, O'Donoghue and Leyne, has been promoted a
Supernumerary Head-constable of the second-class, with
a pecuniary reward of £100; and Sub-constables John
Carroll, John Enright, Michael Cullinan and Thomas
Coyle, who assisted at the arrests, £5O each. Head-con-
stable Hanniver. of the Reserve, who held the warrant
for the arrest of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, has been raised
to the rank of first-class Head-constable, with a reward
of £25.

A Limerick paper gives a droll account of the escape of
one of the Irish rebels, Mr. Richard O'Gorman. from the
hands of Mr. Little, R.M., who, it seems, was watching
the disembarkation of passengers at Kilrush. amongst
whom he had reason to believe was the rebel in question.
"The plank was put out," says our contemporary, "and
the passengers disembarked, stepping on the landing with
considerable alacrity, and walking the gauntlet between
the files of police. There was an old lady, however, of
sallow complexion, and dressed, some say, in black, who
got out with some difficulty; and tottering a good deal,
and complaining not a little, was making her way up the
ship to where Mr. Little, R.M., happened to be
standing. His attention was attracted, his gallantry was
roused, and he courtecusly descended, offering his arm,
and led the feeble old lady up to the landing. Little did
he know the sex of the lady. We are positively assured
she was Richard O'Gorman—that he was among the
passengers numbers now assert; and that information to
that effect was furnished Mr. Little is obvious, from his
presence on the spot. He is said to have acted the squire
with great dignity. condoling with the old lady as she
muttered, " Oh dear," and bidding her adieu, when she
was extracted from the crowd, with a bow that would
have done credit to Lord Chesterfield himself."

A BREAKING UP.—An auctioneer's bill, announcing the
sale of Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy's moveable property is
befire us. As an inventory of the effects of an enslaved
Irishman, it is worthy of a wider circulation than amongst
the lovers of bargains. It shows the owner to have been
a man of elegant tastes and luxurious habits which he had
acquired ample means of indulging. In his pretty country
seat, not more than a mile from the dust and bustle of
the city, he was provided like a Nabob. The furniture
and decorations of his various apartments seem to have
been complete, in all things necessary for comfort or for
ostentation. The walls were hung with paintings ; the
tables and mantle-shelves covered with costly ornaments.
His library was stored with the choicest productions of
history, philosophy, poetry, romance, and periodical li-
terature ; somewhat too much of the last named article,
we suspect. If his over-laboured sense craved to be
soothed by music's gentle spell, there was a" magnificent
harp, with all the new improvements," in the drawing-
room. Did his spirit seek excitement of a rougher kind,
the cellar boasted its " well selected wines, bottled by the
proprietor." Out of doors, his garden and his green-
house ministered delights to the palate and to the eye.
His " three melon frames " may be even now, as we write,
passing away to some new possessor, under the hammer of
the salesman ; and to-morrow is destined to witness the
dispersion of " 250 pots of rare, valuable, and healthy
plants, including pelargoniums, cactus, and American
primroses." Ah—those American exotics—how many
pleasant homes have they made desolate ! The miserable
dupes of this rebel no doubt imagined that their leader was
making every sacrifice of personal comfort, and was wil-
ling to be "such an one as themselves." Let them look,
however, to the li;t of Mr. Duffy's easy chairs, his rich
tabaret hangings, his folding screens to keep the wind of
heaven from visiting his face too roughly ; and his choice
bottle of wine at his elbow, to inspire him with visions of
n awry and woe. They know the game he has been play-
ing for some years to maintain himself in such luxury and
ease. Can they wonder that he should have put the lives
of other men in jeopardy, and compromised his own liber-
ty, at least for the sake of adding to the splendour of his
position ?--Dublin Mail.

Lord John Russell is about to start for Dublin, to con-
fer with Lord Clarendon, and to ascertain personally the
real grievances of Ireland, with a view to their remedy.
A dreadful fire occurred in Cork on Monday night, in
the endeavour to extinguish which a man. named Short,
lost his life. Three others were seriously hurt.
A tremendous flood has carried away the bridge over
the White River, near Dunlcer, Louth, on the line of the
Belfast. Junction Railway. '
In Clare and Tippet ary the work of eviction goes on ra-
pidly. A sure indication of what we shall have to expect
in the coming winter, which promises not to need that
aggravation.

-The largest market for potatoes for the last two years
shown in Dublin, was that held on Tuesday, a strong
proof of the injury done to the crop, as it shows how
anxious cultivators are to get rid of them thus early.
The Cionmel Chronicle states that, on Monday night, a
gang of men, headed by one Thomas Sullivan, seized a
man, who was watching a field of wheat, imprisoned him
in a house, and carted off the whole of the wheat.
The yacht of Mr. Cuthbert, son of a merchant at Green-
ock, has been seized at Belfast, with fifteen pounds of
cigars and nine bottles of wine, which had been transferred
flout an outward bound Vessel in the Clyda, tor which
Mr. Cuthbert has been sent to gaol until a fine of £lOO
be paid.
A meeting of the friends of the Church Missionary
Society was held in Youghal, on the evening of Monday,
and on no former occasion, perhaps, did so many persons
assemble in the Mall-room. Speeches were delivered by
the Rev. George Hazlewood and Rev. Thomas Nolan, of
St. Barnabas, Liverpool.—Cork Paper.
The Globe announces that the Irish Government has
had a careful inquiry gone into, as to the state of the crops
in that country ; and has learned, as a general result, that
there is barely food enough in the island to supply the
inhabitants until the Ist of January. We apprehend that
the inquiry must have chiefly turned upon the state of the
potato grounds ; for the quantity of oats grown in Ireland
is immense ; but the bulk of these crops come to England
as their natural market; they cannot be purchased by the
poor Irish for the lack of money. However, if this repre-
sentation, which is demi-official, be not wholly erroneous,
we are within a few weeks of the commencement of
another famine in the sister country.
THE IRISH COLLEGES.—A pamphlet from the pen of
Dr. Ennis, Archbishop Murray's Envoy at Rome, an-
nounces the fact that the three Presidents destined to
govern the new Colleges are already selected. Two of
them are to be Roman Catholics ; one, Sir Robert Kean,
for the Southern College, the other, Dr. Kirwan, a
Romish priest, for the Western College. The Northern
College is to be presided over by a Protestant, the Rev.
M. Henry, described by Dr. Ennis as " a minister of that
religious sect which prevails in the north of Ireland, but
very much esteemed by many Catholic bishops,. and by
the Irish clergy; his principles of honesty and liberality
being known to all from experience ; he having been for
many years a member of the Board of National Education."
WEALTHY PAUPERS.—The failure of the potatoe crop
is said to be an ascertained fact, and the prospects of the
winter are most alarming. Mr. S. Crawford has already
asked what means are to be adopted by Government to
relieve the distress. We shall soon have abundant ap-
peals for eleemosynary aid ; but we hope we shall not bare
any more of the improvident expenditure of 1846. To
those well-meaning and benevolent individuals who are
ever ready to give away millions from the Imperial Ex-
chequer, we recommend attention to the following ex-
tract from a letter by Mr. Tidd Pratt to the Lords of the
Treasury, in reference to the Irish Savings Banks :—" Se-
veral parties who were inmates of the union workhouse,
as well as recipients of the late relief fund, appeared be-
fore me as claimants, and three parties who were in the
gaol as debtors came in the custody of the gaoler to claim
deposits." And again—" I would observe that by far the
majority of depositors who came before me as claimants,
though to all appearance in the greatest destitution, were
not, from the investigation I had made, parties for whom
these institutions were intended, but they had invested
their money to the amounts before stated [viz., £l,lOO,
£B5O, £620, £5OO, £4OO, £320, &c.], in order to avoid
the payment of their rents and other legal claims upon
them, and in numerous instances they were living on
charity, or were recipients of indoor or outdoor relief; and
the investigation was rendered most painful from the al-
most utter disregard for truth, and the attempts at fraud,
falsehood, and subornation of perjury, which were made
by the claimants."—A pretty result of the alms-system
of 1846-1847

CONCILIATION.—We have done much to discourage
Protestantism, and to encourage Popery. That is, to dis-
courage the faith which openly rests on the revelations of
God to man, and to encourage that which virtually seals
up the word of life from mankind, Thus have we sown ;
and how have we reaped ? The earth refuses to yield her
fruit ; and all our " conciliation" bestowed upon the peo-
ple, leaves us, at last, under the necessity of holding the
island by military occupation, more than 40,000 men be-
ing now kept employed in putting down, and keeping
down, a threatened rebellion ! It might have been sup-
posed, reasoning upon any ordinary principles of calcula-
tion, that the idea of " conciliating" the devotees of Rome
would by this time have been at least suspected of fallacy.
But we observe no signs of any such enlightenment. On
the contrary, preparations are deliberately making, for a
constant and avowed intercourse with the Pope, with a
view of submitting to him, as Lord Clarendon began to
do, recently, all the measures of our Government having
reference to Ireland, in order that they may be modified
to meet " his Holiness's wishes."
The National System of Education in Ireland has now
been in operation since 1832. A good trial of its quality
and healing efficacy has accordingly been given. What
are the results ? Lord John Russell in his place in the
Commons on Monday night, said they were admirable.
His proof of his assertion was very simple. There were,
he said, now established 4,000 schools, and 400,000 scho-
lars. We say, the results are bad. That the greater the
number of schools, and the greater the number of scho-
lars, the worse the system has proved itself to be. Six-
teen years is a long time during which to prove the use-
fulness or efficacy:of a system. During a shorter period
than that the child and the boy grow up to the man. Are
the morals, the habits, the industry, the intelligence, the
peaceableness, the loyalty of the Irish population mani-
festly improved under this widely-spread course of teach-
ing of the Roman Catholic priesthood ? Not in the
slightest degree; they are as immoral, as idle, as ignorant,
less peaceable, and far less loyal than they were when the
system began. Strange effects of a successful system of
national education !—of what his lordship called on Mon-
day night, " a most comprehensive plan,"—" the best
teaching that could be given to the greatest number !"
Record.