The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-13 00:00:00

IRISH PAPERS,

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ATTACK ON BARON SMITH'S BESIDENCE.—A. fresh attack
has been made upon Baron Smith's residence in the King's
County; but rather marking whitefoot spite and malevolence
than doing serious injury. All te windows of his front lodge,
and those of his steward's house, were broken; an ornamented
sun-dial in his pleasure-ground was broken, and the .parts of it
hung up on the top branches of two tall trees. These malicious
acts were done by night, and, no doubt, mere accident, They
occurred just at theltime when the collection of Mr. O'Connell's
tribute was going on in the neighbourhood. AotwithstAnding
the former disgusting attack, which happetiesL,Asivo years ago or
more, when balls were fired into the ilwelling,house, and its
windows and sashes smashed with stones, the. baron had. gone
on employing in his absence the same number of workmen as
when he was at home. As a landlord he has the character of
being indulgent to a fault On the ocCasion of the former attack
government offered a reward of £100; and the inhabitants of
the King's County made up a reward amounting to near £lllO
more, but no one chose—or no one shred to give any informa•
tion. Such is th- requital which an indulgent lawdiord and a
merciful judge is to expect in the south of Ireland, if he be
found guilty of the crime of being a loyal friend to the laws and
constitution.—Dublin Erening Packet.
A POLITICAL FABI.R.—The admission of Irish papists into
parliament has been the signal of nothing but confusion to the
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affairs of Great Britain. Everything has gone wrong, both
with the constitution and the executive. The will of the British
people. has 'been •set aside.'.. Thet.tatiterixits, That the serpent
entreated a night's lodging in the burrow of the rabbit, which
good naturedly vacated its own lair for the purpose; but that re•
demanding entrance, the ungrateful reptile kept forcible pos-
session, and laughed at the folly of hist host. It is even so with
hospitable Julio Bull; he made robin for the papists at his own
fire-side—and he now finds himself turned out of his own house.
—Dublin Evening Mail. • • •

The first pensioner, we believe, placed- upon the list is Pro-
fessor Airy, of Cambridge, upon whom the administration has
conferred an annuity of £3OO. Professor Airy is, we believe,
a liberal in politics. What then ? He is a man of merit, and
we trust to see every man of merit considered without reference
to his political opinions: A. small expenditure will suffice to
provide for all the •Whigs and radicals whose claims approach to
those of the professor. We confess that we feel pride, as, well
as occasion for gratitude, for the cause in which Sir Robert
Peel dispenses public patronage—pride that has been left to a
conservative administration to set the first example perha ns that
the world affords—certainly that England affords—of an honest
distribution of public favour.—Standard,'
LOUIS PHILIPPE'S PRIVATE PROPE.RITY.—The Gazette de
Norwtandie publishes the following .note::—" It is known to all
that Louis Philippe, previous to his accepting the crown, before
he devoted ftimself to save Its fen anarchy, in •1830, took every
precaution to prevent the property which he possessed as Duke
of Orleans from being united to the &mains of the crown, and
made an act by which he deprived himself of the proprietorship
of his possessions, reserving to himself, however, the right of
enjoying them during his lifetime.' For all this Louis Philippe
has not lost his taste for proprietorship; he continues to make
fresh acquisitions. Ile no longer buys in his own name, be.
cause what he seeks to avoid would infallibly happen to all pro-
perty parchasedsubSequent to the 9th of August; but he has a
borrowed name, that of Marie Amelie, the (laughter of the late
King Ferdinand I. of the Two Sieilicis, the Queen of the French.
it is-she who has lately bought, in the town of -ELI, a consider-
able extent uf property, her husband having renounced the pro,
prietorship of a •flue domain which he possessed there, and of
which he is only the tenant. It is at the request of Marie Ame-
lie that the notifications are made for clearing off the mortgages
which incumber the recently-acquired'property, and Lous Phi-
lippe figures only. in these acts to establish their validity as au-
thorising his wife. This fact is undoubted; it is known by au-
thentic acts which have emanated from notariesandlaw-officers,
and the truth may be ascertained on application at the regis-
trar's office. A leiv questions naturally arise from these pro-
ceedings:—Was the4enunciation of the rights of property sin-
cere, which was made by Louis Philippe in August, 1830? Is
the property of J.ouis Philippe. distinct from that of Marie
Amelie? Has he alienated any domain belonging to his wife to
-whom he owes restitution? Of a truth, Louis Philippe•does
not show himself very generous towards France, who, neverthe-
less, has some claims upon him still, were it only from the gra-
titude which he ham always been in the habit of showing -in. all
the acts of his life towards those who have ever done him any
service."