The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

THE CRISIS.

That a crisis is not distant—that it is expected by the
government—that it will be short, sharp, and decisive—is
by the military movements, so rapidly taking
a town. Whatever be the intent and the coun-
cils of the disaffected, there can be little doubt, we think,
that the extreme vigilance of the government has been
aroused by an announcement, copied into our last, from
the Nation of Saturday, that the Irish Confederation
would hold a meeting on this evening, at the Music-hall, in
Abbey-street, at which the members are required to attend
in processions, from their respective Club-rooms. What
the nature of those processions may be—whether armed
or unarmed—we are not aware. But it was expected, we
believe—indeed, as the Nation declared—that the depu-
tation might by that time have returned from Paris, bear-
ing back the reply of the French provisional ,„crovernment,
and that some of the leaders, at least, would be present.
From the appearance of this document, the energies of
the government seem to have been stimulated. The
formidable preparations which we announced on Monday
—the occupation of several new stations as barracks—the
influx of additional regiments—the removal of bonded
spirits and other combustible matters from the vaults of
the Royal Exchange to a place of greater security—all in-
dicate the expectation of, and preparation for, a critical
conjuncture. Even the postponement of the garrison the-
atricals, fixed for this evening, has its significance.
Meanwhile, from information relied upon as authentic,
that an attack upon the College was in special contempla-
tion, the proper authorities have taken due measures for
its defence.—A party of infantry took up its quarters
yesterday, within the sacred walls of Alma Mater, and is
to be reinforced to-day by a body of the same regiment,
amounting in all to 300 men.—As a further precaution,
the Heads of the University have assented to a proposition
emanating from within, to enrol the members as a •
teer corps for the defence of the Institution, to be e,„
sed, officered, and armed by the University authorities,
and since yesterday a most efficient enrolment of the Fel-
lows, Scholars, and Students has placed that venerable
seat of learning in a state of what we may call complete
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TO ADVERTISERS.

We beg respectfully to call the attention of
Merchant.

Broker.

Auctioneers, and others,
to the important fact that tke►
LIVERPOOL STANDARD

IS NOW THE
ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY,

'Which can he read on that day by the thousands
of Manufacturers and others attending

THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN
MANCHESTER.
The STANDARD is taken at an the Newsrooms
and respectable Inns in that town and the

surrounding manufacturing district.
_A SECOND EDITION is pnblished at Half-past
Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the
MARKETS, and any news of importance that
may arrive in the course .of the morning.

2GIP Eiberpool stanbarb.

TUESDAY

MORNING, APRIL 11, 1848

We should despair of Ireland, and be as anxious
RS the loudest of her demagogues to separate our-
selves from any connexion with her, if we could
believe that the atrocious sentiments which have
recently been uttered by certain squalid individuals
in this town, calling themselves Irishmen, were
those which well constituted Irish minds could en-
tertain. We are to be bUrnt in our beds, it would
seem, whenever our Government presumes so far
to become a government as to repress treason and
rebellion. The property of the merchants of Liver-
pool is to be destroyed, in revenge for any inter-
ference with the lawless will of the mob which the
Mitchells and Meaghers of the sister country choose
to muster. The town of Liverpool is the heart at
which Irish treason is to strike, in the effort to in-
timidate or maim Great Britain; and we are thus
to be taught how completely we are at all times in
the hands and at the mercy of the Celtic popula-
tion, whom we have permitted to colonise in our
back streets, and in our courts and cellars. Such,
at least, are the threats which are launched against
US by the spouters at their Sunday evening repeal
gatherings, who call themselves Irishmen, but
whom, we repeat, we cannot believe to be fair spe-
cimens, or to represent the feelings of the mass of
our resident Irish population.
For we cannot believe that ingratitude so base,
and folly so utter, as are thus displayed, dwell in
the hearts of any save the most worthless and idle
of that population—the scum which is thrown up
to the surface in periods of excitement like the
present. When we reflect what has been the con-
duct of the community, thus threatened, towards
Ireland and her children, we cannot think so ill of
human nature as to imagine on their part a return
so diabolical. In every branch of the commerce
and industry of this great port the Irishman has
always had fair scope and opportunity to advance
Lis condition. Nay, we may even say that he has
had more than his fair share. The labour em-
ployed about our docks and shipping is almost
exclusively Irish. The bulk of the head warehouse-
men of our merchants are Irishmen; and employ '
their own fellow-countrymen in preference to native
Lands. Our hospitals, our infirmaries, and dis-
pensaries are mainly supported for the relief of
Irish. We are taxed more than any other com-
munity in the empire to provide for Irish destitu-
tion. Putting aside all memory of the fearful drain
made upon us during the last two years by the
immigration of pauperism from the sister country,
which has almost paralysed the energies of our
rate-paying population, the ordinary contributions,
which Liverpool makes, in money,Fin charitable aid
of every description, in remunerative employment,
and in the ungrudging confidence displayed towards
Irishmen, ought to be amply sufficient to protect
her from incendiary language or conduct on their
part. The natural anticipation would be, that
instead of disturbers, we should find, in the mass
of the Irish part of our population, protectors from
outrage ; that those whom we have permitted to
raise themselves in our town so much above the
wretchedness which is to be found in their own
country, and for whom and for whose children we
have provided privileges, which are there unattain-
able, would be found the first to put down the
efforts of the idle and unprincipled amongst their
fellow• countrymen to promote disorder.
We acquit, therefore, the mass of the Irish in
Liverpool of such a disposition to return ingrati-
tude for favours shown them, as is imputed to them
by the gentlemen to whose ravings we have referred.
We cannot believe them to be either so base or so
mad as to entertain the thought of being parties
to the outrages described. But at the same time
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that our posi-
tion as a trading community is one of serious dif-
ficulty and danger ; and.that the safety of life and
property in our town is to some extent jeopardised
by the spread of disaffection in Ireland. We can-
not regard with equanimity the possible issue here
of a collision between the authorities and the
people in that country. We have a mass of pro-
perty scattered over a large area thoughout the
town ; in our docks, on our quays, and in our
warehouses, upon which a few desperate characters
might inflict incalculable devastation at any mo-
ment that they might find our authorities unpre-
pared. Much of that property is exposed in loca-
lities which are most thickly peopled with the
characters to be feared. Much of it is hourly within
their reach. It is not an idle boast which was last
week conveyed to the fountain head of sedition in
Dublin, that " Liverpool could be made to feel
how greatly the property of her merchants is in
the power of the Irish portion of her population."
It is too true, not only of Liverpool, but of our.
large manufacturing towns, and of the metropolis
itself; and the fact of our position ought to excite
the serious and prompt attention of the authorities
of the town.

We have, perhaps, not acted altogether wisely
in placing so large a portion of our property under
Irish controul, in the preference which we have
iven to cheap Irish labour over the labour of our
-ntive population. It is too late, however,
npossible at once, to retrace our steps;
)ssible and most desirable that we should
rigidly scrutinize the characters and conduct of
those in whom we have thus placed confidence.
With all our trust in the loyalty and honesty of the
mass of the Irish employees of our mercantile body
it is undeniable that there must exist cases of indi-
vidual dissaffection ; and when it is declared to us
that such do exist, and that in them the hopes of
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resort to precautionary measures in time,

It might be as well; also, to watch a little the
proceedings of those gentry who call themselves
the Repealers of Liverpool, and who weekly do their
best to stir up the bad passions of their idle and
ignorant auditories. These men choose for their

meetings the evenings of the Sabbath, when they
judge that their seditious appeals will escape re-
porting, and the publicity which they would other-
wise gain. They strive, as we find, to vie in the
violence of their appeals with the incendiaries of the
Dublin Confederation ; and it seems to be too
much forgotten that the law, as to seditious Tan-
is not precisely the same in the two coun-
We would not dignify such men by raising
eminence of martyrs. Monster trials
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s mode of meting out their proper punish-
ment to such offenders. Instead of the otium cum
dignitate of a sojourn and levees in Kilmainham
gaol, incitements held out to treason, to the use of
pikes, rifles, broken bottles, and vitriol, or the firing
of shops and bales of cotton, are rewarded on this
side the Channel with the treadmill or transporta-
tion,

total

lleths.

The Rev. Fielding Ould preached two sermons in Cam-
bridge, on Sunday last, in behalf of the Sunday School
Society for Ireland. _

The Bishop (elect) of Chester has been pleased to ap-
point Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., of Abbey-square,
Cheater, to be secretary for the diocese of Chester. We
.understand Mr. Parry is brother to the respected incum-
bent of St. Clement's Church, Windsor.
kwFEL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.--A man, named
as taken to bridewell on Thursday night,

in a stair

A surge-on was
hstanding hstanding the precautions taken, the
1 during the night.

DXication

WEST DERBY UNION.—At the usual weekly meeting,
on Wednesday, the return for the election of Mr. Smith
as a guardian was declared to be informal, and he was re-
quested to retire, as not being a member of the board.
Mr. Smith refused to retire, and it was found necessary
to call in a policeman to remove him from the room.
NEW PATENTS.—WiIIiam Beckett Johnson, of Liver-
pool, engineer, for certain improvements which are appli-
cable to locomotive, stationary, and marine steam-engine!.
—John M'Conochie. of Liverpool, engineer, and Louis
James Claude, of Bootle, civil engineer, for certain im-
provements in locomotive engines.
The Panic, an iron ship, of 400 tons measurement, built
by Messrs. Cato and Miller, for Thomas Ripley, Esq.,
was launched on Thursday at noon. The vessel, which
was named by the lady of Mr. Ripley, has a characteristic
figure head, emblematical of Sir Robert Peel and his
Bank Act of 1814.

At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Saturday,
John Dobbin was indicted for forging a will of William,
Musgrove Bowen. We so recently gave the particulars o
the case that it is not necessary to repeat them now. The,
prisoner was a clerk at the Edge-hill station. A number
of respectable persons gave him a high character for ho-
nour and integrity, and he was acquitted.
A meeting of the Repealers of this town was held on
the morning of Thursday last, at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street, for the purpose of adopting a petition to
the imperial legislature, urging the necessity of an imme-
diate repeal of the act of legislative union between Great
Britain and Ireland. Upwards of two thousand persons
were present. _

A meeting of the Irish Confederation was held on
Wednesday. It was more numerously attended and more
enthusiastic than any preceding one, and the various allu-
sions made to the necessity for an immediate resort to
arms, and the destruction of Saxon power in this island,
elicited vociferous cheers. The several repeal clubs
marched in procession a la mililaire, three abreast, to the
meeting, and mustered strongly on the occasion.
PRESENTATION TO HARMOOD BANNER, ESQ.—There
is now on view at Mr. Mayer's, silversmith, Lord-street,
a very beautiful and richly ornamented silver service of
plate, on which is engraved the following inscription :
" Presented to Ilarmood Banner, Esq., chairman of the
Liverpool and Harrington Waterworks, by a unanimous
vote of the proprietors, at their last annual meeting, in
acknowledgment of his services for a period of more than
thirty years, and of his recent efforts to protect the inter-
ests of the company. Liverpool, January 26, 1848."
A PERSON FOUND DROWNED.—On Saturday, an in-
quest was held before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner,
on view of the body of a man unknown, found on Friday
afternoon floating in the Mersey near Tranmere. The
body had been long in the water, and was much dis-
figured. A silver watch and silver guard were found upon
him ; the maker of the watch, as engraved within it,
" Joseph Griffiths, Liverpool," and the number 6119.
Two keys were attached. He had on half-boots, blue
pilot-cloth trousers and a flannel singlet. His height was
about five feet nine inches. The jury, as a matter of
course, returned a verdict of found drowned,
RECOVERY OF STOLEN PLATE.—OUr readers will re-
member that, at the late assizes, a boy named Markey was
convicted and sentenced to seven years' transportation for
stealing a quantity of plate from the house of Mr. Imrie,
of Bootle. He had been arrested in attempting to pledge
one of the articles at the shop of Mr. Cohan, in South-
Castle-street. At the time, and on his trial, he obstinately
refused to tell how the remainder of the plate had been
disposed of. Last week, however, smitten with penitence,
he sent for Mr. Imrie to the prison, and stated that the
remainder of the plate would be found concealed in a brick-
field at Bootle. On a search at the place indicated, the
remainder of the stolen articles were accordingly found.
THE NEW CHURCH AT AINTREE.—We beg to enlist
the liberal sympathy of our readers with a view of supply-
ing funds for the conversion of the cock-pit, nearAintree,
into a place of worship in co ,nc ten with the established
church. Surely, the promoters of such an object as this
will not be left without the necassary funds, even in times
when distress is so severe and widespread. The building
has been already suitably fitted up, and is one of the
neatest erections of the kind in this neighbourhood. If
proper means are supplied by the friends of religion and
morality, it is intended to erect at the west end a suitable
tower, and to add a chancel to the east end, both of which
will be great improvements to the building, and are indeed
almost indispensable to give a proper ecclesiastical cha-
racter to the structure. A list of donors to the excellent
object appears elsewhere; and we hope that, before long,
numerous additions will be made to it.

BIRKENHEAD CHURCH.—On Sunday, the 2nd instant,
the Rev. Andrew Knox, the highly respected incumbent
of St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, preached his twentieth
anniversary sermon beforea crowded andattentive audience.
Mr. Knox's appointment, as incumbent of St. Mary's,
took place in 1828, and his first sermon was preached
within its walls on the 29th of March that year. There
was then but one church in the township ; but soon after
Mr. Knox's appointment the church was enlarged ; and
this additional accommodation not proving adequate to the
wants of an increasing congregation, a further enlargement
was made in a few years afterwards. This tried and valu-
able servant of the cross has effected, during his long career
of usefulness in the ministry, the greatest good, both as a
Christian minister, and as a benevolent man--ever sym-
pathizing and consoling the sick and the distressed. His
valuable services were warmly appreciated by the late
Bishop of Chester, who never failed to bear testimony to
the benefits which the parish has so long derived from
those services.
A GRATIFYING EXAMPLE.—We have heard sufficient
lately from various quarters of sympathy with the Revo-
lutionary party in France, but we hear little of any sympa-
thy towards the unfortunate English and Irish work-
people, who have been driven penniless from their employ-'
ments in that country, at the dictation of the mob. An
example, however, is about to be set to liberalism, which
we trust will be followed ; and it is the more gratifying,
inasmuch as it comes from Foreigners, and may be re
garded as a tribute of acknowledgment for the hospitality
and encouragement which they have themselves received
at the hands of the British public. We refer to an an-
nouncement that M. Jullien, the lessee, and M. Dejean,
the proprietor of the equestrian troupe recently in this
town, are about to give a performance, at Drury Lane
Theatre, under distinguished patronage, the proceeds of
which are to be distributed amongst the poor workmen
so robbed of their employment and earnings by their
fellow-countrymen. We recommend the conduct of
Jullien and Dejean to the imitation of the numerous.
French professors and tradesmen settled in Liverpool and
other towns, who owe such a tribute to a country which
has received and fostered him.

NEW SCHOOLS AT AINTREE.—On Monday last, the
ceremony of the laying of the foundation-stone of the in-
tended new schools in Aintree took place,—Lord Sefton,
the lord of the manor (and who has not only given the land,
but has undertaken to erect the schools, at his own indivi-
dual expense), was present to lay the stone. The scholars
of the neighbourhood sang a hymn at the commencement,
and his Lordship was presented with a silver trowel by the
Rev. F. Formby, of Melling, who addressed his Lerdship
in a feeling and appropriate manner. In the course of his
speech, his Lordship said that, with regard to the many
advantages which resulted from education, he need not say
much, as Mr. Formby had before spoken so fully on the
point, and he entirely concurred on what had been said on
that subject. He had not been an idle spectator of the oc-
currences in the neighbourhood : he had witnessed, with
pain, the evil consequences resulting from neglect and ig-
norance. That want of training was followed by heedless-
ness—heedlessness by drunkenness—drunkenness by po-
verty, and poverty by misery. From what he had lately.
observed, he looked forward to better times. There was
a decided improvement in the manners and the order of the
younger portion of the village, since the school, now in ex-
istence, bad been under the management of the present
master ; and he felt it only due to him to remove the ob-
structions to further usefulness. He hoped that the
building, when completed, would answer that purpose, and
promote both the temporal and eternal happiness of the
inhabitants of Aintree. He then gave a hymn out of the
collection used at the Blue Coat Hospital. After a hymn
and the national anthem were sung, the meeting, which
was kindly and unanimous throughout, dispersed, highly
pleased with the proceedings of the day.

LOCAL MEETINGS.