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

Ireland, and he as anxious

of her den

ogees 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

th
those
ter-taii

s town, calling themselves Irishmen, were
which well constituted Irish minds could en-
We are to be burnt in our beds, it would
rnment presumes so far
e a government as to repress treason and
mi. The property of the merchants of Liver-
to be destroyed, in revenge for any inter-
with the lawless will of the mob which the
and, Meaghers of the sister country choose
pool is the heart at

seem, uri

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3e town of Li

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
the spouters at their Sunday evening repeal
gatherings, who call themselves Irishmen, but
whom, we repeat, we cannot believe to he fair spe-
cimens, or to represent the feelings of the mass of
eur resident Irishpo.pulation

e that

and folly so utter, as are thus dis Played, dwell in
nv save the most worthless and idle
cum which is thrown up

arts of

of that po

hat has been the con-
thus threatened, towards
cannot think so ill of
on their part a return
branch of the commerce
A port the Irishman has
nd opportunity to advance
we may even say that he has
The labour em-
and shipping is almost

commun _
ldren.

so dia

I. In ere

always had

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his condition.
had more than

fair shire.

The bulk of the -head warehouse-
men of our merchants are Irishmen ; and employ
trymen in preference to native
ls, our infirmaries, and dis-
ported for the relief of

vely Irish

)wn fellow-
. Our he

e mainly

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,

ed the energies

of our

ling population, the ordinary contributions,
Liverpool makes, in money, in charitable aid
ry description, in remunerative employment,
the ungrudging confidence displayed towards
len, ou

_Ant to be amply sufficiimt 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
a-the Irish part, of our population, protectors from

outrage ; tnai, we have permitter.
-ise themselves in our town so much above the
`,thedness which is to be found in their own
and for whom and for whose children we

tacie
the

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 Et.
—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 hip
Bank Act of 1844.

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 hor
nour and integrity, and be was acquitted.
A meeting of the Repealers of this town was held on
the morning of Thursday last, at the Concert-ball, Lord
Nelson-street, for the purpose of adopting a petition to
the imperial legislature, urging the necessity of an imme-
diate lewd 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 situ-

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 militaire, 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 Harm-ood Banner, Esq., aairman 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 inl
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.—OUT 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 cou6ealed in Et 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 bez to enlist

the liberal sympathy of our readers with a view of supply-
ing funds for the conversion of the cock-pit, nearAintrec,
into a place of worship in co n?, t.cn 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

annivers
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sermon beibre a crowded and attentive audience

Knoi'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 yedi. 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 totthe
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