The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Mayor of Liverpool, Sir Thomas Philipps, Mr.
Hindley, and Mr. Pollard had interviews on Thursday
with Sir George Grey, at the Home Office. His Worship
has been giving evidence in London on the slave trade.
Lord Besborough has been appointed to the Mastership
of the Buck Hounds, vacant by Lord Granville's accept-
ance of the vice-presidency of the Board of Trade.
On Monday the National Convention of Chartists was
dissolved—for want of funds ! The body met daily, till
it had dwindled down from sixty-three to fourteen. Up
to the last it passed resolutions calling national assem-
blages and other grand demonstrative motions.
SIR D LACY EVANS AND THE WESTMINSTER
REFORM SOCIETY.—Sir De Lacy Evans has addressed a
letter "To the Fourteenth Part of the Westminster
Reform Society," to prevent " their indiscreet proceedings
from prejudicing the estimation of the great majority of
that hitherto judicious and public-spirited Association."
The burden of the letter is, that the hon. and gallant
member declines the order given him, in the name of the
Westminster Reform Society, to place himself under the
political guidance of " Messrs. Hume and Cobden."
YORK ELECTION.—The Liberal portion of the electors
of York have not yet found a candidate whom they deem
worthy to represent them in parliament. Mr. Leeman,
who would have supported Mr, Hume's motion for parlia-
mentary reform, has refused to stand, and the Whig party
have brought forward a son of Sir William Milner, a young
gentleman of the old Whig school, who appears not to
have made up his mind on any important political ques-
tion, but who promises to give everything his " best at-
tention," should he " have the honour to be returned."
OFFICIAL SALARIES THREATENED HAVOC.—The
special report of the Committee on the Miscellaneous Es-
timates will not be communicated to the public for some
time ; but we are enabled to inform our readers that the
reforms which it proposes are of the most sweeping cha-
racter. Messrs. Hume, Browning, and Co., have been
triumphant in the Committee. The offices of Junior
Lords of the Admiralty, Treasury, &c. &c., are either
entirely done away with, or most materially cut down—
the salaries of Cabinet Ministers wofully diminished !
The object of the above-named gentlemen may be simply
that of decreasing the expenditure of the country, but we
shrewdly suspect that the clamour for retrenchment means
something more than it professes, and that the blow they
have now struck is the first and r.ot the last to be aimed
at " things as they are.—John Bull.
A reform meeting of the Middlesex electors was held
on Wednesday, at Captain Hall's Riding-school, Albany-
street, Regent's-park. Resolutions to support Mr.
Hume's motion for reform were passed. Mr. Hume was
present. Several chartists spoke, and Captain Atcherley
frequently interrupted the deliberations in something of
this way—" In the midst of the hubbub Captain Atcher-
ley's voice was most conspicuous. ' Who ran away on
the 10th ?' said he, when Mr. O'Brien rose to speak. Mr.
Spur spoke figuratively of storming the House of Com-
mons, on which the Captain roared out, ' No, no, Sir,
not storm the house, that would be a breach of the peace.'
Altogether a more disgraceful scene of confusion and cla-
mour was seldom witnessed in the metropolis, and, if often
repeated, would tend more than anything else to degrade
the popular cause and frustrate the efforts of those who
seek to place the representation of the country upon an
enlarged basis."

THE JEW BILL.—We understand that Lord Ellen-
borough will move the amendment on the Jew Bill, in
the House of Lords. Our readers will hear with gratifi-
cation and thankfulness that the measure will NOT pass
the House of Peers. His grace the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, it is certain, will justify the confidence which the
Crown and the Church so recently have placed in him,
and raise, as becomes him, his solemn protest against the
unchristianizing o f the nation. His Lordship. we have
reason to believe, is liberal in his politics ; but this is no
party question. Government have reckoned upon the
support of the Duke of Wellington. It is hardly neces-
sary for us to assure the public that this desperate hope
rests upon no foundation. The Duke's view 3 upon the
question are, as they have ever been, sternly opposed to
it. If corroberate evidence can be necessary, it may be
found in the fact of his Grace's two sons having voted
against the bill at every stage of its progress through the
House of Commons.—John Bull.

NORTH CHESHIRE.—A meeting of the friends of Mr.
George Cornwall Legh was held on Friday, at the George
Hotel, Knutsford, to receive reports of the canvass from
the various districts. Sir R. Brook, of Norton Priory,
occupied the chair. The meeting was very numerously
attended, and the reports handed in were of the most gra-
tifying character, establishing beyond a doubt the success-
ful issue to Mr. Legh of the ensuing election. All the
districts, with the exception of two, exhibited considerable
majorities in his favour. In one of the two excepted dis-
tricts the returns were even, and in the other, that of
Mottram, Mr. Legh's opponents, it was calculated, would
be able to poll three againif, to one in, his favour. This
was a solitary instance, and the other returns were so de-
cidedly in favour of Mr. Legh, that, under the adverse
circumstances, he was shewn to have a clear majority. In
the meanwhile, the canvass will be further vigorously
prosecuted. The nomination will take place on the 31st
instant, and the polling on the sth and 6th June.
VARIETIES OF CHARTISM.—It appears also that there
are Chartists of all descriptions. There are steady old
Chartists of 30 years' standing ; men who have borne the
burden and heat of the day, and find themselves now
thrust aside by mere suckling Chartists. There are phy-
sical force and moral force Chartists. There are simple
Chartists, and Chartists who will join with any body
in making a row, whatever the cause may happen to be.
There are Union Chartists, who combine with their poli-
tical profession schemes for the protection of the work-
man against the employer. There are Land Company
Chartists who subscribe, we believe, a shilling a-week,
and in due time ballot for an allotment, and draw, as may
be, four acres of loam, of clay, of sand, of bog, or of
stones. There is also a certain indescribable affinity
between Chartists and Odd Fellows ; at least the Char-
tists vehemently resent the rules which prevent the enrol-
ment of that body. There are zealous Chartists and luke-
warm Chartists ; Chartists who will pay 6d a-week for the
support of a delegate in London, or for the travelling ex-
penses of an agitator, and Chartists who never pay a sous for
these purposes. There are Chartists who revile Feargus
O'Connor : others are scandalized at Cuffey. Some arc
for doing things all in order, and approaching the Throne
only in the properest and most reverential manner ; others
are by no means particular on these points. There are
democratic Chartists and loyal Chartists. To crown all,
we have now a new variety announced, with four mild
points instead of six strong ones ; with triennial, instead
of annual, Parliaments, and households, instead of uni-
versal, suffrage. One thing is very clear from the result.
The English people are disposed to organic change.
They don't want a bran new Parliament. * * * This
country seldom throws away. It will never throw away
the existing House of Commons. Ecce signum. A lot
of incendiaries have been poking up and scraping the
whole island, and cannot, either by promises or bribes, or
any means, get more than 65 men to devote, or rather
pretend to devote themselves, to the task of agitating for
a fundamental change .of the Legislature. And those 65
separate of themselves in a fortnight. The bubble bursts
almost before it is seen.--frimes.

Nay 23, 184§.

IRELAND.

TRIALS OF SMITH O'BRIEN AND MEAGH
Onthe
QueensMondaT tßheenteriha!DofuhMiinr.. W. Sh.eoC'oßuri!tenwastooczo,k ded
in
in every part, and the traverser, who was attended DI for
securities and Mr. J. F. Meagher, whose trial was fi%eut-.
Tuesday, was loudly cheered. A jury (one of wheal
_ll,,
member of the Society of Friends) having been A 7,
the Attorney-General, in a very able address, stated
particulars of the case against the prisoner. rite $
charged " with (being a wicked, seditious, and tar °7:-0)
person) having delivered a speech on the 15th Mar,%o
Dublin, for the purpose of exciting hatred and car re-
against the Queen, and inducing the people to risen; ,
hellion." The meeting in question was that at whico2;
address of congratulation to the French republic
carried. Idr`
The speech and address having been proved ~,11 role
Hodges, the government reporter, Mr. Butt,
to address the Court for the traverser. After alluaw/enc
the high family of Mr. O'Brien—" a family oao
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that the Viceroy who prosecutes him isproud to our.:
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relationship to his blood," he said that Mr. 000
was not a man who had nothing to lose, but a led
of fortune a man of station, who had einbfa;t
and risked all be possessed in that, whether it be Ilts
or wrong, which he believed to be for his countlo
good. He then went on as follows :—" Now that I h'ld
met and conversed with him, as between counsel tlO
client, I can confidently say, that there is not „nt
inmost recesses of his heart a single thought that is .;'"I
worthy of a high and noble-minded man ; and Whe'o,
reflect that the effect of a verdict of guilty will be to 00.,
sign such a man to prison, Jam, I confess, anxious forre;
gentlemen, for himself, and for the country—for, bell so
me, all cannot be right in a country in which such a .0
as Wm. S. O'Brien is guilty, if guilty you pronounce
to be, of sedition." f 06
At the conclusion of this sentence, the majority „1.,
bar, together with the ladies and gentlemen in the 6tiie
leries, rose, and loudly cheered the sentiments of ".
learned counsel. there
THE COURT.--I beg to state, once for all, that
be attempted a second manifestation of this kind,' "
order the court to be cleared.
The learned counsel expressed his regret at the anecAeo
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Air. Sergeant Warren replied, after which the ChiefiuS.
Lice summed up, observing that it was quite clear that Ni.r:
O'Brien had expressed his disapprobation of the distal?
ances in London, and left the question of guilt entire 4
for the consideration of the jury.
The jury retired, and having been twice asked the 9,°13,
tion, said they could not agree upon their verdict. 0
were then locked up for the night, and at ten o'clock °.,,t
Tuesday morning returned into Court, when, by eonsel'o,
of the counsel on both sides, they were discharged ft°
giving a verdict.
The trial of Mr. Meagher was then proceeded with• It
was a charge of sedition.
After hearing the speeches of counsel, and the witness!e'
the jury retired, and the court then adjourned till rind
o'clock in the evening. At that time a tumultuous elf,
assembled at the doors of the courts, and attempted
obtain admittance. This, however, was successfullY,7„;
sisted, and some of the learned counsel were for a be
excluded. The jury, upon being called in, said that t•
could not agree upon their verdict, for one of their al;
ber stood out. A second juryman said that there w'so
two dissentients, and that one of the number, a R°lll
Catholic, would wait a fortnight before he would sr:4
with the rest. Upon this being stated, his Lordship ag,
e7li
ordered them to be locked up, and the court adjournorio
next morning, when, on the jury being called, one of tp„
said that they were unanimous in finding a conviction e.,;,
cept one. His lordship then ordered the jury to be al'
missed, and the traverser was discharged. w of
Mr. Meagher addressed the crowd from the wind 5
the confederate rooms in D'Olier-street. That it vi
treasonable, he himself plainly insinuated. "
says he, " is in our hands ; aye, and what is more, We
keep it."

MR. MITCHEL IN PRISON.
The information on which Mr. Mitchel has been CO;
mitted to prison, charges him with publishing)" -
United Irishman of the 6th and 13th instant certain Lig
des tending " to compass and deprive our most grs.'Lef
lady the Queen from the style, honour, and royal ""'"-eff
the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom,
war against her Majesty within the said United Kingd°to
n order by force and constraint to compel her Mak°
change her measures and counsels."
On Mr. Mitchel's arriving at Newgate he was band„, on
over to the gaoler. He was then brought into a rocr„, ok-
the upper story of the prison, with a single window 'Lad,
ing into Green-street. It contained no bed or bedstwo.
and he was informed that such was the apartr",en„ 00,
signed to him, and that he might have straw to sleet' this
that they had nothing else. Indignantly refusing.sight
" kind accommodation,,, and resolved to spend the Poo-
walking abouthis cell, hewas told that any further 67,nave,
ence he might require he would be permitted et°,..-0 her
brought to him. He sent to hts own house 0 settled
mattrass, which was at once brought, and hari"
there. On
it on two or three forms, he passed the n'ght 101
Sunday morning, at an early hour, Mr.l Mitebe when
came to the prison and was permitted to see he' Wag
it became known through the city that Mr. N-"c"--: as,
an inmate of Newgate, numbers of his personal frien.n.
and many whose political doctrines did not exactly. °lbis
cide with his, visited him. He was allowed to recelVe
friends and legal advisers in the prison yard, a nail°
flagged square.
admit Mr.
An application was made on Wednesday to ,pined
and to I
to,
Mitchel to bail, which the Lord Chief Jushre seemed
disposed to listen to, if the defendant would discontal.9Bo
the publication of his treasonable writings ; but as tru
was not complied with, the application was refused.

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The Repeal Association met on Monday. The attenu
ance wretchedly thin and ill-tempered. Rent £33• f.
b
The Rev. Mr. Nolan, following the example of the Re
Mr. Bermingham, has made his peace with his shoPr:
and has been restored to his functions. He has, Wve,}ehe
been removed from Tipperary to a parish in Clare.
Rev. Mr. Kenyon is still unyielding. ent
The United Irishman pays the following compliment
Roman Catholics :—" When our British rulers °ilea
any specially odious, mean, vexatious, and unprinc!Polic
piece of work done, they generally commit it to a Cate
of the better classes.' " the
The Lord Lieutenanehas forwarded 100 guineas, ..e,
contribution of the Bisbop of Durham, to the centralfl2,s
lief committee, together with an additional surn2A for
guineas, his own contribution, to be expended in s'
those districts where it is most needed. , tons'
POPERY AND REPEAL.—Two further dectara-Re,
calling upon the Queen to convene a parliament in of
land, have been published—one from the arch-dioelseand
Cashel, signed by Dr. Slattery and one hundred e of
thirteen clergymen; the second from the dioces
Elphin, signed by Dr. Brown and eighty-eight clergYieis-
Dr. Brown is one of those prelates who signed the 'le
ration in favour of law and order.
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF CORK.—On 1.1'11; boP
morning the Right Rev. Samuel Kyle, D.D., Lord-PP'
of Cork, expired at his residence in Merrion-square, 00
lin. His lordship had been long suffering undery pa.
acutely-painful disease, which he bore with exernPle,rd his
tience and fortitude. He had, we believe, comp add,
78th year, and breathed his last, we are happy ',„°;endl
without struggle or a pang. He has left many
""
and admirers, who deeply deplore his loss. d "Ar
BRUTAL MURDER IN CLARE.—A man name
mare, herdsman to Richard Calcott, Esq., of EnnisT-nas,
was brutally murdered in his own house, at Kileu-ssed.
on Wednesday night, and robbed of all he pons deed
There was no one in the dwelling when the atrocioust gr•
was perpetrated, the unfortunate man's wife being e „red
Calcott's that night. His murderers carried off te.eii, aG
shirt he wore. M`Namara prosecuted to convictio
vibo
last Ennis assizes, three fellows for stealing his eeli'
were since transported.—Limerick Chronicle. as, Of
THE TREASON-WRITERS.—ID the United Irish,r 1;0;
Saturday, Mr. Mitchel says, after speaking of his cc'," inti",,s
men's love for the rattle of arms, &c.,—"
marched past my prison windows to let me lourf
are ten thousand fighting men in Dublin, ' felons iii aG
and soul. I thank God for it. The game is
last. The liberty of Ireland may come sooner or it "
later, by peaceful negociation or bloody conflict,u noe.tf,
sure; and wherever between the poles may efl:
be, I will hear the crash of the downfall of th
accursed ' British Empire." iv tif
With refpect to the non-agreement of the ie„-,*he 071-:
case of O'Brien, the Dublin correspondent of ties we.
says—" It was very generally known who the Ps. 1.„•,n; /0
that held out against the majority for a concle7,-„,ro tva
fact, as soon as they were empanelled, and be 3.1
offer 11
Attorney-General opened the case, bets were A 4
20 to 1 that there would be no conviction. An,•:friee,7o.
was never contemplated by the traverser or 01'sna Oto
The numbers I believe were ten for convict3e2' t nine to
for acquittal. The traverser's friends allege t"fi,.s oleo'
three was the proportion, others assert that it
four, but such statements are certainly groundless

LAW INTELLIGENCE. of
CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST TILE mA la r-le
CHANDOS.—In the course of Thursday the st t
Grand Jury came into Court with a true bill ag,a",-orral
Marquis of Chandos, for committing wilful litt'diffieu
perjury. The charge arises out of the pecuniarY
of
ties of the father of the defendant, the allegatir by leo
jury being that the marquis, in an affidavit Mote 00Pd
in the course of a suit in Chancery, stated untrelYocateo
was not aware of the character of certain• deeds cear /iji
by him, in which an annuity of five thousand alrui,
charged upon certain estates in which the roarg, by 01'
life interest. The indictment has been remove'
af
tiorari into the Court of Queen's Bench. _At d,
COUNTY COURTS.—DEFENDANTS EXPENSES.OOOIie,ep,
not be generally known that a person may be su 901 Ps,
by the County Courts Act, to answer a debt froin
toe clit,
of England, provided the debt was contracted it7trfoils.o4,
trict where the plaintiff rysides, but if the Plait' f olio itt
prove his case, the commissioner has the power 0.
•,arred
the defendant his expenses. A case in point "oddlei.,
London, on Saturday last. Mr. J. G. ShiPle3Tr. per
of Jermyn-street, Haymarket, summoned _ioio
_A
Gaskill, of this town, to appear before the Cetnlrn silegs
of the 'Westminster County Court, to anarfgeire defelot,
debt of £5 18s. 6d. due to the plaintiff. 'II,. 1. 00
however, personally,ebvoeurn:lactkonaopwpleeadrgingits
jilstnoerssrytiethdldeoc 9inipnpiveasr;iokill lificeor
a verdict being given in his favour, the
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