The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

most serious

From a perusal of the Britannia newspaper of
22nd July, it would appear that, notwithstanding
the united representations of the French and British
admirals to General Oribe, he continued to
treat his prisoners with the most relentless cruelty,
characterized by the British Admiral (Purvis) as
being such "as would disgrace even the petty states of
Barbary." But we extract the following remarks as
to the murder of two Frenchmen, taken prisoners
by Oribe on the sth July :

" We must, however, not omit to mention the atrocious
murder of two Frenchmen, who were taken prisoners by

Oribe on the

sth instant,

seven days after that General

and Admiral de Clerval that he would no longer persist
in his practice of sacrificing his prisoners of war. The
manner in which these two unfortunate Frenchmen were
put to death, and the nature of the torments they were
previously made to undergo, involve details of so dis-
gusting and monstrous a character, that decency obliges
us to refrain from their description.
" Admiral de Clerval is understood to have sent to
General Oribe to inquire into the truth of what has been
here stated relative to those individuals, and the answer
given by Oribe was simply, that they had been executed
by his orders. On the following day M. de Clerval dis-
patched a vessel to Buenos Ayres, it is supposed with
communications on the subject to the French minister,
Count de Lurde. It remains to be seen whether he will
pursue the same shamefully indolent course adopted by
Mr. Mandeville. or if, by some energetic demonstration,

the want of promptitude in adopting the step which
it has now at length been found necessary to take.
If meetings, such as that which was, on Sunday
last, to have been held at Clontarf, are now, in the
words of the Government proclamation, "calculated
and intended to excite discontent and disaffection in
the minds of her Majesty's subjects, and to bring
I into hatred and contempt the Government and con-
We again find reference made in the above paper
stitution of the country as by law established," they
to the letter of the British Minister, at Buenos Ayres,
were so calculated months ago. If such meetings
of 16th December. 1842, addressed to the Buenos
are seditious and dangerous to the public peace now,
Ayrean and Monte Videan governments, demanding
they were equally so months ago. Why then, we
a cessation of hostilities ; and if it be true that such
a letter was written to the two belligerents, of which ask still, were they not put down ? Why has the
we are told there is not a doubt, we are altogether at miscreant agitator been permitted, week after week,
a loss to know why the conditions of this letter have to plunder a misguided people ;—to plunder them
by his cruel exactions, and doubly plunder them by
not been enforced by the British Government, as
the compulsory idleness to which he has submitted
peace would at once have been established, the trade
h
to Monte Video pre erved and extended, and very hundreds of thousands, who must, during the ap-
proaching winter, be plunged into misery unparal-
serious losses avoided. Indeed we can only see in
lulled even in his own unhappy country To these
the con inuance of this war the utter exhaustion of
questions the vigor of the Government now furnish,
both countries, and the ruin of both as places of i in our humble opinion, no satisfactory solution ; and
trade, which, from the large amount of British ma- we
wait therefore to be further enlightened upon tho
nufartm,,.. ,uusOMed, must, ;n tho cud, be
subject by its ulterior proceedings.
most seriously felt by our merchants and manufac-
It will be urged, no doubt, by the thick and thin
turers engaged in trade to the River Plate. We
adulators of the Ministerial policy, that Sir Robert
would earnestly call the attention of our Govern- I
' Peel and his colleagues waited to complete that vast
went to this destructive and long protracted strug-
amount of precautionary arrangement and military
gle, impressed as we are with the conviction that it
preparation, which we now see so effectively brought
is our duty to ascertain if the letter of the 16th Dec.
was written by our minister, and if so, then at once into action. Such an argument might hold good,
if it could be shown that at any moment we were
to act upon that letter according to its tenor. No
not prepared to assert the supremacy of the law in
other course, in our opinion, remains open to the
that country. But is this the case ? No ; for whilst
British Government, without the srcrifice of the ho-
the Government has been concentrating its strength,
nour of the British nation.
the Repeal agitation has been growing in the power
of its 'organization and the daring of its leaders.

OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF LIVERPOOL—The popish
We predicted, after the success of the Anti-Corn- Some months ago the same vast effort now making
law League at Durham, that in the first borough would not have been required. A proclamation of sirroitbees,tawatioAseasofaeilasetihoonods directed towards the Operat.ive
we exposed last week, thus rote-
where a blow could be effectually struck the the illegality of these monster meetings, now become rates his calumny in his publication of Friday :
d
entire energies and the vast organisation of this so threatening, would then have shorn the cowardly an "d
As
we
quite expected, the Tory paper, of Tuesday,
band of conspi ators would be at once devoted to rebel of his strength, without more than a tenth part for the
s cadmission
oe Irl Itsi;
eh
rioters
arnteod
tthhea tAtmh eal:iotphpe ea rt
rsep aoi da
the task of perverting the judgments or overawing of the military demonstration, of which Dublin was the occasion of the Repeal Meeting, were handed to them
the will of the constituency. And we are not mis- on Sunday the scene. An entire people driven to tormtsh:if Odpeeariaeti
s ythat
r ohtee sht earls t
pAa
iss oacaiya t
ai oune .h
mTohneeytr7.oarsuarneyr
taken. In the metropolis itself the agency is now the verge of outbreak—prepared for blood and vio- such purpose. These denials do not shake our confidence
at work, which is destined ultimately to spread lence—contemplating it day by day, with passions ibne trheep
eoarti
eg idn aalasdt aratezeentto, aappear
bale
ol ire: ed
et Ildeednai atlll, wiof übl dy
throughout Great Britain ; to break down those excited by the constant iteration of imagined wrongs, any such means the identificationp of our informant could
bNy possiow bbiltity be
can be
; but he is not to be caught."
constitutional barriers, which hedge the Church, and with a winter of wretchedness, the result of
the Monarchy, and the Liberties of the People, and their own folly, and their betrayer's scoundrelism made by a man thus obstinatelyin resolved in e aid refutation statementcontempt
to render the representative principle a farce, by vir- before their eyes, require no doubt all the force now getlrluetrh ?an
(I.)btvoioturselay t
liiiiiar
aosisielyrtFourseions asissotomdespifse the
tually handing over the choice of the majority of arrayed against them, to secure their subjection to forged by a splenetic mind for the injury of a poillyticaailloeps:
the House of Commons to the dictation of a body the lacy; but the same people, disorganizad and sPtnantelttbat In
;
thedal
is presentii.m bclal
esye ,t
ot htieie/ercu Repealruly
meeting
of men, leagued in pursuit of their own selfish ob. comparatively unexcited, might have been repressed, furnished to a set of riotous boys by the ProtestantngOwpaes-
rative Association. We had the best
.of authority for
jects, and inveterately hostile to the established in- with a hand less strongly armed, and with even less denying this. It was in the same publication denied by
stitutions of their country. In every ward of the danger of ultimate failure. the treasurer. And, moreover, we had the additional as-
city, the hireling missionaries of this body are busily Besides we have ever maintained, and we must curates oft knowing that the association at the time—and
wearenno soproasal
yio
otheru i s
purpose. much improved.Aad now
t
circulating their mendacious statements, to mislead continue tc maintain, that a numerous portion of —had funds for that
and betray the citizens. In every ward they are the population of Ireland have for months past our contemporary's ". confidence",,. is not shaken I He is
stilloral oefdoopintliolenrlbhiantglailosf original informant ant is better. in-
erecting influences to enable them to coerce those panted for such an opportunity of escaping from Association than
whom they cannot convince; and, as the result, it O'Connell and his priestley myrmidons, as a firm the association itself, and proceeds to state that
appears to us almost inevitable that the Conservative position on the part of Government would have
we'r‘oll.oer,';li—shoendric3lyritiiinealiminploorrmtaanntt—po'r'sdoencalgaersesintheLOPaPsseors
feeling of the metropolis of English commerce will afiorded them. If we mistake not, the truth of this ciation, and distributed to " the boys" for the purpose
be stifled, and a Radical member of the council of opinion will now be seen. There may be some stated.
they p
ITe
ail! This
.t haeaddeintyrni denying parties know,pa
foro:i
emeeanyesyoos
ankken kne
ow
the Anti-Corn-law League will be elected to repre- fiery spirits in that country who will not be disposed now so arranged, in consequence of the exposure of the
sent, or to misrepresent, the interests of its mer- to sit down quietly in subjection to the dictates of transaction, that thttetntheintrehaisau
113.eororsay nAotaabeemcbtleddmuraoltof
chants, its bankers, and its traders, in the House of the great agitator. There may be men who will say makers,ave s
like an item
association, have sufficient experience to
Commons. to their cowardly betrayers, "You have led us thus know how to work the affair in substance, and yet not be
able to deny it in form."
In addition to this merely desultory effort of the ' far on the road to civil convulsion, and you shall Well done, Mercury ! The jesuitical dishonesty of the
faction, what is their declared intention, with respect not now hold us back from our meditated prey, the course suggested is worthy of Loyala himself, and might,
well considered, th.row a light upon. m.uch ha
to future proceedings. Last year we saw fifty thou- Saxon whom you have taught us to hate." For such hitherto been deemed incomprehensible in liberal tactics!
sand pounds, and upwards, raised and expended for there is nothing but the arm of the law; and should
the purpose of disseminating throughout the coun- it fall heavily upon them, we fear that the Govern- COUNTY REGISTRATION.—The court for revising the
district' of the parliamentary list for this county
try those mendacious tracts, in which the aristocracy ment which permitted them to be misled, and their commences
cesat the Sessions-house this morning. We
and the agriculturists of England are painted as feelings to be exasperated to this pitch of despera- earnestly press upon our conservative friends who have
btoeeanaboalatjaeacttieadte ttclii,eitrheelailceas.sity of a personal attendance
robbers and virtual murderers of the poor, whilst tion, is scarcely to be excused for its unhappy error.
the millocracy are lauded, as the only source of the But that the bulk of the population of Ireland will EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVITY IN THE COTTON
nation's strength, and the only party who care for thus determine we do not believe. There are bun- 017ARKIET.—thWe2m,toi
Fo noticed
ales owfe ecko
tt
thoen eat
vriiinogrdt!eneaar ya
0% t
the people's happiness. This year it is proposed to dreds of thousands, we believe, who have all along at advanced prices on the day preceeding our publication ;
double the amount of this contribution for seditious been repealers only from the necessity of their pos. and we have now to notice the more extraordinary fact
'1" that this activity in the demand has been sustained during
purposes. A hundred thousand pounds are to he tion—from the compulsion to which they were sub- the entire week, the aggregate sales for which are now
raised ; and mark the changed purpose to which jected : and these men will rejoice to be emancipated stated at 70,000 bales, at an advance of fully id per lb.
Yesterday the same activity was manifested, the sales
they are to be devoted ! It is not in the circulation and permitted to return to the peaceful avocations being 10,000 bales (nearly half a week's consumption);
of weekly tons of mendacity; it is not in the inva- of industry ; and they would have rejoiced to have and the market closed with great firmness.
MuNicrpm, REVlSlON.—mintednii revision was
sion of the pesceful villages of England by hired been thus emancipated half a year ago ! resumed on Tuesday, and terma on Thursday. The
sowers of sedition ;it is not in the getting up of But the most important question which now pre- following is the result :
fraudulent petitions to the House of Commons. sents itself respects the further proceedings of Go-
More definite and direct are now to be the operations vernment in Ireland. Of course, we may now ex-
of this powerful body. The League is now at pect to see those meetings, which are declared to be
length to assume the unconstitutional position of an dangerous to the public peace, repressed by the exe-
ation is to be cutive. But is the mercenary fellow who has now
electioneering body. Its vast organization
devoted to a simultaneous action upon the consti- added cowardice to his other crimes—who is only
tuencies. Its agents are to enter into immediate preserved from the fate of a rebel, by a fond regard
communication with the electors of every borough i for the safety of his body—is such a man to be per-
and county throughout the kingdom ; and when mitted to retire to obscurity, to chuckle over his past
" the pear is ripe"—when a sufficient amount of ill gains and to brood over fresh robberies, unvisited
feeling has been created, and some check in the by the laws which he has violated ? We trust not.
prosperity of the country lays open the passions of a ; The very proclamation of the Government is itself
suffering people to the operations of the incendiary
and demagogue, the cry is to be raised to the throne 1

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Radicals. Conserv. Conserv.
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That proclaim-

an acknowledgment of his guilt
tion declares that "at several of the meetings"--of

which would

h American Royal Mail steam-s'
leave Boston on the Ist instant,
ive here on Saturday next,

Rio Acadia,

may be.ex

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