The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION

At the Repeal Association on Monday, Mr. Connor,
a gentleman already known to the public by his anti-
landlord agitation at Mountmellick, for which, we be-
lieve, he suffered the penalty of imprisonment, gave notice
of the following motion :

That until-the natural rights of self-legislation in the
possession of oar own parliament, and of a valuation and
perpetuity of his farm to the tenant, be restored to us,
we, Hepealers, shall pay no rent, county cess, rent charge,
tithes, poor rate, or any other charge out of land."
The proceedings that followed this somewhat startling
notice re too instructive to be passed over without notice.
Mr. Connor's indiscretion was at once checked by the
chairman and Mr. John O'Connell. Upon consultation,
however, we presume with his friends—probably his legal
friends—around him, the latter, believing that his first
repudiation of the injudicious disclosure had not been
strong enough, renewed the subject in a formal notice,
disclaiming the views of Mr. Connor.
The resolutions proposed by Mr. O'Connell, jun., and
adopted by the association, were the following :

" That this association has heard with horror and in-
dignation the doctrines put forward by Mr. Connor re-
specting the payment of rents, county cess, tithes, poor-
rate, or rent charge, this day, in the attempt he made to
put upon the books a notice plainly and grossly illegal,
and directly tending to create and encourage criminal
outrage and violence throughout the country.
" That if anything can add to these feelings, it is the
consideration of the time Mr. Connor has chosen for
making such remark, a time when, in the county of Car-
low, where repeal has as yet made little progress, a violent
and criminal opposition to rents has, according to the
public prints, already begun to manifest itself.
" That this association indignantly rejects, and refuses
to insert on its books, or to allow to be ►or a moment en-
tertained, Mr. Connor's notice ; and that they declare
that all who put forward such doctrines, and offer such
advice to the people as is contained in that notice, are
either madmen or traitors to the glorious cause of repeal,
to the noble people who support that cause, and old Ire-
land."

The first observation to be made upon these resolutions
is, that they were an afterthought; this the report of the
proceedings shows very plainly—a considerable interval
of time having elapsed before this horror and indignation
was felt; in fact, it was the result of deliberation. We
more than suspect it was the result of remonstrance—of
remonstrance perhaps from Mr. O'Hea, who publicly
told the association that if they adopted such a notice
they were every one guilty of rank sedition, and that the
moment such a notice was placed on their books, his name
should be expunged from their roll. Whatever passed,
certain it is that Mr. John O'Connell's tone was a little
changed between his first and second notice of the ob-
noxious movement of Mr. Connor. At first he expressed
himself in the following remarkable words. After request-
ing Mr. Connor to withdraw his notice, he continued—
" Although he (Mr. O'Connell) might agree with the
learned gentleman upon many points, yet he considered
such a resolution required much private consideration in
committee, where it might probably be made conformable
to the opinions of the members of the association, and
could be brought forward, when revised and made legal,
at a future day. (Hear.) Under those circumstances he
hoped that the motion would be withdrawn."

This is certainly not quite consistent with the outburst
of horror and indignation which an hour afterwards was
hypocritically indulged in.
Mr. O'Connell announced the rent for the week to be
£1462 17s. Bd.; after which the meeting adjourned until
Wednesday.

SLIGO UNION.-At the last Meeting of the Sligo Board
of Guardians the propriety of closing the house was fully
discussed, and the Board was almost unanimously of
opinion that such a step should be very soon taken.
Dr. M'Hale, in his address at the Loughrea meeting,
coupled Espartero and the King of Hanover together, as
" the ruling despot of one country, and the fallen tyrant
of another."

MIIRDER.—A party of four men, unknown, effected an
entrance into the dwelling of John Spelman. at Bally-
cuslowen, in this county, and, having dragged him out of
bed, beat him in a most savage manner, of which he died.
—Limerick Chronicle.

A NOBLE DEFAULTER.—At a meeting of the Nenagh
poor law guardians, on Thursday, the collector of rates
handed in a list of defaulters, when, amongst the number,
the Right Hon. General Lord Bloomfield figured to the
heavy amount of twopence halfPenny.—Dublin Freeman.
THE IRISH PRELACY.—The following toast was given
by the Rev. Mr. Maurice, Roman Catholic, at the Con-
nemara repeal meeting on Sunday last :—" The Lion of
the fold of Judah, one of the great ornaments of the most
splendid constellation in the tiara of the Supreme Pontiff."
DISTEMPER AMONGST CATTLE.—Since the beginning
of this year upwards of 4,000 head of cattle have fallen
victims to the prevalent distemper in the borough and
county of Limerick. Some large farmers lost from ten
to fifty beasts by the fatal malady, and there is yet no cer-
tain cure to stop its ravages.—Limerick Chronicle.

FATHER MATHEW AND REPEAL.-Mr. Tappan, of
York, in a recent conversation with Father Mathew,
asked what would he the result of the repeal movement?
He answered very significantly, (for he is a man of very
few words,) " They will get equal laws, Sir."—Boston
Pilot.

Government, it is said, is about to appoint a commission
of inquiry into the relations between landlord and tenant
in Ireland. We will not say that such an inquiry if in-
stituted, will lead to no good ; but of this we feel assured,
that the relations between landlord and tenant in any
country must always adjudge themselves ; they cannot be
made the subject of compulsory legislative regulation.—
Great Northern Advertiser.

MEETING OF THE JUDGES.—The first meeting of the
Court of Arbitrators was held on Friday, at the Court.
house, Blackrock ; Mr. Justice John O'Connell on the
bench. One case was brought before his Lordship for
adjudication, but the defendant not appearing, the record
fell still-born to the ground. After this despatch of no-
business, his Lordship adjourned the court to Friday
next. "We maw call suitors from the vasty deep. But
will they come when we do call on them ?" Bad as the
Saxon laws are, our simple Celts prefer them to the
Brehon.—Dublin Mail.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Wed-
nesday a destructive fire took place in Lower Exchange-
street, Dublin, which quickly communicated with an ad-
joining building. During the fire an unfortunate woman,
named Mary M`Dermott, was suffocated in the house
where the fire broke out, and another female, named
Mary Lamb, who leaped out of a window upon a feather
bed, was so injured by the fall that little hopes are enter-
tained of her recovery. The house which was consumed
in Exchange-street, was a Roman Catholic book deposi-
tory, and the loss sustained to the proprietors is very
considerable. Mr. Field, the owner of the other house,
although insured to a small amount, is stated to have lost
£BOO.

WALES.