The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting on Monday
the chair was filled by the newly-elected repeal member for
Limerick, Mr. James Kelly. The rent was £1,688,—a
somewhat ominous series of figures to Repealers, who are
not fond of being reminded of a monarch who (as Lord
Plunkett sarcastically phrased it) " came to conquer Ire-
land to happiness and freedom."
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE—" CHEAP 1 "—At an auction
of books in Tuam, on Friday evening, the first three
numbers of the Poor Law Commissioners' report were
offered for sale, but no person appearing disposed to pur-
chase them, the lot was set up for one halfpenny, and
knocked down for three halfpence. So much for the
estimation for poor law commissioners' reports.—
Dublin Mail.

LORD DE GRIM—The address to Lord De Grey on
his quitting Ireland contained the signatures of four mar-
quises, twenty-five earls, twelve viscounts, fourteen barons,
the Lord Primate, six bishops, nineteen deans, twenty-
three archdeacons, the Provost T.C.D., thirty-nine hon-
ourables and privy councillors, forty-two baronets, thirty-
eight m embers of parliament, ninety-five deputy lieutenants,
one hundred and seventy-four magistrates, one hundred
and thirty clergymen, and an array of resident country
gentlemen, barristers, physicians, bankers, respectable
inhabitants of Dublin, &c. &c., amounting to some thou-
sands.
Two WOMEN CONVICTED OF MURDER.—Catharine
Bryan, Bridget Langan. and Ann Carr were tried, at the
Roscommon Assizes, for the murder of Patrick Bryan,
the husband of the first prisoner, by strangling him with
a rope. Bryan and Langan were found guilty, and after-
wards sentenced to death. Carr was acquitted. The
murder was committed a year ago, and, the wretches who
perpetrated it having cut the man's throat after strangling
him, a coroner's inquest returned a verdict of suicide.
Since that time an important witness has been discovered,
in the person of Margaret Gilhooly, who witnessed the
murder, but wished to avoid giving evidence : hence the
present trial and result.

DEPARTURE OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—'Their
Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess de
Grey took their departure from Ireland on Tuesday
morning last, after a sojourn of two years and nine months,
during which time they gained the esteem and respect
due to their exalted stations from all loyal and dutiful
subjects of the sovereign whose representatives they were.
Every suitable preparation was made by the military
authorities to do honour to the noble earl and his amiable
countess upon their departure from the seat of their vice-
royalty, and the several streets through which the cortege
was to pass, after its arrival at Essex-bridge, were lined
with the various horse and foot regiments composing the
ganigou of Dublin.—Evening Packet.

THE REPEAL FUND AND ITS USES.-At the Roscom,
mon assizes, before Mr. Baron Lefroy, a Mr: Fry h
highly respectable gentleman, was put on his ttial un a
charge of perjury, but most honourably acquitted. The
perjury was alleged to have been committed by his swear-
ing that his horse was maliciously killed, for the purpose
of recovering its value from the county. It came out in
the cross-examination of a Rev. Mr. Hester, the priest
of the parish, that he (the aforesaid reverend) had received
£25 from the Repeal Association, to assist him in prose-
cuting this gentleman, who had become obnoxious from
avowing himself an Orangeman.
LORD NORDURY'S MURDER.-At the King's County
assizes, on Thursday, Peter Dolan was indicted for the
murder of Lord Norbury on the Ist of January, 1839.
The prisoner, at the close of the previous year, was a
farm servant of a tenant of Lord Norbury's, and was pay-
ing his addresses to the daughter of a man who had been
dispossessed by his lordship. The principal witness was
a person named Day, an approver, and the following is an
extract from his evidence :—" On the day his lordship
was shot, I was in the demesne ; I saw the prisoner there,
standing with James Gill, at the corner of the plantation ;
I did not speak to them ; I then went home for a broken
reaping-hook, and went to the woods to cut rods, and as
Iwent into it I saw a man going down along the ditch ; I
did not see his face, and did not know who it was ; he
stood awhile at the breast of the ditch, and soon after I
saw smoke and heard a shot; I then saw the man running
away, and he came to where I stood 1 then saw him
quite plain ; the prisoner at the bar is the man ; I was
within about eight perches of him ; he wore a light-
coloured dress, and a cap of the same description ; he went
into the wood, and I saw him no more; I then went
home; I did not see Lord Norbury on that occasion at all."
His evidence was confirmed, but the jury acquitted the
prisoner, to the surprise of every one ; and the Dublin
Evening Mail says, to none more so than the prisoner
and his friends.

ROMANISM AND SOCINIANISM.—The Irish journals
inform us, that on Monday week " The Rev. William
Hugh Doherty, Moderator of the Remonstrant (Socinian)
Synod of Ulster, paid a visit to Mr. O'Connell, at the
Richmond Penitentiary, for the purpose of expressing his
thanks to that honourable and learned gentleman, and
through him to all the Roman Catholics of Ireland, for
the generous and powerful support which they had given
to the synod in the matter of the Dissenters' Chapel Bill.
The reverend moderator also expressed his hope of a
speedy and favourable decision by the House of Lords on
the writ of error, and the consequent termination of Mr.
O'Cnnnell's unjust imprisonment," &c. Socinianism
and Romanism—is there anything new in this coalition ?
Nothing whatever. Nay, Voltaire himself, who spent his
whole life exclaiming, " Crush the wretch!" felt no re-
pugnance in sending for a priest, at the close of his mis'tr-
able career, and declaring that he died a sincere member
of the Catholic Church. But did he ever show the least
disposition to embrace the Scriptural faith of Claude and
Coligny ? Not for an instant. One false system may
displace another, and the man remain intrinsically the
same—but an inward and real change must be undergone
before he can be brought to embrace the truth. Julian,
the demon-worshipper of the fourth century, agreed with
the Arians of his day in persecuting Athanasius and the
worshippers of the blessed Trinity ; and the agreement of
the Irish Socinians and the Irish idol-worshippers in the
nineteenth century is essentially of the same character.
Only let a man hold by the Bible, distribute the Bible,
and preach the doctrines of the Bible, and he has done
enough, though his life be as blameless as Paul's or Cran-
mer's, to ensure for himself the general hatred of Roman-
ists, Infidels, Mahomedans, and Heretics, from one end
of the globe to the otker.
ORANGEMEN AND REPEALERS. -- The walls of the
towns in England and Ireland (Liverpool amongst the
rest) have, within the last few days, been covered with a
bombastic address, issued by the Repeal Association to
the Orangemen of Ireland, reminding them of the evils
Ireland suffered under the Tudors and Stuarts, urging
the folly of Irishmen in fighting for a Dutch Prince and
against a weak bigot at the Revolution of 1688, and their
miserable condition since, notwithstanding the resources
which the country possesses •, and calling upon them, in
order to obtain the benefit of these capabilities and de-
liverance from these evils, to join in seeking a domestic
Legislature. The Dublin Protestant Operative Associa-
tion has now placarded an answer, the circulation of
which may be of service, especially as it avoids the use of
offensive and opprobrious epithets. With regard to what
the Repeaters term the enslaved condition of Ireland, this
Protestant Association. argues, that it is but upon the
miserable level of every Roman Catholic country, national
degradation being co-extensive with that system. "It is
not the prevalence of English power here, but of the false
principles of Rome ;" ' idolatry is of all vices the most
detested of God, and the most damnable to man ;" " and
in the remote period upon which, as it respects Ireland,
you have observed in your address, England herself was
for the same reason totally devoid of what we would now
call constitutional liberty." Next, say they, if James 11.
was, as alleged, a bigot and a tyrant, then in fighting for
King William 111. Irishmen must have fought for liberty.
And as for Ireland having vast resources, " so had the
land of Canaan, but when it adopted principles identical
with those which are now the ruin of Ireland, it became
' a land of poverty, vexation, and rebuke.' " " Repeaters !
' there is no might, nor power, nor counsel against the
Lord ; and as sure as you are living men, if Ireland had a
resident Legislature to-morrow, it would have merely
changed its cros.' is. humanly sneaking. the charac-
ter of a people that determines its temporal condition ;
and when we consider the influence of Roman Catholic
principles upon the mass of our countrymen, we find in
that influence a satisfactory explanation of all the woes of
our country. A prejudice so strong that it rejects, with-
out inquiry,—a confidence in priests so engrossing and
implicit that it takes in without hesitation, and holds,
without possibility of eradication by ordinary means,
fables the most gross and contemptible,—argues the ab-
sence of that native spirit of independence and self-control
which is, perhaps, the most important attribute of the hu-
man mind, the spring and source of great enterprise and
great success, and the chief element necessary to makeup
a great national character. Let our countrymen begin to
think for themselves; let them cease to allow themselves
to be made tools of by those who have an interest in their
degradation; let them —we do not say reject human
authority in religious matters—but ascertain that that
which they yield to really has Divine warrant, and is not
directly at variance with the word of God; let them act
thus, and they will have taken the first step towards Irish
independence; but until they do this, though they may
change or multiply their masters, it is perfectly impos-
sible that they can be free." In conclusion, the Protest-
ant Operatives add, that they cleave to the Union with
Great Britain, not from admiration of the acts of its mo-
dern statesmen, but because they know that the bulk of
the British people are a noble and a right-minded race,
and because they expect eventually to obtain from the
Imperial Parliament what they could never hope from an
Irish one, constituted as it then would be—laws that shall
aim at the ascendancy of truth, and the elevation of the
national character thereby.