The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

O'Connell at the last meeting, " relates to the impeach-
ment of those who carried on the proceedings against us.
I talked on the last day of impeaching the judges"—[yea,
and her Majesty's ministers and law-advisers—but they
are dropped out already !]—" the judges who took part
in this case. I think the most constitutional mode of
proceeding with reference to them, is to address the crown
to remove them" 1I Why, it is but a week ago since
" impeachment was the only remedy." How comes it
that there is now another and a better ? Mr. O'Connell
hardly knows his own mind : but are they a rational or
high-spirited people who suffer themselves to be tossed
about like a weathercock at every variation of his tem-
perament ?—Dublin Mail.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH.—It was well
said by the Dublin Mail, the other day, that the Church
of Ireland is the only body in that country now left to
its own resources for the education of its youth. The
government having always used Ireland as a wedge in
its encroachments upon the Church, formed a scheme for
taking the education of that people into its own hands,
cut of those legitimately entitled to it, and established a
so-called "National Board," which, by suppressing or
mutilating the Bible, was to propitiate all parties, and
educate in the same schools children of every denomina-
tion. Of course the pastors of the Church of Christ in
that country could not thus suffer the lambs of their
flocks to be led astray ; they declined to join the " Na-
tional" or government board, and instituted a society
(precisely analogous to our own National Society, whilst
it was at variance with the Committee of Council), which
they denominated the " Church Education Society."
'I his Society, through the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland
applied to the Government for a grant of public money,
AND lT WAS REFUSED !! And then Sir Robert
Peel, in his place in Parliament, impugns the conduct of
the Bishops and Pastors of the Church in Ireland, who,
true to their ordination vow, refuse to succumb to the
" National Board," and to allow the children of the
Church to be educated in false principles or on no prin-
ciple at all.—Churchman's Newspaper. -
Porrsu OUTRAGES.—We have alreadidetailed several
diabolical outrages committed by the Papists of Cork
upon the Protestant inhabitants of that city, and especially
on Sunday, profaning the Sabbath and interrupting the
service at the various churches. The Rev. Dr. Neligan,
rector of St. Mary's, Cork, in a letter to the Cork Con-
stitution of Tuesday last, says, that on the previous Sun-
day, " During the reading of the First Lesson, the noise
in the street became so great that I was obliged to give
directions to the sexton to close the doors of the church ;
but the moment the sermon commenced, the yelling in.
creased to a frightful extent—the street became densely
crowded—a mob, carrying six blazing tar barrels, with
lighted torches, flambeaux, &c., rushed up to the church
gate—stopped there while they gave three tremendous
shouts, and fired some shots in the direction of the
church—the muzzles of the guns being pointed (as I am
informed` at the outer door. The interruption continued
as long as the service lasted. As soon as it was over, all
was tolerably quiet. Several persons were induced by fear
to leave the church." The reverend doct r says, that the
expressions used were too profane for hiro to write them,
but the editor says they were such as these:—" Bad luck
to the bloody Orangemen—by G—, but we'll put bullets
in the guns the next time, and riddle their bloody Pro-
testant sowls." "To hell with the Protestants—they're
inside at the devil's house—they're praying to the devil
and at his service ton. If it be any comfort to Doctor
Neligan, he did not suffer alone. In St. Peter's Church,
scarcely a sentence of sermon or service could be heard,
and when a policeman, at, we believe, the request of one
of the clergymen, interfered, the yelling increased, as if
with the determination effectually to stop the service.
Are these things to continue ? From the mayor we hope
for nothing ' - but is there no Protestant magistrate who,
in this plain desertion of the duties of the mayor's office,
will undertake to deliver the city from the ruffianism which
has usurped the place of authority and law ?
THE FEAST OF THE MARTYRS.—At this cathering
on Thursday last, in Dublin, there were present one lay
lord, the Lord French—four titular bishops, the criss-
cross Lords of Kilfenora, Ardagh, Meath, and Clogher—
eight mayors, the Rev. Tom Maguire, and a gentleman of
whom we have never had the pleasure of hearing before,
but who is described in the Freeman's Journal as his
Excellency General O'Neill, Marquis La Grauja. The
rest, it is said, made the tale amount to nine hundred and
sixty. Of course, the chief speech was O'Connell's,
which was commenced thus—" It is very good to cheer—
it is very pleasing to be cheered—provided it does not last
too long ; but cheering alone won't do—word's won't do—
we must have actions." Our readers will recollect that
Mr. O'Connell, in his first speech after his liberation,
propounded the same dogma, and that he then announced
distinctly enough three lines of action in which he pro-
posed immediately to engage. He was, first, to hold the
Clontarf meeting—secondly, to call together the Society
of Three Hundred—and thirdly, to impeach the judges
and others concerned in the state prosecutions. It will
not, we presume, be forgotten, that on Monday (as may
be seen from another paragraph) Mr. O'Connell, as dis-
tinctly as he had proposed them, again declared his in-
tention of abandoning each and every of these lines of
acticn—so that he would neither hold the Clontarf meet-
ing, nor form the Preservative Society, nor impeach the
judges. On Monday last, action was to be given up, and
words and cheering were to be again the order of the day.
On Thursday, however, if we should judge by the sen-
tence we have quoted above, the programme was again
revised, and deeds and action were once more to signalise.
the march of repeal. What sort of deeds are tho-e to be ?
many of our readers will tremulously inquire. We shall
let Mr. O'Connell reply in his own words. He is to begin
to act " by one and all being prepared to approach the
parliament, at the commencement of the next session,
the united and combined voice of Ireland embodied
in our petitions." " What a falling off is here, my coun-
trymen." Ireland, proud and erect in the majesty of her
new-born independence, and in the might of her monster
meetings, can Mr. O'Connell advise her to bend her neck
before the insolent Saxon, as an humble petitioner fur
that which Mr. O'Connell has so often declared to be her
right to obtain, and within the simple prerogative of her
beloved Sovereign to grant. Spirit of the Nation! in
what strains of sadness will thy next manifestation bewail
this mournful proof of the defilement which even the
glorious incarnation, in the burly form of O'Connell, has
suffered in the dungeon ! He, whose free mind disdained
to mingle in consultation with the Saxon within the walls
of St. Stephen's, now proposes to approach that shrine of
the cacodemon of Ireland in the humble guise of a peti-
tioner. But still worse is in store. Repeal i e'f is to be
abandoned, and the poor instalment of a grand jury par-
liament to be sought for in its stead :—We prefer—most
of us prefer—the simple repeal of the act of union ; but
there is not one of us who would not be content to repeal
the act of union, and substitute a federal parliament.
(Hear, hear.) Not one." In these two propositions,
viz., to petition parliament, and to make the subject of
that petition a federal parliament, the whole course of
action announced by Mr. O'Connell is included. We
shall see whether or not this will satisfy the ardent long-
ings of Mr. O'Connell's supporters.—. Dublin Mail.