The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

IRELAND

Mr. Thomas Lloyd, of Beechmount, Rath
is said to be a highly respectable Protestant gel.tleman,
has sent in his adherence to the Repeal cause.
The statement that a reverend gentleman connected
with the Achill Mission bad robbed that establishment
of £l5OO has been contradicted by the Rev. Mr. Nangle
The Armagh Chronicle seriously announces that a ma
near that town had subsisted forty-six days
slightest nourishment

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Mr. Linney, s.eward of the Rev. Mr. Butson of Clon-
fert, was shut dead on Tuesday night on his way home.
The assa.sin remains undiscovered.
Mr. Gregory, of the revenue police, and two of his
men, were drowned in Athlone lake on Wednesday
through the upsetting of a boat. Mr. G. was nephew
of Viscountess Castlemaine.

ORANGEISM.—On Tuesday, a very influential meeting
of Orangemen was held at Armagh. for the purpose of
organis ng the county, when the Society was placed on
such a footing as to defy its enemies : Col. Verner was
appointed Grand Master, Col. Blacker Deputy G.M.
The "Lion" of Tuam seems to have got his neighbour-
ing town of Galway into trouble, as it is now very con-
fidently said that his cgnstant roaring against the godless
colleges has frightened the Government from fixing one
of them so near to him.

The Limerick Chronicle gives an account of the partial
poisoning of a child, and servant in a respectable family in
the country by eating hide cake prepared at a con-
fectioner's, where it appears seve►al poisonous ingredients
are used in the preparation of ,the external ornamental
parts of such cakes.
STATE OF WESTMEATII.—IO consequence of the rapid
spread of agrarian disturbances in Westmeath, the lieu-
tenant of the county and magistrates have i.sued a notice
stating that if the disturbances continue they will, with-
out delay, swear in a sufficient number of special consta-
bles to patrol with the police.
THE ROMISH HIERARCHY OF IRELAND.—Dr. Crolly
and Dr. Murray have determined upon sending Dr.
Kennedy to Rome, to submit to the Pope the position of
affairs in Ireland, and the manner in which the supreme
authority of his Holiness, as represented in the person of
Dr. Crolly, is set at nought by the agitators, Drs.
M' Hale, Cantwell, &c.
REORGANISATION OF THE ORANGE SOCIETY.—The
Orange system is extending like wildfire throughout Ire-
land, and will soon be little short of an enrolment, en
masse, of every loyal Irishman—we mean loyalty to the
principles of the Protestant constitution—it being now
generally believed that those principles. will soon again
have to be contended for in England as well as in Ire-
land.

IBBONTSM IN MAYO.—A party of five men have been
arrested at Ballycastle, charged with ribbonism. One
of the accused is a publican, and had one of the rooms in
his house set apart for the meeting of the lodge. It is a
very common thing to find publicans the leaders in the
ribbon conspiracy. They make profit on the liquor con-
sumed by the wretched dupes whom they entrap, and it
is supposed tbey not unfrequently play the part of Jona-
than Wild when more is to be made by their betrayal to
the police.
NEW STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.—We understand that a
company, whose capital will be £500.000, has been formed
to build an efficient class of seam-ships, to ply regularly
between Bantry, Halifax, and New York, as a first step
towards making Bantry a "acket Station and Naval De-
pot. In aid of the project the Lord of the soil has
granted to the company a site for wharfs, quays, stores,
offices, &c., at a nominal rent. It is proposed to perform
the voyage from Bantry to Halifax in men days.—Cork
Constitution.

MR. O'CONNELL'S LOYALTY.—In his last Monday's
Conciliation Hall oration, the universal defamer thus re-
spertfully informs his loyal auditors :—" The Queen—
God bless her—has but a nominal authority. True, she
has no responsibility ; but it is equally true that she has
no direct authority—no, npr any indirect authority either,
beyond the countenancing a baltue or undertaking a sea
voyage. (Hear, hear.) If this is the way in which this
fellow presume= to speak of the highest personage in the
kingdom, the ladies of England 'iced scarcely be surprised
at their being the objects of his more vulgar and not less
vile scurrility.
IRISHMEN THE WORST ENEMIES OF IRELAND.—
Would that Irishmen would do " justice" t., Ireland.
The closer do we examine her wants, the more do we be-
come convinced that the " misgovernment" of which she
complains is the misgovernment of her own sons. The
lanflords, for the most pirt, so misgovern their estates,
that their tenantry are disheartened ; and the tenantry
almost universally so misgovern their farms, that they do
not produce one-third of the produce of which they are
capable; while all unite in so misg,verning the natural
capabilities of the country, that instead of being, as she
might be, and as she ought to be, the richest and most
prosperous, she is about the poorest and most neglected
country in Europe.— The Times " Commissioner '
THE IRISH PRIESTIZOOD.—Mr. O'Connell in putting
his negative on a state pension for the Irish Rornisti
priests says " it would take one million per annum to
give them a decent subsistence.' The Duhl n Mail well
observes on this. that this " million per annum" which is
to compensate for the voluntary contributions of their
flocks lets us behind the curtains which studiously con-
ceal the incomes of the poverty-courting priests of a
poverty-stricken people. Including curates and bishops
there are abut 3000 secular Popish priests in Ireland.
Dividing a million amongst them, the incomes of those
bachelors would average about £330 a• year. The average
of the married clergy of the Church of England falls
short of £220.

A CASE of CONSCIENCE.—In reply to a communica-•
tion from the CJstlebar ltepealers inviting Air. O'Con-
nell to a public dinner in that town, he thus observes :
"In reply to your favour of the 17th inst., I beg to in-
form you that I assent to the day you have named, the
12th of October. I should not have thought of naming
Sunday, lest. I should derange any clerical functions, or
interfere unduly with that day—but I have no hesitation in
submitting to your nomination of it." Mr. O'Cot.nell
will not we perceive originate a breach of the Sabbath,
but if broken by others has no scruple to share in the
sport. This method of sinning by proxy is as old as
Popery itself. We thought Pascal had shamed it out
of countenance, but semper eadem is the character of
Rome.
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MONSTER MEETINGS REVIVED.—Mr. O'CODDellthaS
commenced another series of monster demonstrations in
favour of repeal. Between 300.000 and 400,000 persons
(according to Mr. O'Connell) assembled at Thurlts, on
Friday week, who were harangued by the Liberator, in
language, which was !t epetition of 181.3:

--;.‘-ila; England (asked Mi. O'Connell) a lease of her present
prosperity? If she have, it is from week to week—from day to
day—from hour to hour (hear heir). Has England a lease of se-
curity from the continental states? Has England security from
America?—(.' no, no.") The Queen of England and the King of
the French mat kiss hands in a bathing-box, for aught I care, but
this will not satisfy the people of France, and England is nut the
more certain of her tranquility on that ac-ount (cheers). Europe
has to be sure, enjoyed 30 years of peace, but the longer it lasts the
less likely it is to be of longer continuance—its period of existence is
fast wearing out, and as far as it is permitted to us to read human
events from the experience of the past, we can predict that England
will not long continue in prosperity—not long continue in peace
with the maritime states cf Europe, especially with France, and
certainly not with America (cheers). Let but one untoward event
occur—one ripple appear to the wave of her prosperity--oneyear of
manufacturing distress—one season of agricultural failure, as the
present harvest threatened to be, and England is in trouble again.
•4 Man's infirmity is God's opportunity "—even so—England's in-
firmity is Ireland's opportunity, Any one of the ten thousand
events that may bring England into jeopardy is fraught with
hope for Ireland (hear). In the cycle of seasons it may occur that
four or five seasons of prosperity are followed by one of adversity.
Let the cycle but come round for England (and it is coming fast),
Ireland will have her own again, and England will be obliged to
ask for that alliance which we are now ready to make—an alliance
of separate states under the one Monarch, with our own parliament
to protect us, as the sole source of legislation for the country
(cheers ) _ . .

IRISH MISERT.—The Irish correspondent of the
Times gives the following lamentable description of what
he witnessed a few days since at a place called Carramore,
county Mayo.—" Some years ago, when the present pro-
prietor undertook the management of his estate, many
parts of it were held in rundale, or joint-tenancy. This
mode of tenure was formerly common. Some half dozen
or more tenants took a portion of land on lease, and
jointly and severally bound themselves to pay the rent.
This was their only obligation. As long as they paid the
rent they were left to themselves to do as they liked. As
their numbers increased and their children grew up, they
subdivided this land with their children, and built their
cottages in a cluster, without the slightest attempt at re-
gularity, and without street or lane, crooked passages in
and out between the cottages being the only means of
communication with one another ; the only uniformity
observed being that each cottage bad a filthy cesspool and
dunghill close to its door. I lately rode on horseback
through two of these villages, still held in joint. tenantcy,
one named Carrowbeggin, belonging to a gentleman
named Atkinson, and another named Balderig, still held
in rundale Tease from Mr. Jackson. There was just
room, with care, to ride my horse on the crooked pathway
between the dunghills and cesspools. 1 went into one of
these cottages. It had one room, no chimney, and a
turf fire on the mud floor. Its furniture consisted of a
bedstead with some hay on it, and one blanket, a deal
box, and an iron pot. There were five children in it, so
ragged that they were nearly naked, and two pigs, be-
grimed with the soil from the cesspool at the door. Ile
mother was scarcely clad, and barefooted. Cottage,
children, pigs, and n:o her were all equally dirty. No
description can conv,4 an idea of such a collection of
dunghills and filthy hovels. The people were all alike,
wretchedly poor. , ad many of them had but an acre and
a half of land io subsist themselves and families upon.
They are per potually quarrelling and fighting with one
another about their ducks and pigs, and about trespassing
on one another's lands.

POLITE LANGUAGE

The Times " Commissioner" does not appear to be in
favour with the spouters of Conciliation Hall. His expo-
sures of the real causes of Irish disorganisation and po-
verty, and the remedies to which be points, do not please
the men who are anxious to persuade the world that Ire-
land's sole medicant is a Parliament in College Green.
Actuated no doubt by something like the feeling of a con-
victed charlatan, Mr. J. O'C.ounrll recently made use, at
one of the meetings at Conciliation Hall, of some insult-
ing remarks directed against the gentleman " commis-
sioned" by the Times, which has called forth the follow-
ing letter, which was read by the recipient at the weekly
meeting on Monday last.
" i!alesworth,sept. 25.

" Sir,—l have this moment read in The Times of yesterday
your dirty and unmanly remarks concerning The Times Corn
misioner, and I do not lose one moment to tell you, that you
are a liar and a blackguard.
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,
.. JOHN FOSTER.

"John O'Connell, Esq., =i .P."
Now whether the above is a genuine letter at all we are
not informed. At all events the signature, " John Fos-
ter" is not that of the Times Commissioner, whose name
is Thomas Campbell Foster (a gentleman for some years