The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF REPEAL SEDITION.

The Dublin Nation and the United Irishman this week
have let us a little into the secret of their plan of the
forthcoming Irish campaign. It seems that all the blus-
tering promise of a rising in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day
was only a feint to draw forth a counter demonstration
from his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of the means of
strength at his disposal for its repression. It has suc-
ceeded. The display of horse, foot, and artillery has been
made ; and the spouters of the confederation can now de-
claim to the Irish people on the blood-thirstiness of the
government ; describe how they are to be mowed down
by cannon in the streets, trampled by dragoons and bayo-
nets by infantry. The first sore is opened. Lord Claren-
don is proclaimed the agressor in the struggle which is at
hand. The government, says the United Irishman—
" Has called to its aid all the British forces which can be
spared from clearing estates, lifting taxes, and inspecting
public hangings, to prevent, by intimidation, meeting, or
punish their most Republican effrontery by one more " salutary
lesson," and, if it can get an opportunity, to inflict death on
any Irishman who will dare publicly to admire France.
"Between the citizens of Dublin and Lord Clarendon there
is, therefore, open and unmistakeable war."
When the fighting is to begin we are not precisely told.
The meeting, however, which did not take place on St.
Patrick's day, is to take place some other day soon, and
the locality is to be somewhere in the heart of Dublin.
The speculation is that the government will use force to
put it down, and then—but hear Mr. Mitchell:—
_ _

"It will fail. The meeting must be held at all hazards. We
owe this to ourselves, to our country, to France ; and if a man
falls thereat by English ball or sabre, France owes it to the
world to avenge him, even should the survivors fail, which,
if we can, they shall not.
" Hitherto we have acted in public order—so we shall con-
tinue to act while that order continues unbroken. Let all our
acts, every word and gesture, exhibit, therefore, that we are
the citizens of this land. Soberly, orderly, silently, remember-
ing the wrongs of ages, and nursing in our hearts the black
hate we owe our foes—let us assemble. Standing on the natu-
ral right of even slaves, to think and utter ;—unarmed, but
with our arms cleaned and ready at home, we await
attack. If the English Viceroy, or his agents, should order
a single volley unprovoked, that ends English rule in Ireland.
Its echo will waken men the island over, and tens on tens of
thousands will take it as a signal to march upon the capital.
It will be heard in Scotland, in Lancashire, in London; and
woe to the taskmasters and the grinders of the poor. Itwill be
heard in India among mutinous armies—in America among
enraged exiles. It will be heard in France.

We are favoured by the same gentleman, in a narrative
of the attempt of 1798 to overthrow the government of
Ireland by French aid, with his views as to the distribu-
tion of a French force should it be offered to the repealers,
and a very complimentary letter addressed " to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Executioner-
general, and general Butcher of Ireland," in which Mr.
Mitchell displays unmistakeable fitness for the interior of
a lunatic asylum.

The scribe of The Nation is nearly as- rampant as his
contemporary :
"The voice of the last confederate meeting," he says, " was
the tocsin of Ireland's coming freedom. O'Brien, the cheva-
lier, ' without shame and without reproach,' and many a fitting
companion and true brother, have sworn by the honor and
hopes of their country never to avert their faces, never to be
turned from a single purpose,. never to retreat by so much as
one step, till the end is reached."

What the chevalier of the coal cellar is going to do
beyond talk, we are not told. From his speech, however,
at the meeting of confederates, we observe that he pro-
poses to fraternize with everybody—British soldiers, police,
Irish Protestants, France, America, &c.—before proceed-
ing to extremities. There is, therefore, too much work
before him to render any immediate alarm necessary.
Another speaker at the same meeting, Mr. Meagher,
gives us a more distinct idea of the probable time for the
commencement of operations. He says :

"I think, then, that from a meeting—constituted, as the re-
pealers of Kilkenny have suggested, of delegates from the chief
towns and parishes—a deputation should proceed to London,
and, in the name of the Irish people, demand an inter-
view with the Queen. Should the demand be refused,
let the Irish deputies pack up their court dresses—as
Benjamin Franklin did, when repulsed from the court of
George lll.—and let them, then and there, make solemn oath,
that when they next demand admission to the throne room of
St. James's, it shall be through the accredited ambassador of
the Irish republic (tremendous cheering and waving of hats
and handkerchiefs.) Should the demand be conceded, let the
deputies approach the throne, and; in firm and respectful terms,
call upon the Queen to exercise the royal prerogative, and sum-
mon her Irish parliament to sit and advise her in the city of
Dublin. If the call be obeyed—if the sceptre touch the bier,
and she who is not deaf, but sleepeth," should start at its
touch into a fresh and luminous existence—then indeedonay
we bless the constitution we have been taught curse, and
Irish loyalty, ceasing to be a mere ceremonious affectation, be-
come with us a sincere devotion to the just ruler of an inde-
pendent state (enthusiastic applause). If the claim be rejected
—if the throne stand as a barrier between the Irish people and
their supreme right—then loyalty will be a crime, obedience to
the executive will be treason to the country (hear, hear, and
great cheering). I say it calmly, seriously, and deliberately.
it will then be our duty To FIGHT (deafening cheers), and des-
perately fight (here the whole meeting stood up, and a tremen-
dous burst of applause broke from every part of the house)."
This is plain speaking; and the adoption of the recom-
mendation would afford us a tolerable test as to how many
of the confederates and Conciliation-hall people are in
earnest.

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AED MATES.—At a meet
ing of the Board, held on the 14th instant, Captain George
Silke, late master of the "Mary Ann Webb," of Liver-
pool, was examined and found duly qualified for a, First
Class Certificate as Master.

THEFT FROM A SHOW.-Yesterday, at the police-court,
a woman who gave her name as Ellen Gaffigan, was
charged with having stolen, on Saturday night, from the
shop of Mr. William Powell, draper, Scotland Road, two
shirts, valued at ss. The case being proved, she was
committed for trial at the sessions.

ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH.—The quarterly collections
for defraying the unavoidable expenses of this church will
be made on Sunday, and as we are informed that this will
in all probability be the last appeal that will be made on
the subject, we hope the response to it will be such as will
rid the churchwardens of all liability in respect to • the
church.

MADAME ANNA THILLON'S GRAND CONCERT, THIS
EVENING.-We beg to direct attention to the grand con-
cert to be given this evening by this accomplished can-
tatrice, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. When
we state that it is the last opportunity which will.for some
time be afforded of hearing her in Liverpool, we trust we
have said sufficient.

STABBING.—A woman who sells onions in the streets,
was yesterday charged with having stabbed a youth, in-
flicting a wound on the hip Ilmches in depth. It appeared
there had been some provocation, otherwise the prisoner
would have been sentior trial at the sessions. She was
required to pay a fine of £5, or in default to suffer two
months' imprisonment.

THE ASSIZES.—The assizes will commence on Thursday
next. The following is a list of prisoners for trial :—Mur-
der 2; attempt to murder, 6 ; manslaughter, 3; stabbing
or wounding with intent, &c., 13 ; rape, 4 ; bigamy 2 ;
highway robbery, and robbery from person, 13 ; forgery,
8 ; burglary, 31 ; stealing in dwelling-houses, 2 ; stealing
post letters, 2 ; damaging machinery, 1; false registration,
2 ; night poaching, 2 ; receiving stolen property, 1 ; mint
cases, 10 ; total, 102.
SUSPICION OF STEALING SILVER PLATE.—Yesterday,
at the Police Court, a woman named Margaret Killin was
charged on suspicion with stealing a massive silver plate
(in the form of a dinner plate), which was part of a quan-
tity, or set, of plate belonging to a ship goinc, to Mexico,
and which had been put into the hands of a silversmith in
this town to be cleaned and engraved. It appeared that
there was no immediate clue to the manner in which the
prisoner had come into possession—the remaindt r of the
articles having been so stowed on board the vessel that
they could not be reached until this day. A young man
stated that a package containing plate must have been
broken open. The prisoner was remanded until to-day.
HOUSE BREAKING AND ROEBERY.—At the police-
court yesterday. three young men, henry Bonas, Robert
Guy, and William Thompson, were charged with having,
early on the same morning, broken in the house and shop,
No. 31, Summerseat, and stolen two dress-pieces, a quan-
tity of cheese, butter, coffee in cannisters, and many other
articles. On information being given to the police, they
were apprehended, and many of the articles were found
upon them, or in their haunts. One of the identified
pieces of property was a bad half-penny that had been
amongst some copper money. All the prisoners had before
been frequently before the court, and they were committed
for trial.

COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE COURT.—
Elizabeth and Margaret Bollard, young women, charged
with attempting to pick pockets in St. John's Market,
on Saturday last, and also in the Fish Market, were
committed for a month to the Borough Gaol.—Mary
Lawlor, for stealing from her master, a grocer in Mill-
street, sundry articles from the shop, was committed for
one month.—Alice Quick, charged with robbing a man
of 10s. in the street, was committed for trial.---Michael
Burke, for stealing ropes from a vessel in the King's
Dock, was committed for three months.—Robert Prit-
chard for stealing lead piping in Hood-street, three
months' imprisonment.

ECLIPSE OF TILL MOON.— A total eclipse of the moon
took place on Sunday evening (the 19th), and began in
this locality, shortly after seven o'clock, and ended about
eleven o'clock ; the main overshadowing of the planet
being a little before ten o'clock. The eclipse was seen
very distinctly from this neighbourhood, but the night
was so cold that few persons watched its appearance
throughout. It was highly interesting to all who take
delight in astronomy, and were on the look out, as well as
to many whose attention was called to the phcenomenon.
The shadow of the earth passed, so far as we could cur-
sorily observe, across the disc of the moon in a diogonal
direction from the N. E. to the S. W. quarter ; forming
before the greatest obscuration and after it a crescent—
the first inclined upwards to•the S. W. ; and the final one,
as a matter of opposite consequence, downwards to the
N. E. Some surprise was excited amongst country people
by the darkness that came on, and continued for some
time, and not a few ramblers in the country were taken
aback by the temporary extinguishment of our " nocturnal
luminary."

A SMALL LOVE AFFAIR. —At the police court yester-
day a tall, and rather good-looking man was brought be-
fore Mr. Rushton, charged by a Mrs. Elizabeth Haderton,
publican, of Latimer-street, with having behaved rudely
towards her on Saturday night, and, over and above this
want of gallantry, breaking out sundry door panels, to the
cost of upwards of twenty shillings. The defendant, after
hearing the charge, expressed his utmost surprise that he
had been proceeded against by the fair complainant. It
was, he said, all a matter of love. The lady was a most
respectable widow, and he would not, and could not, say a
word against her. If he had done any damage he was
most willing to pay for it, any reasonable amount. He
again expressed his astonishment that the lady should ap-
pear against him, and testified by his kindly looks towards
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March 21, 1848.

CHURCH EXTENSION IN TOXTETH.PARK.

The foundation stone of St. Matthew's Church in the
Park will be laid this day, at noun, by the kati of Sefton,
who, with the clergy in canonicals, the committee, and
other friends, will assemble in St. James's Church, and
walk in procession to the intended site of the church.
St. Matthew's Church is situated on the north side of
Hill-street, Toxteth-park, in the populous neighbourhood
of Gore-street. The ground is most unshapely, and has
evidently called for a great effort of the architect's skill in
adapting a design with economy of space, to be eccle-
siastical in character, and with very small means at
his command, the cost of the erection being limited
to £2 13s. per sitting, instead of £3 as usual.
The whole length is 91 feet by 63 feet, divided into nave
and aisles. There are large schools underneath to accom-
modate 380 children. The ground floor of the church
will be seated for about 780, and the galleries for 500.
The roofs are of open framed carpentry, of an entirely ori-
ginal construction of this architect. The ridge of nave is
56 feet from the floor to the ridge, and the aisles 34 feet.
The former is lighted by a range of three-light dere-story
windows, the latter by two-light traceried windows ; large
five-light beautiful traceried windows fill in the west and
chancel gables, and a spire 147 feet in height from the
base, rises next the chancel, fronting Hill-street. We
understand the whole of the ground floor will be free, as
at St. Simon's, lately completed by the same architect,
Mr. Hay.

A handsome silver trowel, manufactured by Mr. Dis-
more, of Bold-street, with inscription and perspective
view of the church engraved on the blade, is to be pre-
sented to the noble Earl, by the committee. on the
occasion of his setting the chief stone. After the cere-
mony, Richard Harbord, Esq., will entertain his Lord-
ship, the committee, the architect, and a number of
other friends, at a dejeuner at his house in Parliament-
street.

The workmen are also to be provided with a substantial
supper in the evening, at the joint expense of the com-
mittee and the contractors, Messrs. Miller, Bateman,
and Holt.

DUNDALK.—On Saturday the parliamentary committee
decided that Charles C. M`Tavish, Esq., is not duly elected
to serve as a burgess in the present parliament for the
borough of Dundalk, and that William Torrens M'Cul-
lagh, Esq., is duly elected, and ought to have been returned
as member at the last election for the said borough.
BELGIAN WHEAT.—There have been several arrivals
of grain from Belgium within these few days. The.
Director, from Antwerp, has brought 852 quarters of
wheat ; the Princess Victoria, from Antwerp, 1,000 sacks
of wheat ; and the Mathilde, from Antwerp, 400 quarters
of the same kind of grain. The arrivals of grain from
Belgium having been of rare occurrence, these simulta-
neous importations of wheat from that country, since the
article has become leviable with duty, are of interest.
DREADFUL. SUICIDE.—On Thursday se'nnight, the in-
habitants of the town of Cardigan were thrown in a state
of considerable excitement in consequence of the suicide
of Morris Morris, Esq., who it was found had cut his
throat in a most frightful and determined manner. It
appears that the deceased committed the act with apen-
knife, which was found under him when he was raised
from the ground. On Friday an inquest was held on the
body, which fully established that the unfortunate gentle-
man was of unsound mind. He was in his 45th year.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—Mr. Hume has obtained a return,
shewing that the number of British ships of war employed
on the coast of Africa in the abortive attempt to suppress•
the slave trade in the month of June, 1847, amounted to
259, manned by 2,781 men. The aggregate expense of
this armament in the year 1846-7 is estimated at,..301,623;
including £220,223 for the wages and victualling of the
crews, £49,313 for the wear and tear of the vessels, £17,790
for the wear and tear of the machinery of the steamers,
and £14,287 for the expense of coals. The total number
of French ships of war employed on the coast of Africa
for the suppression. of the slave trade amounts, as far as
the same can be ascertained, to 20, equipped with 216
guns. There are only two American cruisers on the
station.

FORGERY OF BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES : CAUTION
TO THE PURLIO.—The public must be on their guard
against a well executed forgery of a £5 Bank of England
note which is now in circulation. The water mark is per-
fect, though perhaps rather more strongly developed than

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in the genuine note. They are numbered 750395 ; dated

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16th February, 1846; apparently issued from the Branch
Bank of England, at Manchester, and are signed " H.
llogden." So well has the forgery been executed, that
one of these notes was had into a bank in this town; by
the bankers it was paid to a firm, who again paid it to a
foreign mercantile house ; and it was only upon the note
being presented at the Bank of England, in London, that
the forgery was discovered. The only fault that we could
find with the forgery was the incompleteness of the figure
of Britannia in the left hand upper corner. Other notes
( one of which is in the possession of the police) of the
same date, and evidently from the same plate, are in cir-
culation. It will be well to examine the letters, number,
and date of every £5 note taken, and to refuse any
agreeing to the above description.
CHINESE JUNK.—Some excitement was caused at
Jersey, on Wednesday last, by the arrival of a Chinese
junk, supposed to be the one which caused such stir,
in New York a. oho: t time since, having been found
out of her latitude, in a strong northwest gale, lying
for assistance.. on that dangerous coast between the Roc.—
Dovers and the Minguais, to the south of that island, Oa
the French coast, by a cutter, bound to France, which
nobly 'bout ship, and piloted her into the Jersey Roads.
As soon as it became known there was a Chinese junk in
the roads,. all the sight-goers seemed on the qui vire
thousands thronged the piers, and hundreds started by
cutters , which commenced running round her, at two
shillings per head, to catch.a sight of the Celestial barque,
the Chinese portion of the crew politely bowing as the
different crews rounded. She seemed a vessel of veil
large dimensions, peculiar construction, and very showy,
having three masts, and her stern very high out of the
water, on which is painted the figure of an enormous
i bird,. n, very showy colours. Galleries run round one-
half of her,into which are hoisted her small boats, also
of very slight and novel construction. In her bows she
has two very large eyes. She was visited immediately on
her arrival by the Custom-house officers, and is reported
to have on board some costly presents for Her Most Gra-
cious Majesty Queen. Victoria. Application was made to
the Government of the island to allow the Cuckoo, Go-
vernment steamer, to tow her to England.
THE NEW STEAM SHIP AMERICA.—This superb vessel,
the first completed of the four new steam-ships for the
British and North American Company, arrived in the-
Mersey on Sunday morning, a little before nine o'clock.
The America left the Clyde on Saturday, and when off the
Largs, about 16 miles below Greenock, she started at full •
speed, and so continued until she reached the North-WLest
Light-ship at half-past four on Sunday morning. The
distance run from the time her engines were set on 1
speed up to the time they were stopped off the Light-shill,
was 210 miles, which she accomplished in 131 hours. The
dimensions of this splendid vessel are—length of keel and
fore-rake 250 feet; breadth of beam 38 feet; tonnage,
1,840 ; horse-power, 650. These are the actual bona fide
measurements. She has stowage for 700 tons of coal, and
fully 500 tons of goods. She was built by Mr. Steel, of
Greenock, and is considered by those best able to judge *5
a strong and first-rate specimen of naval architecture.
The engines were manufactured at the works of Mr. Robt.
Napier, the eminent engineer, of Glasgow. The total surd
expended in her construction amounts to more than
£BO,OOO. The America is under the command: of Capt•
Judkins, the senior officer in the service of the company,
who has in succession and by promotion commanded ever/
ship they have built, excepting one. The crew consists
of about 100 individuals : namely, 35 in the sailing,. 35,„, 13111
the steaming, and 30 in the stewards' departments.°
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use than show. The figure-head and carved work are
beautiful specimens of workmanship, and have been exe-
cuted_ by the experienced carvers in the employ of Mr'
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GAMEKEEPER KILLED.—A deadly conflict took
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Wednesday night last, at Llysvaen, on the estate of Ynid
Wm. Lewis, Esq., of New House, near Cardiff, in which David
Davis, a gamekeeper to that gentleman, lost- his life.
won a snatch on Friday, by walking from this end of ttie.....bie
to Aigburth under twenty-nine minutes. A „mod..
amount pended on the result.
A magnificent engines shipping by the Tynwald to .
ii4fast I
WALKING MATCH.—Mr. Gelling, an excellent pedestrrilk
"' wasnee
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to the breaking of a rope, launched into the Clare
i, on Saturday evening. It is feared the dock will has.
to
be let dry before it can be extricated. It was new, and built
descriptive catalogue of garden
by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy.
exceed-
inglyGAßDEN AND AGRICULTURAL SEEDS.—A new and t
nursery seeds has just been published by Messrs. Clarke as
Goodacre, of Great Charlotte-street, To amateurs, as weidi-f..
practical men, it will be most useful. It describes, under 1,
ferent heads, the duration of plants from perennial to) ani,l„unBta
and corrects many vague errors as to the classification of plants
flowers and general
hitherto existing. It also gives the height, colour, &c., of eeyaelt particular variety ; and in order to prevent confusion,
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kind is so arranged that it may be ordered by the progre;„ner
number to which it is appended. It is a worlethat no gar '...,ic
should be without—and what is most important in econow
times, it may be had gratis.

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ARRIED.
On the 19th instant, at M
St. Mark's Church, by the Rev; Wnl
Mr. ROBERT HEWITT to Mrs. JANE DIXON */

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