The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

not so base. A people, known to be susceptible in
the extreme of generous emotions, cannot of them-
selves have determined thus to turn upon the hands
that have fed them in extremity. The idea is pre-
p osterous. _ .

There are, we feel assured, emissaries of sedition
busy amongst our Irish population, from whose
teaching and preaching flows the poison which has
so deeply impregnated their hearts—men whose
task it is to misrepresent every action of English-
men towards their Celtic fellow-countrymen, and to
attribute every throe of pain which agonizes Ireland
to the direct agency of the people of England. It
is time we were setting about the inquiry, who are
these men. Who are the leading agents in the
formation of these clubs, which we hear of as form-
ing, for the most desperate purposes, in every quar-
ter of the town ? If they were strangers, surely
our police would know something of their persons
and their whereabouts. Men possessed of the in-
telligence and influence required to enable them to
become the leaders and the contrivers of a rebellion,
are not likely to steal amongst us in the garb of
paupers, or the patchwork freize of agricultural la-
bourers. The emissaries of treason must be resi-
dent amongst us, to enable them to acquire the in-
fluence, which is required for the task of inciting
men deliberately to peril life in what is worse than
a forlorn hope ; and what if it should be found
that some of these are men for whom we are pro-
viding weekly, by the confidence which we have
unwisely reposed in them, and the ample wages
which we pay them, the means and the position to
inflict upon us a deadly injury ? It may appear
uncharitable to entertain such a supposition, but
it may possibly be too correct.
There is a way in which the loyalty of every
member of the community, and at all events of
every resident of Liverpool, may be tested. The
authorities have called upon all, without distinction
of country or religious creed, to present themselves
and be sworn as guardians of the public peace.
Have the Irish Roman Catholics employed in our
docks, and in the warehouses of our merchants,
responded to the call with the same 'promptitude
displayed by their Protestant and English brethren ?
Are they prepared to stand between the lives and
property of their qmployers and the outrage with
which they are menaced ? It is their plain duty to
do so; and we trust that the test will be applied.
It is the duty of every employer of labour to
satisfy himself of the loyalty of those in whom he
has to repose such a weight of confidence. When
this is done—if we can be assured that the em-
ployed portion of our Irish population are sound at
heart—the task of repressing the efforts of its
migratory refuse will be easily accomplished.
We cannot readily believe that any large portion
of these men—that any more than a small minority
of them—are mixed up in this projected effort of
ruffianism. It is altogether too wild and hopeless.
We cannot think that any body of men—intelligent
working men—would throw away the prospect of
future employment and good wages for the scram-
ble of a day and companionship in outrage and
plunder with the scourings of their own country.
Such men, one would think, would be able to
estimate the advantages which the commerce of
England offers to the industry of Ireland, and
foresee too clearly the issue of the mad course in
which they are prompted to embark. In what can
it result except certain defeat, and the ousting of
every Irishman from the labour market of Great
Britain. The English working classes have for
long enough submitted to have the bread snatched
from their mouths by the competition of the
pauper labour of Ireland. At this moment our
agricultural parishes swarm with her shoeless and
shirtless peasantry, who are permitted to pick up
and carry away with them to their own country
what would have made comfortable the cottage
home of many an industrious English peasant.
Thousands of Irish families have located them-
selves, and are yearly increasing their numbers, in
our manufacturing towns and villages, to whose
arrival amongst them our operatives attribute their
reduced wages and partially unemployed condition.
And is it to be conceived that, in case of outbreak
amongst the Irish in Liverpool, or elsewhere, that
their intrusion amongst us will be tolerated any
longer ? It is not probable. Our Irish brethren
are at present—it is no use concealing the fact—
not popular amongst Englishmen of their own
class. Their squalid habits have bred unequivocal
disgust and dislike. And the certain result of such
an outbreak as is anticipated will be the com-
pulsory removal of every Irish family to their own
country, desolated, as in all probability it will be,
from the effects of a futile attempt at rebellion,
drenched with blood, and trampled down by the
hoof of military.power.
There is one body to whom, in Liverpool, we
ought really to be able to depend upon as willing to
exercise some controul over this misled people._
Their priesthood, at least, one would imagine, are
capable of discerning the madness and wickedness
of any resort to violence. We are told that it is
the peculiar characteristic of Romanism that the
laity are in the hands of, and respect implicitly the
counsels of, their spiritual advisers. We tell the
Romish clergy of Liverpool, therefore, that we look
up to them for the exercise of their authority on
this occasion. The anathema from the altar has
been found to be unfortunately too efficacious
for evil ; let us now learn that it is equally powerful
in the cause of peace and order !

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—As Dr. Reynolds is reported in the Journal of
Saturday last, to have stated at a Rebel club meeting held
in Liverpool, on the 22nd instant, that there are many
Repealers in the ranks of the 89th Regiment, I wish re-
spectfully to inform that Rebel-in-chief, and his compa-
nions in iniquity, that if he succeed in getting up an
excitement, as he terms it, he will find to his loss, that
the ranks of the 89th are not so tainted with foul air as
he imagines ;—that they are faithful and loyal, as they
have ever been, to their Queen and country, and that they
are not only ready, but anxious at any moment, when re-
quired either to repel the aggressions of foreign enemies,
or to suppress domestic rebels.
If the Doctor would apply to this regiment, whenever
he feels the pike and vitro! complaint coming on, they will
administer to him, and to all such, free of expense, and
without delay, a sufficient quantity of their purifying
pills, which though nut patent medicine, yet have stood
the test of long experience,—particularly having done
much execution in '9B. They will be sure to give the
Doctor almost instant relief, and to do away with the
necessity of his being sent to Bermuda for change of air.
Respectfully asking you to give this letter insertion in
your next paper,
I remain. Sir, your obedient Servant.
A PRIVATE IN THE 89-rit REGIMENT.
Barracks, Berington Bush,
Liverpool, 24th July, 1848.

SMUGGLING ToßAcco.—Two seamen were yesterday
fined £lOO each, or to be imprisoned, for concealing to-
bacco in the ships to which they respectively belonged.
Several other smugglers of the same article (under 61b.
weight) were fined £5 each, or to be imprisoned one
month.
ASSAULTS ON POLICE-GFFICERS.—SeveraI cases of
assault upon police-officers were yesterday brought before
Mr. Rushton, who fined the aggressors in considerable
amounts—remarking that in some parts of the town there
were lawless fellows who took every possible opportunity
of attacking the police, and inviting attacks from others,
with sticks, stones, bricks, &c. He expressed his de-
termination to protect the force from such assaults to the
extent of his powers.
ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—A man named John
Mullen, lately arrived from America, appeared yesterday,
at the Police-court, against a young man, for robbing him
of his purse. It appeared that complainant had gone to
Mr. Pritchard's public -house, at the New Quay, and after
treating all the company round, went up stairs when he
became rather inebriated. The prisoner followed him.
and was seen to drag from his breast the purse, which was
tied round his neck with a string. He made off with the
booty, but was afterwards captured in Denison-street.
He was sent for trial.
PRESENTATION OF A SERVICE OF PLATE.—The les-
sees and tenants of the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, at
Bootle-cum-Lytham, are about to present to Mr. Moult,
of Knowsley, a splendid Service of Plate, consisting of
a chocolate, coffee, and tea service, with waiter, bread-
basket, water-pot, slop-bowl, castors, salts, water-jug,
spoons, &c., forming a full and complete service for the
breakfast or tea-table, of a very elegant form, and richly
ornamented. The pieces are very chaste and beautiful
and have been manufactured by Mr. Mayer, of Lord-
street, at whose shop they may be viewed until Thursday
morning, when they will be sent to the school-room at
Bootle, prior to their being presented on Thursday even-
ing, at seven o'clock.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The Night to Scotland, post-
poned from Friday, came off last evening, when the at-
tendance was numerous, not only of the natives of the
Sister Isle, but of the general public. The whole per-
formance went off with more than ordinary eclat. Ma-
dame Warton, in conducting the representations of the
characters in the poems of Robert Burns, was perfectly at
home—and each successive personation was hailed with
most enthusiastic plaudits. The concluding tableaux, in
honour of the realms of Great Britain, is magnificently
got up ; indeed, these classic representations, many of
which are from the paintings of the ancient masters,
though splendid in grouping, serve but to show the su-
periority of nature over art. The fireworks were con-
cluded with a temple representation emblematic of Scot-
land. Madame Warton remains only this week, and those
who have not yet seen her poses plastiques should not for
a night omit an opportunity o; re occurrence.