The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

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Save been carried out, it t tie tu-sociation 143,
or even since, had lent itself to the doctrine of physical
fcrce.—Why, even look to the state prosecutions. and,
reflecting upon them, see what a conciliatory game the
present government were playing. Men talked very much
about uhvsical force. and of-vindicating the rights of their

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country by the sword—men who were afraid to look at a
poker. (" Hear," and laughter.) He cared not for the
Young Irelanders, hut he. regretted the loss of Smith
O'Brien ; but even for him they could not break through

their rules ; for it they -did they would peril their safety,
and destroy for ever the great cause in which they were
engage:i. The fact was this-, that, during the perio lof
the monster meetings, they intended that if moral force
fai!ed they would have recourse to physical force. They
were working for high treason; but the basis upon which
the association was originally framed, and would always
be guided by, was of a different character. He (Mr.
O'Connell) was ready to do anything rather than consent
to any other than peaceable means ; he was even ready to
sacrifice the cause and ahandoo it for ever, rather than be
a party to any disturbance in the sociE-1 state, or the
breaking up of the happiness of individuals. In fact—
be would express himself shortly—no man should belong
to the association if he suggested anything like physical
force. (Cheers ) The boo. and learned gentleman then
mentioned that his son Maurice had been reinstated in
the commission of the peace. They never stood in so
good a position for Ireland, for every party was then ready
to afford her relief ; not alone because of her position as
regarded the potatoe disease, but on the ground of her
general state of poverty, set out on the face of the report
Lord Devon's commission. Sir Robert reel had
stated that justice should be dine to Ireland, and already
the government bad brought in and passed two good bills
to remedy the condition of the tenant, which enabled him
to have justice from his landlord. The bill might be
fairly considered as a legislative declaration and sanction
of the principle FO often contended for, 4. that the power
of the landlnrd., of Ireland required to be revised, con-
trolled, and lessened.' This was a Whig question ; and
why should he not support the men who passed it, and
the men who voted £50,000 to relieve the distress of the
Irish people? No doubt £50,000 was but a small sum to
do so much with ; but it would also be remembered that,
with that grant, a bill was passed in order to give employ-
ment and enable the people to pay for their own support.
He would support any government that would pass good
measures for Ireland ; but still, no matter how much
he got, he would still rally to the last for Ireland's own
parliament, and its restoration. The week's rent
amounted to £l3B 16s. Bd.

W HERE IS THE MONEY ? —Mr. J. V. Porter, who was
considered a at eat prize by the Repeal Association, until
he Would insist upon looking into the ledger of Concilia-
tion Hall, has addressed a letter to the Nulion, in which
occurs the following paragraph : _ _ _

" The Freeman implied, and would wish its rukders to
understand, that the committee has full controliVer the
money. It wishes to throw the whole onus upon them •,
whereas, in fact, the money is not paid into their hand
,nor lodged to their credit, neither of the General Com-
.mittee, nor of any Special Committee, but into the hands
of Mr. O'Connell clone, and in a way and in a manner
so dark and so irregular. that even members of the corn.
»rifles, after years of attendance, do not yet know the
process.

O'Connell may denounce the Nation. and erase it from
the list of paprrs supplied by the Association to
dupes; but he will fin,l it a formidable ir,strument in
unmasking him. lle knows, however, that exposure now
is too late to do him much harm. It cannot make him
disgorge; the money is in his pocket; and as to the
future supplies, it has long been evident that they will
barely"suifice to pay the weekly expenses of Conciliation
11 all.