The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

WARLIKE PRIEST AT FRESHFORD.—On Sunday last,
after mass, the repeal meeting was held in Freshford.
The Rev. T. O'Shee said, " If the day should arrive in
which England should attempt hostilities against this
country, the priests of the people would be found stand-
ing by their gory bed on the battle plain."—Kilkenny
Moderator.

COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES !!! We were rather
astonished, on c6ming out of Audoen's Church this day
at half-past one o'clock, to find a crowd surrounding three
police constables, two of whom were carefully cutting
from the wall the placard announcing the Clontarf Repeal
meeting. It is an inflammatory document, terminating
with the following very intelligible summons to the battle-
field :—" Irishmen ! remember the glories of Brian the
Brave."—Dublin Statesman of Friday.
SHIP NEWS.—The Kath'een, late master Donovan,
put into Cove on Friday short of provisions, with only
three hands on board, and they in so disabled and sickly
a state that they had to be immediately removed on shore.
She was bound from the coast of Africa with oil for Liver-
pool. She left Si..rra Leone on the 13th of July, and
was consequently seventy-nine days at sea. She had
lost her sails, &c., in a gale, and during the voyage the
crew became sick, and had all died but three. Captain
Donovan expired when off the coast, after experiencing
dreadful fatigue and anxiety.—Cork Constitution.
EXECUTION OF MOYLAN.—This unhappy and wretched
convict suffered the last penalty of the law on Tuesday
last at the front of our county gaol. His grandfather suf-
fered an ignominious death, and the father of Moylan—
after transportation twice, the first time for seven years,
and the second time for life—forfeited that life for a gross
criminal offence in our antipodes. This man exhibited
all the characteristics of a reckless being. With the
hardness of iniquity, and the doggedness of extreme ig-
norance, he appeared to think that the few minutes of
punishment in this life would terminate his sufferings for
ever. " What matter," was the wretched being's excla-
mation, " two moments, and it is all over!" Moylan
made no declaration of his guilt.—Nenagh Guardian.

THE COUNCIL OF THREE HUNDRED.—At a tagrag
meeting of repeal wardens held last week in the " city of
the violated treaty," the following bombastic resolution
was carried nem. con. :—" Resolved, that inasmuch as
Limerick—glorious in historic page, for successfully re-
sisting the furious and sanguinary onslaught of the ruth-
less invader—Limerick, that has imprinted upon the
name of Ireland the imperishable word unconquered'—
Limerick, that has invariably given the fire and
tone to popular national proceedings, even in our
own day, is called upon most imperatively at this critical
juncture of our country's fate to stand forward and rally
round the Liberator, and make the necessary preparations
to nominate four members of the council of three hun-
dred Irishmen." There has been a vast consumption of
small talk respecting the anxiety of numberless respectable
gentlemen (names unknown) to bid a long farewell to £lOO
for the questionable honour of being enrolled members of
the convention of 300, to be assembled in Dublin Mr.
O'Connell only knows when. With the exception of
Mr. Daniel Callaghan, one of the city of Cork members,
' gentlemen" appear to be in no wonderful hurry to part
with their money.

A PROTESTANT BISHOP AT ROME.—Becent English
travellers in Italy relate that the Hon. Thomas Plunkett,
Bishop of Tuam, Ardagh, Killala, &c , attended high
mass at St. Peter's at Rome, on Easter Sunday, and it is
likewise reported that his lordship had an interview with
the Pope, who addressed him in words to this effect:—
" I thank you, my lord, for the kindness you have at all
times shown to my Irish subjects." It were as well,
perhaps, that a bishop, and especially an Irish bishop,
should not absent himself from his diocesan duties and
travel for his pleasure in foreign countries at a moment
like this ; but to attend high mass at Rome, and to desert
the Protestant service of Easter Sunday, as it is well per-
formed there by an English clergyman, is a matter that
has surprised the Italians, and grieved the English. If
the words ascribed to the Pope be true, and he claimed
Queen Victoria's subjects as his own, surely it becomes
us to ask, whether the reply was such as it ought to have
been ? Did the bishop tell his holiness that no " Italian
priest shall tithe or toll in our dominions?" Did he deny,
as he ought to have done, the pope's usurped authority ?
—Correspondent of a Weekly Paper.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE TOWN OF COVE.—While
her Majesty's Brig the Lynx, a vessel mounting three guns
of formidable calibre, but pierced for ten, was lying off
Cove, her Commander, Captain Burslem, one day gave
the order to clear the decks for action ! the order was
quickly obeyed, the drums beat to quarters, the three
guns were primed and loaded, in fact double shotted, and
the crew waited in breathless silence and astonishment
for what was to follow ; but they were not long ktpt in
suspense, for in a few minutes after Captain Burslem
ordered the guns to be fired upon the Town! The officers
next in command were horror struck at hearing such an
order, and though feeling the tremendous risk they would,
under almost any other circumstances, run by interfering
with the order of their Captain, yet in this case they
clearly saw that they would be fully justified in preventing
the execution of an order by which perhaps thousands of
her Majesty's peaceable and loyal subjects would be hurled
to destruction in the midst of the most profound tran-
quility and peace. Accordingly, the first Lieutenant and
one or two of the other Officers consulted for a moment,
ere the fatal command should be carried into effect, and
having arrived at the conclusion that no such order could
by any possibility have been given by any man in his sen-
ses, and without the least provocation, they contrived to
induce the Captain to go below for a moment, and suspend
the order ; this he complied with, and having been got
into his own cabin every precaution was taken to secure
him, and the whole affair reported to the Admiral. Cap-
tain Burslem was immediately removed, and the Lynx is
now in the Shannon, under the command of her first
lieutenant. It has been stated that on two or three occa-
sions of late Captain Burslem bad evinced symptons im-
intellect, but never before to such an extent.—Cork Re..
porter.--[The Cork Constitution copies the preceding,
but throws a doubt upon its accuracy.]

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-At the weekly meeting
of the Repeal Association in Dublin, on Monday, Ahas-
cragh was restored to the map of Ireland, and its people
to their station in the front ranks of Repeal. The motion
was made by Mr. O'Connell, at the request of Lord
French, which the Liberator considered as a command,
and passed unanimously. Mr. O'Connell then called the
attention of the meeting to a seditious placard that has
bee❑ lately posted up at Omagh, calling on the tenantry
of Lord Bellmore, and Sir H. Bruce, to meet on the first
Monday in November next, to consider what amount of
rent the times will enable them to pay, half rent only and
half county cess—no payment of rent till after the meet-
ing. Any tenant who keeps back, is to prepare for a
night visit, first to his haggard, and nest to his person.
Mr. O'Connell condemned this notice as highly criminal,
and stated that its authors deserved punishment. He
complained of the bad accounts be got from Dundalk
about Ribbonism, which he censured strongly, and that
it must end in the destruction of all concerned in it. A.
long letter was read from Mr. Sharman Crawford, cor-
recting a mistake of Mr. O'Connell's respecting his, Mr.
Crawford's bill, giving power to the tenant to claim com-
pensation for all buildings and improvements made on
the farm, with or without the consent of the landlord.
Several letters were then read from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Thorold, Niagara district, Canada West, and New York,
forwarding their respective contributions to the cause of
repeal : but the most startling postion of the correspond-
ence is the following, which, with Mr. O'Connell's com-
ment, we take from the Freeman's Journal:—Mr.
O'Connell—l have got two letters which were trans-
mitted to me through Mr. O'Callaghan, to whom they
were directed. The letters are from Major-General James
Arlington Bennett and George Clinton Beckham, adju-
tant•general, offering me a military organization to assist,
and (tearing the letters into pieces) I trust it will appear
in the newspapers what I have done with them (cheers).
Mr. Mark O'Callaghan said, that although his brother
had received those letteers to deliver to Mr. O'Connell
he did not know anything about the writers of them.
Mr. O'Connell—They certainly know very little of me;
that is the way I treat their military organization. I have
a trick worth two of it (cheers and laughter). The Repeal
rent for the week was £Bl4 is.

CAUSE OF IRELAND'S DISCONTENT.—The following
extract from the letter of a lady, residing in the province
of Cannaught, and near the scene of some of the recent
" monster meetings," has been kindly given us by a gen-
tleman now in Liverpool, who has just received it, and
will, we doubt not, be read with interest :—" There was
an immense repeal meeting at L—, but from the heavy
rain that fell, the people in general were not regaled with
much speechifying, nor does there appear as much excite-
ment as upon the former occasion—whether it is, thatthe
people have learnt better to cloke their countenances, or
that the novelty has worn off. The whole matter would
be a mere farce, and would die away of itself, if there was
faithfulness to be found in high places in England. If our
rulers would but declare boldly, that they would uphold a
scriptural ministry and Bible teaching in the land,*the
h^ is of the religious and
_loyal would be strengthened,

O'CONNELL AS AN AUTHOR

It is known to most of our readers that O'Connell bas
written a work which he has called " Memoirs of Ireland."
This work, the Standard, having questioned the authenti-
city of a massacre said to have been perpetrated on a body
of defenceless Irish at Mullaghmast, was challenged to
read, and our contemporary has complied with the request,
and the result is the discovery of one of the most auda-
cious efforts to delude a credulous people, by downright
invention, that ever before happened- With regard to
this place of Mullaghmast, for example, what do we find ?
Here is the extract from Mr. O'Connell's " Memoirs" :
" The next instance I shall mention, occurred in the year
1577. It is thus introduced by Morrisson the historian
(folio edition, p. 3) :
" After. the 19th year of Queen Elizabeth, videlicit anno
" 1577, the Lords of Connaught and O'Rooke," says
Morrison, " made a composition for their lands with
" Sir Nicholas Malby, governor of that province ;
" wherein they were content to yield the Queen so
" large a rent and such services both of labourers to
" work upon occasion of fortifying, and of horse and
" foot to serve upon occasion of at ar, that their minds
" seemed not yet to be alienated from their wonted
" awe, and reverence to the Crown of England. Yet,
" in the same year, a horrible MASSACRE was, corn-
" milted by the English at Mulloghmast on some
" hundreds of the most peaceable of the Irish gen-
" try, invited thither on the public faith and under
" the protection of government."
Reader, will you believe it—even of Dan O'Connell—
that of the sentence printed in italics, (and these italics
are Mr. O'Connell's,) there is not one syllable in Morri-
son ? From " the Lords of Connaught, &c." in the
second line, down to the words " Crown of England," in
the tenth line, the extract is a literal transcript from the
historian, but there the record stops, so far as the matter
of Mullaghmast is concerned. The five concluding lines
of the memoir are therefore an infamous forgery. Of the
alleged massacre. contemporary writers make no more
mention than Morrison, but Mr. O'Connell has got hold
of some legendary account of a massacre said to have hap-
pened at that place. In referring to his questionable
authority, however, he finds it necessary for his base pur-
pose to resort to mutilation. His authority says the sup-
posed victims were hemmed in between " three and four
lines of English and Irish horse and foot." His " Me-
moirs" give it thus :
" The English published a proclamation, inviting all
" the well-affected Irish to an interview on the Rath-
, " more, at Mulloghmaston, engaging at the same
" time for their security, and that no evil was in-
" tended. In consequence of this engagement, the
" well-affected came to Rathmore aforesaid ; and
" soon after they were assembled, they found them-
" selves surrounded by three or four lines of English
" horse and foot completely accoutred, by whom they
" were ungenerously attacked and cut to pieces ; and
" not a single man escaped."
The word " Irish" is here omitted. The reason is obvi-
ous. Mr. O'Connell's vile motive 'is to impress on the
minds of his deluded victims a belief that " the Saxon" is,
and always has been, their oppressor. It would not do,
therefore, to tell the Irish that if there was any butchery
at all (which is more than doubtful) it was perpetrated in
part at least, by their own countrymen. Thus, you see,
reader, that to carry out his detestable purposes, Mr.
O'Connell first rakes up a fable in which 141 ulloghmast is
made to figure as the theatre of some awful tragedy, in
which, of course, the poor Irish were the helpless victims,
and the fell Saxon their oppressors, and then selects this
spot as the scene of his next clap-trap gathering.

WALES

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

On Saturday week two of the ringleaders in the attacks
on private property were captured near Llanelly. The
circumstances leading to their apprehension were as fol-
low. A few nights previously an attack was made upon
the Gwenwyth Iron Works at Pont-y-Beren by a num-
ber of men ; they surrounded the house between I and 2
o'clock in the morning, and having fired several shots,
commenced battering at the door, demanding to have the
managing clerk, Mr. Slocombe, brought out to them.
His wife in the most heroic manner presented herself at
an upstairs window, and demanded who they were, and
what they wanted with her husband? The answer of the
leader was, " I am Rebecca, and we demand to see him
instantly. The wife, however, firmly refused, stating
that her husband was not there. Finding that they could
not gain admission, they said Mr. Newman (the proprie-
tor of the works, in whose house Mr. Slocombe resides)
has behaved well, and we will not hurt him ; but if Mr.
Slocombe is not out of the country within a week, we will
make him a head shorter ; they then fired some more
shots, and made off. It appears that several persons who
were present at this outrage had been forced from their
houses to join them, and consequently information was
given to the magistrates tbat the ringleaders were two
men of notoriously bad character, named John Jones,
alias John Uyseborfawr, a man of about 30 years of age,
who basibeen a prize-fighter, and David Davis, alias Daily
Cantwr, or David the Singer, and through the vigilance
of the police these men were soon taken, and conveyed to
Carmarthen for examination.

On Thursday night week the house of a poor woman
who had given them some offence, which was situated at
Penhrw-common, near Cross-hands, was attacked by a
party in disguise and razed to the ground.
A royal proclamation was published in Tuesday's
Gazette, offering a reward of five hundred pounds " to
any person or persons who shall discover and apprehend,
or cause to be discovered and apprehended, the authors,
abettors, and perpetrators of any incendiary fires or of
any outrage upon the person or any of our subjects, by
which life shall hare been sacrificed, so that they or any
of them shall be duly convicted thereof, Ind every person
who shall be so convicted, and shall receive our most gra-
cious pardon for the said offence in case the person mak-
ing such discovery as aforesaid shall be liable to be prose-
cuted for the same, except he be the actual perpetrator of
such outrage or of such incendiary tire as aforesaid." And
a further reward of fifty pounds iggytifered to `• any person
or persons who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to
be discovered and apprehended, the authors, abettors, and
perpetrators of any such outrages, other than those last
above mentioned, so that they or any of them may be duly
convicted thereof."

On Friday week, about midnight, Rebecca's sister,
Charlotte, and about 150 followers visited the Turnpike
Gate, Cwmdwr. The old woman who collected the
tolls, in consequence of the threats of these miscre-
ants removed the furniture from her house, during which
time the Rebeccaites chopped up the gates and posts for
firewood which they placed inside the house and set fire
to. The party then set off to the village of Llansadwrn
and surrounded the house of the Rev. J. Jones the vicar,
whose family was disturbed from their peaceful slumbers
by the firing of a volley of guns and demand for Mr.
Jones' appearance. When Mr. Jones came forward, she
gave him the alternative of removing his furniture out of
the vicarage within ten minutes, that the house might be
set on fire, or that he should pledge his word that he
would not take into his possession a few fields which he
had purchased some months since, and which adjoined
the vicarage, as it was contrary to Becca's law that he, as
a clergyman, should hold any lands—either the barn or
the church—but not both was the peremptory fiat of Queen
Becca, and backed as her viceregent was, by some hun-
dreds of well armed attendants, ready to perform her
commands, Mr. Jones was compelled, as a matter of per-
sonal safety, and not w'shing to have his house burnt over
the beads of himself, his wife and family, to comply with
Becca's demands, and to engage that the tenant who had
occupied the fields, should be allowed to retain possession
of the same at a reduced rent, the amount of which was
then stipulated. After having extorted these terms from
the worthy Vicar's just fears, the party left the place.
Two other gates in Carmarthenshire, and one in Brecon-
shire, were also destroyed last week. A farm house and
buildings near Cilycwnr, in Carmarthenshire, were level-
led with the ground on Saturday week, in order, it is said,
to prevent a tenant from taking possession of the same.
A meeting of freeholders, farmers, and others. was held
on Tuesday last, on Pen Crugybalog, near Newcastle-
Emlyn, for the purpose of adopting an address to her
Majesty, expressive of their loyalty—their regret at the
recent outrages which have taken place in this country,
and their determination to repress them, and praying her
Majesty to adopt such measures as she might deem fit, to
relieve them from their local grievances. About three
thousand persons assembled, and the meeting altogether
was of the most orderly and satisfactory character.
All the side gates in the Breconshire Turnpike Trust,
and some of the gates on the regular mail-roads were dis-
continued on Michaelmas day at twelve o'clock at noon.
'Becca last week nabbed a bum-bailiff in the exercise
of his craft upon the chairs and tables of a poor farmer at
Fosgrech, and committed him bound hand and foot to
the parish pound till the next morning. He was then
released on paying 4d., the fee on impounding a quadru-
ped. The Carmarthen Journal says, that the law officer
is now a strenuous advocate against " Cruelty to Animals"
and " Solitary Imprisonment."

At the recommendation of Lord Dynevor, the Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Carmarthen, the names of
twenty gentlemen have been added to the commission of
the peace by the Lord Chancellor.