The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

CONCILIATION HALL

LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The usual weekly meeting of the Association took place
this day in the Conciliation Hall, which was crowded in
every part.
The chair was filled by P. Lalor, Esq., of Tinnekill,
ex-M.P. for the Queen's County.
THE TRIBUTE.
Before the arrival of the Liberator,
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Mr. CLEMENTS, in an eloquent sPeech, moved the fol-
lowing resolution on the subject of the O'Connell Com-
pensation Fund :
Resolved—That the Loyal National Repeal Association
hold it a paramount duty, at this moment, to apply all its
weight and influence to the suceessful furtherance of the
National Collection for the O'Connell Compensation
Fund, fixed for Sunday, the 19th instant : on that occa-
sion the Members and Associates of this National Body
are especially expected to co-operate personally and ener-
getically with the respected and patriotic Clergy of their
several parishes, in securing results for this imperative
measure worthy of the crisis and the cause.

Dr. GRAY seconded the resolution, which, after a few
words from Mr. Steele, was carried amidst the loudest
acclamation.

A very lengthy address to the people of Ireland, signed
" Daniel O'Connell," was agreed to. It exhorts the
people to judge calmly of the position in which Ireland is
at present placed, and represents the giorious results that
are to flow from a repeal of the union. It deprecates the
idea of any intention on the part of the repealers to esta-
blish Catholic ascendancy, in such language as the follow-

-1` A Catholic religious ascendancy is, if possible, more
easily demonstrated to be futile. In the first place, the
very principle of the repeal of the union would allocate
to purposes of charity and education the ecclesiastical
state revenues as each of the present vested interests
should terminate. The value of a state church ascendancy
is to get at the state revenues, and, as those revenues
would, as they fell in, go to the state for ascertained pur-
poses of education and charity, there would be nothing to
make the Catholic hierarchy desire an ascendancy for
their religion over any other. The money being disposed
of, the ingredient of ascendancy would be blotted out for
ever.

" In the second place Catholic ascendancy would be ut-
terly impossible—for this reason, the Irish Legislature
would be, two parts out of three, essentially Protestant.
It is true that a majority in the House of Commons might
be Catholic; but there necessarily would be a very great
number of Protestants in that house. The Corporations
of Ireland, having Catholic majorities, have returned
almost all the liberal Protestants who sought to be elected.
Besides, the Protestant portions of Ireland would return
Protestants. On the whole, therefore, no measure inju-
rious to Protestants could possibly pass the House of
Commons unless the Catholics in that honse were false—
basely and shamefully false—to the principles they have
ever avowed; and even then no such measure could pass
that house without a vivid resistance from all the Pro-
testant members, and from all the Catholic members, who
were liberal and conscientious. In short we are deeply
convinced that any Catholic ascendancy measure would be,
of necessity, rejected by a majority of the Irish House of
Commons."

The amount of rent was upwards of thirteen hundred
pounds. A deputation of the Law Clerk of Dublin
waited upon Mr. O'Connell to-day, and presented an
address to Mr. O'Connell, accompanied with £lOO, to
help to defray the expenses of the approaching prosecu-
tions ; the deputation, who were received most cordially,
intimated to the learned gentleman, that they intended
contributing a further sum for the same purpose.

A general registry under the new arms act will take
place at the ensuing quarter sessions throughout Ireland.
The extensive bolting mills of Ballynona, near Middle..
ton, county Cork, the property of H. I-1. Wigmore, Esq.
were on Tuesday night consumed by fire.

The Dublin Evening Mail says, that it is expected that
the motion for a mandamus made in the Queen's Bench,
Dublin, on Monday, will be the last, and that the pro-
mised bills of indictment against Mr. Bond Hugbos for
perjury will never be sent up.
The total sum of money paid by the State for the main-
tenance of Maynooth College, since its foundation amounts
io £362,893. The following grants were made for Roman
Catholic edifices in 1840-1 ; Nenagh chapel, £500; Kil-
rush, £1,000; Aghada, £300; Ballingally. £150; Atty-
moy Dhapel, £l5O.
POPISH RAPACITY.—Between the 2d Occtober and
6th November the sum of £7OO has been scraped up in
Ireland for the Popish Propaganda, being at the rate of
about £B,OOO per annum. Pretty well this for the poor-
est country in Europe, fleeced as it is with O'Connell
tribute, repeal rent, and priestly dues.
CHINA TRADE OF DUBLIN.—After a lapse of two
years since an arrival from the celestial empire to this
port, the Scotland, a ship of 500 tons, put into dock yes-
terday morning, from Macao. Her cargo consists of 6761
packages or chests of tea. She is for the houses of Dud-
geon and Co., and Finlay and Co., of Liverpool.—Dublin
Freeman. .

THE REPEAL SECRETARY.—We have heard that a com-
plaint has been lodged with the Board of Trinity College,
as to an avowed repealer being on the books of the Uni-
versity, and that Mr. Ray has received a certain interval
to consider and determine whether he will relinquish re-
peal or give up the University, as one or the other he must.
—Dublin Statesman.

Within the last five years, 86 inquests have been held
at the bridewell, Cork, on the bodies of deserted infants.
These inquests, unhappily, do not express the full amount
of desertion of offspring. At the last Cork sessions—one
single sessions—the churchwardens applied for support
for 353 deserted infants!

We learn with great regret one of those mysterious
movements, which in other counties manifested them-
selves in lighting of straws and making bonfires, has com-
menced here. In one district the houses of Roman Ca-
tholics have been singled out during the night by two dis-
tinct white marks. We have not been able to ascertain
the real meaning of these demonstrations, but, no doubt,
something political is intended.—Fermanagh Reporter.

EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.—At a late temperance
meeting held in Dublin, it was stated by Dr. Yore, that
he had attended at least one hundred and twenty criminals
to the scaffold, every one of whom declared that drunken-
ness was the means of bringing them to their untimely
end. Of four hundred and ninety-five persons confined
in a lunatic asylum in Liverpool, two hundred and fifty-
seven were there from intemperance ; and in Dublin, Dr.
Crawford stated, of two hundred and eighty-six lunatics
in one asylum, one hundred and fifteen were deprived of
their reason by whisky drinking.
TRAITORS IN THE REPEAL RANKS.—The Ballyehan-
non Herald says—" That the Government are in posses-
sion of some frightful information respecting Ireland
there cannot be a second opinion. The Attorney-Gene-
ral mentioned last week in court that when the proper
time arrives he will lay before the jury, on the trial of the
conspirators, a statement of as frightful and extensive a
conspiracy against the peace of the country and the con-
stitution by law established as ever disgraced any coun-
try. We understand that much of this information has
been communicated by a few of the leading repealers,
who became alarmed at the height to which the con-
spiracy had arrived,
RENT—A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—We have just seen a
letter from a land agent in a southern county to one of
his employers, from which, by permission, we make the
following extract :—" Previous to the proclamation putting
down the meeting at Clontarf, it was impossible to get a
farthing from the peasant' y in payment of rents or any.
thing else ; since that event there is no difficulty about
the matter, and the rents are paid freely and quickly every.
where." It gives us great satisfaction to he able to cor-
roborate and generalise the foregoing statement, so as to
include the length and breadth of the land. For the last
twenty or thirty years rents were never so easily collected
as now, nor to anything like the amount, at this early
stage of the November gale.—Dublin Mail.
CURIOUS BARGAIN.—THE CERTAINTY OF REPEAL.
—So thorough is the confidence of the Irish people in the
eventual success of Mr. O'Connell's labours, and in the
attainment of repeal, that no effort can disturb that settled
conviction of their minds. As a singular instance of that
belief, we may mention a fact which occurred this day in
one of the markets of this city. A certain gentleman re-
siding in Blackrock purchased a piece of beef, at 4s. a
pound, for which beef he is not to pay until the passing
of the act repealing the Act of Union ! This gentleman,
we believe, is a pleasant wag, who laughs heartily at the
notion of repeal being ever carried ; but the honest-hearted
woman with whom he dealt, like all of her class, is not in-
clined to regard the event as simply probable, but certain
to take place ; and in proof of her conviction, was content
to part with her beef upon the terms set forth in the fol-
lowing strange document :—" I agree to pay Ellen Hayes
the sum of £l2 10s. for 621 pounds of beef, as soon as the
repeal of the Legislative Union is granted between Eng-
land and Ireland • but no payment is to be demanded for
the said beef until
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BRUTAL MURDER.—On Wednesday a caretaker be-
longing to James Grove 'White, of Kilburn, Doneraile,
Esq.,,named Lockwook, was placed on the lands where
tenants of Mr. White were in arrear, and who ibe was
afraid would remove their crops, and that on Wednesday
evening Lockwood went out to inspect the grounds, to
see that the crops had not been. taken off. Nothing
further was known of him until the following day, when
his corpse was discovered in a ditch. The skull was com-
pletely beaten in, besides wounds on several parts of the
body.—Cork Constitution.
THE STATE PROSECUTMNS.—The indictment against
the repeal leaders embraces a period of nearly nine months
—commencing with the meeting. At Trim, on the 19th
of March, 1843 ; and, travelling through the other mon-
ster meetings in the following series, viz. :—At Mullingar,
on the 14th of May ; at Cork, on the 21st of May ' • at
Longford, on the 28th of May ; at Drogheda, on the sth
of June; at Kilkenny, on the Bth of June ; at Mallow,
on the 11th of June ; at Dundalk, on the 29th of June ;
at Donnybrook, on the 3d of July ' • at Baltinglass, on the
20th of July; at Clontibret, on the 15th of August; at
Tara, on the 15th of August ; at Loughrea, on the 10th
of September; at Clifton. on the 17th of September; at
Lismore, on the 24th of September ' • at Mullaghmast,
on the Ist of October. It likewise charges the defend-
ants with a conspiracy to hold the meeting at Clontarf, on
the Bth of October ; and includes several meetings at the
Corn Exchange.

THE CONSPIRACY.—UnwiIIing to "predicate the
guilt of the parties charged," or prejudice the public
mind against them, we dismiss their case entirely from
consideration, and turn our exclusive attention to that far
more important disclosure of which we have, in the speech
of the Attorney-General, the first authentic intimation
made by any member of the Irish government—namely,
the portentous reason for the great and resistless arma-
ment with which the country is filled, and the sudden,
prompt, and decisive suppression of such public meetings
as that intended at Clontarf. We now learn, on official
authority, what was long a matter of the clearest inference
indeed—but to the public at large, of inference only—the
existence in Ireland of " As wicked a conspiracy as ever
yet was entered into against the peace of the country."
This statement, coming from such a quarter, and on such
an occasion, implies the discovery of the conspiracy on
such sure information, as enables the government to
counteract its devices, and to bring its contrivers and in-
struments to public justice.—Dublin Mail.

STATE OF FEELING AMONGST THE PEASANTRY OF
TIPPERARY AND LIMERICK.—A writer in the Carlow
Sentinel, who has been sojourning for a month in the
counties of Tipperary and Limerick, for the purpose of
ascertaining the feelings of the peasantry on the momen-
tous events that are now passing in the political world,
states as the result of his conviction, that "in these
counties there is not the least mystification in the declara-
tions of the lower orders. They told me confidently (he
adds) that the time had come for the total downfall of
Protestantism and English rule, and for the consequent
restoration of the forfeited estates; and in these expecta-
tions they are fortified by old legendary prophecies of the
most wild and sanguinary description. The restoration
of the forfeited estates is their darling theme on every oc-
casion, and the final expulsion of all the Protestant sects,
without distinction, is looked upon by them as a neces-
sary step to the full enjoyment of ' Ireland by the Irish.'
There cannot be a doubt that an ultimate appeal to rebel-
lion is cherished as a certainty by the peasantry, that they
are regularly made up for it, and speak of it, without.the
least disguise, as " only a question of time.' In several
instances they regretted deeply that O'Connell should have
cried peace' after the suppression of the Clontarf meet-
ing, and say they only wanted a hint to turn out at a
moment's notice. Even the children who can do little
more than lisp a few words, are imbued with the same
sanguinary feelings."
WARLIKE PREPARATIONS !—REMARKABLE LET-
TER FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Under the
above taking heading the Cork Southern Reporter,
of Friday week, has the following :—" We have heard,
and from the respectability of the parties from and
through whom the information is derived we have reason
to believe that during the Caher races, which took place
last week, a letter from the Duke of Wellington to the
Earl of Glengall was seen by, and read to individuals, who
had no hesitation in stating to others what were its con-
tents, the subject of which, as narrated, is to this effect :
—That almost all the British army, certainly every
regiment which can be spared and made available for
set vice, will be concentratad in Ireland ; that camps
will be formed in the different parts of the country, and
particularly in the neighbourhood of cities and towns;
that the army will occupy these camps,and that such bar-
racks as they now occupy will be made available for the
reception of such families and persons as may be in appre-
hension that their lives or properties are or may be in dan-
ger; that, also, all possible facilities would be afforded to
those who may wish to avail of them for quitting the
country and taking refuge in England, or elsewhere, until
the troubles are over and the rebellion subdued ; and that
pending events, supplies of arms, ammunition, and sub-
sistexce of every kind would be continued to be sent into
this country from England for the use of the army, by-
and-by, so as to make it independent, or not dependent
upon the Irish peasantry and people. Such, as stated to
us, is the substance of the letter, which, we have reason
to believe, was alleged by trustworthy persons of Caher
to have been received by the Earl of Glengall from the
Duke of Wellington, and the contents of which the noble
earl communicated to certain individuals in this town."—
[The Dublin Mail denies that any such letter as the pre-
ceding was ever in existence.]
THE OCT-PENSIoNERS.—The Dublin Evening Mail
furnishes some interesting particulars relative to the out-
pensioners. To the military portion of our readers, it is
well known that soldiers are generally placed on the
pension list at the age of forty—often much earlier. At
the time of being so pensioned, they are generally suffer-
ing under some of the numerous diseases contracted in
service in the colonies, and which it requires only time,
and their native air to eradicate. Those who survive,
generally recover their usual health in the course of a
year or two ; indeed it has been found by statistical in-
vestigation, that after the first year on the pension list,
they are healthier than the general average of persons of
similar age, who never served at all. Out of the 95,000
pensioners borne on the pension establishment, there are
always from 20 to 30,000 of this class who are for the
most part under fifty years of age. By the act passed in
the latter part of last session, and to which it will be
remembered so much opposition was made by the agita-
tion party, the government has the power of rendering
the service of these men available as a local force, thereby
relieving the regular troops for more active operations.
They are all placed under staff officers, who pay and
superintend them ; and whenever any call for their ser-
vices takes place, immediately put them under arms, and
assume the command. To carry out this arrangement
the whole of the united kingdom is divided into pension
districts, so as to give to every lieutenant from five to six
hundred pensioners to pay and superintend, and to every
captain from seven hundred to one thousand, so long as
no call takes place. For the services of these men the
officer merely pays them, but whenever any disturbance
takes place, he calls out the more effective, amounting to
about a third part of the whole number, and forthwith
becomes their commandant, and takes to his aid such
number of half-pay officers in the vicinity as the circum-
stances of the case require. The arrangement will give
to government throughout the united kingdom an army
of reserve equal to 20,000 men, who will cost nothing
when the country is quiet, but will take up arms the
instant that disturbances call for their services.

DREADFUL AFFRAY.—The Patent Saw Mills, in this
town, held under the firm of John Wilson and Co., have
been the scene of a third tragedy, and the most melan-
choly in its results—the first was the assault on Mr. Wil-
son, by throwing vitriol into his face, for which offence
four journeymen sawyers were transported for life—the
second the stabbing of a recruit by Mr. Wilson, and the
last, the murder of the present proprietor, Dr. Michael
Quarry. For some time past, Dr. Quarry and his late
Partner, Mr. John Wilson, have been at variance, which
has led to assaults and law proceedings, Dr. Quarry keep-
ing possession of the Saw Mill concerns, and the timber
store below, and Mr. Wilson of a suit of rooms over the
front of the Saw Mills. For some time past Mr. Roger
B. Evans, auctioneer, has had an execution on the esta-
blishment for a debt due by Mr. Wilson, and three of the
men in the employment of Dr. Quarry were special bai-
liffs in the attachment. Affrays have taken place between
the men of Dr. Quarry and those of Mr. Wilson, who
were keeping possession of the upper rooms, and the ma-
gistrates have been frequently engaged in hearing charges
of assault, threats, and rescues for the last month. On
Saturday, about two o'clock, Mr. Wilson left town on the
Charleville coach, leaving two fellows named Carroll in
charge of the rooms which he held, and after seven, Mr.
George Foster Delany joined them. Shortly after eight
o'clock Dr. Quarry and some men attempted to go up
stairs to see if all was right, when the former was met near
the top by Thomas Carroll, who opposed his going up,
and a scuffle ensued, when Carroll called out to his brother
Denis to bring a blunderbuss, which being done, he pre-
sented it at Dr. Quarry, but it missed fire ; he then caught
it by th'e butt end, and struck the Doctor on the head and
shoulders, by which he was knocked down the flight of
stairs. Then Donoghue, one of the assistants of the
Doctor, came up, but got a tremendous blow from a sharp
instrument, which knocked him down, and rendered him
for a time insensible; when he recovered he saw Carroll
striking Dr. Quarry on the head with a " saw buckle."
The rest of the party seeing the Doctor so brutally used
made an attempt to go up, when Carroll fired down on
them, but hit no one. Smith, the apprentice, went down
to the office and brought up a large pistol, which he dis-
charged at Carroll without effect, when the fire from the
top was quickly returned, but fortunately without effect.
Crowds of persons were now collected outside the mill,
attracted by the report of shots, and Dr. Quarry being
brought down to the store, a messenger went to the King-
street station for the police, when constable Daniel Cud-
more went to the residence of Captain White, J. P., who
immediately came to the mills with a party of the police
force. Captain 'White, Cudmore, and O'Connell, then
went up stairs, when they saw Thomas Carroll with a
blunderbuss presented and loaded, and Dennis Carroll
a sword in his hand, and Mr. Delany, all three of whom
they arrested. Dr. Harris, who lives opposite, being sent
for, came over, and at this time Dr. Quarry was quite
sensible, remarking to Dr. Harris, that he feared he was
very much injured, that his right arm was broken, and
that his head was very painful ; be then desired himself
to be placed on a bed, which being shortly done, he be-
came quite insensible, in which state he remained that
night, and all Sunday, when he espied at seven o'clock.
He has left a widow and five young children. An inquest
was held on the following day, when the following verdict
was returned, " We find that Dr. Michael Quarry came
by his death on Saturday, the 4th November, 1813, in
consequence of wounds inflicted by Thomas and Denis
Carroll, George Forster Delaney being present, aiding
and assisting thereat." These three persons were then
handcuffed and sent to gaol, and Mr. John Wilson has
also been arrested as an accessary before the fact, and sent
to 13ridewell.—Cork. Paper.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD

In a Convocation holden on Tuesday last, John Robert
Kenyon, Esq., D.C.L., Fellow of All Souls' College, was
unanimously elected Vinerian Professor of Common Law,
in the room of the late Dr. Philip Williams, of New
College.

At the same time,-the Rev. Archibald Hamilton Duthie,
M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, was admitted ad
eundem.

In the Congregation holden on Thursday last, the fol-
lowing degrees were conferred :
MASTER OF ARTS.—Charles Manners Lushington,
(Fellow-elect of All Souls' College,) Oriel. Rev. Wm.
David Hall, Fellow of New College.
In a Convocation holden in the afternoon of the same
day, it was unanimously resolved to grant, out of the Uni-
versity Chest, the sum of Five Hundred Pounds to the
National Fund in aid of the Establishment, and support
of schools in the manufacturing and mining districts.