The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

To "E shall hand over the sum of9s. 9d., the balance
of the post-office order for 21)s. forwarded to us, to the
Cyurc?iMissionary Society, as directed.
W word should be pronounced "Hervey."
The Rey. J. R. Conor has a soeciel service every Sunday after-
noon, at St. thrnon's Chtircb, for the spiritual improvement
°Utile ,o'diery at present encamped at Everton.
We understand tint a special meeting of the Committee of the
Liverpool Auxiliary to the Church Missionary Association
will be held on Titurstlay next, for the purpose of making
arrantrements for the approaching jubilee of the society, to
he held in November next, as stated elsewhere, to comme-
morate the fbilcth. anniversary of the association.
We cannot inform " A Merchant" why the accounts of the Li-
verpool docks, up to June last, are not yet published; but we
believe thst occasionally they are not ready until a later pe-
ric:i of the year than this.

ebr, Rtlnrpoot &tant,.arti.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 19, 1848.

Our Irish brethren seem determined to exhaust
all the little patience which the world has left for
them. The humble and the heart-stricken beggar
we can put. up with ; the lazy
.and the inprovident
we have shown that we can tolerate ; but the brawl-
ing beggar we set down as a nuisance. The wallet
we excuse, as legitlinate stock in trade ; but the
pike is an adjunct we can well dispense with.
In common with all the world, we thought we
had seen the last of the. great Irish Rebellion of
1848; that the long-threatened Repeal insurrection
had, to use the language of the New York Morning
Herald, " turned out a gigantic bag of gaS, which
collapsed by a single push -of a British bayonet."
The most prominent of its leaders were safely en-
sconced in the receptacles provided for ordinary
felons—the common county gaols. The men, who
were only to be captured at the cost of the blood of
millions, were quietly walked away with by the un-
aided force of the police. " The Repeal"—the pre-
text for all this hubbub and bluster—in behalf of
which we have been inundated with talk, and for
which a credulous people have paid some hundreds
of thousands of their bard-earned money, was
shelved for at least another quarter of a century;
at all events until the Celtic heart becomes inspired
with valour sufficient to give execution to the large
promises of its tongue. But, contrary to all ex-
pectation, the rebellion has broken out afresh; or,
we presume, we are being visited with the fag end
of it. Tipperary has not yet had its fill of outrage;
and the " fine peasantry" of that portion of the
gem of the sea are in arms, not for the Repeal ex-
actly, but, as it would seem, out of pure love for
the career of outlaws and cut-throats. There is no
other tangible reason to be adduced for their wicked
absurdities.

How long is this sort of thing to be endured ?
How long are our troops to he harassed, and the pa-
tience and money of an entire people to be wasted,
in the apparently endless task of keeping these un-
civilized hordes in order ? Not for any great length
of time, we trust ; for we can tell our Irish brethren
that much longer the British people will not endure
-- the infliction. Bye and bye, we are well aware, that
we shall be called upon to provide some sort of
.E.sp
for a population who are now wantonly expend mg
in powder, in signal fires, and other senseless and
purposeless dem on strations, the money which would
have found them in food for the winter. We shall
be told of failing potatoe crops, of evictions, of
cruel landlords, who would have their rents, and
other causes of Celtic suffering and turbulence.
But the fact stands plainly before us that the ob-
jects, in whose behalf our aid is continually solicited,
are incorrigibly averse to working for their own
living; that they are as ungrateful and insolent as
they are dishonest; and "the hated Saxon" is not
unlikely to ask himself the question why he should
toil and scheme for the support of such a people.
We tire of taxation of the kind. It is unpleasant
to feel that every shilling we give is so much con-
tributed for the encouragement of squalid and ha-
bitual disaffection.
It is not at all certain that the disorders to which
we refer may not have some influence upon the
temper with which the British public may regard
the treatment to be meted out to the rebel leaders,
who are about to be put upon trial for their offences
against law and order. We could, perhaps, have
afforded to be lenient towards these misguided par-
ties. We could have forgiven offenders, whose pe-
nitence was apparent. B,ut forgiveness cannot be
expected when we see hourly before our eyes the
disposition to commit crime ; when we have it thus
clearly demonstrated to us that a serious rebellion
has only been prevented from occurring because the
men to whom its leadership was committed were
unequal to the task assigned to them. Leniency
towards such men is out of place, so long as their
would-be followers maintain their present armed
attitude. Another result, too, may arise out of this
absurd and criminal outbreak. The attention of
the people of England, and the legislature, may be
drawn to that religious teaching which permits a
people to be thus held continually in a position be-
' tween beggary and furious rebellion ; to be whining
mendicants one day and blood-thirsty robbers the
other. The religious teaching must be bad, when
such is 'the 'social result.

The decision of the Council on Wednesday in
favor of rating the Docks, although we have still a
further ordeal to go through, places us in a very
much improved position. The Vestry and the
Council, the representatives of the ratepayers and
the representatives of the burgesses, now work for
the same object and in the same•direction; and an
application to parliament, coming from a union of
two such bodies, must have far greater weight than
the mere desultory movement of only one of them.
Moreovar, if we are not mistaken, the question is
making greater progress in the minds of the public
than is generally imagined • and the reports given
of the able speeches of Mr. S. Holme and Mr.
Hugh Hornby, will increase the impression already
made.

•Upwards of 4000 houses are unoccupied within
the borough, and these abstract a tolerably large
slice out of the parish income. We see some
symptoms, however, of a still further defalcation.
The warehouse property of the town has always
been said to contribute from one fifth to one fourth
of the entire rates But are the owners and occu-
piers of that kind of property able to continue pay-
ing so largely ? Unquestionably not. Both the
value and the productiveness of warehouse property
has decreased largely and is decreasing daily, the
facilities now provided for the conveyance of mer-
chandise and raw materials into the interior, and
the termination. in so many cases of the bonding
system, having rendered it both unnecessary and
unadvisable to retain such large stocks in our port.
The rental of such property is rapidly declining, a
large portion of it is unoccupied, and the whole
will have to he re-surveyed, and a much lower
rating put upon it. Thus a further burthen will
be thrown upon the shopkeepers and other rate-
payers; and every such addition will give a further
impulse to this movement.
We cannot join with those who, in the teeth of
all this evidence of our fearful state, contend that
parliament will not permit the only remedy within
our reach to be applied. Let our case be once
fairly brought before it, supported by our two pub-
lic bodies, and the almost unanimous voice of the
rate paying inhabitants, and it must be listened to,
or parliament must adopt steps of their own for
our relief.

THE settled weather of the past fortnight has
dissipated all fear of the harvest being secured ;
and, with the exception of the petty hostilities
going on between the Neapolitans and Sicilians,
and the as yet unsettled Schleswig Holstein affair,
there is apparent throughout Europe every dispo-
sition, on the part of the masses, to settle down
from their late revolutionary fever and resume their
wonted occupations of peaceful industry. Food of
all kinds is cheap and abundant; and, what is of
eqnal importance, it is now ascertained that the
year's crop of the leading raw material of our cot-
ton manufacture is a full one. Under all these
concurrent favourable circumstances we ought to
have been now experiencing a revival in every
branch of business. We find, however, no such
result generally. On the contrary, dullness pre-
vails almost universally, and there hangs a gloom
-unaccountable over every market.
We fear that there is too great a probability that
this feeling will continue for a little longer; that it
is not to be removed by genial sunshine, or by
abundance of all that is required for the wants of
lite; that neither nations nor individuals are as yet
-prepared to throw aside their sad memories of the
past, and.to put forth afresh and freely their indus-
trial and
,commercial energies. There still looms
upon us, irom the midst of returning tranquillity,
agiant object, one movement of whose arm may, at
any moment, involve the whole in confusion.
France lies before us, held down for the present by
a military despotism and her wild passions strug-

gling for a vent,' nursing the atrocious doctrines of
her philosophers and her ultra-republican politi-
cians. Her "red" faction still dream of the day
when they will be free to sweep away the few re-
maining figments of institutions, property, and
law, and to commence, at length, the realisation of
their cherished ideas of a social millenium. A mo-
ment of indecision of the part of General Cavaignac
and his government, a petty collision, the merest
spark to kindle the smouldering flame, and France,
if not Europe, may become a battle-field.
The vague fears which we entertain, with respect
to the position of this excitable people, may prove
to be overstrained. The returning good sense of
an entire people may interfere to crush the power
for evil which their infidel demagogues unfortu-
nately possess. But so long as a bare possibility
of the triumph of the latter remains, even although
such triumph may be only a temporary one, perfect
confidence cannot he expected to spread itself
throughout the family of European nations. The
very attitude of armed readiness which each is
compelled to occupy, and the cost of that attitude,
loading industry with burthens and deranging
finance, operate as a bar to a return to a perfectly
healthy state of things, All history assures us of
this fact. Those commercial operations which it
requires a considerable period to bring to a satis-
factory conclusion, and the calculations with respect
to which must be made upon a basis whose security
can be depended upon; the commerce which we
carry on with distant markets ; will not be under-
taken so long as the prospect exists of their being
converted into disaster and attended with ruinous
results, however well they may have been forecasted,
by the violent interruption of the position of na-
tions towards each other. This prospect will exist
until France shall possess at once a settled• and a
strong government; and such a one, we fear, can-
not be found until her republicanism shall have as-
sumed a less ultra form, or a different race of
statesmen springs up to assume the helm of her
affairs.

There is another impediment to our own return to
a condition of commercial activity and prosperity.
We have a Government, unfortunately, which does
not possess the confidence of the commercial por-
tion of the nation; under whose blighting legisla-
tion our colonies are being alienated and ruined ;
who are continually unsettling one or other branch
of industry or of commerce, or tampering with some
of the fixed institutions of the country. Under the
domination of such a government no commercial
transaction, no speculation, no investment is safe.
We can neither build a ship nor import a cargo
without the fear of running our heads against a
wall, or seeing our anticipated profits swept from
our hands by some bungling piece of free trade or
financial policy. Moreover, we have the fact staring
us in the face, that we are every day running deeply
into debt, without a single effort being made to
grapple with an evil, so certain to bring upon us
monetary suffering or national humiliation.

We beg to direct the attention of our readers to
an article in another part of our paper, from the
Morning Herald, containing a disclosure which
does indeed stamp Popery as "the mystery of ini-
quity," and teach a startling lesson to churchmen
and to statesmen of the danger of having dealings
with her. Dr. Hook has now clearly proved that
there has been a professed Roman Catholic minis-
tering for the last two years in the parish church
of Leeds; drawing his stipend from an establish-
ment whose religious principles he deems heretical;
reading and teaching from a Liturgy, which de-
nounces that Popery, which in secret he has em-
braced, as idolatrous. Undoubtedly all this could
not by done without the knowledge of his popish
superiors. He must have had a dispensation from
them. He was a wolf in the flock doing their
work; and the serious question suggests itself
whether his is a solitary instance.

WHAT a wonderful contrast is presented in the
conditions of Scotland and Ireland at the present
moment ! In the former Her Majesty, with her
consort and her court, are roaming over flood and
fell, and luxuriating amidst some of the noblest
scenery of which this or any other empire can
boast. Her subjects, from the hiizhest in station
to the humblest, are striving with each other how
most fitly to do her honour, and to contribute to
her pleasure. In the latter, possessed of advantages
infinitely superior, the picture presented is one of
outrage, idleness, and disaffection to the person and
the rule of the sovereign. No resident nobility—
no feudal lords there—could pride themselves in
presenting to her notice their tenantry and retain-
ers ; in allowing her to enter into the cottages of
their humblest hinds, to visit their village schools,
or to sit in the House of God, where a decorous
and happy congregation are met to worship.
There is nothing of all this—nothing to resemble
the scenes of which we daily read as coming before
the eye of royalty in Scotland—capable of being
realised in the sister land. Were her Majesty to
set her foot there, she would more probably be met
with little beyond scowling looks and mutterings of
turbulent discontent.
How can we account for such a contrast ? What
is it which keeps Ireland constantly plunged in
misery and disorder, whilst a country upon which
nature has conferred infinitely less of fertility and
of the means of industrial development, presents so
different a spectacle ? The answer is,—the differ-
ence between the education and the religious
training of their people. The Scottish peasant is
a freeman—moral, industrious, and fairly educated
for his position in life. The Irish peasant is the
slave of his spiritual instructor, bound down to the
earth by the meshes of a blinding superstition,
taught to hate all above him in station, and kept,
from youth to age, in feud with his landlord, his
Protestant employer, and with all who do not
pander to his bad passions. The one as well as
the other has been deprived of the imposing fiction
of a national parliament and a resident court. The
one as well as the other has its act of union. Scot-
land, however, has taught her sons to look up to,
instead of curse, the powerful nation to whose des-
tinies she is united ; to cling to her strong neigh-
bour, and, by its aid, to set about the development
of her internal resources; whilst Ireland, with a
perverseness which seems inherent in the temper of
her people, only because it is the lesson taught
them from the cradle by the spiritual teachers set
over them, refuses advantages which would raise
her to the highest rank in the scale of prosperity,
intelligence, and power. And thus it will remain
so long as the blighting influence of Popery hangs
over the national mind of Ireland, and the priest
and the demagogue usurp the places of the natural
protectors of the people.

GnEAT GEORGE-STREET ACADEMY.—Yesterday MOTH-
ing, the Rev. H. Hampton delivered a very appropriate
and instructive address to the pupils of that well-known
establishment.
We understand that the native Chinese—Chun-a-you—
into_the Christian Church on Sunday even-
ing last, by the ordinance of baptism, at Holy trinity
Church, Woodside.
The City of Dublin Company have received notice from
the Postmaster-General that, at the expiration of six
months, the contract for the conveyance of the evening
mails from this port will not be renewed.
On Saturday an illicit still was seized in a cellar on the
old Chester road, Birkenhead. The occupier of the cellar,
his wife, and a man engaged with them have been taken
into custody.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Copeland provides most
liberally for our entertainment this week, Mr. W. Farren
and Mrs. Glover being announced to appear in a sulces-
sion of comedies of the highest order.
Several parties have produced very pretty representa-
tions of the burning of the Ocean Monarch, but we think
the most spirited one is a lithographic print by Messrs.
Maclure ani Co., who have grouped together the illfated
vessel, the frigate, the Welsh steamer, the yacht, and the
various boats employed on the occasion, in very beautiful
style.

CAUTION TO CABMEN.—On Saturday evening last, a
cabman, named Patrick Roy, ran over an elderly lady,
named Roseville, causing her severe bodily injury, from
the effects of which ;she has not yet recovered. On the
man being brought before Mr. Rushton yesterday, ho was
ordered to be remanded until such time as the woman
was perfectly recovered, when the case would be heard.
AN IRISH BEGGAR.—Yesterday, at the Police-court. a
sturdy fellow in the garb of an Irish reaper was brought
before Mr. Rushton, charged with begging in the streets.
The officer stated that when he was searched £1 19s. was
found upon his person. Mr. Rushton, after reprimanding
the prisoner, sentenced him to a month's imprisonment—
ordering at the same time that the expenses of keeping
him in the prison during his confinement should be de.
ducted from the amount found upon him.
COMMITMENTS AT THE POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY.
—A woman named Mary WAlister, for stealing, on Sa-
turday, a quantity of wearing apparel from Jane Evans, in
Cuthbert-street, was committed for trial at the sessions.
—Edward Hughes, and Elizabeth Downing, were com-
mitted for trial, for uttering base coin in Houghton-
street.—John Hughes, and Michael Mc Hugh, for ob-
taining money under false pretences, were committed to
gaol for three months.—Elizabeth Davidson, for robbing
Henry Laing of £lss. in cash, was committed for two
months.