The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-12 00:00:00

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What was the object of Mr. O'Connell's motion ? Sim-
ply this,—to refer the royal speech to a committee of the
whole' house ! Could any thing be more. essentially Irish
or absurd than this ? The whole house debated fur the
long.period of thirty-two hours whether the speechshould
he debated over again by the same whole house, and yet
no member took the pains to point out the absurdity till
the third night of the debate, when it was done by Sir
Robert Peel! Alas, for modern wisdom and high elo-

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quence!
• But this is not the worst part of the affair. It is not
difficult to• perceive that these proceedings form part of
the preconcerted plan-of the O'Connell faction. They
know that, if the ministers carry .their coercive measures
into erTect there would be an end
.to agitation in Ireland.
There is nothing that these men dread so much as the re-
storation of peace to that unhappy country. The suspen-
sion of the habeas .corpus act would.put an end to the in-
solence of the demagogues and the tyranny of the priests.
There would be no more rent to the greatest beggar of
the age. There would be no more oratory in- the corn
market or incendiarism in the provinces. The agent of
the agitator and the midnight plunderer would be con-
-fined to their cabins. The very cattle, secured against
houghing, would enjoy a jubilee.. In short, the candles
would be extinguished and the. bOol:s shut in the chapels.
This is what the faction stand in awe of. They trem-
ble at the bare idea of a termination being put to the
reign of terror ; and therefore we are not surprised at
seeing them mustering en masse, in order, if possible, to
defeat, or atleast delay, the measures of the Govern-
ment. • They have not the power of intimidating, the
House of Commons, or obtaining a.. numerical triumph
over the Ministers ; for which the Ministers, by the way,
have to thank the Conservatives ; but they have the
means of annoyance—the resources that are favourable
to a good retreat, a party Sufficiently strong to protect
each other ; and by sorties and, bush-fighting they are
enabled so •to perplex the Minister as to prevent him
from directing his attention to any other object than
themselves.

This is evidently the mode of warfare which the Catho-
lie factiai in the House of Commons have thought fit to.
adopt. They care nothing for: defeat--7they only seek
delay. The furious declamation which they utter in
Parlidment is not so much addressed to the Speaker, or
his Majesty's. Ministers, as it is to the houghers and
(Altai' rebel's among the wretched peasantry of Ireland.
Su long as their harangues are alloWed .to be reported,
the old chapel, in Palace-yard; London, is nothing more
than 'the 'Corn Exchange of Dublin ; and the .-House of
Commons nothing more than a meeting of the 'Political
Union. EverYword uttered there is speedily conveyed
to the Sister, island, and retailed: at a cheap rate to the
ilflaraed multitude, and this is all that O'Connell and
his crew desire. -

• ThiS'being the case,. ivbat is to be done?. Mr. Stanley
is not deficient .either in sense or moral courage; but
Lord Althotpis 'remarkably so in. both. • It-was all owing
to him that the senseless debate; the Most stupid in the
records of parlianient; Was procrastinated so long; and
we Venture to: assert" that, unless. a leader_ of more tact
and more influence found, 'the House. of Commons will
be occupied daring the.whole of.the session with brain-

less but exasperating tirades on the affairs of Ireland, to
the exclusion .of all.business..whatever. It is. well known
that On questions of adjournment the minority have it in
their pOwer to harass' if not beat the. majority. In an
assembly of dignified and dispassionate men this would of
course -be seldom resorted to. But the good old times
have gone ..by when an Irish representative was a gen-
tleman: The House of Commons therefore can place no
dependence on the courtesy of such men as O'Connell
and -his brigade. They- must be • beaten with their own
weapons, and restrained within proper limits. How
would it do for the House to pasS. d resolution that the
affairs of Ireland,' and all matters relating to Ireland;
should be discussed or- alluded to on one night of the
week only? This ,policy would. :Certainly smack of
tight-rein system of Oliver Cromwell, a fellow, however,
of marvellous good sense, -who kept the teams of the
sainted island' in happy subjection, and ruled them better
than they have been by any man since his day. Give
us but one twelve-moriths of Old 'Nol and his . round
heads, and we should, soon be_ delivered from the pesti-
lence oflrish oratory and agitation
Bht there is no such man amongst his Majesty's Whig
ministers. Lord Anglesey is himself •an agitator, and
"AGITATE" was his motto not many months ago. T_Tn7
happy 'are the days which have fallen .to the. lot of Lord
Althcrp! He was not horn under Mars, but the sheep-•
star, &there be sucli a constellation, and -if not, we call
one Into. existence for the purpose. Mr. Secretary
Stanley, if invested with full power, Could silence the
demagogues, but this he is not,. likely, to be. Lord
Plunkett is too much identified with the priests to take
..any energetic measures against them;- and as to Lord
Grey he is. in a state of blessed Obliiiousness •on the
airs of Ireland. .

These circumstances are awkward enough, but they
are retzdered more 42) t:ly the Mysterious Measures of 'the
govtniment. They propose to abolish. tithes by some
sort of dimpialsory commfitation, the details of which they
refuse to explain.. They propose also to coerce the re-,
fractory peasantry,- and suspend: the laWs. Why all
this. talk ?---‘f abOut it GoddesS, and about it !" Why
not shspend the 11a1;eas Corpus Act at once? lz.-r.l