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

ANOTHER MONSTER MEETING.

On Sunday week a demonstration took place at Mul-
laghmast, in Leinster. The account of the meeting and
the evening banquet occupies only thirteen columns of the
Freeman's Journal of Monday morning. The reporter
proceeds at great length, but with considerable viva-
city, to detail all that he saw and witnessed until the
Liberator took the chair. Mr. O'Connell, after the
usual common places, proceeds thus plainly to arraign
the legislative union. We take the following extract from
the Freeman :

At Tara I protested against the union—l repeat the
protest at Mullaghrnast. (Cheers.) I declare solemnly
my thorough conviction, as a constitutional lawyer, that
the union is totally void in point of principle and of con-
stitutional force. I tell you that no portion of the em-
pire had the power to traffic on the rights and liberties of
the Irish people. The Irish people nominated them to
make laws and not legislatures. They were appointed to
act under the constitution, and not annihilate it. Their
delegation from the people was confined within the limits
of ..a'

~e constitution, and the momen ,ne Irish parliament
went beyond those limits, and destroyed the constitution,
that moment it annihilated its own powers, but could not
annihilate the immortal spirit of liberty which belonged
as a rightful inheritance to the people of Ireland. (Cheers.)
Take it then front me that the union is void. (Hear.) I
admit there is the force of a law, because it has been sup-
ported by the policeman's truncheon—by the soldier's
bayonet—and by the horseman's sword ; because it is sup-
ported by the courts of law, and those who have power to
adjudicate in them ; but, I say solemnly, it is not sup-
ported by constitutional right. (Cheers.) The union,
therefore, in my thorough conviction, is totally void, and
I avail myself of this opportunity to announce to several
hundreds of thousands of my fellow-subjects that the
union is an unconstitutional law, and that it is not fated
to last long—its hour is approaching."
There is no possibility of mistaking this language. This
is not discussion, but denunciation. Mr. O'Connell does
not affect to argue against the union as a bad law, and
call upon the people to petition for the repeal of it, but
he goes immeasurably further : he tells his congregated
thousands, as a constitutional lawyer, and as their leader,
that the union is totally toid—not voidable, but void ;
and his arguments in the above extract powerfully demon-
strate his meaning, as if it were not in itself sufficiently
transparent.
The Liberator made use also of the following treasona-
ble remarks .

" I want nothing but Ireland for the Irish, and in look-
ing for that I expect the sympathy of every good man
everywhere; but I want not armed support or physical
strength from any country. In the same way I thanked
the republican party in France for their sympathy, but I
refused their support. I have physical force enough about
me toattain any end. But that is not my plan. I will
not risk one of you, for I could not afford to lose one of
you. I'll protect you all (` And we'll protect you'), until
I gain a repeal. Yes, I know that there is not a man
here, if unjustly or illegally attacked, that would not be
ready to stand in open field by my side. (Cheers.) But
nobody will attack us, and we will attack nobody. There
is not a man in his senses in Europe or America that does
not now admit.that the repeal of the union is inevitable.
I now am obliged to the ministers for abusing us. and
accusing us of disaffection, in the Royal speech. They
lie. There is no disaffection in Ireland, but there is a full
determination to obtain justice and liberty. My advice
to you is to confide in no false hopes that may be held out
to you—to confide in nothing until you hear me say, I
am satisfied.' (Shouts of We never will.') And I'll tell
you where I'll say that—near the statue of King William
in College-green. (Cheers.) We have come here to
express our determination to die to a man, if necessary,
in the cause of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) We have come
here to take the advice of each other, and, above all, I
believe, you have come to take my advice. (Cheers, and
cries of 'We have.') If you obey my voice, repeal is
certain. I'll go slow—you must allow me do that, but
I'll go sure. (Hear, hear. No man shall be fined, im-
prisoned or prosecuted who takes my advice. I have led
you thus far in safety : I have swelled the ranks of the
Repealers until they are identified with almost the entire
population of Ireland. I have seven-eighths of the people
enrolling themselves as associates. (1 More power.') I
don't want more power. I have enough, and only ask that
you should allow me to use it. The arbitrators are begin-
ning to sit, and the people to submit to them their differ-
ences. You will have in those courts friends who will do
justice to all parties alike, and without costing you one
farthing. 11l go on with that plan until all disputes are
decided. (` Long may you live.') I wish to live until I
see justice to Ireland and liberty proclaimed througout the
land. It will take me some time to arrange my plan for
the new House of Commons—a plan which will be one
day submitted to her Majesty when the present miserable
Administration shall be supplanted by one that can be re-
garded as friendly to Ireland. The Conciliation-hall, in
Dublin, will be soon finished, and when it is I'll call
together 300 bogtrotters, as The Times calls them, al-
though better men never stepped the pavement. But,
until I ascertain the form of the new House of Commons,
Ido not wish to go further." Mr. O'Connell then ex-
pressed his anxiety to see the Irish tenant protected in
his labour without doing injustice to the landlord, and
proceeded—" But to effect this I must get some time."
Mr. O'Connell, on ascending the platfoi rn, inquired if
there was not a Goverment reporter present. The ques-
tion was immediately answered by Mr. F. B. Hughes (of
Mr. Gurney's corps), who said that he attended for the
Government. Mr. O'Connell then assured him that he
should have every possible accommodation afforded him.

REPEAL MASSES.—Throughout the entire colliery
district, in the Queen's County and county Kilkenny, the
priests celebrated mass at five o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, in order to enable the people to proceed early to
Mullaghmast.
The Hon. and Rev. William Plunket, brother of the
Bishop of Tuam, was summoned to Ballinasloe petty ses-
sions for an assault on Martin Lally, by knocking him
down with a blow in the eye. The charge originated in
a dispute about right of passage, and was dismissed for
want of evidence.—Limerick Chronicle.
TOLLS AND CUSTOMS.—Allocation of the Tuam tolls
and customs of this year by the local corporation.—most
Rev. Dr. M 'Hale, for St. Jarlath's College, £2OO ; races,
£7O; repeal temperance band, £2O. Dr. M' Hale is one
of the corporation, and was present at the meeting, which
broke up with three cheers for repeal.
BALLINASLOE FAlR.—This celebrated fair was held
last week. The number of sheep sold was 62,726, and
there was an advance on ewes of three shillings from the
previous fair. Wedders were not so much in demand,
and those scarcely obtained last years prices. The beef
trade was also much improved. One lot of 200 Wedders
sold at 455. each, and another lot of 200 at 40s each.
The prices offering for horses was good.
REPEAL ENTERPRISE.—The Repeaters of Manchester
and Liverpool engagedtwo steamers to carry the members of
their associations to Dublin, in order that they mightattend
the great repeal meeting at Clontarf, which was to be held
on Sunday last. About 800 were expected to proceed
there from Manchester, and about the same number from
Liverpool. The entire cost would be 3s. Gd. for each
person.

HAVE WE A GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND ?—Extract
from the proceedings at the Corn Exchange on Tuesday :
" Dr. Grey read a report from the arbitration committee
recommending Mr. O'Connell as an arbitrator for the
city of Dublin. (Hear, and loud cheers.) Mr. O'Con-
nell returned thanks for the honour conferred upon him,
and said he would devote one day in each week to assist,
with others, in arbitrations on such cases as came before
them. (Cheers.) He concluded by saying that he soon
hoped to see tho hall of the Four Courts empty. (Great
cheering.")

WARLIKE PRIEST AT FRESH FORD.—On Sunday last,
after mass, the repeal meeting was held in Freshford.
The Rev. T. O'Shee said, " If 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 coming out of Audoen's Church this day
at half-past one o'clock, to fiad 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 Kathleen, 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 Sizrra Leone on the 13tb 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 ha; 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.—Recent English
travellers in Italy relate that the Hon. Thomas Plunkett,
Bishop of Tuam, Ardagh, Killala, &c , attended h'gh
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 heat 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 kept 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 orde: 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 had evinced syrnptons im-
intellect, hut never before to such an extent.—Cork Re-
porter.---[The Cork Constitution copies the preceding,
hut throws a doubt upon its accuracy.]
THE REPFAL 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
been 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 he 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 portion 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 7s.

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
hearts of the religious and loyal would be strengthened,
and the other party would discover that they had got quite
as much as they could expect to get. But as long as they
will not thus maintain God's cause, there is a latent hope
amongst Papists and Radicals that they will be able to
get hold of the Protestant establishment, and to silence
Protestant teaching. Our opponents are well aware that
two maxims are now in fashion, which, if fully worked
out, will soon root out the perfection of truth from the
world. One is, that no man is accountable for his faith ;
the other that the faith of the majority should be endowed
and encouraged. These principles prevail, it is to be
feared, to a great extent in England. There is a joy in
exciting ourselves for the Lord's cause, even in threaten-
ing times, yet, though fully persuaded that nothing hap_
pens without his express permission, nay, ordination—yet
we know also that perilous times are predicted, and that
it is by such trial he makes it manifest who they are that
serve him, and who serve him not. It really appears as
if even now he was sitting as a refiner and purifier of
silver from the dross of outward profession that is amongst
us, and that the wicked are already gathering like the
tares into bundles, each bundle marked with its appro-
priate heresy or defection. When I read your account of
the —of G—s sermon, I could not help thinking there
is teaching that will ere the end lay desolate the rich and
peaceable country. Where there is uofaithful teaching,
immoral principles spring up, and the fruits of these we
see in Wales and other places. Does it not seem as if,
though God has long winked at our unfaithfulness, he has
at length brought about a state of things in which every
plant not of his planting shall make itself manifest by the
bitter and poisonous nature of its fruit—so that already is
the axe laid to the root of the tree. But I trust the
is not a specimen of the G— clergy in general, though,
alas ! we hear of much formality and little life in most
parts of England. I have at length got a master for my
school, and it has been open for two months. The priest
is cursing and threatening, so that the people are quite
afraid to send their children. I have got, nevertheless,
25 on the books, and an attendance of about 18."

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