The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THI TRISH POOR Lew•—The chairman and the vice-
chairman, and seventeen other members, of the North
Dublin Union have resigned their offices, in consequence
of the overbearing conduct of the Poor-law Commis-
missioners.

An officer of a regiment stationed at Cork, who had dis-
continued certain marked attentions which he had been
paying to a young lady, was horsewhipped by her brother,
at his hotel, on Monday.

BLASPREMY.—At a public meeting held in Kilkenny
to adopt resolutions, &c., to O'Connell and his associates
on their emerging from the Penitentiary, a priest made a
speech in which he likened the incarceration and release
of O'Connell to the burial and resurrection of our Saviour.
PEACEFUL REPEAL.—The latest Nation informs us
that " the bulk of the Protestants have not joined, and
till they join a peaceful Repeal is hopeless !" Since then
the bulk of the Protestants ❑ot only have not, but never
will join, it follows, by the old rule of logic, that a peace-
ful Repeal is hopeless for ever.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this
body, yesterday week, was but thinly attended, and the
proceedings, in the absence of Mr. O'Connell, were more
than usually uninteresting. Mr. Alderman Keshan oc-
cupied the chair, and, in his opening address, recom-
mended implicit submission to the Liberator. Mr. M.
O'Connell, M.P., handed in a contribution to the rent'
from Barbadoes, the first that has come from the West
Indies. The announcement of a contribution of £l5 lls.
from the repealers of Liverpool, per Mr. George Smythe,
was followed by a vote of thanks, carried by acclamation.
The Hon. H. Hutchinson proposed some new regulations
for the collection and transmission of the rent, which
were carried unanimously. The hon. gentleman said,
" One of the most pleasing, and, at the same time, moat
important functions of the association, is the receiving of
the weekly rent" ; and afterwards announced another
proposition equally self-evident and indisputable. " The
association," said he, " will readily believe it is of the
utmost importance that the collection of the rent should
be arranged in such a way as that the greatest sum should
be got together in the shortest time." The plan in future
is to be, to send in the subscriptions monthly, without
waiting to make up a large sum, and the total amount
from each district and place is to be recapitulated at every
acknowledgment of a fresh remittance. From a statement
read, it appeared that the repeal contributions of the
trades and societies of Dublin, from January to Septem-
ber. 1844, amounted to £4,529 19s. 10/d.—Mr. W. J.
O'Connell, of London, delivered a rather animated
speech, and was afterwards rebuked in a friendly way by
Mr. M. O'Connell, for having said, Ist, " That the Irish
people should have repeal honestly and peaceably, if pos-
sible, but at all events repeal ;" 2ndly, " That the man
who was not with them was against them ;" 3rdly, " That
police and ribbon spies in England deserved to he ducked."
Thus rebuked, Mr. W. J. O'Connell retracted, and apo-
logised.—Mr. Grattan, M.P., spoke at some length on
the base and ignominious treatment of Ireland, and the
rent for the week was announced to be £349 18s. 61d.