The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF REPEAL SEDITION

The Dublin Nation and the United Irishman this week
have let us a little into the secret of their plan of the
forthcoming Irish campaign. It seems that all the blus-
tering promise of a rising in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day
was only a feint to draw forth a counter demonstration
from his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of the means of
strength at his disposal for its repression. It has suc-
ceeded. The display of horse, foot, and artillery has been
made ; and the spouters of the confederation can now de-
claim to the Irish people on the blood-thirstiness of the
government ; describe how they are to be mowed down
by cannon in the streets, trampled by dragoons and bayo-
nets by infantry. The first sore is opened. Lord Claren=
don is proclaimed the agressor in the struggle which is at
hand. The government, says the United Irishman—
" Has called to its aid all the British forces which can be
spared from clearing estates, lifting taxes, and inspecting
public hangings, to prevent, by intimidation, their meeting, or
punish their most Republican effrontery by one more " salutary
lesson," and, if it can get an opportunity, to inflict death on
any Irishman who will dare publicly to admire France.

"Between the citizens of bublin and Lord Clarendon there
is,therefore, open and unmistakeable war."

When the fighting is to begin we are not precisely told.
The meeting, however, which did not take place on St.
Patrick's day, is to take place some other day soon, and
the locality is to be somewhere in the heart of Dublin.
The speculation is that the government will use force to
put it down, and then—but hear Mr. Mitchell :

"It will fail. The meeting must be held at all hazards. 'We
owe this to ourselves, to our country, to France; and if a man
falls thereat by English ball or sabre, France owes it to the
world to avenge him, even should the survivors fail, which,
if we can, they shall not.
" Hitherto we have acted in public order—so we shall con-
tinue to act while that order continues unbroken. Let all our
acts, every word and gesture, exhibit, therefore, that we are
the citizens of this land. Soberly, orderly, silently, remember-
ing the wrongs of ages, and nursing in our hearts the black
hate we owe our foes—let us assemble. Standing on the natu-
ral right of even slaves, to think and utter ;—unarmed, but
with our arms cleaned and ready at home, we await
attack. If the English Viceroy, or his agents, should order
a single volley unprovoked, that ends English rule in Ireland.
Its echo will waken men the island over, and tens on tens of
thousands will take it as a signal to march upon the capital.
It will be heard in Scotland, in Lancashire, in London; and
woe to the taskmasters and the grinders of the poor. ltwill be
heard in India among mutinous armies—in America among
enraged exiles. It will be heard in France.

We are favoured by the same gentleman, in a narrative
of the attempt of 1798 to overthrow the government of
Ireland by French aid, with his views as to the distribu-
tion of a French force should it be offered to the repeaters,
and a very complimentary letter addressed " to the Right
Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Executioner-
general, and general Butcher of Ireland," in which Mr.
Mitchell displays unmistakeable fitness for the interior of
a lunatic asylum.
The scribe of The Nation is nearly as rampant as his
contemporary
:
"The voice of the last confederate meeting," he says, "was
the tocsin of Ireland's coming freedom. O'Brien, the cheva-
lier, ' without shame and without reproach,' and many a fitting
companion and true brother, have sworn by the honor and
hopes of their country never to avert their faces, never to be
turned from a single purpose, never to retreat by sa much as
one step, till the end is reached."

CHURCH EXTENSION IN TOXTETH.PARIC

The foundation stone of St. Matthew's Church i°,4:
Park will be laid this day, at noon, by the Earl of Be",na
who, with the clergy in canonicals, the committee, !.4
other friends, will assemble in St. James's Churcht /41
walk in procession to the intended site of the chur°l!:l,
at
St. Matthew's Church is situated on the north 517„,,i
Hill-street, Toxteth-park, in the populous neighbourlio
of Gore-street. The ground is most unshapely, ettlais
evidently called for a great effort of the architect's s'ine.
adapting a design with economy of space, to beg
siastical in character, and with very small nlea.4ol
his command, the cost of the erection being 'soil.
to £2 13s. per sitting, instead of £3 sa,." , ore
The whole length is 91 feet by 63 feet, divided into or
and aisles. There are large schools underneath to 001:,1
modate 380 children. The ground floor of the chLi.
will be seated for about 780, and the galleries for 5,
The roofs are of open framed carpentry, of an entirellyelo
ginal construction of this architect. The ridge of,gfeet•
56 feet from the floor to the ridge, and the aisles ."%torl
The former is lighted by a range of three-light clerel,o
windows, the latter by two-light traceried windows ;
five-light beautiful traceried windows fill in the was tbo
chancel gables, and a spire 147 feet in height fra,nl
a
base, rises next the chancel, fronting Hill-stre'
understand the whole of the ground floor will be Tit;eff
at St. Simon's, lately completed by the same arc'
Mr. Hay.
P.r, Dif"
A handsome silver trowel, manufactured by :.,401
more, of Bold-street, with An inscription and perSP'-ie,
view of the church engraved on the blade, is t° be Ptba
sented to the noble Earl, by the committee. °11,.e
occasion of his setting the chief stone. After the
mony, Richard Harbord, Esq., will entertain his of
ship, the committee, the architect, and a moll" eIP
other friends, at a dejeuner at his house in Parlisin
street.
The workmen are also to be provided with a subs erse'
supper in the evening, at the joint expense of the 0501
mittee and the contractors, Messrs. Miller, nate
and Holt.