The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-02 00:00:00

TILE DINNER,

At six o'clock between 400 and 500 persons assembled at
dinner, in the old Roman. Catholic chapel of the town. The
chair was filled by Dr. HIGGINS, upon the right of whom Sat
Mr. O'Connell, and on the left Dr. Cantwell, the Roman
Catholic bishop of Meath.
The cloth having been drawn,
Dr. HIGGINS rose and said that the humble individual who
stood before them had become lately the object of obloquy
hitherto unexampled. He had been reported to have used
at Mullingar certain sentiments, the most of which he stood
by and would until death. (Loud cheers.) Obscure as he
might be in the mind of Lord Wicklow, and others of his
class, he had light enough in that obscurity to see their dark-
ness, and he reiterated that all those sentiments he had ut-'
tered proceeded from his heart, which would continue un-
changed until it ceased to throb. (Cheers.) He had been
accused of saying that there was no hope for Ireland but in
the repeal, and he now reiterated that assertion. (" Hear,
hear," and cheers.) He also reiterated that he had the most
unbounded contempt and hate—not as he had been reported
to have said, for the aristocracy, but for their vices. (Re-
newed cheering.) By the lying and immoral presfi of Eng-
land he had been called something like a rebel. He was
reported to have roused the priests of his diocese, and to
have maddened the people to such a pitch that there was no
safety either for life or property, while such firebrands ex-
isted: Could he convert himself into a general, his clergy
into captains, and his people into an army—if it was in his
power to convert the towns of Longford and Athlone into
garrisons, how did the villains dare to suppose that he would
tarnish himself by such acts. (Loud cheers.) No; he
would sooner die than attempt such things, whatever amount
of power he might possess. (Hear, hear.) He would at the
same time let the people of England know that if it was
attempted to carry into execution the threats which bad been
held out lately against the people of this country, he would
make every chapel in his diocese a repealing 'place, and
would go into every sanctuary to proclaim repeal. (Loud
cheers.) Dr. Higgins then proceeded to advert to the
speech recently delivered in Parliament by Lord Beaumont
respecting him, and said that for what Lord Beaumont had
uttered respecting him he forgave him. He gave him a carte
blanche to revile him, and the more Lord Beaumont said
against him the more he would conclude that he was properly
performing his duties in the sphere in which he was placed---
(" hear, hear," and cheers). Another noble lord (Wicklow)
had said that even if the bishops of Ireland were all repeaters,
they would not have chosen so obscure a medium of com-
municating their sentiments as he (Dr. Higgins) was, and
he also denied that Dr. Murray was a repealer. Now he
(Dr. Higgins) had the authority of a most respectable clergy-
man, who could verify his statement on oath, that Dr.
Murray had declared himself a repealer before a numerous
company, and when or where had he since contradicted that
statement?—(loud cheering, which lasted for several mi-
nutes). With all the respect which every man of common
sense and judgment must entertain for the aristocracy, when
they are entitled to respect on account of virtues descended
through a long line of ancestors, he still stood to the senti
ments he had uttered in Mullingar, and embodying the
sentiments of his clergy and people, he defied them all to the
death--(loud and continued cheering).
Dr. CANTwEr.i., Roman Catholic bishop of Meath, in
returning thanks for his health, stated that he concurred in
.all the sentiments put forward by Dr. Higgins that night.
His opinion represented 150 Catholic clergyman and 250,000
of the people of his diocese, and that opinion was, that the
union was a robbery, and that they could be respected by no
man if they did not persevere in demanding a restoration of
their rights—(loud cheers).

Mr. O'Connell has announced to Sir Edward Sugden his
determination to impeach him in the Irish parliament for
dismissing him from the Irish magistracy.
REPEAL RENT.—The Dublin Mail, of Wednesday, says
" The repeal rent for the week ending on Monday, exceeded
£2,ooo—the amount acknowledged being £2,205 Pis. Bd.
a pretty little contribution paid by a people too poor to be
subjected to the income tax!

As a set-off against the supersedeases issued by the Chan-
cellor, ten barristers, headed by Sir Colman O'Loghlen, son
of the late Master of the Rolls, subscribed this day to the
funds of the Repeal Association, and were by acclimation
admitted as members. This bar-motion has caused a great
sensation.

MODESTY or O'CONNELL.—Mr. O'Connell, at a recent
repeal meeting, thus modestly propounded one of his many
wants. " I want to get three hundred gentlemen who shall
enjoy publics confidence by bringing in one hundred pounds
each, and that will yield a sum of £30,000, as a fund to pay
the expenses which may be incurred."

THE QUEEN'S VISIT.-It was whispered in " well-in-
formed circles," as the phrase goes, that letters had reached
the high places, announcing positively her Majesty's deter
mination to eschew the " Emerald Gem " for this summer
at all events. Extravagant as it may appear, this announce-
ment is unlooked for by many, who affect to think that the
Queen, In the teeth of all the turmoil, and threatened
" plaenriling " and " petitionCrig," will face the cortege of
500,000 repeaters, to be, in the event of her coming, can-
toned at Kingstown.—lrish paper.

PUBLIC PRAYERS FOR O'CONNELL.—We understand that
some, if not the majority, of the bishops of Ireland are about
addressing pastoral letters to their clergy, directing the in-
sertion of the name of Mr. O'Connell in the public prayers
after the name of her Majesty, before the commencement of
the holy sacrifice of the mass. In consequence of the
diabolical threats of assassination held out against the Liber-
ator, propitiatory sacrifices are deemed necessary, lest the
Almighty would permit the violent removal of the only man
who can at present direct the mighty storm of public opinion.
They know full well that if aught happened to O'Connell, it
would be impossible to keep the Irish people from taking a
bloody and tearful revenge on all whom they suspected to be,
we won't say privy to such a nefarious proceeding, but on all
whom they believed ,to coincide with them in opinion, or
who would rejoice at such an event ; and, in mercy even to
the anti-Irish in Ireland, it ,is fervently to be hoped the
prayer to be offered will be effectual, and will prevent so great
a calamity.—Athlone Sentioel.— [What au extraordinary
compound of cant, blasphemy, and treason.]

The Athlone Election Committee have decided that John
Cobbett, Esq. was duly returned for that borough.
DUBLIN, May, 26.—1 t was mentioned in the Hall of the
Four Courts yesterday, on what was considered good au-
thority, that Chief Justice Pennefather will not again resume
his seat on the bench.—Freeman's Journal.

A subscription is now raising in Belfast for the• purpose o.
presenting some enduring testimonial to the Rev. A. C. Ma-
cartney, vicar of that town. £430 has been already sub-
scribed.

fTHE PoTnioi 'CROP.—In many of the rural districts the
early sown potatoes have failed to a great extent. Several
fields in the baronies of Condone, Fermoy and Barrymore
have been resew'', as the seeds first put in were found, in-
stead of springing up, to be completely rotten. The circum-
stance is not, it appears, owing so much to moisture as to
the last crop having been dug' too early, and consequently
wanted mature ripeness for the seed. It would be well if
farmers, whenever so favorable a season as the last occurs for
the early getting up of their potatoe crops, would leave such
quantities as they intend for seed to acquire a perfect state
of ripening. The wheat and other crops in these districts ap,
pear very promising, nit hough the weather contintes harsh;
with frequent boisterous and cold showers, rather.reaenibling
March weather than that bf Ma • • Vo.4* Coiodifircio4
y,-- . • .. .

REPEAL IN THE ARMS'

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

measures..
At the. weekly meeting of the "Loyal National Repeal
Association," held on Tuesday last, in the Corn Exchange,
Mr. Ray, the secretary, and, as such, the official organ of
that body, read a letter (we follow the reports of the liberal
papers) from " Cornelius O'Callaghan, Esq., (author of the
Green Book,) in which he refers to official documents as to
the composition of the British army." The following is an.
extract :
" From these documents it appears that there were .in
January, 1830, in the so-called English army—of English-
men, 44,329; of Scotchmen, 13,800; of Irishmen, 49,897 •
and in January, 1810, there were in the same force—of Eng.:
1i5hmen,"51,559 ; of Scotchmen, 15,239 ; of Irishmen, 41,218.
It will be remarked how much more soldiers, as compared
with the size and population of England and Ireland, the
latter country furnishes than the former; while the Scotch,
of whose feats in the British army we are scarcely allowed by
their writers -to hear any end, bear no comparison, in point
of numbers, to the Irish. I may likewise observe, that while
Ireland, which certain folk would tell us must be nothing but
a province, is superior in population to 18, and in territorial
extent to 15 independent European states, the Irish, from a
number of experiments, but particularly from a comparative
examination made amongst the various European armies as-
sembled in France after Napoleon's fall, have been allowed
by the celebrated Scotch and Belgian professors, Forbes and
Quetelet, to be the-strongest race of men in Europe. And,
by the way, if England should think proper to crush public
opinion on the union in Ireland by mere force, and the Irish
Catholic Church, knowing repeal to be the right of Ireland.
were, through the medium of its patriotic prelates and their
subordinate clergy, to set its face against any more recruit-
ing for the so-called English army in Ireland—pray where
wonld that army be then ?"
The concluding question is pertinent enough. But there
remains one to be asked still more to the purpose—lf the
forementioned prelates and priests were to direct the con-
sciences of the Irish Roman Catholic soldiery in favour of
repeal—pray what Would that soldiery be then ?
This question we can only answer by saying, they would
be what the agitators wish and suppose them to be to a very
great extent—repealers—ready to desert her Majesty's stand-
ard, and to range themselves under the oriflamme of the
church repealant. Let us take take warning in time : let us
draw instruction from the. vaunts of the enemy.
The Galway Vindicator is a priest's paper—the Popish
organ of the province of Connaught. The following is
among his recent lucubrations

" REPEAL IN THE ARMY

" Surely. Sir Robert Peel displayed either a lamentable ig-
norance of the truth, or is 'more culpable ignorance of the
state of the public mind respecting repeal. Had he consulted
the material of the army, and found that it contained forty-
one thousand ardent ready Irishmen, he would have scab-
barded his brulumfulmrn, and saved Ireland the necessity
of deipising his impotence.
" We, as repealers, preach peace and order—crime and in-
subordination we condemn And deprecate. We would not
rejoice at any efforts made on our
.behalf, if those were not
sanctioned by every principle of justice ; and in referring our
readers to our other columns for an expression made use of
by a rifleman in Drogheda, we shall reserve our comments.
" Contagion is easily spread-4(we, remarked upon it we
might unconsciously be inoculating our garrison ; but we
shall not either applaud or damp the enthusiasm of the sol-
diers under existing circumstances, as it might not be our
province to blame or our duty to approve."
The last number of the Pilot is more specific. It names a
regiment saidto„beßienpfeecalteidn.
theHAeardi7linyg,,,ohne preoofcebeids o
his columnstprova
with the words
his case :
"The following proof (quoth he) of the repeal spirit, ex-
isting the troops, will not come with great surprise on
those who put any faith in the reasonings or prophecies of the
Pilot. Our readers may depend upon it our correspondent
is correct

'' ' MANCHESTER

" There bas been a great disturbance here for the last two
nights, between the 15th regiment and the police; the
polisol-
diers were fighting for the repeal of the union in a public-
thhooussee'ianndthtell.ece took three of them into custody, when
barrack turned out, broke the station-house
and beat the police. There are some of them now lying ix;
the infirmary

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
iment has
" A What will Wellington say when be bears'ttiat his 1,,,,
regiment (the 15th foot), of which he is colonel, are for oth--,,,
repeal ? The poor fellows, who were vehemently applaude,i
by a number pea nglish folk looking on, had just given th ;,
cheers for rep, O'Connell, and old Ireland, when the 'to--
lice interfered, and the row commenced. The reg
since been removed out of town. Any of the repealers who-
were aware of the occurrence looked quietly on, interfering-
in no manner with either party."
• We bave ourselves with th in this mischievous report .
and we copy it merely view to produce an authorised
denial of its truth. So far as the examination into the riot
at Manchester has gone, nothing has transpired which in-
ves the regiment in any such disgrace.
vol
If the Pilot would consult the Army List, lie would find
that the Duke of Wellington is not the colonel of the 15th
foot. His grace's sou, Lord Charles Wellesley, is lieute-
nant colonel of the regiment.

ma r k apbolreo
hfeeasfi tot
gr e
Ili n
, withi
r;, but
iniSelsGNthSaOt -------
bullets
are
eI —lt iis
everywherea remarkable
the
eve
on
from grocers throughout the province. At first tlPie teeie..-
FthTelipileaTsalmntsrsy.
mmstance was not noticed, but there is now strong reason.
:0 believe that the tea-lead is purchased for making
otherwi why purchase it in such quantities, and for little
or nothing? lt is not very generally` nown that
n the
last few months, several French pri or missionarie
arrived in Ireland, and have visited 'not only cad° have
several parts of the country. They are considered
, and the
peasantry to be endowed with superhuMan Power,
they perform miracles. Now, a question arises, that
what he
them here at this moment Are they. missionaries tooug4t
ro-
pogate the tenets of , their religion, or are they French
emissaries? Whether their mission be one of peace or
movements. The country swarms with foreigners w_ their
wise, it would be well if the Government had an
members of the monastic order, not one of whom is 110 are
tered on the books of any clerk of the peace, undere
Relief Bill, the penalty for the omission of which, is 1. the
Here is another subject worthy of public attention. A in
spectable ROWS!) Catholic has written to us a very im 1-e-
-tent communicaion, which we regret we cannot Parer-
We are, however, at liberty to state that on Sunday last la--•
Roman Catholic clergy of the entire colliery district ,• sus_
nended their religious instruction and and harangued theirus-
flocks on the necessity of enrolling themselves a,, repeaters,
and, above all, to attend to repeal meeting at Ballyes
which was to have been held on Thursday. They
are
gore,
and our respected correspondent,
to work in earnest, abg
says the people d
supporter of the Union, •re in . f • firm
Jr is rum onred that 1 'rightful
state of excitement."
of pnoctural meetings
are being held in the neighbourhoodof men
aulstown, mu g 8
of Kilkenny, and that large masses
of tiran amnednß
are occasionallyY
seen moving in the direction en •
nett s b 'd
• 1798 the population or • 11 ge
It is certain that since this , • this coup .
was not so much excited as at moment, and in a try
measure owing to sueh wild and inflammatoryt harangues
that of Dr. Higgins, which are.re-ec Ted from almost 8"8
counties. Ihe from
every
altar in the neighbourin Armed
in
that P pie, we are in-
formed, are every where lld and readypart of the count -
Kilkenny, to which we a 0 , for mischief a
Y of
; circumstance we can thet a
moment's warn.ne, a c
knowledge of the fact more readily
believe„ from our t 0 _
and that at the 1,,,
eleetion thousands he coon y.. f. y peasantr "
varied this county, armedar with k
pt LS fire -arms andY In--
tinned their soage forays on. its peaceable. inhabitants, at
during a month; at times, ;stopping g, her Ala' '
mails, living on free quarters, and threatenine Jesty s.
Mr• 0' ' ' t'° murder
ho dared to diso ey •Connell
any one w 's insteucti
Sentiit.ons.
—Carlow
The late Lord
......--eseiitegerld_left his small estate .11
Limerick, of £2OO a year, t_o is brother, the present
penearr;
in Clare sud Galway
the rents of his estates , to aecun I -
until the death of the e
bequeaths
resentlord, to whose heir,'u ate
when 1
the '
attains the age of 21, he . said accutnuated sum
but ill failure ef male issue the moue a—
and estates, t sons of his sistersy and. es-
tates descend to the eld.eso
ter, , the widows
the fo af
Sir Mahon and Basin Ic His LordshipriTer the Galway,. tire
latter the Clare esfate•
leaves to his two 5.
personal property,
exceeding £150,000, he , illegitimate ehildri ,
one of whom is married to an eminent physician in. London.r-
He also bequeaths £5,000 Mrs.to Baron Foster. Tie '
cipal executor is his late private secretary, son of Mrprin-
of Dawson street, —Limerick•
Dublin. Chronicle. Cane,
Meanta.—A labourer of the name of
Cand e I Allan Mak, about
82 years of age, atresidiehgended last week near
Avonbridge, i
this county, was apnre •
der, perpetrated under the following circumstances :.....Intaur-
pears that on the morning of Sunday, the 14th instant,aP-
I arose between him and an old woman who
quarre a
'ng some trifling circumstance,tired with
him as his wife, concerning
her and beat her dreadfully onthe when
he swore at
and chest with stick. Tire • head, arm •
a large neighbours, hearing _ s'
cries, ran to the spot to render her assistance, but Ma her
learning their intention, with bort id imprecations, ir, on
who should approach. 'll s, threatened
to shoot anyone They were thus
pelted to desist, as be was_ known to be a reckless
corn-
rms. In the morning„ however, . person and
to possess fire-a • information
was given to the police, who proceeded to the house, and'
finding the woman very ill in bed, immediately took Alai;
into custody. Her arms and chest were dreadfully lacerated,
n her bead bruised, and the injuries altogether of a nature
andevre that she lingered in great agony till early on Tars
day morning, when she died. A post »torte, a. • • -
of the body immediately took ? elimination
place, and we uncle • t
report of the medical gentlemen was. that the understand
he
. . woman died in
consequence of the injuries sire received. :Hair has I
examined by the sheriff and fully committed to Stirlings gaol.een
on a char
of murder.—Slirling Advertiser.
ImPOSTANT TO CHFMISTS.—At Kingston-up n T
on the 27th ult. two informations were preferred e -;
'lames
most respectable chemists of that .. against two
half a Ott of spirit of wine to a person belonging to the ex-
cise, and who has been making a practice lately of going to
the shops of varioas chemists for the -
re express purpose of en-
trapping those who may not unfortunately be duly licensed
to sell spirituous liquors. After «lengthened search into the
merits of the case, and after a minute inquiry into the quo
animo with which the spirit had been bought and sold and
put into the hands of the informer, whether as an article of
general commecee or as a medical componnd, it was unani-
mously agreed upon by the magistrates that, according-to the
legal construction of the must f erl hound
client,
wisig though
however bard it might bear upon the two tlefe ~ ,
they :wished it to be understood that they were
.con.inced
that neither Mr; Jones nor Mr. Gould had the slight( st in-
tention of coireeittiiig a fraud upon the revnue. And Dr.
Roots, one of the n3agistrates present, having,i most em-
phatic:ally inquired whethe fine, informer you reap any a‘d-
vantage or portion of the observed, that although the
law might sanction such modes of detection, yet it was against
the feelings of well regulated minds that common informers
should be upheld, and reap rewards, where no undue in_
fringement of the law was absolutely intended ; and he was
of opinion that it would have been far better for the officers
of excise in the district to have cautioned the chemists and
all other parties liable to fart into similar errors, instead of
setting spies and informere catch them unawares.---[The
gentleman who thus stronglyreprobated this improper prac-
tice, must have a very different notion of propriety in such a
case to that entertained by our worthy stipendiary. The
latter functionary indignantly rele;iked a gentleman the othJr
day in the Polite-court, for applying the word .spies as de-
scriptive of the police who are employed, under what are in
our of ion much more reprehensible circumstances to watch
for bOUIC trivial offence committed by an unfortunate publi-
can, and in some instances take upon themselves, if not in
strutted So too do, to "entrap," as Dr. Roots has' it, their-
unsuspecting victim. Such conduct, says this - ,
gentleman, is
repugnant to the feelings of " well regulated
_. , i
Bo( li.S, " W 1 la 114 3 . &NA{

Whether the agitators, clerical or lay, who conducted
emancipation to a successful issue, had actually corrupted any
portion of the Irish soldiery or not, is a question more im
portant than capable of solution. They professed that they
had done so; and the ministers of the day not only acted but
spoke as if no reliance was to be placed on the loyalty of the
army.
But, whatever may have been the case at that time, there
is no doubt at the present that the agents of the Church of
Rome are busily engaged in similar endeavours ; and if the
reports we alluded to in a recent number—viz., of regimental
contributions to the repeat rent, &c., be true, there is but
too much reason to apprehend that their artifices have not
been unsuccessful. Enough has at least transpired to put
the authorities, both civil and military, on the alert, and to
warn them of the necessity of preventive and precautionary

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