The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM.-The public, who take
eep interest in the affairs of Ireland, are anxious to kilo'
That is the standard of outrage in that devoted countt
xed upon by government, ere the arm of the law is to
retched forth to arrest the march of murder, and 0
own that system of denouncement which has caused ead
kan to hold his life, as it were, by sufferance. Lela
t point of fact, is not, at the present moment, under t
vay of England or of English law. She is ruled by t
.ch-agitator, through whose incendiary machinati
Lose desperate bands have been formed, by whom ter
solation, and death have been borne through the lane
here is in this beggared country a power beyond Of
' the monarch's, and far above that of the law—a powe
dding defiance to the government, and issuing its map
rtes with an audacious confidence that they will be iv?,
icitly obeyed, which can proceed only from a perf
iowledge of the monstrous, despotic, and sanguin
fluence it possesses. Whether under the name
Captain Rock," of " Whiteboy-s," of "Volunteers,"
"the Liberator," this authority is alike potent; a
a secrecy of its organisation only renders more alarto
the sudden and evidently combined mode in whid
different places it, at the same moment, displays if
rbarity. This many-named tyranny may be divide
o two classes—the One, that of the orators who inflani
their maddening speeches the worst passions of 0
luded multitude, and who boldly take their stand of
very verge of treason ; the other, that of the midnig
assins who immolate the victims denounced in t
lammatory harangues of the former. These form o
ly, having one aim in view, and that aim the extin
a of all remnant of authority possessed by Englan
r that portion of the empire. But are the miuist
rnly to look on and see thus rent away, without resist
e, one of the most important members of the kingdom
they to deliver up the loyal portion of the Irish co
nity, with their possessions, to the infuriated sway
ruthless hordes by whom they are at this moment as
ed ? Or ought they not energetically, and at once, t
in full force the powers with which they are entruste&
put down with a vigour proportioned to the erner
cy of the case those who have set themselves abovo
common feelings of humanity ? It is time the reign
.trror and of blood should end ; and, if the laws as no
ied are too weak to combat with the Machiavelian an
mists they are brought to cope with, let them
ngthened until the educated incendiary is made t
for the double guilt of instilling treason for the pur
of engendering murder. Let this be done, an
kly too, or men will turn from loathing those who
mate, and those who do the deed of blood, to those
permit it to be done with impunity.—Morning Post

HE lEtsH PARLIAMENT.---The Irish papers con'
an account of a meeting of the " Irish Volun'
Society," on Saturday last, at the Corn Ex'
ge. The names of those refusing to attend the
tion of this incipient convention, were Messrs,
!s Grattan, J. Jones, Mervyn Archdale, and Niche'
Vigors. Every thing was conducted according
)rm, and with the most punctilious regularity,
Secretary read over the names of the membell
ought to have been there, in like manner as the

m of the members of the House ofConinons are
over when absent from the House. But as ne
giant at Arms has yet been appointed, the recusant
bers, instead of being handed over to the civil cue
were consigned to the uncivil vituperations of thost
;ed in the rehearsal of the proceedings of an Irish
iment. What these proceedings would be, may be
/ well guessed at from the speech of the dictator o,
id, and agent of Catholic priesthood. The first
I Parliamentary measure to be proposed is the milk
krganization of the whole of the Catholic populs'
of Ireland. Nothing can exceed the regularity/
Tier, and peaceable association with which the otY
to be effected. None are to be admitted as volun'
but those whose characters will bear the strictest
.nation by the parish priest : so as to insure the
sion of those only whom the opportunity of auri'
confession enables the priest to vouch for as 0
is to aid in the accomplishment of the
_purpose fof,
the association is designed. The " Volunteers
,t to be armed ; Oh ! no ; that would be again!!
; to be sure the designation of " Volunteers
L ominous sound, and it is difficult to contemplat'
as an unarmed body ; but, then, they are lristr
Leers, which explains the apparent contradiction,
can be more delightful contemplation than an asso'l
► of all the male,s of a population of six million''
half, regularly enrolled as volunteers, with 0(31
of taking up arms at any moment, and still philo'
ally abstaining from their use ; trusting for victo'
Lto guns, but to argument ! To a philanthropic
such as that of Mr. O'Connell, such a sight ma'
gratifying as novel; more particularly when it 0
?red that the inhabitants of Ireland, who are 0
se these a Pacific Volunteers," are not remarkably
ited for mildness of demeanour during excitement
tinence from the argumentum baculinum, even 00
occasions. To suppose that the spirit which 0
:Bing into existence this array of Irish logicians 0
abstract questions of civil and religious govern'
with the British legislature, has any ulteriol
s in their organization, would be equivalent t‘;
;ing the agitators of the selfish desire of personY
dizement. It is true that this measure bears very
the appearance of an attempt at intimidation;
me persons pretend to see in it the occult (IFY
r using it as a means to force a separation. BO
olive can the agitator have for desiring a separ*'
Has he not disclaimed it ? And, besides, has 10
eady an income of £12,000 a year from tlld

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