The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-12 00:00:00

internal. tax ittipoSea . Upon eotinttY
with poverty, and so turbulent as is that .Ml 4-
happy country. We can scarcely regret, 'however,
that this measure was resorted to rather than
tax upon income in Ireland raised in any other
.rean7',
ner than as a tax upon absenteeism ; for .we rather
imagine that it is, to a certain extent, to this circum-
stance—their immunity, when at home, from the pro.
visions of the tax to which other portions of the people-
of Great Britain are subject—that we owe the with
drawal, from amongst us, of not. a few of the choice
e
specimens of human kind from that country, who hav
for years past been in the habit of favouring us with
their presence, in the British parliament and elsewhere.
We would gladly accede to Ireland immunity from the
income and some other taxes, provided we could keep
her legion of spendthrift adventurers in their proper
locality—at home.
The most poignant cause for regret that we are not,
as yet, in the possession of any surplus income, we
find in the circumstance that it is not in the power of
government at present to relieve the industry of the
country from the pressure of two very injurious lin:
posts upon the raw materials of our most important
manufactures—cotton and wool. The duty of 16t11
of a penny per lb. on the former is, at the present price
of the article, becoming a most serious impediment to_
manufacturing prosperity ; and the best results would
flow from its repeal. The manufacturing body them.
selves, however, immersed in a factious agitation, di-
, rected to the ruin of other interests rather than to the
permanent advantage of their own, withhold anything,
beyond a whispered protest against this impolitic and
heavy impost upon them; and, if they are satisfied, we
suppose we must remain so too !

That incendiary agitation which, for the past five °I
six years, has been carried on in Ireland, to fill the
pockets of a heartless beggar, and to give to a rapa-
cious priesthood a hold upon the passions, which they
have not virtue sufficient to acquire upon the afectionsci
or talent to command upon the respect, of a misguide t
people, is at length, we thank God, about to be P°
down. We have the assurance of this determinati°l/'
on the part of the government, from the lips of °lle'
upon whose decision and promptitude in the execution
of whatever he deems necessary for the public welfare
l
we can fully rely. The denunciation of the repeal
treason, from the lips of TIIE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'
will, we are assured, prove no brutem fulynen—n° 11°:
et prceteria nihil—no artful demonstration to cloak fag
in the case of the Whig denunciation of the sasle
treason) a projected alliance with the arch-traitor binu:
self; and from Sir Robert Peel we have the additions
:
assurance that, if the powers of the law be insufficie.°_
to reach one who so artfully shelters himself under the
cover of technical evasions of its spirit, they will at
once be rendered sufficient by an appeal to the will °I

e legislature.
If there could ever have existed any doubt as to the
position of O'Connell with respect to the late govern
went, the conduct of that worthy during the fatpres
session .must surely have removed it for ever. spa
the Melbourne administration held rule byin*);
anti-English majority in the House of CommODS,
could feed him with inspectorship's, commissionershiPe'
and other Whig-invented sorts of public plunder
could insult the throne with its fawning subservienrY'
whilst busily engaged in undermining its foundatioalea
which are in the respect and love of the people-4°11,4
propitiate the voracity of rampant Rome by hour
blows and great discouragement" levelled against
National Church,--where was to be found so ferveria
an ally, and so assiduous a sitter, as him of Derrynfto
and Dublin ? Who " hovered, like birds of PreY' wit
use the expression of an eminent patriot of their na
of
country—" to give their venal votes" at the 5000 ob
the division bell, or the ministerial whipper-in';:teil
such perseverance as the members of his forty-Pi-41e
tail ? Three years ago the very gales wafted frau :he
neighbourhood of palace-yard were redolent ef 1.00
brogue of Munster, Leinster, and Connaught' t of
might have imagined yourself in the parliatnen
College-green, some year or two before then 1:13two-.
listening to the squabble of a congregation ' body
legged vultures, for the picking of a bone of the -d
of
of poor Ireland in her day of native misrule, instnngst
being, as you expected to have found yourself, arli-e-d.in
Britishgofas ye
gentlemen gentlemen e ri
debate—some and noblemenreerjogo;age:iiotueds
adebboadtiyn
question affecting the welfare of a great anuin.,llinie
nation. But with the fall of the Melbourne arho- use
tration, and the breaking up, of the Lichfield-
compact, how changed is the scene ! the air
Upon every recent debate on Irish subjects,
Bence of the Irish members has been most h 1;
And the great mendicant himself—what has beeorpa-
course ? Why has not his burly person been allhe ormental, mental, or at least a conspicuous, object uP°13.„1,,-cous°
position benches during the present session ? -1.""
web have no longer a government which, like the nort!
ourne administration, will truckle to him for 5111ircte
The hope of achieving his known traitorous °Die or
the dismemberment of the kingdom, and the Pr:). aid
tion of the Established Church in Ireland---hf t;nienger
of his influence in the British Parliament, no 01,01
remains; and he has, therefore, thrown off them II
so 4
professedly peaceful and parliamentary agitation, 00
devoted himself to the task of precipitating in h: con'
country, as the only available means left hini
summating his pet measures, a repeal insurrectiotnhe
is
In this effort we are happy to observe thatioitea
about to be arrested. The peace of a great 1 and .odos.
nation, and the progressive development of the to be
trial resources of Ireland herself, are no longeroobio
endangered by the factious and selfish ambition beiei
" bold bed man," without at least an atteruPtof the
made by the government to assert the enniesirty
dopbe
law, and to prevent impending convulsion. AV esti, are
not that the effort will be successful, because ri
assured that the authors of it will act like tile goe-
rar ein earnest ; and as its result—aided by othereverd
'orating measures, and especially if aided by re to
of that suicidal policy which has of
pacify the agitation in Ireland by concessinrb try hlf
than to strengthen the allegiance of that c 0
of the
porticT
late S°l3f.rather
protection afforded to the well-disposed
pert bled
tO
people—we look for the approach of
first for years past—in which she will be enaDad
reap the full benefits of the act of Vni°'„rtion ofassume her rightful position as an integral n° me the
a great and flourishing empire. In the meant arse °I
interesting question arises—what will be the cc:, to hiej
proceeding, under this " great discouragement oppose
traitorus projects, of the man himself? We here
we shall have a few lachrymose appeals to the
svordice
ditary bondsmen ;" and but for the innate r° hs°
of their utterer, we might have matter n°t
diverting, and infinitely more dangerous.
Sir ;dahic

of
fibejeocmt
mofotnls
1')),
On Tuesday last the discussion of the
harangues;no
tMr.
the Corn-laws was commenced
oonged through the nu"
inter
tutias
in theoad
notwithstanding the . Villiers, in one of bis usual I its
an
being prolonged
nsoaveero,rthat discoveries will very new or startlingill thsobject
That.anything U e , tit,
the ity.
will be elicited we b ' , tin 0° 1
tylilel
ercyopnrsteai
present
eeuloeyt
tcwoa
elbceeuil aat ec °le P.,elliaisvte.
are, however, soniewoa 0 e
arab
and
the declaration of the bon
~, log
Already the imaginative
aingenn'.n-law exists as the fertile promoter cif te.
_,O of
philosoptelecloor
prosperity
3
agriculturist b
wLeague have discovered that a repeal of th, , ivall
high
produce cheap bread for the werl(ll7or the
"gh prices for the farmer ; high wages )loYet;
more working
man
withdrawing by the
tacheapernsfer laolboutrhaftorent
phieoy7ortvitoisrbv
employment and more prosperity for the oil,
prosperity to the foreign agriculturist Ow; to re'
ducel erity
pwuhbelt.lsleirn to the landowner, by colliPelling bitioo, hi
his income ; improvements in cultivai. restilt6
g their reward ; with a varietY ° osistegi
withequally
menteach other !
mthtilscillinfteattliiitecs
pf far, it
re
siss
eoaroi 1
Viewing the extent tonalthe
to datO
Yberllides:ood tthbe:
c will therefore peruse with no great uri•nst lia'
variousl
facts, theories, and opinions, which ar? .1 6 geo
0000 yeS,
pouring in ears from 1 so
a continuous stream ti e
4 then left
who at present, happily for the world ow'
_, the
occupy in the House of Commons the seats 3'
hand of the Speaker. .50c•
, he saws 00
With •
this conviction before us, we ha:ct„ re —B, )r
tio nof believing that our readers will aby 11.
and themlar as th
corntedious task of nauseating ourselves
tnent on " a ten-times-told tale." So far that,
isdebate has gone, we are in possession of 1.1;11 vnt&
new ; and, with respect to the stale robbl