The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

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TO CORRESFONDENTS. Ito vindicate the majesty of the law—only to witness public peace and the institutions of the country. TH E C01"FON MARKET IN AMERICA.—
the Protestant institutions of their country bartered, The destruction of the national church in Ireland is FOUR DAYS LATER FROM NEW OR_
astt2 receipt yesterday of several very ten thy repartts of im.
portant meetings ha, prevented the insertion of a number of with a better grace,
for the securing of a temporary now openly acknowledged as a desirable event in LEANS--BY EXPRESS.
communications with which we have been favored. —
and hollow truce with their ruthless enemies. the eyes of Lord John and his party—as the price
_---_- An unusual anxiety has been excited during the
Ein 71..ibtrpool &tanat.b. We cannot say that we feel all the alarm which which Great Britain will have to pay before she can past week in our Liverpool cotton market, for' the
the first promulgation of this policy—so far as it goes, secure the services of a Russell, a Palmerston, and arrival of the American mail steamer Britannia,
one of concession —has occasioned here or in the a Howick in this country, and a Normanby, as the which was expected to be the bearer of important
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 20, 1544. . sister land. And yet, calmly as we have reviewed liberator-general of gaol-birds, in Ireland. news for or against the speculators upon a short crop
of this important raw material. In the ordinary
the measures proposed, in all their bearings, we are But it is not for their adhesion to this or that set
course she was due on the 13th or 14th instant, but
We commence this day the sixth year of our pro- little disposed to be grateful for them. The details, of measures, as those by which Ireland is to he having been delayed by meeting with ice at the corn-
prietorship of THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD; and, of course, are not before us. We cannot speculate pacified, that we complain of Lord John and his mencement of her voyage, she did not arrive in this
upon such an occasion, we may be excused if we upon the precise working of any of them. Yet we hungry supporters. There is nothing which these port. until Sunday night at a late hour.
take the opportunity of addressing a few words to cannot but see in the meagre form in which they are men may do which could surprise us. There is no The dates brought by her are from New York to
the 31st ult., from Charleston to the 23d, from Phi-
our readers and our numerous friends. The first given '
to us, evidence conclusive of a disposition, on amount of personal degradation to which we would ladelphia to the 30th, and from New Orleans and
of these must necessarily be an expression of thanks '
the part of government, to embark afresh in that not expect them to submit, in pursuit of their dar. Mobile to the 13th only, the mails from the south-
forward having been detained, nine or ten being due
support received, and good wishes fully appre-
fatal course of conciliation—towards a body whom ling objects—place and pay. But we do marvel at
ciated. The expectations, which induced us to • from various ports at the date of the Britannia's de-
nothing save the concession of THE WHOLE of their the position in which they have, in this debate, ex- parture. By the kindness however, of Messrs
embark our property, and our energies of mind and demands will ever tranquillize—by which this uni- hibited themselves at a crisis like the present. The Stewart and 'Wright, of New, York, we have been
boby, in this undertaking, have not been disap- ted empire has already been brought to the verge of law has just declared the leaders of the recent favoured with information of importance, from New
Orleans, four days later in date, viz., to the 17th
pointed, if even they have not been so speedily in Irelandof conspiracy. a violent dissolution, and Ireland herself 'within movements guilty Seditious
realised as we could have wished. T twenty -four hours of a bloody insurrection. Work organs in that country have laboured, and are labour-
instant, brought by special express to New York,
we our control now ranks second to none in usefulness •
) out the policy involved in these measures, to its M and, g, to excite dissatisfaction amongst the people, at the late believe, at the hour at which we go to press,
test known in Liverpool. To enable our read-
and, although we may riot as yet stand so high in •
issue ; grant these stepping stones to the goal which the unanimous finding of the jury upon the facts, ers the better to estimate the value of the impression that scale by which the world is accustomed to test Rome has placed, and retains, before her eyes ; and
and the unanimous expounding of the law by the which the arrival of this packet has produced in the
the value and influence of a newspaper, we are fast we feel that it is only a mockery to tell us that we bench. Such dissatisfaction, dangerous to the peace first
Liverpool market, we shall confine ourselves in the
rst instance,. to that portion of the news brought by
treading upon the heels of those of our competitors have not yielded up into the hands of the agitators of of the country and the integrity of her Majesty's her, which is generally known.
—few in number—who at present occupy loftier Ireland a boon, for which they will be content to dominions, we did trust that men, so lately ministers The latest dates from
New York inform us of th
positions, and have already outstripped many who hug their fetters in any prison to which the law may of the Crown, would have striven to allay. Yet we result of the arrival out of the Britannia from Liver-
were at one time far—very far—above us. For this consign them for their past misdeeds, and gloat the have seen them pursue an opposite course! We pool, conveying news of the excitement in this port,
and the advance which had taken place of Id. to
measure of success, we thank the Conservative while upon their coming triumphs. have seen Lord John Russell and his fellow Whigs 2-3 d. per lb. These facts, together with a know-
public. We have striven to deserve their support; That we may not be accused of misrepresentation, labouring, in concert with the organs of the con- ledge of the kind of accounts which left New York
and our efforts have not been unrewarded. or of undue alarm, let us briefly place before our victed conspirators, to spread the belief, existing in on the Ist of January, and had not arrived in Liver-
And now, as to the future. Need we say that readers the substance of the measures announced. the minds of an abased and an excited people,— pool, to produce their effect upon the market, at the
" trusty and tried" friends of the principles of our The first in order is a measure to be founded upon a people organized and ripe for revolution,—that the date of the Britannia's leaving the latter port, led
to a confident belief that a further advances must
glorious Constitution in Church and State, as we the report of the committee now sitting to inquire Government had entrapped those conspirators—that take place in the English market, and the result was
have been in times past, we shall remain in times to into the existing relations between landlord and the jury had unfairly convicted them, and that the on the 23d sales to the extent of 5000 bales, at el-th
come? Independent in our advocacy of Conserva- tenant in Ireland. Upon the nature of this we can- judges had stretched the law and polluted the judicial of a cent urther advance on the previously high
tive principles we have been hitherto ; and inde- not at all speculate, until such report is laid before bench, to gratify party hostility, and cringe for the rates in New York. On the 24th 2000 were sold at
, pendent we remain. No faction in the State—no Parliament. The reference of Lord Wharncliffe, favours of Government ! the e prices, and on the 25th, 1500 bales,
business being checked by increased demand further
s on the
faction in our local community—have ever dictated however, to the (alleged) fact, that "in the north of Such a course we did not expect of Lord John part of holders. On the 26th, 5000 hales were sold
our course: no such faction ever shall. Our party England no tenant left a farm without
a valuation Russell, mean and factious as we believe him to be. at advancing rates, and on the 27th 3000, making
is the public. The good we seek is the public good. of his stock, and
if
improvement had been made by Its consequences, however, will recoil upon him.
a total for the week of 19,000 bales, the market clos-
The cause of the rich man is no more to us than him he was compens d"
ing firmly at prices equal to the highest point this
ate —a practice which the If an outbreak should hereafter unhappily take season. Up to the 31st ultimo, at which the latest
the cause of the poorest man, who is, at the same noble lord said was " constituted b
y custom, which place in Ireland—if the ignorant and excited people accounts left, the market was quiet and little doing.
time a lover of his country, and a friend of order the courts of law upheld"—leads us to anticipate, of that country should take the hint thus held out to At Charleston, on the 23d, we find the market
and of virtue. Enough, then, for the future. Un- notwithstanding the disclaimer of Lord Wharncliffe them, that "the wild justice of revenge" is their almost at a stand, and prices down 4.- of a cent,
solicited promises too often imply doubts of a just some measure approaching, in principle at least, to only defence—the people of England will not forget holders unwilling to make further reductions, and
preferring to wait further advises from England.
title to the • belief of those to whom they are ad- that fixity of tenure, which has been amongst the to visit with their execration, and something more,
doing.
At Philadelphia, on the 30th, nothing 'dressed. We have no such doubts. ' blessings (?) to result from repeal of the Legislative the
factious and mercenary spirits who have been At New urleans, the market was represented as
And now a word to our advertising friends. We Union. engaged, and are now engaged, in pointing out to having been dull, the speculative feeling having, in •
-can now, with every confidence, offer to them our The next measure, in order, is an increase in the rebels the objects at whose heads to direct their a great measure, subsided. Continued heavy rains
had been falling which had had the effect of- facili-
columns
as the best advertising medium in the grant for the purpose of national education, upon the weapons, and the men from whose hands they may toting the inland navigation; and western produce
town or district. Our circulation last week reached non-scriptural system. We are told by Sir James expect toleration for their violent deeds ! having arrived in large quantities,. freights had in '
within a few copies of 3,000; it is week by week Graham that it is important that, in the schools consequenceadvanced, id. per bale being demanded '
steadily increasing, and is already the most exten- conducted upon this (to Protestants) obnoxious sys- We beg the attention of our readers to an ire- for cotton to Liverpool. Activity,. however, had
Joseph. , sprung up on. the 13th, and a fair business- was doing,
sively circulated and extensively read Conservative tem, there should be more constant inspection, and portant letter, addressed by our townsman,l at a reduction,. however, of fully- -/- of a cent. ,
organ in Liverpool. training schools for teachers; and for these purposes Sandars, Esq., to the President of the Stafford Holders were, however, unwilling to- sell- largely at s
the additional grant will be asked for. We admit Agricultural Protection Society, the Lord Talbot, those rates. a
Our contemporary of Friday appears to imagine that, if we are to have this system perpetuated in on the subject of the Corn-laws. To those who are By the more recent advises, however,. furnished
us by Messrs. Stewart and Wright, and which had
that he has mistaken his vocation; that fate destined Ireland, government is bound to see that, such as it acquainted with the fact of the extensive experience reached them after business hours, we have a letter
him for the office of a great constitutional lawyer, is, the education provided for the infant poor of which Mr. Sandars brings to bear upon the question, on- the 31st by way of Louisville, from New Orleans
rather than for the editorial chair of the Mercury. Ireland should be the best of its kind, and adminis- as the head of the most extensive firm- as corn mer- ) to. the 17th instant,. from which we extract the fol- i
Under this delusion he has undertaken in his last tered by competent teachers. But first, before we chants in this part, no commendation of ours will be lowing important passage : '1
" NEW ORLEANS, 17th Jan.-184-3. NI
publication to set right attorneys and solicitors- enlarge the annual grant, we are surely entitled to necessary to add weight to his opinion on the subject „e
Yesterday some northern buyers made their r
general, and the whole judicial bench of England know what such education has as yet produced for upon which he writes : and to those unacquainted (
appearance in the market, influenced by good ac- u
and of Ireland, with respect to the question, what is the good of Ireland. What fruit has been borne by with his- standing in the world,. we may safely leave counts- from New York ; and the transactions e
or what is not " a conspiracy ;" and has announced this tree which repudiates the blessing of the full his facts and deductions to Speak. for themselves. amounted to 500 bales at very full prices, and
b
ine
to the world at large the startling fact, that by the light of Heaven upon its branches and the undiluted By the Cobdens and Brights of the Anti-Corn-Law
some instances at a slight
rates, making a total business Saturday's of the. past three I
law as laid down by these eminent authorities, upon living waters at its root ? What increase of fertility League, they are unanswerable;. and we venture to days of 10600 bales. We have advanced our quo- 11
the occasion of the recent prosecutions in Ireland, has this fountain produced, from which the bigot and predict that they will not be attempted to be tations to the actual state of the market—Liverpool Ld
5,,1
we are all of us, who are associated for the attain- the scorner, the papist and the infidel, may alike answered, clasification—Mississippi and Louisiana inferior '7
to n, ordinary 8 toBl, middling Bt, to Bi, middling lc
ment of any particulrr object, amenable to comic- praw congenial draughts ? We apprehend that the We may, however, refer these gentlemen—we
fair ni- to ni-, fair ni- to .97,-, good fair 10/ to IIA d
tion and punishment ►! Reform Bill agitators— reply, to these questions, so far as the past is con- may refer, also, our anti-monopoly goslings, (who, good and,fine 104." ill;
Anti-Corn-law agitators—Anti-Church-rate agita- cerned, will not be altogether satisfactory; and, if on such matters, ought to know more than even the Our advice adds, that after the Cambridge and "
such is the case, the question may fairly be mooted, parent geese of "the Port of Manchester,") (1)—to the Sheffield sail from New York, both of ' which tors—Protestant associations—nay, "the Carlton
Club itself"--(why not the Wellington ?)—" are one and will be mooted, whether a Conservative govern- the rates of freights as here given,. upon the word ~ were full ~and and their day of sailing the Ist instant, ai
there would not be a single bale of cotton in that it
and all conspirators, and amenable to the law of ment, and a Conservative legislature, ought not ra- and faith of a practical man of long experience as a port, on board any vessel bound for Liverpool, or E
ther to look round them for a better system, than merchant. How long have these gentlemen been a single bale in course of shipment ; and this with
conspiracy, as laid down by Lord Chief Justice
Pennefather" ! I And here is his ground for this parliamentary grant, gullingworld statements
by an increased rant, and the pro- in the habit of the with a stock over 100,000 bales !_r
comparative state— t
Sweeping conclusion. These associations have one t
of
wise of more efficient instruments for its working, that the freight of wheat from any foreign port,near
The following we give as the
, ment of reeelpts from the Ist September, and stocks a
and all the object " to influence and overawe the to
bolster up a system which has notoriously failed or distant, was, of itself, sufficient protection to the of cotton to- dates : I
Queen's ministers, and intimidate the lelature." —as it deserved to fail—in its past operation. The British farmer? We have it here,
however, dis- .
gisßeceipts. Stocks. b
Protestant Conservatives of Great Britain will de- tinctly stated that such freights, from the Baltic
With all proper consideration for our contempo- 1844 1843 1844 1843 V
mand an inquiry from Sir Robert Peel's government ports, and from ports in the German Ocean, are
rary's opinion, we must submit that no such con-
-179,8.18. ft
upon these points ; and the demand ought to be actually lower than the average of coasting freights Nmeowbiloerleans -... Jan.
1130 317422157 g 41:4971,858361 18694,2445;
57,324. a:
elusion can fairly be drawn from Chief Justice
in Great Britain; and, although from the Mediter- Florida ..... .... 8 53,698 52,095 28,000 20,000 e,
conceded!
Pennefather's interpretation of the law of conspiracy. Georgia
ranean considerably higher freights are paid, yet
His lordship stated that "the law required that" (to .-'
‘nother measure announced, is one to alter the North
aarroolliinnaa, „
2200 1448,40026
1944,320842 60,305002 37,:e k
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convict any parties of conspiracy) "a jury should be law in Ireland, "in reference to gifts for charitable these are amply made up for by the much lower Virginia
0 h t
r . . .
8,00000 a
b
satisfied that there was a concert between them, either and religious purposes," or, as it is explained by rates paid for the article itself. We must not, how- New ypoks. .
..313 6,244 12,693
95 58 ' 0000 0') 3 3 0
of ever, forestall the interest of Mr. Sandars' letter by
Lord Wharncliffe, to decrease the " difficulty Total
for the purpose of doing an illegal act, or else for
doing, or causing to be done, an act legal in itself but making over property, and placing money in trust, further comment of our own. It will, we say again,
In our own Cotton-market yesterday, as will be I
to he hrnnaht nhnut by Mon ”7 ~,,,,". ~ re—as:ea. for the purpose of supplying the Roman Catholic sPeak, for itself.
coo

With all proper consideration for our contempo-
rary's opinion, we must submit that no such con-
clusion can fairly be drawn from Chief Justice
Pennefather's interpretation of the law of conspiracy.
His lordship stated that " the law required that" (to
convict any parties of conspiracy) "a jury should be
satisfied that there was a concert between them, either
for the purpose of doing an illegal act, or else for
doing, or causing to be done, an act legal in itself but
to be brought about by illegal means." Certainly
this is specific enough, and reasonable enough ; and
it lays down a sufficiently broad line of distinction
between the cases of the Repeal Association and
those referred to by the Mercury. When Anti-
Corn-law agitators and others carry on their agita-
tion in a legal form, and with legal instruments—
when they propose to act upon public opinion, or
upon the legislature, in any of the modes pointed out
by the practice of the constitution, they are unas-
sailable by the law ; but when they go beyond these
limits—when they point to violence as the ultimate
weapon to be used—when they resort to displays of
physical force and military organization to intimidate
the legislature and the constituted authorities,—
then their agitation assumes the form of a con-

Another measure announced, is one to alter the
law in Ireland, "in reference to gifts for charitable
and religious purposes," or, as it is explained by
Lord Wharncliffe, to decrease the " difficulty of
making over property, and placing money in trust,
for the purpose of supplying the Roman Catholic
clergy with stipends, and glebes, and building
chapels." Upon this proposition, we cannot re-
mark in the absence of fuller explanation than is at
present afforded us. The necessity, however, of
any such alteration of the existing law is not very
clear to us, unless it be for the purpose, as broadly
hinted at by Lord John Manners, last session, of
introducing more extensively into Ireland the
monastic system. Such a step, surely, cannot be
entertained by the present Government !
The last measure, to which we are called upon to
refer, is a registration bill, combining (according to
Sir James Graham) "a more extended county
franchise," but which, Lord Wharncliffe assures us,
would probably cause "a considerable diminution
of county voters," with a remission of the necessity,
in boroughs, of paying certain local taxes, as the
condition of receiving the franchise. Here, we are
in some degree of darkness; and any comment we
might be disposed to make is obviously impossible.

In our own Cotton-market yesterday, as will be
seen by an. article upon the subject elsewhere, the
reports by this arrival were not viewed as favourable
to speculation, and sellers were more numerous
than buyers. To that article we refer our readers ;
but we may again state our doubts whether the
trade generally were in receipt of so late news from
the South as we have given above.

The latest accounts from Stockholm represent the ill-
ness of the King of Sweden as still of a very serious cha-
racter.

The British barque Bolivar, from Sierra Leone to
England, with a cargo of timber, was lost off the Cape
Verd Islands on the 2d October. The crew were saved.

A deputation from the committee of deputies from the
Joint-stock Banks of England, Wales, and Ireland, had
an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer at the official residence of
the Right Hon. Baronet, in Downing-street. The de-
puties, 23 in number, were headed by Mr. P.M. Stewart,
M.P.

A deputation on the subject of Inland bonding had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa-
turday at his official residence in Downing-street. The
deputation consisted of Mr. Phillips, M.P., Mr. Tatton
Egerton, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Buckley,
M.P., with Mr. W. B. Watkins. Mr. Dean, Chairman
of the Customs, was present at the interview.
PERU.—The nature of the intelligence from Peru
which is generally known in the city, is of itself almost
sufficient to show that the price of Peruvian stock is kept
up by speculation rather than by any substantial ground.
The army of General Vivanco, under the command of
General Guarda, and composed of 3,000 men, infantry
and cavalry, has been destroyed by the opposing army
under Generals Castillo and Nieto, 300 men only esaping.
The letters state that the Vicvnco Government cannot
last, there is every appearance of anarchy, and yet the
stock stills maintains a high quotation in our market.—
Yesterday's Times.
WINDSOR, SUN DAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. In
the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode
out in a pony phaeton, attended by Lord Charles Welles-
ley, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback. Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice
were taking a carriage airing, and the Princess Royal rode
out on her pony. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent visited her Majesty arid her illustrious Consort, at
the Castle. This morning her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, and the household, attended Divine service, in
the private chapel within the Castle. The Hon. and Rev.
C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English
Stock-market has been well maintained throughout the
day, although the amount of business has not been ex-
tensive. Bank Stock left off 193 to 194 ; Consols for
money and the account, 974 to Exchequer-bills, 69s to
71s premium : India Stock, 277 to 279; Three per Cent.
Reduced, 981 to ;5i ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced.
103 to s ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, 102 i to •
Long Annuities, 12 9-16 ; and India Bond, 85 to 8d
premium. In foreign securities pricss, generally speaking,
were firm ; but the dealings mostly appeared to be of a
speculative character. Spanish Actives closed at the ad-
vanced price of 231 to ' • and the Three per Cents., 32i
to 54d. Mexican left off 34.1 to 4; the Deferred, 114 to
12 ; Peruvian, 31 to 32 ; Portuguese Converted, 444 to
452 ; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 554 to 4; the
Five per Cents., 1014 to 1021 ; Danish, 87 to 88 ; Colom-
bian, 14 to 4 ; Chilian, 103 to 105 ; Brazilian, 784 to 794 ;
and Belgian, 106 to 107.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—In Fa iday's Gazette we had the
return of the average aggregate amount of promissory
notes payable to bearer on demand in circulation in the
United Kingdom during the four weeks ending on the sth
instant. Compared with the previous four weeks, ending
on the 6th of January, the circulation of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £18,964,000 to £21,828,000
being a difference of £2,864,000 ; the private bank circu-
lation in England and Wales has increased from £4,822,000
to £1,980,000, being a difference of £158,000 ; that of the
joint-stock banks in England and Wales has increased
from £3,234,000 to £3,446,000, beihg a difference of
£212,000 ; that of all the banks in Scotland has decreased
from £2,901,000 to £2,791,000, being a difference of
£llO,OOO ; that of the Bank of Ireland has increased from
£3,489,000 to £3,581,000, being a difference of £92,000 ;
that of all the other banks in Ireland has increased from
£2,361,000 to £2,429,000, being a difference of £68,000 ;
the total circulation of the United Kingdom has increased
from £35,774,000 to £39,056,000, being an aggregate dif-
ference of I:3,282,000 during the four weeks: The bullion
in possession of the Bank of England has increased from
£14,638,000 to £15,480,000, being a difference of
£852,000.

spiracy. It is then an attempt to procure an object
legal in itself, by illegal means.
Upon this distinction the Lord Chief Justice was
very decided. Attending public meetings, however
numerous, was not in the eye of the law criminal.
His lordship remarked—

We have endeavoured to place the spirit and sub-
stance of the whole of these measures before our
readers as clearly and impartially as was in our
power ; and we must now wait to see them brought
in detail before Parliament, repeating, however, our
fear that they are not likely to prove steps in the
right direction towards that object which all men
ought to desire; viz.—the permanent pacification
of Ireland, unaccompanied by present or ultimate
danger to the Protestant Church in that land, and
the peace and security of the empire. These objects
are not to be secured by the violation of one—the
least—of those constitutional and Protestant prin-
ciples, by the profession of which a Conservative
Government was placed in power, and a rampant
anti-national faction prostrated, amidst the tri-
utnphant acclaim of a delighted people.

" If a man had grievances, or thought or fancied he had
grievances, it was no crime for a man to make a mistake
regarding his political situation respecting a grievance.
He had a right also to communicate his sentiments on the
subject of his grievances not merely to his friends but
even to strangers. He had aright to make these commu-
nications and complaints wherever he went, if they thought
fit; and even if he should attend a public meeting, how-
ever large that meeting might be (although in that respect
it might be dangerous, owing to the consequences which
might follow)—at those public meetings there was no rea-
son why any man who had, or thought he had, a grievance,
shculd not make a statement of what he conceived lie had
a right to complain of, and upon the principles of free dis-
cussion endeavour to get, by peaceable means, as many
allies and advocates in support of those alleged grievances
as he could produce. That was the law, and the morality
of the law, as stated by Mr. Baron Alderson, who also
said, ' God forbid that the country should ever be with-
out it.' He (the Chief Justice) would say so too. But
in order to disseminate the knowledge of those grievances,
a party should take care not to infringe upon the rights
and privileges of others ; and he was more bound to be
careful of the effect of what he did, if the assemblies
which he attended were congregated and assembled in
such masses and multitudes so as to excite terror and
alarm through and amongst the neighbouring people, or
amongst those who were bound to preserve and watch
over the frame and constitution of the country."

His little lordship of the house of Russell has
taken little, thus far, by his new compact with "the
convicted conspirator" O'Connell; little of good,
at all events—little which is not calculated to damage
his reputation as a public man, and convince the
world of his utter unfitness to control the destinies
of this great empire. The debates of the past four
nights, upon his factious motion, have afforded us,
from the opposition side pf the house, only a
nauseous re-hash of the speeches delivered—how
much more eloquently !—hy the counsel for the
traversers ; whilst the withering replies from the
GoVernnaent benches have effectually dissipated the
film of falsehood and error, in which the proceed-
ings of the law authorities in Ireland have been
artfully held up before the gaze of the British
people. The Whig party, with Lord John Russell
at their head, are now the pledged supporters of
physical force appeals—of military organization of
the people in Ireland—of seditious proclamations,
and incendiary speeches—as the legal and safe
weapons for bending the will of the majority of the
empire to concessions, previously acknowledged by
a Whig-radical government as dangerous to the

Agitation, therefore, carried on peaceably, need not,
as the Mercury would have us believe, lead to those
disastrous restrictions of the liberty of the subject
which he has painted in such sombre colours.

The announcement of last week, in the House of
Lords by Lord \Marneliffe, and in the Commons
by Sir James Graham, of the forthcoming Irish
policy of the Peel administration, has created a feel-
ing of serious apprehension and disappointment
amongst the Conservative party on both sides of the
Channel. Amongst our loyal brethren, in Ireland
eepecially, who, for years past, have battled so
stoutly, for the integrity of the empire, and the secu-
rity of their Protestant liberties and religion, against
the aggressions of Popery; and who for months
past may be said to have slept with the torch of the
incendiary about their roofs and the knife of the as-
sassin at their breasts; the fear is deeply felt that, by
their patience under insult nd their firmness when in
danger, they have enabled a Conservative govern men