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

IRELAND.

Lord Anglesey quits Ireland on the 25th, under the pretext
of taking the oaths in a new Parliament, and thereby quali-
fying himself for leaving his proxy with the Premier; but wa
pledge ourselves upon unquestionable authority, that he will
never return as Viceroy. A mere change of men will, however,
effect no substantial benefit for the country; there must be a
distinct and decided alteration in measures. The laws must be
duly administered, and rigorously—aye and severely enforced.
Protection must be afforded to Protestant life and property;
and some plan adopted in the selection of jurors on criminal
cases by which the ends of justice may be attained, and the per-
petrators of crime punished; whole districts must for a season
be deprived of the benefits of the constitution, and martial law
be resorted to in place of the civil code; seditious societies must
be abolished, insurrectionary meetings suppressed, the priests
kept in order, and demagogues put down, &c. Mr. O'Connell
and his party defy the Executive to administer the affairs of Ire-
land in a spirit of firmness. Let but the Executive manifest a
fixed determination to exert its strength and seek the support of
those capable of giving it, and in one week they will have the
brawlers tame and tranquil.—Dublin Evening Mail.'

LAW CHANGES.—A rumour is afloat "in the Hall," that Sir
William Macmahon is about to retire from the Bench upon the
usual pension, and an English peerage; that the Attorney-
General succeeds to the Rolls; and Sergeant Perrin to the
vacancy opened by his promotion. To the authenticity of this
report we do not pledge ourselves.—Dublin paper.
At Cashel quarter sessions 10,000 civil bills are entered for
recovery of tithes, at the suit of the Attorney-GeneraL—Dublin
paper.
It appears that the Crown is resolved upon proceeding with
the prosecution of William O'Reilly, Esq. M.P. for Dundalk,
on account of his opposition to the payment of tithes. Notice
to plead was served upon his attorney on Saturday last.—Dublin
Morning Register.
Messrs. Gladstone. Jones, and Archdale have reflised to at-
tend the "National Convention" of the Irish Members of Pat-
liament, proposed to be held in Dublin on the 18th.
"'BREVITY THE SOUL OP Wrr."—The following reply.from
Sir Edmond Hayes, one of the members for the county of
Donegal, in answer to the "invitation" to attend the meeting
of the O'Connell members in Dublin, is as short, and to the
purpose, as any we have seen since Bob Short's communica-
tions to the Spectator :
"Drumboe Castle, 12th Jan.

"SIR,-It is not my intention to be present at a meeting in
Dublin, called a 'National Convention.'—Your obedient ser-
vant, "EDMOND HAYES."

BELFAST SHIPPING.—The increase of this kind of property
has gone on, notwithstanding some years of great discourage-
ment, very steadily these ten years past. The total number of
vessels is 219, amounting to 23,681 tons. Last year a number
of line vessels owned at this port were lost; these, however,
have been replaced by new ones. Of the above number 60
vessels, measuring 13,554 tons, averaging 225 tons to each ship,
are employed in the foreign commerce of this place, and the
remaining 159 vessels, averaging 60 tons each, in the coasting
and cross-channel trade.—Dublin Mercantile Register.

THE VOLUNTEERS.—Our doughty Daniel is talking big, and
swaggering at an awful rate anent his new corps of volunteers.
They are to be dressed in green uniform, and the Blackfeet and
Whitefeet of Kilkenny, and the Whiteboys and Ribandmen of
Tipperary., assisted by the Terry Alts and the other good boys
in the various disturbed districts, have in the handsomest man-
ner undertaken to provide the newly created legions with arms
and ammunition ! Tom Steele, whom Mr. O'Connell has cre-
ated fugleman to the conscripts, says—but let honest Tom, the
prince of purlers, speak for himself, as becometh a good man
and true. " I told the men of Clare (quoth Tom) that if such
a crisis were to arrive, in consequence of any atrocious act of
the Government, as that of Camden and Castlereagh in 1798,
as that O'Connell should command us to have recourse to arms,
and blood, and convulsion, instead of our usual constitutional
warfare, by which we had achieved such resplendent and inevi-
table triumphs, in that case I would not order the Clare men
to go into Cratloe-wood to cut down trees for pike-handles, but
that I would first send them to cut down the trees in my own
domain of Lough O'Connell, and that I would, of course, my-
self not be idle, nor a mere looker-on in the conflict." This
was spoken at the meeting on Saturday, in the pro,gress of a
peaceable and legal debate on the at
Irish volunteers. '—Dubtin
Evening Mail. •
MEETING OF PAHLIAMENT.—" Parliament, at the present
moment, stands summoned for the 29th, but ministerial arrange-
ments, as well as other weighty considerations, will probably
postpone the commencement of the session till the second week
in I. ebruary. Earl Grey will promulgate the plans whicl'have-
engaged the attention of the cabinet during the recess • and we
learn that among the first and the most prominent will be the
measures for a commutation of tithes both in England and Ire-
land, and the repeal of the greater part, if not the whole, of the
house and window duties. These and some other measures
with respect to finance and the colonies, will form the subjects
of immediate consideration, but not until the house has been
asked for, and has sanctioned, an authority, the highest known
to the executive, for the restoration of perfect tranquillity in
Ireland. In anticipation of a ready assent of the legislature to
the preliminary step—the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,
several regiments of horse and foot are to be added to the al-
ready imposing military force in that country aand if circum-
stances render it expedient, the English militia will be called
forth to their assistance. On the propriety of this proceeding,
the heads of the opposition have beeri consulted, and we under-
stand they are fully consenting.—Few, indeed of those who
wish to preserve the integrity of the empire—to ensure obedi-
ence to law—or to stay the career of unbridled anarchy and
licentiousness, can object to such a course, when it is known to
be, and when the legislature is pledged to make it, the preamble
of a bill for the settlement of the questions of tithes and of cess
—for an effectual redress, in brief, of all the real grievances of
the Irish people."
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.--Mr. O'Connell has been at great
pains to persuade us that his new project has nothing whatever
to do with religious differences, but is a common ground on
which men of all opinions can join hands. He may pretend to
believe -so, but nobody else does. The following paragraph
from a Carlow Paper devoted implicitly to his views, and in
immediate connection with a member of his family, shows how
the liberal press treats the question. The thirty seven proscribed
individuals are men who offended "their country and their
God" by supporting conservative candidates, and opposing
repealers :
THE THIRTY-SEVEN CATHOLICS WHO VOTED AGAINST THE
CLERGY.—Never was there such an example made of any poor
unfortunate creatures as has been exhibited in the total dis-
grace of these 37 apostates. Their shops are literally deserted
—their houses shunned as if they contained pestilence and
plague—and themselves avoided in the streets. We shall soon
furnish a list of their names and residences, in order to be
posted on all the chapel doors of this county, and that society
may know the enemies of religion, and the traitors to the inde-
pendence of the people. It is but fair that they should be
known, in order that some distinction may be made by the
public between them and the poor fellows who in the teeth of
danger, and at the sacrifice of money proffered, voted. for their
country and their God. It would not be treating our friends
well, not to brand our enemies with public disgrace and permanent
shame." _ _ .

One word of 'observation upon this infamous denunciation
would insult the understanding of the reader.—Dublin Evening
Mail. _ _ _

On Friday night, the. 4th instant, about the hour of 9 o'clock,
upwards of rk men, some of whom were armed, entered the
dwelling-house of John 'Atwell, of Leitrim, in the district of
Longford, in search of fire,-arms • not finding any, the party,
on leaving the house, met Mr. Atwell'si servant boy, and most
inhumanly beat and stabbed him in several parts of the body.
On Sunday night last, the 6th instant, an armed party en-
tered the dwelling-house of George and William Hoxey' about
half a mile from the town of Edgeworthstown, and took there-
from three muskets, a bayonet., two pouches, two waist-belts,
and a powder-horn, together with five gallons of potteen
whisky. The Honeys were absent at the time.
At the Tralee Assizes the leaders of two desperate county of
Kerry factious, the Curtaynes and the Leahys, were severally
indicted for breaking the peace and each others' heads. There
was. no particular ground of enmity adduced in defence, the
parties having fought solely from their innate combativeness.
The Court sentenced 12 of the principal combatants (natives
of Bresnah), some to, four months' and some to six months'
imprisonment.
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The several tithe cases for Nenagh and Cashel (upwards of
10,000) are all adjourned to the 21st instant, at Cashel. ,
The excitement of the contested elections has aggravated the
usual lawless state of the counties of Westmeath and Longford.
Scarce 51 night elapses without numerous outrages of various
kinds occurring. The system of stealing arms is particularly
prevalent, and much bad feeling is entertained against indi-
viduals of the peasantry who in the late election voted for Lord
Forbes and Mr. Lefroy. In some cases gangs of from 40 to 50
men have attacked houses, beaten the inhabitants, and carried
off arms. In one night five houses were attacked, and the des-
peradoes succeeded in getting possession of four guns, served
some threatening notices, and attacked and beat several persons
eeverely,