The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MEETING OF THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association
took place on Monday in the Conciliation Hall, which was
crowded to excess in every part. Shortly before one
o'clock, Mr. O'Connell entered the Hall, and was received
with long-continued cheering and waving of handkerchiefs.
He was accompanied by W. S. O'Brien, M.P., Henry
Grattan, M.P., Nicholas Maher, M.P., John O'Connell,
M.P., &c. When the noise subsided, Mr. O'Connell
moved the Hon. Mr. Hutchinson in the chair.
After Mr. Hutchinson's address, the handing in of sub-
scriptions was proceeded with, and the rent for the week
was £7OO. Mr. O'Connell handed in £25 from Liver-
pool.
Mr. W. S. O'Brien announced that the committee
proposed to award the following sums as prizes for the
best essays written i❑ support of a repeal of the union :
For the best essay, £lOO ; for the second best, £75 ;
third best, £5O.
Mr, O'CONNELL, M.P., rose, and said that the con-
cerns of Ireland were now in their hands ; they had ar-
rived at that period in which, if they acted with discre-
tion, prudence, and propriety, the Repeal of the Union
was not only certain, but near at hand. He doubted
whether they were able to spoil the cause, it was in so
prominent and powerful a position ; but he knew that an
awful weight of responsibility hung over him. They had
arrived at the time when they could be free, if they de-
served it, and conducted themselves accordingly. They
were something more sober than on the last day. Trio},
were then warmed with the triumph they had obtained.
Look at the transactions of the last twelve months, and
see springing up at every side, the disposition amongst
Irishmen to combine one with the other. Take his own
individual case, when the verdict was obtained in a man-
ner which he need not descr►be, there was nc insulting
triumph upon the part of those who held different.
There were no Orange processions—no Orange lodges
lamented—no Orange processions marched out in com-
memoration of triumph—no drunken orgies—' to hell with
the Pepe and O'Connell." Nothing of that kind took
place. Three years ago a very different state of things
would have existed. Little more than three years ago he
risked his life while going along the Queen's highway from
Dublin to Belfast. Three years ago the north was in a
blaze; but upon this occasion there was no triumph over his
conviction, or his sentence to imprisonment. That was an
excellent symptom : that neutrality was one which they
should hail as the harbinger of better days for Ireland. He
rejoiced at that neutrality. He was grateful. He thanked
the Orangemen for their forbearance ; he expressed his
strongest gratitude to them fcr that proof that they were
becoming more Irish than they were, arid for holding out
that prospect of still better days. But what had occurred
since he was liberated. Had the popular triumph been
marked by any discontent upon the parts of the persons
who were hitherto opposed to them ? Were there any
meetings expressing resentment at the mode in which the
ultimate success was obtained, or disparaging the conduct
of those through whom that success was announced ; no
such thing ; quite the contrary. He was proud to say
that he had received congratulations from multitudes of
persons who were formerly opposed to him, and whose
politics were not identified with his. His first object was
to consider whether it ought not to be referred to the com-
mittee to consider the propriety of holding the Clontarf
meeting. He told them frankly his own opinion was that
it would not be necessary to hold the meeting. The
only necessity for calling a meeting would be this—that
being public men, and bound to preserve the principles of
the constitution, (the meeting being legal and constitu-
tional,) they should hold it for the purpose of showing
that its suppres,ion was an outrage, and ought not to be
acquiesced in. He (Mr. O'Connell) saw a great deal in
that argument, but he thought that it would not be neces-
sary to carry out their principles further. When they had
the five counts of the indictment which referred to those
meetings struck out of the writ of error by the consent
of the crown counsel—including the Attorney-General—
they had the principle established, and there was no
occasion for going to the unplesantness of entering
into a controversy with the gt.vernment, or anybody
else. Then, taking this suggestion as their line of con-
duct, he would remind his Protestant friends of the pro-
gress which those meetings had made. Forty-one of them
had been held with perfect tranquillity—without accident
or disorder. He was told that he repeated this too often,
but he denied the fact, for he wanted to announce to the
world that the people cf Ireland were unanimous in their
conviction that the country was misgoverned, and that
the unjust act of union ought to be repealed. This was
his opinion as to the Clontarf meeting ; however, he
would, as a matter of form, move that it be referred to the
committee to consider the matter. And now for the second
question for consideration. The next matter he wished to
refer to was the " Preservation Society" of three hundred
gentlemen, to be selected from all parts of Ireland.
Upon the last day of meeting, he suggested that this
society should have control over the Association. How-
ever lie had since changed his opinion, and had come to
the conclusion that the authority of the Association
should not be lessened. The learned gentleman upon the
third point stated that instead of moving the impeach-
ment of the judges, they would petition the Queen for
their dismissal, and continued at great length to refer to
the proceedings at the trial.

O'CoNNELL's PRISON BED.--Mr. O'Connell has
caused the bed on which be slept during his incarceration
to be removed to Merrion-square, and has supplied the
deputy-governor with a new one instead, declaring that he
would keep it as a memorial for his children.
ComicAL FRICAK.--Two ladies, in the sect of the
White Quakers, were apprehended in the streets of Long-
ford, where they displayed themselves in the supposed
costume of Eden; viz., a garment of leaves twisted to-
gether, and covering them from the waist to the knee.—
Limerick Chronicle.

AN ATTORNEY'S KISS—THE MIRACLE.—It took three
attornies half-an-hour to convince Mr. O'Connell that
the judgment on him was reversed. One of the attor-
nies kissed him, and notwithstanding even the kiss of an
attorney—a thing, we believe, rarely given, as it could
not very well he put down in the bill (to kissing our client,
so and so)—Mr. O'Connell remained incredulous. He
knew, indeed, that the news must be true or the attornies
could not be there to tell it, but he could not believe it
because the attornies told it. It was enough to make
anything untrue to have three attornies agreeing in assert-
ing it, and one embracing ar.d kissing in a manner to call
Judas to mind.—Examiner.
SANGUINARY OUTRAGE.—On the 11th inst. a land-
lord with eight men went to levy the amount of an exe-
cution upon lands in the county of Cork. They had
some difficulty in entering the house, but shortly after
an immense number of people amounting at least to
1000 persons surrounded the dwelling and commenced an
attack upon the party inside and dealt blows on them
with scythes and pikes, and afterwards beat the wounds
with sticks—a new mode of torture. One man was held
while he was cruelly mangled in the head, a pike thrust
in his mouth, and his teeth smashed. Several of them
ire in a very s7angerous condition, and this is the fourth
time that such murderous work has taken place though
the other occurrences were of far less atrocity.
POSTPONEMENT OF REPEAL.—" Mine ancient Pistol"
of the Nation gets into his altitudes once more, only to
set his readers down again into the lowest " slough of
Despond" :—" Oh ! but it makes our eyes to fill," quoth
he, " and our throat to close, and our hot breast to labour
(as the ocean would when a volcano heaved within it),
when we think of that day when Ireland's flag shall float
over her people, educated, united, and free. How well
were a life of breathless toil—how well were the death of
scaffold or battle-plain faced, to catch a glimpse of that
hour. It shall be—it shall be—if not to us, to this gene-
ration." One would argue from this passage (combined
with others of recent occurrence), that there is a conside-
rable split in the cabinet of the Corn-Exchange—at least
a very important difference about the point of 'time when
the breach in the Legislative Union will be practicable.
On the one hand, we are to have—within six months from
any given day that may be pitched upon—either the
Leader's head upon a block, or a domestic parliament in
College.green. On the other, the sitting of this domestic
parliament is adjourned almost sine die—" if not to us,
to this generation."
HORRID CASE.—Three months ago, a little boy, while
tending sheep near Castlebar, Ireland, was bitten by a dog
subsequently destroyed. On Thursday fortnight, while
at mass, a sudden thrill seized him, and he became con-
scious of his impending fate. He told the clergyman that
he could not endure the appearance of any liquid, that his
chest was internally burning with a fierce heat; but that
if a wheaten straw were got, and one end of it immersed
in a vessel of water, he might contrive to drink it through
the tube of straw. This was accordingly prepared ; but
each drop of the liquid he imbibed was received (judging
by the heavy agitation of his chest) as it had been burning
lead. Excepting the convulsed horror he evinced on the
appearance cr idea of any liquid, he continued sensible for
a long time, and told his mother he was aware he would
soon die ; that he would go violent, and to tie him, lest lie
should do any injury, but not to bleed him to death, as
hid been done in the village about twelve months previ-
ously to another person affected with hydrophobia. At
length the madness reached its crisis, black froth and
curdled blood foamed from his mouth, and he died in
an awful paroxysm of violence and excitement.
O'CONNELL'S CONSISTENCY.—On the 9th instant, at
the Repeal Association meeting, O'Connell announced
the impeachment of the judges as the only remedy,
and as the plan to which he was greatly attached, and
which he was determined to carry out. Alas that the
people should now be left without any remedy at all ! for
the " only" one was formally abandoned at the last meet-
ing; and it now remains to be considered whether even
" an address to the Crown" will be adopted as a substi-
. tute. " The next and only remaining topic," quoth Mr.

. .
O'Connell at the last meeting, " relates to the impeach-
ment of those who carried on the proceedings against us.
I talked on the last day of impeaching the judges —[yea,
and her Majesty's ministers and law-advisers—but they
are dropped out already !]—" the judges who took part
in this case. I think the most ,ponstitutional anode of
proceeding with reference to them, is to address the crown
to remove them" Why, it is but a week ago since
" impeachment was the only remedy." How comes it
that there is now another and a better ? Mr. O'Connell
hardly knows his own mind : but are they a rational or
high-spirited people who suffer themselves to be tossed
about like a weathercock at every variation of his tem-
perament ?—Dublin Mail.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH.-It was well
said by the Dublin Mail, the other day, that the Church
of Ireland is the only body in that country now left to
its own resources for the education of its youth. The
government having always used Ireland as a wedge in
its encroachments upon the Church, formed a scheme for
taking the education of that people into its own bends,
cut of those legitimately entitled to it, and established a
so-called " National Board," which, by suppressing or
mutilating the Bible, was to propitiate all parties, and
educate in the same schools children of every denomina-
tion. Of course the pastors of the Church of Christ in
that country could not thus suffer the lambs of their
flocks to be led astray ; they declined to
join the " Na-
tional" or government board, and instituted a society
(precisely analogous to our own National Society, whilst
it was at variance with the Committee of Council), which
they denominated the " Church Education Society.
'I his Society, through the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland
applied to the Government for a grant of public money,
AND IT WAS REFUSED ! ! And then Sir Robert
Peel, in his place in Parliament, impugns the conduct of
the Bishops and Pastors of the Church in Ireland, who,
true to their ordination vow, refuse to succumb to the
" National Board," and to allow the children of the
Church to be educated in false-principles or on no prin-
ciple at all.—Chuachman's Newspaper.
POPISH OUTRAGES.—We have already detailed several
diabolical outrages committed by the Papists of Cork
upon the Protestant inhabitants of that city, and especially
on Sunday, profaning the Sabbath and interrupting the
service at the various churches. The Rev. Dr. Neligan,
rector of St. Mary's, Cork, in a letter to the Cork Con-
stitution of Tuesday last, says, that on the prevints Sun-
day, " During the reading of the First Lesson, the noise
in the street became so great that I was obliged to give
directions to the sexton to close the doors of the church ;
but the moment the sermon commenced, the yelling in-
creased to a frightful extent—the street became densely
crowded—a mob, carrying six blazing tar barrels, with
lighted torches, flambeaux, &c., rushed up to the church
gate—stopped there while they gave three tremendous
shouts, and fired some shots in the direction of the
church—the !nuzzles of the guns being pointed (as I am
informed at the outer door. The interruption continued

as long as the service lasted. As soon as it was over, all
was tolerably quiet. Several persons were induced by fear
to leave the church." The reverend doct r says, that the
expressions used were too profane for him to write them,
but the editor says they were such as these:—" Bad luck
to the bloody Orangemen—by G—, but we'll put bullets
in the guns the next time, and riddle their bloody Pro-
testant sowls." "To hell with the Protestants—they're
inside at the devil's house—they're praying to the devil
and at his service too. If it be any comfort to Doctor
Neligan, he did not suffer alone. In St. Peter's Church,
scarcely a sentence of sermon or service could be heard,
and when a policeman, at, we believe, the request of one
of the clergymen, interfered, the yelling increased, as if
with the determination effectually to stop the service.
Are these things to continue ? From the mayor we hope
for nothing ; but is there no Protestant magistrate who,
in this plain desertion of the duties of the mayor's office,
will undertake to deliver the city from the ruffianism which
has usurped the place of authority and law ?
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THE FEAST OF THE MARTYRS.-At this gathering
on Thursday last, in Dublin, there were present one lay
lord, the Lord French—four titular bishops, the criss-
cross Lords of Kilfenora, Ardagh, Meath, and Clogher—
eight mayors, the Rev. Tom Maguire, and a gentleman of
whom we have never had the pleasure of hearing before,
but who is described in the Freeman's Journal as his
Excellency General O'Neill, Marquis La Grauja. The
rest, it is said, made the tale amount to nine hundred and
sixty. Of course, the chief speech was O'Connell's,
which was commenced thus—" It is very good to cheer—
it is very pleasing to be cheered—provided it does not last
too long ; but cheering alone won't do—word's won't do—
we must have actions. Our readers will recollect that
Mr. O'Connell, in his first speech after his liberation,
propounded the same dogma, and that he then announced
distinctly enough three lines of action in which he pro-
posed immediately to engage. He was, first, to hold the
Clontarf meeting—secondly, to call together the Society
of Three Hundred—and thirdly, to impeach the judges
and others concerned in the state prosecutions. It will
not, we presume, be forgotten, that on Monday (as may
be seen from another paragraph) Mr. O'Connell, as dis-
tinctly as he had proposed them, again declared his in-
tention of abandoning each and every of these lines of
action—so that he would neither hold the Clentarf meet-
ing, nor form the Preservative Society, nor impeach the
judges. On Monday last, action was to be given up, and
words and cheering were to be again the order of the day.
On Thursday, however, if we should judge by the sen.
tence we have quoted above, the programme was again
revised, and deeds and action were once more to signalise
the march of repeal. What sort of deeds are tho,e to be ?
many of our readers will tremulously inquire. We shall
let Mr. O'Connell reply in his own words. He is to begin
to act " by one and all being prepared to approach the
parliament, at the commencement of the next session,
with the united and combined voice of Ireland embodied
in our petitions." " What a falling off is here, my coun-
trymen." Ireland, proud and erect in the majesty of her
new-born independence, and in-the might of her monster
meetings, can Mr. O'Connell advise her to bend her neck
before the insolent Saxon, as an humble petitioner for
that which Mr. O'Connell has so often declared to be her
right to obtain, and within the simple prerogative of her
beloved Sovereign to grant. Spirit of the Nation! in
what strains of sadness will thy next manifestation bewail
this mournful proof of the defilement which even the
glorious incarnation, in the burly form of O'Connell, has
suffered in the dungeon ! He, whose free mind disdained
to mingle in consultation with the Saxon within the walls
of St. Stephen's, now proposes to approach that shrine of
the cacodemon of Ireland in the humble guise of a peti-
tioner. But still worse is in store. Repeal it.el is to be
abandoned, and the poor instalment of a grand jury par-
liament to be sought for in its stead :—We prefer—most
of us prefer—the simple repeal of the act of union ; but
there is not one of us who would not be content to repeal
the act of union, and substitute a federal parliament.
(Hear, hear.) Not one." In these two propositions,
viz., to petition parliament, and to make the subject of
that petition a federal parliament, the whole course of
action announced by Mr. O'Connell is included. We
shall see whether or not this will satisfy the ardent long-
ings of Mr. O'Connell's supporters.—Dublin Mail.

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