The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-23 00:00:00

IRE:I,4ND

ONGOINGS OF TIIE REVOLUTION.

(From the Dublin Statesman.)
The panting press toils in vain after the agitator. The
" important Repeal demonstration" at Ennis, in the county
of Clare, on Thursday last, surpassed all its predecessors.
According to the Limerick Chronicle there were present
150,000—according to the Freeman's Journal 500,000—and
theaccording to the Glare Journal 700,000, at Ennis, to discuss
repeal of an act of parliament constitutionally.
of Hundreds
thonsa9d4 or the.e nrople. it is also stated, could not hear
the sound of even O'Connell's practised voice! Such " dis-
cussion !" The usual paraphernalia were in use, with ad-
ditions for the occasion. Garlands, banners and devices, I
tends and colours, and green scarfs, and green facings
bounded. An hundred hands, it is said, were in attendance
and eighty stand of colours on the ground. One Roman
Catholic bishop, two French gentlemen, two members of
parliament, seven justices of the peace, and priests without
number regimented the mob. We pass by the bulk of the
poetry and eloquence which was of the ordinary inflammatory
species; bat the following significant morceau from a Father
Sheehy deserves notice. He said :
the
The Liberator had, besides the prelates, 3,000 of se-
cond order of clergymen. (Hear.) We shall give you (said
the reverend speaker. addressing the liberator, at least
twelve hundred pounds—(irnmense cheers)—and we have
taken care that there shall be a heart and a hand behind every
shilling we shall present to you.
Laughter and cheers.)
Mr. O'Connell.—Two hands. (
The Rev. Mr. Sheehy.—And let me describe those three
millions of repealers to you. They are sober and peaceable—
they are determined—they are not drunkards—and they
have resolved to burst their country's chains or die. (Vehe- ,
went applause.) They are not afraid of Peel or Vv'ellington. i
(Cheers.) Priest though I be, I think I echo their senti-
ments. And there is not in that three millions of repealer:
one man who is afraid to shed his blood for his country.
Mr. O'Connell (rising from his seat, the entire company
doing likewise)—I said before lam not that one. (Deafening
applause.)
All this is significant ; and the Bishop, Dr. Kennedy, made
a ferocious speech, worthy of a native of the Cannibal islands,
in which he attributed the numerical decline of the Irish po-
pulation returns to the wholesale murders of the extermi-
nating landlords.
But we pass away from the contemplation of then diaboliMrcal.
wickedness of those pretended priests to a poit in
O'Connell's speech, which has soreethiug more in it than
mere absurdity. He said—
Ile would tell them that the moment he had three millions
of Repealers be would begin another career, and he might as
well then announce that the principalimpediment wh as
iated against emancipation does not at all exist as regards a
repeal of the union. (Cheers.) It was necessary for an Eng-
lish parliament to pass a law granting emancipation. but in
the case of repeal it was not necessary. The House of Lords
at first threw it out, but the people gave a little chirp, and it
was soon allowed to pass without any very strenuous oppo-
The Queen's prerogative could revive the Irish par-
Argent, as James the First did when he created forty-four bo-
roughs in Ireland, giviug suffrages to twelve Pprotestants,
and Ennis was one of the bad bargains. (A laugh. f)
orhe
time bad arrived for her Majesty to order new writs the
Irish Parliament, and be assured them be was not talking of
imaginary things when he told them distinctly and einphati-
callY, that by the aid of the Queen's name, and
of
union.ut any
appeal to parliament, they could obtain a repeal of e
In aid of the policy of this manceuvre, be repeated the
ten-times told tale about the royal declaration :
kindness
As to the Queen's declaration, somebody had the
to communicate to me—although mind I dont say she knewon
it would be done—that her Majesty made no such declarati
and for which lam truly grateful. He had it from her own
lips, and I have it from him, who heard her declare in his
presence that she never authorised Peel to
make such a de-
claration. (Loud and long-continued cheering') I want to
know now who is the loyal man—Pee, who
anel calumniated his-
amiable and lovely Sovereign, or the agitator, D O'Con
nell, who would die for her. (Cheers and laughter.)
We couple these matters with the sting in the tail of Lord
John Russell's speech, and we feel assured that some in-
trigue is in act aoout the court.
At the weekly meeting yesterday, at the Corn Exchange,
there was little worth noticing, except the rent, which
t
amounted to X 3,103 7s. 6-14. An Ainerican syinpat 's (a
priest,) who spoke a little too practieellY about civil war and
American aid, was immediately taken to task by the
according Head
Pacificator, in a characteristically absurd speech, _oe
to the Baconian plan of employing " ari"absurd man
_f a
business that bears itself not well out. Of course, JIM n
t than drew drew in his horns a little, though the explanaio
scarcely bettered the original escapade :--
said ..
The Rev. Mr. Hacket explained, and that nothing
a sanguinary
was further from his mind than to
struggle take place in Ireland; but whieshielmensedeed. to use the
remark in precisely the same manner as r. O'Connell had
done—namely, that if the English party a;ireti to drive the
Irish people from their final stand on the c stitution. the
American people would be found ready to extendf3 their sym-
pathy for them to the uttermost.
ecanething to learn.
Ah, Jonathan, Jonathan, you have - university
of trea-
You have yet to take your degree
sonahle loyalty, and act treason to
in t.thh.e verge of the law,
without noosing your neck or forfeiting your allegiance.
This was too plain speaking •• feu ther disclaimed.
it sounds like treason. accord-
This
to the books : so Mr. O'Connell
i'i'e have not yet received any account.oftitanhe AortbilohneecSianbre-
bath desecration. The following don' a . not dis-
meeting is from the Limerick Chronta , wiser
posed at all to tusgnifi 41311 affair :—.l) 'n
The stupendous mass of human el Fs that congregated in
iemonstrationof Clare
such formidable strength to the reonly obeyed the stern summons t the altars of all the
p
oe
fa
l
clerical authority, con-
veyed to them the previous Sunday
ii.itive
language ; and in
country chapels, in the most inipernne t
on, which set all
some places under the threat of deiinaneer i
The consequence
free will or self-opinion at utter de
implicit submission. and
of this extraordinary influence
whansndred miles the peasantry
from an area of more than one ---1 a night
not from
only
gathered to the rendezvous. trave
oliavg.
todaoyren.
every village and hamlet of Clare nfromd
the confines, but more central
King's County—having
art of the counties of Lime_
rick, Tipperary, GalwaY, n"d evensd the Shannon in different p d simultaneous
arts for the purpose ; so
that it is not strange, under combined an
persons, many
d fifty thousand . •
movement, there should be assemhled a multitude of certainly
not less than one hundred
repeal demonstration.
of whom have not yet reser ed their homes, after being
nesses and actors in this unprecedented
e enough tom agnify the numbers
will be cage' • iation may be de-
Partisanshiphowsuch a vast meeting
present to one million, but the above ca
pended on; and it is miraculous
y• There were about six
separated without accident or
thousand horsemen on the ground,.
t staff, having extended
initir-alid the cavalcade of cars
might satisfy the largest coma There
from Ennis to Newmarket, a distance
°rice bands in attend-
were upwards of one hundred tempera crc nnell; but his
f six miles.
Mr. °
mice and the lion of the day, was
masses. could could not be heard
voice, however familiar with
by more than half the concou'rsine-t-hcahate'
others being left to
surrounded the plat-
form, in an area of several acres, t.
_.ber speakers. Mr.
imagine what was said by him and u.
O'Connell received -£l2OO repeal rent t the gathering, with
a promise of more. The character of tha
menace
of
ph y sleet force
less to expatiate on, but the boastful in
the the it is need.
1., the addresses of a
was never more pointed, and especial" A perfectly novel
Roman Catholic priest nude is bishop:.
and striking incident ill the pformance
4t
respectable appear-
the presence of two Frenchmen of mashed,
of the occasion was
ance, but like most foreigners, moustac
ell
on the platform.
and whe held an
earnest conversation with Mr. O'Coning names to be M.
We have since ascertained their travel
oti i‘_.
' Dassault, his
Lisbre, advocate of the Royale, Paris,
companion. They have never been in view or
before. There was not a soldier or f il
ee at Ballycoree, the
see:oi..eLemimpeorick or Clare
hearing of the immense repeal assr'n 7.e e than Ennis. and
'ware
troop of the 10th Hussaurs not being
the 36th and 81st at Clare Castle. . ;ters were returning
o'clock. in the morning the Limerick vii. _1.5 cf the Queen's
Frown twelve to three
from the scene of agitation, and the slurolliviy
ce music in the
lieges were broken, by the indecent disp
streets at such unseasonable hours.

Kilkenny, are fully
Three men from Tnllaroan, onneti °f soassassinate
committed to gaol, charged with a co °f
Mr. William F. Finn, brother in law a- I._mrarc)s.- niel O'Con-
nell. .dard says the go-
Ma. O'CoNNEt.t..—The Derrl/ Sitb----- prosecuting Mr.
vernment are watching the materials
tbth - only ministerial
O'Connell for high treason. Theo erald, t-e cans
organ among the morning papers London this state-
ment " fudge."
t tbe same time
The contributions from the -United States of America to
the Irish Repeal Fund amount to
3'33°'dad to the Dublin
that contributions hare also been
Association from some parts of thef.ll.
colonies. TtaisrheNorth American
On Sunday evening a man named
the parish of Mydow, four miles south of thi .
g been caused
terred in the church-yard there, his death 'swthoownre, swic•laesdilian-
sav!nthe platform
from the pressureand injuries ceived Opp the
2
Trott,
re da„, the `lath May.
at the repeal meeting in this town on Sun .T.
n last week, and
A woman named Powell also died in etastoc t•
at the same ime.
her death is attributed to injuries reee
Longford Journal. meeting
of the
"'-PR
or OTESTANT LOYALTY.--At a illltnerpus meet
lodges in the county of
officers and masters of the Orange ;f
. n if were
Cavan, held on Thursday last, a series . f those assembled
drawn
• up, expressive of the determination o
tile approaching
to abstain from walking in procession on
1, their best endeavours to
anniversaries in July and to us° t”e"
• r badges from tiiking
prevent any procession or the wearing 0.
place. now that there ought
Ow F .CTS OF RFPIC L•--Shall we say
to he a separati ' A • E laita and
Ireland'
at
a time
between lig )assee. in that country
wilt'll, as I contend, all that has late 1 .
1 r more, than less
shows tha`that
than these 0 jects .
l ould be made under the repeal
0, the . an attenipt s 1 f • separate Parliament,
I union, and under the power o a roperty of
to disunite the two countries—to confiscate the p
all Englishmen who have property Ihere—to overturn, at
once, the United Parliament, and to establish in the place
of the King, Lords.. and COMlnartS of the United Empirae,
some Parliament of which the hon• and learned gentle; n
should be the leader and chief.—Speech qf Lord John us-
sell, Feb. 6, 1823.
ALARMING F.X.CITENIF.NT IN CARLOW•.---On Sunday
week the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood were
unusually excited owing to a rumour that prevailed, and was
very generally believed, that an outbreak would take place
that night, while the Protestants were enjoying imaginary
security, and the general appearance of the country tranquil.
In some parishes the Protestants did not send their families
to church, but occupied the forenoon of the
Sabbath in for-
tifying their houses and preparing for the insurrection ; and
on that night few of those whose apprAiensions were thus so
painfully excited slept until sunrise on Monday morning. In
the neighbourhood of Bagenalstown, where the repeal rent is
being collected, in two instances parties have recently called
at houses to demand fire arms at a late hour at night.—C'ar-
low Sentinel.
PatcE or BIiAD.--EXTRAORDINARY COMBINATION.—
The high price of bread, considering the low price of flour,
has been frequently commented upon, and notice has been
taken of it upon many occasions in this journal, but without
the desired effect. On the contrary, we have noted an ad-
vance in the price of the made article, when the price of the
material had fallen, and for this no visible cause existed, nor
was any assigned. Circumstances, however, havelmade us
acquainted with the mode of procedure by which this injus-
tice is inflicted on the public. A baker had been dealing for
flour with a miller residing some miles from the city. In the
beginning of the last month (May) the miller told his cus-
tomer that he could no longer supply him with flour, unless
he joined the body of master bakers. The customer refused,
and the miller discontinued to supply hiro• The baker's
price for a 41b loaf was 4d, the master bakers required that it
should be 51d. Being thus refused by the miller his neces-
Lagropuply, he resorted to another miller, living also some
obtainedtforof town, but in the opposite direction from it, and
him, fora few days, what be wanted ; but this
miller, m
with under
some influence, also discontinued Isis supply
and,
Ilse
temoney in his hand, he went to a third, who
fused to
supply
him unless he joined the general body lie
who repaireddidthesame,to another, who also refused ; and to a filth,
and on the same grounds. He then re-
paired to a miller, in
from Cork, who
also
a town some twelve or thirteen miles
o. refused to supply him against the wishes
of the Cork trade • , and repulsed here, he had
they town, still to go to ano-
he
is
more remote by several idle
tiondlcompe"ed,with much difficulty, ainds'a greatfromw haedndcif
he expense, to,draw his supplies for current t • d these
naturally fears may be tube, an
once which has h. y stopped through t 'u-
he same tnfl
hitherto interfered with
we submit, of him. This •
is a case,
the very worst species of
came before the public.—Sou h
1 ern (Cork) Reporter.