The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

The Roman Catholic Bishop Kennedy has properly re-
buked Priest Birmingham for his furious epistle.
Maurice O'Connell intends to retire from public life,
and John O'Connell will do the same, unless the repealers
consent to agitate peaceably.
The Limerick Chronicle says that a baronet, of ancient
family, is now working in the county of Meath, as a com-
mon labourer, at a shilling a day.
Three thousand six hundred and sixty-five tenants of
Lord Farnham, K.P. in Ireland, have addressed his lord-
ship—offering their services in defence of the Lord
Lieutenant at any moment.

There is no abatement in the run on the savings'-banks.
The sum of £4OOO was drawn out in Kilkenny on Monday.
Since the commencement of the panic in that locality the
calls have amounted to £15,000.

The property of Mr. Smith O'Brien, amounting, it is
said, to between £4,000 and £5,000 a-year, will become
forfeited to the Crown on conviction of the bon. gentle-
man for high treason in endeavouring to seduce the Bri-
tish soldiers.

TIIE LIMERICK RIFLE CLUB had sharp practice yes-
terday evening. The target was a rude sketch, in chalk,
of the " human face divine," over which as inscribed,
in large letters, the word " Clarendon." One gentleman
gave a most convincing proof of his proficiency by plant-
ing a ball on the tip of the n)se of this flattering like-
ness of vice-royalty, a feat which elicited much laughter.
—Limerick Examiner.

Strong incitements to rebellion are no longer confined
to the United Irishman, the Notion, and the Music-hall.
The majority of the committee of the Repeal Association
and the Freeman's Journal. the organ of that "loyal
body," have fairly taken the field against the constitution
of the United Kingdom. O'Connellism is flung to the
winds, and Mr. J. H. Dunn, the late preacher of moral
force, is crying "Up with the barricades." These people
are now more eager for the fray than Mr. Smith O'Brien
himself, or Mr. Michael Doheny, who have specially fixed
the week after the harvest shall be gathered in for the
turn out.

Thirteen young men, who had been practising military
exercises, in the rear of a house in Ship-street, Dublin,
were seized on Sunday night week, by the police, and
committed to custody. When the officers entered, the
recruits were just in the act of " learning to walk in time,"
when the nicety of the movement was interrupted by
the police sergeants. The charge entered against the
debutants was for " unlawfully assembling and practising
military exercises." The secretary of a rifle club was
present at the inauspicious gathering. A search for
papers was made, but none of consequence were dis-
covered. It appears the thirteen formed a drilling sec-
tion of a rifle club, presided over by the editors of the
United Irishman. Their military propensities had for
some time been under the notice of the authorities, and
had just reached a point at which it was deemed expedient
to interfere. The parties were brought up before the
magistrates on Monday, at the head police-office, when
the thirteen were fully committed for trial for drilling,
training, and exercising to arms.
SAVINGS' BANKS.—ROBBERY.—Instances are daily
occurring in proof of what we said respecting the losses
likely to be incurred by the imprudent withdrawal of
money from Savings' Banks. On Monday a contrywoman
who bad just drawn £6O and converted it into sovereigns
was met on the South Mall by some fellows who asked
her if she had got her money and whether she had had
any difficulty about it. She replied that she had, and that
there was no difficulty. Tbey said they were glad of it,
for that they had money in and they were going to ask
for it. The poor woman told them that they had nothing
to do but go down and present their books, and by way
of facilitating the process she volunteered to accompany
them. Making her way through the crowd, she suddenly
missed her men, and soon after discovered that they had
cut her pocket, and that the £6O which she supposed
secure was gone. She gave expression to her grief in loud
lamentations, but she has since heard nothing of her
money, for the loss of which she and similar sufferers
may thank their Nations, their United Irishmen, and
other "popular" prints, which have been indulging their
hatred of English government by urging the people to
draw their lodgments from a bank in which they would
have been more wisely left.—Cork Constitution.
DEMONSTRATIONS OF LOYALTY.—Proofs of the loyal
attachment of the people to the Crown and Constitution
of the United Kingdom are every day crowding upon the
authorities and the public. We this day publish several
very satisfactory documents of the Kind—amongst which
is one from the loyal yeomanry of Newtownbarry, county
of Wexford ; another, from the tenantry of the Brook-
borough estates, in the county of Fermanagh ; and, a
third, from the tenants and residents on the Farnham
estates, in the county of Cavan. The latter is addressed
to the noble landlord of those flourishing estates, Lord
Farnham, with a request that his lordship would convey
to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant the expression of
the sentiments therein contained. It received in three
days, since Monday, the signatures of three thousand six
hundred and sixty-five individuals ; and though primarily
intended (as we are informed by one of the subscribers)
as a declaration of Protestant feeling, the subscribers
could not resist the earnest desire of many of their worthy
Roman Catholic neighbours to be permitted to join them
in this loyal, demonstration. The Lord Lieutenant's
commentary upon this address is a just compliment to an
exemplary resident landlord, and an industrious, loyal,
and prosperous tenantry.—Dublin
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting in Conciliation
Hall on Monday was tolerably well attended, but neither
the orators nor the auditory appeared to be in spirits.
The prosy, Mr. Maurice Leyne presided, and the three
Messrs. O'Connell laboured heavily to maintain their
ground ; but it was evident that the momentum of the
machine had gone beyond their control. Mr. Maurice
O'Connell went so far as to say, that as he and his bro-
ther John were determined to agitate within the law, and
not beyond it, this might possibly be the last speech he
(Mr. M. O'Connell) would ever deliver in that hall.
(Cries of " och-one, ' and the gallery ladies nearly in
tears.) His last words would be to caution the people
against rash and foolish leaders who would lead them to
destruction.—Lord Miltown added the expression of his
lordly wisdom . against an insurrectionary movement.—
The celebrated priest, Dr. Miley, supported those pacific
inculcations, especially as the government was now sco
well prepared, and the inequality of the contest so ob-
vious. But—(said the rev. gentleman, at the same time
placing his hands on his breast, in concluding his obser-
vations)—if it be decreed by Providence that what we
seek for—the freedom of the country—shall be obtained
only by a baptism of blood, in such case the priesthood
of Ireland will not be found wanting in their duty to the
people any more than the clergy of other countries.
(Here the whole assembly rose en masse and uncovered
their heads, and continued to cheer the sentiment voci-
ferously for several minutes.)—Mr. John O'Connell next
addressed the meeting.—Amount of rent for the week,
£25.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF "TOM STEELE.”—OD Wed-
nesday evening last, the late Mr. O'Connell's " head
pacificator" attempted to commit suicide, by jumping off
Waterloo Bridge, London, into the Thames. A water-
man passing through the bridge at the moment, seized him
in the water immediately after the plunge, and brought
him ashore, when he was conveyed to King's College
Hospital. When Mr. Steele came of age he entered into
possession of a fortune of £15,000 or £16,000 ; but the
whole of that has been wasted in Irish agitation, and a
short time ago he passed through the Dublin Insolvent
Debtors' Court, since which he has been living on an
allowance out of his estate. He does not appear to have
sustained serious injury from his rash attempt. The un-
fortunate man, a few days before, addressed a letter to a
friend, in which he said,—" The highest aspirations of
my nature were, that I should be O'Connell's principal
instrument of peace, his ' Head Pacificator of Ireland,"
in his efforts for the peaceful, bloodless regeneration of
his own country, and for setting an example to other
realms, as was nobly proved in England by Richard Cob-
den and his league, how revolutions may be achieved by
the consolidated organisation of public opinion, and with-

out the pollution o? carnage, bloodshed, and convulsion.
Before you receive this to-morrow I will have ceased to
live. lam quite weary of existence,' although of course,
as a matter of manly firmness,:in private society I deport
myself as if I were without a care. I shall manage the
matter in such a way that there shall be no corpse for the
ceremonial of a coroner's inquest and post mortem exa-
mination. When a thing of this kind must be done, the
more quietly and less theatrically it is done the better."
EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH OF THE REV. MR. KENYON.
—On Sunday week, the celebrated Father Kenyon pre-
sided at a meeting held at Templederry, the object-Of
which appears to have been to rouse the people of the lo-
cality to a high degree of sympathy, if not of vengeance,
in behalf of the anarchists, Mitchel, 'Meagher, and O'Brien.
He said—and we quote only a few passages of his address,
—" There are three men, the bravest among the brave
that this land ever produced, now about to suffer persecu-
tion for their patriotism (cheering). That is, John Mit-
chel, a Presbyterian from the north, the son of a Pres-
byterian clergyman—(cheers),—the editor of a paper
which you may have read or heard read, although it
is but a young one, the United Irishman (cheering).
With him are Thomas Francis Meagher, a Catholic, from
Waterford (cheers), and a worthy representative of Irish
Catholic feeling ; and William Smith O'Brien, a member
of the Established Church (cheers), who, although a Pro-
testant by religion, is a true Irishman at heart, and a de-
scendant filled with the chivalry and heroism of the illus-
trious Boru." (Loud cheers.) In continuation he
exclaimed—" Do you fear—you starved and whipped and
lashed wretches—do you fear death ? (Cries of ' No, no,'
and prolonged cheers.) Well, then, will you listen to me ?
I tell you, my countrymen, that if things go on as they
have and are going on, another million of you will
have died of starvation within the year." During the
whole of this violent and seditious address the rev.speaker
was vehemently cheered. He urged his audience to resist
all government prosecutions of the three " martyrs."
The crowd exclaimed "We will ! We'll die for them ! "
If (he continued) you be apathetic, "you deserve to be
whipped, lashed, and fed on porridge to all eternity."
At the close of his speech, he said—" the council of the
confederation advises all Irishmen to act prudently but
determinedly. It advises no person to act imprudently,
or expose himself needlessly and uselessly to the harpies
of the law. But prepare yourselves. (Cries of "We
will ; we will : we are tdready prepared,' and long and
tremendous cheering.) If arms are wanted in any other
part of Ireland, they are more wanted here if we could
have them. The present enactment prevents us from
pnsses.ing them avowedly, but I tell you opetily.to be
ready from day to day, to watch every opportunity., to
face every obstacle, and when the moment comes we shall
be found with arms in our hands, we shall not be unpre-
pared, and then every man must arise and do battle
bravely." (Cheers.) It may be that the rev. father was
urged to these wild expressions by a degree of insanity-;
but they are nevertheless dangerous as addressed to an
ignorant multitude, and we trust that his further rheto-
rical flourishes will be averted by the intervention of
the powers now entrusted to the Lord Lieutenant,