The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The repeal rent last week amounted to £337•
REPEAL SINCERITY.—We have heard of a thorough
Repealer who, when engaged in business with his lawyer,
in London, stated that if Ireland could but have all the
railways she wanted, and due encouragement given to the
efforts of monied men to increase her commerce, she
would neither want Repeal nor think about it.
Parties have been inquiring about a house at Clifton for
Mr. O'Connell, and the honourable gentleman purposes
for the future to reside there occasionally. It is said that
the Liberator is investing much property in land. If this
be the case we may look forward to a cessation of agita-
tion. He is not the man to encourage any disquietude
that will affect the value of his own estates.

FIRST BLOW AT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH.—Rumours have reached us within
the last few hours of the most profoundly painful nature—
rumours which we would fain persuade ourselves are
untrue, but which, unhappily, the channels whence:they are
derived forbid us to disbelieve—that Catholic prelates high
in rank, and Catholic laymen of respectability in their
private stations, have consented to become commissioners
under the Catholic bequests act.—Popish paper.
THE IRISH POOR LAW.—In the Court of Queen's
Bench, Dublin, on Friday, Mr. Whiteside showed cause
against the conditional order for a mandamus to compel
the Guardians of the Limerick Union (who, as we have
already stated, had resigned their offices rather than obey
the Poor Law Commissioners,) to hold regular meetings
of the Board, in compliance with the dictum of the Somer-
set House triumvirate. The court decided that a specific
remedy having been provided by the act, by which the com-
missioners were empowered to proceed to the election of
another board in place of those that refused to act, the
court could not interpose by granting a mandamus. Their
lordships intimated that it was lot in the power of the
guardians to resign their offices, and that it was optional
with the commissioners to receive their resignation or not,
as they deemed fit.
IRISH " PATRIOTISM."—A few years since a silly at-
tempt was made by the repealers and radicals of Dublin
to exclude all articles of British manufacture from the
Irish market. As a fair example of the theory versus the
practice of these pseudo patriots, it may be mentioned
that there has been recently opened in one of the leading
streets' of Dublin, a " Reform Club," conducted on a
very extensive scale, the members of which are composed
promiscuously of whigs and repeaters. It might be sup-
posed that in the fitting out, &c. of such an establishment
an ample opportunity would be afforded for the wholesale
patronage of " Iristi manufacture." But alas, for patri-
ots' promises, the very reverse was the case. Plate, the
most important item in furnishing, carpeting, and Heaven
knows what else besides, were, on the principle of econo-
my, all purchased in the Saxon market, to the manifest
surprise and disgust of the Irish artizans. The Dublin
silversmiths were the first to denounce the insult, and a
series of resolutions were adopted, in which some home-
thrusts are made at the offending " Reformers" in gene-
ral. and the Repeal Lord Mayor in particular.
MR. O'CONNELL AND THE RECHABITES.--Mr.
O'Connell's attack upon the Rechabites, in a recent let-
ter to the Repeal Association, has drawn forth a number
of champions in defence of their order. Mr- Grimshaw
stoutly denies that there is anything unlawful in the so-
ciety. He says—" The Independent Order of Recha-
bites ranks in law with a class of societies, comprising the
Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, Shepherds, Gardeners,
and others. Any law or other thing which applies to any
one of these orders affects the whole; and as some of
them have existed for more than half a century, and in
times when it was dangerous to unite together for arty
purposs, without being interfered with by government,
lawyer, or common informer, it affords a presumptive
proof that they are not of that unlawful character which
you appear to believe them to be. There is no law di-
rectly affecting these societies, and therefore, to make
them unlawful, some law, passed for another purpose,
will have to be construed so as to make it apply to them."
A little further on he adds, that " So far as the Recha-
bites have dispensed with their secret signs and pass
words, they are much farther removed from any approxi-
mation to the unlawful than the Oddfellows, who still re-
tain both." The writer proceeds to contend, in opposi-
tion to Mr. O'Connell, that the order, instead of doing
great mischief, is producing great good, by demanding
" from members perfect sobriety and good moral con-
duct," and teaching " men of all creeds, and of all politi-
cal opinions, that they are brethren, and ought to dwell
together in harmony ;"—that " Father Mathew, instead
of condemning, has unequivocally stated his approbation
of the principles, effects, and tendencies of the order of
Rechabites ;" and, finally, that it is a groundless and ma-
licious libel to describe the order, as Mr. O'Connell had
done, as " a vicious and worthless society."