The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

e proclamation of Mr. O'Connell, for so we 13
;to "the people of Ireland," is a "state paper'
dinary importance, emanating as it does, in
nt alarming crisis of Irish affairs, from the hea
Ecient executive of that country—under whos
y a sort of national convention is now assemble
Vwith the patriotic intention of relieving the])
iceroy and his Privy Council from the ono
of government.

would be ludicrous enough, if the consequefl
not too melancholy to become a subject of mil
serve in the work of Irish agitation, the Si
one day throwing the firebrand among the peol
he next plying the water engine, as if with
anxious solicitude to extinguish the flames wb
d been too successful in kindling. This two-I
the Irish " Liberator " performs with an enel
:onsistency that would appear but dramatic hyp
f introduced in a farce ; yet to those who look
he surface of things it is but an apparent inconsi
When Mr. O'Connell perceives that his agitatJ
ies have wrought the feelings and passions of I
ice to a high degree of excitement, and that it
than probable they will expose .themselves to t
rs of reducing seditious theory into practice, he p!
character of " pacificator." He issues prod
is to authorise obedience to the laws of the 10
the very sedatives which he applies by the way
iracting his own stimulating potions there is alwrs
iing so exciting, that the draught, which is present
avowed purpose of producing repose, often e
tes the delirium of the distracted patient. 111
esent proclamation, to pacify the rural disturbs
"Green Isle," keeps perpetually in view the it
topic of the repeal of the legislative Union-
the attainment of which, except by force, he el
w is not practicable, and therefore it is vain to
violence while that object is kept in view,
iy consider tantamount to a dismemberment of tJ
empire.

be it from us to believe that• Mr. O'Connell tak
asure in the dreadful scenes that now disgrace
,e the greater and fairer portions of his county
,st assuredly the progress of rural outrages ke
ith the energy of his agitation. Since the reb
1798 Ireland has never been in so excited and la
tate as it is at present, although the great tneasu
ncipation, which was said to be the panacea of t
Ireland, has removed all those galling religio
litical distinctions which Mr. O'Connell and
• agitators used to describe as the great cause
3ontent of the otherwise loyal, faithful, and peace'`
nan Catholic population. It is remarkable enou
;port time before that sudden conversion of
If Wellington and Sir Robert Peel to the doctrin
emancipationists, which will be the wonder of hi,
to " Catholic Association" used as an argumer,
it of their claims, the historical fact, that the Bu
ttholics gave their co-operation to the Engli
r in carrying the measure of the Union !

111
t does Mr. O'Connell now say ? Hear him in *
cation. " I am infinitely more anxious for tb
)f the Union than I was for Emancipation. M
tl anxiety for Catholic Emancipation was becaus,
;sarilv led the way to a repeal of the Union.
will the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel
large proportion of the bench of Bishops, wb,
Pr unqualified concessions as a "healing measures
inal measure, say to this confession of the secre
Df Mr. O'Connell for pressing claims, the yield '
which, he repeatedly declared, would commal
ing gratitude of the Roman Catholics, and la.;
ulation of the peace and prosperity of Ireland F
admits that he only wished for the settlement
;stion as the stepping-stone to new and more dan
agitation 1
eplorable that a man of the acknowledged talen
)'Connell, and possessing the almost boundless
a which he does over the minds of the great maSi
ountryinen, does not exercise those talents and
uence to produce the political repose of wind
has so much need, and without which it is inr
to take those wise and dispassionate measures
nprovement of the internal policy of the country',
ould unfold its resources, augment its mean*
lope its capabilities forthecomfort and happiness
People. , The curse of absenteeism, which is 0
source of the evils of Ireland, is• aggravated q
inuance of that agitation in the country whirl
3oth life and property insecure, and not only pre'
)ital from flowing into it, but actually drivesawai
in of substance, who prefers safety in a foreign
he perilous patriotism that would expose him t 9
if terror at home.
and great, indeed,.are the abuses to be correctee!
ternal polity of Ireland. For centuries no Turk' i
nee was worse governed. It was an unhappy'
t in the present administration not to have se'
medial measures for that country immediately
it coming into office. It would not then have
essary to have such measures preceded by pour'
eat a military force into the country as if, after
g dominion there for six centuries, Great Bri,
dit necessary to reconquer it. It was also $
le error of government to oppose the proposi-
. statutable provision for the poor of Ireland,
short-sighted policy that preferred the sordid
f a few Irish landowners to the general welfare
)ple. Much might have been done, also, to give
ent to the population of a country where about
of the land is yet uncultivated. If experience,
the government wiser, we hope Ireland will
the substantial proofs fit by such measures 04
ated to withdraw an unemployed and excitable
n out of the hands of the agitators, who make
;vances the materials on which they erect their
rues of desperate and destructive ambition.'" 1
Herald.

. .
The place-hunting whigs and the-slavish supporters of
the
[Misters affect much complacency ofmanner with respect
)
o the Ireland. Whenever the revolutionary
zd tldiej
y
sitleaframirs of
bering proceedings of O'Connell are alluded
assume an air of confidence and hauteur, and point
Overwhelming majority in favour of Ministers in
he new Parliament. " The demagogue and his family,"
V they, " will have no power or influence in the House
',' Corrunons--their. propositions will be promptly reject-.
'-', and the question of repeal set at rest." If these mi-
Listerial calculations could be relied upon, the reasoning
Pllnded upon them would, to a certain extent, be plausi-
if ?le enough. But is an overwelming majority in favour
the Government a matter ofd certainty ? It was only on
Monday last that three out of the four members for the city
London took orders under the
.movement party, and
/Wed themselves the advocates of those measures to
ich the Ministers, are, decidedly opposed. Messrs.
rote, Wood, and Key were the most active partisans
rid the most useful tools of Lord Grey's administration
wring the passing of the reform bill; but now they have
iauled down the ministerial colours, and hoisted the red
rrg of independence. They' have separated themselves
?‘4l the whig admiral,. and cruize on their own account.
hey have resolved to fleece Lord Althorp of a portion of
48 Money, although, God knows, the noble lord has none
BPare—to curtail the septennial lease of Parliament,
pave the way for universal suffrage and vote by bal-
-1 It is not these honourable members for the city only
[4:l
I,'o are in this condition. There are not fewer than
"I or sixty English and Scotch representatives who will
,compelled by their constituents and their pledges to
Yin the movement faction. These men, with about se-
enty of the Irish members, independent of the tory par-
+ will form a rather formidable opposition to the mea-
res of his .Majesty's Ministers.
But even admitting that the Government will be able
muster a considerable majority, still what would this
ount to—what would this settle—if the peace, of the
ited kingdom is to be left in peril—is to be continually
stracted by the factious and incendiary proceedings of
i 'Connell and his gang ? It is now plain to the meanest
Rilderstanding that it is not on the floor of the House of
'morons that the battle has to be fought, but in the
' ehis of Ireland. If these demagogues are permitted to
'rganize the peasantry, and form clubs, and enlist volun-
e,ers, and levy contributions, it is mere silliness to talk
'f the moral force that can be brought against them in
e British Parliament. While the members are debat-
ng, the armies of rebels are at morning and evening drill,
'xtending their ramifications and hammering their pikes.
Iti the mean while, the timid measures of the Govern-
" eat, and the apathy apparently or actually prompted by
ear on the part of the executive, only serve to encourage
e discontented, and spread far more widely the system
(11 terror. O'Connell would tell them that their Saxon
°PPressors are willing but afraid to strike—writhing with
rage but quailing before the united voices of seven mil-
lions of people. In this state of things the dead weight
°f Ireland upon England would be increased—she would
12e a heavier burden to us, and a greater curse to herself.
Aot onl would the church be more remorselessly plun-
dered, and the landlord robbed of his rent, and the indus-
, trious farmer murdered merely because he .was industri-
°its, but an effectual stop would be put to the cultivation
?I' the soil, the green fields would be upturned by nightly
bands of savages, and all that is fair and fertile converted
14to sterility, realizing the fiction of olden times, by mak-
111.g barren the foot-marks of the homicide.
If this state of insecurity, crime, cruelty, and devasta-
tion is to be tolerated, even for six months longer, merely
because Ministers have an overwhelming majority in the
'louse of Commons, we say at once that it would be
laurch better to remove the Protestant population of Ire-
'and altogether—much better to send them to Siberia—
'_tkd after driving back to their father-land the demoralized
hordes of Irish labourers, who eat the. bread of the Eng-
, 'Jai labourer, and add millions to the amount of the poor-
' rates—it would be much better to cut the painter, dissolve
the connection, and leave Ireland to her fate. It would.
Ibe an awful alternative—it would be a measure of sur-
f Passing enormity and injustice ; but it is a choice of
:!vils-----a sacrifice made at the shrine of expediency from
hard necessity.—Guardian and Public Ledger.

THE PORTUGUESE BUSINESS.

The Marquis Palmella has, it appears, resigned his
'unctions and retired from the service of Don Pedro, as
almost every man with any pretensions to character had
done before him. The partisans of the ex-Emperor are
li,ow reduced to a miserable handful of adventurers,
brench and English, who, cribles de dettes, as our neigh-
, Ours say, and better known than trusted at home, were
DLit too happy to be allowed an entrance into this or any
other refuge for the destitute, where testimonials or
good character and conduct were neither necessary nor
sked for. The Marquis, we have reason to believe, has
long felt his position to be anything but an honourable
and the attempt on the part of the government of
"Porto to make him the instrument of that novel species
0f imposition, that is, the loan based upon 5000 pipes of
Vine, the robbery of which had to be effected, and the
irevenues of an island which at some future time was to
be stormed and pillaged by the discomfited heroes of
"Porto, completed the long catalogue of injuries inflicted.
11Pon a nobleman long honourably known as well as es-
tenied in his diplomatic career, and strained to a point
Of tension so rigid as at length rudely to snap the cord
asunder,—the ties of devotion and loyalty which, through
we
and through evil report, had too long bound him to
tue fortunes of a weak and wicked prince. The British
cabinet
, indeed, and notably Lord Palmerston, who was
..e chief hand in getting up the miserable and abortive
Ptrigue comically styled the . liberating . expedition to
°rtugal, are mainly chargeable with plunging the mar-
quis into a course of lawless enterprise and dishonorable
Ibllaehinations. We congratulate the noble marquis on
Is emancipation from the odious shackles which have too
Ong manacled his energies and compromised his high
sending.. among his fellows. He has largely sacrificed
`0 a high and perhaps chivalrous sense of duty—he has,
kith a weakness almost unpardonable in a 'public man,
/lo▪
ng surrendered his better judgment to the controul of
inferior minds—he has now made the first step towards
oursting the bonds which. have enthralled him, and to-
,lr.ards redeeming a fame .which nothing so effectually as
his late associations could have tarnished.
,
L
Vile fate of the joint adventure of Don Pedro and Lord
a•
linerston no longer, it may now be considered, trembles
in the balance. The beam . has been kicked so heavily
that it can hardly right itself again. W e know indeed
that. the noble lord has thrown up his cards, and virtually
declared that not a chance, remains for Don Pedro. The
fallure is a severe blow, and to a statesman of graver pre-
tensions would be a mortal. one. But the elasticity of
'tie self-satisfied vanity of the. light-headed, light-heart-
e(,and light-heeled Foreign Secretary will, we doubt not,
I
rebound from the shock, and speedily recover its buoyant
411(1 imposing tone.
Whether the long abandoned .project for conciliating
atters and patching Up Portuguese affairs by the mar-
riage of Don. Miguel with . Donna Maria da Gloria will
succeed or not, it is not now our business to investigate.
nere
.w-as a time . when such a proposition would have
been welcomed. But it is a question now whether Sir
Stratford Canning, who has at length reached Madrid,
backed by Louis Philip with his Brest squadron, will be
„ ,
to accomplish it, unless Lea Bermudez can be con-
ciliated in its behalf. Our own opinion is, that Don Mi-
guel would do well to close with this means of terminat-
ing a harrassing.warfare. He owes a heavy debt of gra-