The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF REPEAL.

The monster meeting of Lismore (for, "like halfpence,
they are each monstrous till its fellow is found to match
it") was as formidable as all the arts of the priests and all
the cajolery of the demagogue could make it. The people
who assembled there came regimented in parishes, led by
their spiritual captainsl; and we have no doubt thirty
thousand of the five hundred thousand " men in buck-
ram." seen by the Waterford Chronicle, were actually on
the spot to do reverence to the Impostor, who, styling
himself the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, did not scruple
to insinuate that, with the help of the saints, and the
Virgin in particular, he might be king of Ireland if he
pleased.: The most remarkable things in this department
were the recantation by Father Fogarty of his anti-repeal
heresy—the vow of Father Cantwell to " die or do" for
his country; and the further disclosure of the Fabian po-
licy which the Demagogue has found it convenient to
adopt :

" I am now," said he. " to be the drag on the wheel,
that it may go down steadily the plain of liberty—(hear.)
It is my duty now to restrain it—it was my duty formerly
to excite. The time is now come when I must demand,
not a pause from exertion, but confidence to allow me to
regulate the further steps with the deliberation that is
now so essentially necessary. My rev. colleagues left
their trade of preaching, for agitating; and I now take up
the gowns which they have thrown from off their shoul-
ders, and set about sermonising you (laughter and
cheering.) Look at the state of Ireland—the entire na-
tion has pronounced that they have ceased to be slaves,
because the light of freedom has beamed upon them—
(hear.) They have pronounced their determination not
to remain longer the victims of an alien parliament, and ,
let them wait for a while—l am one of the wait-a-whiles'
—(loud cheers.)"
Then follows in his speech the items of prorogation on
which he relies for a long day, viz.—the arrangement of
arbitration courts substituting the Brehon for the Saxon
law :—the arrangements of the new constituencies in such
a manner, as that—
" When it shall please the Queen to issue her writ, she
will have nothing left her to do more than attach a little
bit of sealing-wax to a bit of parchment."
And, above all, the arrangements for fixity of tenure ;
and, for the better assurance of his auditory in all these
articles of the political faith, he referred them to the
ruinous condition of England—rebellion in her centre,
the Established Church a drag-stone, and her manu-
facturing interests—aye, what of her manufacturing in-
terests ? The demagogue, bold and reckless as he is, did
not venture to enter upon particulars : but we shall refer
our readers to a surer and less suspicious authority—an
authority the more satisfactory to conservatives, because
it is a whig one, and confesses, rather than proclaims, the
truth that, " notwithstanding insurrection in Wales, and
agitation in Ireland, there are various circumstances in
the present aspect of our national affairs of an encourag-
ing and cheering nature."
Another meeting for Repeal and Irish manufacture was
held on Sunday last at Freshford, in the county of Kil-
kenny. We skim the cream of the oratory when we pre-
sent the reader with the following bowl of sacerdotol elo-
quence :
" Rev. T. O'Shee said,—That union had been tried by
juries of Irishmen in every district of the country, at least
in three provinces, and a verdict of guilty was unanimously
returned. (Cheers.) On Sunday last, in Clifdon, a jury
of three hundred thousand had found it guilty, and did
they think the hosts assembled that day at Lismore would
return a different verdict? (Cheers.) The rev. gentle-
man then went on to describe the treacherous butchery of
the 400 Irish chiefs at Mullaghmast. On Sunday next
the largest assembly that ever congregated in Ireland,
would swear on that sacred rath by the ghosts of the slain
to wrest from England the power of ever repeating such
atrocities on Irishmen. , The repealers were attacked as
disloyal. But they were loyal to the Queen of Ireland—'
they would die for her, but they would also die for Ire-
land. (Tremendous heering.) If the day should ever
arrive in which England should attempt hostilities against
this country, the priests of the people would be found
standing by their gory bed and on the embatlled plain.
(Renewed cheering.) Nothing could now defeat repeal
but division in their own camp. What had they ever got
from the Saxon but slaughter and persecution ? If he
lived a century ago, he would have perished at the con-
templation of the sufferings of his country—

Her chains as they clank, her blood as it runs,

Makes her more powerfully dear to her sons.
Let them determine to register a vow to carry the repeal,
and it would be carried." Cheers.)

The salary of the Irish stipendiary magistrates has been
reduced from £4OO to £350 a year.

The wadding used in" the gun fired at Mr. Irwin, of
Athleague, Roscommon, last week, was a page of the
Bible, found half burned on the road !
It has been stated as a fact, by one of the Dublin alder-
men—not Alderman Purcell—that Mr. O'Connell has
£50,000 invested in the French funds.

Mr. Rankin, late an officer in the revenue police, was
committed on Thursday to Sligo gaol, on a charge of
having defrauded the revenue of a considerable sum.—
Sligo Champion.

It has been said that the King of Hanover expressed
his readiness to furnish a large part of his army for the
defence of her Majesty's United Kingdom, should re-
bellion break out in Ireland. Aram! and Military
Gazette.

Lord Elliott has declared in reply to the Cork Protest-
ant Association that there is no law to prevent the erec-
tion of bells in Roman Catholic Chapels.
The Rev. R. J. 141`Gliee, in a long letter published in
the Dublin papers, proves that the true repeal of the
union wanted for Ireland is not that of the legislative
union with Great Britain, but that of the union with the
novel creed and foreign yoke of that Italian apostate, the
Bishop of Rome.
EFFECTS OF PRIESTLY DENUNCIATIONS.—On Sun-
day last a house (certainly not of the most respectable
character), on the banks of the canal, was denounced from
the altar by Doctor Cantwell, and on Tuesday night it
was set on fire and consumed by some virtuous incendia-
ries, the inmates, eight in number, barely escaping with
their lives, the barbarous villains having fastened the
door outside.—Westmeath Guardian.

LORD ELIOT AND FATHER MATHEW.—Lord Eliot,
on hearing of the recent arrival of Father Mathew in
Dublin, sent a gentleman to him, with a request that the
rev. gentleman would take up his residence at his house,
in the Phcenix Park, during his stay in that city. Father
Mathew soon after proceeded to the castle, to thank his
lordship for his kind invitation, which, however. previous
engagements had precluded him from accepting. -
THE GRESHAM HoTEL.—Mr. W. W. Simpson, the
celebrated auctioneer, attended at the Gresham otel,
on Tuesday, to make sale of this fine property, which he
described in his usual animated and eloquent style. No
bidder having appeared, the auction was postponed ; but
we understand that the Hotel is not likely to come to the
hammer, as there is a probability of its being shortly dis-
posed of by private contract.—Evening Packet.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—A weekly meeting of
the association was held on Monday at the Corn Ex-
change, but there was again a disappointment in the
absence of Mr. O'Connell. In the absence of the Li-
berator, Mr. Wilson Gray, a gentleman of the American
bar, and a brother of Dr. Gray, one of the proprietors of
the Freeman's Journal, was the lion of the day. Mr.
Gray, upon being introduced to the meeting by Mr. John
O'Connell spoke. The American contributions were as
follows :—They consisted of 294 dollars from the city of
Toledo, in Ohio, and 324 dollars from the small village of
Ann Arbor, state of Michigan, (cheers). The amount
of the repeal rent received for the week was announced
by Mr. John O'Connell as £689. I ls. 6d.

SEIZURE OF FIRE-ARMS.—At the Police-office Dub-
lin, on Monday, Edward Bassett, gun maker, was charged
with having unlawfully brought over a great quantity of
fire-arms from England, without having an Order in
Council permitting him to do so. The two chests in
which the weapons were deposited contained, among other
articles, the following :—twenty-nine single-barrelled pis-
tols, wanting the stocks ; six short pistols ; three double-
barrelled pistols, wanting the stocks ; fifteen cases of
single-barrelled pistols complete, six barrels for single
guns, four hair triggers, twelve single barrels, nine double
ditto, three double-barrelled guns with cases, twenty-five
packages of gun wadding, &c. After an examination, the
prisoner was admitted to bail. The arms, about the value
of £2OOO remained in the possession of the Police.
ATTEMPT TO CARRY OFF CROPS IN THIS COUNTY.—
On the night of the 22d instant, thirty or forty persons
with their faces blackened, armed with sticks, forks. and,
fire-arms, went to the lands of Ballymacask, near Youg-
hal, where two men were placed as keepers on a quantity
of corn, distrained for rent by Spottswood Bowles, Esq.,
and, after tying the keepers, they loaded several cars
(which they brought for the purpose) with the corn, but,
day approaching, they threw off the corn from the cars
and decamped, leaving the keepers tied, who immediately
set up the cry of murder, and were released by the people
of the neighbourhood'. On hearing of the outrage,
Head-Constable Coe immediately proceeded to the scene
and from inquiry made by that active officer, he was
enabled to arrest three men, who, it is said, were actively
engaged in the outrage.—Cork Paper.
LIVERPOOL AND REPEAL.—At the Dublin repeal meet-
ing on Wednesday, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun„ handed
in £36 from Liverpool, and entered into an elaborate de-
tail of the late meeting there ; and the " heavy blow and
great discouragement" administered to the orange ship.
wrights by the repealers. The former had threatened to
renew the attack and stone him and his friends in their
vehicles ; but when the Irish in Liverpool heard of it, they
came forward and acted as their body-guard. (Cheers.)
A Protestant gentleman, who had been an orangernan -in
the n)rth of Ireland, was so convinced by the arguments
be heard advanced at that demonstration in favour of re-
peal, that he declared be would, on his return home,' en-
deavour to make as many converts as he could to the
cause. (Hear.) Amongst those who had opposed the
demonstration were two fellows who had been connected
with the riband system in Manchester. (Hear.) Dr.
Gray understood that some members of the Liverpool
Corporation had paid the shipwrights £25 for attacking
the repealers. Mr. O'Connell moved that a vote of
thanks be given by the association to the repeal wardens
and collectors of Liverpool. The disturbance alluded to
had not been caused by orangemen, but by the bigotted
and infatuated shipwrights, who were led away by such
fanatics as MtNeile and others, who were in the habit of
preaching amongst them. (Hear.)
THE WHITE QUAKERS—EXTRAORDINARY AUCTION.
—On Wednesday, Mr. Littledale sold by auction as ex-
traordinary a stock of household furniture as ever that
clever auctioneer knocked down. We must remind our
readers that Joshua Jacob, the founder of the White