The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

ETAS REAL AI F.TIIOD OF PACIFICATION

" There is no subject upon which the people of England
seem to be so little informed as the mode of pacifying Ireland.
For some years our august leader has entrusted to me, a
Protestant, the rank of head pacificator of the peasantry of
Ireland. lam a persrm,who sometimes express myself with
fervour, and the deeper the fervour the greater and more in-
tense the reflection which precedes it. (Hear.) Peel the
Saxon ! (Ilrar and laughter.) I said to-day at the meeting

that the streets of Drogheda were mice dyed with the blood
of the inhabitants, hut I hope that Peel and Wellington will
never be the bloody villains to dye anew those streets with
the blood of the people for looking, by peaceable means, for
the attainment of what they considered their just right.
(Hear, hear.)
" In the construction of my diving bell (continued Mr.
Steele) it was necessary that I should have considered two
things—tat, The strength of material, to secure the safety of
those who hazarded their tires in the experiment—(cries of
hear, hear)—and next, the perfect organization. But that
organisation would be no use. unless he had material to work
on. (Hear.) Dr. Kennedy, a learned and exemplary cler-
gyman, has stated ' that war had no terrors Jr the people
of Ireland.' O'Connell has said some time ago that in some
countries it is difficult to get men to fight, but in Ireland it
was difficult to restrain them from fightiny. (Hear, laugh-
ter, and cheers.) I eau lay any hand upon my breast, and
say with great truth, that aince I was appointed to the high
station of head pacificator of Ireland, now thirteen years
ago, I have done the utmost in my power to preserve the
peace, and to restrain the people from violence, and that I
never will allow au outbreak unless another Cromwell comes
to dye our land with blood, and any attempt of mine to re-
strain the people in such an hour would be vain."

The sentiments thus ethereally delivered to the people of
Drogheda, are enforced again by the following, addressed,
we are told, by the same energetic Boanerges, to the members
of the Helical Association, at a meeting held on Tuesday i❑
the. Corn Exchange, Dublin :
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Mr. Steel said, were it not that lie was quite sure that
the motion would be seconded by accla►nation, lie would
claim to second the liberator's motion. Ile wished. how-
ever, to redeem u pledge which he gave to the people of
Drogheda on the previous day. lie addressed the people at
the multitudinous assemblage held there, and they did him
honour of drinking his health. In returning thanks he had
occasion to give his opinion with respect to certain public
characters, and he wished that opinion to be identified with
the proceedings of that association. tie had occasion to al-
lude to Drogheda, the streets of which town had steamed
and streamed with human blond by the massacre there under
that atrocious Saxon villain Oliver Cromwell. (Cheers.) He
thought it was a most appropriate occasion to npply that
opinion to three other public characters, and he now repeated
it. He had called three other characters, Peel, 'Wellington,
and Brougham, those bloody-minded villain4—(cheers)—the
Cron, wells of the day. Furthermore, he said, sin! he wished
this to be recorded, that in addition to the bloody villany of
their threat of physical violence to the most purely virtuous
and brave people in the world, the Irish people—(cheers)—
in addition to calling them three bloody villains, he said of
Sir Robert Peel that he had the nefarious audacity to make
their august and sanctified Queen the accomplice of this
bloody threat upon Ireland." (Loud cheers.)

We understand that the Earl of Roden, with the spirit
whichever animated himself and his forefathers, has returned
to Ireland, at once to share in the perils of his countrymen,
and undertake that part a hich best becomes the Christian
soldier at a crisis so eventful.

Mr. O'Connell left Dublin on Wednesday morning for
Kilkenny, where there was to be a repeal meeting on the
following day on a scale of in►rnense, "magnitude, and where
the scenes which have disgraced the country and degraded
the government will doubtless be repeated with customary
impunity.

ATTEMPT TO SHor.T A MAGIZTRATE.—On the night of the
the 2nd instant, at about ten o'clock, John Burke, Esq.
J.P., of Tintrim, in the parish of Clonrush, and county of
Galway (East Riding), as he was passing through his hall,
was fired at by some person at present unknown. The Lord
',lieutenant has offered one hundred pounds reward for ap-
prehending and bringing; to justice the assassin.
Mr. O'Connell has given the lie direct to Lord John Bus-
sell, in reference to the statement of the latter, that he had
been offered the Mastership of the 1011 s, and nut the situa-
tion of Chief Baron. In this instance—strange as it may
appear—Mr. O'Connell is evidently telling the truth, and he
ascribes Lord John's declaration of the thing which was not,
to " « big trickery ;" for, said he—" There is no understand-
ing these Whigs."

'JUSTICE TO lII.ELAND.—Since 1815 Ireland has had no
taxes assessed ; mid in 1825 the assimilation of the currency
gave a bonus to Ireland of Is. Bd. in the pound ; and at pre-
sent Ireland is exempt from the income tax. Are these
things reflected on by the English people ? Will they continue
to submit .to the tnendacions libels that the rebel O'Connell
and his gang heap o❑ their parliament, and the crown and
government of the country ?

REPEAL IN Tire AestY.—The following disagreeable par-
ticulars of a military affray appear in the Cork Examiner of
yesterday evening :—" A considerable degree of excitement
and alarm was created last evening, between the hours of
nine and ten o'clock, in the neighbourhood of Patrick's-
bridge and King-street, from the conduct of a great number
of soldiers belonging to the rifith and 45th regiments, the
majority of whom were intoxicated. Several attempts were
made by the sober portion of the military to induce their
comrades to go quietly to barracks, but all in vain, force
and remonstrance being alike unavailing. They then
fought amongst themselves," but happily with more fury
than effect ; and .though numberless blows were offered,
and heavy falls received, still there were few real injuries
inflicted. This conduct naturally attracted a considerable
crowd, which increased every moment, the streets being
thronged, as usual, on Sunday. Some of the police belonging
to the King-street station were present, but did not at first
interfere, hoping that the intoxicated soldiers would have
been brought away quietly by their sober comrades, particu-
larly as a number of the 45th, who are nearly all tetotallers,
volunteered their services to that effect. But as all their ef-
forts were unavailing, and the row increased in violence, the
police, who fortunately were reinforced by constables from
the Tuckey-street station, succeeded in arresting four men of
the 56th Regiment, and bringing them to the King-street
station, in doing which, one of the constables( No. 98) received
several severe blows from the soldier whom he had arrested
and who struck him with the breastplate of his belt. This
constable bad a narrow escape of his life, for on approach-
ing the provision stores of the Messrs. Burke, the soldier
pushed him against the low wall of the very deep area
which gives light to the lower cellar, and but for the timely
interference of a woman, who caught him by the skirts of
his coat as he was hanging down, head foremost, he would
have fallen down a height of several feet. Most of the sol-
diers were extremely youug, and were evidently Irish, by
their accent, as well as by „their expressions, for they re-
peatedly shouted out—" lturrah Repeal!—by G— we

must have the repeal ! "—and numberless other exclamations
which proved beyond doubt that. they were far from indiffer-
ent to the present movement in favour of Iriskindependeuce.
During the whole time many hundred people were assembled,
who seemed to be greatly excited. Owing, however, to the
praiseworthy exertions of our respected fellow-citizen, Mr.
J. Hackrit, to whom the police ought to be much indebted,
the people were induced to disperse without the least vio-
lence. At a late hour one of the officers of the 45th with a
party arrived, and took the four soldiers who had been pre-
viously arrested by the police up to the barracks. We under-
stand that his worship the mayor and Captain Gun have this
day waited on Sir 0. Carey, and that an investigation into
the circumstances detailed above will be speedily held."

THE WEATHER IN IRELAND.

We have not had so wet and cold a month of May as the
last for several years, and for what ha. conic Of the present
month, we regret to say, that we cannot notice a change for
the better. The unseasonableness of the weather has, as
might be expected, retarded the growth of the young crops,
oats in particular appearing thin and stunted. The potatoe
crop is also in a backward state, and the late settings greatly
retarded by the wetness of the ground. The wheat and flax,

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as far as we can learn, still look tolerably well ; and the mea-
dow and other grasses appear luxuriant.—Derry Sentinel.
The general aspect of the country is luxuriant, but latterly
not a very healthy vegetation, for the excessive moisture,
whilst it has caused all descriptions of crops to advance in
growth, has given to wheat, oats, and Irarlow, in low situations
and retentive soil, a yellow or foxy hue, and in many places
the early-sown potatoes, particularly the pink-eyes, and other
early kinds, a very• extensive detect or weakly produce is
visible. If favourable weather ensues, the remaining growth
will not give cause fur alarm. The bean fields are in a prime
condition, and give proof of an ample return.—Weaford
Conservative. _ _

-SERIOUS INJURY TO THE CROPS.—The weather, for this
season of the year, is unusually harsh and severe, and will,
no doubt, have the worst possible effects on the young crops.
On Monday it commenced to rain about two o'clock in the
afternoon, and did nut cease falling in torrents until this
morning. Such large quantities of rain fell, that we under-
stand tilled land, to the extent Of one hundred acres, lying
on the banks of the Moy, between this town and Foxtord,
has been most seriously if not irretrievably injured. We do
not recollect to have ever witnessed such severe weather in
the commencement of June.—Balling Advertiser.
THE CROPS.—Within the last four weeks we have bad an
opportunity of seeing the state of agriculture throughout the
entire of the province of Ulster. In general, the grain crops
present a luxuriant aspect; although the prevalence of wet
weather is inducing a sickly appearance. The potatoes are
not yet all planted, from the wet season. A great breadth of
flax has been sown.—Northern WAiy.