The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORAING, DEC. 5, 1843

Another victim of the bloody tragedy of Finnoe
has just been added to the hecatombs, who have fal-
len beneath the system of fiendish outrage which
desolates unhappy Ireland ! After a protracted pe-
Mr.
Waller has followed to the

riod of suffering,

grave

Us unotiencling sister-in-law, Miss Vereker ;
and there is too much reason to fear that his life will

not be the last forfeited—that his amiable lady, now
hovering between this world and eternity, will, be-
fore many days, be laid with him, side by side, in

an untimely grave. And yet justice still sleeps, in
the land which holds the murderers of this ill-fated
The cold-blooded traitor, whose truculent
appeals to the bad passions of the Irish peasantry
have contributed to produce the feeling, which has
impelled them to this and similar outbreaks of fury
and malignity. gathers round him his levees of

family

We did entertain this idea. We acted upon it ;
we originated a Protestant Operative Association in
Liverpool; and how nobly was our call responded
still to by the humble, but faithful, men to whom our
ain
appeal was made. By a Conservative Democracy—
to, by our Operative Protestants—we have been at
nd length enabled to reverse the position in which we
v were placed previously to their organization—to over-
k
throw a local and a national Whig-Radical tyranny,
paai
and plant the time-honoured flag of " our glorious
f
brc constitution, in church and state," in a triumphant
exc position, upon those walls, beneath which, so lately,
oat, Republicanism and Infidelity were mining, and
sibil‘ whose anticipated fall these twin demons were
AC Co, watching for in exuberant delight. The monarchy,
s PP
the peerage, the constitution of our fathers, were
A strange—a revolting—an awful state of things,
saved—eternal honour to the " hard-handed men
.ndeed, is this to exist in a Christian empire—in an
who toil in Athens here," by whose loyalty and
integral portion of the British empire ! Day after
honesty a consummation so glorious was mainly
day, we are horrified with accounts of fresh murders,
1, fresh instances of the determination achieved.
ruffianly portion of a misguided people to
fate of the victors ? For a time—there is much in
-to glut their " wild revenge" in
that—Conservatism became the ascendant power in
and cruelty, And yet, again we say,
Great Britain; and now where are the instruments
SLEEPS ! The poor Protestant, in many
,stage in the wilds of Tipperary, holds his life, of its elevation? Our Conservative Associations,
and the lives of his wife and children, at the mercy our Tradesmen's Association, and even that great
of the midnight assassin, who, at any hour, may ap-
body—" the Protestant Association" of Liverpool—
ply the torch to his humble thatch, and drench his where are they now ? 'What are their works ? They
are extinct! They parted asunder, in the hour of
hearth with their innocent blood. The Protestant
landowners and gentry are compelled to sleep with
triumph, like a rope of sand. Of the combined bo-
dies by whom, in this locality, the battle of the con-
loaded arms beneath their pillows, prepared, at any
to repel the attacks, which a Ribband con-
stitution was fought, the humble Association of
against their lives. And to meet
Operative Protestants alone remains—"amongst the
this fearful and intolerable tyranny—to paralyse the faithless faithful only found !" Unaided by those
who have reaped the chief fruits of their exertions— " That in so large a town as Liverpool, presenting, as
arm of murder, and turn from our loyal fellow-
discountenanced, deserted, unaided in their zealous it does, so many facilities for short excursions of l a...'
subjects the steel and the bullet—they have the
sure, and besides, the usual attractions of a seaport, your
protestantism—the operatives of Liverpool still re-mockery of a whining and pleading address fromtoge petitionerstber s
o findai
tgreat
idni ftriecaudl.tyei n keepingb
main, a wedge of iron—a rampart impenetrable—
' _1 traitor, O'Connell, to the ruffians requiredperience nof court;3,ou r
to resist the aggressive attacks of liberalism. To and which objection does not, in the ex
A nife and the musket, by which they
petitioners, apply to Lancaster. The same observations
the world they hold out still an example worthy of
—they have the law, creeping, like a frequentlymay be applied to the petty jurors."
all praise—worthy of imitation ; the example of a
Jrtoise, in the wake of a blood-hound or
The lively people of the manufacturing districts
body of humble artizans standing in the breach of
Again, and again we say, JUSTICE SLEEPS!
round Manchester cannot be restrained when they
t
This must not be. It cannot longer be tolerated. the constitution, when those who should have led
them and cheered them on—those whom their ex-
get, out of their own fog and smoke, into our pure
..oyal Irishmen look for something better—some-
air ! They get away from their legal keeping—take
, its*.
thing more decided—than the mockery of protection
ertions have raised to posts of honour and e
pleasure trips—deprive the attorney, or his clerk, of
which the arch-traitors, at whom it is di-
fruits of labour and sacrifices in which they refuse -.di
which is at present held out to them. A prosecu-
ment—are sunk in luxurious ease, enjoying e
the tail of witnesses and other followers, with which
to participate.
he struts about the vicinity of the Sessions-house,
1, laugh—an army, at which the ignorant Irish
brief-bag in hand and conscious importance in his
1- whilst they long to be brought into Should this he ? Oh, no—" Reform it altoge-
-1
f
ther," Conservative gentlemen of Liverpool. We face—and go gipsying to Cheshire and elsewhere.
he possibility of detection which,
All this is very shocking and provoking; but really
ask you not to yield up to the support of Conserva- furnished by a jury of co-
we are afraid that it will scarcely be deemed, by her
arers, they regard with indifference—
tism your leisure—your valuable time, which, by
M
the bye, you grudged not, at a period not long past. Majesty's advisers, a sufficient reason for the change
these are not the appliances, with which the security
of locality petitioned for. Lan aster we have always
But one duty, in honour, you are bound to perform.
rod property in Ireland can now be provided
thought a very pretty place, with many inducements
Out of their scanty, too scanty pittances, your ope-
now beyond that point, at which the
for "short trips of pleasure," and other intoxicating
powers of the law can preserve life and rative brethren are providing funds to enable them
recreations, which are said to draw innocent and
still to perform the duties from which you have
We are at that point, at which we must
excitable Manchestrians from beneath the protection
ether Ireland is to remain a howling shrunk. It is for you to take a portion of this
burthen from their shoulders. It is for you to as-
of the legal wing; and if any change must be made
ne of hourly outrage and murder—a
—if the liveliness of our neighbours is so excessive—
.ii which men draw their breaths without the sure them that, in the contest in which they are
we should suggest, as the proper locality to be engaged, they shall not be left to fight unaided !
assured certainty that the assassin is not at their
Jested, some dreary spot on Chat Moss, where the
se-
-or whether it is to be COERCED to submis-
Lay these things to heart, Conservatives of Liver-
pool ! Look well at the battle which these faithful fear of bogs and pits would restrain their feet from
on—to be HELD DOWN, until the laws and the
-titution have been enabled to assert their supre- men have to wage ! Glance at the thousand pla-
wandering from the precincts of the court-house.
and to protect the lives and the property of cards—Chartist, Repeal, Anti-Corn-Law,and others Seriously, we cannot but suspect that this, like
—which cover the walls of your town, announcing other similar movements of the Manchester people,
meetings for the purpose of disseminating doctrines is prompted by a little--a very little—quantity of
hostile to the best interests of the country; and say jealous feeling towards our "good old town." They
whether, at such a crisis as the present, it is truly must really try to get the better of this; they must
a
wise, or even worldly wise, to leave a body of men, allow us to live, without these continual efforts to
throw us into the shade; and especially, if even they
by whom the minds of the democracy of your town
take from us our bonding warehouses, custom-house,
are so largely acted upon, to struggle unaided by
your countenance, or to depend even upon the docks, and shipping, they must allow us, twice
a-year, eloquent appeals of their Reverend Chairman and-year, the amusement afforded by the presence of
the shoal of pleasant and cultivated people, who visit
Patron, for that support, which IT SHOULD BE
YOURS TO AFFORD. us to settle their quarrels, and afford us a specimen
of the amenities of life in the manufacturing districts!

co-conspirators against the peace of their common
country—still rakes together the blood-stained wages
of his incendiarism and treason—is still held up by
priestly lips, from the very altars, as the guiding
genius of religion and patriotism—and, whilst the
execration and disgast of all good men falls unfelt
upon his seared heart and bronzed and impenetrable
countenance, is ready to exclaim, in the hideous
glee of his savage and venal nature—

To all these arguments, however, there are strong
grounds of demurrer. The business of the assizes
at Liverpool is protracted, because of the large num-
ber of cases coming from the hundred of Salford.
It is comparatively insignificant at Lancaster, be-
cause of the absence of those cases. The average
cost of prosecutions at Liverpool, the bulk of which
are serious cases from the manufacturing districts,
cannot fairly be measured by the cost of the petty
cases " from the remoter hundreds of Blackburn,
Leyland, Amounderness, and Lonsdale," ordinarily
tried at Lancaster, and which are in general such as
we should here dispose of at sessions. It should be
shown that our own serious cases would be more
cheaply disposed of at Lancaster, with the additional
amount of business which would be caused by the
removal to that place of the Manchester causes,
than at Liverpool ; but that, we apprehend, it would
be difficult to show. Most of the other alleged ad-
vantages of the former town, too, are such as would
disappear in a similar way when the business be-
came divided ; and one alleged evil—the necessity
of lawyers, witnesses, police-officers, &c., attending
the whole period of the assize—does not exist ; for
in most cases, where numerous witnesses are re-
quired, a day of hearing is fixed, and attendance
on that day only is necessary.
One statement of the petitioners is so ludicrous,
that, lest we should be thought to have drawn upon
imagination in giving it, we copy the ipsissinza verba.

"Populus me sibilat;
At mihi plaudo, simulae contemplor

Nummos in arca

outrage,

vel in blood

JUSTICE

moment,

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fit for the crisis

now arrive

ordinary

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for the punishment of offenders such as O'Connell

and his fellow tr

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sufficie

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those xvhi,
in Ireland

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ce Tir

'esults we have

.o record. The ordinary forms of the law

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with which it

rikes at its victims

'1 lie missives

f O'Connell cannot influence them,

Our good neighbours of the town of Manchester
have occasionally very extraordinary fancies, and
extraordinary modes of evincing them ; but the
most startling fancy of theirs, which we have re-
cently met with, is one which has developed itself
during the past week, in a proposal to remove the
assize business of the hundred of Salford from Li-
verpool back to Lancaster ! Every body must na-
turally imagine that the arrangement, made a few
years back, by which the assize business of the
southern division of the county is transacted at Li-
verpool was one likely to conduce greatly to the ad-
vantage and convenience of the entire community
affected by it, and to promote the cheap and speedy
administration of justice. At the time when this
arrangement was made, the people of Manchester
were as sanguine, with respect to its benefits, as
were the people of this town. But a change came
temper and • spirits of our neighbours.
Easily approachable as was Liverpool, by railways,
from all parts of the county, it was contended that
Manchester ought to have assizes of her own ; that
it was beneath the dignity of her attorneys, wit-
nesses, policemen, and other frequenters of courts of
law, to have to travel to Liverpool, and remain, pos-
sibly a week or two, out of the hearing of anti-corn
law agitation, and the warmth and luxury, (to them),
of an atmosphere of mingled smoke and steam.
Fussy lawyers and local patriots were indignant at
the thought that for any thing—even a sentence of
transportation or the treadmill—the town of Man-
chester should be dependent upon Liverpool; and
the issue of months of this kind of vapouring was
an unsuccessful application to her Majesty in coun-
cil, to permit the causes and prisoners from the
hundred of Salford to be tried at the New Bailey
Court-house.

even if

ly suppose that those missives

At length we are delighted to observe that an
effort, worthy of being called such, is being made
to liberate from his long and dreary confinement
that tried friend of the people, and of the constitution
of his country,—RICHARD OASTLER. At such a
crisis as the present, the loss of the services of such
a man is a national calamity. Every groan of the
wretched pauper in his bastile prison—every pang
of the suffering factory child—every cry of op-
pressed humanity within the realm—appeal to the
hearts of Englishmen to be up and stirring in the
endeavour—and what a paltry one it is for a nation !
—to strike the fetters from the limbs and the soul
(for such slavery shrivels the limbs and the soul
both) of the man best fitted to contest successfully in
a cause so high and holy. Already, as will be seen
by an advertisement in our columns this day, the
attempt, in his own immediate neighbourhood, has
been made, and attended by a considerable amount
of success; and measures are being taken to bring
the claims of this honest and sincere patriot, and
friend of the human race, before the consideration of
the public of Liverpool. A meeting, to carry out
the success of this effort, is, we understand, shortly
to be held in Liverpool, at which Mr. Walter, of
the London Times, Mr. Ferrand, M.P., and other
distinguished friends of Mr. Oastler, and advocates
of the same good cause, will be present ; and we do
not, we are confident, so far underrate the attach-
ment of our fellow townsmen to those principles,
for which Mr. Oastler has suffered, as to fear that
we are wrong, in predicting that the response to an
appeal in his favour will be worthy of .this loyal
and Conservative town.

are dictated in s'

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ere witne

not give evidence. Juries

a dagger is held suspended

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to a sterner and

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shadow of justice

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must proclaim to the

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sion of the disturbed portion

This application having been met .wth a negative
—for the very obvious reason, amongst others, that
a large manufacturing town, the centre of a large
and excitable manufacturing population, is not the
most convenient place for the due administration
of justice—we concluded that the question was k et
at rest; and, in the best spirit, the authorities of our
town set about the providing of the best arrange-
ments in their power, for promoting the comfort and
convenience of their Manchester friends. The cause
list was divided, and precedence given to causes
from the hundred of Salford. Every other practical
facility was offered, and, with a liberality not,
it would appear, sufficiently estimated, we sat
about the construction of the magnificent building
now erecting, on the site of the Old Infirmary, for

CAUTION TO ENGLISH REPEAL WARDENS.—The in-
solence and faithlessness of the Irish mendicant and
traitor have often been exhibited towards those of his
dupes whom he could illtreat with supposed impunity ;
and an instance of these qualities is this day to be found
in our columns. A party in Pr scot (whose name will be
seen appended to a letter addressed to the former object
of his idolatry—Daniel), in the fullness of his heart, in_
dited, and printed, we suppose, a placard address to the
Homan catholics in his locality ; and with the pride of
authorship strong within him, forwarded his production
to O'Connell himself. Did he receive for his zeal the thanks
of the frequenters of the Corn Exchange.—a mural crown,
or any thing of that sort? Oh, no ! Had he his produc-
tion returned, with a paternal rebuke, to be treasured in•
all his after life, as a mark of the notice of him by a great
man? Not that either ! our correspondent—repeal
warden as he was—had his placard simply enclosed to the
inspector of police at Prescot—a tolerably fair hint to
that functio nary that a prosecution of the writer would be
very proper ! Such conduct—such treachery we may call
it—requires no comment of ours. Let it be a hint to
Englishmen, whatever their politics, to trust Daniel for
the future as little as possible. The fellow would hang
all his generation for the price of the cordage required

law courts

We were wrong, however,

e operation.