The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.
The Paris papers of Wednesday are destitute of political
news. Our Paris friends are looking with intense interest
to the news from this side the Channel, and the utmost
anxiety was shown to know the result of the deliberations
of the Privy Council on Monday last, on the Tahiti ques-
tion. The Commerce says that the Prince do Joinville is
about to return to Paris, where he is expected to arrive
about the 20th of the present month.
The Constilutionnel gives the following extract of a
letter from an aid-de-camp of the Prince tie Joinville to
the French Consul at Cadiz, dated on board the Pluton,
the Pith ult..—
.

"The Admiral has reveived orders to keep possession
of the island of Mogador, in which we have placed a gar-
rison. The possession of the island is equivalent to that
of the city, and fulfils all our desires, insuring us a gua-
rantee for the complete satisfaction of all our wrongs•
The city will remain in a state of blockade, and conse-
quently the Emperor will be deprived of the large revenue
he derived from its customs, which is wounding him in
his most sensitive part. The campaign is thus brought to
a close."

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—We beg to congratulate the
country on the truly gratifying intelligence of a probable
arrangement of the Tahiti question, and a termination to
all fears of a rupture between ourselves and France. M.
D'Aubigny has been moved from Tahiti ; his conduct has
been made the subject of apology, and satisfaction will,
we are told, be made to Mr. Pritchard for the ill-treatment
he has received. The former officer had been previously
censured by his superior, Captain Bruat, and this addi-
tional stamp upon him, accompanied with a due measure
of satisfaction to the injured person, appears to be a suffi-
cient recognition on the part of the French government
of our charge against D'Aubigny.—Times.
The losses sustained by the Emperor of Morocco since
the commencement of hostilities with France are esti-
mated at 30,000,000 francs, and this loss is every day in-
creased by the cessation of commerce.
At Franconville, France, the other day, a drunken
man, whilst sleeping on a bench, set himself on tire by
crushing a box of lucifer matches in his pocket, in turn-
ing, and was burnt to death.

A letter from Gibraltar, published in a Madrid paper,
reports that the Bey of Larache and the Emperor of
Morocco's son, who are at Tangier, are charged by the
Emperor to accede to all the demands of France.
SPAIN.—Senor Cardero, the late political chief of Ba.
dajos, has been banished to the Canary Islands, after
some weeks' imprisonment at Cadiz, without trial, and
without an accusation being brought against him. His
only crime was that of being friendly to Espartero.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.—
It is stated, that on the 26th ult., at the moment the I
troops were filing off before the Emperor and Empress
of Austria, four piers, that supported au iron railway,
near her majesty, fell down and killed two men and in-
jured several others, amongst whom were two captains,
very severely.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 29th ult. says :—" The
Governor has received an official communication, in which
it is stated that the Moorish subjects who fled from Tan-
gier are allowed to return there. The same despatch adds
a caution to all British subjects who may visit Tangier at
present merely from motives of curiosity, nor to enter nor
remain in that town. This, however, does not apply to
official persons, or to persons having commercial relations
with the place.
THE MORMON TEMPLE.—One of the editors of St.
Louis Reveille, having lately visited Nauvoo, thus speaks
of the new Mormon Temple: "The system upon which
this temple has been building is the exaction of labour
every tenth day from every man who cannot purchase his
exemption from the task with money. It will be, if ever
finished, a very imposing looking edifice. It stands in a
high and commanding position, a prominent object, rivet-
ing the stranger's eye at once, and, upon near inspection,
the style of architecture is found to be more than corn-
monly attractive, from its singularity. It is like nothing
else ; and, unless we may be allowed to designate it as the
Mormonic order, it certainly has no name at all. The.
stone is of excellent quality, quarried in the neighbour-
hood, and very good mechanics have been at work upon
it. The massive caps of the columns are already carved
from huge blocks, showing a gigantic round human face,
like the broad full moon. The columns are made to rest
upon crescent moons, sculptured on the face of the stone,
resting with the horns down, and with a profile of eyes,
nose, and mouth, upon the inner curve. What idea this
is meant to convey we could not learn, though the im-
pression is irresistible, that the church is built upon
moonshine,"
MEH ENIET ALL—A youthful prank, played by an old
gentleman of eighty, Mehemet AR, has frighteted the
Levant, and but for the more juvenile pranks of the i
French, would have caused still greater afffight. His
sage highness, the Nestor of the Mediterranean, went to
a party, committed an excess, and got so uprorious and
extravagant, that no Irishman, before the invention of
teetotalism, ever equalled it. He beat his women, cuffed
his minister, cursed his physician, broke his pipe, and
flung his fez out of the window, At last he sent for
250,000 purses, and, flinging himself into a boat, set sail,
or oars, for Cairo, bent on gaiety, but acquainting his
worthy Alexandrian subjects that he was bound for Mecca.
The feast in question vas given by Mehemet's daughter,
the widow of the Defterdar Bey •, in honour, too, of the
wedding of one of the family. The old Pasha was invited,
and was served, of course, alone, with viands the most
spicy and drinks the most exciting. The drink was not
wine, for that is forbidden by the prophet ; it rather re-
sembled that drunk at Irish temperance halls, where
whiskey is prohibited, but where cordials concocted of
alcohol, disguised with ginger and pimento, are swallowed,
as not only compatible with the pledge, but highly ho-
nouring it. So Mehemet's tipple was more of the spicy
than the spirituous; and instead of making him good-na-
tured, it made his highness very much the contrary, for
he set abont beating all the women, to the horror of eu-
nuchs, black and white. He then made off, as we have
described, in a tangent, Ibrahim going to all sorts of de-
vices to send his physicians after him, smuggling them
first into the house, and then into the boat. Such is a
meagre and true outline of an event which has much
alarmed politicians, and even the Alexandrians, although
their affright was considerably intermixed with laughter.
There was neither conspiracy nor revolution. It was not
a deep-laid plot of Ilbraliam's, nor yet the Marquis of
Lavalette, French consul, nor yet of any hostile Turk ; it
was simply the political effect of a social orgie.—Exa-
miner.

IRELAND.

LIBERATION OF THE STATE PRISONERS.

In the early part of Friday, a communication was made
to the High Sheriff, by means of an official letter from Mr.
Lucas, that he should hold himself in readiness to dis;
charge the state prisoners as soon as the order of the
House of Lords should arrive.

Mr. Gartlan, one of the agents for the traversers arrived
in Dublin on Friday evening with the order for their dis-
charge. Immediately after his arrival, shortly before six
o'clock, he proceeded at once to the Richmond Bridewell,
and informed Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners
that they were at liberty, which intelligence having spread
rapidly through the neighbourhood, a considerable num-
ber of persons collected round the entrance door of the
prison in order to see and welcome them upon their liber-
ation, it having been generally understood that they
would go to their respective homes for the night, and re-
turn in the morning for the purpose of leaving the prison
in triumPh—passing along the same route by which they
were conveyed there. Shortly after seven o'clock, Mr.
O'Connell left the Penitentiary leaning upon his sons,
Mr. Joh► O'Connell and Mr. Daniel O'Connell, juor.,
accompauied by Mr. Steele, and proceeded on foot
amidst the .shouting of the mob, down the Circular-road,
along Harcotirt.street, Stephen's-green, Upper Merrion-
street, to Merrign-square, where he arrived about a
quarter before eight o'clock. The other prisoners subse-
quently left the gaol, and were also loudly cheered upon
making their appearance.
A considerable assemblage of persons of the lower orders
were collected about Mr. O'Connell's house, and in a few
minutes after his entrance he appeared upon the balcony,
and briefly addressed them to the following effect, as far
as we could collect under such unfavourable circumstances
for hearing accurately, which were considerably increased
by the noise and confusion arising from the anxiety of all
present to be the auditors of " the first speech after the
incarceration":—
He commenced by stating that he had at last returned
to his honest home from prison, and proceeded to say,
that in other countries it was generally rogues and vaga-
bonds that were sent to gaol, which was not the case in
Ireland, as they were all aware that he and his brother
martyrs were doomed to imprisonment for endeavouring
to make their fellow men free. (Great applause.) He
then briefly thanked the Irish people for the peace and
tranquility which they had manifested during his incar-
ceration, and said that he had no doubt that they would
continue in the same course now, that they had reason
to be joyful. He then alluded to the procession, which,
he said, would take place in the morning at ten o'clock,
and said he would give his countrymen an opportu-
nity of testifying their love for him, which was only
equalled by his love for them. After exhorting them
to go home peaceably and quietly, and telling them that
he would meet them in the morning, the learned gentle-
man re-entered his house amidst loud cheers, which con-
tinued for some time.

The crowd, however, dispersed shortly after, withou
any disturbance taking place, as far as we could learn.

THE PROCESSION.

At an early hour on Saturday morning Mr. O'Connell
and all the other state prisoners (who were discharged on
the previous evening) returned to the Richmond Bride-
well for the purpose of leaving it in procession, and pass-
ing along the same route by which they were conducted
there. The morning was very inauspicious for such a dis-
play, in consequence of which it was postponed from ten
until nearly two o'clock, by which hour the weather had
taken a change for the better, when Mr. O'Connell took
his; seat, accompanied by Mr. John O'Connell, in the
chair in which he and Mr. Ruthven were chaired after
their return for the city of Dublin, in 1832 ; and pro-
ceeded after the trades, corporation, committee of the
Repeal Association, &c., to pass through the specified
line of streets, to his own house.
Previous to the arrival of any of the carriages, the Ci-
rcular-road was crowded from the turnpike to the prison,
and as far again upon the other side by thousands of
the lower orders, who relinquished all ideas of business,
and regardless of wind or weather, attended for the pur-
pose of seeing the " liberator liberated." Several gen-
tlemen also arrived early, and called at the prison, amongst
whom were a considerable number of Roman Catholic
clergymen, to congratulate the traversers upon their libera-
tion. Many of them who came from the country pre-
, set,ted Mr. O'Connell with addresses, including the
mayor and ex-ma} Dr of Limerick, who handed him an

address adopted by the corporation, which he announced
his intention of replying to after his arrival in Merrion-
square.
At about one o'clock, the first part of the procession
which formed at Mr. O'Connell's, in Merrion-square,
arrived opposite the prison-gate, when they were loudly
cheered for a long time ; shortly after which Mr. Steele
made his appearance, with an olive branch in his hand,
and passed through the crowds to keep them in order;
which occupation he was constantly employed in all the
time that elapsed previous to the arrival of the state car.
The first banner which made its appearance on the Cir-
cular-road was that cf the bricklayers, which was the most
conspicuous in the procession, hearing the arms of the
trade upon one side, with a tolerably fair representation
of the bank on the reverse, and the inscription of " our
old house at home," underneath. It was accompanied by
a temperance band, one of which attended each trade ;
and all the different members, who walked two and two,
wore repeal buttons with blue ribbons round their necks,
froth which the majority of them suspeaded temperance
medals. _ _

The horseshoers followed, also attended by a band,
headed by an idiot, (whom, we presume, acted as drurx.-
major,) generally known upon the north side of the
and particularly by the magistrates of Henry-street police-
office, by the name of " OWNEY," who was decked out
with ribbons, medal, &c., and bore a huge wand, and oc-
casionally giving a shout for repeal. He was loudly
cheered, and frequently recognised by his acquaintances
en passant. Next followed the ship-carpenters, the house-
painters, nailors, clothiers, woollen operatives, coach-
makers, machine smith society, cabinet-makers, the post-
office ward, mr.rble sawyers, coopers, tanners, silk trade,
butchers, saddlers, house smiths, slaters, bakers, sweeps,
poulterers, pipemakers, and the temperance society, (Mr.
Spratt's.) After the trades followed the carriages of the
several repeal wardens, from which banners were ex-
hibited.

The several trades were followed by the committee of
the Trades' Political Union in eight carrines. Then
came the members of the committee of the Repeal As-
sociation, followed by the Corro:ation, the members of
which occupied 29 carriages, ireuding the Lord Mayor's
two carriages, in the first of which was seated his son,
and secretary, Patrick O'Brien, Esq., and some other
members of the family. His lordship then followed in his
suite coach, and was accompanied by Mr. Smith O'Brien,
M.P.

Immediately after this carriage a large green flag was
borne, upon which was printed the word " Patriots,"
and then came the state car, upon which were placed two
handsome arm-chairs, unoccupied, covered with crimson
and gold. When this vehicle, which, as we before ob-
served, is of rather ancient construction, although brushed
up for the occasion, had arrived opposite the prison-
door, the band struck up, " See, the conquering hero
comes;" upon which Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by
Mr. John O'Connell, came forth from the prison, amidst
tremendous cheering, and took their seats upon the car—
Mr. Steele, the Rev. Dr. Meyle-, and Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, jun., sitting at their feet.
It is, perhaps, worth observing that in front of this
machine, which was drawn by eight greys, was seated an
Irish harper, upon each side of whom stood a page
dressed in green velvet.
When Mr. O'Connell had taken his seat, and the
cheering had in some measure subsided, the procession
again moved on up the Circular-road.
The other traversers followed in carriages with their
families, and were again followed by a great number of
vehicles of every description that reached along the whole
of the road. The line was then kept perfect, amidst the
applause of the crowds r Esenabled in the streets through
which the procession passed.
When Mr. O'Connell entered his house in Merrion-
square, he was greeted with immense cheering. He
afterwards shortly announced that he would make known
his intentions as to future proceedings at the meeting of
the Repeal Association to be held on Monday (yesterday.)
We shall give a report of his speech in a second edition.

Mr. O'Connell gave the sum of seventy pounds, on Sa-
turday, for the liberation of persons confined in the Rich-
mond Bridewell for petty assaults, &c.
THE AFFGHAN HEROES.—Sir Robert Sale and his
heroic lady, accompanied by Mrs. Sturt and her child,
arrived from this town at Londonderry on Tuesday last.
They were received very enthusiastically by the loyal in-
habitants. Guns were fired, and the bells were rung,
whilst the gallant officer was conducted round the city.
On Friday evening a splendid banquet was given in honour
of his visit, at which the Mayor presided, the High Sheriff
and the Lord Bishop of Derry being present, along with
upwards of ISO highly respectable gentlemen. Sir Robert
was to leave Derry for Dublin yesterday, and on Friday
a public ball will be given in the Corporation Hall, in
honour of Lady Sale.

LORD HEYTESBURY'S POLICY.-It will be seen by the
official announcement published on authority, and under
the heading of " Viceregal Court," that Doctor Murray
has been elevated to the rank, and is designated by the
title of " Archbishop." During the administration of
Lord de Grey, this gentleman took his proper place at the
viceregal dinners, and was properly described in their au-
thorised announcements ; but the Packet of last evening
—acting of course under orders, and publishing the list
of guests in the order and form in which it was trans-
mitted by the comptroller of the household for publication,
prints the list in such order as to give Doctor
Murray precedence and position befole baronets.—
Dublin Mail.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting was held
on Monday. Mr. D. O'Connell, junr., handed in £75
from Brooklyn, New York, and then proceeded to make
his usual weekly report, which stated that the State pri-
soners were in excellent health and spirits. Adverting to
the proceedings before the Lords he said that " the deci-
sion of the Judges should be waited for with the utmost
Indifference. The eleven questions referred to the En-
glish Judges were so framed as to exclude the considera-
tion of the great merits of the case of the traversers in
particular • no question had arisen upon the charge of
the chief justice, a charge that nobody had been found,
either in or out of the House of Parliament, to defend:
yet the traversers were deprived of any advantage from
the illegality of that charge. The traversers were also de-
prived of any benefit from the Irish Judges having admit-
ted newspapers as evidence of the facts therein contained
against the traversers. Under those circumstances it
would be quite idle to expect any thing favourable from
the decision of the English Judges. Let the people,
therefore, throughout Ireland, receive with the utmost
tranquility, and without the slightest irritation, the an-
nouncement of an unfavourable decision by the Judges."
—A notice of motion by Mr. Gordon, suggesting the re-
vival of the volunteer organization of 1779 and 1782, in the
event of a war with France, was objected to by Mr. R. D.
Browne and the Chairman, as likely to bring them into
collision with the Government, and was withdrawn.—The
repeal rent of the week was announced to be £750.

OPINIONS OF THE IRISH PRESS AS TO THE

LATE JUDGMENT.

The Pilot of Friday exults in " the victory " achieved
by Mr. O'Connell, as an indisputable proof of his infalli-
bility as a lawyer, and designates his liberation as " the
first real act of justice to Ireland" performed by England.
The Weekly Register, another repealer, thinks justice
will be incomplete unless "every culprit who has had any
thing to do with the injuries inflicted on these innocent
men (the repeal martyrs) be IMPEACHED."
Another weekly paper announces that " a crisis has
arrived when moderation cannot be expected even from
' moderate men,' under such circumstances, who have
suffered wrong and are now liberated, flushed with vic-
tory."

The Evening Mail of Friday observes :
" If we could feel that the dignity of the law had been
asserted, and that Mr. O'Connell would use his regained
liberty with discretion ; that he would see and acknow-
ledge that Saxon lords and Saxon law were sufficient even
for lilts purposes, and outstrip in their measuring it ins
most sanguine expectations, we could see him with plea-
sure, at his time of life, exchange at this season of the
year the gloom of a prison for the free air of his own na-
tive mountains. But, alas, we have no such hope for him,
or for Ireland. He will embark with fresh energy and
with an increased hatred of English rule, and commence
a fresh series of attacks against the laws and liberties of
his country.
The Nation of Saturday, giving its orders to those who
compose the procession, says :
" Shout bravely—you did not desert your chiefs when
the gaol shut upon them. SOME SHRANK—YOU shrank
not—you have no blame fur the past. Shout boldly, now
—shout till your cities shake again, and the kine troop in
terror on your mountains at the voice of a glad people.
Meet your neighbours in holiday array with bright eyes
and swelling words—dance and sing in your market-
places, and deck your altars. Let your lovers interchange
vows on the festival—let your old men revive your boy-
hood, and your strong champions go forth in order as if
after a victory. We shall not labour the less to-morrow
for the gladness of to-day. IN REVERSING THE JUDG-
MENT OF THE IRISH AND ENGLISH JUDGES, THE
HOUSE Olir LORDS HAS SENTENCED THE CONSTITU-
TION!"
The Limerick Reporter of Saturday observes :
" Even ' monster' meetings have been vindicated, and
the conspiracy to suppress them utterly defeated. The
idol of the nation has been liberated, not by Royalfavour,
but the tardy award of justice. Such a victory was
never achieved over a desperate faction, whose power is
for ever extinguished. Their sanguinary paeans are
turned into the howlings and ravings of despair ! But
as the people have borne adversity with patience, let them
enjoy their triumph with moderation. Hurra for repeal!
Victory ! Glory ! Freedom !"
TheNenayh Guardian of Satin day remarks :
" he country must, therefore, look upon this reversal
of the solemn decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in
Ireland as a conciliatory peace-offering on the part of the
Queen's government to the repeal seditionists of this
kingdom. But will it be taken as such ? We fear not.
It will be looked upon more as a matter of triumph than
an act of conciliation, and will be far less binding upon the
gratitude of the disaffected people, than an act of grace
would have been, if there had been a unanimity of princi-
ple and decision between the judges of the two countries.
One great evil will be produced by this termination, viz.,
the want of confidence amongst all suitors and criminals,
whose causes or cases may be brought before the judges
of the Irish Queen's Bench, either in their own court or
upon circuit, regarding the purity and infallibility of their
judgments. It was scarcely fair to sacrifice and impugn
the legal knowledge and integrity of such men as the
Queen's Bench judges in Ireland, for the chance of taming
the hyena spirit of discord on Burgh-9u
The Newry Telegraph of Saturday contends that the
reversal of the judgment does not warrant a repetition of
the " monster meeting" at Clontarf as a decisive test.
" Let one be held there," says the Telegraph," and we
will admit that the state prosecutions have been profitless
—that the government has been stricken down, and that
the victory of O'Connell is complete and conclusive."