The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-01-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PIEPARATIONS TO ENFORCE THE LAWS.—We are much amused at the extreme surprise affected by some of the Irish journals at the prevalence of reports, that Government deems the state of Ireland to be such as to imply the Propriety of adopting every sort of precaution that may be necessary to enforce a due obedience to author, ity and to law. It may- appear to them the most natural and the most innocent thing in the world to talk of cutting down woods to form pike handles for volunteers, to transform the said volunteers into national guards; to summon a national convention, and denounce as traitors to the country all who refuse to attend the summons ; to impede legal process; to murder an obnoxious clergyMan or farmer now and then upon principle, with many other ttifling deviations from the strict line of social or-1 der; but we can assure them that in England these little escapades are regarded as indications which render a prevalence of, and even a belief in, these reports extremely. IlatUral. Were Mr. O'Connell nominally as well as virtually to assume the dictatorship of the Gfreen Island, we doubt not that the same sort of innocent amazement at any small demur on the part of the King's Government Would be manifested. But that the conduct adopted by Carolina should suggest any thing like an argument against agitation for a repeal of the Union, seems to these unconscious scribes more unaccountable than all the rest; that is to say, a glaring instance of the intrinsie frailness of the federal tie is not to form an argument against a return to a similar mode of connexion with a country in which it was once terminated, because at. tended by the most unhappy divisions, and even rebellion itself. We are not, however, disposed at this time of day to canvass the political and necessarily mixed motives that led to the union, which would seduce us into too wide a field ; but we may be allowed so far to advert to the pleaded reasons for it as to do away with the surprise of our Irish contemporaries at the proceedings in Carolina, producing certain associations in English kinds in relation to the kindred case of Ireland. But the instances are dissimilar, it seems, on another ground— our Irish repealers are not declaring for separation, like the Carolina people. True ; and neither when they Wanted Catholic emancipation did they talk of repeal. Mr. O'Connell plainly avows the policy of agitating for one thing at a time, and it may be deemed premature to talk of separation until the volunteers are transformed into the national guard. Be this as it may, our Irish brother journalists must no longer be surprised at the supposition on the part of simple Englishmen, that Government may deem a little prudent preparation for a due Maintenance of authority essential to a regulation of the Ultimate views of patriots who, although they may not disclose all which they intend to effect, say quite enough to stimulate every dignified and rational executive into tie assumption of a position which can enforce the obeQience which is due to it. As to the rest, we neither know nor affect to know the exact intentions of Governroent as respects the repression of agitation and disorder in Ireland. But this much we will maintain, that to supPose that the existing state of party and faction there will riot call for early parliamentary attention—and that with a direct view to repression—would be to libel both the Government and the parliament. Nor in the utterance of this opinion must we, be supposed to deny the fact, that Ministers are called upon to enter with sincerity and earnestness into a thorough investigation of real Irish grievances, especially as respects the church, the adininistration of justice, and the melancholy condition of the numerous peasantry. But because all this has become an imperative duty, the due maintenance of authority by the government, by whom all this ought to be Performed, is doubly necessary ; especially as we more than suspect, that in the estimation of certain partisans nothing would be more fatal and perplexing than the quiet attainment of so much pod as would defeat their own interested objects and mischievous party views.— Globe.  FOE,7:,'FfsI7.,T n4171E7.14