The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-03-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND YET ANOTHER.—The marble polishers, rubbers, and sawyers have resolved— " "That we are determined after the 10th day of March not to work under an advance of twenty-five per cent.' "  There is no country on the face of the earth where the worst passions of human nature are more frightfully developed than in Ireland. Murder by open violence is bad enough ; but wilful perjury, eincloyed for the purpose of swearing away the life of an innocent man, from no motive of revenge, from no sense of personal injury, but for the sake of money and to Gratify the dark malignity of certain villians Who are called priests; is inexpressibly atrocious and diabolical.  Such crimes are common to and are of frequent occurrence in Ireland. A wretched population is kept in savage ignorance by the popish priests, for in this state these people are much more easily made the victims of priestly rapacity. They are plundered by their father confessors every day and every hour of their existence. From his cradle to his coffin the poor labourer is perpetually toiling to meet the demands of his'priest. He is taxed to the amount of half his parents' wealth when he is christened, and he is waked and anointed at the expense of his last shilling. It takes more than he could earn in twelve months to defray the costs of his marriage, and, when he expires, his friends suffer as severe a loss in their pockets as his orphans do by his death. He i 5 'punished by the magistrate for theft, and he has to 'pay. r. the priest for confessing the crime. He is sent to Enk- :.? land a beggar to-procure the means of paying-his station dues or his Easter offerings. He begs and works for that of which he is robbed by the " good man." He is tempted to be dishonest in order- that he may be considered a true catholic of the old chtirch ; and, if successful in his knavery, he is compelled to share his gains with the monk who absolves hint'fiom the sin. If regular in his attendance at Mass, he is fleeced of his money ; if irregular, he is obliged to pay for not receiving that which he has to pay for receiving. He is consequently taxed for not having a coat to go to the chapel in ; and if, by accident, he have a good coat, he has to pay double. He is taxed for attending mass, and taxed for absenting himself from it. He is taxed for the faults of his wife 'and the misfortunes of his mother. He is taxed for h'isibretiter that is hanged and his brother-in-law that is transported. He is taxed when he presents his child at the baptismal fount, and he is taxed for the remains of Ilia father in his coffin. Coming into the world, going out of the world, and in the realms beyond the world; lie is taxed. At birth, at baptism, at board, and in bed—at mass and at marriage—in health and in sickness--at consecration and at confession—on the day of feasting and the day of mourning—on every saint's day in the eatendar from Yule to Midsummer and from Midsummer, to Yule, the poor Irish papist is taxed and plundered 11 • some rapacious priest.  Can we wonder then that the labouring classes of the sister island are poor and miserable Poverty is not a crime; but it is a crime of the deepest dye in him who keeps men ignorant, and, by superstitious'appiiances, re" duces them to poverty. But if with poverty there: earn(' contentment and peace of men—if the fault were in the system and its effects 'were not pernicious, we mighthave. reason to be more tolerant of popery in the same wal that the law is of quackery, which may be corrected but •, cannot be eradicated. Alas ! there is no conSoliti°l3 even from this source. The Irish peasant is not onl! reduced • chioeil to misery and destitution by the frtinduie.zi(4os: • his priest, but he is told that his povertr•is chits*o.l7t t'ue