The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-06-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND IN 1689.—500 n after his arrival from France, King James met his parliament in Dublin, on 7th May, which was composed of Papists, who were slaves to his will, many of them descendants of the forfeiting persons of 1641, who had no freehold estates in the kingdom, and made many fine promises to them. The parliament recognised the title of King James, and declared King William an usurper. They repealed the settlement of 1662, under which many thousands of Protestants had purchased possessions, and were now suddenly deprived of them : this was violently pulling down the pale of the law, in a manner never before heard of among the professors of Christianity. It wounded national faith, and stabbed public credit—broke the merchant at home, and defrauded him abroad—ruined the farmer, and impoverished the manufacturer. The rapparees, or armed mob, deprived the Protestants of all their moveable estates; and the parliament deprived them of all their lands and tenements, which they had wonderfully improved. By this act King James seemed to justify the grand Irish rebellion in. 1641 • and this was followed by an act of attainder, which exceeded the proscriptions of Sylla! They attainted of rebellion no less than 2 archbishops, 1 duke, 16 earls, 20 viscounts, 1 viscountess, 7 bishops, 26 barons, 33 baronets, 51 knights. 83 clergymen, and 2,233 gentlemen, who were all declared traitors, and their estates confiscated or plundered. Tyrconnel had £20,000 a year granted him out of the confiscated estates, and the King the same per month. Many hundreds of poor persons were murdered in cold blood by the popish soldiers, while the rich were robbed of their estates, and the popish priests enabled to collect the tithes, which were payable by papists. The Irish parliament sat only from 7th May to 20th July, and vet, in that short time, they entirely destroyed the settlement of Ireland, by expelling the Protestant clergy from their livings and the laity from their inheritances—they would have Ireland independent of Eng• land, and wanted to repeal Poyning's act of 1494. Public robberies were committed under the name of free guarterings, and, though protections were sold to the Protestants, they were disregarded by the Papists. The University of Dublin was turned into a garrison, and all the public schools in the kingdom given to Papists, who likewise seized upon all the Protestant churches. The Protestants were at length forbid to assemble together on pain of death, so that it seemed determined to hang one-halt of them and to starve the other. But while they suffered so much from the parliament of Ireland. their protection was not neglected by the parliament of England, who made Irish affairs a considerable article of their proceedings.—Old History. The Auckland Times is described as being " printed in a mangle," and a strange piece of typography it is accordingly. The " sole editor and proprietor, Henry Falwasser," while, in the meantime, taking to himself the humble cognomen of the " Old Lady of the Mangle," expects daily his own press and materials; when, doubtless, the old lady will dispose of her mangle, and purchase something more useful for a printing office. The style of the Mangle is quite sui generis. It may be observed, that the occasion of ifs being printed by such a machine is stated by the editor to have been the attempt of the local government to stifle public opinion, by refusing the proprietor the use of the only printing materials in the settlement, those of the government, as soon as it was perceived that the Times was determined to be very independent in its strictures on public doings and misdoings. The phrases suggested by the peculiar circumstance are very amusing—" We stop the Mangle to announce the arrival of the .St. George."—" The Governor will repent having driven us to the Mangle," &c. We have only room for one characteristic description :—" Full many a time and oft have we laughed over the distresses of Mantalini and his mangle, as  depictured by the inimitable Boz—we did not think this process would so soon fall to our turn—nevertheless any one of our subscribers, who is desirous of satisfying his curiosity, may call in at High-street and see the Times