The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-11-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JACK LAWLESS. The letter concludes by saying, that " Galway has fired the first shot, to which, no doubt, all Ireland will respond !"  Is this a trick on the part of O'CONNELL to push forward the priests in order to alarm the Government, and accomplish some dirty object of his own ? It may be so ; but we well remember how long and how sturdilyit was denied that the Catholic priests took any part in agitation, or were at the bottom of all the excitement and deeds of blood and shame which have for many years disgraced and degraded Ireland. The murder, however, is out at last, and here we have a select party of priests, meeting in open day, and upon the sabbath, too, which they are bound to keep holy, for the purposes of irritation, to keep alive disaffection, to excite bad passions, and to kindle in the hearts of their ignorant followers a more savage and relentless hatred of the English Government and the English people. Is all warning to be thrown away on the cabinet of Lord GREY ? Are the priests oflreland to be allowed to scatter firebrands for ever ? Do the former not see that Ireland is the only country in Europe where popery aspires to a complete ascendancy, and where the priests are tolerated in their intolerance. It makes no difference whether they preach the undisguised doctrines of the Inquisition, or whether they veil their machinations under the semblance of political wrongs. Their object is one and the same.— They aim at supreme power by means of revolution.  But is this a period at which to endure such priestly dominanoo an ,Isurping pretensinne ? Look at France— look at Portugal—look at the disconsolate whining of the pOor POPE himself :  " Venerable brethren, we expressly proclaim that we absolutely reprobate all the decrees issued by the aforesaid government of Lisbon to the great detriment of the church, of its holy ministers of the ecclesiastical law, and Holy See prerogatives; we, therefore, declare them to be null and of no effect, and, expressing our most serious complaints against the audacious measures we have referred to, we declare that in exercising the duties of our office, and, with God's help, we will oppose ourselves as a wall for the House of Israel, and show ourselves in the combat at the day of the Lord, as the interests of religion and the gravity of circumstances may require. For the rest we place this cause, which is that of God himself, in the hands of the Lord. Supported by the powerful aid of him who best loves to manifest his wisdom and his power by drawing good out of evil, rather than by not permitting any evil at all, we firmly trust that he will bring back to a better way of thinking those whose actions cause the church to groan under the weight of such heavy evils, and that we shall thus avoid the necessity so painful to our paternal heart of having recourse to those spiritual arms with which God has invested our apostolic ministry."  The POPE sees plainly enoug,ii that his reign is near its end, and these expostulations, addressed to Don PEDRO and his mercenaries, are the dying groans of an hysterical old woman. Are we therefore to suffer in Ireland what is no longer tolerated in Portugal ?  Mr. SHEPHERD, instead of meeting manfully the recrimination which he provoked, and the argument which he raised upon the responsibility of literary agents, has shuf_ fled out of the controversy in a way worthy of the man and his cause. We have therefore no desire to follow him into his obscurity, or inflict a chastisement that might now appear to be unnecessary. Mr. SHEPHERD is pleased to inform us that he is an " old soldier," but had he said a superannuated one he would have been nearer the mark  Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra-sequuntur. In tho translation, for " camps," read, scamp,  "It 1111 sNit 4