The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-03 00:00:00

will give great satisfaction both to the Conservatives
of Manchester and the English public in general. Sir
George is a sound Conservative, of thoroughly liberal
and constitutional opinions. He is precisely of that
class of opinions into which the reflecting and influen-
tial portion of he British community has subsided.
Neither an Exclusive nos a Destructive, he will con-
ced

,e all rights fairly claimed, and remedy all abuses
clearly proved. But he will not give way to mere
senseless clamour, or vote for some tyrannical and
obnoxious measure, simply because it is patronised by
knaves and dupes who call themselves Reformers.
This Election, however, will take place under the
old Registration. While, therefore, we do not choose
to be too sanguine as to the result of the first contest,
(for the necessary attention has not been paid to Re-
gistration matters by our Conservative friends in Man-
chester until the present, or at furthest the preceding,
year,) we regard the present struggle with the liveliest
interest, and we doubt not that when the Ministers
shall be forced to appeal to tke British people, Man-
chester will have two Conservative Candidates in the
field, ready to fight manfully the battles of their church
and country.

The humbug of the Precursor Association has been
broken up to make room for the still greater humbug
of a " Repeal" Association. A greater nuisance is
thus to be established on the ruins of a smaller. This
formidable announcement was made by the arch-agi-
tator on Wednesday last, in a speech delivered at the
Corn Exchange, Dublin—a speech characterised by a
larger quantum than usual of "enormous lying," bare-
faced impudence, reckless and virulent abuse, and im-
potent threats of retaliation on the Protestants of Ire-
land. In all these particulars O'Connell has " out-
Heroded Herod himself," and, to use his own pecu-

" banged

liarly elegant and felicitous phraseology,
Banagher hollow."
We confess that, as far as O'Connell himself is
concerned, we should feel no disposition to notice the
proceedings of the traitors of the Corn Exchange.
The foul-mouthed slanderer of Englishwomen—the
prince of liars—the worthy scion of a reckless smug-
gler and wrecker—the insolent mendicant, who had
the audacity to denounce the House of Commons as
" an assembly of six hundred scoundrels," is, of all
men, the least entitled to any notice in our columns.
But in his relative position this mendacious and de-
graded individual, who gloats over and fattens upon
the poverty and misery of his fellow-countrymen, is a
man of some note and consequence. O'Connell, with
all the deformities of his moral constitution, is Lord
Melbourne's master ! He sways the proceedings and
directs the movements of the British Cabinet, with the
relentless tyranny of a true deMagogue—the greatest
of tyrants of which history is cognizant. In this ca-
pacity—as the irresponsible and undisputed arbiter of
the destinies of this great empire—O'Connell claims
our attention.

The speech which the bog-bred Yahoo delivered on
Wednesday last embraces such a variety of topics, and
is so discursively mendacious, that we are almost at a
loss where to begin with our animadversions. The

opening topic is the policy of Lord Normanby, upon
which the most extravagant laudations are bestowed.
This topic is introduced with a flourish about the

ancient enemies of Ireland," by which expression

O'Connell wishes to designate the loyal, true-hearted,

devoted, and peaceable Protestants of that country,

The "ancient enemies of Ireland," indeed !—we should
like to know who are the real enemies of Ireland. Are

;hey not those who have systematically stirred up the

people to rebellion—who have contributed to sink the
poor deluded peasantry into the very depths of misery
and poverty—who have enriched themselves by making

a trade of the very distresses of their fellow-country-
men—who have organised the infamous Ribbonite
conspiracy—who have rendered it next to impossible

for the peaceable and well-disposed to live in many
districts of the country—who have impeded the

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prosperity of Ireland by preventing the introduction

of English capital to give employment to its starving
population—who having in short, rendered Ire-

[and one vast Pandemonium, in which the ele.

ments of discord are incessantly at work ? These,
we should conceive, are the real enemies of Ire-
land. And who are they ? Where are they to be

found ? Among the loyal and industrious Protestants ?

Let the North of Ireland, where Protestants are most
numerous, afford the reply. The " ancient enemies
of Ireland" are to be found among the Popish priests
and the Popish agitators. O'Connell himself is the
arch-enemy of his country. He has done more towards
its degradation in the scale of nations than any other
man of this or any other generation. It will take
many ages before the mischief he has done can be
repaired. Yet this is the man who has the hardihood
to denounce the Protestants of Ireland as its " ancient

enemies !" Enemies they are, truly—not of Ireland,
but of the galling tyranny of Popery, and of swindling
traders in patriotism.
O'Connell's adulation is not, however, altogether
and exclusively lavished upon Lord Normanby. Lord
Melbourne comes in for his share. The Premier is

congratulated as doing well "to make no distinction
of creed in selecting men to fill the high offices of the
State." Indeed ! Is it truly a merit in the Premier
of England that he is totally indifferent to the religious
or anti-religious opinions of his associates in the Go-
vernment ? Is it a merit in the Prime Minister of a
Protestant country that he is equally ready to promote
a Christian or an Infidel to offices of trust in the State ?
Would the appointment of Robert Owen, for instance,
to a seat in the Cabinet be as creditable to Lord Mel-
bourne as the selection of a consistent believer in the
truths of Revelation ?
O'Connell exclaims with fervour that " the Catho-
lics of the empire are now beginning to feel that they
are really emancipated." Why ? Because the starving
millions of Ireland have been benefitted by the opera-
tion of the Emancipation Act ? No such thing. The
" Catholics of the empire are really emancipated"
because some dozen of the leading agitators " have
been selected to fill the high offices of the State."
This is true emancipation—to have a share in the
loaves and fishes ! Perish the millions, so long as
" that sterling patriot and distinguished individual,
Mr. Wyse," is " promoted to the high office of Lord
of the Treasury." Let the peasantry of Ireland re-
main for ever' in rags, so long as Ithat excellent gen-
tleman," Mr. More O'Ferrall, is raised to a high posi-
tion—so long as Richard Sheil can secure his pay for
blundering at the Board of Trade—so long as Mr.
Stephen Woulfe, Mr. Ball, Sir Michael O'Loghlen,
Baron Richards, and Judge Perrin, can severally revel
in affluence. What care O'Connell and his crew for
any other fruits of emancipation than the acquisition
Of office, with its concomitants, wealth and power ?
O'Connell " has done well" in enumerating the
Papists who have been " selected to fill high offices in
the state." We thank him for parading the list before
the Protestant public. Its exhibition will do good we
hope. We trust that the alarm of the Protestants of
Great Britain will be roused when they learn, on the
authority of O'Connell himself, how many Papists
there are now occupying offices of trust in the govern-
ment. We hope the publicity thus given to this
melancholy fact will stimulate Protestant zeal. Popery
is gradually but securely creeping into high places.
The predicted results of the Emancipation Act are
being silently realised. Of these results the Papists
boast. How is this progress of Popery to be arrested ?
Our Protestant friends may rest assured that the only
means to check the ascendancy of Popery is, to drive
from office the subservient tools of O'Connell and the

priests.
We shall have something more to say about O'Con•
nell and his doings in Dublin in our next.

MR. MARTIN'S CORONATION PICTURE.—Mr. Martin's
original picture of the Coronation, which we have heard highly
eulogised, will be open to the public at the Lyceum on Friday
next, the 6th of September.
DANDY'S OPENING OF THE SIXTH SEAK.—We are happy
to learn that Danby's picture of the Opening of the Sixth
Seal is to remain in this town for a short time longer, and
that the proprietor, for the gratification and by the desire of
those that have kindly favoured him with their visits, has
removed the picture to No. 25, Bold-street, for the purpose
of obtaining the advantage of a sky-light, which especially
harmonizes with the colours introduced in the painting. As
a work of art it stands alone, being the first-class picture of
the modern school. We would recommend a careful inspec-
tion of this picture to our native artists, that they may see
that correctness of nature displayed,. by the painter, in the
masses of descending rocks, volcanic fire, twilight, tints,
effulgence of lightning, and pure ethereal sky, which are so
admirably developed throughout the whole. To all our
readers we would say, have you seen it ? If not, lose no time
in doing so, as it will soon be too late ; it being about shortly
to leave Liverpool.
In Paris, a " Jockey Club " has been started by the
fashionable young men. It has long been la mode with some
of them to keep an English groom and call him " John."