The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-31 00:00:00

manufactures been increasing? Have our operaticegf
been fully and profitably employed ? The reverse
this has been the result. Our country has been nearly
drained of its gold. Our trade has languished. our
operatives have been. reduced to beggary and starv3"
tion.

We must not omit in this summary notice a pass °g
allusion to the state of Ireland. The last year 1133
furnished us with multiplied proofs of the existence;
in that unfortunate and priest-ridden country, tn,
conspiracy almost co-extensive with the whole P°P'h
population—a conspiracy whose fruition is sP(''''..
‘
tion and massacre—whose end is the subversion P'
the Protestant Established Church, and the erectionti
upon its ruins, of Papal tyranny—whose plans 31i
mode of procedure, for obtaining this end, are as
diabolical as any that ever entered the conception 4f
man, those plans being no other than the annihila-
tion of the Protestant population, and the aPPrOrl.
ation of their property to enrich a grasping 31)d
Jesuitical priesthood. The. Ribbon conspiracy liar
been proved to exist in deadly activity, and another
of O'Connell's lies has. been thus exposed. The
state If Ireland, therefore, affords no relief to the
gloomy picture which we are forced to draw of nur
internal condition. The elements of mischief are
busily at work in the sister island. We know not
the day when the volcano may burst forth in rain
and devastation.
Look, again, to the state of our colonial dependencies'
Canada has not yet recovered from the effects of the
Ipte insurrectionary outbreaks. Its population are
still arrayed against each other.. The loyalists are
fearful of another explosion, t and the anti-British
factions are again busily occupied in laying their
plots. To this, distracted colony the Whigs have
sent out as Governor-General a man who has alwaYs
avowed himself as an enemy to the interests of the '
inhabitants. Such is the decency of the present
Government,. and such are, their notions, af- imPartr
Way. The West India Islands, and the splendid
colony of British Guiana, have been victimised
without remorse. The planters have been brought
from affluence to beggary. The, exports of these
colonies have been fearfully reduced ; and the com-
mercial and manufacturing interests of this countr)"
have suffered in consequence. The tine colon)" nt
New South Wales has almost been the scene of a
famine, owing to the miserable and miscalculating
policy of the Whigs. 'The state of India will de-
mand from us nlore than a cursory examination.
That vast empire has been all but wrested from us
by Russian intrigue and treachery.
The foreign relations of Great Britain present an
equally unpropitious aspect. England has dege°e"
rated in the scale of nations. Her flag, has been
cin-
sulted with impunity. She is no longer recognised
as ‘_‘ the empress of the pa.," She is no longer "a
terror to the nations." Her power is despised—her
honour is tarnished—her sons are treated with con-
tumely.

We might, before closing these remarks, advert t°
other topics connected with the history of the closing
,
year. We might direct public attention to the:
melancholy and premature death of the innocent
victim of court slander. We might dilate uplift the
" enormous lying" in which the Whig-Itadieai
papers have, for the last year, so largely indulge
We might allllde to the thimble-rii; shuffles an
changes of Lord Melbourne and his associates'
These, however, we must pass by.
Our next publication will tale place in another Year.
We may, therefore, with propriety make it th:
vehicle for a few considerations upon our Mtg.-
prospects, which, in despite of Whig misrule, are
not without some rays of hope.

Of all the vile speeches uttered in the course Of. lit
_ong life by that irreclaimable slanderer O'Connell, til,
which he has last spoken at Tralee is the vilest• i
combines every disgusting feature which can render
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oratory loathsome. It is one black tissue of falsehood'
..
calumny, and outrageous indecency. Had the men
,cant himself not been placed long ago without the t
of the society of gentlemen, this last virulent atteutP
of aged malice would have been enough to exclt de
him from it for ever. Although the veering weather:
cock of a church steeple might be a type of steadine';
cotnpare.d with the ever-shifting quicksand of what til.
roan ,calls his principles, there ip, we admit, about
in Ani. re .tart an .alortniti_ar.....4---sonsis ten cY- FW
r ,1
the first hour in which he, a needy barrister, appe3l::e
before the public, to mislead and heap misery 00 LPto
Irish, to the present day, when he has " fallen y
the sere and yellow leaf," and cannot, in the ordioar
course of things, expect, much longer to AP° 'ln
confidence of his misguided countrymen, hei,hAolirrti
.
beyond all parallel and compare, the most foul-muilWe
slanderer that ever yet publicly disgrace. S.--v
community. yr
The subject, we know, is stale and threafillare.
readers cannot nauseate it more thoroughly: thuds
do ourselves ; and if the speech to which ‘vg dll
were merely like all others from the same. sourc't.ve
compound of -Billingsgate, and nothing more
should no more think of noticing it than of callint
in
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attention of a passer-by to some filthy object fe°►
which his eyes would instinctively be•withdrawo•
If, therefore, this Beggarman had contented bitnsw.,
with vilifying the whole English nation, as he liss 51110
Cifically and in terms in that speech done—if
merely done the House of Lords the honour of '17,9
tidy abusing them, and declared, upon his honotir'Avto
that he believed the Conservatives were resolve"
k
lei
take away the Queen's life by poison, in order. to o:ec
" Cumberland" King—we should have left tile 5/) red
to the applause of the idiot audience who
loudly every falsehood which this grey-headed sow
derer uttered. But that the depth of this mans
ore
lignity may be understood, and his nature be xi'
hs'
thoroughly exhibited in its proper colours of envi'oot
tred, malice, and all uncharitableness, we do Pint Oa
tt, our readers and the British public the baseLorti
unmanly attack which he has made uPpm hoiy
Brougham, selecting that nobleman's late inelane
bereavement as the theme of his scurrilous ablise•ese
Listen to the charge brought forward with beat'.,_e,,
ribaldry, to an Irish auditory, by the creature:7l:e
bow down to. Lord Brougham is destitute °I ,e
feelings of natural affection, ,because he followed 141_,
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remains of a beloved daughter to the grave
and,
nell cannot charge himself with such an act' e life,
looking back upon his own pore. and immaculate the
nothing in the retrospect appears so monstrous of big
funeral ol
conduct of the parent who attends the - dibir
child. We do not believe him to be so incre
ignorant as not to know that in this country' tl'e.,:rtee;
is always the chief mourner at the tomb of his ebuereot,
bnt the custom of- the lowest Irish may be difi nitis
rein`"
and as they get drunk upon poteen over the olos
of their nearest relatives, and with barbarous,
noisy
convert the house of mourning into a scene
ssing,
riot, O'Connell knew the auditory he was tuldreo,icli
and counted rightly on the yell of apnlose a fa-
would reward him for violating the sanctity oe
toot
*ld• A" t
ther's grief for the loss of an only chi • ,s heart
words to express our detestation of such a malt, 4.1 the
excite:the'
loot.
and feelings. Long ere this they have
breast of every man on this side the Channel is
unmitigated disgust, and no commentary beware of
needed to increase it. But let that man raja'
talking with maudlin sentiment of a fathersss love,
thies, who disowns the offspring of his lavvitei matber
and turns away from his door the wretchcoe
urteosi
whom he has betrayed. The story of Eliza
is not forgotten.

: of fir°-
Within the last few years a new descriPtin-, ,to
Perty has sprung up around us, and assume" to be
portance and extent which already entitle rit Itti°/151
classed amongst the leading sources 01 °"" nf
Cora-
wealth. By a late return made to the "louse 19 lewd,
mons, the capitalmons, invested in railways nos' cOll,
mss,
with that authorised to he raised for those in lally
was estimated at upwards of seventy railli°fis.a
tlla-
yet whilst other great interests—the corninerc'several
nufacturing, and agricultural—have each theirroincial
organs, both amongst the metropolitan and these tisc"
papers, lir immense property embarked in ale patn'
ful undertakings, which are daily developing
out fit'si:
ral resources of the country and opening ivitliov.
fields of enterprise to its busy community' Is,
any efficient protection from the public Pres.sce of the
occir
an occasional paragraph, containing a I°ll ,
progress of some particular undertaking,.
telligence,
sionally, in the dearth of more enlivening 111. of Somefind its way to the public eye; or the
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