The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1852.

THE CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION

AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.

` WELL begun, is half done !" The meeting of

Thursday—enormous, unanimous, and magnificent
as it was—declares that Liverpool, the mistress of
Ocean Commerce, will no longer have her great
authority quoted in the Legislature, by renegades
and incapables, as endorsing the suicidal folly of
the last ten years. In RELIGION, in TRADE, and
in INDUSTRY, Liverpool has been for some time
totally unrepresented. With the blessing of PRO-
VIDENCE, it shall be so no more. Thursday's
meeting has decided that; and if the Whig
Radical and pro-Popish press had not long ago
arrived at the perfection of audacious political false-
hood, we might wonder at their attempt to misre-
present this thronged, unanimous, and enthusiastic
demonstration. The house was crowded in every
part by a united and determined assemblage of citi-
zens, resolved that the parliament and the kingdom
should no longer mistake for the voice of Liver-
pool the shuffling insincerity of Mr. CARDWELL,
or the mere inanity of Sir THOMAS BIRCII. It is
not true that there was any dissent in the meeting.
It is not true that any of the speakers were coldly
received, or that there was the slightest indiffer-
ence to the utterance of any one constitutional
sentiment. The demonstration was an earnest of
a courageous struggle, and a complete victory—a
final extinction of the attempt to enthral this
great Borough, by men who are foreign sympa-
thisers in commerce, and " aliens in religion."

Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE and Mr. TURNER
very openly and honestly declared the true policy
for the present time. New and violent remedies
are the resource not of Conservatism but of revolu-
tion. Such remedies do not unloose but cut the
knot; and it is not at all remarkable that the
Manchester school (called " school," we suppose,
lucus a non lucendo) should hope that the national
and country party ought to seek the advancement
of their own interest (as the League has done) by
the most sudden and vulgar expedient which could
bring money to their purse. The candidates for
Liverpool who adhere to English Institutions,
Messrs. MACKENZIE and TURNER, declare shortly
that they propose to relieve the Agricultural interest
by the adjustment of taxation—the Shipping inter-
est by the demand of reciprocity—and the interest
of England and Protestantism by an uncompro-
mising opposition to encroachments of every kind
by foreign ecclesiastical pretenders.
Mr. MACKENZIE has answered once for all—and
in our humble judgment sufficientlyand finally—the
hackneyed question of his vote about Maynooth.
If Mr. MACKENZIE once mistook the tendency of
that insidious system which leads captive the souls
of men, he erred in company with others, who,
without offence to him, were men of more experi-
ence. He need be no way ashamed of one error on
a question on which CANNING himself had been
deceived; and if lie mistook Popery for an
honest religious system, capable of conciliation
or sincerity, he did only what Lord ELLESMERE
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