The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-16 00:00:00

THE TORIES.

Pm the Cork Constitution.)
Such journals(
as still cling by the whigs are conjuring up
all manner of horrors as the inevitable accompaniment of a
tory administration.

They would give us (says a Liverpool paper of Monday)
a war in a month, and treat us with an income tax to pay for
it ; and a war and an income tax would send the funds down
to sixty ; and, with the funds at sixty, smash, crash, what is
the price of bank shares and railroad shares," &c. &.
Very alarming no doubt ; but does it not strike this imager
of evil as rather singular that the tories should resolve to
rush upon destruction ? Suppose the catastrophe accomplish-
ed, who would be the sufferers ? Who are the holders of the
property of the country ? Who are her " merchant-princes,"
and who her prince-proprietors ? Whose are the sails that
whiten her seas,. and the ploughs that furrow her fields ?
Strike the balance, and tell us what proportion belongs to
the Whig, and what to the radical, and will you then see, as
some shrewder politicians of your own school have before
seen, and before admitted, that in nine cases out of ten, the
incomes on which the dreaded tax would be those of, the
tories.

No, Sir,_ if we have a war, it will not be a war " given"
to us by the tories. The seeds are sown, but they are sown
by whig hands, and it will not be owing to their vigilance or
their vigour, if the harvest be not one of blood. But what
warlike indications have the tories exhibited ? Have they
expressed a desire, or evinced a disposition, to disturb one
existing relation of the country?' Look through the " Des-
patches" of the most eminent among them, and point out a
single passage which is not adverse to the provocation of war,
or to its protraction one moment beyond the point at which
the sword can be sheathed with safety ? Why, then, are the
tories to be thus unjustly and most falsely charged ? Are
they not as deeply interested in their country's welfare as the
whigs ? Have they not struggled as strenuously, as persever-
ingly, as suzcessfully to advance it ? and is it not to their
swords and to their councils we owe the peace which was
sealed in the blood of France at Waterloo, but which is now,
under a whig administration, threatened for the first time
during nearly a quarter of a century ?
No, we repeat, if we have a war, it will not be from the
tories. The direction of it, indeed, may be in their hands,
and we hope will—but not its creation; and the only ques-
tion, then, is, which of the parties is the more competent to
conduct it ?Is there a man in the country—we care not who
or what he is—that will say, the whit's
But while our Liverpool contemporary speaks of war as
one of the consequences of tory rule, he seems to forget that
we are at this moment at war in the east—that we have only
just concluded a war in the west, and that even ministers,
apprehensive of an extension of the evil, have increased our
army and are endeavouring to increase our navy. It is easy
to indulge in prophecies when the events predicted have
" cast their shadows" so fearfully before, but it is not honest
to impute to the tories calamities in neither the production
nor the encouragement of which they have had a share.
Besides, what other name does our Spanish intermeddling
deserve than war ? The men, the money, the arms, and the
ships were ours ; and call the " intervention" by what name
you will, it was an intervention which brought upon our
people the burdens, the perils and the penalties of war.

SACRILEGE.—During Wednesday night, or early on
Thursday morning, the parish church of Prestwich, near this
town, was entered ; the thieves obtaining admission by the
vestry window, and (doubtless, aware of the place where the
plate was deposited) the door of an iron safe, in which was
lodged the communion plate, was forced open by a large
sledge hammer, and the whole of the plate was stolen and
carried off. It consisted of two silver cups, or chalices,—
one inscribed " Prestwich, 1667," and the other " Prest-
wich, 1713 ;" a flagon inscribed " A gift from Pilkington ;"
and two silver patine, or bread plates. The thieves also car-
ried off a sum of £l2, nearly all in silver, which had been
placed in the safe. The sledge-hammer, with which the
door of the safe had been broken open, was left in the ves-
try ; and we understand that it has since been ascertained,
that it was stolen on the same night from a smithy near
Whitefleld, on the Bury road, and about a mile beyond Prest-
wich. A reward of £2O has been offered for such informa-
tion as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the
offenders.—Leeds Intelligences.