The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-16 00:00:00

notes of Whiggery could not have been kept to con-
cert pitch, if it had not been for the disorders and dis-
tractions of Ireland. _ _ .

For ourselves, we expect no scruples from the Li-
beral Leaders. They will be fools and idiots if they
care for conscience now. They have not a shred of
principle or character to shroud them from the cold
blasts of public infamy. Why should they shrink
from the last extreme of party wickedness ? Why
should they fear a coup d'etat ? They will get rid of
Lord John Russell, and with him perhaps of their
quarrel with the Chartists : they will hoist the standard
of Revolution on both sides the Channel : it is possible
they may swamp the Peers. There is no length of
political depravity of which they are not capable.
But we believe we may defy them yet. They can-
not get a majority in the Commons. With the present
House, or with any House which the myrmidons of
Normanby and Morpeth can call together, the genuine
voice of Old England will overbear the carping, cold,
and calculating Liberal from Scotland, and the hot-
headed and hairbrained anarchist from Ireland. But
we must not be caught sleeping. Once again, let the
Conservatives of Liverpool be ready !

The address of Mr. Kinnaird to his late constituents
at Perth reflects infinite credit upon his principles and
his good sense. The feeling that Religion is at stake
is the real bond which binds together the intelligence
and wealth of England in the great Conservative

phalanx.
In these days, when men whose testimony would be
refused in a Court of Justice are presented by a Prime
Minister at the Court of a Virgin Queen, it is clear
enough that the strongest union and the most anxious
activity are equally indispensable in the great cause of
truth. Accordingly, when Lord Grey gave way to the
violence of his more Radical supporters and commenced
his crusade against the Church, the spell of his power
was broken. He had prophesied his fall, and he ful-

filled his prophesy.
So when Lord Melbourne basely entered into the
unholy alliance and bound himself to that Appropria-
tion Clause, which in the preceding Session Lord John
Russell had voted against and denounced as a " most
improper measure," far-seeing men perceived that
however a temporary purpose might be served, a vital
blow was struck at the permanent interests of Whiggery.
In short, whenever the Church has been attacked,
the assailant has invariably suffered in the long run.
The Church is the most tolerant and the most popular
of all our Institutions.

The people of England therefore have always agreed
with Mr. Kinnaird's position that no general political
support can properly be given, when confidence is not
reposed upon important religious questions. Therefore
it is that the people of England has become so rapidly
and so unanimously Conservative. Plain, intelligible
principles have been put forward, that they who run
may read them, and these principles have been adopted
by the good sense of the people at large, and have be-
come the enduring foundation of the largest and most
respectable opposition that ever existed either in Par-
liament or in the country.

And we know of no body of men, who have set so
admirable an example, or taken so early, so consistent,
and so effective a lead, in the dissemination of sound
religious and constitutional opinions as our respected
friends the Tradesmen of Liverpool. United for no
party or selfish purpose, but for the preservation of
whatever is good in things as they existed in our father's
days, and for the judicious development of every germ
(and these are infinite) of improvement which the noble

fabric of our polity contained : as well as for the pro-
motion from time to time of such well-considered in-
novations and changes as prudence and experience
might direct,—they have exerted a most powerful in-
fluence in Liverpool, and set an useful example to
every constituency in the kingdom. These excellent
men, under the superintendence of their spirited Pre-
sident, and our honoured friends, his more immediate
and active colleagues, have from the first struck the
right chord : they have made known their principles,
religious, and political, broadly and plainly. They
have invited the friends of just and righteous subordi-
nation, of sound policy, and honest government, to
rally round their banner. They speak an intelligible
language. They give no uncertain sound, and their
followers are prepared for the battle. One heart ani-
mates the whole body, and one principle directs it.
How wide is the difference with the associated Re-

7ormers! There is the faultering Whig, the skimping

Liberal, the turbulent Radical, the incendiary revolu-
tionist, the democrat and the Destructive. Hating each
other cordially, the Romanist, and the Socinian, and
the Puritan, and the Independent, are ranged side by
side much as the heterogeneous armies of Europe were
handed in Palestine round the standard of the Cross.
Disunion and distrust are between every section and
each individual. The elements of dissolution are at
hand. May the faction fall to pieces speedily and
utterly, and may the continued growth of sound prin-
ciples go on and prosper, until we are brought back
from all our troubles, to days like the happier days of
yore.

Peaceful days when old Religion, like a silver circling-band,
Clasped alike round Prince and Peasant, bound in one accord
the land !

A respectable correspondent has furnished us wi
the following extract from a letter, received by the las
packet, from his planting agent in Jamaica. It wil
serve to show that the island is suffering from the
want of a firm administration of the laws. Sir Lionel
Smith has committed himself most egregiously by his
refusal to act until the arrival of his successor, Sir
Charles Metcalfe. The following information is of a
very gloomy character :
" I am sorry to say the parish of St. George has
become the scene of much confusion, in consequence
of the parties in possession of properties demanding
rent. On one property—a coffee plantation, where
the people had refused to work—the overseer was
ordered to collect the rents : the negro tenants were
sued, and judgments obtained; and when the consta-
bles went to put the law in force, they resisted, and it
became necessary to proceed with more caution and
security : the two special magistrates of the district
proceeded to the property, with a number of special
constables, to levy the rents, when the negroes armed
themselves with cutlasses, and defied the parties, and
pelted them with stones, one of which struck the
magistrate on the head, and cut it dreadfully; and
they beat the constables off the property, without hav-
ing effected their purpose; and the negroes said they
were ready for them at any time, or troops, if they
thought proper to bring theM. Depositions were for-
warded by the Custos to the Governor, and his answer
was, that he would not interfere ! Another case of
outrage happened at one of your own estates a few
days after the above-mentioned affair. One of the
gangs was found fault with for bad work, in cutting
the canes high off the ground, (canes should always
be cut quite close to the root,) when the whole gang
struck work. This happened on a Tuesday : the fol-
lowing day two men got into the negro houses, and
told the people they had written authority from Lord
Mulgrave to tell the people when to work or not, and
commenced practising Obeah. A warrant was issued
to apprehend the two men in question, and the consta-
tables proceeded to execute the warrant, when a dread-
ful affray took place, and one of the constables was
shot in the face, and others dreadfully cut and beat.
Affidavits of this affair have also been sent to the
Governor. The consequence was, the negroes struck
work all that week, and on the Monday morning fol-
lowing went to work, but in a riotous and excited
state. Thus are Jamaica property and lives endangered
for want of protecting laws."

By the arrival of the Great Western at Bristol, we
are put in possession of New York papers to the Ist
instant. The Great Western arrived and came to
anchor in Kingroad at five o'clock on Wednesday
morning, having accomplished her passage home in
121 days—the shortest hitherto made either by her or
her competitors. Upon the third day of their depar-
ture from New York, sJie fairly distanced her antago-
nist, the British Queen, leaving her far behind. The
Great Western has brought home 68 passengers, and
a large amount of specie on freight. It is stated that
the British Queen has 70 passengers on board, and
also a large amount of specie.
We find from the New York papers that the Great
Western arrived there on the 22nd of July, having
accomplished the passage in 15 days and 22 hours.
The ,British Queen arrived at New York on Sunday,