The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-04 00:00:00

nitude of the trade which has been carried on, and the
social evils of which it is the prolific parent.

Surrounded with lukewarm friends and vigilant and
united foes ; with the incarnation of treachery for her
responsible guardian, and a heterogeneal, but yet amal-
gamated mass of adversaries, whose sole connecting
link consists of virulent animosity and hostility to the
noble prey on whose haunches they have fastened ;
the constitution of England presents at this moment
at once an object of absorbing interest to the philoso-
pher, of profound and dubious speculation to the states-
man, and of painfully intense anxiety and solicitude to
the patriot.

That the British constitution is unrivalled, our an-
tagonists themselves admit, with but few and insignifi-
cant exceptions. That its excellency, its fine adapta-
tion to every possible contingency, its delicate anticipa-
tion of all emergencies, its preparedness for whatever
the revolving lapse of time may cast up from her pro-
lific womb ; its skilful and minutely-poised balance of
conflicting elements, by which is maintained inviolate
every right and liberty and social comfort of the sub-
ject, and equally in all its integrity and vividness and
worth, every attribute of Rational independence; that
all this is to be traced alone to the simple and beautiful
fact, that TRUTH is identified with its entire framework,
interwoven with the texture of all its institutions, thus
dulcifying or rather Christianizing every function of the
state, and .binding her in all her movements to the
prominent acknowledgment, vindication and enforce-
ment, of the lofty principles of sober, dignified, unmu-
tilated Protestantism ; this, is what they will not see.
But the fact is not altered by the ignorance of the
radical, whose blind and headlong infatuation render
him impervious to rational conviction, and whose mad
rage for organic change blinds him to the most self-
evident realities ; any more than the political pravity of
a prime minister in betraying his country sullies the
purity or tarnishes the glory of the constitution he
violates and insults. The fact remains the same; and
it is one that should be broadly stated, and prominently
kept before the British public. It is one of intrinsic
vitality to the nation, of paramount importance to the
stability of the throne, the continuance of national
prosperity, and the permanence of our civil and reli-
gious liberty. Maintain, repair, and purify the bul-
warks of. England's Protestantism, and she is first
among the nations. Annihilate, weaken, and neglect
that Protestantism, and she dwindles to a cypher. Her
Protestantism is as identical with the lustre of her
sceptre, with the extent and splendour of her posses-
sions, with the indomitable prowess of her arms, the
invincible heroism of her navy, as it is with the very
vitals of our national Christianity. As Protestantism
is England's strength, her shield, her sinew, her pros-
perity, her greatness, and her life; so is the antagonist
system, Popery, the fruitful and undeviating source of
her weakness, her decay, her poverty, her impotency,
and her ruin. The infusion of Popish leaven into the
policy of a cabinet, will not fail to degrade that cabinet,
to disgrace our national policy, to expose us to the un-
mitigated scorn of civilized Europe, to produce para-
lysis and torpor, if not treachery and venality in every
department of the state, and convulse the empire to its
centre. We need not travel beyond the present ad-
ministration to satisfy us of the fact. And if there be
a ministry capable of so base a surrender of their con-
science, so determined and impetuous in their anti-na-
tional truckling to Popery, so tenacious of their patron-
age and pay, so reckless of their solemn obligations, so
inveterately bent upon the betrayal of their country, as
to bind themselves neck and heel to the chariot wheels
of the paid agent of Rome : where are words strong
enough, language sufficiently forcible, vivid, intense,
and vehement, to give expression to the honest indig-
nation, the glow of patriotic scorn, and manly remon-
strance, that throbs, and burns, and struggles for utter-
ance, in the heart of every British Protestant ? Words
are inadequate ; and worse than useless, if unaccom-
panied by action. We want muscular action : we want
the Protestantism of the country to become operative,
and it will then become influential, and all-powerful.
The Protestants of the empire must be organized and
united; Protestant Associations formed throughout the
length and breadth of the land; no corner should be
left unsown with the generous germ of sound Pro-
testant principles ; no town, village, city, or hamlet,
without its active and efficient Protestant association ;
every section of the country should be rapidly irrigated
with the wholesome waters of Protestant truth; accu-
rate information with regard to the real character and
designs of Popery circulated in every direction ; the
cold apathist aroused, the lukewarm stimulated, the
hands of the awakened strengthened ; new fuel flung
continually to the smouldering ashes of our national
Protestantism; new life, and energy, and elasticity in-
fused into the springs of public action; and the entire
mass of British conservatives arrayed in one mighty
and irresistible Protestant phalanx. If this be done,
we may hurl our proud and emphatic defiance at the
enemies of England ; we need quail at no battle-cry
from without, fear no treachery from within; our con-
stitution will yet ride the storm unscathed, and emerge
from the black gloom of elemental strife with undi-
minished lustre, resplendent with the rainbow, the
pledge of unruffled peace, and undisturbed tranquillity
and repose. Yes, she will survive the struggle; her
battlements will laugh to scorn the subtle assault, by sap
and excavation, of the crafty Jesuit ; and repel the bold
attack of the undisguised foe, with as much ease as
Staffa's lofty range hurls back in foam the waves of
the Atlantic. Yes, there is yet virtue enough in the
Protestantism of the land to erect once more the fallen
majesty of her constitution. Let such associations be
multiplied, and extend their ramifications throughout
the land; let every town possess a Protestant Associa-
tion, and the victory is secure; England shall yet be
great among the nations ; the foul and discordant ele-
ments of evil shall yield to the bright principles of
truth, and her sun yet hold on her glorious career with
unclouded brilliancy ; the outraged Protestant feeling
of the country, awakened by their operations, and
directed by their instrumentality, shall at the next gene-
ral election, sweep away the already tottering ranks of
the supporters of a Papist-ridden ministry, as the breath
of the autumnal tempest scatters the withered leaves
of the deciduous forest.

The packet-ship Montreal, which has arrived at
Portsmouth, has furnished us with intelligence from
New York to the 10th ult. inclusive. There is very
little news, that has not been anticipated, in the papers
which she has brought. Letters from Monte Video
confirm the account given of the death of the President
and his son. The former was murdered by four men
in masks, on the 28th of June, in the house of the pre-
siding Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies. The
latter was shot shortly after.
The Montreal Herald. of Sept. 6, states that the case
for the prosecution against Jalbert closed on the pre-
ceding day. The court refused an application made by
Jalbert's counsel to be allowed a day to prepare their
address to the jury, and proceeded with the examination
of witnesses in favour of Jalbert. It was expected that
the trial would still occupy a day or two.
No change of any moment had taken place in the
money market. The usual gloomy forebodings as to
the safety of the cotton crop had commenced in Mis-
sissipi, where it said the cat-worm has done much mis-
chief.

We have no room to bestow any thing beyond a pas-
sing notice on the proceedings of the Town Council on
Wednesday last. The subjects which underwent dis-
cussion, are however, of such great importance as to
justify our recurrence to them in subsequent numbers.

The decision in reference to the payment of the ex-
penses of the landing vessels by the proprietors of the
ferries appears to us to be somewhat extraordinary, in-
asmuch as the steamers plying between this port and
Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, are to be exempted from
the charge. This is, to say the least of it, inconsistent
with our notions of justice and equity.

The advocates of the dock warehouse monopoly have
obtained a temporary triumph—we say temporary, be-
cause it is impossible that a scheme so unnecessary
and irrational in itself—so subversive of every equita-
ble principle—and so ruinously spoliating in its effects,
can ever obtain the sanction of the legislature. The
animus of those who have promoted this scheme was
never more evident than in the rejection of Mr. Sands's
amendment. There can be no longer any doubt that
the grand object of Alderman Evans and his friends is
to multiply the patronage of the liberal party. Mem-
bers of this faction have been heard to boast that the
consummation of the warehouse scheme will give the
dock trustees the controul of 400 or 500 votes. But of
this more anon.