The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

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he issue which is about to be decided is no narrow
one. It is no mere vexed question of internal or
foreign policy which is to be determined. The
decision of the country involves the great princi-
ples of Conservatism on the one side, and
Democracy on the other. It is deeply to be
lamented that this truth does not come home with
sufficient force and clearness to the minds of a very
large portion of the community; as we feel con-
vinced that there are many persons who are now
either apathetic or inclined to favour the " Liberal"
party, who, if they but understood the inevitable
consequences of the triumph of that party, would
be very loth, indeed, to support it. For ourselves,
we cannot doubt that the accession of any section
of the " Liberals" to power will, of necessity, end
in the development of those democratic principles
whose operations we have had recent opportunities
of observing on the Continent of Europe. It
surely must be evident, on a moment's reflection,
that there is no clique or sub-division of the many-
coloured Whigs who can possibly retain office
without the assistance of that dangerous class of
experimentalists, of whose views and projects the
COBDENS and BRIGHTS are but the half-candid
exponents. We have much faith in the calm
discretion and good sense of the rural population.
It has, in these Manchester times, been very much
the fashion to sneer at the "agricultural mind ;"
and the homely plainness and frank blunt simplicity
of the "children of the soil" have been easy
themes for the facetiousness of scribblers and
spouters. But there is, nevertheless, among the
yeomanry of England an amount of practical
shrewdness and good common sense, a genuineness
and truthfulness, which far more than compensate
for that flashy sharpness and unsound cleverness
which distinguish the denizens of the manufacturing
districts. If we are not very much mistaken, the
rural population will now prove that England will
not be governed by the large manufacturing towns,
and that the owners, occupiers, and tillers of the
soil will refuse to acknowledge allegiance to the
potentates of the mill. The agricultural commu-
nity are less easily excited in matters political than
the inhabitants of towns. They are not quite so
ready to move for political purposes. But, never-
theless, we feel very sure that the next few days
will afford ample proofs that they are as attached
as ever to the institutions of the country, and as
determined as ever to prevent them from being
swamped by the cunning, designing, and self
seeking innovators, who are struggling so hard to
obtain the power of doing irremediable mischief.

OFFENCES AGAINST THE ECCLESIAS-
TICAL TITLES BILL.

Two advertisements appear in Saunders' Nei

Leiter, side by side, of meetings to be held Vin
Dublin, in one of which it is stated that " the chair
will be taken by His Grace the LORD ARCHBISHOP of
DUBLIN," in the other, that " His Gracs the Loan
ARCHBISHOP of DUBLIN will preside." The unsophisti-
cand reader, no doubt, imagines that the same individual
will occupy the chair at both those meetings. There
could not be a more egregious mistake. If he attends
the one, he will find Dr. WHATELET presiding with all
the ease of latitudinarian bonhommie : if he attends the
other, he will find the stern look of remorseless bigotry,
on Dr. CULLEN'S lordly brow, overawing the assembly.
Two individuals, in fact, go by precisely the same title,
in the same city; two ecclesiastical DROMIOS dispute the
honour of representing the same ideal abstraction. This
is " confusion worse confounded." How comes it to
pass ? The QUEEN and the law of the United Kingdom
have given to one of the two a lawful claim to his title.
The other assumes the same title by virtue of authority
from the POPE at Rome, in defiance of the QUEEN and
the law. Is this to be endured ? Would the POPE at
Rome allow the titles of his Cardinals and Bishops to be
usurped under the authority of letters patent from QUEEN
VICTORIA ? And if the POPE would not allow such con-
duct in his dominions, why should QUEEN VICTORIA
tolerate it in hers ?—John Bull.