The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

France about England, which will, we fear, some day
embroil the two - nations in another quarrel. France
pants for military glory : she chafes under the rule of
a Napoleon of Peace, and would rejoice to try conclu-
sions with England, even although we have Wellington
amongst us.
• She watches just now with the utmost -jealousy all
the movements of this country, and seizes every pre-
text fOr misrepresenting our policy. The Gum Ques-
tion—the Eastern Question—her own occupation of
the Algerine territory, in defiance of her promise to
the contrary—are all made subservient to the grand
object of irritating England. Several events are just
now occurring which we think significant. The idea
of reviving the Buonaparte dynasty is .not .yet aban-
doned ; and if that scheme, on the death of Louis
Philippe, succeeds, it will lead France at once into the
battle-field. The Emperor of Russia, by marrying
his daughter to the Prince of Leuchtenberg, and re 7
fusing any alliance with the family of Louis Philippe,
seems to think that the cause of the Buonapartists is
by no means desperate.

We rejoice to find that the Protestants of Great Bri-
tain are beginning to arouse from the apathy—the cul-
pable apathy—in which they have so long remained,
and that they are assuming a higher, a bolder, a more
uncompromising tone, than they have, of late years,
ventured to manifest. Every week serves to convince
us more deeply than ever of the unswerving attach-
ment of the great mass of the people of this country
to our venerated Protestant Church, and to those glo-
rious institutions with which its ascendancy is so
inti-
mately identified. Every week brings us fresh and ac-
cumulated proofs that the people of Great Britain are
resolved upon the maintenance, in unimpaired inte-
grity, of our Established Church, and that they are
• equally determined to resist, with undiminished energy,

to threatened encroachments of Papal domination.

Our readers will bear us witness that we have re-
peatedly stated that the salvation'of this country from
the evils of Whig misrule—Chartist incendiarism—
Republican violence—and Popish treason, would be
mainly effected through the instrumentality of the
Protestant Associations, which have been successively
organised in various parts of the Kingdom. The "No
Popery " cry; however ridiculed by the cringing syco-
phants and reckless supporters of the present-
nistration—however assailed by the bigotted and priest-
ridden adherents of the apostate Church of Rome---.-
however deprecated by lukewarm Protestants—will yet
prove " the heaviest blow" and the "greatest discou-
ragement" to the truckling slaves of O'Connell, who
have so long .held the reins of government. There is
a movement now going on in this country—a move-
ment not less formidable because it is frequently silent
and unobserved—which will issue in the speedy ejec-
tion from office of the most imbecile ministry that ever
disgraced the annals of any country, and in the final
and, we trust, irretrievable downfall of that motley
party by whom they are now supported in office. Thai
movement, we hesitate not to say, is the wholesome
Protestant agitation which is now in progress through
every part of the empire—a movement which, notwith-
standing the affected contempt with which it is treated
by the Radical press, will effectually- crush the base
reptilei who have so long defiled, by their contamina-
tion, the high places of government. The Protestants
of England have at length spoken out fearlessly and
manfully. They have evinced their unflinchng deter-
mination to stand up in defence of the time-honoured
institutions of their country. They have signified, in
language the most forcible and unequivocal, that this
country must be governed on the principle of " Pro-
testant Ascendancy." This is now the rallying cry
which is spreading such dismay and consternation
among the ranks of the radicals, and which is mus-
tering to the rescue of our constitution the invincible
conservative phalanx. Liverpool has long since raised
this cry. Its influence has been already deeply and
powerfully felt. It has produced a reaction in the
state of public opinion, which is any thing but pleas-
ing to the liberals of our town. It has secured for us
two conservative representatives in the House of Com-
mons. It has procured for us a municipal triumph
which will eventually resultin the effectual purgation
of our Town Council from its radicalism. But the
rallying cry of " Protestant AScendancy" has not been
confined to Liverpool. It has been nobly responded
to by the inhabitants of Hereford, 'Manchester, War-
rington, Wigan, Sheffield, Whitchurch, and number-
less other places in England. This cry has also been
echoed back from Glasgow and Edinburgh, where the
followers of John Knox have rivalled their episcopal
brethren in England in their opposition to Popish en-
croachments. All this is encouraging, and ought to
stimulate -to renewed, and persevering, and strenuous
exertion. Win- the Protestantism of England, Wales,
and Scotland is set in array against the allied forces of
Popery, infidelity, and pblitical dissent, there can be
no doubt of the issue. The .struggle will be as brief
as the triumph.will be comp!ete. Well may we, there
fore, exclaim to our friends, " On to the rescue !"
We have been led into these remarks on perusing
the report of the admirable speeches delivered at War-
rington, on Tuesday last, by Dr. Meyler and Professor
Butt—speeches which will carry conviction into the
minds of all dispassionate and unprejudiced readers.
The powerful picture drawn by both these gentlemen
of the fearful state of society in Ireland—of the orga-
nised and diabolical conspiracy whiCh has been proved
to exist in that unfortunate and priest-ridden country
against the lives and property of unoffending Protes-
tants—of the dangers to be apprehended from the
further spread of the treasonable Ribbon Associations
—Of the murders perpetrated by its agency—and of
the guilty connivance of Lord Normanby's adminis-
tration of this desperate band of spoliators and assas-
sins—will serve to awaken those who arc yet dormant
and indifferent among the Protestants of this country
to a sense of the dangers by which they are sur-
rounded. We earnestly entreat our readers to peruse
with attention the eloquent addresses which appear in
our present publication—to ponder over the appalling
facts which they disclose—to weigh the arguments
which they contain—and to spread far and wide,
among their respective circles of acquaintance, the
strong and irresistible appeals with which they abound.
Every sentence in the addresses of Dr. Meyler and
Professor Butt is pregnant with instruction, and ought
to become as familiar as " household words" to the
Protestants of this country.
Whatever may have been our fears in times past
respecting the fate of our monarchy and our national
religion—however desponding we may have felt re-
specting the issue of the impending struggle between
the great contending parties in this country—however
deeply we may have deplored the rapid' spread of de-
mocratic principles throughout the land,—we confess
that the recent manifestations of Protestant feeling on
the part of the people of this country have served to
dissipate- our fears—to strengthen. our conviction of
the inherent loyalty of the great mass of the people—
and to animate our hopes as to our future prospects.
The people of England are still sound at the core.
They are still prepared to rally round " the throne and
the altar." They are still ready, when the appeal is
made to them, to raise the cry of " Protestant Ascen-
dancy, and No Popery !!"rheir loyalty, their attach-
ment to our glorious institutions in Church and State,
their patriotism, and their honest independence of
feeling, are as unbending as

- " the gnarled and unwedgeable oak ;"
and will survive in proud triumph the malignant but
ineffectual assaults of Papal craft and tyranny, and
Republican rage and violence.

The exposure of the "enormous lying" of the Whig-
Radical press is almost an interminable task. In ano-
ther article we have commented on the base and trucu-
lent falsehoods to which the- ministerial organs gave
currency respecting the Queen Dowager's conversation
at Lisbon. Our compositors had scarcely finished with
that article before we were put in possession of another
conclusive document in reply to the base slanderers
who make such an ostentatious parade of " palace pa-
tronage." We find in the Morning Herald of psterday
the following letter from Lord Ingestre, in refutation
of the absurd and improbable charges recently brought
against the Conservatives of Statfordshire—and Lord
Ingestre in particular :

" TO TILE EDITOR OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER
" Leamington, Dec. 13, 1839.

" Sir,—My attention has thisday been called to the leading
article in your paper of the 30th • ult. in which I am broadly
accused of having utteresl treason towards her Majesty.
" I distinctly deny having given expression to a single