The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-15 00:00:00

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MR. CARDWELL'S JESUITRY AGAIN!

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sin,—According to the report in the Liverpool Chro-
nicle of Mr. Cardwell's speech at the Amphitheatre, on
Friday last, he told the meeting that Mr. Disraeli had
stated in his address to his constituents that the govern-
ment did not intend to repeal the grant to Maynooth
but on reading that address, 1 was much surprised to find
no such statement. What are we to think of a cause
which needs to be supported by misrepresentation on the
part of the candidate himself.'—Yours, truly.
A PROTESTANT.

[Mr. Cardwell will probably reply tO our correspondent
by impugning the accuracy of the Chronicle's report ; and,
as usual with him, he has left a loophole of escape ; for
we find in the report of this part of his speech in the
Journal, the very convenient interpolation, " I think."
It is sometimes convenient to make assertions first, and
to ascertain the truth afterwards ; and Mr. Cardwell
" knows it." Tile following paragraph from Mr. Disraeli's
address contains his only allusion to the Maynooth ques-
tion. It will take a good deal of twisting to make it hear
Mr. Cardwell's interpretation of it :—" The time of the
House of Commons has been much occupied of late by a
discussion, whether the management of the Roman
Catholic College of Maynooth requires investigation.
Without preluding the question, her Majesty's ministers
have felt it their duty to support such an inquiry. We,
have been anxious to subdue the heat of religious contro-
versy, and to deal impartially with all her Majesty's
subjects, whether in communion with the Church of Rome
or the Church of England; but we cannot sanction an
opinion now in vogue, that since the act of 1829, the
constitution of this country has ceased to be Protestant.
By the Act of Settlement, our form of government is
that of a Protestant monarchy; and it is our belief that
the people of this country are resolved so to maintain it,
not only in form, but inspirit."—En.

TITHEBARN-STREET RAILWAY-STATION.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—When the new station of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railway Companies was
erected, some two years since, in Tithebarn-street, it was
understood to be for the accommodation of parties travel-
ling by these lines, and for this purpose a gate was erected
at the south-east corner of the station for (as I suppose)
the exit of passengers, it being a direct outlet as they land
from the train. This gate, however, has only been opened
upon one or two occasions for the purpose for which it
was intended, thus causing the majority of the passengers
to go some two or three hundred yards round, and take
the chance of being run over by coaches or cars ; as, by
the present arrangement, all pass through the same en-
trance. If the companies do not intend to let the passen-
gers have the benefit of this gateway, the sooner it is
built up the better, as what would be a great accommoda-
tion to them is now converted into a public nuisance.—l
am, Sir, your obedient servant, A TRAVELLER.

BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sex,—`ti ill you so far befriend the Birkenhead Model
Yacht Club, as to insert the accompanying paragraph from
Bell's Life, with a few annotations :-
4' BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB.—The broad-
side which was thrown last week into the ' alabaster noses'
who sneer at model yachting at or near Birkenhead, seems
to have shaken them a little, but not to have quite sunk
them into the waters of oblivion, whither however they
are deservedly fast settling. We are now proud to find
that the support that we have given, and shall give, to
model yacht clubs, is also rendered in the highest quar-
ters, for the present Commissioners of the Admiralty (all
naval men, first lord inclusive) have actually granted to
the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club the blue ensign of her
Majesty's fleet, with the Birkenhead arms on the fly
thereof, as the colours to be worn on board their vessels.
The members of the Birkenhead Model Yacht Club can
well afford to treat their opponents with contempt.
Among these opponents is one gentleman who ought to
be made acquainted with the Latin line, Nascitur poets
non fit.' He should at least have read English Bards
and Scotch Reviewers' before he attempted 'ye Rise and
Progresse of a Young Clubbe,' in which we see Bell's
Life is referred to in a note. This scurrilous and rhyming
attack (it certainly is not poetical) on the Birkenhead
Model Yacht Club is too bad even to provoke laughter.
But the animus of its lines shows that the writer possesses
a most ill-conditioned, yacht-hating, anti-British soul.
The sooner he starts for the antipodes or the Californian
' diggings' the better. His talents (?) are certainly thrown
away on the Mersey. We positively pity the poor printers
who had the irksome task of putting his balderdash in
type." - .

No " alabaster noses" have been " shaken," nor, I opine,
will even the editor of Bell's Life venture to do so, how-
ever much he may, in his impotent anger, " shake" his
own head. With this denial I leave him to explain his
own superlatively intelligible language relative to the said
" alabaster noses" not having " quite sunk into the waters
of oblivion, whither however they are deservedly fast set-
tling." The editor is not justified in speaking of " oppo-
nents," for no collision is known to exist, save only in the
imagination of the editor of Bell's Lffe and that of his
correspondent. From a perusal of " the lines," I will
venture to say that the author of them has read " Eng-
lish Darus anti ocuLeu neviewers,-- Lula Lhat, Lo t[nula
how to appreciate and apply the same. Before the editor
of Bell's Life undertook the thankless office of giving
advice, he ought to have remembered that the censure of
some men is praisd—that abuse is not argument, nor does
invective convey conviction. He should have learnt his
grammar better, and when he began with plural, should
not have ended with the singular. He should moreover
have recollected that his recommendation in a former
issue to the supposed author was to " fly kites" in
" China" (parallel occupation with baby-boat playing,
I admit), but now he suggests the Antipodes or the " dig-
gings" of California. But here is the pith of this disin-
terested editor's remark, " the animus of its lines shows
that the writer possesses a most ill-conditioned, yacht-
hating, anti-British soul." Read this and tremble, all ye
who care not for boating—ye are an ill-conditioned anti-
British herd. The " soul" of Britain consists in model
yachts ! Now, I would that the editor could understand
the language he uses before committing it to paper—that
he would strain every nerve, and tell us what is " scurri-
lous." Far better had been contemptuous silence than all
the abuse of a man enjoying the dignified position of
"honorary member." There is not a breath of malice
in the lines nor in the sketches, which are yet to be pub-
lished—but let us hope a course, which tends only to
create a confederacy, and perhaps a hostile feeling, will
not be approved by the B. M. Y. C. Doubtless both
parties are aware of the preference which should be given
to a sensible foe over an indiscreet friend. I maintain
that this nature of retaliation can have no other effect
than provoking a continuance of the offensive lines, and
as everybody from the ministry downwards is subject to
ridicule, why should the editor of Bell's Life lose his
temper on behalf of the B. M. Y. C. ? If the editor
volunteered this reply, his conduct is unwarrantable; and
if the club solicited an editor to take up their defence,
they deserve all the ridicule they may receive.
A SUPPORTER OF THE CLUB, AND
ANTI-OPPOSITIONIST.