The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

rying with it tidings of woe which every individual
would feel and appropriate as his own. Seldom if ever
has there lived a man of such mark and likelihood as
the great Captain of the Age, who has so universally
endeared himself to all c!asses of his fellow-countrymen.
Just now his loss would be irreparable. But we refrain
from farther notice of so painful a subject. The recent
fabrication of Lord Brougham's death warns us to be
cautious in putting faith in such reports. Long may
it be before any writer in England has to speak of the
Duke of Wellington as numbered with the mighty
dead, and to attempt a faint portraiture of a character
which combines so many elements of true greatness.
We shall look with much anxiety for further accounts
about his Grace.

is with unfeigned satisfaction that we learn, from

the morning papers of yesterday, that His Grace the
Duke of Wellington is rapidly recovering from the at-
tack of illness with which he was visited on Monday
last. This cheering news will be hailed with delight by
every sincere lover of his country of whatever shade of
politics he may be. Long may the noble Duke live,
in the enjoyment of his health and faculties ! This is
a prayer which we feel assured will be most cordially
responded to by all our readers. We are rejoiced to
find that his indisposition was unaccompanied by any
symptoms at all calculated to create any future alarm.
His constitution seems impregnable to all but the as-
saults of age, and his temperate and abstemious habits
are likely to secure for him the blessing of a " green
old age."

We adverted last Tuesday to one of the mare's nests
which the Liberals just now are busy in discovering.

This was the wonderful fact, that the Conservatives
are traitors—the Tories disloyal—and the Whigs and
democrats the only trustworthy supporters of the
Throne. But there is yet another of these nests, which,
as. a natural curiosity, well worthy of the attention of
the keeper of the Institution in Colquitt-street, is quite
as extraordinary. It seems that the Conservatives have
been the authors of the late insurrection in South
Wales, and the Tories are Chartists under a different

appellation.
Metaphysicians tell us that one of the laws of the
association of ideas is contrast, and we suppose that
the muddle-brained writers on the Liberal side have
been dabbling in Flume, and finding that no two things
in the world can be more strongly contrasted than a
Radical and a Tory, a Chartist and a Conservative,
have jumped to the conclusion that on this very account
they must be somehow closely connected ; and perhaps
thus the hypothesis, paradoxical as it may seem, that

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the Tories are at the bottom of popular licentiousness,
may, to the foggy intellect of a Whig-Radical scribbler,
appear sufficiently explained. Except for the purpose
of showing up its absurdity, we would not waste a word
upon such twaddle. But it is useful to mark the ex-
tremity of falsehood to which the sinking Liberals re-
sort, even although they are convinced that it can in
no way benefit their desperate cause. They take a plea-
sure in delivering themselves of a lie which conveys in
terms a foul charge against the character of their op-
ponents, although they well know that the wretched
abortion will fall still-born upon the ground.
But we should like to hear how the Whigs and their
motley adherents can defend themselves if we retort
the charge against themselves. They have ever encou-
raged and connived at popular violence so long as it
served as a ladder by which they could climb into place
and power. They have selected for distinction, and
cajoled and petted, the most notorious democrats and
revolutionary agitators of the day. They have in the
person of that unhanged scoundrel Frost given the
weight and authority of magisterial dignity to a con-
victed libeller and fraudulent bankrupt, in order that
they might if possible secure his services for their own
political ends. But next Tuesday we will go on with
this subject, for which we have no space to day.

It is the misfortune of the times in which we live,
that questions of great interest and threats of impend-
ing danger so continually arise on every hand, that to-
pics of more lasting importance and more intrinsic va-
lue are too often of necessity postponed. The blows,
for instance, which are daily aimed at the Established
Church are of a nature so formidable, and the assault

is so secret as well as so open, (for every engine both
of subtlety and violence is at work,) and, withal, so un-
tiring and unscrupulous, that much of the loyal Church-
man's time is necessarily consumed in unmasking the
designs or thwarting the projects of the enemy. Blows
must be warded off : the present danger must be met,

and that immediately. Time and leisure are often
wanting for the more congenial end of improving the
efficiency and increasing the resources of the Church,
by appeals to the calm judgment of her own devoted
members.

But we do not therefore mean to let the great ques-
tion of Church Extension sleep in Liverpool. Active
and vigilant guardians we shall be (to the utmost of
our humble ability) for that which already is ; but
we must not forget to advocate, with all possible ear-
n'stness, that which is to be. We have before adverted
to the excellent Association formed by the Liverpool
Young Men for this holy purpose ; and we rejoice most
sincerely in the sure conviction that similar societies
are springing up in every district of these populous
counties. Here is the want chiefly felt ; here are the
means at hand; here is the sound principle and exten-
sive liberality to be found, if it be fairly sought out and
called into action ; here to, we rejoice to say, 1s the
energy and zeal which will not let these means of use-
fulness be dormant. Four years produced in Liverpool
alone £40,000 for the Church. It is not a year since
our townsmen came forward manfully for the express
purpose of Building and Endowing New Churches in
the town. Now they are occupied in providing means
of sound and scriptural instruction for all classes of
the community. Liverpool therefore has a claim to be
heard, whether she is petitioning Parliament, or raising
the cry of union and encouragement to other wealthy
towns.

We presented our readers on Tuesday with a heart-
stirring report of the movement in Sheffield. We
shall endeavour, on an early occasion, to present them
with some details of Dr. Chalmers' Missionary Expe-
ditions in Scotland, and of the working of the Bishop
of London's Scheme in the Metropolis. We mean to
enter, with our Presbyterian brethren, into the generous
warfare of a noble rivalry, and stimulate our country-
men to show the admiration which English Episco-
palians cherish for Scottish Presbyterian liberality in
the best practical method—by following the example.
England will arouse herself in earnest, and the good
cause will prosper.

The proceedings in the Town Council, on Wednes-
day last, do not require any extended remarks. The
pertinacious conduct of Mr. Coglan and his friends,
relative to the personation of a voter in St. Anne's
Ward, is not to be wondered at. It is the result of
bitter disappointment. It displays also a rankling feel-
ing of jealousy. The impertinence of Alderman Earle
towards Mr. Wright proves that because a man may
be an alderman he is not bound to be a gentleman.
The insolent demeanour of certain persons who have
crept into the council—the very types of vulgarity—
towards Mr. Cooper is equally as creditable as the lu-
dicrous cacchinations of Alderman Earle. Mr. Cooper,
we fearlessly assert, is one of the most useful members
of the Town Council, though he may not be able to
plate nonsense, or to mouth commonplaces, for an
hour together "by Shrewsbury clock,' as do certain
coxcomical, shallow, and conceited would-be-orators
among the self-styled liberals. In another year or two
these wholesale dealers in fustian and bombast will be
forced to shrink back into their original inglorious
obscurity.

The prospectus of the " Liverpool Collegiate Insti-
tution" being now in the hands of many of our readers
we shall attempt to point out the claims which this
institution has upon the support of all who wish for
the establishment in this town of a system of Scriptural
Education, upon an orthodox, but not exclusive basis.
To do this the more effectually, we shall make the
necessary extracts from the prospectus itself. It corn-