The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

presumed to prepare his Financial Statement with

special reference to the exigent - Lii.
peculiar pressure of the public burdens, and the
most advisable means of affording relief. Such is

ae presu

by the energy with which particular interests
claim exemptions in their own favour, and their

of political

respective bearings upon the stre
parties, irrespective of justice and equity. At one
time, there is a clamour for the repeal of the
Window Duty, and Ministerial subserviency makes
the concession ; at another time, the popular feeling
runs in favour of cheap sugar or cheap tea, and
forthwith the demand is gratified, although it
involves the necessity of imposing fresh burdens
upon some other class of the community possessing
less parliamentary influence. The Reform Bill was
carried, not by the intelligence of our senators, but
from popular agitation. Success emboldened con-
stant resort to the same means, and almost every

subsequent measure of any importance was owing
to the same influence. When Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
as a Conservative Minister, introduced a Bill to
secure a more general system of education in the
principles of the Church, he gave it up because the
Dissenters entered into an active agitation against
it, and the same mode of expressing what is called
public opinion has been permitted to supersede the
functions and influence the decisions of Parliament

twenty years, has formed the theme of popular dis-
cussion. To the credit of the late Sir ROBERT
PEEL, however, it may be said that he was less
guided by these extraneous movements than any
Minister of modern days, and particularly so in his
financial schemes, having imposed the Income-tax,
and repealed the Auction and Glass Duties, without
the slightest pressure from without being brought
to bear on either subject.
In the agitation to effect what is popularly
known a's Free-trade, the prime movers had a more
difficult task than ordinary ; for not only was there
a large majority against the scheme in both Houses
of Parliament, but the people themselves, upon
whom the agitators depended for their strength,
were either opposed to it or lukewarm. They did
not, however, despair. They met few in number
at first, subscribed thousands to pay the necessary
expenses, hired lecturers to advocate the cause in

public assemblies, offered prizes for essays in elucida-
tion of the subject, and deluged the country with

pamphlets and writings in order to arouse the
populace into a general clamour for cheap bread.

riJang instance of energy ana uezermina•
tion on the one hand, and credulity on the other
rendered successful by Ministerial treachery, am

was a s'

resulting in great distress, and a destruction of al
confidence in the honour and honesty of public

letition of the treachery will

which the Protestant cause was betrayed by the

Emancipation Bill in 1829, and its consequencc

similar in the defeat and discomfiture of the Min

It might, however, serve as a useful lesson t

those who still adhere to Conservative principle

If the Free

raders could

make such sacrif

display such energetic perseverance, in order tc

a mere political theory in our commercial
system, what should not those do who aim at being
Conservative leaders, in order to maintain and pre-

carry out

they profess so much veneration

It is of vital

importance to the welfare of the State, that Con-
servative principles should be in the ascendant in

mighty interests at stake, little or nothim.

to accomplish such an object. In election con-
tests we find all shades of Radicalism uniting to
further their own views, while Conservatives are
almost unaided in their efforts, and even opposed
by those who should be with them. Men loud in
their professions of zeal for Protestantism are
found swelling the ranks of Radicals who have in-
variably favoured the designs of Romanists, and

representatives returned by Conservative electors
are found supporting a Radical Ministry. The

Free-traders left no means untried which could
contribute to their success. The Conservatives
have hardly made an effort, except attention in
some constituencies to the Registration and an oc-
casional contest at the hustings. The Free-traders
lavishly supported the Radical Press which
favoured their views ; the Conservatives have left
the Conservative Press to fight their battles with-
out any other aid than the consciousness of the
justice of their cause, and the conviction that
virtue is its own reward. The Free-traders
handsomely rewarded every writer who advocated
their cause, and circulated essays and pamphlets
on the subject in almost limitless profusion ; the
Conservatives, in this respect, have done literally
nothing, and the unthinking public are left at the
mercy of their self-elected instructors. The Free-
traders held public meetings in every town
throughout the kingdom, and in lectures and ora-
tions impressed their specious doctrines upon the
minds of their hearers ; the Conservatives, in this
respect also, have done nothing, notwithstanding
the magnificence of their cause.
What, then, is the obvious duty of those who,
from station, influence, and the possession of
wealth, amid be in the patio of popular leaders,

government whic

tain national prosperity

In such a

LIVERPOOL MIGHT APPROPRIATELY TAR

and we are cer

vemen

Main that the announcemE

of a meeting to establish a CONSERVATIVE LEA(

in this town; as the centre of a nat

zl agitatic

would be hailed with joy by Conservatives of all rex

throughout the empire, and the funds to promote i
usefulness would be liberally contributed. It

quires no great preparation to make the COll
If a few of the leading ConservatiN

I mencement

Amphitheatre, and invite the co-opi

a committee of management might be a'

Ipointed, the collection of a general fund eon
menced, and a nucleus formed which would unit

errors which have only prevailed because n(

cause is one which must commend itself to every

d. and

Ltertain so h

rh an mini(

of the honesty and intelligence of our country mer
generally,as to feel convinced that the large majorit3

Radicalism were once made clear to their under

WORTH A TRIAL, AND WE CALL UPON THE LEAD•

ING CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL TO TAKE THE

CERTAIN OF MEETING WITH A HEARTY RESPONSI

IT would be almost as tedious as a thrice told

tale, to recount the numerous blasphemous absurdi-

ties by winch "tome practices on superstition am
credulity. They are so utterly beyond the wildest

incredible, were it not for the mostpalpable evidence
of their perpetration ; and they would provoke

ridicule

were it not for their awful profanity
the VIRGIN MARY appearing to two miserable
children at La Salette, near Grenoble, was so

The story of

person outside a Lunatic Asylum would be almost
beyond possibility ; but it has been adopted by the
head of the Church of Rome, and now serves to
show the utter prostration of intellect to which the

dupes of that imposture are reduced. A document
has been published, purporting to bear the signs.
ture of WILLIAM BERNARD, Bishop of Birmingham
and professing to establish an association at a pre
tended chapel of Notre Dame de la Salette, al

Stratford-upon-Avon, under the title of " Our Lady
of Reconciliation of La Salette," offering indul,

as rewards for its support. Here, in t'
first place, is a direct violation of the Ecclesiastic
Titles Prevention Act, which our craven Minister

next place, is a blasphemous assumption of Divin
powers, founded upon a contemptible figment wine]
is self-evident as a gross imposture. When a damn
is made for religious liberty by such wretchec
dupes as will receive this barefaced delusion, ii
ought rather to be a consideration whether the 3
should be entitled to freedom from restraint. It it

customary, in cases of mental hallucination, to issu
a Commission de Lunatico Inquirendo, in orde
that those afflicted with such a grievous complains

may have their persons and property placed in saf
custody ; but it would be difficult to find an inmat

of any Lunatic Asylum who is subject to mox
melancholy aberrations of intellect than the believe'

in this wretched imposture of our Lady (

Salette.

THE pr

Turkey, of which the excitement had lom

been worn out, has

ceived a ne

impetu

within the last few days, owing to the pi

ie EMPERO:

modifications proposed by

agreed to by the Conference at Vi

usal is based on ti

question having been

he having consented to accept the award, he i

justified in refusing to accede to alterations

posed by the other principal in the affair. Ru

has• so far acted in an evident spirit of justice

nay be her ul

hateve

refusal of Turkey to acc

n. designs

by the Conference, has rendered the question fa

impossible to show Rus

occupation of the Danubian provinces having been
condoned by the consent to mediate for their

evacuation
In estim

he position which England ougl

to assume, in the event of a resort to hostilities

much erron

owing to the difficulty of understanding

cause of

ibject has been overlaid by the many extraneous

circumstances which have been iny

and the numerous conflicting reports which have
been published. We shall, therefore, give a brief
recapitulation of the leading facts, so that our
readers may be able to form something like a

even now threatens to involve the East of Europe
in war, with the probability of extending it to the
West.

The relics of Christianity in Palestine, comprising
the alleged sepulchre of OUR SAVIOUR, and fami-
liarly known as the Holy Places, are in the
dominions of the SULTAN of TURKEY, but are in
the possession of members of the Greek Church, to
whom the custody was guaranteed by treaties
between Russia and Turkey—the Latin Monks,
who claimed an interest in the relics, being allowed
a subordinate position, in having the keys of one of
the shrines. Last year, when Louis NAPOLEON
was preparing for his assumption of the title of
Emperor of France, he was solicitous to gain the
especial favour of POPE Pius IX., in order to
obtain his personal assistance at his coronation.
He, therefore, assumed the empty title of Protector
of the Holy Places ; and, to give a colour of pre-
tence to his claim, despatched the MARQUIS of
LA:PALETTE to Constantinople, to cajole the SULTAN
Out of a concession to the Latin Monks in Jeru-
salem. The SULTAN, as a Mohammedan, thought
little, and cared less, as to who had the keys of the
sepulchre, for which he himself had not the
slightest reverence ; and, being willing to oblige
his brother of France in such a seeming trifle, con-
ceded the firman, by which the Latin Monks were
allowed equal privileges with the Greeks, The