The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-27 00:00:00

kit THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
`IIE BEIVEFIT OF MR. WOOD.
kykitrance of Mr. and Mrs. WOOD, of the Theatres-
,
•rtltY-lane and Covent-garden, who are engaged
4„_nte_d number of nights.
Zl.l_`l°t: LA SONNAMB U LA having been received on
71.. ?th the most enthusiastic applause, will be re-
iil44l6 Evening.
l!)ersent FRIDAY EVENING, the 27th instant,
LA
Pctfortned the popular Opera of
SONNAMBULA.
4t4iria.
* ......Mrs. Wood.
Mr.************* Mr. Wood.
*6. ' '' `Alessio.. Mr. Baker.
Liza
'''' Miss Grant.
!J.? After which, the Interlude of
Oa THE MAN AND TIIE
Or W• Howard ; Buckskin, Mr. Bake! Cape,
'vtell,tt: H. Bland ; Fusile, Mr. J. Page's aY
TO
conclude with the Farce of the
\44.
iv LITTLE JOCKEY.
r-„W. Howard. I Linval..
kok:,,• aim. Baker. I Anisette Mrs. Tellett.
co_ I,uAl next the Opera of THE MAID
_F.
‘64(lleheeWood ; Ivanhoe, Mr. Wood_,
,tle'lt4artea;Alberrts, Mr. Barker ; De Bracey,
Chaplin ;;k Crowearaba, Mr. Baker • Gurth,
01-I_aralina
conclu'de with the
eleaveDr . Alessandro Massaront, Mr. Stuart ;
viiees celebrated Opera of FIDELIO is in pt;epara-
\42t.' be Produced for the first time here on Tuas-

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NORNING, SEPT. 27, 1339*

_ .
4.141
I)
IS: ftwe keep Ireland," was the triumphant
tie
II:- '34l.•Lalor Sheil, the new Vice-President
;61541414r:1 et Trade, to one who reminded him of
)11chiefleAli, his party had sustained at Cambridge.
'line aufficulty lay in Ireland," said Sir Robert
iiiietialaining to the House of Commons the
:Of fohCIL had determined him to abandon the
,Itlielitig. an Administration. Now it is a mat-
-I°° tif, r'q Importance at the present juncture,
1,7 4 4,,4 side of the Channel the proved incom-
i...red'ia iMbeeility of the Melbourne Cabinet has
74 ereo4 it all but universal contempt, and awa-
itlio jr,„i° the most indifferent a resolution to
rltileri:ger to the pressure of such an incubus
joliter7enrces and prosperity of the country, that
lallegeiidttes should understand distinctly wherein
441effie eulty consists, and how far it exists as
thtlleal_harrier to any 'attempt on. their part to
(),,, klovernment of the Empire, or a mere
Y rtaBet iIP by their opponents, which, when.
ki. 4 ti;rnilied, will turn out to be as little formi-
'44 to figures of rags and straw which are used
lir.% terrifY crows and children.
Shen no doubt fancied that his answer was a
s:NettlorLtsne
.Chuckled in the thought that the
Otitirolaattix native country would secure to himself.
:E._ °f Ir' ee of Pay and office, and that in the
'70,4(1 ish degradation and wretchedness would
i4,,eti at:l:ter/14
obstacle to the accession of Con-
Power. And that his boast has some
b),l-.', artee of truth we will not deny. It will be
.:t%ve,;°llplisii. of
alone on the part of the Con-
-4Latoool r,,leil can give it point and reality. Let us
rgoe ,e::_as'utne that this Irish Ministerial de-
o i'' right, and that so long as the " keeping
li of poBiiaare in the hands of the Liberals, the te-
‘. toNtrutical existence to the present Ministry, or
t‘lfi etLed on the same principles, is secure.
),,,_ftll ecia Len have this astounding fact—that the
I'Z''deed, most lawless, most bigotted, most
:11.140:_41n1 least independent portion of the Ern-
ktioriii; Power of controlling the will and coercing
klttitatela °llB of the rest; and that no matter whe-
tel
It knee and Scotland combined, with their vast
Sot and wealth and civilization, desire a change
It!,_ ' the
toitto jerM.ust cringe as vassals to Ireland, and
...4N.iet,
of Imperious dictation ! The varied con-
yetur her merchants, agriculturists,
►. Ysf ers' and artizans—presenting the largest
Ill' te43 lialhe ,
I,e.c Lability, education, and wealth to be met
ofish °IA, rtiUst have their votes paralysed and
ghillies frustrated by the rabble of a country.
14.144444 hte4nlle a byeword for the excesses of ills-
ii •erirlie---wifich is the very focus of agitation
Solt
coliaet......and
in which calumnious falsehoods are
'lhoil
cierklY circulated and believed than in any other
fkloolta
kiirotiti4.4oenziniverse! This would be indeed a
Y---so monstrous, that did it exist in
:Nit in the sense in which Sheil and O'Connell
ktr,,„e taken t,
kib
11'4
°f that band of apostles of misrule intend
bk.o to . ' England would be justified in putting
toliN7 phN it at once with a strong hand, and exertingd
gNkpipottiorPotiolerofshe undoubtedly possesses in. de-
eps
the Empire of privileges which i
iollottii Yed for the destruction of the whole.
if ``ti fae„ea,4e le not so, and it is to enforce attention
•be 44" that we bring the subject before our readers.
ovi, ft:,
ItttliOtait,eii t e cuckoo cry of Ireland to be everlast-f
74 tri °Y our political opponents as the signal o.
tie% °lnPli A
*II. ‘ and our defeat, and grant them the posi-
-4 Ica di
by I.' ty h. eY so eagerly assume, that herein lies the
It s'sAse,W_7.e.ll renders the problem of Government
cA2lnilt ‘vdtives 11,0111101 impossible to solve, we shall.
14:.,cinariftian act of suicidal folly, and. build up with
k kih.;_ 8 the wall of exclusion which our enemies
eSteoCor to raise. Let us consider the nature
the obstacles presented by Ireland if the
fry
thei.rves succeed in ejecting the present Ministry
toilLll the first
bC4II 42.4 Place, we pay no sort of regard to the.
IN the7gadocio of O'Connell and his satellites, in
"rt
Ski alit of their seven millions of Papists as
4%4 e4Ptai a 118 would of the cut-throats under their
011411(T
IJ.liheidea of a national resistance. to the
1-44,4"kie.7..-1, esters, of the Crown is idle, except in
ml or 9 wnere real
wi
,eaaok,, , veo to be the necessary consequence
illri: of 1,... an the Executive. Before the great mea-
hL4rehtilirna,TleiPation the long-continued miseries
~ait
and he, accu,irii:uadlatleeddgrowth of centuries of
thilt LY 44(1 naisrule
teth,.`ootile,
t -se p
immediately
ottliemdaiagtienlye
h... frotactical benefits would
it:t! /le el.niarriottle Passing of that act. The boon had
110„.44Portaile °II* insisted upon by their leaders, and
0de..41 IY itttribe ° magnified in their eyes, that they
krtr the burtoted all the evils of their social system,.
Nlllae. ilea of which every man groaned, to its
u., lone r
s. . .
1:417
eanfthpotat(Joeeestlon, and fancied that the golden
and plenty would begin whenever
,tlief.Liii. °lie Association succeeded in carrying the
CPoriehee Vyell, the measure became law, and i the.
tlioileol ten
L years has proved how fallacious leave
k.)itift %b.
copes and expectations. We are not, in
th.l" . 6' xPressing any opposition to the Act of
rO., .litil°rle Emancipationbut it is undeniable
. L.44,144e,7 Practicalptirposs; bearing upon the in-
'',-,7),d, i;nl,f°rt and happiness of the lower orders, in
S! ell t 44 been, signally, a failure. Theoretical
'4 the
ite organic form of government, and the
.ISt I'4or d •
. 17P ukitl , ePtlvation of a few franchises can no
4 tife g;r4lessings to the cottage of the labourer,
ofts.%tinitegf:t.," a serpent or a stone can stand as a
is tht ro 'I Dread. The same may be said of most
"IN easures which
!jot% Of itin .are clamoured for by the noisy
„ .esiao
etiii,-..,e pot
the .demagogues. 9emagogues. Municipal corpora-
NI 4'041 ther: kand of rights which could, if Nvith-
ill .tehellio , excite the Irish population to conspiracy
Y Peri ti• It is
44Si Nis kr not hatred of tithes on account of
Zoitilt prop uple which arms the lawless ruffians
ellterof Perty and life, but the hope of getting rid by
ille ProfitB ail. impost which subtracts something from
ti4411/411Y pla°,folourdustrY• This is proved by the fact that
elk °tltrage ent and not tithe is the object of agra-
s 44% are - rand jury bills and appropriation
tZors, I,_.'cnivenient subjects of declamation to mob
:rtitile 1;4 ,t the are neither understood nor cared for
111,NQ:ince to such a degree as to make the grant
'llein Such measures a matter of much importance
order • taco
the 41 are r ri tells us, that "the worst of all dis-
-441_41 the those
which proceed from the belly ;" and
4 "ely 1,,,‘ cniation of suffering which presses most
~, 414,, upon the Irish people. It is the uneasy rest-
'llea, ,; taused b
hem
- witea Y Penury and
toe to theiai 0 greedily privation which makes
y to the delusive prospects held
, astice. by their unprincipled leaders. Practical
'e ' such
Itt4 aB a Poor-law - •
%Yete, Public bill—internal improve-
.4k of education °s-----and, above all, an enlightened
-4(laill' QIN. 1%6,, are the grand desideratum for the
stry(ttive,." of this unhappy country. Now, if the
" Were in
•-• Polder, they would introduce and

carry out suchmeasures, with far more zeal and efficacy
than the Liberals, with all their hollow professions and
noisy promises ; for the former have an interest in the
prosperity and quiet of Ireland, the latter thrive best
when she is turbulent and wretched. " Keeping Ire-
land" with them, means keeping up sufficient misery
to render the populace subservient tools to their own
selfish purposes.
A Conservative administration might be hostile to
Municipal Corporations, and refuse to pass an appro-
priation clause, but these, we repeat, are not the ques-
tions which would set Ireland in a flame, and render
that country the rock on which their party would be
shipwrecked—on these points. they may safely differ
from their opponents and run no risk of not "keeping
Ireland." In a very short time the tangible palpable
benefits conferred by measures which would give food
and labour to the peasant would produce their effect,
and the people, no longer delirious with the agony of
want, would turn a deaf ear to the lying demagogues
whose constant effort is to influence their passions and
stultify their understandings.

We firmly believe that the difficulty, as respects Ire-
land, has been much exaggerated by the Conservatives
themselves. They attach too much importance to the
big blusters of O'Connell and his crew, who, whenever
they allude to the possibility of Sir Robert Peel taking
office, throw themselves into a paroxysm of madness,
and talk of blood, and wounds, and cannon, and death,
as furiously as if they were not themselves the most
paltry cowards in existence. But, happily, their vile
calumnies would recoil upon themselves. The Irish
people would soon find that grapeshot was not mowing
them down—that the Duke of Wellington was not
marching upon them at the head of some 200,000 men

—and that, in fact, none of the horrors in which their
imagination had dressed the return of the Conservatives
to power were realised. Let not the latter he false to
themselves, nor value the empty menaces, of the Dublin
Corn Exchange more than they would the threats of a
bullying coward, and they will gain and keep Ireland
in spite of the priests and Mr. Richard Lalor Sheil, the
poetical 'Vice-President of the Board of Trade.

Never was the descent from the sublime to the ridi-
culous made more decisively, or with more wonderful
rapidity, than when the Session of 1839 closed upon
the Melbourne Ministry and the Melbourne Parlia-

went. Questions in which it is no exaggeration to

say that the welfare of the whole world was more or
less intimately involved were hushed at once, and

everybody was occupied in discussing with intense
anxiety the possible merits of Mr. Francis Baring and

Mr. Poulett Thomson.

One of the Roman Emperors

made his horse a Consul, in derision of the e.fete in-

stitutions of the Roman Republic : and we suppose it
is in some such spirit that Lord Melbourne makes

Mr. Poulett Thomson Governor of British America—

;o add insult to injury, and spurn with the hoof of

contempt the important interests he has already de-
graded and oppressed. Doubtless the time will arrive
when these questions will have a very momentous in-
terest, and be very seriously discussed. More than

enough, meanwhile, has been said and thought con-
cerning so very contemptible a personage.
But when the contending armies retire annually to
their winter quarters, it is not, we humbly conceive,
to indulge in indolence and lethargy, but to recruit
their forces and concentrate their strength. Hence

questions of paramount importance, for which the rapid
succession of political events affords no seasonable in-
terval during the season of active service in the field,

Force themselves upon men's minds, and are looked to

with renewed and untiring interest.
First and foremost of these questions with the coun-
try at large, and not least, we are proud to say, with
the intelligent and right-minded constituency of Liver-
pool, is the great subject of National Education. This
will naturally occupy a large portion of men's thoughts,
and will present itself to Parliament in the ensuing
Session under circumstances of paramount and in-

creasing importance. Already, indeed, has universal
England spoken out plainly and broadly enough. But
her cry, though we do not believe the miserable place-
lings will wholly dare to disregard it, has not yet been
treated with the respect which the nation has demanded
and will require. That cry must be yet louder and

still more imperative.
No one of our Conservative readers in Liverpool
who was present, (and who was not present ?) at the
great Banquet in the Music Hall last October, can
ever forget the rising of that vast and most respectable
assemblage as one man, when the excellent Chairman,
in the name of the people of Liverpool, called upon

our Representatives most sacredly to watch, not this
or that topic of commercial or local interest, but that
great national and religious question, the Education
of Youth in sound and Christian principles. And
no one who has attended (and who has not attended ?)
to the conduct of these excellent and able men in Par-
liament, can fail to regard with the most lively sense
of pleasure the manner in which they spoke the voice

of Liverpool.
The traitor Gibson—the dishonourable traitor to
the cause of truth, who basely practised with the Mi-
nisterial myrmidons the secret artifices of that disho-
nest faction, and withheld from his injured constitu-
ents at Ipswich the occasion of vindicating their honest
principles until his ill-gotten voice had turned in their
favour the quivering scale of this anxious trial,—
has met with his reward at the hands of a second
constituency. And he may in no small degree thank
the feeling which is everywhere predominant upon this
most vital subject, if borough after borough shall re-
ject him with contempt, and he be forced at last, like
his brother renegade who has ceased to mis-represent
the town of Liverpool, to solicit constituency after
constituency, and probably take refuge at last in the
tender mercies of the Lord of Kilkenny and Carlow.
At Manchester there can be no doubt whatever that
Sir George Murray's cause was deeply identified with
this prevailing feeling. Even in that hotbed of dissent
the alarm has been taken, and has widely spread.- The
excellent Wesleyans have carried into action the prin-
ciples they so ably avowed in their petition to Parlia-
ment, and in their contemptuous 'commentary upon
O'Connel:'s idle and insolent remonstrance. Fighting,
as their Founder would have fought, by the side of
the Church, they have read to the intolerant and fac-
tious clique who glory in the title Liberal a lesson
which will cause them to chew the cud of bitter fan-
cies, until a Dissolution of Parliament and a Conser-
vative triumph shall put them out of their misery for

There seems to be no teaching these dunderheads
the simplest lesson. Openly as they are told day by
day that whenever they outrage the religious feelings
of the British community they damage their own
cause,—loudly as themselves complain that they can-
not trifle with the Church without sustaining irrepara-
ble loss as the necessary and immediate consequence,
they still persist by a wilful and blind fatuity in their
foolish course, and each succeeding election, bears wit-
ness to the palpable result. They have no ends in
view but sordid and selfish interest. Let them, then,
in the name of common sense, forbear from, provoking
the wrath of a power that is mightier than they. II
the Church were not too strong for Whiggery, she
would indeed be weak. The Cluirch will prevail, for
in the affections of the English people she occupies
the first and dearest place. Let the aggressors look
to it.

We have adverted in the last article to the interest
which universally belongs to the question of National
Education. We propose in the present to say a few
words on the very extraordinary conduct of that eccen-
tric individual who has made himself in this subject
the most conspicuous means of mischief—we mean
Lord Brougham. We do not care one farthing whe-
ther he be fighting by the side of Lord Lyndhurst or
Lord 'Melbourne in the House of Lords, or toadying
the Duke of Wellington at a dinner, or lauding
O'Connell (as he deigned to do within two short years)
at a democratic meeting. Be he where he may, and
however engaged, he is still the same intense, un-
mitigated humbug. Full of ambitious pretences and
fair promises, universally disbelieved and distrusted,
he is an object rather of curious speculation to all par-
ties in politics than of serious interest to any one

among them.
What, for example, could be the solution of his
absurd behaviour immediately before the Prorogation
on this very subject of National Education ? What
signified those crocodile's tears, and that pretended
eulogy of his bitterest public enemy, and that ostenta-
tious sacrifice of his own most favourite schemes to