The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Owing to the length of our local reports, we have been obliged
to postpone several communications.
The verses by " William Graham" shall appear in our next.
We shall insert the letter respecting a certain Town-councillor
and his " tlagellatirw propensities" in our next, if we can so
shape it as to avoid involving our. correspondent in an action
for libel.

trbe Eiberpooi ,tantiatb•

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1838.

The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morn-

ing at 5 o'clock.

THE IRISH MUNICIPAL BlLL.O'Coniiell has once
more asserted his ascendancy over the imbecile ministry,
by insisting upon their compliance with the terms ;which
he chose to dictate to them in reference to the amount of
qualification. under the Irish Municipal Bill.. The over-
tures made by Sir, Robert Peel, with a view to the, so-
called, settlement of the Irish questions, and which were,
at first net by Lord John Russell in a spirit of apparent
candour and conciliation, have issued, as might have been
confidently anticipated, in the disgraceful humiliation of
the ministerial party, who have been compelledtoaccede
to a " compromise" far different in its character to that
which was proffered on the part of the Conservatives.
The conduct of Ministers on this qUestion will afford an
instructive lesson to the opposition. It will teach them
the utter futility of attempting, by any pacificatory mea-
sures, to satisfy the dominant faction in Ireland. It will
teach them to avoid reposing any confidence whatever
in the good faith of the present priest.ridden cabinet,
whO, as lOng as their official existence depends upon the
support of "the tail," are impotent for good and omni-
poten for evil, in reference to every subject connected
with the government of Ireland. It will likewise teach
them that their real tittength.consists in offering an un-
compromising opposition to every scheme which obtains
the sanction of O'Connell and his associates.

It is well known that nothing less will satisfy tht Po-
pish faction than the entire destruction of the Protestant
establishment in Ireland, and the total subversion of Bri-
tish influence over the internal policy of that ill fatedcoun-
ty. These are the grand objects for which O'Connell has
continued his agitation—these form the basis of every mea-
sure which the ministers have introduced in obedience to
the will of the great dictator. The Irish Tithe Bill is a
measure of this description. Its avowed object is to crip-
ple the resources of the Church, as a preliminary step to
the alienation of its revenues, and their subseqUent ap-
propriation to the maintenance of the Popish clergy.
We may be called alarthiSts for indulging in such lan-
guage ; but are we riot amply justified in thus expressing
ourselves ? Has not O'Connell, on numberless occasions,
openly avowed his pillaging designsagainst the Church ?
Has he not repeatedly told his countrymen that he will
not relax.in his efforts until he has removed the "nui-
sance" of the established Church froM his country ? Has
he not also told his countrymen that the priests have an
indubitable right *to the tithes now devoted to the main-
tenance of the Protestant faith ? HaS he not confidently
predicted that his eXertions will ultimately prove success-
ful in the attainment of that end ? Is it not, therefore,
plain that any plan which he may approve of, as a tem-
porary settlement of the tithe question, mustbe considered
as a means for facilitating the final accomplishment of
his schemes of plunder ? Are the Conservatives then
not justified in resisting, vi et armi4 all such plans?
It is perfectly idle to talk of conciliating or entering
into any "compromise" with the detestable faction of
which O'Connell is the mouth-piece and representative.
Resistance is'the only safe policy to which the Conserva-
tives can resort. If this policy had been acted upon con-
sistently during the last ten years we should not have
had the mortification to witness the aggravated assaults
to which the Established Church of Ireland has been re-
cently subjected—we should not have to record the dis-
graceful fact that upwards of forty members of the British
House of Commons had been repeatedly guilty of the
abominable crime of perjury—we should not have to re-
flect upon the baneful ascendancy of democratic principles
in the senate and in our municipal_ councils—we should
not have to lament the numberless encroachments which
have been made upon the venerated institutions of our
countrvencroachments which threaten to sap the:very
foundationsof our national prosperity, and to involve
in irremediable ruin the glorions fabric of ourconstitUtion.
We see no utility in mincing the truth, and we, there-
fore, maintain; and shall continue to assert, that all the
evils and embarrassments under which the country has
been labouring for the last seven years,, as far as they
can be traced to any distinct political origin; are atti ibu.
table to the rash concessions made to the Popish faction;
and we do not hesitate to assert, further, that, if this
country had been at all aware of the ulterior designs of
.the Papists and their allies, the Emancipation Bill would
never have been passed. The Protestants of England
were grossly imposed upon in the matter. They were
misled by the solerim asseverations of O'Connell and
the Irish priests and bishops of the Romish persuasion—
asseverat ions which would not nowbe considered as worth
a straw, even though ratified by the additional solemnity
of an oath.

The Popish party are now endeavouring to delude,the
British public in a similar manner. O'Connell and the
Priests are seeking to persuade the Protestants of En-
gland that they merely ask for municipal institutions,
assimilated in their character to those of England and
Scotland. This, however, is an empty pretence—a base
trick—a false profession. The real object which the
Papists seek to accomplish is, to render the power con-
ferred upon the Irish corporations subservient to their
own political designs—designs which have, over and
over again, been proved to be incompatible with the ex
i4tence of Protestantism, and the exercise of British' in-
fluence; in Ireland;