The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

agitator

Is there then no hope, no prospect of preservation
from such deep; disgrace ? We almost fear not :—the
Protestants of this town have been asleep—many who
might have registered have omitted to do so—our

warnings, the warnings of our contemporaries, have
been attended to by some, but not by all. A firm and
united phalanx of 800 Papists added to the register
(need we conceal the fact ?) are a formidable body.

Let this fact be told, let it be told to Protestants, we
care not whether conservative or whig ; and if any
love of freedom inspires their breasts, they will act
as one man, determined to sacrifice all minor differ-
ences for the preservation of the borough from the
dominion of Popery.
Let every freeman (and freemen can register till the
31st July) look to the roll—let every son and apprentice
who is qualified, register. Masters, ascertain whether
apprentices whose servitude has expired, have registered
—if not, urge them to register. The freemen of Liver-
pool may still do much, much to thwart the designs of
their enemies, the indefatigable, wicked enemies, of the
liberties and the religion of England.

FREEMEN-REGISTER ! ! !

If a conservative clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land should venture on any occasion to come forward
in public, and advocate the cause of that constitution
with which the maintenance of the religion which he
is appointed to preach is intimately bound up, he is
forthwith assailed by the entire body of the radical and
Popish press, as a "political firebrand" or a "furious
bigot." But when a Whig member of that church up-
holds in public the principles of the papistico-liberal
party, or, at a snug conclave of the exclusively enlight-
ened, with a radical town-councillor in the chair, and
a Roman Catholic in the vice-chair, dilates upon the
ballot, and urgesupon his Protestant fellow-countrymen
to ally themselves in political life with the fierce enemies
of that church to one of whose richest benefices his own
party zeal has won him preferment, we are called upon
to admire the eloquence, and to gaze with rapture upon
the disinterested and enlightened sentiments of this
paragon of churchmen !

We have no wish, in noticing this inconsistency in•
the proceedings of our opponents and their press, to
drag individual names unnecessarily before the public;
but it would be sheer affectation to deny that our present
remarks are prompted by a recent exhibition of a rev.
gentleman (Mr. Aspinall) in the character of an apos-
tle of Whig-radicalism ; and by the eulogistic comments
of our contemporary, the Albion, upon his "eloquent"
and "forcible" address, Mr. Aspinall has no doubt
earned the trophy bestowed upon him for his political
zeal; and we can sympathize heartily with the Albion
and his party over the departure of such a glory from
amongst them. We have little fear that the rev. gen-
tleman will be so selfish as to hide, for the future, his
brilliant talents from the world,--which has so far well
rewarded them,—or to shine " only in the closet" whilst
the prospect to which our contemporary points is within
his reach. As a minister of the Gospel, however zealous
and however pious and exemplary, we doubt much
whether he would have won such rewards and such
honors from the same hands and the same lips ; but
we have as little doubt that he is on the true path to a
continuation of the same golden shower, when he con-
stitutes himself as a messenger from the lobby of the
House of Commons, to the Reform Association and
the Protector Societies of Liverpool, in place of re-
stricting himself to his duty as a messenger of the
Gospel.

ACCIDENT.—An accident which might have been attended
with fatal results took place on Sunday, in Pembroke-place.
One of Mr. Bushby's cars was seen rapidly advancing from
the end of Stafford-street, (the horses having taken fright in
Soho-street,) without the driver, and, after passing the
monument, it was dashed against the lamp-post at the corner
of. Gill-street, one of the horses being killed by the concus-
sion. We are happy to say that a lady and her children, who
were in the car at the time, received no other injury than a
few bruises.

EXPERIMENTAL TRIP

HE
STEAM-SHIPOPT "PRESIDENT"

FROM
LIVERPOOL to CORK AND DUBLIN, AND BACK

(Written for the Liverpool Standard.)
The following sketch of the trial trip of the President,
written at various periods during the voyage, may, perhaps,
heinteresting to your readers, more particularly as the vessel
is the largest steam-ship in the world, and, moreover, is des-
tined to sail between your port and New York.
In order to convey some idea of the size, steam-power, and
equipments of the ship, it will be necessary for the informa-
tion of those who have not seen her, to furnish some account,
which I shall not extend, as I perceive you have promised a
full description, to accompany the picture of the vessel, to be
presented with your paper of, the 31st instant, before the
vessel takes her first departure for America.