The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

npunces them ; and., as to Lord John tWAsell, he will
not recognise him as Jesder of the opposition in Par-
liament—unless he declare himself a Repealer, so that
the late ministerial party, held together by nothing but
a common attachment to place, is now shivered to
atoms, and will present no mark to the enemy,

But there is another circumstance favourable to the
longevity of Sir Robert Peel's administration; the dif-
ficulty of governing Ireland, which appeared so terri-
ble, when seen only through the mist of Repeal agi-
tation, begins to look much less formidable on a nearer
approach ; it is now thought not only that Ireland may
be governed without the Repealer's assistance, but
that it may be much better, and More effectually.
governed independently of it. Sir Robert Peel seems
determined to give to that country an honest, impar-
tial, constitutional government—such as it has long
wanted—and with such a government what may we
not hope for that splendid country, and its lively,
sensitive people ? There are thousands, and tens of
thousands of Roman Catholics who long to see the
tyranny of O'Connellism, of Priestism, and Ribbon-
ism completely put down; and the Protestants ask for
nothing more than a government that will really give
the people the benefit of British law—promote those
only who are entitled to reward, and bear not the
sword in vain towards the seditious, the turbulent, and
evil-doers. We are persuaded that the Conservative
cabinet Of Sir Robert Peel will act strictly and
thoroughly on these views; their legal appointments
give an especial earnest to this effect. Sir Edward
Sugden is already most favourably known in Ireland,
and his appointment as Lord Chandellor affords the
utmost satisfaction. The new Attorney and Solicitor-
General—Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Pennefather—have
both also given proofs of their ability in their previous
discharge of the duties of their respective important
offices—esneP;ally important in such a country ns
Ireland.

With such a market as England for all her agricul-
tural produce, or so much, at least, as she chooses to.
sell, and a splendid navy of steamers ready at all times
to transport it speedily, Ireland has nothing to com-
plain of, if she is not rich and flourishing, but the
faults of her own children. We should not be drawing
on the continent so largely as we are at this moment
for our supplies of corn if Ireland had but done com-
mon justice to herself. Her resources are not half
developed. Why will she free us from our sliding
scale and give a triumph to the league, when she
might, with a common spade, " her own quietus
make" ? Let her remember that she has a Conserva-
tive government now, and that there will be no more
excuse for her.

It may answer the purpose of the Manchester Guar-
dian to evade a reply to our arguments, by asserting
that there is no novelty in the facts which we adduced
on Tuesday, relative to the enormous increase of the
consumption of raw cotton since 1831 ; but such a
sneer only tells against himself. We have established,
by the most irrefragable statements, that Lord Sandon
was fully borne out in the declaration that the con-
sumption of cotton has sustained the enormous, in-
crease of 82 per cent, within the last ten years. If our
contemporary thinks he can disprove this, let him
make the attempt. The London Times of yesterday
reiterates what we have repeatedly brought forward,
and says, " Lord Sandon recently sheaved in the House
of Commons, that the quantity of raw 'cotton wrought
up in our factories in 1831 was nearly doubled in the
year 1840."
If the Guardian consider the Liverpool Standard an
opponent of too insignificant a calibre, we recommend
him to measure weapons with our metropolitan con-
temporary.