The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Owing to the length of our editorial remarks and of the interest-
ing address of the Protestant Association, we are compelled
to omit several articles intended for publication.
" The Lost One," and "Lines on the Death of Lady 11. W.
Wynne," in our next.
The complaint of " A Reformer" is unavoidably postponed.

Ztic iLiberpool

TUESDAY 31011N11VG, SEPTEMBER 27, 1836.

By the William Turner, which arrived at this port on
Sunday, we have accounts from Bombay to the 25th
May. Markets were in a rather better state for Euro-
pean goods. Iron had advanced considerably in conse-
quence of accounts having been received of the advance
which has taken place in that article in England.
Cotton, which had declined in price, was again advancing.

Accounts from Para, up to the 23d July, have reached
Liverpool by way of Hamburgh. To that date the legal
forces had continued their efforts against the rebels with
great success. These last were labouring to concentrate
their dispersed forces, but to that period without effect.
On the 22d July, a vessel had been dispatched by the
General Andrea, with 230 prisoners on board, amongst
whom was the wife of the rebel chief, Edwards. It is
reported that he himself is wounded and taken.

The actual provision of the legal government has not
been attained without great loss of men, and at the
present moment provisions and every article necessary
to aid in the prosecution of this warfare are wanting.
It is, in fact, feared that unless the central governMent
be more active in forwarding succour than has hitherto
been the case, the province will soon again become the
prey of congregated hordes of Indians from the interior.
Great numbers of the old residents had returned to the
city of Para. Some empty-handed and some with pro-
perty. They have all, however, adopted the very con-
venient doctrine that their creditors have lost all claim to
recovery from themselves, and not a penny can be re-
covered from those even whose property was all saved
previous to the 14th August of last year.
The anxiety of the British sufferers in this affair pro-
gressively- increases with the accounts as they reach this
country, and it is to be hoped that Lord Palmerston's
promised answer to-their applications will soon be forth-

corning.

We must content ourselves today on the subject of
our foreign news by simply referring our readers there-
to, and merely stating that General Bernard, having
accepted the post of minister at war, the French cabinet
is at length completed. We have also to add, that we
have received private intelligence, on which we can re-
pose with confidence, that a Republic has been proclaimed
in several of the northern cities and towns of Spain !

We must frankly confess that the scrupulous anxiety
professed by our reformed town council to " do justice
to all parties," and to keep clear of " the imputation of
favoritism," affords us no inconsiderable share of merri-
ment.. Mr. Blackburn referred, last Wednesday, with
much self-complacency, to his former motion for prevent-
ing the bestowal of any grants to schools, assigning, as
the ground of his exultation that the resolution had been
passed, that " succeeding ages" might have an opportu-
nity of glorifying their impartiality in the ad►uinistra-
tion of our municipal affairs. But what signify these
empty boasts that they have done nothing for the " en-
couragement of any denomination of christians'" and that
they have conscientiously consulted " the benefit of all
parties ?" Is not 'the glaring fact on record that they
have, in all their arrangements, from first to last, ever
had an eye to the advancement of their own party ob-
jects and sectarian schemes? Have they not done all in
their power to thwart the operations, to cripple the effi-
ciency, and to diminish the influence of the clergy ?
Have they not effectually excluded them from all parti-
cipation in the management of the corporation schools,
by rendering their co-operation incompatible with the
dictates of their consciences and their imperative sense
of duty ? Have they not paid the most implicit deference
to the opinions of the popish priests and socinian philo-
sophers, in adopting of the Irish system of education ?
Have they not diligently sought to provide for their po.
litical partisans, by superseding men of acknowledged
talent and integrity in the several situations to which
they have acquired the power of appointment ? Yes, all
this they have done, and yet they have the effrontery to
demand our commendations for their impartiality! Let
them, however, understand that, in the name of the people
of Liverpool, we indignantly scout their hypocritical pre-
tensions. They have endeavoured to inflict a " heavy
blow" and to give " great discouragement to Protes-
tantism," and it is not their fault that the mischief which
they have meditated has not been accomplished. Thanks
to the public spirit of our townsmen for the frustration a

their designs.
But we must recur to the proceedings of last Wednes-
day, in the course of which the councillors who reflect so
much honour upon the town, signalised, more strongly
than ever, their opposition to the Established Church.
This was a feeling which Mr. Blackburn disavowed. He
Said that " there was no opposition to Church Establish

ment !" We shall not characterise this assertion as a

falsehood ; all we shall say, is, that no reflecting man in
Liverpool will believe it for a moment. No opposition,
indeed! when, in almost the next sentence, Mr. Black-
burn confesses that " they had gone to their utmost

length in withholding from the episcopalians, or that sect
established by law," and " that they had done their
best" to do away with those payments for which the
aw has provided a permanent guarantee. Let these
radicals adopt the advice of this municipal Davoust, and
be at least " consistent with themselves."

Mr. Blackburn, in the course of his observations on

the services at our churches, undertook the office of cor-
recting Mr. Councillor Heyworth for his advocacy of
free trade in religion. "He strongly objected to this
view of the subject. He thought it degrading to the
churches themselves, and that such a view of the subject
was particularly offensive." Nothing stronger could be
said in reprobation of Mr. Heyworth's novel doctrine ;
we therefore leave this sentence, pronounced by his fel-
low councillor, for his consideratiod.

Mr. Councillor Earle indulged in one of his usual
'reaks of imagination, and made use of the very per-

tinent and consistent remark, that " he, as a churchman
should support the resolution !" How he can reconcile
the support which he gave to Mr. Bolton with his duty
as a churchman, we are puzzled to discover.
Mr. Walmsley also volunteered his support for the
same unaccountable reason—because he was a member
of the Established Church. We beg to ask this gentle-
man whether he would have us to infer that the funds
accorded to the church are not " expended for the public

good ?"
Mr. Councillor Egerton Smith remarked, with very
great simplicity, that " there were 60,000 Catholics in
Liverpool, and that St. Patrick's Chapel was consider-•
ably in debt." If there are so many Papists in town, by
all means let them pay for St. Patrick's Chapl—it will

be very easy for so .many to accomplish a reduction in
this debt. But; the fact is, that the number of the Pa-

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(lists in this town has been most palpably and egregiously
exaggerated. We have good reasons for saying that
there are not 40,000, and that by far the greater pro-
portion of this number is composed of those migratory
hordes who take up their trans►tory abode among us on
their way to and from Ireland. With what ineffable
s►mplicity, likewise, does Mr. Smith remark, that "it
appeared to him that they were called upon to do that
which the law required them to do !" How quaint—hoW
natural ! They were required to do—that which they
were required to do ! This is almost as good as the
reason he assigned for his inability to sit down in the
Mount Gardens, viz., because there Were no seats !

When Mr. Brown ventured to suggest that the having
music at our churches was an acquisition which was
generally productive of an increased attendance, Mr.
Bolton very promptly responded, that "this was new
argument, and could not be heard." What a mortal
antipathy these folks have to any thing like argument—
when it militates against them.

Mr. Bolton, in replying, declared it to be his opinion,
that the singing in the churches was a " luxury " intended
for " the gratification of the rich." What, the Rraise
offered to the Almighty intended for a luxury to please
the rich ! This doctrine is at least new. We shall next
expect to hear that preaching and prayer are " luxuries
designed for the gratification of the rich." What will
our poorer Protestant brethren say to this monstrous
fiction ?

Perhaps the most characteristic feature in this debate.
was the prompt and energetic manner in which these
pseudo-liberal spouters intimidated the Mayor into
silence. Here their innate tyranny burst forth in all its
genuine hideousness. They are ever the blatant cla-
mourers for liberality—and the most intolerant despots
in.practice. There is, however, some consolation in the
reflection that their career in office will be but a brief
one. That it has hitherto proved unpopular they owe to
their own violence and insolent demeanour—their open
disregard of public opinion.

In analysing the division, we recognise the following
gentlemen among the number of those who are to retire
from the council in November. Having voted in the
majority on this occasion, their further services will be
respectfully declined.
Mr. Richard Shiel Scotland Ward.
Mr. J. D. Thorneley Vatixhall Ward.
Mr. Thomas Bolton Castle Ward.
Mr. W. R. Preston .Pitt-street Ward.
Mr. James Aiken Great George's Ward.
Mr. Thomas Bolt Rodney Ward.
Mr. Charles Tayleur... North Toxteth Ward.

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This list does not comprise all who are likely to retire
—there will be, in all, we have reason to believe, about
twenty-one fresh members to be elected. The conserva-
tives must endeavour to displace every radical wherever
the vacancies occur. Of their ultimate expulsion we have
not the slightest doubt. The Town-hall must be purged
of their presence. The credit of the town demands their
rejection.

There is an old and trite saying, that those " who
live in glasshouses should not throw stones at their
neighbours." If there be one individual more than
another, living at the present time, to whom the
satire of the proverb is strictly applicable, such indivi-
dual is the object of our succeeding remarks. That
truly magnanimous personage, and conscientious advo-
cate of rights, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, has had the wis-
dom to address two letters to the gentlemen he assumes
to be the principal Editors of the London Times, in re-
taliation, as he pretends, for some remarks published in
that Journal, in consequence of his previous threat
against Lord Lyndhurst—a threat of " literary assassina-
tion," conveyed in unequivocal terms, and simply in
consequence of Lord Lyndhurst's public opposition to
the political views and proceedings of Mr. Daniel
O'Connell.

We are greatly obliged to the honourable and learned
Gentleman, for the phrase " literary assassination," a
weapon, if not of his own manufacture, exclusively, at
least, one lie has long been accustomed to wield as his
favourite tomahawk—the choice ally to his oral abuse of
every man and set of men who have had the pride or the
misfortune, to differ from him, as the great paragon of
virtue, par excellence, in what he deemed to be the
correct course of justice to Ireland generally and
particularly ! Now, as there are always two sides to
every question, we join issue with Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell upon those two letters published in the Pilot, and
which we portend has piloted their worthy author into
very muddy water, from which it is not our business to
pilot him out, as he has run his bark forward on the
ocean of public scrutiny, with his own " watch a-head,"
—and, upon his own knowing therein, the meaning of
which lie will thoroughly understand, lie has put himself
entirely out of the pale of consideration as a mere poli-
tical opponent, and irretrievably placed himself in the
debasing, and already degraded position of an unprin-
cipled personal calumniator—the very moral representa-
tive of the " literary" assassin, a character he affects so
thoroughly to despise—to dishonour with his profound
contempt! Credat Judreus ! We take it, that Mr.
Daniel O'Connell has made himself amenable to the
tribunal of public opinion; and the free criticism of the
independent press as a public character, by his own elec-
tion, proportionately with the extent of his designs—the
nature of his adopted means, and the quality ot• his lan-
guage, written and expressed, in furtherance of his said
designs, and that the opposition has been in an equal
ratio therewith. Now, clearly Mr. Daniel O'Connell is
the very last man in Christendom to call out for or claim
moderation in this respect, for more reasons than one,
which we need not here discuss. It will only be needful
to turn back to the written and oral denunciations of
Ireland's sincere pacificator, since the passing of his own
declared " healing measure," to find a full and ample

justification for all the caustic irony or literary reprOof,
which has been levelled against him, purely as a despe-
rate political adventurer, by the Times journal—as
the avowed paid instrument of a priestly party op-
posed to the interests of the Protestant Establishment
and the independent constituted rule of the British Go-
vernment in Ireland. Mr. Daniel O'Connell has had the
choice of weapons for the conflict, and he freely selected.
those which made him a fair mark for the rough treat-
ment he has experienced; any other would have been
futile—reason and moderation with him were out of the
question,—" literary" and oratorical " assassination"
have been the leading instruments of his vituperative
genius—his "matins"—his " vespers," against all and
every one, who presumed to doubt his authority, or to
differ from his peculiar notions. It signified nothing
whether the opposing power centered in public bodies or
in individual minds—the whole nation of Englishmen

has been libelled, grossly libelled, by this inflated charn-

pion of "Justice" and "Liberty," when it pleased his
feeling or suited his purpose to denounce its male, and
to defame its female population ! What right then has

he to seek moderation in sentiment or soft delicacy in.
terms ? Was the music of adulation to be offered as in-

cense in return for the coarse growl of his threatened
dismemberment? Mr. Daniel O'Connell has not left to
any one of the many adversaries of his own creation,
the choice of weapons, and they were bound to meet him
on his own ground, dressed in his own 'counterpart—au
unpolished suit of mail, or perform the part of folly .and
pusillanimity ! And %las there anything superhuman
about Mr. Daniel O'Connell, mental or corporeal, that:lle
should not have been so met ? The Times journal is put
upon its trial by Mr. O'Connell, for an alleged injury
inflicted, we suppose, upon his private feelings—his per-
sonal reputation, (!) and the honour 'of his family, the
latter part of which only be affects to resent! Let US
see how the case stands between the Times and this truly

sensitive gentle Man, before we admit the animus, which
would alone justify the charge of injury at Mr. O'Con-
nell's hands. We shall not go round about the bush for

this object, but take the " bull by the horns" at once.
Mr. O'Connell thinks fit to apply the most foul epithets
to a British Peer—he threatens to bring, "in all its pro-
per bearings before the public," what he most grossly and
calumniously terms, " the hideous details of his
he further pledges himself to this, in consequence of the
provocation purely which the said British Peer has giVefa
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him by his public iipposition, and threatens to 1101 d .