The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

THE TIMES' MENDACITY.

WITH all the pretensions of The Times to be the
leading journal of Europe, there are few who place
the slightest reliance upon its adherence to truth,
while its inconsistency has become proverbial.
There are, however, occasions, when the extent of
its mendacity, and the grossness of its perversions,
are such as to justify particular allusion to them.
It is well known that one of the greatest faults of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his party was that
direct encouragement of Romish heresy which led
to the notorious aggression, and that the only real
check interposed has been by the Conservative
party. Yet, in the face of such glaring facts, of
which none can be ignorant, The Times of Friday
accuses Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI of having
been ready to concede to the most groundless,
clamorous, and most despicable influences more
than Whig, Tory, or Peelite had ever conceded

before. All this virtuous indignation, which strongly
resembles the morality of a faded harlot, has been
excited by the simple fact that the Ultramontane
party in Ireland, in their hatred to their treacherous
allies the Whigs, preferred the Conservative can-
didate at Carlow, to the renegade Mr. SADLEIR.
With true Jesuitical craft, the Irish Romanists have
shown their teeth to the new Administration, for
they know their value, and are determined
to abate nothing of the full price for their ad-
herence. They have therefore changed their
tactics into laudations of the Ministers they
helped to outvote, and for this the leading journal
of Europe attempts to fix a foul charge upon the
Conservative leaders, whose sincerity and zeal for
the preservation of the Protestant faith it knows not

how to appreciate. With a mockery of candour,
which increases the enormity of the slander, The
Times professes to admit that Lord DERBY and
Mr. DISRAELI are not to be blamed because they
receive the praises of the Tablet, and then proceeds
to justify the calumny by the paltry pretext, that
the late Government consented to Mr. Serjeant
SHEE'S Tenant-right Bill for Ireland being referred
to the Select Committee to which the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL'S Bills on the same subject were referred.
Of the falsehood of this charge, the writer must
have been fully aware, as it was well known that the
consent was given without the slightest intention to
admit the principle or the details of the Bills, but
simply to save the time of the House from a vexa-
tious discussion, which was threatened by the Irish
members, and which would seriously have inter-
fered with the progress of public business. And
yet, upon this simple fact, so artfully perverted,
The Times has the audacity to charge a Conserva-
tive statesman with having " come forward with a
law wresting from the landowners the possession of
land, and bestowing it on persons having no claim
to it except a contract for its occupation." Such
an instance of malignant slander is a disgrace to the
British newspaper press, and shows the extent to
which the exercise of unlicensed power may be carried.

LCTEURES AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.—The Rev. W.
F. Taylor has announced his intention of delivering a
course of anti-Papal lectures in St. John's Church, on
the Tuesday evenings during Lent. The first lecture on
this evening. Subject : " The Apostacy."

REPRESENTATION OF BLACKBURN.—It is reported
that Mr. Eccles, M.P. for Blackburn, is about to resign
his seat, and it is also confidently stated that addresses
will be issued in a few days from Mr. W. H. Hornby, in
the Conservative interest, and Mr. Montague Fielding in
the Radical interest. Viscount Duncan, it is also reported,
is likely to come forward.
THE REV. DR. COOKE, of Belfast, preached two ser-
mons in Islington Presbyterian Church, on Sunday. The
discourses were characterised by the doctor's usual bril-
liancy and power. The congregations on both occasions
were crowded, especially in the evening, when many were
unable to gain admission. The collections, including £1
from Mr. Joseph Neal, of Hanley, who was unable to
atteildf =Milted to 485.