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themselves, each for their own peculiar object, whilst the
Irish papal party have dovetailed in, under the hope of
its proving to them the stepping-stone to that ultimate
system of absolutism which is alone compatible with the
supremacy of the church of Rome. In these hopes the
three distinct parties met considerable encouragement,
from the early apathy, and want of concert, on the part
of the old tory or conservative party in the country—
from that party having become divided in confidence and
co-operation by the passing of the catholic relief bill, and
from the want of a leader, to whom both sections of that
new united powerful body could look up to with full con-
fiding security. The driving of Sir Robert Peel from
office has, nevertheless, indirectly been productive of a
national benefit, although .not viewed so by many other-
wise intelligent politicians; but, when we know that it
has been the means of reuniting this powerful party, ex
necessitate rei, for the salvation of the" state itself, we
are fully justified in asserting, that the forced retirement
of Sir Robert has proved a national blessing; and were
it only to be proved by the concord of conservative asso-
ciation, that in itself is a sufficient evidence of the benefit
which will ultimately arise for the constitutional cause,
although not, in the remotest degree. contemplated by
the whig and radical factions in their Lichfield home
treaty. The compact entered into on this occasion has
enabled the lowest section of the whigs, in talent and
estimation, to set up a purely conventional form of go-
vernment, to which the other factions have adhered hi-
therto for objects merely selfish ; for nationality of prin-
ciple was entirely with them out of the question, and one
faction is already on the point of breaking with its juste
millieu associates, holding the reigns of government, be-
cause its destructive designs are not carried forward vi
et arinis. We will here borrow the words of our shrewd
contemporary of the Times, who, in Thursday's number,
illustrating to the Romish priests of lieland the strength
of Mr. Macdonnell's arguMents, places the whigs, and
their confederates„ in a pitiable dilemma.

" But." says the Times " the whigs are well repaid for their
disgraceful profligacy. it was their ill humour, murmurings,
and threats, against the Peers, which encouraged the democrats
and revolutionists to clamour for, and insist ;upon, the virtual
abolition of that assembly.
" Of these assailants there are three sections :
" I The Irish papists, who have experienced from the House
of Lords the most determined resistance to the restoration of
the popish supremacy.
" 2 The political dissenters of Great Britain, who feel that
the Protestant Church, which they abhor, has its surest pro-
tector in the upper House of Parliament.
"3 The republican and democratic movement, as a whole,
which detests the Peerage, both as in itself, an aristocratic in-
stitution, and as a firm defence of all the various principles,
and attributes of the British monarchy."
If our readers will refer to our latter articles on this
very subject, they will find the same opinions expressed,
and only varied in form ; for there cannot be two
opinions, amongst reflecting minds, unshackled, by one
or other of these anti-English and anti-constitutional
confederacies, on the point; but the concise form in
which cur contemporary has placed the question, affords,
in. our judgMent, a sufficient apology for our again press-
ing it upon the attention of every man, who has an in-
terest in the-preservition of constituted law, and who, as
a being of ordinary prudence, would deprecate perpetual
Change, and perpetual innovation.
We hive shown forth the triple power arrayed against
the British Constitutional Monarchy, and as such against
the virtual independence of every man living under that
Monarchy,—aye, even of those very infatuated beings
labouring for its destruction ! 'What, then, is the duty
of Englishmen ? Will they remain passive spectators of
the nefarious triumph of their associated enemy, and
thus perform a suicidal act against their own liberty ?
Will they deprive themselves. or allow others, by their
arts and stratagems,. to deprive them of their fair elec-
toral privilege, under this very Bill ? Will they allow
their own mighty English interests to be superseded by
the agency of one man, in the Irish legislation, and by
means of his bribery rent, without a fair exertion and
competition ? These are questions we wish our Coun-
trymen, who have not yet bestirred themselves to serious-
ly ponder and act upon. If they had any doubts before
of the necessity for active individual exertion let the
developement which has been made at Birmingham rouse
them to exertion. The disclosures made at that great
meeting, abundantly prove that no man is justified in
depending on his neighbour's exertion,--that each and
every one should be his own agent, in a struggle where
the grave interests of all are involved.
At the period of general excitement, and when the

delusion of the public mind assisted in pressing forward
an object of presumed national benefit, it did not appear
to have been contemplated by reflecting minds, that
this measure of reformation would be made the means in
the hands of designing men , of unhinging the entire
framework of our political system; but, on the contrary,
it was received by thousands as the settlement of a great
question, upon the representations and declarations of its

leading advocates,—whilst by far the most dangerous
partiei in the state, it was, avowedly, received as a means
to an end—rendered the stalking horse of
.a faction,
whose aim has been that of acquiring and maintaining
power, at the sacrifice of every sound principle,—with
another faction, viewed as the causeway to an ulterior
object of a still more desperate character! Thus many
of the best intentioned men in this kingdom rushed to
the goal of reform, without for a moment contemplating,
that they were propelling the machinery of our oligarchy,
or collecting the materials that must eventually revo-

lutionise the State and render Reform itself a bye-word
and a mockery for the reflection of future ages. For
what-else can we understand from the insensate succeed-

tug cries of Reformed Law—Reformed Church—and

Reformed Peerage ? Do not these cries emanate from

those who are enemies to Law—to Church—and to
Restrictive Government ? Are we to confide the re-
formation of our well-known laws to seditious partizans
—our Protestant securities to infidels, and dissenting
enemies, or our Peerage to anarchists and republicans,
merely becauie a few weak-minded individuals in high

station and in our extended society, have been foolish
enough
.to lend themselves to these delusions ? Away
with the assumption, that the graver mind of England is

o be tampered with any longer,—the delusive mask as

sumed by our combined enemies has been torn from the
face of their design, and we can see and reflect on the
black and 'dreary character of its objects, its features,

of. social disnremberment,—and_ no man who truly loves
his country will any longer identify himself therewith;
nor can any man who reflects, that this is a Christian

country, whose laws have for ages been regulated, nay,
built on Christian principles, desert his duty to his God,

or his duty to his own conscience, aid the wild current of

destruction after the ample warning which has been

afforded him.

The voice of protestant England resounds in our ears;
every post brings us intelligence of some glorious ac-

cession to that cordon of conservatism now forming
around the altar and the throne—Suffolk and Caithness,
Glasgow and Cornwall; nor will our borough of Liver-
.

pool allow her honour—the honour of Lancashire—to be

sullied in the comparison. Let us compare Suffolk with
Waterford—Birmingham with Wicklow—our own con-
templated gathering with the "justice association.' We

d invidious distinction's; they are not of our
isclara
creation;i but the hereditary freemen of Liverpool are
preparing to record by their public verdict their sense of
tliat injustice which is contemplated by those who have
given the word of promise to the ear, but broke it to
hope," and bartered their own independence while
a
to wield the destinies of a chivalrous nation
thatasri
:hl:world itself could not humble into submission.
What a paradox compared with him, who,

" Had he but liv'd, through storm of power,
A watchman on the lonely tower,
His thrilling trump had roused the land
When fraud or danger were at hand•
By him, as by a beacon's light,
Our pilots had kept course aright:
Like some proud column, though alone,
His strength had propp'd the tottering throne !"

But we need not now take up the remainder of the
beautiful stanza, for the " trumpet's silver sound is no
longer still," nor "the warder silent on the hill:" he
has dropt his mantle on a congenial spirit, and ere many
days its notes may be expected to strike through an-
other thousand English hearts of oak, re-echoing the
sentiments which Sir George Sinclair so recently pro-
claimed at Caithness. And here let us impress upon our
readers the speech of this gentleman, which in force of

elocution and power of reasoning has not been surpassed,
if equalled, by any which has been delivered on the po-
licy and condition of the Whig ministry since the close'of
the session. It gives at once a triumphant refutation of
the fallacious folly of Wicklow and the splenetic falsehoods
of Waterford—a justification of his own parliamentary
conduct—a vindication of the Peel administration, and a
complete exposition of the unprincipled quality of the
ministerial policy towards the Irish protestant church.
Whilst Caithness displays its constitutional fervour
by welcoming Sir George Sinclair to his ancestral home;
with a long and splendid train and a public dinner,
Suffolk pours forth her hundreds—neither rain nor winds
prevent six hundred gentlemen and opulent farmers
from attending their conservative feast. Here we find
Lord Illeniker surrounded by nearly all the rank and re-
spectability of the county, whilst the speech of every
gentleulari who addressed the assembled company-in de-
fence of the House of Lords is responded to with cordial
enthusiasm. Nor must we forget Stroud, the refuge
of Lord John Russell, but which disclaims the proprietor-
ship, and declines the honour of having his little lord-
ship as her protege an hour longer than she can, with
decency, eject him in his present truly unprovided COD:
dition. We thus sum up, for the amusement of our con-
stitutional friends, these active demonstrations on behalf
of the cause with which we deem it an honour to be
identified.

We again repeat that the nefarious opposition to Sir
Robert" Peel has placed that gifted statesman in. the
most independent position it is possible for an English
commoner to enjoy—he has the power of preservation
within his own hands, without the responsibility of office
—he is enabled to wield with terrible effect the choicest
principle of the British constitution—he: thoroughly
understands the remaining strength of that power which
even the reform bill, despite the arts of the designing,
has not entirely destroyed, but paralysed for the moment ;`
and, whilst we render to the Lords and to their talented
reader the homage which is due to patriotism and sound
judgment, we must not forget, the conservative peers
having dome their puty, that the interests of this country,
under the constitution and the reform bill itself, must be
sustained, in the first place, by individual exertion
amongst the people, as electors, by their taking care
that the elected are men of probity and discrimination.
suited to the crisis of events. Yielding, therefore,
" merit to whom merit is due," we nevertheless main-
tain that the preservation of the glory and independence
of this Christian country, politically considered, depends
upon the continuance of a determined, well understood,
and virtuous opposition to the House of Commons.

We feel that, we should be deficient in the duty and

loyalty which we owe and most sincerely entertain to-
wards the person and virtues of our illustrious protestant
Queen did we not on this occasion, in an especial man.
ner, record our grateful sense of that beneficent kindness.
which has prompted her Majesty to identify her royal.
name, her interest, and the best wishes of her heart with

the success of our protestant schools. \Ve are not the
mere panegyrists of 'tank and station, even the most ele-
vated in this land, for the mere sake of panegyric.
Entertaining a becoming share of veneration towards
the Queen of England in tier elevated station, we yet
view pre-eminently the more exalted situation she fills
without ostentation as the " nursing mother " of our
church in " this our day and generation," and tender to
her Majesty accordingly the unaffected homage of respect,
certain, as we are, that it will he most gratifying to her
Majesty, when she learns that her munificent condescen-
sion and example has been mainly instrumental in
realizing the object so long sought for with regard to
the fund necessary for the completion of the school of
St. John the Baptist, at Toxteth-park. It is not merely

the intrinsic value of the present of her own work, made
by a Queen of England, to this object, although that
present alone produced one hundred pounds; but it is
the happy association of her name and her influence with

that object, to which we attach real and merited import-
ance; and unworthy indeed would the LIVERPOOL STAti-
DARD be of its high patronage-7its identity_ of interest
with the sacred cause of our " Church and. King," did it
pass a merely silent vote of commendation upon such an
occasion. These are the progressive triumphs of chris-
tianity which, on a former occasion, were declared 'by us
to be the peculiar gems of Britain's classic isle—the liv-
ing monuments of that gospel dominion upon earth which
is but the prelude to an eternity of rest and heavenly
possession. In furthering the cause of protestantism in
the state, we disclaim all and every feeling of perinnal
ambition or mercenaty advantage; we look for our re-
ward to a source far beyond the reach of temporal favour,
however gratifying we may feel the approbation tendered
to us for our humble labours in the support of religious
truth and christian government. Ours is the tribute •of
rational devotion; and in the name of the clergy, the
whole p, otestant community of Liverpool, and of the
thousands of its infant population, who will lisp her name
in accents of grateful remembrance whilst they rise up-
wards to maturity, we tender, with all respectful consi-
deration, to our christian Queen our heartfelt thanks.

It is impossible for us, notwithstanding the crowded state of
our columns, to pass over without a special notice, the assem-
blage of rank, wealth, and respectability, which wo may fairly
pronounce to be the triumph of the constitutional cause in the
opulent county of Hereford. Our friendly correspondent as-
sures us, that this dinner meeting was one of the proudest dis-•
plays of._ devoted loyalty—steady patriotism—and christian
decorum, which can pos,ibly be imagined,- and certainly a fest i •
val which, in unanimity of pbrpose, has not been surpassed at
any BIM • ilar demonstration in the kingdom. In the unavoidable,
absense of Lord Eastnor, who bad met with an accident, the
chair was taken by the high-spirited and inflexible advocate of
protestantisin, Sir Edwin Scudamore Stanhope, Bart., and- be.
was surrounded by a galaxy composed of the rank, wealth, anti
respectability of the county, including the venerable Earl
Somers, the Lord-lieutenant, Viscount Hereford, Sir J. Cot
terel, Brirt., Sir Hungerford Hoskins, Bart., the Hon. and Rev.
Somers Cocks, several
,members of parliament, gentlemen of
property, Duval and military officers, clergymen, and a most.
harmonious band of English hearts, amounting to upwards of,
seven hundred ! Who will now dare to attempt a contradictiOn.
of our assertion, that " the shrilling blast of the constitutional
trumpet sounded at cur Newton dinner, would reverberate
through the length and breadth of the land ? " We may be
justly proud, that the constitutional standard was first displayed
with anything like effect in this county ; and from that hour

has conservatism made rapid strides---it; march ham been or-
derly and cheering in the progress, unaccompanied with cianamir,
whilst it has produced that feeling of concord in design, and
that unanimity in purpose, which has been unknown since the
burst of the revolutionary war, as regards our home policy;
and we niay say, without a parallel, since the days of William
the third.
At the recent dinner at Hereford, the first to commemorate
the uprising of tie cause in that county, the most enthusiastic
_ _

feeling of devotional attachment to the cause of church au.d
state, pervaded the entire company ; and the speeches of the
chairman.and Earl Somers were listened to with the most prO-
found attention; those parts which exposed the nefarious policy
and dangerous proceedings of the present government, whilst
its professions of attachment to the protestant church and cause
denied the value and sincerity of its acts, produced a deep lin-
pression ; and an. immediate friend, who was present at the
dinner, and who is rather a whig than a tory in principle, de-
scribes the enthusiasm at the vindication of the conservative
majority of the nouse of Peers to have been deep and effective ;
for this dinner was remarkable for the determined •and old
English-like dignity of its entire proceedings. It is with re-
gret, that we are compelled to curtail any portion of what
passed. We are assured, that upwards of two hundred more

tickets would have been sold—the first .issue was five hundred;
and the second, one hundred and fifty ; but no accommodation
could be found for more! Here is a stimulus if we wanted one.
Four or five additional constitutional dinners are announced
in various parts for this and the ensuing week. The men of
West Kent purpose giving their highly-spirited, patriotic mem-
ber, Sir Williaru Geary, a public dinner at Maidstone. Pre-
parations for the accommodation of one thousand persons, are
making at this town.• There is something ominous in our number:
and we are of opinion that those-naughty creatures, the'" Lan-
cashire 'Witches," have been performing their enchantments
far beyond the verge of their native county—we, however, freely
forgive them, for the exercise of their rambling sorcery in this
respect, so long as they retain a fair share for home purposes ;
for we believe that a special license, or protestant dispensation,
was granted them, at Newton, for such constitutional objects.

Much bitterness has, we understand, been expressed by some
of our " liberal " friends against our last Tuesday's article,
in vindication of Lord Lyndhurst, arising out of the acrimoni-
ous speeches and unfounded imputations upon his lordship's

OCT. It 1836.

motives and public principles, which 'were sent forth at the
great Waterford dinner. 'We cheerfully plead guilty to the
• charge of having written warmly in defence of his lordship,
because we are perfectly convinced of the falsehood and injus-
tice of the statements which were Made on that occasion,--
but, if any one or more of the humble :remarks we put forth,
for the purpose of rebutting the gross malignity of those state-
ments, have told keenly on the sensibilities of this nobleman's
traducers,—tve say to to them—" qui visit carpere capiat
is at once preposterous to imagine, that Lord Lyndhurst, is
either the moral or political enemy of Ireland, merely because
his enemies chose to torture a word figuretivelY applied by hint
to those beings, whom we have slithvis,"by their actions, are the.
political and moral aliens of Ireland. The phrase "alien,"
employed by Lord Lyndhurst, was hypothetically used by hias in
the fervour of debate, and deemed, possibly, a fair set-off for
the opprobious epithets with which the modest responsible man
of Derrynane had honoured the nation of Engliihtnen at vari-
ous times, and those win) stood forward to defend her interests
—and of various parties, in opposition to his liberal preten-
tions,—there was nothing either " brutal" or " bloody" in
the terns applied by the noble leader of the tories ;" but it is
in his association., and in his power, that the string rests ; and
it is keenly felt by the consciousness, that it was just in its
application, connected with the infernal machinery of that
system of alienation, which these despots in principle have al-
ready established, and are labouring to perpetuate in Ireland.
Personally, • Lord Lyndhurst needs no defence from our feeble
pen ; but we are bound to disabuse the minds even of liberals,
and those politically opposed to us, and to do justice to all
parties; anel whilst the Morning Chronicle fumes in its frothy
declamations against the Quarterly. Beoietv, or its Conductor,
for his defence of the Peers generallY, and of Lord Lyndhurst
in particular, we nsay as well justify our own position even by
anticipation of the woeful assault, rather than tacitly suffer our
opponents to sail forth under their flimsy canvass of misrepre-
'sentation; unmolested. Under this feeling, we would advise
every man who wishes to form a fair estimate of the preten-
sions of that eminent individuar",i6, read in Fraser's Ma-
gazine for the present month, at page 457, the real grounds
on which Lord Lyndhurst is the subject of that ire, and
the malicious jealous denunciator of Ireland's greatest alien.
SNle, have his- own words in his last letter addressed to
Mr. Sharman Crawford, " the accursed Lyndhurst party,"—
here is the sore point—it is the power,., not the person, of Lord
Lytalherst, that is the object of this men's insatiate revenge !
But %%hat says Miss Moggy Fraser "He is the recognised
leader of the most honourable party in what, considered, on
public grounds, as a whole, and, without reference to the
factions fraction which he opposes, is the noblest body in the
world ; and lie owes this lofty station to his own overwhelming
talen s. In our assembly,which comprises men who have filled
the greatest offices, governed vast provinces—led victorious ,
armies conducted important misSionspreSided over courts
of justice—represented vast constituencies,—who have, in
short, fulfilled with distinction the highest functions of public
life, in every department ;—in an assembly where we find
princes a.nd marshals, viceroys And ambassadors, chancellors
and judges—orators and statesmen, knights and nobles—the
presence of any one of whom, with a few disgraceful exceptions,
Would be considered to be an ornament in any company in the
world ;-in this assembly, illustrious as it is by high birth,
ancient descent, polished breeding, and. not more so than by
great talent, keowledge, and elolineneesits most illustrious
portion has, without a dissenting voice, Cliosen Lord Lyndhurst
as its organ, -and its thief. • It is indeed a distinction of which
any man
,might justly be proud ; and that just pride must be
enhanced by the consciousness`, that lye executes the duty en-
trusted to him, so as to excite the admiration of his noble
allies, and, what is a tribute no less decisive, the bitter fury of
his ignoble antagonists:" Ah ! Moggy, there you have made a
good hit,—verily the Lady pugnacia Barkley has not taken the
-
mettle out of you Moggv,--even the fighting Knight of Derry-
' vane himself must exclaim" this is a 'borer my darlin "
Well, to be serious; we will leave the great 0 to form Isis own
estimate of Moggy's quaint allusion to Catiline, who she as-
serts with Sallast, was "nobili loconatus "—we have already
drawn our contrast ; but if the night cap of our favourite
Moggy will fit the stupendous head of the great Champion for
all Ireland, we shall not envy. his wearing it, with all the
honours it entails,—and, perhaps, we will append the motto
"Honesty pant Splendida Again, recommending to our
readers the perusal of iliewhole memoir, we say with Fraser,—
" Little could Copley* have contemplated, when he was paint-
ing his celebrated picture of the Death of Chatham, that his
own shin was destined to equal the fame of Chatham in such an
assets bly as that in Which he was employing his pencil,"—and
we wilt add, by his own labour, indtistry, honour, and bard
earned reward ! Are his traducers satisfied ?

There Cannot, we thinli, be a divided opinion on the pro-
piety of acceding to the proposal of 1,R.,. G. J." in his letter
to us, published on Friday hn,t, where:4ole recommends that
the meeting of the Operative. Contervitive Society" should
immediately succeed That proposed to 'be holden on the 18th
instant, at the Amphitheatre. The saving of expense is an oh•
ject worthy of serious consideration ; and we beg leave to
submit the proposal made by "R. G. J." to the serious titten- .
:ion of the Committee of the Tradesmen's Society, and to
point to its members the strong resolutions recently passed at
minghain, inserted in another part of our impression. The
benefit of Oiwratire Conservative Associations is so manifest .28 97,1
to merit every encouragement and support.