The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-30 00:00:00

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thong!! the word " peaceful" was foisted in afterwards;)
and, finally, the learned gentleman's grave assurance to
the credulous beings whom he imposed upon, that Mr.
Richard Shei I, another ,lack • the-Giant-Killer, had com-
mitted such havock on tory nerves in the House of
Coiumons as to make Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley
quail in his presence, and rather sit still a whole evening
thin expo Se. thernstdves to the terrors oligastig,atrun
i'rom that dealer in artifices! 0111 oh! on

COME HOME.

(BY AN AMERICAN LADY.)

Conie home !
Would.i could send my spirit o'er the &Pp:
Would I could win.,' it, like a bird, to thee,
To commune with thy thoughts, to fill thy sleep
With these uriwearying words of melody.
Brother, come home!

Come home!—
Come to the hearts that love thee. to the eves
That beam in brightness hnt to gl idden thine;
Come, where fond thoughts, like boniest incense rise,
Where cherish'd memory rears her altar's shrine.
lisother, come home !

The property of the Church (says a correspondent of
the Weekly ?Dispatch, aradical 'patier) is the property of
the people at large ; it would be unjust to put it on a
footing..with the endowments of the Dissenting Chapels,
which are held, in trust, for spec:fic purposes. It is to all
intents and purposes, -National Property. It is not in
his character or a religionist that a man has a claim on
the Church. and its Revenues; it is as a member of the
community. The Church of England is the property of
every Englishman. Our opinion, then, is, that, in the
.present
stir about Church-rates, this consideration ap
pears to be lost sight of.. Dissenters deem an Established
Church a grievance ; but surely there is no grievance
'to have our country studded with beautiful edifices—it is
no grievanCe that a portion of the "fair face of nature",
has been kept out of the rent-rolls of our aristocracy.
The venerable piles are ours, the endowments are ours,
and the tithes are only so much deducted from. the land-
lords' rents. These are not grievances. Would it be-
nefit the people &the churches were left to moulder into
ruins, like the abbeys, priories, and. monasteries of the
16th century? Would it be beneficial even that the vo-
itintary principle should collect the ruins and build con-
, vewicles with them ? We think not.. Here is a vast ac-
cumulatien of national Wealth ; here are temples in
which we may worship. our God, and learn our duty to
our neighbour. ,The. whole is: ours. Why should we
giveit up? Do we think that the wealth is inignitously
disposed of, or that the buildings are desecrated ? If so,
we should not. renounc,. our property, but complain ofits
abuse. 11,:e Whigs did intent to abolish Church-rates,
,
by substituting for them, in some shape or other, a grant
out of the national revenue, be a stop would have
been put to all refusal of ,Church:rates. The right of
vestrymen to limit their amount would have been, in ef-
fect, centralized in the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
A salutary parochial control world have been condensed
into the aye or no of a parliamentary committee, and
evert' soul in the kingdom would have become a compul-
sors'ehurch rate paver, without the privilege of asking,
"by what compulsion ?" We, are glad to observe that
this intention to humbug us is referred to at Church-rate
meetings, and denbunced. We much fear that the Go-
vernment-ofthis country will turn the present &mute
against Church-rates into a pretext for extending their
atrocious centralizing and comtnissionership system.—
That system is already a greater grievance than the
Church rates. We declare that we would rather pay an
annual rate of threepence in the pound, than have the
secular affairs of the churCh managed by one of their
odious bureaux of centralization. One feels almo.,t as
much reluctance to give up a little parochial power, or
local interest of any kind, as one would to drop a bonne
.bouche if a parcel of hungry Curs -were yelping about:
one's legs. Let not the Church Warden- complain that
they cannot discharge their duties for Want of Church-
rates ; .for most assuredly; if they do, their Churchwar,
denslups' will be pounced upon by, a. ravenous pack of
commissioners, and the people will have as much control
over the Church, after that, as the raven in the fable had
over the cheese which had been wheedled out of its
mouth. This feeling against Church-rates then requires
Much modification. It ought to be more political and
less religiens—it ought to :refer more to men's rights, as
Members of the community, and less to their conscienti-
ou s scruples as sectarians—it ought to be directed more
to the restoration, or, at all events, application of the
funds of the Church to their legitimate purposes, and
less to the prevention of an impost which is never oner-
ous except to consciences acutely tender.

Come home !
Come to the hearth-stone of thy earliest days,
Come to the ark, like the o'er-wearied dove,
Come with the sunlight of thy heart's warm rays,
Come to the fireside circle of thy love.
Brother, come home!

Come home!
It is not home without thee—the lone cent

Is still Unclaimed, where thou wert wont to be;
In Pvery echo of returning feet.
Li vain we list for what should herald thee.
Brother, come home !

Come home !
We've nursed. for thee, the sunny buds of Spring—
Watebed every gem a full-blown flow'ret rear ;
saw o'er their bloom the chilly Winter bring
its icy garlands, and thou art not here.
Brother, come borne !

Come home!.
Would I epuld send my spirit-o'er the deep,
Would I could wing it, like a bird, to thee,
To commune with thy thoughts, to .fill thy sleep
With these unwearying of melody.
larottit.r, come

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

Ministers have begun to try what looking big as long
they can will de for a preliminary. to the opening 'of'
the campaign in the House' of Commons. . T heir last
Stinlay school lesson concludes with these words We
have"niore than
_ordinary pleasure in stating, that in the
approaching session there wilt be the most perfect union
alma [g the" reformers of all classes, and consequently a
d-etermined opposh ion to their enemies, the Tories;" and,
by a previous pasaage, it appears that " the common
enemy must assuredly be defeated in his- efforts to dis-
unite Reformers for the purpose of triumphing over the
eauo to which all Reformers are attached." . Now, let
the public think for one moment to what extremities these
poor devils must have been:driven before they could have
attempted to palm upon the,. people of England such ne-
fariOus nonsense- as is comprehended in the above few
lines.. .
We are assured of "the most perfect union" among
. the-R4ortners of all classes. Very well. Do- the:Whig
ministers call themselves " Reformers.?" If so, we mast
infer from their manifesto one of two things.--either that
for the sake of this "perfect union" they, the ministers,
haye_vvholly abandoned their opposition to the ballot,
tiOusehold suffrage, an elective peerage, short parlia-
ments,. With one or two other trifling modifications of the
monarchy, and will co-operate with their revolutionary
fellows in realizing all such"reforms;" or that-the Ra-
dicals, to wit Sir W. Molesworth. Mr. Grote; Mr. Joseph
Hume, and the Irk!) faction of O'Connell, Woulfe,Shell,
and Co.', have agreed to make, a burnt-offering-of the said
balLt, &c., and help ministers to maintain the constitiz-
tidn orparliariaent under its existing form. -Which of
these sacrificeri, we beg to ask the framer Of the mani-
festo, is it, of Which he wishes to insinuate the truth ?
Has the MelbOurne rump reversed the law of nature, and
given precedence to the tail, which now and then so se-
verely lashes it ?, or is the_tail to be contented with hang-
ing'in the wake of the rump, and backing its declared re
si-stance to all organic change iu the .constitution ? One
or other of these questions must be answered in the
itflirrnatiVe, or the assertion of a "perfect union" between
the parties is a fl.mgrant falsehood, inasmuch as no one of
the measures we have alluded to is of a nature to admit
of neutrality or compromise. A man who deems the bat-
Tot to be utterly degrading and ruinous cannot unite with
him w.ho considers it an essential and paramount good :
po with the peerage, universal suffrage, and the rest of
them,- To place the politician who condemns such ex-
traYagancies in the same class with the politician who
lOtidly applauds and eagerly calls upon his countrymen,
Ws:Sir Witham Molesworth does, to "agitate" for them,
.describing both by the common name of " Reformers;"
is-a -childish absurdity or a gross and impudent fraud.
,These can be nothing "common" between such men, so
far as public principle is concerned.: There may, indeed,
Itif 'Seale common scheme or plut fur a selfish purpose, in
which the nation has neither share nor sympathy—a con-
iittiracy for place—a conspiracy. for patronage and pion-
!ler. But is it for " Reformers" to meddle with such
abominations ?'l If the Whigs,' on the other hand, still
pretend that their system ofreforin presupposes the main-
Aenance of the church, and'state; and monarchy, while, as
js notorious, both. English and Ilish Radicals denounce
All three as grievances fit only to be swept away before
fthe march of mind,ewe submit that it is not with the
'latter' body we are to attribute to the Whigs any com-
blt-hathe designating political alliance or partnership,
bit 'Manifestlywith Sir Robert Peel and the Coe-
seryatives, who are, one and all, solemnly pledged
,before the country to as much reform, that is, as
-much beneficial change, as may be consistent with the
--""maintenance of chutch, and state, and InonarchY."
IWhen the Whigs, therefore, assure us of a perfect union
ibetween •
" Reformers," is not the more natural con-
struction of the phrase, that they mean to express their
_readiness for a co-operation with those who acknowledge
-the same general limits to the reform principle which
-they do, rather than with the party Who spurn at all such
limits ? We nevertheless challenge either the revolu-
'tionary radicals or the Whigs, if the union between
:,"fiefortners" be meant to signify that those two factions
are the uniting powers--we challenge one or both of
• them to get rid of the alternative, the conditions of which
we sat out with explaining, unless upon -the highly cre-
ditable supposition, that One or other faction, though
still adhering to its own doctrines and despising those of
its vvotthy ally, is to support by its votes the policy which
. it reprobates, and act directly in the teeth of its declared
-opinions. For a union produced by such a desertion of
principle the country, we imagine, is far from unprepared,
nor is there a great deal of difficulty in conjectnring from
'le Lich side the sale of conscience is most likely to pro-
Ce'ed. Why should the Radicals make a sacrifice of their
lOng-cherished assault upon tfie constitution? We be-
lieve that with many of them the scheme is one of fierce
-and reckless fanaticism, rather than of selfish profite and
what would they gain by its 'surrender to the Whigs
`Nothing tinder heaven but the remote chance that, at
finiu6 distant period, and tinder some` possible change of
circumstance not to be traced upon any, existing map,
Alley may he able to bring round the official Whigs, and
, the Conservative opposition in both Houses, to tolerate
',these revolutionary chimeras. There is another consi-
•.deration also which we-know has influence with many'of
~the more long-sighted Radicals.: it is, that the sins of
the Whig rump government 'fall in a large proportion
upon the heads of the revolutionary party, awl entail
.i.upon, them immeasurable disgrace and scandal.
It. is past all doubt that there never has been recorded
on the page of English history an Administration so
selfish or corrupt as this. Never was the public revenue
so lavished in bribes under the name of salaries—never
was jobbery carried to such a shameless pitch—never
was. the actual amount of patronage so wasted on despi
cable took—never was ingenuity so ransacked for the
ntultiplietti ion of offices before unheard of, that fresh
swarms of hungry minions might ha stimulated in their
daily task of picking and perverting all the 10641 and
subcirdinate institutions of the country to the uses of
faction. Why, time myriads of new plac-emen, appointed
to work out time insidious designs of the.". no patronage"
I.Cabinet, trill frighten Europe when they contr. to be unt
kennelled by Rome old fas4oned fr:end of ecOnotev and
inStice in the Hthis4. or CmomOns! And well know the
a Radicals how keenly the eyes of all England are fastened
)n theste-ntistloings. They well know that a club or
clique more rapacious than the ten or dozen families who
-:fortn the etat major of the Whigs never existed On this
`''lamb, and never preyed, upon a nation. We shall have
tlieifi paraded before the people of England. Each
Illftbsehold of aristocratic Whiggery is a sink of insati-
Able greediness 'and corruption, as well as a haunt of ex-
: ectialve and morbid arrogance. One day* in their former
~ character, that of which alone the people. need have cog-
: nizariee, they shall be unrelentingly exposed. But do
-thee flatter themselves that the Radicals ore not aware
of this ? Do they dream that the Radicals are not aware
how odious it makes Whiggery to the whole English
nation,? And why should not the Radicals feel indig- The settlement ef the great question between the Northern
nant at being made sharers in Inc unpopularity of those and Central Bank and' the Bank of England has produced a whom they have kept in office, without being sliarerS to temporary calm in the city, The affairs of the former it is now
any deCent amount in the spoil ? It ia not then for the, fully understood pass immediately into the hands of agents tip-
. Radicals to give way, or to yield one inch of their utopia pointed by the Bank of England; who are to realize the assets,
of. democracy, for which they would get nothing in ex- pay
e thets public
an
,v
a next r
ethen left, business
timeßank, atid ' last
ny,
ofiaallitpe veeLsouninda
change. It is the Whigs who will sell their consciences, runt not otherwise.
fundsise, Now that the bustle and excitement orthe
and put the price into their pockets. Their sole notion 1 whole affair has in part died away, and 'the generosity of the
of-government is their individual gain.
1
Bank haii °Waited its proper tribute, people are beginning to
.
- In the Mean while, see how the humbug tells in Ireland, consider bow far the prudence of-the directors in the transac-
where time genius of whiggerr is little known, .bvimi seen pionis entitled tothe saute ptaise. A the affair has
through the medium of O'Connell's and other papist re-
beet[ published to-day, the authority for which on internal
evidence alone may be safely pronotuiced to he that of the Bank'
presentations. Mr. Woulfe, one -of that faction which parlour, which has very much contributed to give this turn to
-- -reviles the people of England as an alien race, but will the current opinions on the subjeet.' It IS admitted in this ac-
count that the Bank have been grossly deceived .in the repre-
" not submit to he called aliens frt: ths in return—this
seanti..tian made to them of the situation or the iNiirtheriz and
learned personage has heen niaking a speech at Cashel,.
.;iaritairdstiviteyocovequrily load with
.• Wlierein he bedaubs the Alulgra ye government with cum. tlj,en to them, r.m)t6 repro‘ac roaches
bedaubs t
trlye been accieSat.)EV ,t the ose
:.Ptl'iwnts taken at second hand frill') his master, for he r knee. lets 01 It 101 cnnsentec to mat.e so large an advance
bql)py r I. • • and
e .itton between it the " Irish people, , asi',4oo,‘?(/0,• its it me us ;-ipp'ears by own' confession.
..•• •
ineanin thereby the rebel association and Its adjunoltS• cc rtain'y 's:;), very lilltle for their prodei.ce iu the manaizeutent
Ifl relailoo" is itt p• •1 . ' tti,tri7iffaira, and has astonished eiter.Y. Mali of business under
claw
yo".„ e ugh. clew roe, and
a,i,,,,6;aust,emeoil if 111,1' 411,h? •.Thwidi!oct w..„, „s, that
electioneering ,frnsitn, ever read more trash than in Its "BOntil loch
love of truth, and int„ntltand the . tee t e,. common sense, eto(l.,'Mfria;termi' nitres '.-riatiit*mlliht,littflf 440;(0) ae,,eiits ;.'t hat
•'"itireo discernible thanio.,Y !!!' the speaker, are in n6:thing' its ri'EI,(SMOW
..hii.„(•,,l,l,,lp.R.l:epresentation and abuse of t'lihiClit£9(lo,tX/0 erni...iiS!'c'd of debts
doe. to the'hatik by its CastoMe`ik ;Cud 4:190.(X111 hank-notee and
cash" in ()n the siik•eqm pt iiviiry to which the
O'Connell tittered, when boasted second ap'liCation for'assitince' it.vras astert-ititied ihat'the
bodies normal agitatio,,tnen_aking Co'rporate deposits, instead of £240,000, were E 700,000, and that the ad.
agitation, the report of his speech dia( re"ceful vauces made by, the bank to its customers, instead of £9j)(l,out), was
not say that, £ 1,300,000, while thecash and notes in possession was not more

PROSPECTS OF THE WHIG-RADICAL

MINISTRY.

(From the British Monitor.)
The rump of the Grey administration are at length
preparing fora change, just as crvig mayors pack ,up
their odds and•ends, as the end of theTr year of glory ap-
proaches. The party is splitting in all directions, the
disgraceful coalition.of Roman Catholic, DisSenter,Uni-
tarian, Deist, and Infidel, is first dissolving ; comment is
unnecessary ; the following choice scraps are signs of
the times:— - .