The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-25 00:00:00

TO COURESPONbENTS.

We are again under the necessity of requesting the indulgence
of our correspondents—the great press of local matters ren-
dering it impossible for us to allot any space for their com-
municatipns in our present number. We shall endeavour to
bring up arrears next Friday.

Vie TLiberpool gi:tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 183,.

We have a mass of news from Spain, furnished by the
French journals of Thursday, and the whole tenor of
which corroborates what we have hitherto stated, with re-
gard to the revolutionary movement now general through-
out the entire peninsula. The defeated, destroyed,
routed Gomez, has thrown the whole Andalusian pro-
vince into a flame, having entered the city of Cardova
and captured the fort with its garrison of 2,400 men—all
the arms, ammunition, and an immense treasure in mo-
ney, plate, and church jewels. He had also obtained 1200
horses for mounting his cavalry. In the attack on the
fort a random shot killed his best cavalry officer, General
Villalobos, for which it is said Gomez had retaliated on
three or four of the Christine chiefs, by having them
shot ; but this statement is not confirmed, and other ac-
counts put forth the great moderation he had displayed.
One important feature is shown in this affair, the dispo-
sition of the populace, which it is asserted assisted him
in the siege of the fort. Charles the Fifth had been pro-
claimed in several of the subjacent towns; and the whole
of the Royalist volunteers had enrolled themselves with
the troops of Gomez. The military and civil governors
are described in the Madrid correspondence, as being in
the utmost panic, some retiring. on Seville, others on
Cadiz and Grenada; and all apparently acting without
concert, or any defined understanding with the bankrupt
government in the capital. It would occupy the whole
of our space, devoted to matters of home interest, were
we to give the various accounts corroborative of our sum-
mary analysis.
Since the financial bankruptcy of the Madrid dictator,
Mendizabal, the actual condition of the Spanish question
has daily developed itself most unequivocally, in spite of
the vain means resorted to for the purpose of concealing
the real posture of affairs. Gomez has unquestionably
paralysed all the energies of the government, if govern-
ment it can be called, in Andalusia, and stopped all
chances of pecuniary succour from that quarter.'
The critical condition of Spain appears to have sus-
pended all discussion on the Switzerland dispute at Paris,
and the La Presse states, that " remonstrances warm
and very just, upon the disguised bankruptcy had been
made to the Spanish ambassador in a long conference
between that functionary and the minister for foreign af-
fairs." The French cabinet may remonstrate. It is to
the eternal disgrace of Lord Palmerston, that this coun-
try has been dragged into a participation in the stock-
jobbing and dishonourable covenants of the changeable
and imbecile administrations, which have supplanted each
other in Spain. We cannot trust ourselves to write dis-
passionately on a question where nothing of defence, uo_
,ling of argument—nothing of common integrity exist
n the whole range of its career. Nor can we conceive

that the discussion of a tale a hundred times told, and the
mischiefs of our Spanish and French diplomacy as often
exposed, would be attended with any present beneficial
result. The ministers feel themselves secure, and will-
irgr to brave the storm until the meeting of parliament;
but we may have other opportunities from time to time
of treating the subject.
The French government has manifested an act of cle-
mency, at length, to two of the unfortunate ministers of
Charles the Tenth, M. M. de Peyronnet and Chantel
ause are to be allowed a parole for the benefit of their
health—under the surveillance of the police.

It is sufficiently evident that the members of the
present executive pay little respect to the authority of
scriptural truth ; they are at once the scholars and pro-
fessors of a new philosophy in the science-of govern-
ment ; and even the page of learned heathenism has lost
its inspiration in their esteem. "If you should attempt
to treat the judgment of all mankind with contempt,"
says Virgil, " you should recollect that there remains a
heavenly tribunal, having a recognizance of right and of

wrong."

" Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma;
At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefaadi
This fine sentiment of the Mantuan bard is particular-
ly applicable to our preseut purpose. We have had the
gratification of recording the triumph of just principle—
the triumph of religious feeling, and the triumph of con-
stitutional
devotion and of right, in our town,of Liver-
pool. The judgment of some hundreds of respectable
Townsmen-411e most valuable, the most impartial, and
the most independent element—made up— composed of
the middle class of our great political and moral society,
speaking the sentiments of one thousond and fourteen of
its associates, and representing the intelligence, the
wealth, and respectability of the most enterprising
borough in the empire, has decided against the whig
government and its debased confederation ! Go, Mr.
Ewart—revel, fume, exhort, mystify,anclflounder in your
tavern exhibition—your tirades against our protestant
establishment ! We look down upon you in pity, for
you are unworthy of contempt; the moral worth, the
virtue, the patriotism of your dishonoured town, in your
hands, has publicly—unanimously denounced you; and
our church shines forth more brilliantly under the as-
saults of your mean—your unenviable persecution, and
smiles cheerfully under the taunts of your levelling co-
adjutors ; that church is far, above your envy, and still
more above your enmity ;

" She, in her unpretending loveliness,
Looks calmly on the hour of her distress ;
For, knows she not the Wise and only Good
Pewits man's evil?—but His holy rood
Has taken root, and buds like Aaron's rod.
From fear of man, shall she distrust her God?"
The first impulse of natural enthusiasm having sub-
sided, and our constitutional friends who could not per-
sonally attend the dinner having had the opportunity of
reading leisurely the various speeches which were de-
livered, and of pondering their importance, we feel we
may now be permitted to offer a few remarks, suggested
by the overwhelming mass of argument which has been
put before us ; and, shall we be accused of dealing in
mere figure when we declare, in our humble judgment,
that this dinner meeting, in every point of view, is by
far the most important which has Taken place in this
kingdom, considered with reference to the great leading
objects it has embraced, and the public veto of so truly
influential body of English citiaens, given on the
downward policy of the whig pro popery government !
The importance and value of the decision of the mer-
chants and traders of Liverpool is proportionate with its
cordial unanimity of sentiment. And how was this
marked ? By the reception given to the toast, " Our
highly esteemed representative, Lord Sandon." There
..can he no misconception—no ground for cavilling on
this point; it stands as an indisputable fact, recorded by
a journal entirely independent of ()lir influence, as it is

of the present government, that " the company started

up as one roan; the clreers seemed to be reiterated to an
aboost endless extent, and with unbounded enthusiasm.''
'Those cheers, as we said of the blast of the constitutional

trumpet sounded at Newton, have reverberated through
the length and breadth of the land—they have gone
home to every English heart—in the language of the im-
mortal Canning, at Plymouth, " the dormant thunder"
of English feeling is aroused'. And, here let us ask our

enemies, what are the politics of Lord Sandon, and what
has been his parliamentary conduct that there should
have been this upt icing, as of one man, of seven hundred

English freemen, packed—urged, as it were, into one

dense mass ? Are those politics constitutional, or has
that public conduct been marked by principles of rev olu7

tionary liberalism ? What are his religious views and
what his moral feeling towards the union of our church
and state ? Answer these points, ye vampires of the
falsely-called liberal press ! •
.The political views of our conservative representative

are all sufficiently before the world—known—proved,
and tried, and they receive the meed of immeasured ap-
probation from one of the most respectable assemblages

of tradesmen ever called together in this country, for the
purpose of proclaiming the feeling of attachment enter-
tained by those who attended it, to our glorious, our un-

rivalled Constitutiop in Church and State, where he is

le invited guest ! The inflexible—the genuine Enghip

'eeling displayed by the chairman, Mr. Samuel
n his explanation of the Ike and objects of our honour-

able agoeiation, speaks in volumes,—that explanation

conclusive on the independence of its members. So
sterling a character as he has proved himself by this dis-

play, would be an honour to any assembly, whilst yet

Wing with exulting pride the station of an English
tradesman ; and the tribute to Lord Sandon is valuable-
nan equal ratio with that established independence. A

fair specimen of the constitutional pressure from without
is here given ; and if this were the march—" the glori-
ous march of the human mind" to which the Whig
Attorney-General alluded in his late speech at Edin-
burgh, we would give him credit for good taste and sound
discrimination ; but, no, it has not the stamp of spuriops
liberalism upon its forehead, and its merits form no part'
of his brief, however valuable in principle—however.
substantial in effect; subversion is not implanted here.;
and the philosophic Sir John, rich in his fanciful illusions
of Whig-reforming excellence, would recede from the
honest truths,—the mental substance of Mr. Samuel
Holme, the builder of no aerial castles, like the sensitive`
plant from the rude touch !
Liverpool has done its duty—two large splendid unin-
fluenced conservative meetings in one week! There,
Mrs. Grunticle Chronicle, Is a soporific for you. if
champion of the conservative bar had not laid you pros-
trate in the literary dirt of your own smelting shop, here
is an answer for our constitutional representative. Yes.
good old veracious lady, you may drudge onward in the
mire of your misrepresentation, and defend your "liberal"
church spoliating Ewart and his coterie, with all than
versatile reasoning—that perversion of truth, fact, and
principle, which has signalised you in the News-hall, a
the undeviating supporter of error in religion, and false%
philosophy in government. We tell you a Standard
truth, when we assert, that these meetings, with their
moral and political consequences, are conclusive as to the
prosperity of the conservative cause, whilst their decision•
is far beyond the contravention of your contaminating
pen, and impervious to all the morbid logic of your
patrons in radical whiggery.

We have a hundred substantial reasons for disliking
whiggery in the abstract, and full a hundred more for
opposing it, under its unhallowed combination with
radicalism, popery, and political dissent ; and nota soli-
tary 'one has been shown to us, why the vote of our
honourable—our upright representative should be neu-
tralised in that assembly of popular represented interests,.
or at least what should there be represented ; but we am
not prepared to submit mach longer to this insult to our
understanding—this degradation on our independence,
in the town of Liverpool,* Let us take a view of our
constitutional member, as be stood before this vast: and•
united assembly. We know that Lord Sandon's mind if;
far too rechercht7—far too elevated to entertain any ,feel-
ings of mere personal pride or human vanity, great and
exciting as was that torrent of commendation which fell.
upon him on this occasion; but he has dared a loftier
flight, and soared to the proper sphere of his honourable
ambition, under the panoply of conscious rectitude of
principle,—he has signalised himself by a perfect absti-
nence from the bitterness of party feeling, and,acrimoni-
ous invective, and stood alone on high constitutional'
ground.

In times of great political strife and difficulty, the most
valuable attribute of a statesman is moderation of senti-
ment, combined with firm devotion of purpose, and cairn'
consideration of consequences, as was, powerfully exem-
plified by Sir Robert Peel, and so beautifully illustrated?
by his speech at the dinner at Merchant Tailors' Hall.
It rests not in the impassioned zeal of the moment,-
but in the sober judgment of deliberative inquiry,
and the determination to vindicate that judgMent.
for purpbses of legislative utility. .Few, very • feiv.
of us, under the momentary excitement of party feel-
ing, consider sufficiently . the value of this sterling:
quality ; but we have the authority of one of the most
learned divines and constitutional reasoners that ever
lived in this country on this point. When speaking of
the great Chatham, he says, " it was his heroic modera-
tion which alone saved this country from the crisis of the
American war." And thus has Lord Sandon risen doubly
in our estimation, Rs a statesman, from the speech he'
delivered on Tuesday last. That speech displays au in-
timate knowledge of the critical position in which our
constitution, in church and state, is at this moment placed.
" That," said his lordship, " was the principle which
called the meeting together." All other phases of demo-
cratical disorganization are assuredly nothing but acces-
sories to the threatened " organic change"+ in that time-
approved institution ; and, as he justly adduced in sup-
port of his argument, "it is no longer the outworks of
that constitution that are now attacked, the very citadel.
is now assailed, as every man who had eyes to see and
ears to hear must be aware." What then is our duty
Clearly, "to come forward," as Lord Sandon urged, "in
its defence but not by violence—not by fraud—not by
falsehood and declamation, the very means resorted to by
its oombined enemies. We have to sustain that threat-
ened constitution, which seven hundred reflecting Eng-
lishmen have declared to be in danger, by a determined
combination of sound principle—by a cool and energetic
union of the middle classes—by gathering under our pro-
testant standard all the better parts of our great, our va-
luable English community, and showing forth our strength
in just principle, and in that alone ; and this we feet
assured is his lordship's view, as to the proper, the safc'
and certain mode of defending the assailed constitution
from without; and it is upon this footing he defended,
successfully defended, constitutional associations.
We have no wish to advocate the creation of an in 1136-
rium in imperio, for the purpose of overawing the execu
tive government in the legitimate discharge of its onerous
duties—we hope we are too well acquainted with the
principles and practice of our constitution, to argue dui
propriety of the creation of a fourth estate for general
purposes, even of state emergency ; but we are 11°'%
la-
bouring under the pressure of a-special exigency, ami,*
an
are prepared to defend constitutional association, as
integral principle of our ancient triple-formedcompact,i,,
the grave extremity in which we are placed, as a Peqs
in the hands of an unconstitutional faction. OtTelgo_
war for, and not against principle. So long an
venni-tent of this country asserted protestantit':tais
necessity
fundamental basis of our state legislation, the
for conservative association was not so highly
d apparent;une ontra-
but, upon indisputable evidence, shown and
this vital
dieted, and incapable of contradiction,
thatd
since 16SS,
principle in our governing system, establisheied
upon, to
is to be thrown down, insulted, and trampled tier
and
favour popery at one time, and liberalism at another,
in
the go-
the
that those who ought to be its first defendersle
imperative
vernment, are the very first to subvert it, th
the
duty t°
necessity for association is established, an(
he associate follows. This is our answer to the objectors,
if an such there be, to our proud demorTdration. T
been
danger to everything that Englishmen holc e
ar, has