The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—As our present town council not only read your journa
very carefully, but also pay more attention to its opinions than
they would have the town to believe, I think it better to solicit
a little space in your .columns than to occupy any portion of the
twaddling-whiggish, popish, or radical press in their interest.
I wish to ask these gentlemen whether they were ever on the
pierhead on a fine Saturday afternoon at low water, when three
or four steam-boats from the opposite ferries arrive with pas-
sengers before their counterparts take their departure, when the
Isle of Man rackets, the Bangor packets, the Rhyl and Mostyn
Quay boats are just coining in, and when his Majesty's liege
subjects for the sister isle are about taking their depiature for
the " roval mail," when about 2000 or 3000 persons, consisting
of M.P.'s and porters, ladies and washerwomen, gentlemen and
market lasses, ooatmen and pig-drivers, old and young, rich
and poor, are jostling, thrutching, squeezing, and pushing,
sweating, swearing, and roaring, along a narrow stage, a very
charyb&s, where two tides meet, and where confusion itself is
worse confounded. No description can give an adequate idea
of the scene, it really, sir, must be seen to believed. Only one
being in this wicked world seems to enjoy it, and that is my
waggish, good-looking, and good-humoured friend, John Aspi-
nall, of Birkenhead, whose roars of laughter used to be heard
(and I hope soon will be again) at the strange scenes exhibited
on the aforesaid platform. Now, sir, nineteen out of twenty of
us Birkenhead gentry are rattling, roarinc, tories—there's no
mistake, I assure you—and it is whispered that unless we change
our opinions we are to be taken on board the steamers iu the
punt, or be drowned, or swim aboard just as we like. But, sir,
we don't look for redress of grievances from the piddling, chat-
tering, professing squad of reformers who now usurp the places
of better men in the council chamber; but I'll tellyou, sir, what
we are resolved to do; we'll agitate, sir; we'll have a Birken-
head National Association; we'll have a RENT, sir; and turn
these good for nothing fellows out, who never did, nor never
will, do anything but spout and spend their breath and the public
money in seedy words, and putting their needy friends into snug
berths, making the most of their time as people say.
I beg to direct the special attention of Mr. Frank Jordan to
the pierhead. He certainly sees as straight as any member of
the council, and can detect a blunder and point out a remedy as
well as any Hibernian I know; and his well-known gallantry to
the ladies will, I am convinced, cause hint to look our way.
Just at present I know that piers are not popular with the
council, bekase Daniel O'Darrynane has said that same; but I
think something must be done, or the governor of Birkenhead
declares that he'll begin business again, and show the fellows in
office how to make a pier, when they do nothing else but make
slips.—Yours, &c., A CHESHIRE GENT.
Birkenhead, 19th Fructidor.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—It appears that the established church bill which has
just passed the House of Commons is, as a measure of reform,
far from being sufficiently sweeping in its character to please
the republican faction. One of the principal objections started
against this bill is the following—that it has been framed in ac-
cordance with the recommendations of the ecclesiastical com-
missioners, who are deemed bv the liberals to be disqualified for
the work of reforming the church simply because they are
friendly to our venerable establishment C. Buller, Mr. llro-
therton, Dr. Bowring, William Ewart, &c., very naturally and
consistently declaim against any measure of reform emanating
from those whu wish to preserve the church by a more equitable
adjustment of its revenues. It is their sincerely avowed object
to destroy the church, and, therefore, any scheme calculated to
renovate and improve it must be gall and bitterness to them.
This bill does not contain a satisfactory instalment towards the
eventual annihilation of our protestant establishment—it em-
bodies no appropriation clause—it deals too leniently with the
property of the church—in short, it affords no adequate guaran-
tee for the 'future indefinite spoliation of that object of concen-
trated radical hatred. Lord Jehu Russell and his puzzled coad-
jutors, bound by solemn pledges and by motives of a mere per-
sonal and stringent character, have not dared on this occasion
to "go the whole hog" with the ultra-liberal party; therefore
we find the somniferous Joseph Hume sturdily resisting the
measure, joined by the "awkward squad" of the destructives,
including among them the distinguished, learned, and all-
accomplished Mr. Evart. _

In the stormy debate which took place at the Dawning-street
parliament, (that is the fictitious designation given to it by Mr.
D. W. Harvey,) Lord John Russell threatened to resign if pre-
vented from carrying his measure ! The announcement was
received with a burst of laughter. Why did this threat disturb
the risible nerves of the objurgating parties ? Because the
proverbial attachment of the whigs to office renders such an al-
ternative the most unlikely thing upon earth to be resorted to—
because their accommodating and chamber-like policy will as-
sume every imaginable shade of colour in order to a'lert so
awful a calamity as resignation—because theie are numerous
brothers, cousins, nephews, and political partisans to be pro-
vided with snug situations or fat commissionerships—because
the imbecile whigs would prefer to see the church of England pros-
trate at the feet of an infuriated infidel rabble, rebellion stalking
through the length and breadth of the land, and this mighty em-
pire, rendered the prey of democratic violence and civil anarchy
rather than relinquish their salaries and forego their instinctive
love of place.
Resign, indeed! Lord John Russell and his associates will
resign—when they cannot help it—when it becomes inevitable.
If they possessed • a grain of modesty or of common honesty,
they would have done so long since. They cannot but perceive
that the people of England are opposed to them. Accumulated
proofs have been afforded of the truth of this assertion. Repeat-
ed defeats, sustained by their adherents, have sufficiently indi-
cated the extent of the re-action which has taken place in the
public mind. An additional evidence of this has been oppor-
tunely afforded in the triumphant return of Mr. Hodgson, the
conservative candidate for Newcastle. The unequivocably ex-
pressed opinions of the people, are, however, by these Whigs,
treated with absolute contempt. Our important national inter-
ests must all be postponed to the cupidity of an incapable
ministry, destitute alike of public principle and personal quali-
fications—strangers to every generous and patriotic impulse,
and mercenary foes to all the time-hallowed institutions of this
Protestant country.
These things must excite feelings of unmingled disgust in the
minds of all Englishmen who are not utter strangers to the
love of country. But the period has not yet arrived for the
Conservative party to assume the reins of power. The country
has not yet witnessed the full developement of the iniquitous
policy acted upon by the Whig-Radical administration. The
working of their system of government will, 1 am certain, soon
sicken every rational man in the kingdom, and alienate from
the cabinet the lingering attachment of their fondest admirers.
When they fall, they will endeavour, Sampson-like, to shake
the civil fabric to ruin,—to plunge the country into confusion.
But, thank God, there are resources in the constitution of this
great empire which will remedy the evils effected through their
instrumentality. There is sufficient stamen in the body politic
of Great Britain to bring it in safety through the feverish ex-
citement of republican agitation.
I would strongly urge the Conservatives of Liverpool to be
on the alert, and prepared for instant operations. It is still
doubtful how the ministerial campaign will be terminated. It
is in the power of the Conservative party to out-vote the ministers.
1 am, sir, A WELSHMAN.

. .
The Irish
.agitator says, the greatest enemies of Ireland are
the English clergy and the Wesleyan methodists,
In the HouSe of Lords last week a curious incident transpired.
An amendment in the municipal reform amendment bill, ap-
proved of by the Lord Chancellor after mature consideration,
had been successfully resisted by the Attorney-General in the
House of Commons;. a,nd,this is Are aimi9istration, the perfect
allied of which Is the sUblect of so i!fif,ii.lioditioff!