The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

Or Eibtrpool "tailbari).

TUESDAY

MORNING, FEB. 6, 1849

THE circumstances, which have thus far attended
the opening of the Session of 1849, comprise little
which is calculated to assure her Majesty's Whig
Government that they will be able to repose, up to
its conclusion, upon a bed of roses, or to prove that
whose policy shall be moderately,

a mini-*
altli(

gh effectually conservative of the institutions

and the industry of the country, is a chimera, or
even an event of very distant realization. In proof
of the correctness of this opinion, honestly enter-
tained on our part, we ask of our readers to ex-
amine with us a few significant circumstances
connected with the debates upon the address to the
throne in both houses.

In the first place we turn to the speech itself, to
which that address is an echo ; and ask whether
insatisfactory a character has
lands of royalty within the

any document of F.
been placed in tb

aeration

There is,

_ nothing very consolatory in the commen-
cing paragraphs, referring to the state of Europe.
Terms of peace are " negotiating" between the
recently contending parties ; but when those nego-
ciatious will be brought to a close, and peace he
permanenty established, depends obviously upon
the chapter of accidents, which this government do
not pretend to have the power of influencing.
Since this very assurance was penned, Paris, the
evolutionary movements, has been in
and its factions and clubs are
only restrained from turbulence and bloodshed by
an overwhelming military force—an armed despo-
tism, assuming the name of democratic rule; and
the recently contending Nationalities of the rest of
Europe still stand at the sword's point. England
herself, with respect to her foreign relations, is in
the anomalous position of being without an ally, if
even she possesses a friend, amongst the nations of
Europe; and, for the first time for many reigns,
her sovereign is enabled to state that she is in
receipt of friendly assurances from any foreign
power. In fact, is there at this moment, with the
exception, perhaps, of Russia, such a thing as a
"power" in Europe ? And, with respect to our
colonies—from India, we have news not very satis-
factory; our West Indian colonies, which are left
altogether out of contemplation, arg notoriously
sunk in ruin ; and Canada is making approaches
to a nearer and independent connexion, which will
ultimately lead to annexation, to the United States
of America. So much for our foreign and colonial
relations.

centre of

incipient emeute

Her Majesty observes with satisfaction that "this
portion of the United Kingdom has remained tran-
quil amidst the convulsions which have disturbed
so many parts of Europe." What ! Tranquil ?
Her Majesty's Attorney-General will not, we ven-
ture to say, have the hardihood to assert that the
attempted chartist proceedings in London, Liver-
pool, and other large towns ; the arming of special
constables and police; the concentration of troops,
and the mustering of pensioners, in all these places
in the spring of last year, were evidences that the
tranquillity ? Happily
of Englishmen, and the nature
—vitutions, for whose preservation in a
state of efficiene-

country

was in a state of T

the inlierer
of our ins

we are little indebted to Whig
radicalism, enabled us to emerge from our threat-
ened rebellion unscathed ; but "tranquil" the
has not been. In Ireland disaffection is
nitted still to exist ; and, to repress that dis-
..
nry powers of last year are

country

affection, the extr
still required.

mother feature, however, in the state of Ireland,
one of anything but a congratulatory character.
have been worthy of the notice of govern-
It is not disaffection alone which marks the
state of that singular land. Is it not a fact, that
thousands of its substantial farmers are daily quit-
ting their holdings to seek shelter and protection
Cant countries ? Is it not a
Inds are feeling painfully that
at the same time, the burthens
to which they are sub-
tion of the farmers

'eh. industry in
that there thou

they cannot r

axation and pauperism

I at home

nd the compe

The true nature of
their position is only just breaking upon the people
of Ireland, and it would surely only have been a
fitting recommendation to the legislature, to consi-
der what will be the condition of that people when
the full light of their difficulties shall have broken

and of

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erica ?