The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

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Mr

M‘Leod was to be removed •,o the state of New

as it was presumed he could not have a fair trial
near the place where he has been hitherto confined, on
account of the excited state of feeling amongst the

populace

The advices from England had caused a decline in
the prices of cotton, which was previously looking up-
wards. Considerable sales had been made for export.
The prices had been for Uplands 91 to 11, New Or-

leans 9 to Mobile 941 to 114. The importation
of dry goods had been very large, and the stock in the
The stock of coals from

market was ver

extensive,

this part had, with the exception of about thirty tons,
been entirely sold out of the first hands. The last
sales were made at 7-50 to S dols. The money market
was inactive, and the advices from England had tended
to increase the depression. The banks, however, dis-
counted short paper freely. There had been a falling.
off in the rates of Foreign Exchange. Bills on Eng-
land were at 107 to 108, and on France at 5 f. 30.
There was no demand for specie for shipment, and the
amount drawn from the banks had been trifling.
Stocks were generally declining, and United States
Bank'Shares had gone down to 161

With respect to those outward demonstrations of
physical strength which the O'Connellite party are so
fond of making, and with reference to which we sub-
mitted some remarks in our last, there is an observa-
tion commonly made, that if there be treason in the
wind, it is better that it should exhibit itself than lie
concealed, or work in the dark, and, at length, take' us
unawares and unprepared; and on this ground some
fancy that the indulgent, conciliatory system pursued
by the Whigs, has an advantage. And this might be
allowed, if we had no choice bat between such a sys-
tem and one whose fruits could only be concealment
and surprise. But we are not so circumscribed in our
selection of remedies; we are not limited to a choice
of evils..

In the first place, we deny that the Whig system is
a remedy at all. A skilful physician may wish that a
disease should develope itself, and treat his patient
with a view to produce that effect ; but his final object
is cure

—not merely to change its local habitation, but
to remove the disease altogether. But the Whigs
seem to contemplate no such purpose in their policy.
They bring out disorder, indeed, in a mast superior
manner; but, having brought it out, they leave it
there, They give plenty of courage to the rebellious;
but their system has no tendency to, root out treason.
Their treatment has no analogy to that of the physi-
cian ; for it would confirm, not dislodge the malady of
the state. The utmost merit they can pretend to, is
that of procuring a little temporary peace by sneaking
compliances, and paying all the black mail which Po-
pery would levy upon them almost in advance.
In England we see merely the results of this most
contemptible and time-serving policy; we do not

and feel, as the Protestants of Ireland, do, all the
mediate misery and injurious consequences that flow
from it. In Ireland Popery is the favoured religion,
and the Protestant faith, barely tolerated in some dis-
tricts, is not unusually persecuted, nay persecuted even
unto death, in others. The peace procured by the
Whigs, or what they call such, is in fact obtained by
the sacrifice of Protestantism ; and what, we ask, is to
be the end thereof ? England cannot desire to partake
in advantages (if any there be) procured by injustice and
wrong, and is bound, at all hazards, to put an end to a.
system which produces such results. The administra-
tion of the Whigs in Ireland is founded on favour's-

tins, and rawitiri

to U

to Rye (l,

to the established order of things; and, if it last very
much longer, will, most likely, entail on England tho
expense of an expedition, some fine morning, for the

re-conquest of that country. It would surely be wise

to forestal such a contingency.
But then it is asked, if the Whig conciliatory sys-
tem should be discontinued, is it proposed to re-enact

all sort of rigours and penalties against the Rotna.

ists, and reverse the processes now in open,
extent ? This question indeed is asked, but asked only
by Whigs and their supporters, and is a " we
tion of the enemy

.tion to this

inven-

Ireland wants a government that will give every

support and encouragement to the Protestant religion.
It is the bounden duty of every government to do so ;
but she does.not need. a government to persecute any
sect of religionists, for that would be a violation of
duty on their part. She has need of 'a
government
that, avowing itself Protestant, would not be ashamed

to rule in the spirit of a Protestant constitution

insist upon

a government would claim and
ancy for truth, and would not be ashamed to give a

triumph to that party which shewed . tl

le excellence of

its principles by.obedience to the laws and fi
the crown. This is what Ireland wants, and tt

she gets it the better

Our readers must have perused

ith infinite satis-

faction the letter of the Rev

Mr. Ker, in reply to the

Bishop of Norwich, upon the occasion of his lord
ship's extraordinary and unproved attack upon him

It must have been observed that the right rev. prelate
was ably replied to, and stood evidently much in need
of a friend to console him when all was over. We

know not how many or how lew came forward to lie

form this interesting office in other places
sure his. lordship will be equally surprised and de
lighted to discover that he has gained a cordial sup-
porter and admirer in this neighbourhood, in the per-
son of the Rev. Doctor Byrth, the Rector of Vial-
lasey.

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