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

FRANCE,

MOVEMENTS OF THE DUCHESS DE BERRI.—The Message, des
Gand gives a circumstantial detail of the passage of the Duchess
de Berri, from La Vendee, through France, and via Ghent,
Brussels, and Aix la Chapelle, to Germany. That journal
states that the information so given is from a confidential source,
and adds that the princess fled from her concealment in France
the moment she heard the news of Alibaud's crime. We con-
fess we are surprised so (Tenerally well-informed a journal as the
Massager de Gand should allow itself to be so humbugged. The
adverturous little duchess has in her day played many queer
pranks, but we doubt her doing a tithe so many again.—Age.

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1836.

We have no further accounts from General Evans. We-
presume that the shock which his nervous system re-
ceived in the late retreat alone keeps him on the other
side of the Bay of Biscay. We rejoice in being able to
state that there is no truth in the statement of what the ,
ministerial journalists, with uplifted eyes, term "a scur-
rilous Sunday paper." The General's indisposition did
not come on in the 'field of battle in the form of a dysen-
tery. He made a most vigorous retreat, and illness did
not overtake him till he arrived at Passages.
In almost every part of the theatre of war the Car-
lists are victorious. In Gallicia, the Chief Lopez,
and nine of his staff, were surprised and captured at
Arsua, at some miles distance front their troops, and have
all been shot. at Corunna. This deed will be retaliated,
we suppose, as usual. Such is this war of liberty !
Front France, the last advices speak of new plots
against the life of the King. Great precautions are to
be resorted to during the fete of July. His Majesty has
ordered a bullet proof coach to be built. Such are. the
enjoyments of regal dignity.

The ministerial crisis of which we spoke on Tuesday
is over for the present; but the effects of it will stick to
all the parties concerned while they live (politically) and
follow them to the grave which is even now:yawning to
receive them. They will be dead and buried long be-
fore their shoes grow old.
The late meeting at the Foreign office let in a flood
of light upon the three-faced monster which is at present
in possession of the governing power of the country.
The ground work of the three bills relating to the
English Church was laid by the Commission which had
its origin in the Administration of Sir Robert Peel.
When the Thimblerig Ministers came into power they
adhered to that Commission, with some few slight alter-
ations.
We shall not stop to investigate the motives
which actuated them. It is enough for our purpose to
be assured by the whole tenor of their policy that
what they did was done for their own sakes; and subse-
quent events have shown that if they had brought in
bills, prepared by that Commission, calculated to benefit
the Church, it was not affection for that institution which
prompted them to that cause.
Why do we say this ? We will state our reasons.
At the late meeting in Downing- street, when Hume
censured the Bill for the regulation of the Bishoprics,
and declared his intention of resisting the third reading,
Lord John Russell complained of unfair treatment in
having been permitted to introduce the measure and
carry it through the principal stages without objection ;
and then to be suddenly turned round upon and snubbed
in the face of the public. He was pledged, he said, now,
and must go on, and if confidence were denied him he
must resign, because the eyes of the country were upon
him ; but if he had been made aware of the objections now
urged at the outset, he would not have run counter to
the Radical will and pleasure !

A more rambling or a more disgraceful avowal never
fell from the lips of a Minister of the Crown.
As to Hume and the latitudinarian band which he so
worthily leads, we charge no hypocrisy upon them, for
they never have made a secret of their hostility to the
Church, or of their desire to pull it down.. They are
consistent. But what shall we say of the pious and
" conscientious" persons who call themselves Dissenters
par excellence These people have all along cried out
for Church Reform on the principle of benefitting the
Church. Well, the time for Church Reform arrives;
the Crown surrenders its patronage; the Bishops them-
selves set their hand to the work, relinquish patronage,
and many of them surrender large portions of the income
of their sees that it may be divided among those who
starve upon their dignity, and, lo! these conscientious
Dissenters turn round, join Hume and the infidels, and
the anythingarians, and attempt to extinguish the Bill
because, in fact, it does not pass a Mice of Church pro-
perty into their pockets just as the Irish Church Bill hands
over a portion of the property of the Irish branch of the
National Church to the uses of O'Connell and his mob of
Priests. Give us an appropriation clause, they in .effect
cry ; take from the Church, already straitened, already
severely cropped down by the Tithe Bill, sonic £750,000
a year, that we may be relieved in all time to come from
Church-rates.

it is difficult to say whether this demand is most un-
principled or Most impudent. Even O'Connell was half
ashamed of it; for he advised an acquiescence for the
present. For the sake of Ireland, he said—meaning
himself—he would grant much in order to retain the
Ministers in their places. No doubt. While they are
in office, he rules Ireland at least. Nu other Ministry
can be found willing to fasten the true interests of the
country for the nauseous support of the country's deadli-
est, meanest, basest enemy.
The " no house " expedient on Friday night was in
perfect keeping with all that we know of Ministers and
their disgusting allies. The bullying-scene of the morn-
ing was succeeded by a begging and praying scene in the
evening. We understand that O'Connell was particu-
larly active ; that he was commissioned to offer large
concessions for the future ; that he was eloquent in his
description of the direful effects of driving the present

convenient tools from their places; and the farce of Mon-
day night was settled in the course of Saturday forenoon
Hume, Tom Duncombe, Wakley, Rowley Powley Thom-
son, and others, stuck to their text that if they voted for
what they called the "Bishops Bill," they need not
again shew their faces before their constituents at the
fast-corning general election ; so that it was arranged
that Lord John should re-enter the third reading for
Monday night; that Hume, in order to humbug the
Middlesex radicals should persist in dividing the House
against the third reading; that even the paid hacks of
the Government, who had the fear of constituents before
their eyes, should vote with him, taking especial care not
to put the Ministry in a minority ; Lord John, in return,
agreeing to throw overboard the bills relating to the
De;lneries and Chapter property and for the more effec-
tual promotion of Clinch discipline, although the latter
has received the sanction of the Peers and has not yet
reached the lower House.

What passed hi the Commons, on Monday night, the
reader will gather from our parliamentary report. It
will be seen that the abominable cheating which we
have spoken of was carried into effect. Lord Johnny
moved the third reading, taking care to preface his mo-

tion with the scandalous surrender of the other Bills
under the transparent pretence of postponing them that
they might reecive more mature consideration. Hume
" aggravated his voice like any sucking dove." Lord
John, forsooth, ought not to have been surprised that

he, Hume, the purest and most inflexible of patriots and
Greek-loan-jobbers, should oppose a Bill so little satis-
factory to the friends of reform. He did not wish to
turn out the Ministry " from whom he expected so
much"—a Baronetcy ?—yet he must be consistent and
act up to his pledges, and would therefore divide the
House without at all wishing thereby to effect the pro-
fessed object of that division, and so forth.
The House was divided ; the Conservatives preferred

the path of honour to turning out a tottering Ministry ;
and Lord John had his third reading by 175 to 44, and

le Bill was sent to the House of Lords on Tuesday

evening.
The annals of faction or of Ministerial scurrility pre-
sents few parallels to this most dishonest transaction.
The disgrace is equally shared between the Whigs and
the Radicals. Well might Mr. Whittle Harvey declare

that he could not reconcile the course which many Mem-
bers were then pursuing with that which was taken by
them at the meeting at the Foreign Office on Friday,
whence it was, he said, that the warmth of feeling had
subsided, and which he had hoped forboded a return to
that system of independent opposition which had slum-
bered throughout the whole of the Session, he could not
pretend to conjecture. Those Members who took a pro-
minent part on the occasion to which he referred, were
pursuing a very tame and suspicious course in the pre-
sent discussion. They were continually told that the
institutions of this country and of Ireland should be
assimilated, and he could see no reason why this measure
of Church reform.,for England was not framed on the
same principle in this respect as the Irish Bill. If Mr.
Harvey could see no reason, the O'Connells, the Humes,
Wilkses, Ewarts, Bainses, and Potters could see very
powerful reasons. That some of them voted in the
minority does not at all rescue them from the " suspi-
cious course" pointed out by Mr. Harvey ; and if their
constituents do not see the transaction in its right
aspect, and resent it too, why they deserve to be choused
again in the same style at the next opportunity.

The Peers have again done their duty like men in
earnest. What a truly Noble contrast do they present
to the dirty shuffiers in the " reformed house." If truth
is a libel, we have just now a desire to be particularly
libellous with regard to the " collective" scum of Whig_
Radicalism.

The Irish Tithe Bill, with its insulting appropriation
clause, came on for discussion, in committee, on Monday
night, and at the end of the discussion, the fang was
again plucked from the mouth of the adder.
We wish we could report the whole debate; but that,
in our confined space, is impossible. We have, how-
ever, endeavoured to convey to our readers a faithful
epitome of what took place.

There were three divisions in the course of the evening.
The first was on an amendment moved by Lord Lynd-
hurst, to the effect that the tithe-owner's property should
be cut down 25 instead of 30 per cent. The learned lord
stated his reasons in an argument which was irresistible,
and 126 to 48 went with him in favour of the proposition.
Then came the O'Connell robbery clause, and that was
flung to the winds by 138 to 47. Lord Lyndhurst's
speech on this point rivals all his former efforts; yet the
Bishop of Exeter's speech showed that even the intel-
lectual grasp of the first man of the day had not ex-
hausted the subject: We are almost inclined to thank
the authors of the appropriation juggle for their inven-
tion, wicked though it be ; without it we should not have
had these really splendid oratorical efforts ; the more
splendid and valuable that they were called forth on the
side of justice, truth, and common sense.
The ministerial pleaders for wrong-doing, that a fancied
good might come from it, were the eminent statesmen,
Melbourne, Clanricarde, Holland, Lansdowne, Plunkett
—a delightful quintet. We have of course read their
speeches, for that's our vocation, but we declare, 'pon
honour, that we only remember a solitary point hit off
at random by the correspondent of the Hon. Mrs. Nor-
ton. He stated that the rejection of the robbery clause
would prove fatal to the bill; that ministers would not
march through Coventry without it; but that they would
not resign while they had with them a majority of the
Commons, and, as they believed, a majority of the coun-
try ! It is a hackneyed saying that there is no account-
ing for taste; neither is there any accounting for infatu-
ation. If Lord Melbourne really suppose that a major itv
of the country is on his side in this matter, then is Lord
Melbourne irrecoverably immersed in mental darkness.
The argument of the ministerial orators is, that the
Irish branch of the establishment would be benefited by
being plundered. They know well that the miserable
demands of the Agitator is father to the pretence. But
if they are right—if appropriation is so good a thing—
if it is so mighty advantageous to a body to have its
heart plucked away—and if it be honourable, and politic,
and honest, to steal from one, to whom the thing belongs,
to give to another who has no rightful claim to it—why
is not the same course adopted with reference to the
English Church ? If it be just to alienate from the Irish
branch of the establishment—which is so poor that if its
revenues were divided they would not give its ministers
an average income of £270 a-year—in order to gratify
the raging appetite of O'Connell and the Romish Priests,
it is equally just to alienate from the English Church
for the purpose of appeasing the equally raging appetite
of the English Infidels and " conscientious " Dissenters
—the Independents, the Unitarians, the Baptists, and
the Warrenites.

Despite of Lord Melbourne's threat, however, the
Peers will pass an exceedingly good bill for the abolition
of Irish Tithe. Here is real " justice to Ireland;" here
What is calculated to satisfy the actual payers of Irish
Tithes. But no ; the ministers dare not adopt it in a
practical and effective form. The O'Connell sword is
over their heads suspended by a single hair; and they
submit.

Let no person, however, be so simple as to suppose
that O'Connell wishes to settle any question concerning
Ireland. It is his object to keep open as many griev-
ances as possible, because he is a wholesale trader in that
article, and makes an annual fortune by his industry.
When the bill again reaches the Commons, we shall
have a motion for its rejection by Lord John Russell, at
the end of a puling speech ; and O'Connell will give us
the fiftieth repetition of his stock threats, and there the
matter will rest a while. Then hey for the "Justice
Rent ;" of which justice rent the Agitator will contrive,
by hook or by crook—by fraud, or force, or both—to
get hold of a most unjust "appropriation."

We congratulate our readers on the signal triumph
which was achieved at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Monday,
in the election of John Hodgson, Esq., of Elswick, in the
room of the late Sir Matthew White Ridley.
Sir Matthew was a Whig of the old school; a respecta-
ble, right-feeling man, strongly leaning to the cc-T.ser-

vative side ;—in short, a man of property and sens 6
but afraid to act up to his excellent feelings and princi-
ples.

Mr. Hodgson is also a conservative with more cou-
rage. He is ready to support all rational reforms, yet
refuses to be the slave of a party ; of course he is not the
favour with the exclusive liberals and reformers; and at
the last election Mr. Ord was preferred to him by
1843 votes to 1254. But time, the great corrector, has
produced its wonted effect in this instance. The Radi-
cals precipitated the election by an indecently early mo-
tion for a new writ, moved for by that pink of moralists
and politicials, Mr. Cuthbert Rippon, of Stanhope Cas-

tle notoriety ; and the Roman Catholic sheriff of New-
castle played into their hands by naming Monday last
as the day of election.—Captain Blackett, a renegate
Tory, now a violent Radical, having been early called
into the field.

Mr. Hodgson was not communicated with till Saturday
afternoon. A deputation had gone in search of him; but
he accidentally arrived in the town by the Belford coach,
at two in the afternoon. Seeing that the call upon him
came from gentlemen who really spoke the sense of the
constituency, he immediately declared himself. In his
address he says he had no wish to come from his retire-
ment, and the sole motive of his coming forward was to
afford the electors the only prospect of rescuing New-
castle from being reduced to the condition of a Treasury

Borough.
" INly political opinions (he says) are to well known

to you to require me to enlarge upon them here. I will
not now deal in professions, but refer you to my past
parliamentary conduct as contrasted with that of my Op-
ponent, and leave you to infer from the severest test—

the test of experience—which of us is most likely to
promote sound and rational reforms, and to promote
economy in every branch of the public expenditure."
After a sharp struggle Mr. Hodgson was elected on Tues-
day by a majority of 48—a glorious triumph, affording
of course, to Lord Melbourne further proof that a ma-
jority of the country is with the Magdalen Ministry I

Several of our contemporaries have `;found a mare's
nest in a doCument, just published, bight " the Third
Report of the Commissioners of National Education in
Ireland," which, quoth one of them, " will be read with
great interest, especially at the present time." Among
other fine things it is said to contain "a reply to the
injurious statements of that veracious Prelate, Dr.
Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter." As Mrs. Malaprop would
say, our contemporary is liberal of his epitaphs; but we
will wager a trifle, if need be, that the "veracious Dr.
Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter," who is impertinently as-
sailed, will prove more than a match for the whole five
" Education Commissioners", the brilliant Duke of
Leinster included.

'We shall have a word or two to say on this and some
other kindred subjects on the first open day; and shall
endeavour not to forget the officious zeal of Mr. Earle—

In a bad cause.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Evening, July 27.

Several of the Cabinet Mitiisters had aineetingihis morning
at the Home Office. Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer afterwards visited Lord Melbourne.
Sir J. C. Hobhouse informed the House of Commons, this
evening, that he had that morning received a dispatch, which
stated that during a severe hurricane, a steam vessel, the Tigress.
(we believe,) was upset on the river Euphrates, and that twenty
lives were lost. The names of the sufferers should be published
as soon as a list could be made out.
Accounts have been received from Maranham to June 11,
stating that his Majesty's ship Snake had arrived there from
Para, with information that the above city was taken possession
of by the legal government on the 131 h of May.