The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

nell Government dared to lay its hand upon the
temporalities of the Established Church in Ireland,
and it was hurled from office by the indignation of
an insulted people. Let the same stand be made
now for the principles and the faith of our revered
Establishment, that was made for its temporalities,
and a party may be reared up which not even
treachery can overthrow.
The great strength of Liberalism is to be found
in the conventicle and the mechanics' institute, the
leettne-room and the cheap news-room, in the sup-
port which it gives to a revolutionary press, and to
unprincipled and seditious demagogues. A con-
servative party is to be found in the universities
and in the churches of the land, upon our leading
marts of commerce, amongst our leading profes-
sional men, in thousands of houses through the
length and breadth of Great Britain, within whose
precincts the ravings of the demagogue, the specu-
lations of the infidel politician, and the trash of a
seditious press have never entered. Give us but a
leader and an organization of these wholesome
elements of strength, and this great country may
be once more enabled to hold up her head amongst
the nations, as one resolved to cling to the truth,
instead of sacrificing all—honour, religion, loyalty
itself—in a mercenary scramble for the idol which
she has of late been setting up in place of her God.
She may be enabled at length to sweep out her
moral and social pest houses; to lift up her squalid
populace from their grovelling position ; to educate,
to humanize, to christianize at home, and to re-
sume once more her proud destiny, as the hearer of
the blessings of civilization and religion to the ends
of the earth.

Neglect this effert; go on with our present iso-
lation of parties; expend our strength in petty
struggles for triumphs in matters involving no great
principle; and we confess that we can see in pros-
pect nothing but national decline in power, and, in
the end, a national convulsion,—an upheaving of
the elements of our social system, guided by ro in-
fluence strong and healthy enough to re-build and
re-model what it uproots. It is such undeterminate
changes which we have recently seen agitating con-
tinental Europe; the wild struggles of desperate
men, whose minds have been inoculated with an in-
fidel philosophy, and whose condition is hopeless
as that to which we are rapidly dragging down our
own working masses. To such a struggle it is that
the Cobdens and Brights of the day are hurrying
this once happy and prosperous England; hurrying
them blindfolded to their own fate in the melee ;
for certain it is that they will find themselves then
fiercely swept aside by a more violent race of de-
magogues, of whom the Ledru Rollins and Proud-
hons of Parisian notoriety are the accurate types.

THE following incident, which occurred at the
last meeting of the Select Vestry, affords an ad-
mirable specimen of the spirit in which we are
governed in these unhappy days :
" Before the ordinary proceedings of the board com-
menced, the clerk laid before the board a letter from the
Registrar-General [acknowledging the receipt of a let-
ter from the Vestry in reference to the new registration
offices now irr course of erection in Brownlow-hill, which
was accompanied by a statement that he had received a
memorial, numerously signed by the dissenters of Liver-
pool, in which they complained of the site of the new
offices as being very inappropriate for the purposes of
marriage, and that in consequence he should refuse to
sanction the building as a register-offs e.
" Mr. Avison said the Vestry ought to have some re-
spect for the feelings of Dissenters. He (Mr. A.) should
have no objections to be married there, but there were
those amongst the Dissenters who had such objections,
thinking it was being married at the workhouse.
" Mr. Earle denied that there was any intention of
marrying people at the workhouse. Such a statement was
nothing better than humbug. He (Mr. E.) was an
enemy to all humbug, from whatever quarter it came—
whether from the Church or (turning to Mr. Avison) from
the Dissenters, and he regarded this cry of the Dissenters
as altogether humbug. He advised the Vestry to take no
notice of the Registrar-General, but proceed with the
erection of the building.
" The matter then dropped, the Vestry agreeing to go
on with the building, notwieastanding the Registrar-
General's communication.',
What ready deference on the part, of the Regis-
trar-General, to the tender feelings—not the religi-
ous scruples, mind, but the susceptible vanity—of
the dissenters is here evinced ! The new registra-
tion-offices, which we believe will form a handsome
structure, and at all events will cost a good round
sum of the money of Churchmen, are located near
to the Workhouse; and our dissenting brethren
arc afraid that it should be imputed to any of
them that they were joined together—made one by
Act of Parliament—in that establishment itself.
It is not enough that we have kindly consented to
gratify them in a ridiculous whim, of which by the
bye, very few avail themselves, and that we have
saddled upon the country the expense of an army
of registrars and assistant-registrars, but we must
provide them with the means of effecting their
hymeneal objects, in the most fashionable locality,
studiously removed from any object calculated to
shock the most fastidious feelings, or any sound
which can jar unpleasantly upon the most fastidi-
ous ear, on the auspicious occasion. When the
Registrar-General will find a place, at once central
and fashionable, and with an elegant appellation
we cannot divine.

Let us for a moment place in contrast with this
ready deference shewn by a government official to
the whims of the Dissenters, the opposition offered
by the Whig-Radical party in Ireland, to a motion
made by Mr. Hamilton, member for the Dublin
University, in which the interests of the Established
Church were concerned. It is well known that for
years the Church in Ireland has been shut out
from all participation in the governmeut grant for
education, because unwilling to educate other-
wise than upon scriptural principles ; whilst the
Romanist and Dissenting schools, in which the
government emasculations of the Scriptures only
are introduced, have been very liberally endowed.
On Thursday week, Mr. Hamilton moved an ad-
dress to Her Majesty, praying "That she will be
graciously pleased to direct that such a modifica-
tion of the system of National Education in Ire-
land may be made as may remove the conscienti-
ous objections which a large portion of the clergy
and laity of the Established Church entertain to
that system, as at present 'carried into operation ;
or otherwise, that means may be taken to enable those
of the clergy and laity of the Established Church,
who entertain such conscientious objections, to ex-
tend the blessings of Scriptural Education in Ire-
land." We beg attention particularly to the alter-
native, printed in Italics. We are happy too, to
see that Mr. Disraeli seconded the . motion
_ .

Now compare the two cases. In the first, the
Government defers to the most trivial memorial
of a few Dissenters, objecting to the mere locality,
in which an institution is erecting, to gratify a
mere whim, for which the public pays. In the
other they are asked to assist the Church in giving,
not sectarian, but scriptural education—education,
which no christian dissenter from the Establish-
ment can object to on any Other ground than a
wish to be enabled to educate in his own sectarian
principles. Yet what is the reply made to this very
reasonable demand ? A refusal, carried by a ma-
jority of 162 to 102 ; And that refusal is based
upon the injurious supposition that the advocates
of religious education in Ireland are nearly tired
out, and disposed to give in to the Irish national
system. If, under the present circumstances of
that country, we were told that they were nearly
starved out, we should not demur; but the asser-
tion, that one iota of the objection§ of the clergy
and laity of Ireland to the National System is
abated, is a calumny and an insult.

IT will be seen from our summary of the news
brought by the Europa mail steamer, that the ques-
tion, which has for some time occupied the attention
of parties interested in monetary science, as to the
probability of a large increase in our stock of bul-
lion from the mines of California, may be regarded
as determined. The Crescent City steamer has
arrived at New Orleans from Chagres, with 600,000
dollars' worth of gold dust; and she reports the
arrival of the California, at Panama, with a similar
quantity, making in round numbers a million dol-
lars altogether. In addition to this supply it is
stated that a large number of diggers are on their
way home, loaded with the pure dust, which will
he in active circulation throughout the States,
giving an immense stimulus to every branch of
industry and enterprise.
The writer of the monetary article in the New
York Herald, gives a carefully compiled statement
of the quantity arrived, or known to he shipped
from San Francisco, up to the latest dates. The
arrivals at and shipments to United States ports
are to the amount of 1,362,300 dollars ; and the
arrivals at and shipments to European and other
ports are 2,907,488 dollars ; making up an aggre-
gate amount of 4,269,788 dollars. In addition,
there has been a large quantity brought away pri-
vately in the trunks and bags of individuals return-
ing home from the mines, which he estimates to