The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

CONTEMPOR I? PRESS.

TACTICS OF THE CONSERVATIVE LEADERS.
(from the Times.)
It is not the first time by many that we have concurred
with other friends of constitutional conservatism in
doubting whether the Duke of Wellington and Sir Ro-
bert Peel did not carry to an excess, ill justified by the
nature of the enemy they had to deal with, the spirit of
frankness, forbearance, and reconciliation. The illus-
trious duke has on more than one occasion flung over the
ministers his cloak of asbestos, which no spark of public
indignation could scorch or penetrate. On the Canada
question his grace protected them from ruin, by express-
ing himself in terms of unfortunate ambiguity, which
some time afterwards he cleared up in a manner imply-
ing full as much of actual blame to the government as
would have been affixed to them by the whole world had
he originally held his tongue. Sir Robert Peel, though
imbued with a tendency to conciliation quite
.equal . to
that of the illustrious duke, has not hitherto indulged his
disposition with such want of wariness or such bad for-
tune as would enable the tricky ministers to found upon
his statements any plausible system of misrepresenta-
tion. Ind the right hon. baronet must perceive what
encouragelnent is. afforded him by the Queen's go
vernment and their creatures to exhibit any other than a
stern.and uncompromising character in his political corn-
:uunkaations 'with them, even when in the discharge of
Iris public duty, and in the official expression of his sen-
timents or intentions across the floor of the House of
commons. So ill qualified are those whom tie addresses
to appreciate the proceedings of an upright and straight-
forward man, that the return which they made to the
lea.ler of the conservatives for his pacific overtures of
Wednesday last, with regard to the settlement of the
three great Trish questions, was nothing better, in Thurs-
day's Downing- street prints, than a series of captious and
offensive insinuations against the candour of Sir R. Peel
and the good faith of his proposals to the government.
The meaning and purpose of Sir R. Peel's intimation
as to the course he would pursue on these questions were
simply to assure ministers, that whatever measures he
might feel it incumbent on him to recommend in corn-
mittee on the corporation bill, or afterwards on the tithe
bill, would be in strict subservience to a conscientious
.desire for the settlement—the final settlement—of the
diiputed Irish-questions.
The game played by ministers seems to be that of pro-
'yoking the conservatives into some intemperate or extra-
-vagant propositions, which may be sent forth and de-
-scribed to the country as so many, perverse obstacles
thrown in the way of an adjustment, on which the mi-
nistry may found some pretexts for further procrastina-
•tion. A-fair and wise remedy for the inconveniences
now complained of, and cure for the wants really felt
throughout Ireland—namely, that of a tithe commute-
tion, and of a relief bill for the poor—are far, we be-
lieve, from the thoughts or desires of the ministry. That
those defects in the political state of Ireland should long
.remain unprovided for, but still 'fostered as subjects for
factious agitation, and for fictitious murmurings against
the supposed repugnance of the conservatives to every
species of reform, suits exactly the views, and principles,
and enslaved position of the Whigs in office. It is na-
•tural, therefore, that any assurance conveyed to parlia-
ment of Sir Robert Peel's anxiety to close the above
sources of disturbance should be wormwood to the Mel-
bourne ministers, and should draw down upon the right
hon. baronet whole vollies of spiteful abuse.
Likewise, respecting the corporation bill, which we
-have never numbered among the real wants of the peo-
pie 'of Ireland, who care not a straw about the matter;
:Sir Robert Peel showed on Tuesday a sincere willing-
ness to go as far as the safety of the Protestant church
and state would admit in effecting some satisfaCtory com-
promise upon that absurd and dangerous, though much
clamoured for, innovation.- His reward here, also, has
been the grossest insolence from the yelping curs of
Downing-street.
Now, we trust that Sir Robert Peel will not be " shaken
from his propriety" by such menaces. It is our earnest
hope.that the right honourable baronet will turn the ta-
bles on the Whigs, and in the exposition of his Irish po-
licy lay before the country such a case, that, if the mi-
nisters refuse to adopt his proposals, the people of the
limited kingdom will cry out against their factious and.
sinister obstinacy ; while if, for shame or fear, the go-
vernment dare not resist the justice of the conservative
amendments, the sting will be drawn from this noxious
cabinet—the peace of the country, for a time at least, be
secured—and that which has constituted the sole princi-
ple of cohesion between the Whigs, the radicals, and Pa-
pists be dissolved at once and for ever.
But while it is to be expected that Sir R. Peel would
not shrink from any honest and wholesome concession,
Calculated for the fair adjustment of long-subsisting Oar •
rely—it is above all things the right, and must be the
care, of Englishmen, to demand that he makes no parti-
cle nor shadow of approximation to the proposed measures
of the Queen's Ministers, by which any risk oreven
'transient wrong can be entailed upon the sacred institti-
ticns of the monarchy. It may be expedient to give up
something, for the sake of lasting peace; but it is of pa-
Taniount duty to retain all that can be regarded as es-
- sential to our permanent happiness and safety.

THE LATE SPANISH DEGION.
(From the Newly Telegraph.
The unfortunate men who were entrapped info join-
ing -the buccaneering expedition under Sir G. D. L.
Evans, and have escaped being butchered in Spain, can
testify that the tender mercies of liberalism are cruel.
The present liberal ministers held out every inducement
in their pOwer to the people of the united kingdom to
encourage them to join Evens ; and how have they now
treated those who were silly enough to be seduced from
their homes ? They have rewarded Evans with British
honours for running away when tiredpf being defeated,
'but what have they done for the unfortunates whom he
desteited ?

Mier eentending with the troops of Carlos, and a still
''"rl)47,-eit'ul enemy, Want, and shedding their blood
r 2 the service of the Queen of Spain, hundreds of our