The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-19 00:00:00

CONTEMPOP Al? PRESS.

THE INSTIGATORS 01,' THE CANADIAN
REBELLION.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Many persons hare, since the receipt of the last ad
. vices from Canada, been asking each other this goes-
. lion :—" If the leaders of the traitorous rebellion in
• Canada are to suffer the penalty of their crime, is it fit
'zing, or consistent with equal justice, that the persons at
home who have been secretly prompting and counselling
those. rebels should escape without judicial notice or in-
quiry?" If the advices we allude to are to be credited,
the traitorous designs of some at least of our home agi-
'tators have not been confined, to speeches,made in and
out of
,parliament, but consist also of written recommen-
dations to the very revolt which has since broken out. If
this be true, and that the letters of one or more of such
"persons have been found ticketed, and arranged in the
olECial cabinet of the traitor Papineau, surely it. behoves
the gove,rnment to look at home as well as abroad ; and
not to let the instigators of treason walk about un-
scathed, while the traitors pay the forfeit of their crimes.
'his not impossible, or at all. improbable, but that the
treason being nipped in the bud and defeated, as we
have now some reason to hope is the case, the instiza-
, tors at home will abandon their dupes, and, in the lan-
guage of Sempronius, in Cato, exclaim— -

Villains, stand off! base grovelling worthless wretches,
Mongrels in faction, poor faint-hearted traitors!
Know—when such paltry slaves presume
To mix in treason, if the plot succeeds,
They're thrown neglected by; but if it fails,
They're sure to die like dogs."
But this stoicism, though it may very well suit the
cold-blooded heartlessness of the modern radiCal, will
"meet with no sympathy with a British or any other
Christian community. Roweyer the 'recent out-burst
in Canada may end, there can be no doubt but that its
, ramifications, both there and at home, must be sought
out and fully investigated; and though we, in common
• with the enlightened part of the community, have no
wish to see traitor's heads on TeMple-bar,
,we do wish
--that if treason, or traitorous designs, can be- brought
:home. to any persons here, they will not be ailmvei to
- escape-from justice, but that the instigator of -rebellion;
instead of being allowed to disseminate mischief- in
safety, will find himself placed upon the same level with
the traitors themselves.

LORD DURHAM.
(From the Times )
The Gazette of last night (as well as the debate in the
House of CoMMons) announces the appoint menCof Lord
;Durham
as GVernor-General, Vice-Admiral, and Cap-
.
tain-General, &c., of her Nl•ijesty's provinces contigu •
nus 'to the continent of North America. We will' not
quarrel with the multiplicity of the titles with which that
noble 'person is loaded : would they may turn to good!
We haV'e no disrespect, for Lyrd Durham : he is an ho
nourable and right• Minded British nobleman. We are
surprised that he has undertaken this difficult mission—
not that his lordship should shudder at the difficUltv, but
that he should not consider what class of men he 'has to
please at home. Lord Durham and Joseph Hume, for
example, can have no more sentiments in common than.
an angel and a Hottentot; and yet, if his lordship gives.
satisfaction, he must please Joseph Hume and Mr. Grote,
catm multis allis of that description, as well as Lords
MelbOurne and Johnny Russell, who are dependent upon
Joseph and Grote for their existence as ministers. We
sincerely wish Lord Durham success in his mission : we
certainly do not venture to predict it.

EXTINCTION OF MiIES-PERPETUITY OF

THE ALIAS.
(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
When Mr. O'Connell talks popularly (as he did yes-
terday at the Corn Exchange) about the total- abolition
'and extinction of tithes, it is right that his audatory
should be furnished with a glOssary of his political lan-
guage, by reference to which they may discover the pre-
cise value of the terms which he employs ; for the popu-
lar or exoteric dialect has little or no coincidence With
the esoteric and recondite meaning of his phraseology.
With a view, therefore, of simplifying the meaning of
this profound mystifier, we must turn from his oral to
his written traditions, and endeavour to elicit from the
latter the real amount and import of the former. In
the speech now i..,fore us, Mr. O'Connell insists 'upon
the total abolition and extinction of tithes for ever. Tn
his late letter to the clergy of the Established Church lie
demands the commutation of iiiives into a land tax. We
have now a clue, by means of this comparative induction
of terms—to the true meaning of his popular vocabu-
lary—that abolition means commutation—arid extinct?
perpetuity—that the words tithe and land tax are but
different names for the precise same -fund ; and that a
little hocus pocus—such as substituting the latter for the
former—will fully answer the purpose he has in hand—
namely,to perpetuate the fund itself under such a name
that the payers thereof may conceive it totally extin-
guished.
For this purpose he calls upon the " people" of Ire-
land to petition parliament for a measure which it has
already becotne obvious that it must pass, with the con-
sent of all parties—namely, the commuting of tithes into
a land tax, or rent charge, or some alias equally conve-
nient anti satisfactory. But he has not added, by way
of explanation, that the very moment when tithes
.be-
Come extinguished, the identical same amount—penny ,
rwpenny—pound for pound—cent. per cent.—will be•
come actually and bona fide due, under the more pleasing
but equally immitigable name of rent charge, land-tax,
or some of the other euphonious callers that we have
already left to the lively imagination of the public. It
will so happen that when the occupier dream., " good
easy man," that he has completely got rid of his shilling
an acre, or his one-and-sixpence, due by contract to the
clerical incumbent of his parish, and, hugging himself
on his escape from the discharge of his honest obliga-
tions, he blesses the name of O'Connell for the success-
ful roguery—that a collector shall break through his vi-
sion of increasing wealth, and dispel his precipitate gra-
titude, by demanding the identical one shilling, or one
and-sixpence per acre, as the case may be; which (as he
will be informed) is to he paid to the use and hehoof of
the said clerical incumbent—notwithstanding the aboli-
tion of tithes! Nay, the awakened farmer will say to
himself—yea, he will grumble it nut to the collector—
that he had better and would rather have staid as lie was.;
forthat under the commutation of tithes effected by
-Lord Stanley he got an abatement at the rate of £l5
out of every hundred pounds of tithe due in the parish ;
but that under the total abolition' and extinction of tithes
effected by O'Connell, he has his hundred oounds (or his
share of it) to pay in full—penny fur penny—pound for
pound--cent. per cent —and besides found it easier to
deal with two landlords—to wit, the parson and the
squire—than to deal with one—to wit, an ecclesiastical
board, or a government commission—and then, if he do
pot pitch Mr. O'Connell and his double dealing traffic in
unintelligible words, as far as David Garrick advised his
friend to pitch the guinea—(we use this circumlocution
.for the sake of " ears polite")—we are utterly mistaken
as to the acuteness and irritability of the Irish imagina-
tion and the popular Charatter.
- The fact is, the tribute is a failure. Nothing more is
to he gotten from those of the lower order. That class
begin to find out that emancipation has done nothing to-
wards the improvement of their condition ; and that agi-
tation, with its concomitants, is rather an expensive
amusement. Hence Mr. O'Connell appeals to the sym-
pathy of the wealthy classes : hence his courting, the pa- 1
tronage of the employers by denouncing the tradesmen
employed ; and hence his subdolous intrigues to win the
confidence of the estahlished clergy and their communi-
cants, by realizing for ever the sources of their revenue,
whilst lie deceives the ignorant and credulous multitude
with the fallacious prospect of its utter ettinctiont-----
7were a lucky hit for him, if', failing of the rent, he
c0”14 fall back upon the tithe, and extract from the
Wealthy the tribute which the poor have ceased to ren-
der. • H. •is evidently looking to receive rent from a
higher order.
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