The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

CLERGY RESERVES IN CANADA.—The first
question calculated to test the Conservative and
Church character of the Coalition Ministry is before
Parliament, and that by their own act. The result
is that our worst anticipations are fulfilled. All
regard for the religious principles which the
Government of Queen Victoria is bound to uphold,
and all regard for the principle of the sacredness of
property, without which no human society can long
continue to exist in peace and security, is cast to the
winds, as a peace-offering to unjust, unreasonable,
and irreligious clamour. Let the same rule by which
the ministerial measure proposes to deal with the
clergy reserves in Canada, be applied to the Church
at home, to our corporations, and to other descrip-
tions of property whose origin can be traced to
public grants, and there is an end at once to all our
institutions—an end to the settlement of property in
this country. The revolution commenced in Canada
may not be attended with bloodshed, but it is a
revolution nevertheless, and that a revolution
fraught with the most mischievous, the most
perilous consequences. Such is the Conservatism
of the cabinet of the Earl of Aberdeen ! such the
security which Mr. Gladstone's presence in the
cabinet affords to the church ! Mr. Gladstone pro-
bably consoles himself with the
qssurance given to
the House of Commons by Mr. Frederick Peel—
the Duke of Newcastle being seemingly ashamed or
afraid to introduce the bill, where it ought to have
been introduced in the first instance, in the Upper
House. " The Church of England," said the
smooth-tongued Under-Secretary, "he doubted
not, would win its way in the colony as it had done
in the United States, by the purity of its doctrine,
by the soundness of its teachings, and by the virtues
illustrated in thd actions of its clergy"—the clergy,
to wit, whom the bill proposes to strip of their legal
endowments. If the church's purity of doctrine,
the soundness of her teaching, the virtues of her
clergy, are sufficient reasons for stripping the Church
in the colonies, why should not the same argument
hold good likewise with regard to the Church at
home ?—John Bull.

THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.—The attention o
the country appears to be at last fairly aroused to
the state of its defences, and the Government, now
that the subject has become popular, no longer
thinks it necessary either to ignore it or impede
its progress. Indeed, from no quarter, except Mr.
Cobden and the Morning Herald, will there be the
slightest opposition to well-considered and really
efficient measures of defence. Men feel that the
honour of England, her power and her liberties, are
possessions far too precious to be exposed to the
chance of insult, perhaps even to actual danger.
They feel, too, that our security ought not to lie in
the forbearance of our neighbours, but in our own
inherent strength, and that our neighbours them-
selves are far more likely to keep the peace if they
know that we are in a condition to repel them, and
that the invasion of England can lead to nothing
but the disgrace and defeat of the power which in-
vades her. The famous wish of the Duke of Wel-
lington, that " he hoped the Almighty would pro-
tect him from being a witness of the tragedy which
he could not persuade his contemporaries to take
measures to avert," has received one melancholy
fulfilment in the death of that illustrious man
himself. But it seems likely to receive a more
worthy and happy consummation in the present
state of public feeling, which the publication of his
celebrated letter to Sir John Burgoyne not a little
contributed to bring about.—The Guardian.

THE LORD LIEUTENANCY OF IRELAND.—
There is an obstinate littleness in the siege laid to
the Viceroyalty of Ireland by the Whigs, which
savours of the spite of the Olympian persecutions
celebrated by Homer and by Virgil. The object
is certainly enormously disproportioned to the
indefatigable zeal and duplicity with which it is
pursued. The passion which Lord J. Russell
would seem to have conceived for the bauble, is as
hot and pertinacious as that with %-% hich the Princess,
in Andersen's tale, sighed for the Swineherd's
pipkin. Nothing will satisfy the noble lord but
Nahoth's little vineyard. He is melancholy, dys-
peptic, and good-for-nothing till he has gained his
little end. Can anything be more paltry or more
stupid ! A few solemn asses in London, a couple
of days ago, put their heads together, and made a
hideous trumpetting over the little court in Dublin
Castle. The Observer and the Morning Advertiser
put on the cast•off finery of the Times, and talked
of " tinsel," " mock-courts " and " ginger-bread
pageants," with a hauteur that was perfectly awful.
But when all these stereotyped impertinences, and
a great deal that is personally and wantonly affront-
ing to Lord St. Germans beside, are put by, a
marvellous short supply of argument remains in
favour of the robbery. If the government meditate
an attack upon this institution, we at all events
acquit Lord St. Germans of the duplicity of having
intentionally misled us. But no honest man will
acquit the cabinet of a gross violation of ministerial
faith, pledged by the solemn official response of
choir highcot Iri3h functionary. Tlic wcchkuva vf
the administration is our best hope, They are in
no condition to hazard an unnecessary battle : and
we venture to say, that if they do so upon this
issue, they will raise such a storm about their ears
as will swamp their crazy government some months
before its time.—Dublin Evening Herald.

THE JEW BILL.—The little Whig lord who
undertook to herald this measure into the house,
besides sundry private reasons of his own, as mem-
ber for the City of London, has, in common with
his brother Whigs, this notable reason, that consi-
dering religion an allotrion, an ad libitum affair,
which men keep as they do fancy pigeons, or any
other fancy thing, he cannot see the justice or the
propriety of objecting to a Jew as a legislator, sim-
ply because he has a fancy to revile Him whom
Christians worship. The Radical, who objects to
religion in the abstract, and considers all belief in,
or attachment to, religious doctrines and principles
a social nuisance, discerns in the Jew who aspires
to a seat in a Christian legislature, a brother-spirit,
—one who, like himself, does not care a pin for his
own or any other creed, and professes a religion on
the principle on which every man that wears a
waistcoat is forced to have it of some colour. He
welcomes the Jew on the same bench with himself,
because he feels that to have one scoffer more sit-
ting on it, will strengthen his cause. The Papist,
who, as the history of his Church abundantly wit-
nesses, abhors a Jew as much as a Jew abhors pork,
is nevertheless willing for once to conquer his aver-
sion for the unclean animal,
notand gladlytotolecraotme
its
approach, Not that he would
mit
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the Jew to the dungeons of the.d_flange,—uisibttiuon,thaort
roast him in the flames of an Auto
he thinks he can put him just now to a better use.
This Protestant kingdom, with its Proteetant
Church, the Papist knows full well, is strong in the
prOtection of Him whose name the Jew loads with
imprecations. To abet this nation in offering to
Him the affront of seating the Jew in the legisla-
ture of a kingdom whose sovereign rules in His
name, is, as again the Papist well knows, the surest
way to bring this kingdom to a fall, and to weaken,
if not to overthrow, its Church,--John Bull,

" You will see Gentlemen, by the budget which will be
presented to you, that our financial position has never been
better for the last 20 years, and that the public revenue
has increased beyond all anticipation. Nevertheless, the
effective force of the army, already reduced by 30,000 men
in the course of the last year, is about to be immediately
reduced by 20,000 more.

" The majority of the laws which will be presented to
you will not go beyond necessary exigencies, and that is
the most favourable indication of our situation. The
people are happy when Governments do not find it neces-
sary to resort to extraordinary measures.

" Let us, therefore, thank Providence for the visible
protection which it has accorded to our efforts ; let us
persevere in this course of firmness and moderation, which
re-assures without irritating, which leads to good without
violence ; and so prevents all reaction. Let us always
reckon on God and on ourselves,as on the mutual support
which we owe to ourselves ; and let us be proud to see in
so short a time this country pacified, prosperous at home,
and honoured abroad."

ITALY.—A grand ball was given at the French em-
bassy at Rome on the 7th. There were upwards of 1,400
persons present. The king of Bavaria honoured the fes-
tival with his presence, under the incognito of Count de
Werdenfels.

A recent census of Rome gives a population of 175,000,
divided into 54 parishes, and amongst them are 29 bishops,
1,280 priests, 2,092 monks and members of religious or-
ders, 1,698 nuns, and 537 ecclesiastical pupils. In 1848
the population was 179,000, but was reduced by the revo-
lution to 166,000 in the following year. The number of
bishops in residence at Rome was 49 in 1846, the highest
known ; in 1849 it was, as now, only 29. The number of
priests was never greater than in 1848, when it was 1541 :
nor lower than in 1849, when it was 1,157; that of monks
and members of religious orders was 2,589 in 1848, and
1,764 in 1849. The number of nuns was 1,592 in 1843,
and being now 1,698, presents an increase of 11 per cent.,
after deducting the losses from deaths. The number of
ecclesiastical pupils was 1,069 in 1844, and in 1849 it fell
to 492. The heretics of all shades—Turks, schismatics,
Protestants, and unbelievers—amount, exclusive of Jews,
to 412, and a very great number of them belong to the
foreign embassies. _

Leiters from Naples state that, in consequence of bles-
sings supposed to be derived from her intercession, the
coffin of the late Queen has been opened. hi order to
expose her remains to public veneration. To the surprise
of those present on the occasion, it was found that the
body was in a most perfect state of preservation; although
it was well known that rapid decomposition had taken
place immediately after her decease. The strongest ex-
pectations of further blessings are, it is stated, enter-
tained, in consequence of the miraculous restoration of
the body.

A letter from Florence of the 10th announces that some
rioting had taken place at Orvieto, in the Roman domi-
nions. No details are given, but it appears that an indi-
vidual was stabbed, that stones were thrown into the
windows of a church, that menaces were uttered against
the authorities and several inhabitants known to profess
Conservative opinions.

AUSTRIA.---ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE Ear-
PEROR.—A telegraphic message from Vienna announces
that an attempt had been made on the life of the Emperor
of Austria. He had been fired at while out riding, but the
effect of the shot was trifling, and the wound which the
Emperor received is not likely to be attended with danger.
The perpetrator of the crime was arrested on the spot.
The occurrence had given rise to considerable excitement
in Vienna. Another communication aays " Vienna, Satur-
day afternoon : The Emperor of Austria was, this day,
walking on the bastion, at one o'clock, when he was at-
tacked and slightly wounded on the head with a poignard,
by a Hungarian, named Lebeney. His Majesty returned
to the palace on foot, and could not, therefore, have been
dangerously wounded."-
Accounts have been received from Vienna, by tele-
graph, that in consequence of the evasive answer given
by the Divan to the application of Austria, through Count
Leiningen, orders had been given for the Austrian troops
to proceed towards the Turkish frontier, their progress
having been before stopped until an answer was received.

PRUSSIA.—The cholera has only made its appearance
in Breslau, but seems to increase in virulence. From the
18th of December till the Ist of February, 86 cases were
known, of which 55 proved fatal. On the 2nd of February,
there were nine new cases and eight deaths. 6,000 children
are mentioned in various reports as ill of scarlet fever
and measles.

Polish papers bring the intelligence that all the Poles in
the military service of the Porte had made known their
determination not to serve against the Montenegrins,
whom they look on as a race of like Slavonian origin with
themselves.

The well-known Japanese traveller, Von Siebold, was
lately at Berlin on his way to Warsaw, to have some inter-
views with Field Marshal Paskievitch, on the subject of
an expedition, which the Russian Government intends to
despatch to Japan.

A. method has lately been introduced of printing
books on linen prepared for the purpose. It is the inven-
tion of an apothecary named Sanger, and is found very
admirable in large schools for the poor. The appearance
of the book is by no means injured, and the price is the
same as if printed on paper.

TURKEY.—Letters from the Dalmatian coast state
that no new engagements had taken place, Omer Pacha
having promised a cessation of hostilities. for the purnosp
of giving the Montenegrins time to consider the offers
contained in his proclamation. An English war steamer
is cruising in the Adriatic, off the mouth of the Boiana
River, to watch the progress of the operations. A French
steamer, the Chaptal, stationed in the Pyrmus, was about
starting on the same errand. The Triest Zietung, of the
11th, states that a Russian government messenger had
taken an extra steamer to Montenegro on that day. The
Lloyd of Vienna announces, on the strength of intelli-
gence brought by commercial travellers from Dalmatia,
that Prince Danilo has declared himself ready to accept
the Turkish ultimatum. Letters from Vienna state that
satisfactory news has arrived of CountLeiningen'smission.
The Imperial Commissioner of the Porte in Bosnia has
published a firman, according to which the Christians are
to have the same rights as the Turks. Hurshid Pasha,
the new Governor of Bosnia, and Camil Pasha, the Im-
perial Commissioner, are said to be doing all in their
power to ameliorate the condition of the Rayahs.
The Trieste Gazette publishes intelligence from Con-
stantinople of the 29th ultimo. The arrival of the Greek
Patriarch from Jerusalem, it is said, had created a great
sensation. The Minister of Russia was discontented with
the latest arrangement with respect to the Sanctuaries,
and had invited the Greek Patriarch to carry the keys of
the Church of Bethlehem to Constantinople. The Patri-
arch had accordingly placed them in the hands of the
Minister. The French Government, disinclined to con-
cede any of the advantages it had gained, was disposed to
treat directly with Russia on the subject of the holy places.

REVOLUTION IN BUENOS AYRES.

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By the Royal 11fail steam-ship Severn, arrived at
Southampton, we have intelligence from Buenos Ayres to
the 2d of January, stating that a new revolution has
taken place, and civil war broke out. A private letter,
dated Buenos Ayres, January 2, says :—" December has
been a stirring month for our good city. On the Ist, a
revolution broke out, headed by the Minister of War.
As a dislike to the person of Governor Alsina was the
only motive assigned, he patriotically resigned, thinking
thereby to allay the tempest. This point conceded, new
demands were preferred, and it soon became evident that
the first object was to levy a heavy contribution on the
capital, and then seize the government, falling back on
the assistance of Urquiza, if necessary. To this last con-
dition very few in the city were willing to accede, and
accordingly we have another new government, and the
revolution still continues ; the town closely besieged by
the gauchos; all business at a dead standstill; beef, the
staff of life with a large proportion of the community, at
forty to fifty times its usual price ; and almost daily skir-
mishes in the neighbourhood of the city and in the lanes
of tine i outskirts. Every native a or ought to be a aol.