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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-12 00:00:00

victory—the lowliest, but amongst the most zealounWeinalli
I offer myself to you again to lead you to success more certain
and complete.
England must do us justice, or we will do justice to our-
selves.

His mode of effecting his purpose is this. He proposes
the immediate formation of a society, to be called " Tke
General Association of Ireland," and promises alf Na-
tional" Association hereafter, should it become neces-
sary. The admission to this General Association "is to
be regulated precisely as in the Catholic Association."
We again quote the agitator's own words :
" But the chief staff and support of the new association will
be the institution of an annual rent, upon the secure basis wilt'
the late catholic rent, and to be called The Rent for Ireland.'
The victims of illegal tithe exactions demand assistance, and
the resistance to oppression will require, in one thousand ways,
pecuniary aid. 'The Rent for Ireland' will, I trust, soon rival
the catholic rent in utility and efficacy to procure success.
" Let every man who pays one pound be a member of the
association, with power to speak and vote—let every man who
contributes on., shilling be an associate,' and be enrolled on
our hooks, and entitled to all the protection we can give him.
" I propose to be in Dublin as soon as I can, to assist in the
organisation and arrangement of the general association of Ire-
land. I intend also, on Wednesday, to direct a letter to its
secretary, with my contribution to the Rent for Ireland' of
the year 1&36.
" We are involved in a crisis of great and most portentous
magnitude. Firmness, patience, tranquillity, perseverance,
energy—these are the qualities new necessary. Above all, un-
remitting perseverance.
" I never despaired of Ireland. My mind is now full of great
hope and high resolve."
Now what have we here ? Nothing less than a revi-
val of the treasonable Catholic Association, with its apr-.
pendage, the rent ; for this mountebank takes good care
to line his pockets in all his trumpery schemes of mis-
chief, whether public or private.
We await the conduct of the government with some
anxiety ; yet, we confess, we expect nothing like "jus-
tice to England, or to the Irish protestants; nor *would
it surprise us to see the vice-regal castle itself macie the
head-quarters of this new outrage upon the laws and
constitution of the realm ; in all probability Lord INR/1:-
GRAVE'S will be the first name on the subscription
list.

In obedience to the demands of traitors, the loyal
Orange societies have been put down by the interposi-
tion of the House of Commons; and here is a revival of
the body which rendered those societies necessary for the
preservation of the public peace and the integrity of the
empire—revived, too, for the promotion of the purposes
of the King's ministers ! !
It is easy to foresee what will happen. The Orange
societies will be revived likewise, though, perhaps, under
a new designation, and will become general in England
as well as in Ireland. The public safety absolutely re-
quires this course. We unhesitatingly recommend it.
The enemy must be fought with his own weapons, and
beaten upon his own ground. This open union of the
ministers and the agitator calls for prompt energy, and
the true protestants of the empire should not be back-
ward. If they are, indeed, they must fall, and would de-
servedly fall. In the words of the disturber, then, we
say—" Let us be up and doing. We are degraded be-
low the level of human beings as long as the foul stain
of this daring insult remains upon us." Its MUST be
wiped off. Not only must the agitator be circumvented,
but we must also put down that infamous ministry which
seeks to retain the power of doing wrong by means So
flagitious. Thanks to the insolence of this O'CoNNELL,
the eyes of the people of England are opening; the
slumbering spirit of Englishmen awakens. An earnest
of it hast just been furnished in South Warwickshire-
The degraded ministry cannot possibly retain its position
under the gust of indignation that will burst forth; and
the next general election—much nearer at haild thaa
most persons suppose—will seal its fate for ever.

The dissenters are in a nice pickle about their odious
marriage bill, which has been sent up to the lords with
the declaration in the 18th clause, against which such a
howl was set up by BAINES, WILKS, and Co., and which
Lord JOHN RUSSELL professed to withdraw. The pas'
sage to which we allude is a declaration from parties who
have conscientious objections to be married in church or
chapel to that effect.
By whom the blunder was committed does not appear.
Whether it is a trick of Lord JOHN'S, or whether the
clerks of the house have stumbled in their task, remains
to be seen.

The remedy, however, is not very obvious. Mn
WiLics wishes to have the bill brought back. There i 5
no precedent for that ; but were it brought back, and
were the declaration expunged, it is likely that the peell,
will deem it a very proper declaration, and restore it.
We are quite sure that " justice" to the established
church demands such a procedure.
But we hold it impossible that the lords, can give their
sanction to the bill on other accounts. One of the clauses
enacts, that after the Ist day of May, 1837, there shall
be no more publications of banns either in church er
chapel.
The dissenters clamoured at first for " relief' of their
own tender " consciences ;" but in the progress of events
they have risen in their demands till at last they have
obtained not only relief for their own super-eminenff
tender consciences, but have contrived to pull down tile
Church of England to their own low level.
Wirats says that the accident which we have described
has thrown the whole " dissenting community" into in,
describable alarm. We are glad of it, though, to speak
withoutdisguise, we do not believe him. He also informs
the world that the " dissenting body" would rather have
no bill at all than one with such a clause as the 18th in
We are disposed to credit this. We verily believe that
the "dissenting body" would much rather have a platliv
ble standing grievance to work upon than have ev ae°
real grievance redressed. As to their tender consciences
5
,--that is a figure of speech, nothing more. The lest
they say about them the better; for these strainers s
gnats have of late shown a marve ous capability of swal-
lowing camels.

The O'Connelization system is rogressing in Liver
pool with most admired velocity , Our hopeful Tool
Council is not merely a "normal school" of agitation-'lO
is as pretty a specimen of revolutionary inception as tilt
great dictator could himself desire to get up in any Par

" The first flower of the earth,
The first gim of the say."
We adverted on Friday to the decision of these sage
councillors, which confirms the resolution of the Educhste
tion Committee as to the exclusion of the Bible from
corporation schools, and the subject is of sufficient illy
portance to induce us to return to it again and again.
Of the motives of the Education Committee we saY 11,°;
thing; those motives, we apprehend, axe apparent to tOe
dullest understanding. A baneful Socinian infinelact
prevails throughout the local range of authority
influence-makes war upon the very foundation of christ;
anity, namely, the Atonement, and, in 'excluding
Bible from the schools, it is steadily pursuing its '3"3„1,1,
object; it does its work, too, with characteristic fra",a
for while it puts on the mask of liberality, it is bent
exclusion of the worst kind. on
A gross fallacy pervaded the debate on Wednesfial
the Socinian and pro-popery side. The question °or
argued as one of degree. The Irish selections and c
coctions were decked out and paraded as " an introcitiedo
tion to the reading of the sacred scriptures." 1-
not now allude to the " filthy" ferocities of Mr. Lie—
el.
for RATHBONE ; that man and his speech smell of fire .
lovl
faggot; he and his furious abuse of his betters aro.-e
igr)
contempt, and may be safely left to that public in rl sio
tion which he seldom fails to create when he induig-eiof "
his pestiferous oratory. We refer to the spene-1 coo-
BLACKBURN—that speech which called forth the
hich
pliments" of Mr. Councillor HEYWORTH, with sv „ and
Councillor HENRY LAWRENCE was " much strtlel',
which excited the " unbounded admiration" of the N°ri
hirng
Mayor. Here it is that danger lurks; not in the g os-
cCe
and disgusting outpouring:; of a man whose fie or t
dicuul
sions so completely obscure his little no
reason. that lye
Mr. BLACKBURN tells us in the most oily tering
tattoo
considers the Irish system worthy of all acceP
that these selections (having previously shown that