The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-01 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot understand what " Tiphp" means. We suspect be
is not destined to shine as a poet.
Felix 0' Fallagan's letter contains a good deal of humour, but it
is inadmissible.
The matter which M refers to is in a course of inquiry. The
real offender will be found in a shop not far from the entrance
to the Postoffice. We have an eye upon him.
The American popish journal called the Truth Teller, which
we have no doubt is edited by an Irish priest, contains more
falsehoods and absurdities than any rag of the kind that ever•
fell in our way.
Mr. Watt's Cabinet of Art, and T. K. Hervey's Book of Christ-
mas, have both been received, and will be duly noticed, as
they well deserve to be. on Tuesday if possible.

mit ILiberpooF *tanbarti.

FRIDAY monAvivc, JANUARY 1, 1806.

At the commencement of another year, which is like
the beginning of a new chapter in the history of human
life, it is usual for friends to interchange the compliments
of good wishes and the regards of sincere gratitude and
affection. We are too much attached to the social and
venerable customs of our beloved country to depart from
the rule; and we therefore wish all our readers the en-
joyments of a merry fireside and a happy new year.
May they be prosperous i house and field, at home and
abroad,t and may' be t I,* and enduring
as a christian's hopes „
It is 'Well that the dawn of a new ye.Z. should be a sea-
son of festivity, bringing with it the kind attentions of
kindred and friends, and cheering, with the prospect of
better days, subdued griefs, and diminished troubles to.
those on whom, in the season that is past, the hand of
affliction may have fallen heavy. It is perhapS but an
ideal relief, consecrated by the charm of old and early
recollections. But, provided it be a day or an hour of
relaxation, we have no right to murmur at the appa-
rently delusive cause. The year that is gone may be a
memorable one in the painful recollections of families.
The destroyer may have stalked into the hallowed cham-
ber of love and made it desolate. In the noble mansion
and in the lowly cottage there may still remain all the
marks of sorrow; but in reference to a recent sad catas-
trophe, and to every uther to which our race is subject,
the sufferers may console themselves in the words of Sir
WALTER SCOTT:--

"That length of frail and fire-scorched wall
Once screened the hospitable hall;
When yonder broken arch was whole
'Twas there was dealt the weekly dole ;
And where yon tottering columns nod
The chapel sent the hymn to God.—
So flits the world's uncertain span !"

Adieu then to EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE r
It was a year of folly in England, and of fearful crime in
Ireland. It was a year in which faction tried hard to,
plunge the nation into anarchy—endeavoured to strike
at the throne itself through the breasts of our nobles—
strove to confiscate the revenues of our protestant church
for the use of Irish papists and English infidels—but,.
GOD be thanked! tried, endeavoured, and strove IN
VAIN !

An ignorant, besotted, and unprincipleci majority in'
the House of Commons, reckless of all sense of religion
themselves, and urged by no impulses but those which
spring from base selfishness, had the temerity to assume
that the protestants of England cared as little about true
religion as do the HUMES, RUSsELLS, and WARBURTONS,
and the brigade of empty and shuffling creatures, mean,
waspish, and craven, who follow in their wake, and obey
their commands. These men know little of the spirit.
and the honest pride of Englishmen. Their daring and
revolutionary designs, which, the Irish demagogue had
not sufficient pap:knee to conceal, roused a feeling of in-
dignation which still rages in indomitable scorn, and
which it is impossible they can ever survive. They were
not satisfied with protestant spoliation—they were not
content with demoralizing the people, and making them
the instruments of sacrilege and crime—they went still
farther, and insolently demanded that the House of
Lords, the gallant, ancient, and noble peerage of Eng-
land, should be dragged through the kennels of London,
made the sport of every unwashed cobbler of Fetter-
lane, and sacrificed to the spleen and rapacity of some
thirty perjured papists, who have been too long tolerated,
and who have no right to misrepresent the people of Ire-
land in the British House of Commons, and, moreover,
who are not competent, as far as honour or honesty is
concerned, to sit in any deliberative assembly.
That they drew their bow to its bent, and shot their
arrow at random, is now clearly demonstrated by the al-
most unanimous voice of public opinion. That the de-
testable nature of their principles is properly appreciated
and duly execrated is also clear ; and that, as a party,
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE has poured out
its last vial upon them, and made them as powerless as
they are worthless, will not now admit of any dispute.
Dark then as were the days of the last spring and sum-

mer, we cannot be sufficiently grateful that the year
which is before us will in all probability compensate, by
its just punishment of anarchists, for the evils of the last.
In the approaching session of parliament, if the present
ministers dare to meet it, the. revulsion of public opinion,
bearing down all before it, will lay prostrate at one blow
the pretensions of the enemies of our King and country.
Thus, while we have every hupe of redeeming.the past,
we trust that DIVINE PROVIDENCE will not only enable
us to improve the future, but will also dissipate those por:
tentous clouds, streaked with blood, which have for some
time impended over our father land. There is at this

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tzncture a wholesome agitation in the religious world—
a revival of the old spirit of Protestantism—which is not
'confined to these realms, but which reaches from the far
east to the far west, and embraces the United States of
America, which will most assuredly smite the per-
jured impostor of the Church of Rome, scatter his bi-
shops, his monks, his nuns, and his nieces, and. all their
trumpery, and all their imposition, and all their iniquity,
to the four winds of heaven, and restore to all protestant
cornmunities that peace which has been allowed to be
disturbed by shallow philosophers preaching liberality,
by pretenders without principle seeking place, and by
mendacious papists covering their fraudulent, ambitious,
and sanguinary desigris with a veil of spurious benevo-
lence and false liberality.
So go thy ways, old year, down the hill to at least tem-
porary oblivion. We have no desire to record thy follies
• or thy crimes. We put our faith in the new year, in the
• rhymes of the Faerie Queene, and repose confidence in
.the true-born of our native country:—

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"Now strike your sailes, yee jolly mariners,
For we be come unto a quiet rode.
Here she awhile may make hersafe abode,
Till sbe repaired have her tackles spent
And wants supplide; and then againe abroad
On the long roiage whereto she is bent,
Well may she speeds, and fairly finish her intent!"
At the termination of the third year of our labours we
have to tender our most grateful acknowledgments for
the continued, increasing, and unprecedented support we
have received from our friends and from all classes in the
community. . The rise of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, in
point of circulation, and the number of its advertisements,
is quite unexampled in England, and, what is still more
congratulatory, its circulation is daily and gradually in-
creasing,. We have paid upon our advertisements alone,
in the present year, at the lovv,duty of Is. 6d. each, nearly
ONE THoUS AND i.ouNDStOrtlitryovernment, and the gross
value within the year, after making every allowance, ex-.
ceeds Six. TriouS2iND POUNDS ! The circulation has
steadily increased since the commencernera, and the six
months ended yesterday-exhibit an increase, when com-
pared with the previoris.s.ix months, of nearly four thou:
sand. Upon the whale, taking our weekly circulation
as one-account, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has the second:
if not the largest circulation, of any newspaper in Liver-
pool.

This we have reason to use as an argument in favour
of the prevalence of the loyal and conservative principles
which we have ever been proud to support to the utmost
extent of our very humble abilities. The flag we hoist-
ed at the beginning of our career we carry still, and we
have no reason .to regret our consistency. It would be
well for many of our contemporaries if they could say
half as much. As we have acted and thought hitherto,
so shall we continue to act and think, through good re-
port and through bad report, neither turning to the right
band nor to the left,°.nOt cringing for favours to any man,
regardless of political or party hostility, in indomitable
scorn of all the machinations of faction, and maintaining
an incorrupt and incorruptible independence. We most
cordially thank our friends for their past support, and
shall endeavour to deserve it forthe future by a steady
perseverance in the straightforward and, we trust, ho-
nourable course we have marked out for ourselves. That
course is the cause. of THE KING, CHURCH, AND STATE,
THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ANCIENT AND BLESSED INSTITU-
TIONS, AND THE WELFARE AND HAPPINESS OF THE BRI-
TISH PEOPLE!

In our pecond edition of Tuesday we were enabled, by
the quick passage and- unexpected arr;val of the New
York packet ship Independence, to publish that portion,
and the most interesting portion, of Mr. President JACK-

soN's speech, which has reference to the pending ques.
tion of hostilities between France and the North Ameri.

can republic. We reprint the extract in the present
number, and we earnestly call attention to the style, the
facts, the reasoning, and the declared determination of
the president on this most important subject.
We regret that our limits will not permit the insertion
of the whole message. Even if we were disposed to
wake room for it. 'We question whether our readers would

t.11.1.:1,1. us. farihe Luge tilat4 Tlire,e4guithg_gt pos:-
sess no interest out of America, except in an historical
point of view, the value of which could not be apprect-

ated by the public generally.
Circumscribed in this %I-ay, and for these reasons,
there devolves upon us the task of canvassing at some
length the whole spirit and tendency of the message, in

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the briefest terms Passible.
We shall begin with its omissions—studied of course.
Russia, with whom
the United States have been in
sedulous correspondence for many years, and 'for long
desired objects, Which
never will be consented to or
rccognise4 by the other powers of Europe—Russia, is
hardly mentioned in the message, and that only in re-
ference. to the northern fur country, in the vicinity of
Behriog's Straits, Which the Americans desire to poach
upon as freely as they
will be permitted. This allusion
to Russia in a message of six mortal columns, in small
and almost unreadable print, most shockingly and dis-
gracefully composed, does not exceed four lines !

The second
omission relates to LYNCH law—to rob-
bing, insulting, tarring and feathering, incarcerating,
starving, maiming, hanging and murdering in cold
blood, without trial by judge or jury, certain citizens of,
and strangers, resident in the United States, to an extent
which must have made the blood .of every civilized
human being rcin Chill. We cannot understand Mr.
President JiasoN's message, in reference to these
outrages and crimes--national crimes, to speak truth—
t!pon any principle of 113 • justice, expediency or necessity.
Tim latter is uniformly the dernier. plea;' but the Presi-
-de-nt does not Condescend to resort to it. Murder has
heed committed in•several if not all 'of the states incor-,
porated -with the union. Innocent men have been
hanged and otherwise put to death by lawless mobs.
Ciiiiens 'have been assailed in their dwellings, ga:lows
have been placed before their doors, 'assassination has
been menaced, bribes have been offered publicly in the
newspapers for the heads of unoffending persons, the
laws have been trampled upon, humanity has been out-
raged, travellers have been hung upon trees, prisons
have been attacked, and their inmates shot or put to
death by strangulation or the bayonet—and yet not one
word in reference to such disgraceful enormities is to be
found in the prdsy message of General JACKSON, the
chief magistrate of a free country !!! I!
We 'canna "help saying that this open disregard of
law and justice by the President of the United States, is
revolting in a degree that no words can :anciently ex-
press. Is' there no court of appeal in this boasted and
deSpotic—we had almost said despicable-sepublic,
where the wrongs of the injured can be redressed ?
wheie the acts of the assassin can be punished ?—where
the cruelty and ferocious injustice of a fanatical mob of
` ignorant barbarlant can be legally investigated, and
condignly punished?
General JAcitsoN, by his unpardonable silence, admits
the negative. The President of the first republic in
the world, which the community of blockheads in Europe
call a " land of liberty," confesses, by his silence in his
'flessage to congress, the truth of the horrid maxim which
has already appeared in these pages, namely, that," law
is public opinion, and public opinion law." The Presi-
dent confesses by his silence, either that lie has no power,
by law, to punish crime, or that for popular, which are the
most detestable of all reasons, he does not choose to punish
crime! The General must either abide by the one or
other of these unpleasant alternatives. He may possibly
damage his popularity by being just, but he cannot up,
hold or immortalize his sense of justice by crouching to a
popularity so base, so cowardly, so inglorious, and so in-
famous.

Such are the omissions in the President's message.
'We say nothing relative to those concerning Russia.
General JAcxioN knows the deep, the perfidious, and
the ambitious but destructive game' to republicanism,.
which he his for the last six years been playing with that
power. The citizens of America know nothing about it.
They will know all before long.
We now-cometo` the leading features of the speech
',id,'" invite most attention at the present moment.
relate to matters in dispute between France
e Uni!ed Sal :s--to the claims niadiil4 tiie lager;