The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

sion.
But to pass from the King of the French w
day'
President of the Republicans,
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posed to be captious, find several points to except it
in this manifesto ; but, taking it as a whole, we 1.1e.,_.
to be a production which is rather creditable to Pi))
John Tyler. Peace, peace, is a great blessing,
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worth having at a great sacrifice ;
we might, were
nothing upon our shoulders, which amounts to a _
the expression
Sa-
crifice at all, for this object. We . like
of humble acknowledgment to the Supreme nein..g,'
vidence, with
which and of national dependence upon his pro
which he opens his message. He says well'7" If
tn.
find ourselves increasing, beyond examPle, in
hers, in strength, in wealth, in 11(Indottvill in "Try
thing which promotes human and social haPPiness'the
us ever remember our dependence, for all these' on the
protection and merciful dispensations of Divine
vidence."
He speaks as the organ of the government, or rather
e
of the constitution, and these terms are of importan imp
as connecting the country with the light of divine rep '°-
lation, and an ascription of praise to the God Is"'a
Christians worship.
On the subject of the abominable slave traffic, the
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language which he uses is abundantly strong, and nvdee
and over again are the ears of the slave-holders taa
to tingle—(if they have any feeling)—with his dennfloi
ciations. This, also, is extremely well on the part
~
Mr. Tyler, and we might add to it several other itell"
entitled to be included under our laudatory lytice
but we do not mean to travel over a subject to wile
the attention of our readers has been already, and PI:
haps sufficiently, directed. The doctrine which be 3 t
vances upon international law in such a case as that
which gave rise to the seizure of the Caroline, on our
part, whilst she lay within the American territory, I.s
manifestly unsound; but of what importance to us is
it that Mr. John Tyler, or the whole Republic, thinks
so and so upon the point ? We shall make than 1/:),
atonement for what we have done; nor will they 41°'
upon it ; and, therefore, whatever their inoperative
theory of international justice may be, they are wel-
come to the enjoyment of it ;it can give us no icon-
cern. Should a new case arise hereafter, we shall
know how to deal with it, and it will then be time
enough to discuss the question at length. t
presiden
With reference to the right of search, the
talks in quite a lofty strain; but if he be really 8,0
great an enemy to the abominable slave traffic as his
words in another place would lead us to sup Pose, I
cannot understand why America should not svillingirf
join the European compact of mutual searchright ?
her government be honest and sincere, as we fea'ti )1
think it is, why does not the Republic immediately ac-
cede to the holy alliance of Europe ? There is cer-
tainly something mysterious on this head; but the
that
the _Am obvious ground of suspicion is, _ericans a°
trade largely in slaves, and that the slaveholders are 3
party too powerful for the government to overcome'
however well it may be disposed to put an effectual
atop to their nefarious proceedings. On the wiwie'
the two important addresses adverted to augur we:eltfor
the permanence of peace, and, in this point 0f v`,
are extremely satisfactory.

We called the attention of our readers on Tnesd"Y
to a splendid sophism put forward by one of
libe-
ral contemporaries on the subject of the schools; '
to show our willingness to keep up the controversy'
even while we know to a certainty that the award will
be on our side, we would now pay our respects, short-
ly, to a "point of law" happily discovered by
.lano-
ther, and calculated, according to the inventor's alit i
metic at least, to influence the waverers, if any such
there still be in the Council. The statement of this
valuable " point " we shall give in the words of the
journal which suggests it :
" By the ninety-second section of the Municipal Act, the
surplus fund can only be applied for the public benefit Of tl's.
our d
inhabitants and improvement of the borough. Under the PThe
ent system the corporation schools are open to all classes of.
inhabitants, and consequently, the appropriation of a Port of
of the surplus fund is in strict conformity with the act
parliament; but if another system, excluding any conslueA
able portion of the inhabitants from the schools be introducer.:
an application to the Court of Queen's Bench to ascertal!`
how far the maintenance of such a system is in accordal
with the ninety-second section, will be both reosoaable and
proper, and we hope that it will be made."
It is evident that the propounder of this important
suggestion designed to hang it up in terrorent, and t 0
arrest the movement about to be carried into execution
by an anticipation of certain legal consequences t°
which it might give rise. But such a suggestion, e°
far from operating as a drag upon the movement'
ought, in our humble opinion, to accelerate it very
much. Gentlemen who have hitherto assisted it with
some degree of hesitation, under the supposition that
once their judgment was pronounced there was no aPti
peal against it, may now dismiss their doubts an
fears ; they have laboured under a mistake ; their sen-
tence is not final; there is a higher court to which an
application may be made ; and if they should have
committed any error, no permanent harm W.lll be
done: the Court of Queen's Bench will set all to
rights. If there be any substantiality then in this ob-
jection, we claim the benefit of it for the Conservative
side, and beg of our Conservative friends in the Conn'
cil to bear in mind, that if they commit an injustice'''.
wrong of any sort against the community, it is not 3
wrong without a remedy, and the Liberals maY, if
they please, and as they allege they have the power'
move upon it in her Majesty's superior court of COnr
mon law.

For our part, so soon as the old Christian system is
restored to the schools, (which will now shortly be the
case,) we do most earnestly hope that such a motion
as that advised may.really be made. It would be a sg"
tisfaction to have such a question mooted by gentlemen
learned in the law, pondered upon by the gravity and svisd
dom which adorns the judicial bench, and sent back con"
firmed to us one way or the other upon strictly legal
grounds. Such a confirmation as we should Conn'
dently look for, would be a great boon conferred 'VII
the public at large in these liberal times, in which
happens that what is strictly clever and ecclesiastical
no longer bears the mark of intolerance, but struggles
for bare toleration itself.

The whole question would be fairly open to bench
and bar, and would be, simply, whether the establish'
ment of the schools upon the new footing was or wag
•
not in accordance with the ninety-second section of
the Municipal Act ? The argument of the MereurY
on the negative side is as follows :
" It is undeniable, says the Editor, " that the existirjg
schools were built out of the public funds of the corporation-
They are consequently part and parcel of that property which,
accordinc, to the Municipal Act, is to be appropriated for the
mutual benefit of all the inhabitants, so long as the corporation
possesses a surplus revenue. Should the corporation be
necessitated to levy a borough rate, then the schools,—their
maintenance not being an obligatory charge on the corporate
funds,--must be given up ; but whilst there is a surplus with-
the advantages out a ra
arising the public
fr ge
om the sum expended
have a right
for educa
participtions
ate in
purposes ; and any
system which shall practically exclude anY
portion of the public, much more the children of a class
numbering at least a fourth, and probably a third of the
population, will be in direct opposition both to the letter and
spirit of the act of parliament."

It will be perceived that the full amount of this ar-
eof tslyiesteni of education not being
Church of Rome and the
sguuimteednttoist,htehdatogtlinleansw
dictatorial authority of Romish priests, is, therefore,
not conducive to the benefit of the inhabitants of Li-.

verpool at large, nor in harmony with the spirit of the
ninety-second section of the Municipal Act. Now if
this argument be possessed of any force, it would+
seem that the Church of Rome must be the arbitress:

of the whole question, and public utility will depen
altogether on what she may be pleased to decide con-
cerning it. it is not what equity or truth should de-

for her productions ; but it does not seem to have oc•
curred to Louis Philippe, or his cabinet, or, indeed, to
any of the French Snails, that it is only necessary, in
order to effect this important object, to import largely
from the great corn-growing countries, and to render
food cheap. They seem to us to need a deputation
from our great Anti-Corn-Law League to enlighten
them on this subject. 'Plie difference of language I°
certainly a trifling difficulty in the way ;
but as the
schoolmaster has been so long abroad, perhaps a brace
of patriots among them could be found with a little
smattering of French. As yet the French philosophers
—(and the league may take our word for it, that there
are some smart chaps among them)—have failed to
perceive that intimate connection, which the league'
people speak of, between cheap imported provisions,
and new, or greatly improved markets for manufactu-
red goods—whether English or French ; nor have the
itinerant lecturers been able to prove its existence W.
i
our satisfaction. On the contrary, we are convinced
that the proposition broadly stated as they give it, s'
with all their boring upon the subject, a
gross delu-