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

%lad that to speak with la potential voice upon Ott
17i4t, but what the expounders of the great apostacy
0
ItPtnanism may be pleased to lay down concerning
It is not what equity would determine, we say,
C'at should prevail according to this argument,—be-
Ouse if Romanist objections were to have weight on
the
one hand, much more should the objection of Pro-
7etauts (who are far the more numerous class) have
tigbt upon the other; if a scriptural system of edu-
tint' excludes Romanists, a non-scriptural excludes
Protestants. How then, upon any principle of equity,
e
euld the court say that the school system, in order to
tailttiBfY the intendment of section ninety-two, should
Popish rather than Protestant ? If the question
ate to turn upon the exclusion of classes, we huml
l 41)4)4 that the rule ought to pass in favour of the
'll aii°ritY, and that the court would be clearly bound to
uphold the new system.
But there is another view to be taken of the case :
the
court would be bound to look a little beyond mere
aumbers at either side ; it would feel that it could not
discharge its duty adequately or satisfactorily without
'flaking due inquiry into the educational system at pre-
:tent about to be established, and comparing it with
'l4 contended for by the less numerous section, and
teterruining which of the two appeared really most
r'nclueive to the general good.
It might seem that in going into this inquiry, the
tatirt would be turning itself into a school of theolo-
11'' and extending the limits of its jurisdiction, and
that it would be likely to send the suitors back to the
Municipal Council as the only tribunal constituted by
lay for resolving the question in dispute ; but we take
the law as the Liberal party lay it down, and do not
trouble ourselves with an objection of this nature.
lie
willingly assume that the court proceeds with the
flvestigation, and then it is our very confident expec-

41i°11 that it would resolve and decree that a system of
e ncation based upon holy scripture, and enforced by
hu
°II practice, was, and necessarily must be, more
t4aducive to the general good of the community than
°lle Which fell miserably short in these most important
t4Pects. The court might perhaps find itself involved
i
all the questions which have existed between the
'11,401 of England and the Italian heresy since the
e(4llinencement ; but what matter ? We court the
tantroversy, and our cry is still magma est veritas et
Phrvalebit. We wish the Corporation School question
Y all means to take this turn, for then we are sure of
the result; the controversy can have but one issue,
4141 We may ever enjoy it, in whatever instance it may
c'ecnr, by anticipation.
If a system of education, or indeed almost anything
14 itself excellent, were to be examined not by its own
Intrinsic merits, but by the numbers who dissented
from it, it would be hard to uphold almost anything
1(404 in the world. The objections of Romanists to a
kound scriptural system of education are not of the
airsailest moment when they are brought together in
the lump as the dissent merely of a class. Education
is not to be accommodated to men's errors,

hut to

!heir wants; and whether Romanists or others wit

litar, or whether they will forbear, those who know
what is true and what is right, have but one duty to
Perform, and that is, to teach it to others and diffuse
41 blessings as widely as they can.

Our contemporary of the Albion commences a long
Rid dolorous article with the following naive la-

It was a sad day for the Liberal party in this country,
'lsn after the passing of the Parliamentary Reform Rill, the
'-ule classes, or many of them, fancying that the victory
,„
44' Won, w
and that the power of the aristocracy for mischief
wasfor ever rested from them, separated themselves from
t
4e Working classes, to whom they were so greatly, we may
'47, so mainly indebted for the triumph which was then
Ichieved."

The
have used them only to place in a stronger and more
decided light the "free and easy" mode in which the
'` Liberal" party are accustomed to use the humbler
'aembers of their craft for a season, and, having
Rained, or fancying they have gained, their cherished
object, o " whistle them down the wind" and seize
for their own proper use, the modicum of ad-
vantage or privilege which their joint exertions have
won from their opponents. That such was the
!at,e immediately upon the passing of the Reform Bill

it needs not the evidence of our contemporary to
Prove. The working classes of Great Britain have
long been acquainted with the fact ; and hence, in
their first moments of disappointment, the rise and
growth of Chartism; and, that delusion abated, their
Ilubscqu3nt and persevering refusal to listen to the
voice of the anti-corn-law rgitation, got up for the es-
Pecial benefit of the same tricky section of the Liberal
Party, who have the inconceivable arrogance to assume
to themselves the title of " The Middle Classes" Of
the people of England.
Our contemporary is at some pains to develope the
motive which led to this abandonment of their humbler
dopes by the tricky " Liberals" before alluded to, and
of opinion that the chief incentive was a desire to
form themselves into a " middle class aristocracy,"
which, bearing in mind the sense in which the latter
term is always applied by writers of the Albion's class,
is saying, in other words, that these professedly "li-
beral"
gentlemen were desirous only of attaining for
themselves the power of trampling under foot the li-

berties of other classes of the community. Again, we
are compelled to complain that our contemporary has
entered upon a work of supererogation. All the world
is acquainted with this amiable feature of " modern
Liberalism." Every one who has paid even the
slightest attention to the movements of that party, not
Only on public but on local questions as well, is quite
aware that all their canting plausibilities, all their spe-
cious pretences, all their smooth professions, have ever
been directed to one sole end—the advancement of
their own personal or class interests and the ultimate
Prostration of every other section of the community
into crouching and abject subservience to their tyran-
nical dictation.

In this town, above all others, the information (?)
volunteered by the Albion was most assuredly uncalled
for. There is not a working, or any other man in Li-
verpool, without the pale of their own clique, who is
not intimately and thoroughly acquainted with the
hollowness of the " Liberal " middle classes the
Evanses and Earles, the Rathbones and Walmsleys,
the Brights and the Boltons;—and the result of their
recent appeals to the suffrages of their fellow-towns-
men of every grade is quite satisfactory assurance to
tia that, however inclined are these baffled and beaten
Radicals, with the Albion at their head, to acknowledge
their past errors, and to sue for a renewal of the con-
fidence which they have abused, our townsmen at large,
and the working classes in particular, will not readily be
caught dancing to their piping, whether the tune be
"Cheap Bread" or any other more modern composi-
tion.

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c

The improvement, which we noticed in our last, in the
feeling of all parties connected with the commerce and manu-
factures of this district, continues, we al e happy to state, to
animate our various markets. The arrival of the New York
Packet-ship " Independence," with accounts of a generally
favourable nature with respect to the prospects of business
in the United States during the ensuing season, added to the
Pacific tone of President Tyler's message to Congress, has
infused considerable confidence into the minds of parties con-
nected with the trade of those important markets ; and be-
sides the prospects, which present themselves on every side,
of increased demand from foreign markets generally, the po-
sition of the Bank of England to afford facilities for, or at
least to refrain from contracting file operations of our mer-
chants, is viewed as highly favourable, when compared with
its position for some years past.
The transactions in our Cotton Market, throughout the
Week, have been of an animated, and, at the same time, a
steady and healthy complexion. The sales on Tuesday
amounted to 4000 bags, at full prices, including 600 Ameri-
can, taken on speculation. On Wednesday the market was
fully supported, and the sales reached 5000 bags for consump-
tion, and 1000 taken by speculators. The sales yesterday
Were 6000 bags, at the full prices of former markets during
the week.
The Manchester Market, during the week, has partaken of
the feeling evinced in the market for the raw material. In
Yarns a trifling advance has been obtained upon the low rates
which have recently been quoted, and a further advance, as
the season for active operations sets in, is generally antici-
he& In the prices of Cloths no sensible change can be
med : all descriptions, however, are more firmly held, and
the same anticipation is indulged in of a speedy improvement
it' Prices, and in the activity of the demand.
theNV/7, are unable to state that any very extensive orders from
It liked States have been brought by the Independence.
t,_ is.probable, however, that many might be withheld until
departure of the Acadia steamer, which would leave 805.,0n
.,on the 16th, and might be expected to reach Liverpool
Zuti,"? a few days of the arrival of the Independence, and
ti,%1:.!. thus allow time for the purport of the president's
being generally known amongst the American mer-
cantile classes,