The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-12 00:00:00

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DIVISION IN THE CAMP.

It will probably be in the recollection of our readers that on the
debate in the House of Commons on the Irish church bill on
Friday week, Mr. Sharman Crawford thought proper to divide
the house, sorely against O'Connell's will, on one of the clauses
relating to tithes—to wit, that it was expedient that tithes and
all compositions for tithes in Ireland should cease, and be for
ever extinguished ; compensation being first made for all vested
interests. To this.proposition O'Connell expressed his dissent,
and made use of some of his characteristic slang, of a personal
nature, to Mr. Crawford, which has stirred up the ire of that
gentleman in a manner which bids fair to disjoint the entire
tail, and cut off a pretty large share of that support which the
agitator receives from the popish members sent by his influence
into the House of Commons. Upon the occasion to which we
refer eighteen of O'Connell's tools voted against him, and for
the motion! Mr. Crawford, in consequence of his late mas-
ter's rebuke, has published two letters, the first addressed to
O'Connell, and the second to his constituents in Dundalk. In
the first he says,

" In the lobate on my motion on last Friday evening I stated
my surprise at your opposition, as the proposition I made was
originally suggested by yourself. I feel that it is proper I should
distinctly state the grounds on which I made that assertion.
" You did me the honour of addressing a published letter to
me, dated the 27th of September, 1834. In this letter you state
most forcibly the enormity of tithe grievance, and the necessity
for its total extinction."

This is pretty well to begin with. However, the malcontent
member three days afterwards waxes warmer, and thus writes
to the independent electors of Dundalk.
" I do not disguise from you that 1 am directly atd unequi-
vocally opposed to the compromising policy adopted on this
and other late occasions by the distinguished-leader of the
catholic body. He has possessed your confidence, and the con-
fidence of his countrymen. Now, the question is this—Do you
require me to support this policy ? That I will not do: but I
will do another thing, I am ready at any moment to surrender
into yonr hands the trust I have received from you. •
Feeling that I cannot be of the least possible service here
—feeling that no practical good has been done, or, under
present circumstances, can be done for my country, I shall
leave London this day, and shall, with as little delay as is in
my power, forward to you a particular statement of the views
under which I have acted. On your approval, and on the course
determined on by the people of Ireland, it will depend whether
or not I shall again return to this metropolis as one of the re-
presentatives of Ireland in the imperial parliament.
" The representatives of England talk of doing Ireland
justice; but, if you come to the point, what will they do?
Will they give up the tribute of the slave, which you pay to
their church ? No such thing; they will give back a mite to
rivet the remainder the firmer on your shoulders. Will they
now come really and truly to issue with the lords on your cor-
poration bill? You know they will not: they have already sa-
crificed the essence of it to avoid that collision.

" My countrymen, I have told you before, and I now tell you
again, you have nothing to depend ou but your own determina-
tion, I do not mean resistance to the laws, either passive or
active, but I mean the enforcing from the reprcsentives of Ire-
land an unflinching stand on principle; by principle I mean
the interests of the people generally against monopolies of
every kind, religious or political—against the wasteful expen-
diture of taxation for the benefit of the few to the injury of the
many. Identify these objects with the cause of your country,
arid, if justice be not done to Ireland, command your represen-
tatives to interpose all the obstacles to the granting of supplies
which the forms of the house will admit of. You will then con-
nect the great body of the people of the empire with your cause
—you will then have justice or repeal
The people of England may be disposed to do you justice;
but if you expect their support be true to yourselves. Let there
be no blustering swagger in words, and mean submission in ac-
tion—act so as to obtain YOUR OWN respect then you toill,_obtain
theirs also, and then, and only then, can you command or de-
serve their assistance."

We have nothing in common in politics with Mr. Crawford—
he. is a radical—a revolutionist; he would, we dare say, very
gladly,see both the church and the monarchy laid in the dust;
but, it is no less gratifying to find that he is possessed of so
much independence as to shake off the yoke of intolerable ty-
ranny, of a man whose despotic intentions know no bounds,
and who sways an immense power, to the manifest injury and dis-
advantage of the best institutions of the country. We shall
hear of more deserters shortly.