The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-14 00:00:00

from a minister of the crown ! A few years ago a man
using such language would be thought a fit inmate for
Bedlam ;or if his deep-concerted villany left-us no room
to draw the charitable conclusion that he was insane, the
TOWER would have been his destination, and an indict-
ment for the use of treasonable threats the natural con-
sequence. Things are, however, changed now. The
shield of government authority is thrown over every
lawless rebel against the institutions of the empire, and
no opinions are so much at a discount with the rulers of
the land as those which savour of loyalty and smack of
religion.

The cue which was given by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, was
eagerly taken up by our learned and honourable mem-
ber, Mr. ,wAa-r. The avowed object of this honourable
gentleman in rising to address the house, was a reply to
Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT ! How the learned member for
Exeter must have trembled when he saw such a man rise
to oppose him. Look at the two combatants. Sir WIL-
LIAM FOLLETT, his mind trammelled with an overwhelm-
ing press of legal business, and his energies bound down
by a dry acquaintance with the constitution of the coun-
try in all its bearings, and his judgment biassed by the
perusal and perfect knowledge of the statutes of the
realm ; how unequal must he have felt himself to a con-
flict with out talented representative, " disenthralled"
from ad legal pursuits, unexhausted by the outpourings
of forsenic eloquence, not bowed down by the weight of
briefs, guiltless as a new born babe of ever having soiled
his fingers with the musty folios of legal lore, and un-
prejudiced as the untaught savage, in favour of our an-
cient constitution, by any unnecessary information on
the subject of its laws and charters. Notwithstanding
all these advantages, the member for Liverpool failed in •
every attempt, save that of making himself excessively
ridiculous, and trotting himself out as the lick-spittle of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL. One of the EWARTS has already
had an office made for him. Is there another bit of pa-
tronage in preparation ?
But really we sicken of such sights as those which pre-
sent to our View the House of Lords, menaced by men
of contemptible intellect and reckless political character.
Alas! that we should have lived to see the day when
such men as RUSSELL, EWART, CLEMENTS, WARD,
BROWNE, and others, equally disaffected towards genuine
English predilections, and sound protestant principles,
are suffered with impunity to beslaver with their filthy
venom the nobles of the land. Those who ventured to
predict these out-breakings of revolutionary violence, as
the natural consequences of the passing of the Popish
measure of 1829, were laughed at as people beside
themselves, and as alarmists whose opinions were worth
nothing. Would that we, who in 1829, foretold these
things, had not been the parties now to call attention to
the sad fulfilment of our most gloomy forebodings. By
the passing of that bill a sop was given to the Papal
Cerberus, the flavour of which they have not forgotten,
nor will they readily lose sight of the manner in which it
was given. Like the dog in the fable, having once
tasted blood, they look upon it as their legitimate pro-
perty, and depend upon it the papists of Ireland will
never be contented so long as a single protestant insti-
tution remains.

The House of-Lords is composed of those who are gen-
tlemen in the old and highest sense of the word. They
are men of probity and honour, possessing sound and
sterling principles—principles which they drew with
their breath, and which they will only relinquish with
their latest sigh. Need we wonder, then, that such a
body are the objects-of the most rancorous hatred of the
papists of Ireland. The noble and high-minded mem-
bers of the House of Lords, would rather lay their heads
upon the block, or pass through the fire of the most
deadly persecution, than surrender that garrison of pro-
testantism which they are bound to defend with their
latest energies. The out-posts are already occupied by
the enemy, and unless we have a care, the citadel itself
will be compelled to surrender. Let, then, the protest.
ants of England beware. The enemies of their religion,
the foes of liberty, are engaged iu an unholy, crusade
against the faith and principles which our fathers cher-
ished, in veneration of which they lived, and in maintain-
ing which they died. The present object of attack is the
HousE of Loans. The men who are now beleagured
against this valued estate of the realm, are to be found
in the ranks of the papist, the levelling dissenter, and
the avowed infidel, with here and there a stray deluded
churchman ; and it would be worse than madness to at-
tempt to conceal from ourselveLthe fact, that the present
attack upon the House of Lora, is in reality an attack-
upon our national faith, and cherished institutions in
church and state. In one word, it is an attack upon pro-
testantism, and therefore we call upon all protestants to
be prepared for the worst !

The immense number of fraudulent schemes which
have recently been concocted for the purpose of obtain-
ing grants of money from parliament, or voluntary con-
tributions from " an enlightened public," have almost
all had their origin in a political conspiracy. If ten or
twenty needy and desperate persons combine in order to
levy contributions upon the highway, or by imposing
upon householders, it is necessary that they should per-
fectly nnderstand the motives and be,acquainted with the
necessities of each other, and by assuming an air of in-
dependence, be better able to promote their conjoined
purposes with much less risk of being detected.

We are told that O'CONNELL has claims upon the pe-
cuniary sensibilities of the English people for the emi-
nent services he has rendered to the cause of civil and
religious liberty. Admitting that he has rendered ser-
vices to the cause in question, which is admitting what
is contrary to truth, but admitting it for the sake of ar
gument, still we must contend that it is adopting a dan-
gerous principle to recognise the pecuniary claims of a
member of parliament for his conduct as a legislator.
The law renders it impossible for a poor man to be a re-
presentative unless lie chooses to perjure himself, and
swear his way into the House, as a thief swears himself
innocent before a magistrate. If, then, there be such a
necessitous or embarrassed person in the House of Com-
mons, we have a right to conclude that he has procured
admission by fraudulent means, that his qualification is
a lie, and that instead of being in an honourable posi-
tion as a statesman or senator, he ought to be in a de-
graded one as a stone-breaker, wood-cutter, or road-
mender, in Botany Bay.
DANIEL the beggar must he a poor man, or why a beg-
gar ?. If not a poor man why is the begging-box perpe-
tually before our eyes?—why is lie draining the pauper's
cup, and the farmer's purse ?—why is he tramping for
shillings and pence in town and country, in England,
Scotland, and Ireland ? Be his circumstances what they
may, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion
than that DAN is eitherran honest or dishonest beggar ?
If the former, be has clearly no right to a seat in the
House of Commons; but if qualified by his private for-
tune to a seat, then is his begging a down-right fraud
upon the country, a disgrace to the boasted indepen-
dence of the House of Commons, and an insult to a free
people.

But the reader will be pleased to observe that the sys-
tem pursued by tjie Irish mendicant is only that followed
by others for the sake of gain—in some instances FOR
Tiin SAKE OF SUBSISTENCE.

In the "corrupt days of toryism" which are gone, the
rotten boroughs of England sent PETTY and BROUGHAM,
TIERNEY and MACINTOSH, ROMILLY and WILBERFORCE,
CHARLES Fox and CHARLES GREY, and such men as
these to parliament. Some of them, it might be, were
poor; a few had little or no moral reputation to stand
upon, and one or two were worthless and profligate;
still they were, for the most part, men of powerful ta-
lents, of high connections, of generous feelings, and of
strong national attachments. But what has the Reform
Bill given us in the place of these men ? A ruling ma-
jority of unprincipled beggars, of lotv habits, and
who neither possess themselves, nor can appreciate in
others, that inherent regard for truth and justice which
forms the character of a protestant Englishman.. These
are the patriots who have superseded the whigs' of the
days of PITT
It is true that even these men would be innocaotig in
the House of Commons if left to themselves—if not re-
quired to swell, if not form, the majority of a flagitiouS-