The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

OW Wing Mitt ibl t ilosa honour th,3 nttinreal eha,
is nothing wanting to render it her-
munious and complete. The people tike the liveliest
interest in the private and domestic happiness of their
amiable and virtuous Sovereign, and rejoice to see her
made a " joyful mother," not less on their own ac-
count than hers; but the birth of a PRINCE' of
WALES has ever been an occasion of peculiar inte-
rest and congratulation. It is almost superfluous to
observe, that the inhabitants of our old, and good,
and now thoroughly Conservative town, have been
delighted, in common with all the rest of the kingdom,
by the glad tidings of this much wished for and now
happily realised event. They hail it as a token of a
still continuing Providential care for this highly fa-
voured land, anti they deeply appreciate it, both for
the evils which it is calculated to avert, and the bless-
ings which it seems so well adapted to confer.
So many and so great are the bounties which Provi-
dence showers upon our chosen nation, that we find it
difficult to single out any one above another upon
which we ought to dwell with peculiar complacency;
all have become so familiar to us, that we can only
realise their appreciation with anything like adequate
intenseness, by supposing the absence of any one.
An undisturbed and undisputed succession to the
Throne may seem at first sight to be an advantage
scarce deserving of that high and grateful commemo-
ration which we would claim for it ; but consider of
what evils the absence of it has been made the occa-
sion ! That same Providence which gives to Britain
a succession of Princes whose legitimate title all the
people acknowledge, and whose natal day they cele-
brate with spontaneous honours and delight, can and
does make a disputed throne—disputed on the ground
of hereditary rights—the instrument of direst calami-
ties, the rack and scourge of that land which He de-
signs to afflict and punish. Look at unhappy Spain,
long the prey to a wasting civil war on this account;
—we were going to add, look also at France ; hut, for
the present, her discords on this score are hushed,
and we pray that they may continue so. Suffice it
that we have not far to go, or long to seek, to learn to
estimate, by dark and painful contrast, the inestimable
advantage and blessing which Britain enjoys in her
well-established, hereditary Throne ; and in that bene-
ficent provision which the Divine Ruler of events has
made, and continues to make, in a line of Princes
most acceptable to the people, with undisputed rights,
and innumerable virtues, to ascend it.
• Long live, then, our gracious Queen ! and long may
the youthful Prince of Wales enjoy his title ! Most
heartily and earnestly do we congratulate our country,
and pray that the glorious events of Tuesday may be
the harbinger of lasting good to our town and nation.

rac E.e r

We shall conclude with an extract from Sir Robert
Peel's beautiful speech at the Lord Mayor's dinner in
London on the above auspicious day :

" I rejoice that foreigners have had an opportunity of wit-
nessing that, whatever be the political differences which di-
vide us, whatever be the conflicts of party inseparable from
the working of a free and popular government, we are united
as one man in attachment to the monarchy of the country,
and in feelings of devotion to the person of our sovereign.
(Loud cheers.) The feeling that they witness this day is an
example of the feeling which pervades the whole people of
this country. (' Hear, hear,' and cheers.) The people of
this country will see with delight the prospect of increased
security for the liberty and happiness of the country. (Hear.)
They will also rejoice at the succession, in the fullness of
time, to the throne of his ancestors, of the prince who has
been born this day, and who, they trust, formed by tender
care and instructed by the example of his illustrious parents,
shall at some future and, as we pray, most distant day, prove
himself worthy of the high destiny to which he is called, and
of filling the throne of these united kingdoms, of protecting
the constitution, and advancing the liberties and happiness
of a free and generous people. (` Hear, hear,' and cheers.)"
To these statements, so happily expressed, we beg leave
entirely to subscribe. They cannot be gainsayed, and
they are of excellent omen.

The decisive majority which we have now obtained
in the Town Council is a matter of solid satisfaction,
not only to the burgesses of Liverpool, but, we may
say, to the universal Conservative party. The question
of nearest interest remaining is, how we shall use our
victory ? Conquerors are generally admonished to be
temperate in success—to use their conquests with mo-
deration; and the admonition is seasonable and proper,
and applicable in civil no less than military affairs.
But then a victory must he used or it is no victory at
all. If fortune incline the scales in our favour, we
must avail ourselves of her bestowments. We must
not despise them; we must improve them to the pur-
pose and for the objects (if they be righteous in them-
selves) for which we originally buckled on our armour,
This being so then, we turn to our representatives in
the Council, or (as we are the majority), we should
rather say, to the Council itself ; and we look, in the
first place, and for the first fruits of our hard fought
battles, to an immediate change in the system of the
Corporation Schools. All other improvements, resti-
tutions, renovations, or revolutions, we can wait for
patiently, and take by instalments, or in any way they
may come ; but not so with THIS. Here there must
be no delay—no faltering—no mincing of matters. The
reason is very obvious ; because this question is a test
of the true character of the Council. One of the first
acts of the body when it became Radical, Papistical,
Infidel, was to destroy the Christian character of the
schools—to make them liberal—educational, but no
longer religious. The Bible was trodden under foot ;
it was confidently expected that the church would be put
down along with it. And what will be the first act of
a Conservative Council ? Why, of course to reverse
this atrocious order—to wipe out the stain of that abo-
mination of desolation—and to establish in the schools
a system in harmony with all the great institutions of
the country, and the principles of Christian Conserva-
tism. On this head we do expect to find the most
perfect unanimity among the Conservative members of
the Council.

With regard to the short and desultory talk which
took place on Tuesday last, upon the appointment of
the Education Committee, we make no comment upon
it ; we do not, indeed, very well understand its drift ;
but this we say—let not any professing Conservative
delude himself by imagining, for a moment, that any-
thing will satisfy the municipal constituency of Liver-
pool but an IMMEDIATE and ENTIRE upset of the in--
fidel radicalism set up in the schools by the late ascen-
dancy, now happily—and we trust, for ever—put down.
It was for this object, beyond any other, that we fought
all through, and we will not be disappointed of it. If
there he any member who has sneaked into the coun-
cil under false colours, we shall soon know him. If
there be any other who has become a sudden convert
to Shielism, Earleism, or the " impertinence " of Bol-
tonism, let him resign, and we shall soon find a better
man to put in his place. But the educational abomi-
nation of the old party shall not survive under any cir-
cumstances. With the blessing of God, WE WILL
HAVE OUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ONCE MORE, and
not be defrauded of this—the object which, above all
others, nerved ,our arm in the fight, sustained us in all
our st.ruggleS, gave a dignity to our meanest, and in-
creased the power of all our best efforts. We speak
the voice of every Protestant Christian, and Conserva-
tive freeman and elector in Liverpool, and we know
we shall not be disappointed.

We have already sufficiently adverted to the inter-
esting and important subject of the education in our
Corporation Schools, but we cannot refrain from
directing the especial attention of our readers to the
admirable letters of the Rev. D. James and Fidus
Achates, which will be found elsewhere. The valuable
reminiscences brought forward by one, and the irre-
fragable arguments advanced by both will go far, if we
are not mistaken, towards convincing any waverer,
about the, policy of the present system adopted in
those schools, of the unreasonableness of his doubts.
It is well known that Mr. James has written most
effectively on the subject already; and we are much
mistaken if Fidus Achates is not equally well-informed,
as every sentence of his important communication
cannot be too deeply impressed on the memory.
ANre know not what steps the Council may consider
it right to take, but the advice of the clergy should be
sought for; and the matter cannot be more satisfacto-
rily arranged' than by being left almost entirely at their
disposal.

It will not occasion us much surprise if meetings
are summoned in the various wards of the town for
the purpose of showing the feeling of the public on
this vital question, and of strengthening the hands of
our Protestant municipal representatives.

One of the most gratifying circumstances connected with
he death of whig.radicalism in this borough, is the intended
•ecurrence to the ancient custom of the mayor and corpora-
ion aqending the services of the established church in their