The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

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ects of local or general interest ; and if ourfriends

will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.
'—By the Reform Act, the franchise by free-

"A StBSCRIBER."•

dom was extirpated except when gained by birth or servitude.
All, therefore, who have gained their freedom by having been
bora the son of a freeman, or serving an appreuticeship of
led to be on the register of

seven years to a freeman, are ent

Kiberpoot gptanbatb,

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1853.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS.

" WHAT is doing in :the! political world ? " is a
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rii3s just
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Thenowintihseters mostare
ednigifiacgteildt
in clearing up the neglected business of a wasted
session; our Legislators are hurrying through their
arrears, the greater part of them impatient for the
recreation of the recess ; and the rest of the body
politic are eagerly enjoying the sports ofithe season—
racing, yachting, and other amusements, without
giving a thought for the morrow, or caring whether
Whigs or Tories are in the ascendant. In such a
state of mental and political apathy, it is not easy to
fix upon any subject which may be said to occupy
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avidity,
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us to-say something, at the very time when they are
compelled to acknowledge that there is nothing to
talk about, In Liverpool, -however, we are still
fresh from a contest in which the ascendancy of
Conservative prineiples was the prize which was
struggled for, and nobly won; and we ought not
to be so forgetful of the cause which we espouse,
as to deem it uninteresting to those whose laurels of
victory are -so green. It is part of the political craft
of Liberalism to deny any difference of opinion, and
to attest that ancient distinctions of party have been
-obliterated, that Whig and Tory, Conservative and
Radical are obsolete terms which belonged to a for-
mer age, but are now no longer intelligible. By
these means our opponents seek to break down the
barriers which still hedge in the 'Constitution,
and to sap -the foundations of those institutions
which it ought to be theespecial.care of the Con-
-servative party to
.maintain. We are not insensible
to the advantage of securing good feeling and amity
between all classes of the community.; but principle
must not be sacrificed to hollow professions of
friendship,nor duty be surrendered to feeling, else we
shall realise the fable: of the alliance between the
wolves and the sheep, which was only entered into
in order that the latter might become a more easy
:prey to the former. There are thousands in this
town of estimable character, and-the best intentions,
who are deceived by the specious pretensions•of the
_Liberal party, .who have no other object than the
good of their country, and who,lfrom allowing their
good nature to _get the better of their judgment,
voted for the Radical candidate at the last election,
under the mistaken impression that they were thereby
doing good service. It is, however, the duty ofthe
Conservative press to hold out a warning voice, to
expose the trickery by which the ear of Great Bri-
tain is rankly abused, and rouse _the people to -a
sense of the dangers which, through political apathy,
they,would otherwise suffer to approach. This is
the more necessary, :because there is.a natural ten-
dency _in the public mind to forget the dangers
which 'have been passed, when the necessity for re-
sistance .has passed away, and to undervalue mis-
chiefs, of which the evil consequences are not
immediately apparent. The British Lion is a slug-
gish animal, not easily aroused, and more -assailable
by the jugglery of political charlatans than by open
violence, and to this failing is owing the present
position of the Liberal .party ; for few can entertain
a doubt, thatavere the people of England thoroughly
alive to the traitorous designs of the Radical leaders,
they would not tamely submit to be the dupes and
the tools of such a treasonable faction.

n st,
Amongst the i&dividuals who have occupied the
most prominent positionisLordJouNco Ruunms
rnzL a
who—with no other quality than
duplicity, which is dignified as parliamentary
tact—has assumed every-phase ,of political party,
with no other seeming object than to gratify his own
personal ambition on the ruin of his tountry. When
only known for his advocacy of the Reform Bill, lie
declared tohis constituents at Huntingdon his un-
alterable determination to mantain the Corn Laws.
When pressing his Reform Bill through Parlia-
ment, he threatened the House of Lords with the
physical force of armed workmen from Birming.
ham. When a Conservative Administration was
in office in 1835, he carried a resolution by the
House of Commons that no settlement of the Irish
Church question could be satisfactory unless it
contained the celebrated Appropriation clause, and
afterwards, when in office himself, passed the Bill
without it. In order to retain a parliamentary
majority, he entered into a compact with the in-
cendiary DANIEL O'CONNELL, and sacrificed the
Protestant, Church in Ireland to the rapacity of
Romish priests and political agitators. In 1841

he was expelled from office for tampering with the

Colonial interest in the Sugar Duties, and with the
Agricultural interest in the Corn Duties. In 1846

he sacrificed the West Indian Colonies, and de-

stroyed all that had been done to diminish slavery

by admitting slave-grown sugar upon almost equal

terms with the produce of free labour. He in_

cited the colonists of Canada to rebellion, and
almost drove them to shake off their allegiance to

the mother country, by direct and positive encou-

ragement to those who bad been foremost in insur-
rection. In 1851 he endeavoured to revive his

decaying popularity by the promise of a_now Reform