The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

office which they could not perform in any part of the
world when need required, without a dispensation, as
well as he."

He thus applies this doctrine

" Now the Eastern Church is in great danger of being
overwhelmed by infidelity, or supplanted by the minions of
the Romish pontiff. And consider the state of Jerusalem
in particular. That it is a heathen city, " trodden down of
the Gentiles ;" that, while the diocese of the legitimate
Patriarch in theory may comprehend the city and neighbour-
hood, it is in fact restricted to the church and convent 10
which he or his deputy resides ; that it would cost him his
life to set foot in many parts of Jerusalem ; that the Anglican
Bishop is sent not to his people, but to ours, over whom he
cannot exercise pastoral jurisdiction, while our bishop, being
authorised to dwell there by the Sultan, and guarded by the
power of the English name, might, in case of necessity, yield
him a protection, which no law could gain for him from his
own despotic monarch."

Other equally cogent reasoning is added ; and upon
the whole, we may safely conclude that if Anglo-
Catholicus does not satisfy some persons on this head,
he can scarcely have failed to silence their battery.

What a load has been removed from our hearts by
the perusal of a few lines which appear in a contempo-
rary of Tuesday last ! " The philosophers" are still
alive, though beaten to a jelly and pounded out of all
shape and likeness ; and we have not the sin of mur-
der to account for. The Council Chamber knows
them no more, and will echo no longer their "most
sweet voices ;" but their surpassing talent and almost
superhuman eloquence will not, therefore, be lost to
the world ; for from henceforth, like the fallen spirits
of old, they are to have a " pandemonium" of their
own, in which the unlucky Mr. Charles Holland—the
twice-rejected—will out-Cobden Cobden himself, and
" thrice-rejected Rathbone" make a noise, compared
with which the most successful effort of the most re-
nowned Kentucky screamer will be but a whisper.
From henceforth the Liverpool Anti-corn-law Asso-
ciation is to be the lever with which our battered
Radicals are to move the universe. Already, we are
told, the " preparations for the struggle of next ses-
sion" are being made upon a gigantic scale; and there
is no knowing what will be the astounding effect pro-
duced by the infusion amongst its members of the host
of the rejected. There is one unfortunate circumstance
however, which we are afraid will sadly impede the
success of the agitators. The public has a provokingly
retentive memory; and notwithstanding all the pre-
tensions of the exclusively-enlightened to express the
opinions of the aggregate people of Liverpool upon
the subject of the corn-laws, it will be borne in mind
that upon that very question, Liverpool has already
spoken out, loudly and decisively, by repudiating the
claims of the agitators themselves, and denying them
any longer a share in the management of her local
affairs.

The question of the corn-laws was one of the most
prominent of the clap-traps upon which " Liberalism"
relied in its last appeal to the constituencies. " Cheap
bread" and " free trade" were the alpha and omega of
many a " Liberal" claim for municipal honours; and
we are undoubtedly entitled to take the answer which
has been returned in its comprehensive sense, as ex-
pressing the opinion of the town upon these clap-traps
of party, as well as upon the individual fitness for
municipal honours of the individuals who put them
forward. For the people of Liverpool the cry for
cheap bread has no charm. They care not for the
freedom of trade contemplated by \Vhig legislation.
The anti-corn-law gentry may agitate, therefore, as
they will ; and the public will be thankful that a safety
valve has been thus provided to let off the extra steam
which Monday's defeat has generated in the systems
of the vanquished. But unless they be found amongst
the mercantile constituency of Mr. Henry Holmes,
there will be few men in Liverpool disposed to follow,
in an anti-corn-law crusade, the same shallow and
incompetent doctors, whose pretensions to wisdom
and virtue in other matters have been so thoroughly
appreciated.

It is a hopeless case, gentlemen. You are but lost
Whigs, and not even Mesmerism can restore you to
complete vitality.

We congratulate our fellow-townsmen upon the
prospect which is before them. - The glorious struggle
of Monday released us, we hope for ever, from Whig
domination in our municipal affairs; and the meeting
of yesterday was the preliminary step, we hope, to-
wards getting rid of another evil, almost equally intol-
erable, the domination of the poor-law commissioners
in the management of our poor. The harsh and
grinding system of Somerset House must be rooted
out of Liverpool, at least, if it is ever permitted to
exercise its tyranny over other portions of the kingdom ;
for it must be evident to the most ardent admirer of
the principle of centralization, with such facts and
evidences before him as was adduced to the meeting,
yesterday, by Mr. Aspinall and others, that its applica-
tion in such a community as ours is an utter impossi-
bility.

The poor of Liverpool, at least, we repeat, must be
released from the intolerable pressure of this system of
tyranny ; for, however successful may have been its
application in other parts of the country, here, it is
plain, it can never be put in force, and ought never to
have been attempted. The people of Liverpool have,
before its introduction, managed their own poor ; and
they must, we are confident—for the voice of such a
meeting as that of yesterday cannot have been raised
in vain—be intrusted again with that power, and en-
abled to provide for the wants of their suffering
brethren without the intervention of the busy officials
of Somerset House, or the necessity of adhering to the
cold-blooded and unfeeling regulations which they have
invented.