The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-24 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 24, 1836.

REFORM THE LORDS OR REPEAL THE UNION 1 That
is now the cry of the Irish beggar, and is likely to be-
come the cry of his Majesty's ministers. Lord LANS-
DOWNE, Mr. RICE, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL have so far
abetted O'CONNELL in his seditious and treasonable
menaces, as to declare it to be their intention to refuse
the Irish municipal bill as amended by the Lords. They
have it in their power to silence the demands of the
hedge priests on this subject by, abolishing corporations
altogether, and excluding all party influence from the
local courts of justice; but they seem to regard perpe-
tual agitation in Ireland as a part of their policy, in
preference to order, tranquillity, and prosperity. Or it
may be nearer the truth to say that they are obliged to
yield a ready assent to all the ambitious schemes of the
blustering scamp who is the hired legislative attorney of
certain rebellious ecclesiastic, who are his masters. It
is quite clear that nothing will content O'CONNELL but
a sweeping monopoly of political and judicial power in
Ireland. He and his vile, but tyrannous employeis;
have resolved at all hazards to have that country corn.
pletely to themselves. Neither the protestants of Ire-
land nor the King of England is to have a voice among
them ; and their advocate tells us that, if one jot or tittle
less than he asks is refused him by the
.protestants of the
empire, he will, in the furtherance of his designs, destroy
our English nobility and detach Ireland from the British
crown ! ! !

This is what we call speaking; omit. No man can now
mistake the object of the conspiracy. The Peers of
Britain must either bend to a base and worthless 'slave,
kiss the ground where his footed priests stand, or he will
pull the coronets froth their brows and kick them into

the kennel !
Good God ! is it come to this ? Is this England, the
noble, the valiant, the civilized, the christian England
where our fathers were born, in which a ruffian is per-
mitted to insult with impunity the whole of her nobility
and aristocracy ? It is with strong repugnance that we
believe it. The story is like something conjured up to
the imagination in a fevered dream. It is like the air-
drawn dagger of the murderer—we see it and yet we see
it not. It is too monstrous to be credible, too absurd to

be real; but there it is written in the pages of an English
newspaper, that one DANIEL O'CONNELL threatens to
do all we have said unless his grasping and revolutionary
demands be instantly complied with ! ! !
We should consider such menaces as nothing more
than the ravings of a madman, or the meaningless words
of an idiot, if the man who utters them were not sup-
ported in his schemes by his majesty's ministers—by a
powerful rump of degraded whigs and savage radicals—
by the collected scum of jacobins, infidels, unitarians,
Irish papists, and political dissenters. These men, with
the king's servants at their mercy, and the Irish dema •
gogue at their head, seem determined to plunge these
realms into convulsion and civil war. The question is
between protestantism and popery,—the extirpation of
the former and the ascendancy of the latter in Ireland.
The peers of England have refused to sanction-this as-
cendancy by any legislative act, and it remains to be
seen how far they will be supported, in so refusing to
sanction popery, by the protestants of England. We
have nothing to fear on this score. If it roust come to a
flea, and many sensible men think it must, then the
sooner it conies, say we, the better, and the more speed-
ily will strict justice, fearful justice, be done to Irelantl.
The papists of that part of the empire, or rather that
province of the empire, have no right whatever to any
property or privilege belonging to the corporations of
Ireland. They were almost all founded for e::clusively
protestant uses, and they were endowed for the purpose

of protecting and extending the reformed protestant re-

ligion in Ireland. To wrest that property or power,
given to one party under such circumstances, in order
to confer it upon another party, would be sacrilege and
felony in one act. It would be a robbery of persons, and

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a blasphemous insult to that pure and holy religion which
GOD and our fathers have given us for the benefit of
succeeding generations. While tie peers remain firm,
that property and power can only be taken from our
brethren in Ireland by violence end force of arms. Our
sacred temples cannot be converted into mass houses
without a deluge of blood; but, if once they dare to raise
their hands against those edifices, or the lives of our
protestant brethren, the priests of Ireland will be taught
that, in the words of our motto, there are—
Hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings we enjoy to guard.
The protestants of Ireland need no succour from this
side of the Channel; but if they should require it they
have only to ask and they shall receive !

Parliament adjourned on Friday, the 20th instant, and
it is to continue so until Monday, the 30th. Some peo-
ple think this an unusual number of holydays, and an un-
pardonable waste of time. Perhaps it is so; but undet

the circumstances, the protracted indisposition of the
premier, and the shattered state of the cabinet, in which
there is much more tail than head, the length of time in
our humble opinion is not extravagant. Lord Jolts
RUSSELL is, on the 2d of June, to communicate to the
commons the intention of ministers with regard to the
Irish corporation abolition bill, and it is probable the no-
ble lord will also be enabled to make other communica-
tions in reference to the cabinet of a still more interest-
ing nature. The simple rejection of the bill would not
advance the objects of the tottering administration, nor
satisfy the hopes of O'CoNNELL. Rejection Wonld only.