The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

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point, but what the expounders of the great apostacy
of Romanism may be pleased to lay down concerning
it! It is not what equity would determine, we say,
that should prevail according to this argument,—be-
Cause if Romanist objections were to have weight on
the one hand, much more should the objection of Pro-
testants (who are far the more numerous class) have
weight upon the other; if a scriptural system of edu-
cation excludes Romanists, a non-scriptural excludes
Protestants. How then, upon any principle of equity,
could the court say that the school system, in order to
satisfy the intendment of section ninety-two, should
be Popish rather thaw Protestant ? If the question
were to turn upon the exclusion of classes, we humbly
submit that the rule ought to pass in favour of the
majority, and that the court would be clearly bound to
uphold the new system. _ _

But there is another view to be taken of the case :
the court would he bound to look a little beyond mere
numbers at either side ; it would feel that it could not
discharge its duty adequately or satisfactorily without
making due inquiry into the educational system at pre-
sent about to be established, and comparing it with
that contended for by the less numerous section, and
determining which of the two appeared really most
conducive to the general good.

It might seem that in going into this inquiry, the
court would be turning itself into a school of theolo-
gy, and extending the limits of its jurisdiction, and
that it would be likely to send the suitors back to the
Municipal Council as the only tribunal constituted by
law for resolving the question in dispute ; but we take
the law as the Liberal-party lay it down, and do not
trouble ourselves with an objection of this nature.
We willingly assume that the court proceeds with the
investigation, and then it is our very confident expec-
tation that it would resolve and decree that a system of
education based upon holy scripture, and enforced by
holy practice, was, and necessarily must be, more
conducive to the general good of the community than
one which fell miserably short in these most important
respects. The court might perhaps find itself involved
in all the questions which have existed between the
Church of England and the Italian heresy since the
commencement ; but what matter ? We court the
controversy, and our cry is still magna est veritas et
prawalebit. We wish the Corporation School question
by all means to take this turn, for then we are sure of
the result; the controversy can have but one issue,
and we may ever enjoy it, in whatever instance it may
occur, by anticipation. _ .

If a system of education, or indeed almost anything
in itself excellent, were to be examined not by its own
intrinsic merits, but by the numbers who dissented
from it, it would be hard to uphold almost anything
good in the world. The objections of Romanists to a
sound scriptural system of education are not of the
smallest moment when they are brought together in
the lump as the dissent merely of a class. Education
is not to be accommodated to men's errors, but to
their wants ; and whether Romanists or others will
hear, or whether they will forbear, those who know
what is true and what is right, have but one duty to
perform, and that is, to teach it to others and diffuse
its blessings as widely as they can.

Our contemporary of the Albion commences a long
and dolorous article with the following naive la-

" It was a sad day for the Liberal party in this country,
when after the passing of the Parliamentary Reform Bill, the
middle classes, or many of them, fancying that the victory
was won, and that the power of the aristocracy for mischief
was for ever wrested from them, separated 1 henzselves from
Me working classes, to whom they were so greatly, we may
say, so mainly indebted for the triumph which was then
achieved."

The italics, we must remark, are our own ; and ye
have used them only to place in a stronger and more
decided light the " free and easy" mode in which the
" Liberal" party are accustomed to use the humbler
members of their craft for a season, and, having
gained, or fancying they have gained, their cherished
object, to "whistle them down the wind" and seize
upon, for their own proper use, the modicum of ad-
vantage or privilege which their joint exertions have
won from their opponents. That such was the
case immediately upon the passing of the Reform Bill
it needs not the evidence of our contemporary to
prove. The working classes of Great Britain have
long been acquainted with the fact ; and hence, in
their first moments of disappointment, the rise and
growth of Chartism; and, that delusion abated, their
subsequent and persevering refusal to listen to the
voice of the anti-corn-law i'gitation, got up for the es-
pecial benefit of the same tricky section of the Liberal
party, who have the inconceivable arrogance to assume
to themselves the title of " The Middle Classes" Of
the people of England

Our contemporary is at some pains to develope the
motive which led to this abandonment of their humbler
dupes by the tricky " Liberals" before alluded to, and
is of opinion that the chief incentive was a desire to
form themselves into a " middle class aristocracy,"
which, bearing in mind the sense in which the latter
term is always applied by writers of the Albion's class,
is saying, in other words, that these professedly " li-
beral" gentlemen were desirous only of attaining for
themselves the power of trampling under foot the li-
berties of other classes of the community. Again, we
are compelled to complain that our contemporary has
entered upon a work of supererogation. All the world
is acquainted with this amiable feature of " modern
Liberalism." Every one who has paid even the
slightest attention to the movements of that party, not
only on public but on local questions as well, is quite
aware that all their canting plausibilities, all their spe-
cious pretences, all their smooth professions, have ever
been directed to one sole end—the advancement of
their own personal or class interests and the ultimate
prostration of every other section of the community
into crouching and abject subservience to their tyran-
nical dictation.

In this town, above all others, the iqformation (?)
volunteered by the Albion was most assuredly uncalled
for. There is not a working, or any other man in Li-
verpool, without the pale of their own clique, who is
not intimately and thoroughly acquainted with the
hollowness of the " Liberal " middle classes the
Evanses and Earles, the Rathbones and '\Valmsleys,
the Brights and the Boltons ;—and the result of their
recent appeals to the suffrages of their fellow-towns-
men Of every grade is quite satisfactory assurance to
us that, however inclined are these baffled and beaten
Radicals, with the Albion at their head, to acknowledge
their past errors, and to sue for a renewal of the con-
fidence which they have abused, our townsmen at large,
and the working classes in particular, will not readily be
caught dancing to their piping, whether the tune be
" Cheap Bread" or any other more modern composi-
tion.