The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-18 00:00:00

are ,euilarigered• by discord and disunion, is not necessary for
',four:at:Monition. We feel deeply add intimately that in'the
coaii;ll..ol the conservative pant in the country is one of the best
guaatintees for internal tranquillity and the maintenance of our
anc.ient institutions. It is impossible, I think, to look around
at the condition of affairs without some feeling of anxiety and
apprehension. I. wilt not exaggerate the case •in the slightest
'.degree, but still it cannot he denied that there is cause for some
anxiety -and apprehension. If we look at the financial
-condition of the country, we find a' deficient revenue
..midi I fear, api osg,,ent of increased expenditure. If we look at
stur colonial possessions we find in one of the chief of. them
those heart-burnings a hich follow a recently-stippressed in-
surrection, and. we see the dying emberS of revoltready to he
fanned into a flame by an external spirit which appears to defy
-the controul of its own. If we look at our foreign relations,
-aye find civil distort: in the chief and most important parts of
'our allied states, and that civil discord fomented, as I must be-
lievars.,by our own presumptuous and unnecessary interference.
If we look to those-countries of Europe which, from local situa-
Minn and the relations which nature has established in' former
times, are considered ars.intimate and natural allies of this coon-
try—if we look' at PorKg,al and Holland, we shall see that the
.priverinnent established in Portugal is the child and champion
'of anarchy, and that both in Portugal and Holland the names
..of England and Englishmen are contemplated with different
feelings friln those in days gone by. We are, it is true, in the
actual enjoyment of peace, but we cannot confide in the conti-
nuance of that peace. In contemplating our foreign relations,
we do not find that any one of the questions which would insure
its continuance a)proaches nearer to a settlement. Whether
we look to our relations with Holland, or to the boundary
question with the United States, I am warranted in saying that
all the great questions by which peace might be disturbed are
'unguaranteed hr any seltlement. These are not reasons fur
:despondenc.y or unmanly fear, but they are reasons for continued
. exertion and union. By that union we shall best he enabled to
maintain the mild predominance of the Protestant faith in this
country and in every part of the united kingdom. By that
Union we shall be enabled—and by that alone—to promote what
we call conservative principles. If you ask me what I mean by
conservative principles. fl you ask me what I mean by con-
servative principles—as we have heard something like a vague
and unsatisfactory description of them—l will, in conclusion,
briefly state what. I mean- by conservative principles, By
conservative principles I- mean, .and I believe you mean, the
maintenance of the peerage' and the monarchy—the continu-
twee of the lust powers and attributes of king, lords, and
commons in this country. By conservative principles I mean,
a determination to resist every encroachment that can
curtail the just rights and settled privileges of one or other
of those, three -branehes.of the state. By conservative prin-

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pities I mean that, co-existent with equality of civil right's and
„privileges, there shall be an established religion and imperish.
440b1e faith, and that the established religion shall maintain
he doctrines of.the protes'ant chnich. By conservative prin-
ciples I mean a steady resistance to every project which would
--divest church property -from strictly spiritual uses• Ido not
mean to raise an unnecessary cry, to serve a political end." that
the church is in danger;" but I put it to every reasonable man
whether protestantism is hot in danger if the intention be car-
ried into effect in Ireland of alienating from the church a certain
proportion of its property, in violation of the most solemn as-
surances, and of devoting it to the purposes of education, ex-
pressly excluding instrectiorrin the main principles and precepts
of the protestant church, concurrently with making the bishops
stipendiaries of the state, and dissolving that connection which
Was preserved between the church and state by the contribu-
tions raised for the maintenance of the fabrics of the church, and
applying those funds•to pelieve property froth a burden to which
it has been subiect,•and to a dissolution of that connection which
Lord Althorp declared to be essential to the church and the
slate. I will ask any man whether these measures do not en-
danger the church establishment? By conservative principles,
I
mean a determination to•meet every threatened danger to the
Protestant establishment—nay, I mean more, I mean that we
are determined upon the infliction—if we can inflict it—of "a
heavy blow and a great discouragement" to those principles
which are antagonist to the establishment of the protestant faith.
BY:conservative principles I mean a maintenance of the settled
institutions of church and state, and I mean also the mainten-
ance,,, defence-, and continuance of those laws, those institu-
t"oos, that society, and those habits and manners which
have contributed to mould arid form the character of English-
'nen, and enabled this country, in her contests and the fearful
rivalry of war. to extort the admiration of the world, and in the
useful emulation of. peaceftil industry, commercial enterpriv.,
and social improvement,-have endeared the name of England
crud Englishmen in every country in the world to those who seek
the establishinentof liberty without oppression, and the enjoy-
ment ofa national and, pure form of religion, which is at once
the consolation of the virtuous man, and is also I he best guaran-
tee which human institutions can afford for civil and religious
liberty. (The rig-ht 'honourable hart. than sat down, and the
cheering, which had'been frequent throughout his speech, was
renewed wit la increased energy and enthusiasm.)
The CHM amn N then proposed the health of Lord
c Stanley.speech,
Lord-STANEy returned thanks in a most eloquent
which was received throughout With great applause, but we re-
gret our limits will not allow us to give even an outline of it
. The health of Sir iffs. Graham, and a number of othertoas.ts,
followed., and the conviviality and harmony of the meeting were
kept up to a late hour..