The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-07 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

NVO have no objections to the abusive letters we are in the habit
of receiving from the " City it New York," for the language,
coarse though it be, is characteristic and amusing; hut it is
hard to saddle us with the postage. if it be inconvenient to
change a dollar, perhaps our correspondents would favour us
With a small consignment of cotton or some other " notion"
to cover the expense. If this be not done, we shall be under
the necessity of returning their letters unopened.
Ihe writer of the letter signed " RADICAL REFORMER" is an
inaniense blockhead.
We must decline, once for all, entering upon the doctrinal
points mooted by G. B. S.
SAMPSON evidently does not understand what he writes about,
and we think it a kindness to consign his letter to the flames.
Lines on a " Boy Birdnesting," by some amiable young person
no doubt, who delights in the name of " 16a," may suit some
tastes, although not ours. We would recommend her to send
them to the Mercury.
The " Schoolmaster in Liverpool" is too personal.
Lord Brougham at the Yorkshire election called himself an
Englishman; in Edinburgh he was a Scotehman • and the
Probability therefore is, that his lordship, when at Inverness,
Passed himself off as a highlander.
The water question will probably be decided at the next fire.

Eibtrpoci e.5-„tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1835.

The following from our Falmouth correspondent an-
tounces the death of the King Consort of Portugal:—
Falmouth, Saturday.
His majesty's brig Nautilus is arrived here to-day from
-4sbon after a passage of six clays, bringing intelligence of the
',Path of Prince Augustus, which took place on Saturday last.
Ihe prince had been suffering from the effects of a cold, which
Produced quinsy, and terminated fatally.
„rile grief of (he Queen is said to be very great, and the inha-
i'llants of Lisbon geueralry expressed much regret.
Six p. m.
The Renard packet is coming in with the West India mails.

We have New York papers to the 12th March. The
Senate and House of Representatives adjourned on the
3d, without passing any other resolution than what we
have already noticed relative to the President's message
and their claims upon France. The settlement of the
question now rests with the French Chamber of Depu-
ties. If they are content to vote the dollars, this tem-
Pest iu a teapot will be at an end, the " imperishable"
Oak remain unskathed, and the red pines wag their tops
in the breeze as before.
But what if they should not vote the dollars? Why,
,nothing. Congress has adjourned without voting the
President any ways and means, although he pressed
them hard for the very smallest sum they could spare.
The venerable gentleman is very scurvily treated!

ARE WE TO HAVE A REVOLUTION ? Most
Ilmiuestionably we shall, if the present House of Com-
mons be not speedily dissolved. The bundle of sticks is
Btteng when well bound together, and such at this hour
is the condition of the numerous factions, and fragments
t'f,factions, in the lower house of parliament. They,
hate each most cordially, as all empirics, hypocrites,
and pretenders uniformly do, for they know each other ;
but they are sworn friends in the cause of mischief and
launder, and they are united in their opposition to the
ICING's government because they know that it is an ho-
nest one, which will not play the game 'of corruption,
14111elt, will not pamper. worthless demagogues, which will
11'4 rule by patronage or by bribing idle and electioneer-
ing commissioners, and which will not lend itself to
schemes of fraud and robbery.
We solemnly believe that this is one of the principal
reasons why all the "shreds and patches" of faction are
t
z'andecl together against Sir ROBERT PEEL and his ma-
lestY's ministers. • Look at the materials which compose
rile majority of Friday last. It is difficult to find, " bar-
(11.4." the ignominious " tail," any six men who ate cor-
in concurrence upon any two public questions. We
r 1 the papist and the quaker—the wolf and the lamb—
eking each other. We see the cold-hearted unitarian,

the stern presbyterian„the towering evangelical dissen-
ter, the pragmatical independent, and the new-dipped
and newly-enlightened anabaptist—hot from a love
feast—all most curiously blended into a union, and making
fierce war against the Church of England. This is an
ominous and frightful. state of things. We observe the
boxer and the 'leading. luminary of the tabernacle in
sweet embrace—the gambler shaking hands with the
saint—neighbour broad-bri supezing his knees into
the back of a blackleg—the 'er and the thief's at-
torney squaring accounts—t apostle of philanthropy
walking arm-in-arm with the playhouse rake—the,puri.
tan and the profligate all hugging each other, and joining
in a harmonious cheer over the triumph of a principle
which,.if acted upon, would seal the fate of the Church
of England and the monarchy itself.
It is charitable to suppose that some of these men do
not understand what they are doing, and cannot see the
effects of their own measures. The Church of England,
which is the object of their united malignity, is the only
mound which stands between them and destruction. If
they had,not the church to blunt their teeth upon, they
would tear each other to pieces. How long would the
quakers of Clonmel be tolerated if popery were in the
ascendant in Ireland ? If the presbyterians of Ulster
were left to themselves, how long would it be before
their extirpation would be complete ? If the church did
not raise its shield over the anabaptists, independents,
and unitarians, how many weeks would their chapels re-
main unrazed by the demon of popery ? These persons
are utterly powerless, and they would be swept away in
a night, but for the protective hand of the protestant
church. They are vain, they are arrogant, they are se-
cure; but, oh false security !. if they were left to them-
selves but for a single ;nonth: The' wolf 'they caress
would come down upon them when they slept; and eat
them up. Theirs would. be, a short-lived 'vanity and an
ephemeral arrogance, if the moody bigots of Mavnooth
and their savage' legions were let loose upon them.
:They do not see this; and, of course, they do not fear it ;
but although it would be a just punishment and a whole-
some example, still we pray HEAVEN that they may ne-
ver experience the consequences which Would most un-
questionably ensue, if the light, and power, and protec-
tion of the church were destroyed, and the reign of po-
pish terror and persecution revived.
'The most painful part of the case is that we have at
present only ONE MAN who is, by his position in the
state, competent to keep the confederated factions at bay,
and stand between us and a fearful revolution; We do
not by this put forth the melancholy confession that Sir
ROBERT PEEL is the last remaining champion of the mo-
narchy and the religious institutions of England. GOD
forbid that we should be so helpless ! There are in our
country many hundreds of men, of equal talents, of un-
sullied honour, of rare accomplishments, of unbending
virtue, of glowing zeal, of untarnished loyalty, of stern
fidelity, and animated by that wisdom which comes from
above, who in the hour of extremity might and would
take his place, shake the senate, electrify the people,
give new life and energy to drooping hearts, and SAVE
THEIR COUNTRY. We are not of those who de-
spond, black though the clouds be, and wild the roar of
the leveller, the infidel, and the incendiary. In the worst
of times PROVIDENCE has given us a saviour and an
avenger. Our institutions may be rended, may totter,
and some of them may fall. We may be beaten at our
outposts as we have been before. The enemy may carry
trench after trench, and reach the ramparts; but in the
citadel we shall be secure, there to recruit our strength.
and thence to issue out in terrible and indomitable force
against the divided and famished legions quarrelling and
destroying each other under our walls. The time for
this, however, is not come, as regaids England; and we
hope it is not near at hand as concerns Ireland. If so,
so much the better. That island has .not yet received
FULL JUSTICE at the hands of insulted England. She
may before long. We have endured her caprices and
her insults—her menaces and her perfidies—her !loons
of rapacity and her nights of blood—for a series of
years without applying 'the proper remedy. The day
will come when offended justice will demand itS vic•
tims, and when crimes that—reach high heaven' and
stain the earth, and mock christianity, and turn li-
berty and law and concession into ridicule, must be met
with the red and the heavy hand. She has been the
spoiled child of Great Britain. We have endeavoured
to civilize her, but like the Indian who has tasted the
" Fire Spirit," we have made her drunk. Her savage
inhabitants, dulled into unconscious recklessness by the
power of priestcraft, and incapable of understanding the
responsibilities which attach to crime, and seeing in mur-
der, abduction, robbery, and manslaughter, no sin cen-
sured by the priest, or condemned by the word of GOD,
which they are not suffered to look into,-these people—
the popish peasantry of Ireland—have had no limits to
their atrocious invasions of the righta of property, or the
means by which they might accomplish the most cruel
and infamous ends. This, we admit, has been the fault
of the imperial parliament and the people of gpeand.
We have given the organs of the popish priestszredit for
their professions and protestations which were insincere.
We have dealt honestly with them when they were im-
posing upon us. We were silly enough to recognise
their averments as facts. We encouraged and assisted
them when they were slandering and betraying us. We
called them friends, in the largeness of our beneficence,
when they were imagining all contrivances for our injury
and destruction. We were feeding them when they were
robbing us; and raising them to stations of honour and
distinction when they-had actually planned their designs
for dissolving the union, and severing Ireland from the
British empire. In one word—and we it reluctantly
—the Duke of WELLINGTON yielded at the very moment,
and for avowed reasons, which should have made him
more resolute and unbending than ever in refusing their
demands ! But that was in the wane of the unhappy
reign of GEORGE IV.
We come back to where we started. Sir ROBERT PEEL
is the ONLY MAN, at the present juncture, who is capable
of saving the church and the monarchy. We do not pay
the right honourable baronet an undeserved compliment
by this admission. It is not, however, a compliment
coming from us in the character of a parasite or expect-
ant flatterer; and we should not offer it at all if we could
for a moment suppose that our motives could• be ques-
tioned, or our sincerity impugned. The right honour-',
able baronet is in the Midst of the conflict. He leads the
van in the House of Commons. He is invested with
power, and the chief command, by his Sovereign i and,
therefore, on hini depends the result of the present con-
test. The King's name—alas for England, that it should
be so !—gives him no increase of power in the House of
Commons. The King was a consenting party to the
change which has left him almost helpless; and but for
the chivalry, honour, and innate loyalty of his subjects he
would be helpless indeed. At any rate his Majesty has
selected Sir ROBERT PEEL as the person most competent
to rescue the throne from its present perilous situation.
The right honourable baronet has sustained three signal
defeats in the House of Commons. First; on the speak-
ership ; secondly, on the address; and thirdly, on the
spoliating and appropriating resolution of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. The majority was first ten—it next fell to
seven—it now has risen to thirty-three!
What, then, is the premier to do ? He has offered a
tithe-bill to Ireland which is hardly within the confines of
justice. But under the peculiar circumstances of the case
we accept it cordially as an amicable and expedient corn-
premise. To this bill the confederated factions of the
House of Commons offer no opposition, but they insist
that the bill shall be. clogged with the appropriation
clause, the meaning of which is this. The church of Ire-
land shall be pinched—famished—robbed—and the mo-
ney or income screwed from it by pinching or robbery,
shall be applied to the purposes of " generl education." !
• Let us pause here. For if the revolution should come,
the revolution must, like the gallows, or the decimated
.company at a military execution, do its duty. For the
first time since the STS?-ARTS were driven from the throne,
have we heard of the doctrine that church property was
applicable to secular purposes. This we say is quite new.
The revenues of the catholic church became the revenues
of the protestant church after the reformation. There
were abbey lands, monastic lands, convent lands, wrested
from the monks, friars, and nuns, and given to the fa-

vourites of HENRY VIII. If, then, it be expedient to de-
vote certain church revehuesto the purposes of education,
why should the church more than the secular impropria-
tor contribute the means ? Answer this, JOHN, Duke of
BEDFORD. If spoil is to be sanctioned let *us, at least,
have fair play. None of your crimping and paltry subter-
fuges of fraud. If PETER is to be plundered so must
PAui. If the Bishop of CORK is to be pillaged so must
the Duke of BEDFORD. The people of England will not
tolerate favourites—or pariders—or exclusives, in a mo-
dern division or adjustment of ancient spoil. The kettle
must boil for all—the measure must be general—the sa-
crifice agrarian, and fol. agrarian purposes.
But is this measure of justice recognised by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and the united disunited factions of the House
of Commons ? No. The robbery is to be limited. It
is a sort of pillage immortalized in Gil Blas, only with
this characterisiie difference, that the monk or beggarly
friar might rob with impunity the layman, whereas in
our case the layman is prohibited from robbing any but
the ecclesiastic. This fine modern distinction will not be
endured.

Still the question recurs—what is Sir ROBERT PEEL to
do ? We answer firmly, but with all due deference,—RE-
SlST. Resist, sir, manfully, boldly, unflinchingly, and•
the people of England, in the proportion that your cou-
rage rises, and your integrity becomes more manifest,-
will, according to the national character, come en mane
to your aid, cheer you on, and give you a grand and a
signal victory. In their hands Lord JOIfN RUSSELL and
his confederated factions are no more than an oyster be-
tween the ribs of the grate, held in the tongs by a dutiful
but unphilanthropi9cuok. Resist, and yours, under the
awakened sanction of wconservative King, will be a tri-
umph for life. Resist, and you will have with you the
talent, the intelligence, and ultimately the whole moral
force of the people of England. Resist, and your courage
Will create new and countless auxiliaries in every part of
the kingdom. Tell your countrymen that you are ham-
pered and harassed in the House of Commons by IriSh
demagogues, some of whom are in a condition little above
pauperism, and who are sent hither by their priests for
the sole purpose of undermining the Church of England,
and, if possible, extirpating those principles, in maintain-
ing which our fathers shed their best blood, and devised
them to us as an invaluable and everlasting inheritance.
Why, the majority of thirty-three is composed entirely of
Irish papists—of men who have sworn a solemn oath, as
binding as the strongest protestations can bind them,
that they will do nothing to disturb or weaken the reli-
gion and institutions of the church. Tell the people of
England, sir, that men who thus regard an oath are those
who impede all your measures for national improvement
—that they are agents, not representatives—that they
are the worst enemies of Ireland—the unrelenting ene-
mies of England—and that the reform they seek is spolia-
tion, ruin, and general bankruptcy. Let no means be
spared in showing the electors that, having the welfare
of the country at heart, you are thwarted in your de-
signs, and embarrassed at every step by the delegates of
the Irish priests; that the real business of the country is
interrupted or suspended by vexatious, unprofitable, and
absurd discussions relative to Ireland; and that night
after night is wasted upon imaginary grievances to the
exclusion of useful inquify or beneficial reform. Make
an appeal to their pride, their honour, and their sense of
justice—convince them that you have the confidence of
the King—prove to them, as you can do, that a majority
of the English members are in your favour—and leave
the result in their hands. That it world be a glorious
and triumphant result we have no doubt whatever.
In the tedious discussions which have taken place on
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion, 'a discovery of a very
singular kind has been made, namely, that the appropri-
ation of the church revenues to secular purposes would
contribute largely to the peace and happiness of Ireland.
The doctrine is so preposterous that we can scarcely treat
it with any seriousness. It is a conceit perhaps conge-
nial to the insignificant mind of Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
but it. is an absurdity. No man of even ordinary intelli-
gence can believe that the distribution of the whole re-
venues of the church amongst schoolmasters world ame-
liorate the condition of that unfortunate country. The
evil lies too deep to be reached by the scraper or touched
by the scraps of the schoolmaster. The education. that
the liberals profess a willingness to give is one more
calcUlated to produce than allay insubordination. They
divest education of its spirituality, and therefore it is
useless for good. It stimulates vanity, but does not im-
plant wisdom. It excites the fancy, but it gives no con-
solation.

Lord SANDoN, in adverting to•the discovery made by
the opposition, dealt it a home blow. Lord Jonx, he
said, contender.) that the education sought for by the peo-
ple of Ireland would now be obtained through the me-
dium of the surplus revenues, but Lord SANDON called
upon him to show when and where the people of Ireland
had sought for education, and defied him to point out a
single petition presented on the subject. But it is in
vain to reason with such men as Lord JOHN RUSSELL.
He and his factions must be dealt with in a different but
more effectual manner.

It is distressing to notice the base and heartless ex-
tremes to `Which factious violence is carrying some of our
contemporaries. The Globe used to be a quiet, unosten-
tatious, and well-conducted journal, respected for its
moderate politics, and its innocent credulity. In an evil
hour, however, it became the organ- of the late ad-
ministration, and in defending their corrupt jobs, or
perhaps participating in them, it soon lost all sense of
decency and manners. When the whigs were dismissed
a melancholy change came over the spirit of the Globe.
It has been in teats ever since, and at intervals is ex-
Aremely violent if not downright frantic--furious, poor
thing, furious, desperate, and mad! On Saturday last
it contained the following:—

"Even the great Sir Robert was more languid than usual.
The fact is, he is physically unequal to his work. To be a whole
ministry, with an opposition in a majority constantly attacking
him, is too much for any man. The Times may say what it
likes, and Mr. may run about remarking how fat and
jolly Sir Robert looks,—and the Standard may assure us that
he sleeps like a top; but it is GRATIFYING TO OBSERVE
THAT WE ARE EVIDENTLY KILLING HIM. We don't suppose
he will let it come to that; but he must resign officO to preserve
life."

The Globe, if we mistake not, is in the bands of cer-
tain sectarians who affect much piety, and yet these pious
persons are gratified at the effects of their vindictive
malice, and rejoice to think they are killing a man! Such
is the world come to. The dastardly scribe who can
make sport with life and death in bilis manner would, if
he had any courage, perpetrate a murder.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, we calculate, will outlive most of
his enemies, and that is what makes them so savage.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Half-part Seven o'clock, Saturday Evening.

The last three days we have been without any foreign
or continental arrivals of moment, nor have there been
any rumours current, the attention of the public having
been entirely occupied by the situation of the govern-
ment. .An address will be presented to Sir Robert Peel
this evening from the merchants, bankers, &c. of Lon-
don, which, in three days, has received many thousands
of signatures. This example will, doubtless, he gene.;
rally followed. We believe a similar measure is about
to be arranged in the county of Surrey, in Westminster,
and in the borough, and also in other places. The Lon-
don address has already greatly alarmed the faction, and
the change of opinion out of doors must influence these
hatchers of anarchy into a cessation of their mean, yet
desperate attempts to overturn the government, and
prostrate order. In consequence of this, the money
market, which it was expected would have been seriously
affected by the result of the question of Lord JOHN'S, has
remained very firm, the closing quotation of consols this
afternoon being 921. Our foreign market has exhibited
a most remarkable agitation, both yesterday and to-day,
a complete mania having seized upon the speculators in
the transatlantic bonds. Chilian Bonds, which, on the
31st ult., were at 451-, suddenly advanced yesterday to.
514, and this morning underwent a further advance to 57,
falling afterwards to 53, and closing at 55 to 56. Co-
lumbian, which were, at the above date, at 401, have
arisen to 44; Peruvian from 291 30 to 37, and left off at
36 ; Buenos Ayres Bonds to 36,. and Mexican to 45 and

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