The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

The Whig candidates could not shew themselves
Oxford or Cambridge_; and at Trinity Collev, they w
defeated by a majority of three to one. Strong in t
Tower Hamlets, Marylehone, and St. Giles's,—irrcsi-
ble among the weavers of Manchester, and the bla
smiths of Birmingham, they could not venture a strn
with the educated gentlemen of England even at
Whig University of Cambridge. This is a decisive
as to the future fate of the empire. Brute strength,
sical numbers, cannot, in the end, contendetvith inte
tual superiority; the diamond edge of genius will s
bonds which the strength of millions .could not br
The arms, and legs, in a moment of intemperance,
cease to obey the head ; but the eternal subjection
matter to mind will not the less, in the end, be assert
It was not thus at the outset of the French Revoluti
all the educated classes there urged on the movem
and their heads began to fall before they were convin
of their error ; but the superior intelligence and'habi
thought of England have saved it from this ruinous i
tuation. The coming storm has been seen by the edn
tion of the country, and they have set themselves 111
fully to resist it. They were too late in doing so to p
vent the onset of the storm, but they may still influe
its direction and moderate its fury. The sway of the
volutionary party is rapidly subsiding in the educa
classes ; it is altogether extinct in their higher grad
and dying out in the lower. It is still paramount in '
middling and lower orders, because they are always sv
ed by the principle which ten years before influenced '
higher. In the present inundation of Movement me
bers into the House of Commons, may be discerned '
natural consequence of the absurd pseudo-liberality w hi
six or eight years ago, distinguished so many of t
young men of rank and fortune at the universities.
the opinions entertained by their successors at this ti,
is to be found the harbinger of a brighter day to fat
times, and the mirror of public opinion, after a long
terval of disaster and suffering, in future years.
These anticipations must be still farther strengthen'
if it is recollected, in the fourth place, that the middli
orders, in whom the strength of the Revolutionary p
now lies, must soon be exposed to individual sufferi
and misery in consequence of the infatuated course will
they have pursued, and the wicked leaders whom t
have chosen to follow. All the great interests of
country, and with them all the small interests of
country, are at stake: The. Church is the first victi
and it has spread its roots too far through the middli
classes, not to excite a general and heartfelt feeling of
Bret and indignation when it is despoiled of its and
inheritance. The Corn Laws, and the Funds, w
they are assailed, will each affect the livelihood and s
sistence of millions. It will no longer be the politi
power of the higher orders which will be tied to the st
to be worried by the dogs of revolution, but the fort
and subsistence of large masses of the .people; and
triumph of the Revolutionists will be dimmed by
tears of the orphan, the cries of the destitute, the 1,01
ings of the dying. When those disastrous events °cc
as occur they will, it is impossible that a large portion
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the middling and lower orders should not break off frol
the leaders who have ruined and betrayed them S'i
lament the misery which will then be created, we sh
do our utmost to alleviate it, so far as we can, but
know that it is unavoidable. Misery and suffering ni
tame the fierceness of passion in nations as well as in
viduals; the laws of nature are not to be broken NO,
impunity; and those, who, disregarding the voice of No
doin, will yield to the tempter, must in sackcloth
ashes repent of their sins, not ess in the political
the moral world.

Lastly, the talent and courage which has burst fell
among the young and brilliant leaders of the Consercl
hive band, encourage the warmest hopes of the fate
;he empire, when they arrive at such a station as to ro'
.ts councils. Difficulties and dangers create men • 0,
he ability which in ordinary times might be buried I
)bscurity, or perhaps lost in frivolity, is, in these-stirri
tad trying times, called to a nobler sphere, and traifg
o the exercise of more animating duties. It is with fee
ngs of no ordinary pride that we notice the brilliant &
Ttions which Scotland has made at this eventful crisi,
Manchester has rejected Mr. Hope; Roxburghshire 0.1
mobably do the same to Lord John Scott. These ever~
lily prove the total unfitness of the class to whom ti
teform Bill has given power, to exercise it to their
,r their country's advantage, and sets off in brighter ¶
ours, by the force of contrast, the splendid talents whi4
hey were unable to appreciate. The brilliant eloquen6
ound constitutional principles, and enlarged views
hese eminent young men, prove how fit they were
arm the brightest ornaments of the Senate ; their re e'
ion, the miserable prospect of salvation which the -111
n•m Bill affords to the country. But let them not 11
iscouraged ; the time will come, when they will spe!
as willing as they have hitherto found adverse auo
nces among the lower orders, and when the admiratiO
hick they have universally awakened among the ecY
ited gentlemen who could understand, will be shared
le ignorant multitude, who will then have learnt by St'
'ring to appreciate them.
The duty of the Conservative band, who, in the mid'
r the general democratic madness, find a place in tb
egislature, is sufficiently plain. Let them adhere gel,
.ly to their principles ; recollect that on them, as to
Lcred band of Thebans, the sole hopes of, their countow rest; and that,- victorious or vanquished; the ado,'
lion. of posterity and•the gratitude of their country i*,"
tend them if they never swerve from the path of dffl
et them join in no coalitions to throw out the Ministil
sgrace themselves by no unions for a momentary t°'
nph with the Radicals; but steadily and uniformly collo
ler Revolution as the demon which they are sent theil
combat, and, by the blessing of God, will ultimate'',
nquer. By uniformly adhering to this principle, the'
ill remain perfectly clear of the march of innovatiol
Ld all its ruinous excesses and consequences : they
Lye nothing to reproach themselves with in their pauP:
reer ; and when suffering has taught the people theil
rors,_ and anguish has
-tamed their passions, it is to the
at the nation will turn with tears of repentance,
eir patriotism which it will celebrate in strains of 01
tat i on.—Blackwood's Magazine.

THE PORTUGUESE WAR.

The state of our relagons with Portugal has beco
anxious, so much perplexed by contending factioo
id likely to invoke this nation in such embarrOsii:
nsequences, that we believe we shall gratify pin- real
s by a general and fair outline of the question.
is matter we take no side The competitors for !c,
mtuguese throne are equally indifferent to us,
,vt"
rors or crimes of the parties are not within our
ite. Don Miguel and Don Pedro are to us the sails
et we very deeply regret the, circumstances, whelmt
ising from chance, caprice, or necessity, which Ili
iced England in all but a direct position of war 1:4
old, so faithful, and so important an ally as Porto
If Don Miguel were personally guilty of every erl,o
it could degrade the human character, we might su'it
d hate the individual,—we might pronounce -him 900
sit upon a throne, if we. will, but the arbitration
t rest with us. The Portuguese nation, full'," /
ainted with , the man and the character, have 'clIV

n for their monarch. And which amongst our reri
tiers of nations, will venture to say, that they 10
it for the apprpbatio'n ,of England on- the mats
they have chosen ill, the -ill be on them. Bat
Dice can be no mare an affair of ours than the calag

to Portuguese have.shown that their choice was firt
ieous : they have Since shown that they adhe,,4(
!ir choice, they are at this hour holding out dev