The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

human grill upon a large scale. No—no--we
Mr. T .onlas Lunt, of
must not remain satisfied—Europe must not re-
a prospect tower at Li- main satisfied—with reprobation of this particular
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nations must 'ask themselves the question, whether
France is to be permitted, by any mode of warfare,--
by any variety of murderous appliances—to mas-
sacre one half of the population of an entire con-
tinent, either for the advancement of her absurd
schemes of ambition, or to remove dangerous
elements from beside the throne of Louis Philippe.
Because France cannot repress- the fierce pas-
sions of her disaffected population—because she
cannot banish from before their eyes the blood-
stained splendours of the revolution and of the
empire—because she labours under a plethora of
appetite for conflict and triumph, and must be let-
ting blood—we cannot consent that she shall be
allowed to select any portion which she chooses of
the earth's surface, upon which to effect an object
which the hangsrnan or the headsmen could accom-
plish with infinitely less sacrifice of human life, and
much more certainty of the necessary infliction of
punishment falling upon the right heads.
Apart from all questions of mere humanity—or
even of prudence—and we agree with our contem-
porary, the London Times, that it is worthy of our
consideration, what might be the consequence if, at
some future period, an army of 100,000 men,
trained in this African warfare, and capable of the
atrocity of burning alive those whom they are un-
able on the instant to reach with the sword :—apart
from these considerations, we have a right to ask
what business has France to be colonizing in Africa
at all. Europe permitted her, and thanked her for
the act, to repress the piracies of Algiers, and to
root out the pirates from their nest; but we took
from her a pledge to abstain from permanent occu-
pation. Is she grown so mighty now that we dare
not remind her of that pledge, and insist upon its
fulfilment ? Or are we so cowardly that we are
content to owe our own immunity from her assaults
to this war which is exhausting her strength, whilst
it is desolating Africa ? One or other of these
questions must be answered in the affimative, if we
do not interfere for the protection of the suffering
people of that continent, and for the credit of out-
raged human nature.

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The orange movement which has just taken place
in Ireland, and the responsive demonstration made
last week in Liverpool will, we trust, not be without
their effect on ihe public mind; and may even be
startling enough to arrest the attention of the pre-
sent administration. The government organs are
evidently sore and uneasy, whilst the organs of
Popery—and amongst the rest a distinguished spe-
cimen in our own town—have been seized with a
fit of railing, and almost exhausted the vocabulary
of Billingsgate upon the heads of the loyal and dis-
countenanced supporters of the constitution and
the integrity of the empire. By what may be
called, so far as orangeism is concerned, the middle
party in the country, consisting of those Protestants
and Churchmen who, never having known what it
was to exercise the duties of their religion with the
fear of outrage before their eyes, or to feel the
necessity of combination for mutual protection, are
averse to this and every description of party display,
a just and proper interpretation has nevertheless
been put upon the proceedings of the body in both
countries. Such men have opened their eyes to the
fact that, in Ireland especially, and in England

wherever Popery has fixed its unruly masses,
Protestants have been, and are day by day being,
driven to a display of their strength and union, as a
measure of defence, and of precaution against
coming violence. They cannot but feel that, as
religionists, their feelings have been outraged and
their loyalty proscribed; and in men so situated,
the reflecting portion of Englishmen are willing to
pardon proceedings which, in some degree, violate
their own notions of propriety, and which they
themselves do not, and because the necessity for
them has never arisen, they think they could not be
driven to practise.