The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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.APRIL 14, 1835.

lug who are his real friends--who are hollow, who sincere
—who profess to support him—who honestly and zealously
support him. He could not have expected—he had no
right to expect—that manifestations of regard so une-
quivocal—that declarations of confidence so general as
in fact to be national—would have proceeded so spon-
taneously from all ranks and classes of men. In short,
the people deeply sympathise with the right honourable
baronet, and their sympathy is only exceeded by the dis:
gust they feel at the conduct of the hybrid factions by
whom this extraordinary if not fatal crisis has been pro-
duced.

Lord GREY, it is said, has had, since the resignation,
More than one interview with the KING. Lord MEL-
BOURNE and Lord LANsnowNEhave also been consulted.
But what can these noble lords do ? If Lord MEL-
BOURNE were unfit to carry on the government in No-
vember last, when he had a House of Commons which
idolized Lord ALTHORP, it is not likely that he would
undertake the task with the House of Commons very
differently, and, as far as he is concerned, very adversely
constructed. As to Lord LANSDOWNE being placed at
the head of any adminiitration, we take that to be. en-
tirely out of the question. We have no objections to
Lord GREY, provided that Lord GREY remain true to
his declared principles. But we do ;.he noble earl wrong
_,in imagining for a single moment- that he would palter
with his faith or violate his pledges. He is the last man
in England to bend before the influence of the popish
demagogues of Ireland. His opinion of O'CONNELL
and his fellow conspirators is upon record: He holds
them in abhorrence—he considers any correspondence
with them to be little less than contamination—he treats
them as rebels, for such they really are.
How, then, can Lord GREY form an administration ?
The old, proud, and constitutional whig party is literally
broken up. Nothing now remains of it but fragments.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL hashad the honour of dragging them
through the kennel of pollution. He has for ever de-
stroyed a once powerful party. The "RUSSELL whig" is
new a- term' of rei:ow:11. It means a than who is content
to play second fiddle to the Irish beggar. Lord JOHN'S
majorities were all Irish. He would have been beaten
on every question had he not sought the genial aid of
the "tail." The " tail" elected the speaker ; the "tail"
carried the amendment to the address ; the "tail" gave the
majority of thirty-three against the protestant church in
Ireland ; but is this creditable to Lord JOHN RUSSELL ?
We contend that it is quite the reverse, and that it is
not only tantamount to defeat, but that it inflicts upon
the noble lord a sentence of irredeemable degradation.
Lord Jour: never stood high with the people of England,
but he had until recently a recognizable and respectable
status in the political world. That, however, whatever
it was, he has lost for ever. He has fairly flung himself
into the rank embraces of the Irish faction,and his conduct
shows him to be.. what he really is—a very shabby jesuit.
He once had some credit with the dissenters ; they now
know and thoroughly despise the mau. He is mean in
intellect, poor in spirit,- captious in argument, a mere
jobbing tailor in legislation, and as unlike the Lord Rus-
SELL who was beheaded as JOSEPH HUNTON, the quaker,
who was hanged, was to the gallant MoNTRosE.
But let us brush the wasp away in order to reach no-
bler game. Hang him ? No, he is unworthy of it; the
treadmill alone could do him justice. We are not quite
certain if the country would feel perfect confidence in
any administration formed by Lord GREY, particularly
after it has given its cordial approbation to the measures
proposed by Sir ROBERT PEEL. But assuming that it
would, how could Lord GREY form a cabinet from the
ranks of the whigs ? Where is he to find his Lord AL-
THORP ? il7r. SPRING RICE voted with Lord JOHN—he,
therefore, cannot meet Lord GREY on the subject.
Lord STANLEY'S section and that of the RUSSELL party
are in deadly enmity, and never can be united. Of all
men living O'CONNELL fears and bates Lord STANLEY the
most. Sir JAMES GRAHAM is in the same predicamenj.
lie has taken his stand against the principle of church
robbery, which is so much admired at Woburn and
Derrynane Abbeys. Here, then, we are entirely at a
stand-still. The materials for a whig administration
are wanting, and what contributes to the embarrasment
as much as any thing else is the fact that the Irish pa-
pists distrust Lord GREY quite as much as they do Sir
ROBERT PEEL. 'Nay; their journals have treated the
right lion. baronet with comparative courtesy and re-
spect, if we may judge from the vituperation they have
inflicted upon the noble earl. A Dublin paper, called
the Freeman's Journal, the recognised organ of the po-
pish faction, attacks the bare presumption of Lord GREY'S I
restoration to office in the following terms:—

"We will take leave to say that our information leads us to
the conclusion that Lord Grey will not be Premier, or at all
officially connected with the new administration. The noble
earl's re-accession to power would be the signal fOr an universal
outbreak in Ireland. Let the truth be spoken out at voce—Lord
Grey is hated in Ireland. • Ills very name is abhorred by the
coerced people of this country, whom he ruled with a rod of iron—
and in forging new chains for whom he broke up his cabinet.
No, no; we have hail enough of the tyrant in friend's garb;
and if oppression is still to be our lot, let us, in resistance—FOß IN
THAT pass RESIST WE wit.l.—have at least an open foe to en-
counter. What! submit again to Draco's rule ?—never. !la-
ther let every man, woman, and child in Ireland perish. Why
did Lord Grey resign ? Was it not because he found that some
of his colleagues, and the majority of the House of Commons,
were determined to clip the iron tangs of his tiger proposition ?
Did he not fling up office because he could not obtain the con-
sent of the representatives of the people to the hell-born clauses
of his atrocious coercion act ? Let Lord Grey conic into office
once more, and the union which now exists between the several
sections of the liberal party will be dissolved, and to harmony
will instantly succeed discord dire.
"If we could tender a word of friendly advice to Lord Grey's
advocates and admirers, either here or in England, we would
tell them to leave the noble earl in his old age to the peace of
domestic retirement, and riot to force upon the public the con-
- aideration of his ministerial conduct, under circumstances that
do not bear a strict analysis or a close observation. They are
injudicious and indiscreet friends who thrust before .the public
gale a character which
tetter bark'd about,
Most lazarlike, with vile end loathsome crust.' "
We like_ to hear a patriot or a papist, in a state of fe-
ver or inebriety,. come out loudly with all the latent feel-
ings of his soul. Here we have the truth ! Why,should
not all the men, women, and children of Ireland be mur-
dered rather than that Lord GREY should become prime
minister ? We pity the blockhead who talks in this
manner, because his fate is a voluntary one; if hanged
he will be his own executioner. But the people of Ire•
land are to resist, in other words, rebel, fight, massacre
each other, if the noble earl should accept the office of
premier. Now we, being peaceable persons, are not
much enamoured of civil war ; we dread it nearly as
much as the Duke of WELLINGTON ; burning, stabbing,
pillaging, and the other concomitant enormities, are
not exactly to our taste ; but if we could be induced to
believe that the popish orgah of Dublin is in earnest,
and that the followers. of O'CoNNELL would carry these
threats into effect, much as we dread so terrible a con-
flict, we should be the first to consider it a happy experi-
ment, the hazards of which being decidedly against those
who provoke ft. The popish faction in Ireland is purely
a tolerated one. It has been nursed in the bosom of
whiggery. It never had any power which it did not de-
rive from a party in England. Had it been left to itself
it would have perished long ago. CHARLES GREY in the
Commons was one of its earliest advocates and patrons
--the same CHARLES GREY, now a ven,erable nobleman,
being the first person whom the faction he cherished
would tear to pieces. What a lesson to the whigs ! All
their loving kindness, all their sweet philanthropy, all
their genercus struggles in the cause of emancipation, is
now forgotten, and they are denounced as tyrants in the
garb of friends. It is an axiom proved by experience,
and consecrated by time, that the hatred engendered bv
disunited friendship, or misplaced affection, is more
_fierce and cruel than that of the most exasperated of he-
reditary enemies. Here we have the feeling directed
against Lord GREY. The Irish savages, unmindful of
past favours, would spring like tigers upon a defenceless
nobleman in the decline of life, and simply because he
conscientiously performed his duty to his royal master at
a season of extraordinary excitement. With fiendlike
madness they would prefer all the horrors of war, and
run all the hazards of crime and murder, rather than
:submit to be governed by one of their oldest and most
sincere friends. What a lesson, we say again, to the
Whigs! How can they hope to govern Ireland with such
menaces and maledictions ringing in their ears ? They
are plainly told by the popish priests, (for it is the priests
who speak here,) that unless they change their principles
and adopt the views of O'CONNELL and his confederates,
they will be opposed to the utmost by all the joints of the