The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-28 00:00:00

LIVER THEATRE, CIII;RCH-STREET.

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QIGNOR BLITZ, for THREEiGHTS LONGER, on
11:1 his return from Loudon, preriou to sailing by the Colum-
bus, for America, on the Ist Au
p
Nights of Performing,—THlS ENING, (Tuesday,),the 28th,
TO-AIORROW, (Wednesday,) t 29:11, THURSDAY, the 30th,
and FRIDAY, thealst instant; and, in compliance with the re-
quest of several Families in the Neighbourhood, SIGNOR
BLITZ will have the honour of giving TWO MORNING
PE RFORMANCES—To-sto [mow, (Wednesday,) the 29th,
and Flimsy, the 31st instant, commencing at One o'clock
exactly.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, la.—Gallery, 6d. No admission to the Gal-
lery during the Morning Performances. _._

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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2S, t 835-.

We need offer no apology for laying the following
document before our readers. We have extracted it from
the last file of Jamaica papers, and we have no doubt it
will be read with considerable interest, particularly at
this juncture, when the whigs have compelled the pbo-
pie of England to pay twenty millions of pounds for the
purpose of reducing the British colonies to a state of
ruin :

" At a public meeting of proprietors, planters, and others con-
cerned in the management of plantations in the parish of Tie-
lawny, held at the Court-house. 'in the town of Falinouth,.on
Monday, the 4th May, 1835, the following-reso!Utions were
unanimously agreed to:—
"The Hon. WM. MrLtaa, Custos, in the Chair.
" Resolved,—That nine months' experience of the appren yet-
ship system having verified the worst anticipation: of alt practical
men of its unprofitable working, this meeting can no longer diet
their eyes to the alternative, that the cultivation of the staple pro-
ductions of the island must shortly be abandoned. For, notwith-
standing the most propitious seasons which could be desired, and
the advantage derived front former years labour, the present sugar
crop does not promise to be even an average one, occasioned solely
by the very small portion of labour obtained from the negroes since
the Ist V. August last. That' the whole/ work now gut froin the
apprentices, even with the liberal hire paid for their own time, is
confined to the manufacturing the crop, to the total neglect of the
cant and grass fields. That the usual field of plant has not been
established, nor have the ratoon canes been duly attended to. That
the falling off in next year's crop must necessarily be serious, and,
the evil increasing annually, the natural consequence must be the
yraival throwing up of the sugar plantations, notwith,tanding
assertions' to the contrary on the part of inexperienced persons who
flatter themselves with false hopes.

" Resolved,—That in the opinion of this meeting the only
chance of preserving the island from destruction is offered by
the settlement of white families in the interior, where the climate
is so temperate, that Europeans could perform all the labour
required in cultivating provisions, coffee, ginger, and the minor
products; the males would, in due time, form a valuable body
of police; they might occasionally be employed on sugar es-
tates and other plantations, and afford a valuable example of
industry to the apprentices, and would pre-occupy those lands
which, if left waste, would be resorted to by all the idle and
dissolute of the negroes when the period of absolute freedom
arrives.

" Resolved,---That as the impoverished state of the vountry
forbids the most distant hope that the expense of importing
emigrants and establishing them in the interior can be borne by
the island revenue, that it is the sense of this meeting that a
memorial be addressed to his excellency to lay this our present
state and apprehensions before his Majesty's ministers, and to
solicit the aid of the mother country to prutnote an object co
necessary to secure the safety and tranquillity of ail classes of
his Majesty's subjects in this island, and to afford the most likely
means of continuing, though on a much smaller scale than
hitherto, the cultivation of the staple products which yield.so
large a revenue to Great Britain.
" WM. MILLER; Chairman."

The gentleman who signs the above resolutions is well
known as an experienced cultivator, who has resided for
about thirty years in Jamaica, and than whom no man is
more competent to oter an opinion on the momentous
change which has taken place. His name in fact is a
guarantee of the truth of the statements set forth in the
resolutions, for he is a man of unblemished reputation, of
sound judgment, and unitppeachable honour.

Letters were received yesterday in this town from
Para, from one of which, dated May 15, BA we take

.he following extract :

"The new president for this place, just elected by the pro-
province, arrived from Caniuta, on the 9th instant, and, after
several conselhus (meetings), it was resolved by the party on
shore to oppose his landing. On the 12th, about ten o'clock
our hostilities commenced by firing on the frigate. The squa-
dron, consisting of six sail, returned the fire, which was kept
up briskly on both sides till about one o'clock, without doing
scarcely any injury, except damaging the houses. The vessels

then landed about 250 men in boats and cavres, for the pur-
pose of taking possession of the town. About two-thirds Of
them effected a landing, principally English and Germans, in
excellent order, and drove Vivagre's party from their position,
taking from them three pieces of artillery; but the remainder,
composed of Brazilians, either from cowardice or treachery,
would not advance to their assistance, but sounded a retreat,
and immediately threw away their muskets, and got into the
boats. Numbers jumped into the river, and swam towards the
vessels. The confusion that ensued was dreadful.

" V inagre's party kept up an incessant fire on the boats and
the people in the water. It is supposed the vessels hive lost
about seventy men in killed, besides numbers wounded. Vine-
gre lost about forty killed, and many wounded. The British
brig-of-war Despatch, and the boats belonging to the squadron,
picked up a great many wounded from the water, those left on
shore were put to death. All the English houses lia've received
more or less damage from the shot, but fortunately no one
killed or wounded.

"An eighteen-pounder came right through the gable end of
our house, and entered an apartment in whiCh there were
several ladies and children, but luckily took a different direc-

tion to where they were. The squadron took advantage of a
cessation of hostilities to drop down the river out of reach of
the guns, where they are now lying at anchor.

"This expedition, instead of doing good, has made things a
great deal worse, almost every place of business, not exepting
the Alfandega (Custom-house) and Consalatlu, have been shut
since its arrival.

"Commodore Taylor arrived at A4aranham early in June,
in command of the expedition fitted out at Rio against Para,
consisting of the Campista, Captain Manson, and the Regetie-
riga°, Captain Eyre, both 41-gun frigates, and three schooners;
two of the schooners sailed for Para on the 7th June, and the
remainder of the squadron would follow on the 13th."

England never was placed in so humiliating a position
as she is in at this moment ! Popery has once more tri-
umphed in the House of Commons, and our father land
is ruled and held in thraldom by the delegates of the
barbarous bigots of the sister island!

There was a time when the protestant church was vic-

timised by a confederacy of gloomy and ferocious Bents-
, rians; but even then, with a king of a vacillating cha-
racter, whose sincerity was more than questionable, and
whose popish predilections were more than suspected, she
did not fall without p desperate struggle. If the king
had been true and bold, if the church had beep pure, if
her sons had been properly nurtured, if there had been
no prevailing laxness and corruption, our venerable esta-
blishment would not so easily have fallen a prey to the
cant of the roundheads and the sacrilegious ambition of
OLIVER CROMWELL. Her fall in the reign of the first
CHARLES was therefore, in our humble judgment, her
just punishment. if there had been no wavering—no
lingering after the old idols—no secret attachment to
the impious indulgences and the frauiulent practices of
the Italian church, she would have braved the rebellion,
punished the traitors, and kept the true light of the refor-
mation burning as a beacon to the darker nations of the
earth. She had, however, sinned, and for her negligences
and offences she was severely punished. The infliction,
as events proved, was for the good of the church. She
suffered shame and degradation; but having endured
these for the given period prescribed by PROVIDENCE,
she was restored to her rights and dignities, her enemies
were annihilated, her lamp was lighted afresh, and, by
the blessing of God, the second temple of protestantisin
was more glorious than the first.

These facts are now history. We can at one retro-
spective glance see the beginning and the end of the
mystery, which those who fought and bled in the contest
were not permitted to see or understand. But as re-
gards the present ordeal of our national church,-„bat-
ding as she is in a losing warfare with the papist, the
sectarian, the socinian, and the infidel, we of the present
day are as much in the dark, as to the object and the re-
sult, as churchmen and loyalists were in the time of
CHARLES the FIRST. We cannot tell what is meant, or
what is intended, or who are to be punished, by permit-
ting a band of savage and demoralized papists to ssiaYs
for the passing hour, the destinies of this mighty empires
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want courage, or.are ire destitute or sense,?. Ark we
nation of hypocrite's, or is the protestant religion a
fallaeN foimdeci 111. spoliation, as the jesuits assert, repug-
nant tollie creed of the apostles, and at 'variance with
the word of GOD •

These are-serious questions, which demand the s•dernn
and dispassionate attention of all true protestants. That
the religion of. that worthless firebrand O"CoNNELL, ort
that mendacious priest MURRAY, or that profligate and!.
debauched-scoundrel Dommxus DEN'S—that what:is'i'm'alled
time religion of the. ill-odctired .nasty.
crown confessors of women, rearedin the monk-school of
Maynooth—that this is- to become the:prevailing religion
of the pebple of the British, ides we a ill not suiTor our
selves fot a.motnerit . Na,.,y more, we should
conceive ourselves guilt v of an-insult to - truth, i-ighte-
ousness,and charity, if We were to • favour for a single
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second such an outrage.upon.decency, sense, and ehristi
'anitY• No, this is not the explanation. A. far betterancl
more satiiractory answer must be given for the faith ,that
as iu must raise. .our..tandard higher, in order
that no unnecessary countenance maybe given to un-,
'warranted depression. In the battle for truth we nail
°ll:4* e9lourt to the.iiiast. We care not who suffers, or who
is offended, or wha is prostrated in a rencontre which
concerns-the vital•prirfciples of christianity, contradistin-
guished asTthey are'fir:Uii.the shallow doctrines of expedi.
-eue.Y, the specious lies, of modern infidelity, or the dis 7
gusting liberality Of those Who murdered our fathers in
'cold bluod, and who bring the raek; the elmair, and the
trial by fire and water, as in the Spanish inquisition, to
bear upon'lli'; ascendant success of their debasing and
brutal superstitions;- With the agents of these horrid
acts, who diSguise their thirst for-blood under the veil
liberality, we know how to deal. We trnst them not—
we be'.ieVe the converse of every sentiment they 'utter—
what they.proclairn to be White live believe to be black—
and when they . at:sort an 1.410 of' 44'mer4 olence,
we contend that they. mean intolerance and universal
constraint. Such are the people we have. to oppose in
this civil and religious warfare. The
,experience of the
last thirty years has proV'ed that the paPists of Ireland do
not belong to the British • family. • They are the subjects
of a foreign potentate, Whom Ingland has foOlishiy per-
Mated to inteifere with what concerns us more than her:
We have quarrelled with the servant instead of the mas-
er. We have imposed -restrictions which the slave vio-
late; aimPly-beeatise we' have not compelled time-maSter;
the high priest of Rome; to give to them his sanction. All
now seen and felt, and deplored: 'But it is now
'too late-in,thinkbf mliki(mg, the master sorcerer of home
responsible. His Slatei_ure under our walls; his, serfs
are supreme in parliament; big myrmidons. are at our
doors; time Irish priests are under the peculiar protection
of his majesty's miiiiswrs, and we have now no reiOrtbut
to beat them back or perish: 'There is'no chance for our
liberties, or our faith, or_ our reformed doctrines—no,
'ltarieC. fur truth or the Bible—but in rousing the protes-
tant yeomanry of England against the rebels, the monks,
• the beggars, and the robbers of Ireland.
Now comes -the- question-timhat is to be. done ? In
reply to this we are at once compelled to travel into the
realms or conjecture, not as to what we ant:cipate, but
to the reasons which- lead us to time conclusion that the
Present crisis, like that in the reign .of CHARLES,
'be conducive to the honour, the renown, the enlarged
IthlitY, and the ultimate glory of the church of England.
It is.a Well-eStablished maxim that men are generally
'nor" eager andmore zealous in propagating error than
an di"cininatirig truth. The apostle of truth has only
riot story to tell,
and one argument to use, for he must
,not a- rt
(i,t9, colour, or distort, in the slightest degree.
?the fact he 'communicates. Error; omi the other hand,•has
innumerable agencies and unlimited' resources. It can
paint and allure,' bedaub and exaggerate, what it is de=
airous to propagate. Lt can ,assert to-day what if denies
to r"rtrivy, and conceal :gilt under 'deliberate falsehood
and perjui-y; It Can deal in all kinds of sophis-:
tries. and lie without fear- 'or Almaide.' It Can appeal' to
ITEAVEN
that what it did solemnly and'publieiysassert it
(lid not even utter or allude to. It can tempt and betray.
It can menace a man with death, and deny the threat.
It can bribe, and, Kole :man ikto b hL'E.Y. 14
can take k'ki6im oath te;.aVstain_fri.,imcertaM acts, and
.yet violge.the-saidwath in open da-_, before the faces of
men, and in time stussitine 01-heareri •

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These are the acvYntAges t‘trieii..in a corrupt age error
has over` truth. These are the auxiliaries which fit
13olluted 'papists 01. have emp.loyed for• .uytny
Years,. and , which they are. employing. at this moment
with fearful avail against the prOtestant people of Eng-
.4land. But let us bear in mind that the rac,J is not always.
Jo the swift. Fraud can only prevail for a brief space.
It may reach the summit of prosperity, there to shine pr,
-41 short interval, but behind it is the dark abyss into
which it niug inevitably be ,plunged, not. by.human agen-
cy Perhaps, but by its own madness and the will of PRO-
YIDENCE. •

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This'w.e contend is the state of popery at this hour in
these islandL ' It is in alliance with the king's ministers
,and the whig party. It has for its light troops and auxi-
liaries bands of loose Sectarians, infidels comprehending
unitarians of all grades, a knOt of quakers, and all the
desperate outcasts of society, men .morally bankrupt in.
the world's estimation, and who wi.,li to make the nation
as worthless as themselves.. Some of these7-nay we will
go further—twiny -
of
' these are honourable,- conscien-.
tine`, and well-meaning men. But they have Made their
election—they fight Under the banner of popery—they
Pliu& their honest. with perjured , vote . s—they swell the
1111121bers of the .revolutionary. and. anti-protestant•party,
and with O'CoNNELL and his crew and his idolatry they
must stand or fall. Retreat novi, is fruitless; they have
touched the pitch; they, are identified with the robbers of
the sanctuary; and they must abide the consequences.
We-lkaYe_oniy tncast our eye over the.diyisions in the
House of Commons to see how terrible will be the re-
action, and how dreadful the punishment when the peo-
ple of England are fully aroused to the insults and indig-
nities,olfered to their blessed religion by these men.. It
will 4e., seen that a majority of, the. English members,
despi!„. all, it. the influence of a corrupt government, are in
favour of Sir ROBb-..tyr VEILL and the institutions of the
country:. The following analysis of the majority on the
Irish . ,
church bill will explain what we mean :

Irish members fur ministers
Irish members against ......... 33

Irish majority for ministers .

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Scotch members for ministers
Scotch members against d 0...

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