The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-10 00:00:00

CONTEMPOR.dRI PRESS.

PERJURY NO CRIME !—Truly it may be said that Ire-
land is a land of knaves, slaves, and bigots, when the
priests can train their followers to swear each other
through "thick and thin" into the franchise. Perjury,
which is a crime of the first magnitude, and held as a
*Stain on the soul—that leads to perdition—that awful
crime, of which, if once convicted by British law, the
felon lost caste, and was not only subject to the severest
punishment, but put beyond the pale of society. Yes,
. we say it fearlessly, that perjury is encouraged even in
the confessional for political purposes; no matter how the
priests may rave and assert the contrary. At the regis-
tries t 1 perjury is so open, barefaced, and profligate,
and committed so frequently as to excite disgust and
abhorrence. The priests look on and applaud the act
the stain can be washed off for a douceur in the codes.:
sional, as they are led to believe ; while the priests, who
hold the fee-simple of both body and soul, assume all the
responsibility. At the late registry one man swore his.
holding was worth £lO a, year, but added, by way of
mental reservation, in a low tone, "1 think." Another
man swore that " his lands were 'worth IBs. per acre,.
and better than any of his,-neigisae.arsi! ,On 71seing• res
jected, the trained votary of priestcraft came up on ,the
table TO SWEAR for " one of his neighbours," and Sworn
his land was worth 20s. per acre, in contradistinction of
his first statement. When asked did he swear that to
get the franchise for the neihbour, the fellow answered
that. he did, and added, "1 WOULD SWEAR IT WORTH
MODE IF NECESSARY." ! ! Yet, such miserably blind
_ beings, without conscience, morality, or belief in any
deity but the priest, form a majority of the electors of
this degraded country.—Carlow Sentinel.

" Never hollo till you are out of the wood." This is
a very old proverb ; and we suspect Mr. Wason has more
than once 'been reminded of the advice given in the say-
ing since he has shouted his " purity" war cry in the
case of Ipswich, Yarmouth, &o. A petition was last
night presented from Ipswich against the hon. member's
own return, and, if we are not much mistaken, some
slight doubts of the " purity" existing at the late elec-
tion there were more than hinted at in this 'document.
It was a pity this was not known at Blackwall the-other
day—it would have renderd " the keeping" and "vrai-
sembiante" exhibited in that matter quite perfect, and
added an additional gusto to the flavour of the white bait
--though, perhaps, like the health of the King and the
Princess Victoria, the announcement might have been
received with " loud laughter." We can make a shrewd
guess, however, as to which side of the mouth the laugh
would have been on.
Now, just for argument sake, let us suppose that this
bribery man-midwife, who ushers all cases of corruption
into the world's light, with that obstretric look and voice
so peculiar to himself (and beating poor Mr. Gisborne's
and Sir John Campbell's hollow)—Suppose; we say, that
this would-be son-in-law of Sir Anthony Hart should
himself be unseated cn the grounds of gross bribery and
'corruption," will not this be a charming commentary .on
tike' white bait affair ?'--bui will it not •beat "little
fishes ?"—.llorning Post.

The workmen employed on the works going. on at the terrace
at hemp-town, Brighton, are continually meeting with portions
of bones and teeth of the elephant, borse, 'deer, &c., which bre
entombed in the cliffs along that pan of the coast.