The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-31 00:00:00

confidence..._ Sir ROBERT PEEL, has done more for the
dissenters during the few days he has been in office than
Lord JOHN did in the four years of the Whig adminis-
tration.

Now, then, is the time to strike another blow. The
nation is tired of faction, of political and party squab-
bling, of personal invectives, of angry taunts, of " vulgar
insolence," of nightly exhibitions of bravado and men-
dacity. If the vote of last night, therefore, or of to-night,
or of to-morrow night, be against ministers, we sincerely
hope that such measures will be adopted as shall expedite
a second appeal to the people at large. There can be no
mistake now as to the intentions or the policy of Sir
ROBERT PEEL. Whoever doubted or suspected him a
few weeks ago can do so no longer. He is supported
by the country. He has no majority to contend against
except in the House of Commons ; and if the people
will it, as we believe they are inclined to do, that majo-
rity would very speedily be reduced to an insignificant
minority. If the people, contrary to our conviction,
should not so act, then to revolution we must come—a
sweeping, a terrible revolution—an upturning of the
ridges, a removal of the land marks, a sifting of the debt,
a confiscation of the crown, church, and abbey lands—
a robbery of the national creditor, the lay impropriator,
the pensioner, the sinecurist, and last of all, THE POOR.
in the total abolition of the poor laws. If we are to
have revolution THE SOONER IT COMES THE BETTER.

Our attention has been called to a bill introduced
into the House of Commons, for the purpose of " regu-
lating the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels
from the united kingdom to the British possessions on
the continent, and islands of North America." It has
already been printed by order of the house. As we are
inclined to believe that the bill has originated in mis-
take, we are unwilling to speak of it as its enactments
demand, until we are favoured with some additional
information. The trade of carrying emigrants to Ame-
rica has been much} abused, and. the poor people sub-
jected to cruelties add oppressions beyond belief. But
the evil which requires the speediest remedy has little
or no connexion' with emigration directly to the North
American colonies. The law does not regulate the car-
riage of passengers to the United States. Thousands
of these persons go first to New York en route to
Canada, and there is no law by which they can be pro-
tected from extortion and fraud, from starvation or
dreadful sufferings during the passage. The same may
be said of the emigrant trade to New South Wales, the
Cape of Good Hope, and other settlements. We throw
out these hints for the present, promising to recur to
the subject.

It is with great reluctance that we bring the conduct
of the Reverend EDWARD HULL once more before the
public. But he has himself solely to blame. He has
chosen to cast reflections upon several if not all of the
gentlemen who form the committee of management of
the Asylum for the Blind, and it is hard to expect that
they should submit to undeserved censure, and coarse
attacks, in silence. It is a pity that the reverend gentle.
man has no sensible advisers, or that having them lie
should scorn their counsel, thereby showing the world
that a vain man is generally his own detractor, and that.
Mr. HULL is Mr. HULL'S worst enemy.

His conduct before the committee alluded to has
already been the subject of public remark, and it is now
a matter of notoriety anything but favourable to Mr.
HULL or the interests of the charitable institution out of
whose funds he is so amply and, as we think, extrava-
gantly provided for. Not content with attacking these
gentlemen at the committee board and through the me-
dium of the newspapers, the reverend gentleman has
printed what is called a report of his speech, which he
has, in rather a sinister way, circulated among his friends
and acquaintance. This we take leave to say is not only
a disingenuous but even a dishonourable mode of attack-
ing private gentlemen equally if not fully as respectable
as himself.

Mr. HULL states that be has been "grossly misrepre-
sented by a member of the body," meaning thereby a
member of the committee of management. In another
place he says 1—" The resolution having been rejected
by the committee, I requested that my name might be
withdrawn from the committee, as I considered that an
imputation had been cast upon
,my honour, and that I
had been GROSSLY INSULTED !"

These are hard words indeed. Those who do not
know Mr. HULL as well as we do will very naturally
imagine that he has been an extremely ill-used man—
that he has received some deep affront—that he has suf-
fered some grievous wrong. All this is a mere phantom
conjured up by the reverend gentleman himself ; for the
gross insult•is like Pies story of a broken leg and seven
motherless children, upon which he had subsisted for
nearly half a year. All the injury which Mr. HULL has
sustained is the revocation of a very impertinent resolu-
tion entered upon the waste book of the institution at
his request. When this was done—and it was done
unanimouslynot a single remark was offered by any of
the gentlemen present. It was proper that such a reso-
lution should not be suffered to remain even in the ob-
scure corner where be had placed it. It was, therefore;
blotted out, and hence the gross insult !
After this the public will be able to appreciate the
serious complaints of Mr. HULL. We would advise him
to take some soothing syrup and remain quiet for the
next three months. This fretting, fuming, and making
mountains out of crums is not calculated to minister to
his serenity or usefulness. It only makes him ridiculous,
and gives occasion to those to laugh who would other-
wise pity him. Our friendly advice, he may depend upon.
it, is the best after all. ' "