The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

CORRESTONDEPIII

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDATID

—Can you inform a

ing by our leaders to provide the constituency with can-
didates of sterling principle, in whose behalf they can
.consistently and enthusiastically rally ? An election can-
not be far distant. We know. what we have to fight for;
but we want to know the men. The register requires, in
the first instance, to be attended to, if we wish to fight
with any chance of success. But the voice of Protestant
Liverpool will assuredly be neutralised, or worse, in par.
liament, if wo are left to go a begging for candidates at
the last hour.
Liverring, April 2S. lii

le view of startled Europe, and, however brief the
apparition, it sufficed to belie the Sadducean theory of a
non-existent life beyond the political grave. It is true
that by the combined agency of foreign potentates and a
native priesthood, the self-same hideous instrumentality
by which the divine Redeemer was put to death, our
nationhood has been forcibly immolated and reconsigned
to a temporary tomb ; but we scout the silly and fas-
tidious imputation of profanity, when we profess our sure
and certain hope, as well as fond reliance on the justice
of heaven, our steadfast belief in the ultimate renewal of
that vitality. Was the innocence of the just one, or his
life-long career of beneficence, any bar to his death as a
criminal ? None. Then let not Italy murmur at such
'requital for the lessons of civilisation. A Pope and his
cardinals could not be expected to act otherwise than the
high priest and the Sanedrim, nor the Asuits than their
predecessors the Pharisees. A leading agent in the dread
business of Calvary was Pilate, the proconsul. Tradition
had handed down his origin ; he wasa Frenchman (shouts
of adhesion). They show on the banks of the Rhone the
place of his birth and of his retributive suicide. On
returning to the fitting land of his nativity, a book pub-
lished rears ago in Rome, from the pen of a Dominican
friar, labours to prove the cohort of soldiers which did
duty on that occasion to have consisted of recruits from
Gaul, and that the crowing of the cook merely indicated
the sound of the Gallic trumpet (cheers). To conciliate
the emperor was Pilate's apology for this official murder
—to propitiate the Czar was a sufficient incentive for the
pres,dent of republican France (cheers). Was there no
modern impersonation of Herod the tetrarch, an intrusive
potentate, claiming kingly authority within the very pre-
cinch of Judea, with his hands deeply imbrued in the
blood of her children ? Is not the usurper of Lombardy
that man ? (cheers). And need we indicate the Vatican
as the locality of Caiphas, or identify as the deliberate
betrayer of Italy the Iscariot Neapolitan (prolonged
cheers). Foul confederacy of ignoble plotters, look well
to your handywork ! strengthen your army of occupation 1
double the guard at the sepulchre ! A year is but a day
in the history of nations : 18.19'was that of Italy's immo-
lation. She may yet sleep in the tomb over which you
keep sentinel—but the third year is advancing—the inevi-
table 1952 (continued cheers).— Father Gavazzi on
Easter Sunday.