The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

announcement

Thursday

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Parliament, it is confidently reported, is to be summoned
for the first week in January; and the Royal Speech will,
recommend an immediate consideration of
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founded statement,. upon a subject of such vital,
such vast importance. Villainy would be too mild a
term to apply to such conduct. There are men and'
journalists in the world, who, for party or personal
ends, would not scruple to be accused of wickedness
however gross. But the Times, we know, would
not hazard the chance of being reputed a fool ; and
such must that journal be deemed if, on slight
grounds, or even without a moral certainty of being
correctly informed, its conductors had ventured
upon an assertion which,:if believed and acted upon
erroneously by the public, might bring ruin upon
thousands. The approaching repeal of the corn-
laws we are, therefore, assured is " a great fact;"
and the readers of the Liverpool Standard will not
need to be told that months ago we predicted this,
as the course which would be pursued by Sir Ro-
bert Peel's government. On the 17th of June last,
in commenting upon a speech of Sir James Graham,
we stated that " the whole tenor of his remarks lead
only to one conclusion, that the measure of total and
unconditional repeal is determined upon ;" and that
" with one bad harvest and the clamour of the ma-
nufacturing districts to refer to as their apology, the
fate of British agriculture is 'sealed." In the very
same article we convicted the Morning Herald of
entertaining and expressing the same opinion in the
following passage from one of its leaders :

" Sir Robert Peel may think as we certainly do think,
that if the system of moderate protection be steadily
maintained, a time will come when a highly-improved
stale of agriculture shall render any Corn Laws needless;
but if that is Sir Robert Peet's opinion, he acts with per-
fect consistency in defending the Corn Laws for a time,
in order to get rid of the Corn Laws in the end."
Again on the gth September we said :

"As our 'pitting words, however, we tell the British
farmers and landowners that Sir Robert Peel is prepared
to repeal the Corn-laws. See if we are mistaken."

We now repeat that remark,—See if we are mis-

taken

The late Council Meeting has, we should think,
satisfied the Advocates of non-scriptural Education
that they are not likely to be successful in any effort
to overthrow the present system, or even to procure
. .

now acknowleged beneficial operation can lie impeded.
To the granting of the returns moved for, had they

been confined to a statement of the numbers of
Roman Catholic and Protestant children respec-
tively, who are now receiving education in the Cor-
poration schools, we could have had no objection.
Those returns would have proved a triumphant fact
for the advocates of Scriptural Educatior

that Roman Catholic parents are, when not inter-
fered with by their Spiritual pastors, glad to see
their children brought up in the fear of God and
the knowledge of his unadulterated word. The

admission that the number of such Ro

!atholic