The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ether by correspondence, all which tiny he innocent and
praiseworthy, but viewed in connexion with the recent aspect
of affairs are at least suspicious.
It is a -fict, that an attempt has been made to organite a
military corps of Irishmen in New York, to be celled • the
O'Connell'Guards, thus commencing a military organization of
foreigners.

It is a fact, that the greater part of the Roman Catholic
population is composed of foreigners.

The reasoning upon these facts we regret we cannot
make room for ; but we have quoted sufficient from the
Journal of Commerce to show that the Americans are
awake to the machinations of the "Irish foreigners." It
was but the other day that a priest of the name of ENG-
LAND, formerly of Cork, sailed from Liverpool with a
consignment of nuns for Charleston. We never beard
whether they arrived in safety; but the avowed object of
their mission was to make converts of the protestant po-
pulation by means of schools for the " edticaticn of.young
ladies." The " education" here meant is the gentle art
of proselytism, which is conveniently and successfully
pursued in a convent, where insidious appeals are
made to the passions, where solemn music lulls the
power of reason, and *here the mind is imperceptibly
influenced by voluptuoos abstractions under the sanction
of a false religion. Protestants who have daughters
should be on their guard against these delusions.
If the American people have penetration enough to
foresee the effects of popery on their free institutions,
why should Englishmen be so dull to its iniquities ? We
have no fault to find on public or moral grounds with the
Roman Catholics of England. They are, for the most
part, men of sense, education, and of generous feelings.
But we call upon our countrymen, if they value the peace
and happiness of their children, to draw the line of tbs.
tinction, and banish from their domestic hearths the fana-
tical barbarians of Ireland. At this critical juncture the
whole powers of the state are wielded by the popish party
in the House of Commons. The laws are framed to pro-
mote their views, the minister is their slave, all te pa-
tronage-of the crown is at their disposal, fines and penal-
ties are relinquished at their word of command, and a
death's head and cross bones are placed over the door of
every public man who exposes their perfidies, or endea-
vours to thwart their ambitious schemes.

But this conspiracy against the liberty of nations can-
not be endured much longer. The priests have rustled
on their own destruction in France, and with the tyrant
PHILIPPE they stand or fall. In Spain the monkish sys-
tem totters to its base. The fire of the convents will
spread ; it is not in the power of human hands to arrest
its progress. Even in Portugal they have been deci-
mated, and the remainder have but a precarious existence.
And shall it be said at this time of day that of all the free
nations on the face of the earth, the protestants of Eng-
land are the least concerned and the least interested in the
spread of poplry ? No, the thunder only sleeps in -the
cloud ; the hour of awful retribution and severe punish-
ment will come.

. It did not strike us at the time when noticing the
fooleries of poor Colonel WILLIAMS and his associates
that the petition they adopted was addressed to the
House of Commons. Had it been the production of an
Irishman, we should certainly have attributed the mistake
to the peculiar propensity of his countrymen, and instead
of saying it was absurd we should only have said it was
a bull.

Be this as it may, the petition to the House of Corn

mons, now that that house have passed the bill, and have
no longer: any control over it, is like a letter to a dead

man. It is true that the house may or may not accede to
the amendments of the lords, supposing it to be amended;
but if they refuse, the House of Commons will have the
questionable honour of rejecting the bill. If they do
that, we shall be infinitely obliged to them. We con-

tend that such a bill of mischievous blundering and
wholesale spoliation should not be allowed to pass into a
law. Now, the reformers of Clayton-square are, without
intending it., doing our work, conformably to our wishes.
If their petition have any meaning, it prays the house to
reject the bill ; and to that prayer we say Amen

As to any chance of exciting the people so as to en-
courage the house to come into angry collision with the
lords, that is entirely out of the question. The bugbear
afflicts nobody of any higher pretensions than JOE
PARREs, of the unfortunate Morning Chronielev--lier
poor man, fumes and foams distressingly enough about
it, for his place and pay are both periled by the rejection
of the bill. We are convinced that nine-tenths of the
people do not care one straw about the municipal corps-
ration, bill; or, if they (10, it is in the way of amuse-
ment, to see the spluttering of the Manchester radical;
and the coal-porters of Marybone, and the dogs'-meat
men of Smithfield -and Finsbury, about a measure with
which they are in no way concerned. What do the fac-
tory labourers of Manchester know about corporations ?
Their corporation is the mill; their municipal privileges
are eighteen hours' drudgery per day ; their liberty is,
truly enough, the,"air they breathe," and the sooner they
reform and improve that, the better perhaps for themselves.
We do not know which to laugh at. most, the ravings of
JOE PARKES and the Morning Chronicle, or the stolid
blockheads who stiffer themselves to be duped by them.

While we are on this subject, we are reminded that
Colonel WILLIAms, in his fustian speech of Monday last,
charged the corporation of Liverpool with misappropriat-
ing the borough funds. He said they had converted
these funds to-their own private purposes. Colonel WIL-
LIAMS should be the last man in the world to bring such
unfounded charges against men quite as respectable and
certainly of as much integrity as himself. There is a
maxim about every dirty dog wishing to mdke others as
blackas.himself. The Colonel will understand us. Does
he recollect the funds of the 211 regiment of Liverpool
Volunteers which was disbanded upwards of twenty years
ago ? Those funds were, we believe, entrusted to his
care for distribution amongst the public charities. Will
he be good enough to tell us what became of these funds?
Did they not amount at one time to upwards of £600?
How much of that sum, and the interest arising there-
from, has`COloc►el WILLIAMS given in charity ? Is there
any balance in his hands ? Where is that balance, if
there be one, and what is the amount of it ? Does it
amount to £5OO, or do £5OO of that fund still stand in
his name at a Liverpool bankers ? These are a few,
filberts for the gallant Colonel to crack at his leisure. If
he chooses to answer them, these columns are open to
him.

We have, on the principle of fair play, inserted a letter
from a Mr. RossoN, who it seems figured at the revolu,
tionary meeting. of Monday. If it gratli' this gentle=
man to read what he has written in praise of himself in
the pages of a newspaper, he is for once quite welcome
to a corner. 13nt Mr. RossoN, we fear, dill learn that

it would have been more kind in us to have tossed his
self-eulogy into the fire. He is a bold man in these
-times who can boast of his patriotism. Mr. ROSSON says
that he laboured in the cause of the Roman catholic%
" without salary, fee, or reward of any kind whatsoever."
We deeply sympathise with him ; at the same time we
wish a tenth part of this could be said of that gloating
vampire who has long lived upon the vitals of thestarving
poor of Ireland ; and yet DANIEL O'CONNELL claims to
be a patriot too! Mr. ROSSON, however, is a barrister, of
what standing we know not, and it is quite possible he
may still obtain, and accept too, without seriously
wounding his feelings, his " fee and reward." At any
rate, he has taken care to remind his friends, " the Duke
of NORFOLK, the Earl of SHREWSBURY, the rest of the
catholic nobility, baronets, and gentry" of the importance
of his services. .

As to Mr. ROSSON'S ingenious mode of ascertaining

the Roman catholic population of Liverpool, it is too good
a joke to be treated seriously✓ on a Friday. As to his
opinions on architecture, we have no doubt they are
equally valuable.

LORD BROUGHAM A Dom tNiE!--ikly Lord Brougham and
Vaux having lately appeared to exult prodigiously in the self-
applied name schoolmaster, and being unable to get rid con
vernently of the title lord, which evidently is peculiarly obnoxious
to him, could have no great objection, we presume, to substitute
for it the humble but honourable, and certainly more appro-
priate appellation, dornime, by which schoolmasters, in this part
of the country at least, are commonly designaled. As the change
proposed would be in reality a mere translation of the name
into Latin, we think the best way by which Lord Brougham,
the schoolmaster, should humble hinself, in order that he may
he exalted, would be to assume the name, as he has not only
assumed, but appeared in the character of Dominic Brougham.

ENTRANCE OF THE JUDGES TOMORROW:

The first entrance of the judges to hold an. assize in
Liverpool is the subject of general conversation, and will
probably, if the day be fine, attract a vast concourse of
spectators. The representatives of Majesty on this oc-
casion will be Lord 'Abinger, the Chief Justice of the
Court of King's Bench, and Sir Nicholas Tyndal, the
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. They are expecte i
to reach the environs of the town to-morrow afternoon,
between five and six o'clock, where they will be met by
the Mayor in his state carriage, and by other municipal
functionaries. It is expected that the commission will be
opened in the new Court-house about seven o'clock,
Wten met by the Mayor, the cortege is expected to en-
' ter by Scotland-road, Byrom-street, pass through White-
chapel, and proceed by Lord-street-and Castle-street to
the Town-ball. We are not authorised to state that
these arrangements have been decided upon, but we
mention them as the most probable. The above route at
any rate would be the more agreeable one. As the
spectacle will be new to Liverpool, we learn that many of
the most respectable tradesmen have resolved to form
themselves into a procession to meet their lordships. The
windows on both sides of the way will, no doubt, be
crowded by all the rank arid fashion of the town. •
The Court-houses have been completed by Mr. John
Foster, the town surveyor, in a remarkably short space
of time, and considering the limited space he bad to work
upon, he has acquitted himself with consummate skill.
The Nisi Prius court, we venture to say, is one of the
most commodious in the kingdom. The arrangements
are admirable, and it is well lighted and ventilated. The
criminal court, however, is small, and we fear will be
found inadequate, although every possible and ingenious
contrivance has been resorted to, in order to enlarge it
to the utmost. •

THE COTTON. TilAlii].

(From a Correspondent of the Journal du Havre.)

Two Patis journals, Le Moniteux, da anatnerce and is Journal
des Tissue, whose happy knack of treating with au apparent
knowledge of the case many commercial questions, upon which.
nevertheless, they do not hazard an opinion, have, in certain
reflections which they have thrown out lately, marked out a
party of merchants of Havre, whom they call speculators, as
the cause of the rise which has taken place for the last few years
in the sale of cotton wool at this market. The object of these
reflections having a tendency to point out this class of our falow-
citizens to the notice of our manufacturers of cotton cloths, we
have thought fit that under this view of the case we should no
longer remain strangers to it.
But before we proceed further, let us first present, in a few
word; a list of the assertions which, in this controversy, serve
as a basis for the arguments of the two journals in question.
'These assertions may be classed in the following order :
Ist.—lf.the greater part of the commercial houses of Havre
were not to speculate in cotton, the rise which this market has
undergone for the last few years would not have taken place.
2dly.—The rise in the price of cotton cloths is not in pro-
portion to that of the raw material.
idly.—These two causes together have paralysed the works
of our manufacturers upon which depends the existence of
millions of workmen ! ! !
Let us consider one after the other these different assump-
tions, and reply to them successively.