The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-08 00:00:00

sion stamped upon them—and so conspicuously marked
too, that it is only necessary to look a Jew in the faCe to
see that he is labouring like a slave at the oar, in fulfilling
his own prophesies—'working otit awful and perhaps in];
penetrable destinies—confirming, our faith, and bearing
evidence, as 4, living witness at the bar of public opi-
nion, that what the great- laxtiver:wrote he• does not
conipreliena,'and what the successors of the lawgiver de-
clared is true. If, then, we tolerate the Jew, apart from
all considerations of the deep and thrilling interest we
take in his history,• why should we not tolerate the Ro-
man Catholics? They are tolerated—they are, in the
closer relations of life, respected, and cordially received
where the amity of social converse very properly recog-
tlises no distinction of creeds.
But is this truly christian interchange of the civilities
of good society any proof that popery is making inroads
upon protestantism ? Because chapels are built in Lan-
cashire. for the people who came from Munster and Con-
. naught, is that a plod that the English protestants, in
the teeth of cheap literature and the Penny Magazine,
are sinking into the slough of Irish superstition, and
praying for holy spittal to initiate them into the body of
the church of Rome,, and for the unction of holy oil to
frank them from this the vile abode of mortality to the
mansions of bliss ?

The whole thing is a gross delusion. DAVID Tnom
may be a spirit, but he is nevertheless simply a block-
head. He obviously knows nothing of the people or the
doctrines about which he writes. He borrows his nar-
row notions from the ministerial newspapers; he retails
the novelties of his order which, have again.and again,
been proved to be fictions ; and knowing just as much of
English society, and the principles of the religious peo-
ple of England, as alforlorn sea-mew driven from the At-
lantic to the German. Ocean by the force of .a tempest,
he only sees England through the mist of an unfortu-
nate elevation, like a ballooner.passing over Jerusalem,.
and consequently in the intensity of bis distance, and.
.the rarity of his atmosphere, he clings to a theory of
his own fancy, and gives'to it all the importance and au-
thority which ignorance, disappointment, and a con-
tracted mid can give to folly as a subsidy to ambition.
We shall not quote any more of DAVID Tnom's pam-
phlet. kI e have a conviction that we have attached too
much importance to so very silly a person. It is con-
ceit, vanity; insolence, and impertinence from begin-
ning to end. DAVID, in his own opinion, and by his
public admissions, knows much more of christianity than
-TEstis CHRIST. iJe .has the vulgar impertinence to say
that be, DAvin, is called by Gon to preach the pure
gospel. Nothing is pure which this DAVID does not
teach. The world is running to weed, merely, because
DAVID Thom, of Bold-street Chapel is not employed as
head gardener. Cabbages are not cabbages because
DAVID TROIKAd not plant them. He says in beautiful
rhyme :

•
" Different men have different opinions,
Sooxe love apples, and some love ingins."
DAVID considers his onions to be apples. He was ex-
pelled from the kirk of Scctland, and that to him is suffi-
cient for decreeing that his errors are truths, and that
the church is wrong, because Davin thinks himself
right. We pity this poor creature—we do not wish to
collect evidence against him ; therefore with our usual
feelings of benevolence, we order as follows. "ABRA-
HAM ! take that pamphlet and push it between the lower
ribs of the kitchen fire."
" 1.-es, Sir."
" ADRAHAM! is the book burnt ?"
" Yes, Sir."
" What is the hour ?"
" Half-past three, Sir."
" Very well,—go to bed."

This day, we understand, a meeting is to be held in
Liverpool, for the purpose of recommending and com-
mencing a subscription for the relief of our suffering and
shamefully persecuted brethren the protestant clergy in
Ireland.

This is all that need be said to induce our wealthy
townsmen to be present at the meeting, and throw their
mites into the treasury of Christian benevolence. Our
most gracious sovereign the King, and her Majesty the
Queen, -sire-at the head of- the subscription, and although
not one of his Majesty's ministers, or of the hundreds of
whig vampires who suck the vitals of this misruled coun-
try, has contributed a single farthing, We are still happy
to say that all the great and the good and the wise in the
land have come forward in the most prompt and liberal
manner.

Liverpool, we feel confident, will clo its duty upon this
occasion ; but we confess that it is to us a source of deep
sorrow that all the crimes, outrages, machinations, and
rebellious proceedings of the popish priests of the sister
island, are,, allowed to be committed at the expense of the
people of England.

Why, in the name of justice and common sense, do we
profess to govern Ireland, or call Ireland a dependency
of the British crown, if we cannot enforce the due execu-
tion of the laws, and protect the clergy in the recovery
of their just and unquestionable rights ? Ireland is at
this moment, and has been for a long time, a heavy bur-
den to England. Ilf_‘r revenue does not provide for much
more than the half of her cost; and unless some extraor_
dinary change for good can be effected the people of Eng-
land will speedily inquire what is the use of Ireland ?
why should she be a dead weight around the neck of
Great Britain?

In every respect she is much less taxed than England.
As regards the vast majority cf her inhabitants she can
hardly be said to be taxed at all. She rules our majori-
ties in the House of Commons—her popish factions dic-
tate to the British government—she curses England with
her pestilent and demoralized peasantry—she has not a
harbour, or a postoflice, or a dock, or a modern church,
which has not been erected at the cost of the people of
England, and yet we are called upon to suffer all this,
to bear this reproach, to bear her taunts, her threats, and
her marked insults, and provide for the ministers of the
gospel whom she has robbed at the same time
This cannot—this must not be endured much longer.
Ireland must be taxed in the ratio of her expenditure,
and on an equality with that of England. She must be
called'upon to pay for the forces which keep her tranquil,
and maintain, as far as they can, the sovereignty of the
laws. She must be taxed to provide for the pecuniary
advances which are made on this side of the water to•
give bread to the protestant clergy whom she has spoli-
ated, and secure an ample fund for their future support ;
and more than all, she must be heavily taxed to provide
an asylum and bread for her wretched and destitute pau-
pers. This must be done, or the sooner we sell Ireland
to America, or the black government of St. DomingO,
the better.

Mr. THOMAS BOLTON—Mr. Burgess BOLTON, by the
way—had as he fondly imagined two strings to his old
fiddle, upon which lie has so long played revolutionary
airs, but the only remaining string snapped on Satur-
day last, and on the principle of "no song no supper,"
the lawyers haVe seized his stringless fiddle for debt!
What a catastrophe ! We pity the sorrows of this old
buffoon. He failed in his injunction against the corpo-
ration on the endowment question, and was only called
upon to pay his own costs; but he failed on Saturday
last in turning over the endowment fund to the account-
ant-general, and was called upon to pay the costs on
both sides. This is paying dearly for his fiddle. What
he will do next we cannot conjecture. Ws radical
friends, of whom be is merely the tool, have led him a
sad dance, but whether they will assist him in paying the
piperthe piper being THOMAS BorxoN —remains to be
seen. We would advise him to retire into some un-
known corner of Wales, consult the Domestic Medicine,
read ABERNETHY on Indigestion, drink asses milk, and
remain quiet until the elections are over. It is a 4:lle-
gerous thing in a man of his class to meddle wish law I

The Duke of Bedford's pet corporation of bit once pet bor-
ough of Bedfod, has, thanks to his son Lord John Russell's
wise bill, end Mr. Russell the recorder's sage inter-
pretation of it,' cOmtnitted sulfide, by the mayet Nating adopted
their adviee, and omitted to be sworn in. Like Lynn and other
places, this omission voids the charter. We may az well hint to
the EVoburn-bound minnbers of this corporation, that all those
who by virtue of their corporate offices were trustees of the.Har-
par charity are so lio.longer ; the diSsulut ion of the corporation
fairly puts an end to their trusteeship.. We'congratuiate them
roue h.,--.l4ge: