The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-15 00:00:00

bECEMBER 15, 1835

Whigs,- because they are not protestants; and cannot be
balled reformers, fox' they are totally ignorant of the
meaning, of the word. Neither can the popish priests of
Ireland be called reformers. They detest the very term
as far as they are able to comprehend it. They are sim-
ply rebels—some of them actual and others would-be as-
sassins—all of them furious and desperate men, who have
no idea of improvement which cannot be identified with
spoliation and destruction--who are dead to all sense of
shame and crime, and are fanatical enough to believe
that they are advancing the honour of their church, and
fulfilling the commands of the REDEEMER of the world,
by placing, by midnight, the burning brand under the
thatch of the protestant peasant's cabin, instigating their
slaves to waylay and murder the protestant ministers of
the gospel, denouncing the good, the virtuous, and the
innocent from profaned and bloodstained altars, and in-
ducing theni to despoil the property and plunder the
lgoOdi of the honest and well-disposed.
O'CONNELL, therefore, when he appeals to the " whigs
and reformers of Ireland," is addressing a phantom. He
might as well preach to the winds, or call upon his ken-
nel of beagles to take up the sinking and forlorn cause
of his majesty's ministers. The ministers, he knows,
have discarded him, if not openly, at least in their more
private communications ; and this not from any sense of
duty, justice, or decency, but from dire and overwhelm-
ing necessity. His connection Avith them has irretrieva-
bly ruined them. Every day the respectable members
of the old whig party are going over to the opposite
side. In addition to those whom we have named from
time to time, we have the satisfaction of stating that T.
W. BEAUMONT, Esq., M.P. for South Northumberland,
has declared against the O'CoNNELL ministry. There are
hundreds and thousands of gentlemen in England, of
great power and influence, but who. are less generally
known, who have done the same, and there are still more
ready to follow the example at the most fitting opportu-
nity., _ . _ , _ _

What chance then remains for the (nominally) MEL-
BOURNE administration 3 DANIEL is not, ignorant of
their hopeless condition. He knows that they owe all
this to him. HE. HAS DONE IT !—and, in a fit of despair,
he storms and raves like a madman. Hear his own
words, in his latest letter to the " whigs and r&latm--
ers"

" Ido not exaggerate in the least—we are on the verge of a
volcano—nothing can preserve the country from v drerblful explo-
sion but the continuance in eke of his Majesty's present advisers,
and their being encouraged and strengthened in their exertions
to preserve peace and tranquillity. If Peel or Wellington re-
gain power, that third conquesi of Ireland with which Wellington
once threatened us, will be, I doubt not, attempted. I do not
hesitate to say, that the safety of the throne itself' is involved in,

and identified with, the stability of the present adtninistralioh—
anil that not only as regards the people of Ireland, but as results
from the disposition and determination of the reformers of Eng-
' land and Scotland."
Mind, reader ! it is only PANEL who says this. Tie
is in earnest no one else is in the slightest degree con-
cerned. - He is ruffled exceedingly he is in a statep of
Hibernian inspiration, and sits howling Ps if at the wake
of his Majesty's ministers. '-le is not exactly drunk; but
his passions are distempered by an. overflow of bile, so
that he seems intoxicated. The throne is in danger,
raves the rebel, if the present ministers are ejected from
office ! The crown is threatened should his Ma-
jesty dare to dismiss his servants ! are on the verge
of a volcano, exclaims the savage beggar, if Lord Mtn.-
.
GRAVE be recalled and Lord JoRNI-.l7ssFr,r, turned adrift !
Nothing -can preserve Ireland from a dreadful explosion.—
from fire, blood, pistols, whitefeet, and thunderbolts—but
the- continuance in office of- his Majesty's preseni ad-
visers! It will be rapine, ruin, wide--spread calamity,
pikes and blunderbusses,. and signs in the sun and inuon,
if " PEEL or VELLINGTON regain power" !
What a storm in an uncorked quart bottle of parlia-
ment whisky ! tire are only surprised that the agitator
did not threaten us NI ith a second deluge ; but soppesing
that to be inconvenient at the " present crisis," why did
lie not threaten to land in Wales with the eight millions
at,his back ? - • •
No: this last- were too bold an experiment. DANIEL
•
has no objection to hanging and starving his country-
men; but as to fighting with tiieut, or leading them on
to battle against the Saxons, these are very d;ferent mat-
ters. He talks pistols, but heis too great a coward and
too interested a beggar to use any. fie lives upoe death
and misery but his own life, the curse-of Ireland, is too
valuable to himself to be risked it, the brutal coono-
tions he excites.
But O'CONNELL, although conscious of the weal.ness
of •his ministerial friendwin England, and the real cause
of that weakness, is:Yet imprudent enough (thanks to his
intemperance) to divulge the cause.
.nor this we owe
him our respectful -acknowledgments. He blo,ters out
at the close of his letter, by far, like a lady's postscript,
the most important part of it, what follows:
" The registry too long neglected—theproteetion of the voters
•
too long omitted—the organization of the counties, towns, and
boroughs too long postponed the face of an active enemy,
ail these delays, omissions, and neglects take place, whilst the
Whig reformers are inactive. But this cannot be. Once more I
sound the alarm—once again I respectfully implore all classes of
reformers to combine. Let there be but a beginning, and the
necessity for exertion will appear to every person enga!,;ed so
manifest, that the association will of itself increase and nitiltiply,
and ensure success.
We LOSE THE itEPR.ESENTATION OF MANY PLACES unless
active, energetic measures be taken. - The enemy is awake.
Why should the friends of Ireland be torpid ? Whig reformers,
I call on you for the second time--Begin !"
This is the truth, and nothing but the truth, namely,
"we lose the representation of many places" I So says
DANIEL, and for once he is right. }ie loses Dublin—lie
loses Cork—and two or three counties, and as many bo-
roUghs at the next election. He knows this, and he is
quite frantic. He professes to serve the ministry, but he
is only dragging them more deeply into the mire. They
are inextricable already—they are up to the chin.—but
DANIEL, their friend, will not be content until he has
soused them over head and ears, playing the part of an
amphibious executioner pulling them by the feet. Tt is a
pleasant position for any set of men to be in and there
wo.leace them.

We beg to call attention to a letter signed JII.STUS,
which will be found in another column. It appears by
that lettei that some of the most influential of the in-
habitants of Liverpool, among whom is our worthy
Chief Magistrate, whose generous disposition, and
fervent regard for the institutions of the country are
above suspicion, have declined to subscribe to the fund
for the relief of the Irish clergy, on the ground that the
aid thus rendered by England is an encouragement of
the voluntary prineiple, and is an usurpation of those
duties whiCh the government is bound to discharge in
maintaining the authority cf the laws in Ireland.
While we lament the view which these gentlemen
have taken, considering the urgent distress of the pro-
testant pastors in the sister island, we cannot altogether
dissent from its propriety. When injuries are redressed
in this way, is not something like a bounty held out to
the Roman Catholics to inflict them ? The clergy have
been robbed—the laws have been violated—just claims
hate not been satisfied ; but is that any reason why the
people of England should be called upon to pay for the
negligence, the fraud, or the collusive criminality of the
government ? The people of England should demand
that justice be done to the Irish clergy by the British
government—that the laws of the land be enforced—and
that those Who owe a lawful debt be compelled to pay it.
Now has this been done ? The clergy of Ireland re-
quire no pecuniary aid ; they only need protection ;
they want nothing but the means of recovering their just
rights, and these means the government are bound to
supply them with. If they refuse, then Ireland is in a
state of rebellion against WILLIAM IV. ; and the laws of
the realm are, as in all rebellions, in a state of abeyance.
But is this subscription to be a loan or is it a free
gift ? If the former, and it is to be paid out of the tithes
now acknowledged to be due, so far well, for in this
case we cannot see how any good protestant can refuse
his' contribution ; but if the tithes are not to be collected;
if the subscription be a free gift, then the question is
wholly altered, for it would become then not a free gift
to
.the protestant clergy of Ireland, but a ftee gift, by us
the protestants of England, to the rebellious priests and
papists of Ireland.
Let gentlemen; therefore, consider what they are da-