The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-30 00:00:00

CHURCH."

Here the dissenting organ has let the cat out of the
. bag. This bill is not to effeet
.the totalyor immediate, or_
violent overthrow of the church. • But surely this implies
its ultimate subversion ? Unquestionably it :Les. It is
for this consummation that the papist and the schismatic
are at present leagued; far these parties, opposite though
they be in many points, are yet seriously and fully agreed
to act in concert in the demolition of the national sanc-
tuary. TrUly, these men have one thing in common,
and that is craft. 'And though, like SAMSON'S foxes,
these jesuita—popish and reformed—the one armed with
a crucifix and legendary 'story, the other with a steam-
intellect version of the Bible and a SAMUEL'S mantle—
though they be tied tail to tail; and though being thus
dos-d-dos, their faces looking different ways, still, like
these same foxes, they both " set all on fire;" and when
this their unholy purpose shall have been accomplished,
then upon her sacred ruins shall the priests of Rome
construct the gorgeous fabric of the throne of antichrist.
And, should they be successful, what have we to expect ?
Simply a dismal choice between the errors of popery and
the horrors. of the stake—a recantation of vows, or im-
prisonment in a dungeon. But it needs no aid from our
pen to enable our readers to picture to themselves, even
were history silent, the iniquities Of that church which
points out to the sinner—the unrepentant sinner—an
intermediate place between hope and fact—a sort of se-
cond•_venture, whence by a deputy friend, a goodly and
full purse, and a kind priest, he may be discharged, and.
then be crowned, if money abound, a saint in that
church.

Such is Lord MORPETH'S scheme. On the showing of
the Globe, it has for its object the partial, gradual, and
gentle annihilation of protestanism. Gracious GOD !
Can these things be ?

Unfortunate Mr. O'DWYER! Never was head or tail,
statesman or patriot, so shamefully buffetted about and
trundled in the kennel. As Mr. W. EwArrr would say,
"twice in three short months" has Mr. O'DWYER. been
rejected by. the _llouso of Corotuan.q.; first Iteoause he
had the misfortune not to be qualified, and secondly be-
cause he has not been " duly elected" for the borough
of Drogheda. It is a hard fate ! Not to be worth three
hundred poundS a year is cruel on the part of fortune;
not to be " duly elected," with or without three hundred
pounds a year, is more cruel still. What is to be done
with this joint we cannot imagine, but the London even-
ing papers of Saturday record the following decision :

DROGHEDA ELECTION COMMITTEE.
Shortly after three o'clock the right hon. H. Goulburn read
the report of the committee, which was,
" That A. C. O'Dwyer, Esq. was not duly elected, and ought
not to have been returned to serve in parliament for Drogheda.
" 2dly, That the hon. Randle Plunket was duly elected, and
ought to have been returned.
" 3dly, That neither the petition nor the opposition to the peti-
tion were either frivolous or vexatious; the committee were in
deliberation nearly five hours."

We have some reasons for believing that besides a
substantiated charge of intimidation and the use of
worthless votes, 'Mr. O'DWYER was found, as before,
unable to produce a proper qualification.. This last fact
throws some light upon, the legal knowledge and the
solemn judgment of Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL. . It will
be recollected-that when O'DWYER was first rejected on
the score of disqualification, Mr. O'CONNELL addressed
a letter to the electors of Drogheda in which he informed
them that he had examined Mr. O'DWYER'S qualifica-
tion, and that he could assure them, as a lawyer, that it
was a good and valid qualification. ~He pledged his
.reputation as a lawyer (not much) that Mr. O'DWYER
was a person of some considerable property, and that the
qualification he rested upon-was an undoubted and un-
questionable one. The committee have decided other-
wise, and where then goes O'CONNELL'S law and pro-
fessional reputation Q Perhaps to the lsle of Dogs,
•
where patriots most do congregate.
But if Mr. O'DwYER's qualification be not the ground
of rejection, his case is far from being mended. He
must have been guilty of bribery, ,or of procuring men
to vote ,in the election who had just as much right to-
exercise that important privilege as he • has .to exercise
the functions of a member of parliament. It is immate,
rial which horn Mr. O'DWYER prefers; he is equally
contemptible and miserable on the easiest, and there we
leave him. UallaX•titriate Mister O'DvviEa •:

•
TURN-OUT .BURY.—The shoemakers have struck against
Mr. Francis Cooper, clogger and shoemaker, and have, as they
term it, " blocked";both his shops. Mr. Cooper has .a shop at
the lower end of Bury-lane and another at Moorside, little less
than a mile asunder, both of which are blocked, that is, persons
of the craft are stationod near each of them, to see that none
of the trade take any work out or in. These watchmen are re-
newed at regular intervals throughout the day and night. We
are informed that the cause of this turn-out is not that Mr.
Cooper has attempted to reduce wages, but because he employs
a journeyman who has by some means offended the trade, and
refuses to discharge him, although the trade have given him
notice to do so. 4fi the early. part of the week a turn-out of
the bricklayers was in agitation, for an advance of sixpence
per day on their wages, and a few, we are informed, struck
work, but the movement was by no means general; the wet
weather has, however, effected what the turn-out movement
could not, having driven many of them from their occupation..
We have heard also a movement amongst the sawyers of that
town, but the result we have not yet been acquainted with.
Mr. CORBETT'S FUNERAL.—We have given elsewhere an ac-
count, copied from a London Sunday paper, of Cobbett's fune-
ral at Farnham on Saturday last. Our only object in taking
any further notice of it is that of directing the attention of our
readers to the conduct of O'Connell, who was in attendance.
Mr. O'Connell's nice scruples of -conscience, it will be seen,
prevented him from following the corpse into the church, and
compelled
him to stand covered while the usual
portion of the
burial service was read at the grave. Of course it did not occur
to the learned member that the people in attendance, more es-
pecially the rustics of Farnham and its vicinity, might have had
feelings as sensitive, as susceptible of outrage as his own.—or
that the man whose remains he pretended to honour entertained,
during the whole course of his life, the highest reverence for the
established church and for all its offices.
THE DOLPHIN POST-OFFICE PACKET.—It having been im-
possible, owing to the great breadth of this steam-vessel, to ad-
mit of her entering any of the graving docks, (until those were
completed at the north end of the town,) her repairs were ne-*
cessarily done on the patent slip, in Cheshire. We understand
that during the last week the Dolphin has been in. one of the
new docks, and has attracted the notice of many persons, par-
ticularly professional men, viz., engineers and ship-builders,
who have examined minutely her beautiful model; amongst
them was observed Mr.' D. Napier, of Glasgow, &c. &c. Some
persons actually took the trouble to make sketches of the Dol-
phin's bottom, which is allowed, by every connoisseur to be
most perfect.
THE NEW SHERIFFS OF LONDON.-011 Wednesday Mr. Al-
derman Lainson and Mr. D. Solomons, the latter a Jew, were
elected sheriffs of London, and sheriffs of the county of Middle-
sex for the ensuing year. Mr. Solomons will be the first Jew
who has ever filled that office.

you 'slow have, shoull it. not be further lessened, must satisfy
you, and you must spread it over the surface of your wants as
widely as you can; snore you cannot have, for the surplus will
immediately be so locked up in various institutions as to make
restoration of it impossible; nor indeed can further means be
requisite, for, from this time, none •of our people shall pass
over to you, and as we shall thrive and multiply upon what we
have obtained, and upon what more we shall expect to gain, it
will be wise in you to consult, while-you have the power, where
you may find an asylum better suited to your safety and hap-
piness, and in a country more congenial to your religious feel-
ings than this!' "

auch will he the language of papist tyranny—such
will be the unhallowed accents which the hero of the
Dublin Corn Exchange will then bellow forth. And
who is this man for whom all this is to be sacrificed ?
Vast and extensive as is the sweep of European history,
it will be difficult to find a character that the virulent
voice of anarchy has more succeeded in extolling than
that of O'CONNELL ;—a man who, stained with the crimes
of treason and rebellion, has been dignified with the titles
of patriot and martyr—titles which the present disor-
ganized state of society seems determined on identifying
with those of rebel and assassin. Whether we regard
the black and dark depth of his subtle plans, their de-
structive extent, or their sanguinary consummation, we
shall not fail to recognise therein a conspiracy formed for
the subversion of our nation and religion. Murders,
assassinations, massacres, &c., seem to O'CONNELL but
a trivial price for obtaining the overthrow of the pro-
testant faith. But, though prepared to see this monster
emissary of Romanisin thus eager in the work of pro-
testant annihilation, we were not prepared to see him
aided and abetted in his mischievous and wicked designs
by a protestant minister of the protestant King of a pro-
testant people. And, to show that our fears for the -per-
manence of the national establishment are not the vision-
ary creations of our own fancy, we quote the following
passage from some remarks which appeared as a leading
article in the Globe of Saturday evening :
" We do not think Lord Morpeth need have been in any
alarm as to his measure for the regulation of the revenues of
the Iristr ryinch falling► short- of: *hat' he must cell-shier th high-
Rowu expectations of
.the liberal party in the house. We be-
eieve that the hill satisfies all' who %do-. not. desire the TOTAL, •
",IM6iATE, and VIOLENT SUBVERSION of the PROTESTANT