The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1835.

We have late dates from New York and Canada,
but we have no room for extracts. Canada, thanks
to Jos-wit HUME, is as, near as possible on the eve of re-
bellion. One of the New York papers, the Journal of
Commiirce, decidedly the best written paper in America,
contains an adMirable article on the machinations and

tyranny of popery in the. United States. We shall, if
possible, give it at full length on Friday. One of the
best traits in the character of the American people is that

they will not submit to the influence of the Roniish
bigots. On this question we may expect an out-break
soon, and a wholsesome one.

A movement cabinet has been formed, and Lord MEL-
BOURNE, for the sake of appearances, ,is placed at its
head. The prime minister, however, is Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL, and the master of Lord JOHN iS DANIEL O'CON-
NELL. The agitator has counted his beads fa—some ad-
vantage, and it would be well for the protestants of Ire-
land to prepare for the consequences. They are now at
the mercy of a " Death's Head and Cross Bones" ad-
ministration'.

How far the King has yielded we are unable to say—
w.hat are liii-Mitiesty's prospects we cannot conjecture.
The most remarkable feature in the case is, that the same
men have been. recalled to "office whom the King dis-
missed in November last, with the exception of Lord
BROUGHAM, Mr. LITTLETON, and Lord SPENCER. The
present is, in every sense, a weaker and more in-
competent ministry than that which was turned adrift in
November.

How, then, can such men hope to carry on the govern-
ment ? They have not the influence, nor the moral force,
nor the majorities which they had in the last parliament.
They are completely at the mercy of O'CONNELL ; and
they can only hope to forward their measures through the
House of Commons under the convoy and by the strength
of the "tail." Disguise it as we may, the protestant
people of these realms have no -overruling voice in the
British Parliament! Lament it as' we may, still this is
the deplorable and humiliating fact; Our church, our
lands, our houses, our goods and chattels, our LIVES AND
LIBERTIES, are at the disposal of a rapacious, dishonest,
and sacrilegious knot of Irish papists. The same class
of bigots and levellers whose schemes of fraud JAMES 11.
encouraged, have now supretne power in the popular at-
sembly of the nation. They require no aid from the
crown—they actually posseis more power than the crown
can confer—tney are OUR MASTERS ! !
Do not suppose reader that we are drawing upon the
imagination in order to arouse your apprehensions. The
case is plain enough. Why is it that the same men now
deem themselves strong enough to conduct public affairs ?
Simply because they have changed their principles, and
have resolved to purchase the support of the popish fac-
tion by consigning Ireland, and the protestant church in
Ireland, to their uncontrolled and exclusive management.
Take it, says Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and do with II eland
what you please. Give us power and place, and we in
return will give you Ireland. These are obviously the
terms of the unhallowed compact. The church, the cor-
porations, the law offices, and the patronage of the sister
island, are given over to O'CONNELL in recompence for
01CONNELCS support in the,House of Commons. All
the villany of the compact, which the Times so ably ex-
posed within the last ten days, has come to pass.—
O'CONNELL'S nominee to the high office of viceroy is ac-
cepted by the King. WILLIAM the FOURTH has signified
his assept to the nomination, by the beggar demagog,ue,
of two gentlemen--BOTH PAPISTS—tO fill the offices-of
attorney and solicitor-general. The mine is complete—
the train is laid—the match is ready—and the word has
only to be given; and we shall see scenes of blood
and atrocity in Ireland, such as the eye has not beheld nor
the mind conceived in modern times.

We can fancy the yell of triumph which will be raised
by the popish priests and their millions of ignorant and
slavish 'dives when the intelligence of a cabinet so con-.
structed, and so fettered by O'CONNELL, shall reach the
shores of Ireland. We can imagine too the look of de-
spondency,, the tone of despair, the stamp of rage and in-
dignation, which it will excite among the protestants.—
All is lost! will be the exclamation•-of some. Emigra-
tion is our only resource ! will be the cry of others; while
with the, bolder and more courageous of our protestant
cot patriots the rallying word will Iie—PREPARE FOR THE
FIGHT !

Perhaps all this fear and all this indignation wilt work
for good. We have this consolation in the midst of ca-
lamity. An over confiding people are generally the first

to be betrayed. This is the situation of the protestants
of Ireland. They have placed too much dependance'
upon the people of England. They will °now see that .
in themselves, under the blessing of PROVIDENCE, is
their only security. The lion when roused from his lair
will make short work with the wolves. We have always
been of opinion that Ireland cannot be placed in an, ad-
vanced or improved, position until her condition shall
have been made worse. She must endure the crisis of
the political fever before she can hope for convalescence.
The crisis is now at hand. It is a crisis involving life or
death—religious liberty, or idolatrous and debasing sla-
very. The dreamer must now awaken—the indolent
must now exert himself—the sechided must now come
from his retreat in the warm vale—the trifler must now
burn his hobby-horse and toys, arm himself in proof, and
meet the enemy, as OSSIAN says, " upon the hill or
storms." It is a contest between the bible and the mass='
bookbetween the word of GOD and a .ribald abortiOn
of monk filth in dog Latin. In short it is a contest be-
t Ween reason and divine revelation on the one hand, and
disgusting fraud, superstition, and absurdity on • the
other. •
Tli,is is beginning to be 'understood. We takeJligl*r:
grounds than these afforded by a mere question of pro-
perty. Property is at stake, we admit ; and property and
power, by tyranny and robbery, are what O'CONNELL
.and the popish priests aim at. But there is more than
property to be contended' for. The protestants of Ireland
are now called upon to vindicate their principleS at all
hazards, assert the rights they have inherited, and prove
their attachment to the pure unadulterated gospelS.which
their fathers made doubly sacred by their blood, and left
them to their protection as a blessed legacy.
• But it will be asked IS the son of GEORGE
aware of the consequences, especially in a spiritual sense,
which must follow his giving power—alas, absolute
power !—and patronage to the papists of Ireland ?" We
believe his Majesty is fully convinced of the awfully
respOnsible position in which he is placed ; and 'w* can
state, upon- the most unqUestionable authority, that he
anxiously seeks the advice and throws himself upon the
protectiOn of the people. :Why then, say some, if this
be his • Majesty's disposition—why does not the King
dissolve parliament ?
Stop a bit. There is an eastern proverb which says—
, it is better to .destroy the locust before von plant the
shrub. It is a good proverb. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and
his faction, the tail included as' his principal prop,: must
be tried according to the forms sand usages of law, before
they can be condemned. It is a case between our sove-
reign lord the King and Lord Jour, his subject. The
people are the jury. If they condemn Lord JOHN the
sheriff will do his duty. If they returnhiin innocent
their verdict will virtually accuse the accuser, not of the
specified crime, but of oppression and persecution.

Let us therefore not do anything hastily. The de-
scendant of HENRY the EIGHTH'S favourite is on his trial.
His father's lands are at stake. He professes to pillage.
tin church; the people object to pillage; but they con-.