The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

rs, has crept o

which the

We feel
come, fc

alone in r

time,
" When England to herself does not prove true."
Let us examine our position calmly. Let us
see how we have been approaching it—drifting
nearer and nearer to the precipice—for the last
twenty In the commencement of those
1829—the confidence of the
'utions and in the integrity of
;ts first shock. The Roman
ion Bill was yielded to furious
r, against the earnest protests
loyal Protestant majority of the
institutional party was shattered
.trayal of their leaders; and the
ruck the blow, fell beneath the
first onslaught of their old enemies, the whips,
aided by the popular ferment excited by the three
days of July, without a hand being held out to
save them. The discussion and final passing of
the Reform Bill followed. Whig-radicalism pro-
.:ally to strengthen its power in the
municipal reform acts and other po-
- and just then seemed destined,
ingst, to hold in its hands the

from its er

twenty'

nation in

en received

Catholic Emancipati

clamour and to fi

and pe
d% 1 ,es

to piece
apostat

s, who s

ceeded energet

country,

pular measure
for a generatio

reins of power

In the mean time, however, a new party had
been forming, under the name of the Conservative
party, headed by Sir Robert Peel, who had suc-
ceeded, by his effective opposition, to the minis-

g round him new adherents

and had been forgiven for past apostacy, although
ed by a portion of his former sup-
elved an accession of talent, in the
Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham;
after one failure, succeeded at length in over-
throwing the Whigs, and in forming one of the
most powerfully constituted administrations of

he was not trust
porters. He rec
adhesion of

e con(

,ely to be

If that strong government needs
capitulated. Scarcely were they
. they commenced a series of
more sweeping and compre-
vhig predecessors durst have
st India question, upon which
ministry had been ousted, was

kted in of

hensive than thei
dreamt of. T 1
Lord John RI
dealt Zvi*'

on what are calle-d "liberal" principles,
ction to the British planter diminished.
was remodelled; and a mere figment of
-,ction to the native artisan was left. A heavy
r was dealt against the Canadas; and the

the tarif

ms of

ation, was duped into submission
by and income tax, which, amidst
ted enthusiasm, was paid as a
for, what was believed to be, a
itions, which for years had been
lie mind, and the creator of a
:he trade and prosperity of the
was one concession, however,

Sir Robert Peel kept up a
ce to the repeal of the corn

however, which

ustify his abandor

h the potato rot ;

Sir Robert Peel

Df the Anti-

on the path to his country's

at. the same time that he once me

n- doned to the rule of an

,went; and many welcomed

an relying on the shifting
It was said that incapacity
T than the inclina-

1 was bett

the ill. But we are dis-
a, stand-still and do-nothing

to make the struggle is all that is required. When
that struggle is made it will effect its object.

We are—glad to observe that, in Liverpool at
Ist this resolve to fight the battle of the Consti-
,

proclaimed it

of late- powerfully manife

•
fin our recent noble protests against
' 'pping interest and our

the destruction of our i

sugar growing colonies; and we are still more
happy to observe that an organization for the
struggle is being formed in the Constitutional
Association of Liverpool, a report of whose meet-
ing of last week will be found in our columns, and

of operations shadowed out in the able
Mr. H. C. Chapman and the oth

the o

something on an ea

speech of

er gentlemen is

efficacious

y occasion. In the mean

time, we Cannot refrain from drawing the attention

of our readers to the eloquent address of Dr.
Trench, who moved the first resolution, and the
admirable exposition of the principles of theasso-

.ed in our good old iown—which was given by
We trust that the association
invpr ni the

s lioo
!P

archy and the •Const

itution and every friend

of good orde

NING OF THE THEATRE ROY

'AL LAST

This Theatre was opened last night for a short season,
shen was produced " The Wife's Secret," an original
drama, by G. W. Lovell, Esq., in which Mr. Charles
Kean and Mrs. Kean, who are engaged for a short sea-
-.ared as Sir Walter and Lady Eveline Ayrnott,
• which they have recently played with such
eminent success in London. The performances were under
the patronage of the Earl of Sefton, and filled in every part.
And if we are to judge of the prospect of its continuing to
draw from the bursts of applause which attended it
throughout, it is likely to fill the house on every repeti-
tion. It is well put on the stage ; and several of the
scenic effects are very fine.

1, al)t,

At this late hour ft is impossible to enter into any de-

cannot, however, omit noticing the clever acting of Mrs
Saville, Miss Frankland, and our old favourite Mr.
Addison. The Maud of the first was inimitable.