The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-16 00:00:00

It is not fur want of knowledge of the true state of things

that ministers thus falter. They know what has gone for-
ward in public already—they know what is meditated for the

They hnow that the tnayment of rents is even now

systematically withheld, and that the non-payment which is
now partial, will soon be ordered for universal practice.
They know that the assizes are approaching when the intitni.

datiun of juries, and the cc.rruption of witnesses will render

the admiikistratiou of justice a farcc—they know that so-
ciety is resolved to its barbarous elements, and become once

morea;chaos ; that the gentry arc flying the country—that the

magistracy, Protestant and Roman Catholic, are on the point
of destruction—that capital has been withdrawn from busi-

ness—that except to the coffers of the Corn-Exchange, and
out of them again, the currency of money has entirely stopped
—that the hand of industry has been paralysed—that even
the agricultural pursuits of the peasant and the labourer are
abandoned, and that of all the works, public or private, going
on some weeks ago, there is hardly one in progress but the
new temporary Parliamentary House ou Burgh Quay. These

are portentous signs of the times; and they are all known to mi-
nisters, or they ought to be. We will tell them something more.
We will let them into a secret, which, if they k now not, they are
not only the more culpable, but perhaps the only pet sons in
the kingdom ignorant of the fact. The loyal and peaceable
inhabitants of this country—mark it, Sir Robert Peel—the
friends of the British connexion in this country are beginning
to ask one or two significant questions : First—Why are they

thus abandoned ; and, secondly, when thus abandoned,

there no reasons why, or no means by which, they could

provide for their own safety and interests? We can assure
Sir Robert Peel, that many sober and honest men begin to
question whether such terms could not be made with the
repeaters as would render a parliament in College-green—
.vith a House of Lords :Is it was constituted before the Union
not only a glorious thing fur Ireland, but very safe also for
all her inhabitants. They argue from the supposed enlight-
enment of the times for the safety of their religion, if not for
the toleration of their church; and seeing the interest which
Etonian Catholic landlords have in the permanence of thriir
titles, they infer that their properties might be made secure

enough."

♦Ve feel that we ought to he under no necessity of

Ipologising to our read

s for the somewhat unusual

space which we have devoted in our present publica-
tion to the proceedings of .our excellent Collegiate In-
stitution. Setting aside the fact that this institution
has, so far, proved its capability of conferring vast
benefits upon the young, whilst, by its valuable lec-
tures, it affords large sources of instruction and delight

to the adult, there is something in an examination
such as that which has just taken place, which will not
permit us to resist the temptation of recording its
eventful results. There is a pleasure, even to men
wearied with the toil of literary exertion, in witnessing
the dawning scholarship of those, who may perhaps
be destined to fill higher and nobler paths in life than
their own—to win trophies and honours forbidden to
themselves. In the young
candidates for scholarships

at such institutions, we may
he gazing upon the poets,
the statesmen, the divines, of another age; and where

even the claim to the possession of eminent talent may

not exist, there is certain to be an amount .of merits in

the candidates which, even in the columns of a thing

so ephemeral as a newspal)er, some fond parents eye

may dwell with satisfaction, and the future man, as he
takes it occasionally from its sanctum, may gaze with

a pride which is Sill ely not to be brought against him

as an unpardonable offence

We have, therefor

iven the results of this exami

nation, so boa,„ro,,i, to many of the young aspirants,
and we may add, to their teachers as well, at as much
length as we could airord ; and we shall on future oc-

cesions do so, in the conviction that even the humble

meet! of fame within our power to atibrd may not be
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without its uses, in incitirpf to new exertions and fresh
, in a field where the trophieh are inexhaustible.

victolies

And here we limy, not unappropriately, record our
admiration of the maniticen t spirit in which some of

the Conservative gentlemen of our town, and one ex-
emplary nohleman—we refer to Messrs. Edmund
Molyneux and William Potter, who have founded seho-

Old I,Ar4 hincit Egetton, who his appro'4
etl a son% of money to he yearly tlittributed in

I of the obi pets a the Institution

%vs may 41g0

to the very prei

worthy efforts made by the