The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

thing they loathed. Dr. Crolly, Roman Catholic Arch-
bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, Dr. Murray,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Kennedy,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Kilialoe, with the Right Hon.
Anthony Richard Blake and John Richard Corballis,
Esq., laymen, have consented to take their seats at the
board. The quarrel is patched up ; and the Whig section
of the Romanists of Ireland are about to pull lovingly to-
gether with a Conservative administration, in the grateful
work of inflicting more " heavy blows and great discou-
ragements" upon Protestantism In Ireland !
Can British loyalists and Protestants—can the friends
of British connexion in Ireland—forget the lamentable
results of similar alliances in past time ? We cannot.
They are written in letters of fire upon our hearts. They
are proclaimed aloud, in the exulting shouts of triumphant
Popery, throughout the land—in the clang of convent
bells startling, morning and evening, the ear of slumber-
ing Protestantism—in the proud seats of superstition
rising around us, mocking with their lavish magnificence
the humble and unadorned erections of our church and
straining to vie even with our proudest cathedrals—in the
swarms of vulgar emissaries of Rome, whose furtive and
scowling looks meet us in every thoroughfare, as they ply
unceasingly their mission of evil, and prowl about from
victim to victim. Qll ! what a fearful amount of evil has
Sir Robert Peel already to answer for, as the result of his
insidious and fatal concessions ; and how vastly will it be
increased, unless the further progress of those concessions
be arrested by the indignant voice of an aroused Protestant
people !
We invite our fellow townsmen who love their religion,
who love their country and its liberties, .to ponder well
over these signs of the times in which we live. We tell
them emphatically that now is the time, if ever there was
a time, when every lover of his Church, beset as she is on
every side, deserted as she is by those who are bound to
protect her,—attacked, as are her pure doctrines, by
masked enemies within her pale and open enemies with-
out,—poisoned by a false liberalism, as are too many of
her professing friends, and perverted as are the hearts of
more by the mammon-worship of the age,—to buckle on
the armour of Me Truth, to throw political and even per-
sonal friendship to the winds, and to rally together with
the intelligible and resolved motto, deeply graven on their
hearts—NO SURRENDER!

A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT MA-
GISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS, BY A MAN OF
THOUGHT.

I.—l do not think that I shall pay due honor to Mr.
Edward Rushton if I do not make his speech—his " elo-
quent speech," as the Mercury calls it—the subject of
my first thoughts.
2.—1 think it was not discreet in Mr. Rushton to re-
mark that " his firmest endeavours had been, ever since
he became police magistrate in Liverpool, to prevent
every man connected with the administration of justice
meddling, either for or against, in any political or local
squabble whatever." People are apt to remember past
interferences " of this very same dignitary ; and some
are even illnatured enough to hint that his present course
is somewhat like " meddling in a political or local
squabble," and that his eyes have been most conveni-
ently blind to such " meddling" when his own political
party were in the ascendant.
3.—1 think it was superfluous in Mr. Rushton to tell
us that he entertains "strong opinions upon local and
political matters," when he must know that all the
world thinks that he owes his elevation to the office of
stipendiary, far more to his "strong opinions upon po-
litical matters," than to the possession of any super-
abundant fitness for that office.

4.—1 think I could laugh at Mr. Rushton's allusion
to " the noble science of self-defence." I always thought
that Jem Ward and John Langan were the greatest pro-
fessors of that art in Liverpool, but Mr. Rushton's
practice is very unlike theirs, which was hard-hitting,
whilst his is only old-womanly scolding. " Noble
science," forsooth ! Wby, every frequenter of Billings-
gate can practise it quite as well as a stipendiary magis-
trate.

5.—1 think it is a pity that Mr. Rushton should have
"the misfortune to remain in the office he holds" when
he is so enamoured of the "noble science of self-
defence," and so many of our heavy weights want
customers.

6.—1 think, to conclude with Mr. Rushton, that, in
his contest with Mr. Hodgson, he made a sorry Goliath.
Although a " man of war from his youth upwards,"
versed in the " noble science of self-defence," and " a
Colossus," 'to boot, the sling and stone of David told a
tale.

7.—1 think, as a postscript to Mr. Rushton, that in
the next insurance effected upon the furniture of the
Sessions-house, a clause ought to be inserted to provide
against the demolition of the desks and tables by the fists
of magisterial dignity in a passion.
8.-1 think, as a postscript to Mr. Rushton, No. 2,
that, as a subject for the next Exhibition of Paintings,
the " Colossal" form of the stipendiary in a stupendous
rage, as he appeared at the Sessions-house on this occa-
sion, might form an excellent study for " the madness of
Hercules."

9.—1 think it was a pity that Mr. David Hodgson " did
not see" Mr. Wm. Earle. He should carry a micro-
scope, rather than lose sight of so charming an object.
10.—I think I wonder—no, on second thoughts, I
don't—that Wm. Earle could be present and take part in
the magisterial attempt to avenge his defeat in St. Anne's
Ward upon poor Mr. Parker. William has always been,
in my humble thoughts, a little-minded being. I never
thought, however, he had in his composition so small a
portion of the man, and so much of the wild cat. Poor
William! thou art a most cantankerous piece of miscalled
humanity.
11.—I think it was rather good of William to forget
" the placard" referred to by Mr. Hodgson, and yet to
remember that it was circulated " during his mayoralty."
I think, however, I admired more to hear him boast that
"he did not bear those rancorous feelings that some
others generally did." (!) I don't think, but " some
others" think, that 'William is made up of "rancorous
feelings." I think I don't know any more amiable feeling
which enters into his composition.
12.—1 think, upon the whole, that the proceedings of
their worships were very contemptible throughout. and
excellently adapted to bring the discretion of the bench
into disrepute.

13, and last.—l think I have thought too much, and
so has the community, about so paltry and factious an
affair.

THE STANDARD RAILWAY MAP.

We extract from our provincial contemporaries the fol-
lowing gratifying notices of the Railway Map which wat
furnished in the STANDARD last week. In compliance
with a request from the Railway Record, we forwarded
the plan to London, and it appeared in the columns of
that paper on Saturday :
(From the Railway Record.)

We are indebted to the courtesy of the editor and pro-
prietors of the Liverpool Standard, for the loan of the
very excellent plan (on the opposite page) of the railways
in that and the surrounding most important districts.
The " plan " appears at first sight to be a wood-cut, but
it is in reality entirely typographical. We have never
before seen anything of the kind attempted on so large a
scale, and certainly the execution does great credit to the
Standard establishment. We are indebted also for the
following masterly description to the same journal, one of
the very best of the many good journals emanating from
Liverpool, and which is particularly deserving of com-
mendation in respect of its railway intelligence. [Our
contemporary then gives the lengthened description of
the railways, which appeared in the STANDARD on Tues-
day last.]
(From the Shrewsbury Conservative.)
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—The spirited proprietors
of the Liverpool Standard, on Tuesday last, furnished
their readers with a beautifully-executed map of the ex-
isting and projected railways, accompanied by a lucidly-
drawn-up explanatory description. It shews, in a strik-
ing manner, the advantages about to be conferred on
Shropshire by its rescue from its present state of isola-
tion, through the proposed Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester lines.
We perceive that the conductors of the same paper (which
is published on Tuesday) now communicate to their read-
ers the Mark-lane and Smithfield markets, and the Lon-
don share-list of the previous day, together with whatever
intelligence may reach the metropolis by seven o'clock on
Monday night. The train conveying this information
arrives at Liverpool at ten minutes after five a.m.; cur
contemporary issues his broadsheet at six, and his readers
have thus on their breakfast tables, on Tuesday morning,
all that has transpired in London up to the night before.