The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-04 00:00:00

MOB • LEGISLATION.

What, again, shall we say to the workers of iniquity on
the opposite side of the question ? The report of the
' Key-and-Pearson meeting (at the London Tavern) on
Wednesday last, states, that Mr. Wakley insisted on the
reduction of £2Q,000,000 of taxes as a measure at once
necessary and practiCable ! The interest of the public
debt is £23,000,000, so that without robbing the public
creditor (though such an act might be venial enough
with some people) the country would have minus
£2,000,000 to support navy, army, and all its civil func-
tionaries ! God preserve us from radical arithmetic !
Mr. Hume might have taught the gentleman better. A
blessed set of Lycurguses and Solons, of legislators,
financiers. and statesmen, they must have been who sum-
moned a meeting of all London and Westminster fir the
.sake of spouting forth, or listening to, such tremendous
rubbish,—of fixing beforehand, and binding candidates
irrevocably to the support of what may almost be termed
a code of laws dictated by these same nose leaders of the
rabble, and voted by their supreme and unerring wisdom
to be applicable to the affairs of England at all times,
and under all circumstances, foreign and domestic, of
peace and war, of famine and abundance, of prosperous
andadverse fortune. We reallv cannot, upon looking at
the proceedings of the London Tavern, and at those who
'appear to have got up and managed them,—we cannot
stifle our contempt for the political meanness of the can-
didates and Members Who so forgot the respect due to
themselves and their avowed pretensions as to obey the
summons and attend the meeting. If weakness will thus
pander to impudence,—if want of dignity will thus bow
before want of principle, no wonder things are come to
such a pass, or that the mob assume to be the masters.
The coucoctors of the above meeting had as much busi-
ness to call before them the whole body of gentlemen
who stood for Middlesex, London, Westminster, South-
wark, and the new districts, and lecture them, and exact
pledges from them, as they would have had to command
the meeting of the Parliament itself to Guildhall:and
there issue mandates to their legislative slaves, as Napo-
leon used to those automata whom he nicknamed -" the
Chambers" of his iron empire. The thing is not to be
borne,—the demagO,o-ue-and-Movement-monarchy must be
grappled with and flung down. Let the real friends of
liberty show a little of that firm spirit which liberty Only
can give, and these wretched anarchists, who understand
liberty as much as they do algebra, will soon slink into
that obscurity from which they never venture to emerge,
except when a false alarm, raised by themselves, has
cleared the field for their operations.—Times.

THE ,MAGAZINES.
ENGLAND'S PROSPECTS.

The years of prosperity 'will not endure for ever to
England, any more than to any earthly thing. The evil
days will come when the grandeur of an old and vene-
rated name will sink amidst the storms of adversity;
when her vast and unwieldy empire will be dismembered,
and province after province fall away from her mighty
dominions. When these days come, then will she feel
what it was to have betrayed and insulted her allies in
the plenitude of her power. When Ireland rises in open
rebellion against her dominion; when the West Indies are
lost, and with them the right arm of her naval strength ;
when the armies of the continent crowd the coasts of
Flanders, and the navies of Europe are assembled in the
Scheldt, to humble the mistress of the waves, then will
she feel how deeply, how irreparably, her character has
suffered from the infatuation of the last two years. In
vain will she call on her once faithful friends in Holland
and Portugal to uphold the cause of freedom; in vain
will she appeal to the world against the violence with
which she is menaced; her desertion of her allies in the
hour of their adversity, her atrocious alliance with re-
volutionary violence will rise up in judgment against
her. When called on for aid, they will answer, did you
aid us in the day of trial ? when reminded of the alliance
of 150 years, they will point to the partition of 1832.
England may expiate by suffering the disgrace of her
present defection; efface it from the minds of men she
never will. The conservative administrations of England
have had many eulogists, but they have had none who
have established 'their reputation so effectually as their
successors : Mr. Pitt's glory might have been doubtful in
the eyes of posterity, had he not been succeeded by Lord
Grey. The contrast between the firmness, integrity,
and good faith of the one, and the vacillation, defection,
and weakness of the other. will leave an impression on
the minds of men which will never be effaced. The mag-
nitude of the perils from which we were saved by the
first, have been proved by the dangers we have incurred
under the second ; the lustre of the intrepidity of the for-
mer, by the disgrace and humiliation of the latt,erk To
the bright evening of England's glory has succeeded the
darkness of revolutionary night; may it be as brief as it
has been gloomy, and be followed by the rise of the same
luminary in a brighter morning, gilded by colours of un-
decaying beauty !—Blackwood'e Magazine,

WHAT ENGLAND OUGHT TO DO!
England, shaking from her foreign chains and depend-
ence, would take her place amidst the nations. With the
balance of power in her right hand, she would sit in proud
majesty the supreme dictator, courted and bowed, to by
all; restraining the strong and protecting the feeble, site
would dispense justice,'-
rigtht, s
,sebcutti security, and
wo would
lae tranquillityher
to Europe. She would do this,
whig ministry. England would close the dreadful vol-
cano which France constitutes in the centre of Europe.
By 'moral power alone she would. lay the godless.:demo-
crats in fetters,, put ascendancy into the hands Of the in-
telligent, upright part of the population, and give to
France free institutions, beneficial to herself and not hos-
tile to her neighbours. Bridling 'alike in every nation
the partisans of ar'oitrary power, and those of democracy,
she would make the desire for Change take for its object
the mixed form of government:, and give to this object a