The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

POLITICAL VARIETIES.

The Morning Chronicle emphatically points to the sig°
nificant fact that the French papers do not made the most
distant allusion to the Duke of Wellington's letter on oll!
national defences, or to the excitement prevailing amongst
us on that subject. _

In 1846, we had a revenue exceeding the expenditure bY
£1,781,659 2s. ld. In 1847 an expenditure exceeding Mt-
income byX326,608 Bs. The retrograde movement, there'
fore, is to the extent of more than two millions per annum'
But the worst point is, that the declension from bad to
worse is still rapidly going on.
In 1841, the late Lord Sydenham, in writing to a friend
at home, used these memorable words :—" I have sent to
the Colonial Office a. long report on emigration, which
some of you won't like, because it declares that to throvi
starving and diseased paupers under the rock at Quebec
ought to be punishable as murder."
Two Cabinet Councils have been held last week, in
Downing-street, and it is understood that Her Majesty
Ministers are anxiously engaged in the preparation °
measures to submit to Parliament on its re-assembling
early next month. An awfully-deficient revenue Tints',
prepare the people of England for additional taxation in
the thirty-third year of peace and the sixteenth of reform,'
The Whigs were always wretched bands at finance, an"
they appear determined to maintain their unenviable re'
putation.
CONSERVATISM AT BIRMINGHAM.—We are identified
with Protestant Toryism, and to the extent of our humble,
ability, we have never shrunk from maintaining Right arl,!..
Truth, because for a season they may have chanced to ov
unpopular ; but we own with reluctance that while the
circulation of the Advertiser has more than tripled within
the last nine months, the Conservatives of Birminghto'
as a body, have manifested but little interest in the sve'
cess of our enterprise. That we have studied to deserve
support we can conscientiously declare; and the grea t
reason we have not accomplished more will be found 11
the depressing influence which the scarcity of friends Wl'
of necessity occasion. We have in several cases met with
noble and most disinterested supporters. To them we beg
to award our sincere and ardent thanks ; but there is
FACT which we will not seek to disguise ; that on severe'
occasions, when, to serve the Conservative interest, We
have incurred great expenses, we have met with a very ill'
adequate return from those connected with the Tory partif
while our political opponents have testified by their eagef
purchase of our journal, that the matter was at least or
serving of attention.—Birmingham Advertiser.

PEACE WITH ROME.--The Times hints that one of the
first measures of the government, after the recess, will b`
the introduction of a bill into parliament calculated to re:,
move the legal doubts which exist as to our diplomatic
relations with the Papal See. There are two statuteA
which prevent it. By the sth of Elizabeth, cap. 1, it.'"
enacted, that " any person who shall advisedly and vc“':
tingly attribute, by any speech, open deed, or act, 3%
manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence to tua
Bishop, or See of Rome, within this realm, shall incur...,
prcemzmire." The next statute is that of the Ist William
111.,
explanatory of th
cap. 2, which enacts the exclusion from the Crolc,';
and Government of this realm of " any person who shall
on with the See °,
setotethrme
se.aPlre:i
be reconciled to, shall hold communion with the See 0:
Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion." Some doubt
shiaosn beens
"reconciledatta ch ed ,
toby
andgre
holda t le gcaolm subtlety,mun
Rome ;" but the next clause, " or shall profess the Polite
religion," is evidently
object of the act was to exclude from the throne of Ea;
land a Prince who, like James 11., would have embrace
the Romish faith, 'and the words, "reconciled to and bola'
communion
religiousel.
Sovereign. Whatever these arrange;
says the:T;
- -meg, they must of course rest 0
a footing of complete equality, if England recognizes
the Sovereign of the Papal States and the Pontiff of 01
Roman See, Pius IX., recognizes the Protestant Queen °,
mntsbe, faith with, i
ot hf ,
theclearly relate entirely to the person
'
these realms, and the legal head of the Reformed Chorea
of England.

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LIBERAL MISRULE.—" Experience," says Dr. John"
son is the great test of truth, and is perpetually contra"
dieting the theories of men." "If an empire,' said 1";
poleon, "were made of granite, it would soon be reduce'
to powder by political economists.,' Never was there
period when the truths stated by these master minds were
so clearly and strikingly illustrated as the present ; never
was there an epoch when the necessity was so fearful''
evinced of casting off the speculative dogmas of forn3e,
,"
times, and shaping our course by the broad light which
experience has thrown on human transactions. If this be
l
done, if wisdom is learnt by experience, and error expelle,
by suffering, it is yet possible to remedy the evils ; thong
':
not before a frightful and yet unfelt amount of misery, ha
been encountered by the people. For the last thirty year''
the liberal party have had the almost uncontrolled dire('
tion of the affairs of the nation. One by one they have
beat down all the ancient safeguards of British industry'
and given effect to the whole theoretical doctrines of the
political economists. So complete has been their ascent':
ancy, in the national councils—so entire in general the
acquiescence of the nation in their direction, that without
one single exception ALL their doctrines have been earriet
into practice ; and the year 1847 exhibits a fair, and it xi
be presumed average result of the liberal system when re;
duced into execution. The result is so curious, its lessoor
so pregnant with instruction, its warning of coming disaste,
so terrible, that we gladly avail ourselves of the openii
of a new year, to portray them in a few paragraphs to ow.
xeaders.—Blackwood.