The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

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It may be, and we doubt not it is, the fact that the
Government of the United States cannot control its
democracy : that the civilised portion of the Ame-
rican people are destined to be dragged at the heels
of the lawless population of" the great west". But
it may become a question how long the Govern-
ments of civilised Europe will tolerate the insolence
and aggressions of this democratic imperium in in:-
perio ; and, in our humble opinion. t

4uestion is
Just now presenting itself for solution. Republican
institutions may be all very well as " models"; but,
however ingeniously correct in their theoretical pro-
portions, we can no more allow them to throw off
all external constraint, and run a-muck against the
•
laws of nations, than permit
a locomotive engine to traverse our roads without a
4river, or the " model" heifer at a cattle-show to
exercise his horns at pleasure upon his admiring
spectators. If America possesses no strength per se
to control her democracy, we must try what wp
ran
do to find it for her.

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Popery is surely just now in mighty favour with
the British people. Scarcely has she recovered from
the pleasant surprise excited by the proposed endow-
ment of Maynooth, than she has a further concilia-
tory sop thrown to her by the bounteous hand of
our Conservative Ministry, in the shape of a large
grant for secular academical education. Cork is to
have a college, which is to absorb some £30,000 of
the public money for the erection of the necessary
buildings, and £6OOO a-year for the salaries of pro-
fessors, &c. Galway or Limerick, in the west, 14
to have a similar institution, at a like expense; and
Derry, or Belfast, to have one for the north. Thus,
we are called upon to give, in round numbers,
").000 in presenti, and £lB,OOO annually, for the
vi in Ireland of what is properly termed by
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to appease th 1 irritation existing in that country There canno. tbe a more important subject, or one
towards GI eat Britain, and to spread. . abroad the which demands more to be resolutely grappled with,
blessings of enl..;htenrnent and of political and reli- than that brought before the Council on Wednesday,
giniis peace.
b a on from the Gdin Sciety and h
no er
Let us examin' this promising scheme, and d. frompetiti the Rate-payers—uarviz.,a theo deficiencya oft the
sect a little its leading features and the principles; supply of water to the town. It is true that, so far
which they involve.
as regards street cleansing and extinguishing fires,
Sir James Graham informs u, that each college we shall
shortly be afforded an adequate supply
will have a principal, with a salary of £lOOO a-year, under the powers of the recent Act of PArliament.
and ten or twelve professors, with salaries of £3OO But important as the cleansing of the streets may
each, to be appointed by the Crown. The principal be in a sanatory view—we put the preservation of
is to reside within the walls of the college; but it is human life far before the preservation of property
not intended that either the professors or the students i from destruction by fire—the procuring of a better
should be provided with residences within. There supply of .water for household purposes is far more
will, however, be academical or collegiate control 'lmportant, and, indeed, imperative. Of what avail
exercised indirectly over the students, which Sir is it that the main sewers of our streets are effi-
James Graham thinks will be satisfactory to their ciently cleansed, if house drains are stopped up with